Chapter 9: Breeding Dragon Rats and Bunnies
With Corvinus and his uncles Lothar and Reynold making the decision, the Silvermane Tribe entered a new phase.
It was all about large-scale land clearing!
To make the process better and faster, not only did the tribe's werewolf women and elderly participate, but also the over six hundred werewolf warriors with official ranks joined the land-clearing army.
To set an example, Corvinus even sent out the chieftain's guard led by Captain Kardia.
The full mobilization of the Silvermane Tribe naturally sped up the land-clearing process. Almost every day, dozens of acres were opened up, and in just six or seven days, nearly three hundred acres of new arable land had been cleared. If it weren't for the deep-rooted weeds, the speed would have been even faster.
Behind the bustling land-clearing efforts of more than a thousand werewolf tribespeople, Corvinus was leading Kevos and dozens of werewolves responsible for cultivation, planting sweet potato seedlings.
As soon as the large-scale land-clearing plan was set, Corvinus immediately handed over five hundred pounds of sweet potato seeds and five hundred pounds of potato seeds to Kevos.
The five hundred pounds of sweet potato seeds had already begun to germinate, and even sprouts had emerged.
While the front line was clearing land, they were planting seedlings in the back. In just a few days, Corvinus and his team had planted all five hundred pounds of potato seeds.
Now they had begun planting sweet potato seedlings!
Since it was time to eat, Corvinus let Kevos and the others start their meal.
Looking at the black bread in his hand, Corvinus, although not very hungry, felt very pleased when he looked at the newly cleared land around him.
In his previous life, after graduating from university, his biggest dream was to return to his hometown, plant a few acres of land, raise a few chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep, and live a leisurely life.
But reality was harsh; after all, such a life could not support his wife, children, and parents.
However, he never expected that after crossing to this world, he would actually live the life he had dreamed of.
As Corvinus was feeling emotional, a werewolf ran over from the distance.
"Chieftain!"
Corvinus snapped out of his daze and looked at the werewolf who had spoken, and was immediately surprised: "Kardia, why are you here?"
The werewolf was none other than the guard captain Kardia.
"Chieftain, this is for you."
Kardia handed him something from behind.
Corvinus was taken aback, surprised: "Are these dragon rats?"
"Yes, we caught these during the land clearing," Kardia said respectfully.
With Corvinus becoming the chieftain, Kardia had also been promoted to the captain of the chieftain's guard.
Even the two commanders, Kro and Baggin, who led the troops, greeted him with an equal attitude.
"Land clearing catch? I thought they were from our tribe's breeding!" Corvinus did not stand on ceremony and took the roasted dragon rats.
Eating black bread every day, his body was now very lacking in oil.
"Sit down!"
Corvinus gestured for Kardia to sit.
"We can't eat the ones bred by the tribe."
Kardia found a seat in the earthen fort and sat down with a wry smile.
Corvinus took a bite of the dragon rat meat, which, although only salted, still made him feel very satisfied.
Hearing Kardia's wry smile, Corvinus asked while eating: "I heard dragon rats are very fertile?"
Dragon rats were not mice; they were said to have dragon bloodlines, and they were bigger than adult roosters.
However, Corvinus did not know much about dragon rats.
But the tribe's animal pens raised many dragon rats because they were the food for the war wolves.
"Very fertile, almost every twenty days, they can have a litter," Kardia nodded.
"Since they are so fertile, why didn't the tribe breed them on a large scale before? I heard that dragon rats can be raised with just grass roots," Corvinus was puzzled.
His question was not baseless because he had also been thinking about how to develop the tribe's breeding industry these days.
The system mall could purchase many kinds of young animals, such as chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cows, and sheep.
But now, the tribe could not even feed its own werewolf people, so breeding these animals was not realistic.
However, the tribe's meat was very scarce, and many tribespeople were clearly malnourished.
It did not matter for ordinary werewolf tribespeople, but Corvinus was very worried about the war soldiers. If they did not have enough meat for a long time, could the strength of the tribe's war soldiers be guaranteed?
"Dragon rats are indeed easy to raise and very fertile, but the tribe has over a hundred war wolves that need at least four to five hundred dragon rats to feed them daily."
"So the consumption of dragon rats is very fast. The last time you caught over a hundred war wolves in the Blackwind Mountains, the animal pens are now in a difficult situation."
"Because the number of war wolves has doubled, the daily supply of dragon rats from the animal pens is not enough."
"I heard that Captain Kro has ordered the animal pens to appropriately reduce the food for war wolves and try to get by."
"I went to the animal pens to see Fenrir yesterday and saw that they were expanding the breeding of dragon rats," Kardia said with a wry smile.
Although the tribe raised dragon rats, they were all food for the war wolves, and those who wanted to eat meat had no chance.
After all, the war wolves were not enough to eat.
Corvinus nodded, understanding in his heart.
This was indeed unavoidable, as war wolf cavalry was the foundation of the tribe, so sometimes war wolves were even more important than tribe members.
But no matter what, the tribe could not go without meat for a long time. Corvinus knew that this problem must be solved.
Dragon rats!
Dragon rats!
Soon, all the dragon rats were turned into food for his stomach. After asking Kardia about the situation of the war soldiers, Kardia left.
However, as soon as Kardia left, Corvinus lost interest in planting sweet potato seedlings.
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Tribe Animal Pens!
Animal pen manager Kordiak, along with dozens of young and old werewolves, men, women, and children, respectfully came to the animal pens and bowed to a young werewolf.
"Greetings to the Chieftain!"
This werewolf was naturally none other than Corvinus, who had just run over from the sweet potato field.
Animal pen manager Kordiak respectfully looked at Corvinus, never expecting the new chieftain to suddenly come to the animal pens.
"Kordiak, it's been a while!"
Corvinus said with a smile.
He had been to the animal pens a few times before, mainly wanting to ride a war wolf.
"Yes!"
Kordiak nodded respectfully. Indeed, half a month ago, when he saw Corvinus, he was still the young chieftain, and in just half a month, the other party had become the chieftain.
He was just curious about the purpose of this chieftain.
The tribe was not big, so it was easy for him to know some things.
For example, this chieftain and Uncle Lothar and the others had formulated a land-clearing plan, and this chieftain personally led people to plant crops.
Especially in the past few days, this chieftain had been working from sunrise to sunset every day, an action that almost amazed the entire tribe.
After all, this was the chieftain, and the chieftain personally working in the fields was unheard of.
"Let's go, take me around your animal pens!"
Corvinus said with a smile.
Kordiak, the person in charge of the animal pens, also had a special identity, that is, a junior beast tamer, and he was also a fourth-tier warrior.
He was also the only beast tamer of the Silvermane Tribe. It was because of his existence that the war wolf pack had grown from a dozen at the beginning to over a hundred before.