Alice'S Magic Private
Investigating the Causes of Failed Harvesting

"Can Grandpa now tell you what happened to the rice fields?" ask Glen.

"This happened 3 years ago. Thousands of rats suddenly came to Arm, the rice that was ready to be harvested was eaten by rats instantly. Several things have been done to repel the rats that suddenly came to the Arm region. Since the incident was instantaneous, then only a few people who possessed magic power fought with mice and people like us were only able to help by using plants or pesticides to repel mice."

"But not driving away the rats, but making the rats brutal by injuring the citizens, we all retreated and only the witches fought. The witches were only able to kill half of the rats that came, while the entire rice field was already depleted in eating and the surviving mice just left. Like lightning for a moment. Within 6 hours the whole rice field became barren without planting rice."

"After the incident, the farmers suffered huge losses, even the rice barns in the farmer's house were also exhausted instantly, the destruction of the house due to rat attacks also could not be denied. The whole community focused on building the house first and we got help from Suhi's work to start planting the morning again."

"The kingdom only helps agriculture?" ask Glen.

"No. Because it's not just us as rice farmers who have a sudden outbreak of rats. But also other villages. It looks like a farm and a farm. On the same day and at the same time, all the pests came to Arm's territory instantly."

"Paddy farms were attacked by rats, plantations were attacked by caterpillars and farms suddenly attacked by diseases that we also do not know what it is, many livestock died instantly. Arm's territory is like it's in the lace of such a sudden outbreak."

"What did the government do?" ask Glen.

"The kingdom is quite helpful, they facilitate the construction of houses and also farms, plantations and farms. But that's not enough for us Arm's residents."

"In the first year after that incident, we all started from scratch but it's not that easy to turn things around because as farmers we are not only required to be diligent in managing plant seeds but also full of patience and perseverance in caring for them." Ali invites Glen and Freya to follow him to the rice barn next to Ali's house.

"Since the incident that happened at that time we have replanted but always failed. Until the help of seedlings provided by the kingdom is only a little."

Reply Ali who showed the contents of the existing rice barn only a little.

"So what exactly is the problem?" glen asked Ali.

"We also don't know, we do planting as usual. But the harvest always fails. Come here, I'll take you back to the fields." Ali answered and they walked to the rice field to see the situation.

"It is a rice that is still flowering and will grow rice seeds in it. But that one is a freshly grown rice seedling and we will do distant planting. And it's a rice seedling that was still in the crop 1 Week ago. And it is rice that will be harvested in another week but, the rice seeds in the plant are not as many as 1 tree on the leaves. And a lot of weeds are growing that inhibit the rice from growing. And every Sunday we pluck the weeds among the rice crops." Reply Ali. Ali walked checking the rice plants and checking the mud that became the rice growing container.

Glen took the mud in the rice. Freya pulled out a tree. Glen and Freya also see the situation around, in addition to rice plants usually there are animals that live around rice. They look for snails, fish, worms or other insects there. But they both didn't see it.

"Have you seen him? I also don't know what's wrong with all this in those 3 years. But the harvest is always bad. Sometimes it fails miserably sometimes the results produced are only small. I don't even understand what's really wrong with this." Reply Ali.

"Can. I'll drop you off." Ali escorted Glen and Freya to go around the rice fields with the residents. Ali explained who they were to the residents and the residents allowed them to see the rice fields and Ali and Freya continued to collect data and research to find the root of the problem.

"I'll be there.* Glen replied to Freya who was still focused on hearing the complaints told by the villagers. While Glen saw above the rice fields there were trees that grew and the road up to the top that contained cliffs on the hills.

"What did Glen do?" ask Ali.

"Glen will check around, Grandpa take it easy." Answer Freya.

Hell conducts research, research and introduction about Arm territory for a full day. After dinner, they told me about their experience today and told me about it.

"I see the land in the rice field looks ordinary and looks like fertile soil but actually it is not like that. I see that this soil does not contain boron, cobalt, iron, manganese, zinc, magnesium, chlorine, molybdenum, and sulfur in increasing the growth of plants grown." Glen replied, who had given the results of his research on the mud he took.

"I think so too. When I saw the state of the rice fields, there was no other living creature besides the weeds and rice plants. Usually the rice field will be an ecosystem of freshwater fish, worms or caterpillars and other insects. But there's nothing I found not that." Answer Freya.

"Right as well, so that's why you told me to use earth magic to see if there are worms or not?" ask Glen.

"Yes. It's really weird, Glen." Answer Freya.

"Hmmmmmmm, looks like what you said is true. Why don't I and the people realize it." Reply Ali who thinks that what they say about other living things does not exist in the fields.

"During this time grandfather also did not find other living things?" ask Glen.

"Yes. Because it was too focused on producing a good harvest to replace the events at that time, we only focused on rice plants." Reply Ali.

"So, what's really going on?" ask them three to think.

"What about the results of your investigation on the hill?" ask Freya.

"Nothing strange." Answer Glen.

"Grandfather, in these 3 years is it raining often?" ask Glen.