This realization caused Daneel to stop in his tracks.
Indeed, all these days he had been thinking about the problem after disregarding the fact that he was in possession of something unique in all of Angaria: the World Domination System.
He knew for a fact that to most of the Big 4, the smaller kingdoms were just ants. This disregard even went so far as to ignore their existence unless they had a use for them.
Placing himself in the shoes of one of the Big 4 who managed to develop such a seed, Daneel started thinking of his options.
First, there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world. Thus, someone with the expertise to develop something like this either must surely have known of the side effects, or must have found out about them after thorough testing.
After all, if there were none, the developer could simply grow them in his own land and profit.
After finding out about the side effects, if it were Daneel, he would have started targeting one of the smaller Kingdoms due to two main reasons:
1)He had something with him which could be given out without incurring cost: the chance to learn the spell technique
2)He wouldn't have to handle anything-the Kingdom would take all of the responsibility, and he could simply reap the profits.
As for the plight of the Kingdom?
As one of the Big 4, he couldn't care less!
Realizing this, Daneel became more and more sure that the Black Raven Kingdom must have already been cheated by those who gave the seeds. After all, the King had said it himself: if he could, he would have sent both individuals from his own Kingdom to learn the spell techniques.
At this point, Daneel shifted to the shoes of the Black Raven King. If all this was true, then the Black Raven King wasn't dumb at all; on the contrary, he was quite clever.
With cautiousness, he must have planted the seeds and investigated the side effects himself. After 1 year, he must have seen that there were none-resulting in him planting more and more.
Another year later, the first test soil would have bee barren, resulting in the Black Raven King realizing that the rest of the soil was doomed too.
At this point, if it were Daneel, his focus would be to find a way to reverse this effect. No Kingdom would want to depend on another for something so basic such as food.
After all, the Black Raven Kingdom even had much less fertile lands than Lanthanor-meaning that they would be hit very hard due to these seeds.
The more he thought about these matters, the more Daneel became assured that he was right.
The most important thing was that his instincts told him that he was on the right track. This was the best confirmation he could get, as they had yet to let him down.
With all this new information in hand, Daneel started planning his next step.
His policy was simple: if someone meant him and his Kingdom harm, he would repay them 10 fold. But if they were desperate, he wouldn't mind helping them out.
Henceforth, it would all depend on the Black Raven King.
.....
One week after at the North Border Gate.
"It's been a week! Should I send a reminder?"
The Black Raven King could be seen pacing inside the throne room again, while the gigantic head of their God Beast looked on from above, as if condescending this loss of posure that should not be part of one who called himself King.
"Have patience. He did not seem the type to be tardy.
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