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*The text is a bit weird on this chapter, please bare with me.
"I took some rest after that day, training those guys... It's great that they learn quick, but Venit Ille has too many problems at the moment.."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡACKHiL7ERC
His thoughts pre-occupied his mind which was looking at the piles of paperwork before him. 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuf4seLCMLf
"Here, Captain, are the village's many problems." Naturvege said, sitting beside him on the dinner table of his house. "Food, housing, people, to name a few, that pile is more of a complicated review of it." 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BWIwDGPN9
"Have you tried asking nearby cities or your kingdom's capital?" Hierd questioned. 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEOZXoTE2a
"We have, but unfortunately... No matter what we did, no reply turned our way." He looked grim saying that.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzB3rujrD1
"How poor is your kingdom, Naturvege?" 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJz6aehGymX
"Its not poor but our location being so far from the captial and other main cities makes it harder for their supplies to reach us, ultimately make it... More expensive of a trip."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRjLjAoOqr
"I see..."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdv7Ufdz9V3
"I don't really, acutally see, I know nothing about these intellectual things, but with my power I might be able to do something about that."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnNXwSFHAM
"Magic."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAGlybl53k
"Magic? Captain?" Naturvege questioned.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14ajODN4Ln
"What is it to you?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQimlZGKzju
"A daily commodity, Captain, from fire, water, ground, and many other elements. Magic's... Magic's just a human trait, why?" 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCsR1a478a
"So maybe I can use it. But in the mean time, I shouldn't reveal my powers to them, but if I would, maybe only to Naturvege or even Alrife."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3YPozXaij
"Nothing in particular, I'll help with your village's problems, but in the meantime... Naturvege..."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1yn3ZtOFQ
"Yes, captain?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqCEgl9k6p
"The footmen need physical training, gather all the squads and say that you will replace me in the meantime. I'll have a cart full of food after about three hours, I'll have Alrife deliver it by then. And if they misbehave, I'll find out and that one man will not get any food."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdU19mjVlMS
"Yes, captain."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsysE5QIXN5
"Ahem! I am acting in my purest form of intellect!" He imagined himself in a dramatic pose. "I am of such lordly presence!" 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2paFokid0
Hierd flew out the village hall with a smile on his face, phasing past the chief walking towards the direction of the training field.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1ueJMzF0N
"Starting from phase I, food... Agriculture is a field I am not a master at... But I think I can rip myself a new ass here..." 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVOXooSIJh
Hierd was occupied in his thoughts, but his outer appearance looked stern, manly, and rather aggresive looking. The bystanders that onlooked the lordly apperance and had backed away almost as if in impulse. 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeyXh3z9Dx
"The village's farm (as Naturvege told me;) 'It's just north the village's only bridge on the stream, which is just down the main road.' I don't fookin kno the cardinal directions bruv. Mr. Voice, I want a book that teaches me about this."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrRs1FWsJD
[RESPONSE VAGUE]157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABoM1QEtj6
Hierd sighed, "A book that teaches me how to travel in the wilderness without tools like compasses and other mechanical devices...?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RKTn9oLpG
[REQUEST GRANTED: CAMPING GUIDE BOOK]157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3POy0Ctam
A book appeared on his hand, a bookmark piqued his intrest. It was on the fifty-seventh page, it was about how to tell the cardinal directions. 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOEd3kAYpJ
"Thank you, voice." A small tear rolled down his left eye. After some minutes of reading whilst walking, he figured it out and coincidentally he was at the first step of the bridge. 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EGdofH2Cx
"Alright, alright. Give me sunglasses." He was just about to look at the sun but had fortunately remembered the sun's dangerous rays."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkM8suTsD8X
[REQUEST GRANTED: SUNGLASS]157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhbigfPGz7
He put it on and looked (not directly, but adjacent) at the sun. "So... The sun rose there... That's East. Then, north is on my left!" He proceeded to cross the bridge, there were many un-named paths but he took the one at the left. It was quite a ways off the village as the village wasn't near any large bodies of water, but just after the small plain and the small line of trees was the farm area. It was rather big and encumbered only the left side of the river bank as just right of it was the boundaries of another town. Except it was more richer than Venit Ille, the village.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2A4RLVc49i
"So the locals already know of my presence and I think the chief had already advised everyone that I indeed am of 'nobility.' And are training them, so coming here wouldn't be such a problem."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YRghZxCxG
Hierd walked to the front gate of the first barn house. Walking on the front porch and then knocking on the front door. 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzk0ZS5EJmr
Two knocks!157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsC0Wkmlp1
"Hello! Is anybody home?" Hierd shouted in calm manner.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbWsPen9RV
"Hello there." Behind him, greeted a nice old lady, "What do you want, O' lord?" 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8V7H8AH0Gm
Hierd's 'flexed' body slacked as he saw the nice-looking old lady. "Please call me Hierd, I'm sure you've heard of me, madam?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWolzfpQzPo
"Ah... Yes... Sir. Hierd, you were the kind noble that's helping us. Thank you." She sounded appreciative but as seconds ticked she didn't want to waste time. "Oh sorry! Please, please, come inside, I'm sure you have business with the farm." 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgbmhDaWmX
She went toward the front door, Hierd scooting over to the side to give her space to open the door. As she went in, so did he. "My husband and my scoodles should be home in a minute, so please sit down I will prepare some tea."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8eHnxcCGV
"Scoodles? Local term or maybe another name for her children?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJPEFahG0WY
"Ah, thank you, thank you." Hierd replied in gratitude whilst sitting down on the dinner table chair. "Your husband's a farmer I take it?" Hierd asked.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6kWMkNMWF
"Ah, yes, yes." She responded as she made the tea, an aroma filled the dining room, one more distinct than what he drank at the chief's. "He's been a farmer ever since he was born!" She laughed.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGq8EG8FcQ
"There's no use telling him to retire, the fields are his home, and it's my home too..."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNm9rZUbVgp
She had just finished making the tea, bringing it then to Hierd. "Here, O' lord."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hzGPxxhhy
"Thank you." Hierd took the cup on his hands and took a sip. It was better than what he had at the chief's. Noticeably so. "What is this tea, madam?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZb15rDWTXL
"It's Juvino de' suu Gott ni grace. A rather... Expensive expedenture, but I had persistance and my husband's heart for me to get it so..." She laughed.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAwBtH21hj
"What; juuvini de sew Gott ni what now? That's like Latin, German, Spanish all in the same name. But guessing from that, and the taste, this is some expensive stuff, I feel bad."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHv7iooe1P
"For you to give me such a thing when only I need the simplest of tea, I thank you, but my mind wishes to repay you in some way."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHRerSv3Ek
"O' lord, you don't need to do such a thing..."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqujuTttrr6
"I feel I have to..." Hierd took another sip, appreciating the taste, aroma. Until a knock rocked the door.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDGZWenoL7
"Oh! They're here O' lord. I shall unlock the door."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgVyrBExSF
Hierd nodded. She opened the door, to be greeted by a big man, old in appearance and looked similar to the chief. Hierd got up from his chair and walked towards the man hugging his wife after the walk he embarked from the farmlands.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvvTCWHe5x
"Good Afternoon, sir, I am Hierd Die Grace."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzr4kqNYskg
He was shocked, very much so.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1ONjSXSEf
"Captain! For you to be in my house suprises me so!"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdTmxgPBkt
"Captain? For he to refer me as captain... Is he a part of the footmen? No, that's insane, he's a farmer right?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gshNz43zH
"Ah right, sorry you don't know who I am. But please, let me first retire myself of my work garments before we continue."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZlYLf9pkl
"That is so." Hierd replied.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxq5jpkVlV
"Hey dad!" A voice came out of nowhere behind the man. "Can you finish early? We want to go back to the fields!"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtShnv6RycJ
"Yes, yes, I will. But I don't think I'll be early boys, so come inside and greet our visitor."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcfPkKulVk
"Visitor?" They inquired, going in-"Is it Aunt Janelle agai--" they trembled, looking at the hunk of muscle which was Hierd.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HskXv0Rsh
"G- G-- Good... Afternoon... O' lord..." Two boys, seemingly in their fourteens, looked as frightened as would a mouse in cat territory.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyx5rJGMTxj
"Good afternoon." Hierd replied, in comical 'jest.'157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iC1cqTPeh
"Let's not wait at the door gentlemen!" She interjected, "Please O' lord, and... My dear, make yourselves home in the dining room."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnakmaV5nV
"Quickly now, my Scoodles, to your rooms~." She said in a quieter tone to the two boys.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6j96LcSRU
The man went into a seperate room, after a couple of minutes, he came out with a more fresh and homey room unlike the farmer-like dirty outfit he had going when first he came.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NrSlRXu26
Hierd already sat on the dining room chair, the man had made his way to the dinning room with he sitting opposite Hierd's.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0taj09Rq6R
"I'm the chief's brother, Finne. You can call me Fin." He said with a jovial attitude. "I've watched and loved your way of commandeering the footmen, they were so unruly before. To think they would obey someone in such short a time... I'm impressed, Captain."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2SNk5CnI4O
"Oh stop~ I know I'm just that good."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4O7ph46V1
"I see, I thank you for your compliments. But what I'm here for is not about the footmen, instead for the food."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1C98VVivK
"I see, so you've come for our aid!? To this I can't thank you enough, captain!" A grin showed and widened, with his atmosphere being free. "The invention of the Kar98k, the food and other equipment! Surely your country, captain, can out rival the kingdom, nigh the world with your intellect! Is there a technology in your country that could help?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DltxVPQjo
"Well, I want to find out first before I could get the right things needed for the job, Sir. Fin, I want to look at your farm." Hierd said as he took the very last sip of his tea.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgUqUwsL83
"Right' way, captain."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1fIIIPtPB7
Hierd and Fin got up from their seats. Fin hurried to the door and got his hat. "Dear! Kids, We're going to the farm! Wanna come!?" He shouted.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbf0vo7k8Z
Soon after, a rumble of four feet had rocked the stairs down. "Yes! We wanna go!" They looked to have completely forgotten the 'frightning' lord that was just beside Fin. Instead being blinded by the want of going to the fields.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2Oa2CZsn4
Fin opened the door and out the four went. The boys ran forward and took first while the two men walked and stayed behind.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0guKJWDqNU
"Aren't they energetic?" Hierd asked in a light tone.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAq642GI2i
"Yes, they've always been. The fields are their playground, they love it, and naturally, I should care for it, so the beauty of the fields could last..." A pause, Hierd took it that the said beauty would last no longer.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCfXAyHWKp
"What's wrong?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ887dL70oQs
"The crop yields have weakened, and everything we've done hasn't worked. I haven't told the kids about it, but I feel even they have noticed."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFhjc79uM1
"I'm no botanist nor farmer, but considering their era, has fertilizer even been invented yet? No wait, it should have been, farming dates back to them dinosaur days or some thing. Quite literally."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGjxb7DerU
"Fertilizer hasn't worked?" Hierd questioned.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnrqrNLjuL
"Fertilizer, captain, what is that? Is that a cure for this sickness!?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbbPOOELkx
"Well what then did you use to make the crops better?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsK2rSgpYwL
"Ennomite, captain."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYnMsuJRIh
"I've yet to hear something like that..."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjr7CXZIUUO
"I see, then..." He formed his thoughts. "Ennomite's something that fastens the growth and overall greatness of crops, making it look and taste delicious."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SkQlXTXaC
"I think I've found the problem..." 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA78S9MIbdH
They neared the farmlands which was next to the clear river just yonder. The children were playing about in the farmland, being careful and avoiding stepping on any crops. Because of their playing, their shins looked dirtier-looking than mud could be.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aKCFR8kd5
"This... Ennomite." Hierd said. "If it fastens the growth of your crops, doesn't it fasten the decrease in the amount of fertility in the soil? If so, then Ennomite has been making your soil weaker!"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37Jih6ftPK
Fin was stunned, like a prophecy was revealed to him. They stopped in their tracks. "Such a revelation... I haven't even thought of it! Can that fertilizer help in reinvegerating the once fertile land?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WmhKFvulj
"I think it should. But it is not really a product, more of a byproduct so to speak. But it's effects should bring about more yield than before."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzS2uqJhSY
"I see, than how so can it be done, what is this byproduct, captain?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQqYwoEz2J
"Feces."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBPRout9xY
"Feces?" Fin looked disgusted yet intrigued.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx64cxMloIb
"Feces."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJeA52HPX6
"What can it do?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcRv5jjd0l
"You can collect the feces of your farm animals, put them onto your crops at spring and you shall see the results for yourselves."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnzhGo51z2
"I... I see..."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjriSHsmywN
"It's... I know it's really weird, I know hold on, Fin, I'll get you something... I want a book about farming!"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4MZklaUXB
[REQUEST GRANTED: FARMING BOOK]157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1OzoSsK1Mu
Before it could appear in seconds, Hierd put his right hand onto his coat. Seconds after, an unexpectedly big and heavy book appeared.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKliSVxmNq
"Here... Read its contents and understand the ways my country handles such a thing. I shall supply you with the many gadgets you will undoubtedly need when you are to complete it."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9M7CcZLlq1
He was suprised. More so at the book than what Hierd promised. "Such a book! Are you to give and let me read it, captain!? I couldn't possibly..."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyvYbvpEUs
"O' please, don't be so humble, accept and read its contents. And soon you shall understand my words are not fiction."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrNhip5PdI
Fin looked more than greatful for the 'gift' he got. Hierd looked at the small watch he had, it was approaching the first hour. "I need to go now, I thank you for your time Mr. Fin."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYnHKw8ifj
"The Honor's mine. Please, come back any time!" Fin said to Hierd walking away.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ347HrZaOVY
It took quite a bit of time to reach the bridge from the farmhouse, but; Hierd came back to the bridge intersection,157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3VCl6ebvT
"I did the more 'harder' task first, the farm thing. But now comes the second, housing and the over abundance of people in the village."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rtIjeO8yN
Hierd walked towards the village.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxOwu8hTwF
"So Naturvege said that because of last year's... Auferstand- something, a neighboring village took refuge inside the arms of Venit Ille, which was more 'combat-ready' than them. But now, they live inside the newly built homes. So... Now there's a total of a hundred or so people living here, damn... I should begin by talking to them, right?"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyG9xQXgn7r
Hierd made his way to the main street, where he was at an hour ago, a turn towards the newly constructed homes. The environment was lively, yes, but everyone did not look well, after all, the days of Auferstehen was nearing. And they were worried. Hierd came from out of the green, the walked to the nearest man.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcdcD0I6ML
"Good Afternoon."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VVArO6uEt
He stood up, nervously so. "G... Goo' dafternoon, O' lord."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8gbTDNJbN
"Please be at ease gentleman." Hierd reassured the man. "I want to see your village's... Chief..."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfpU13aVYo
"Ah, I see... Pl-- please, follow me."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLZkaDY09T
Hierd let the man gather his belongings on the ground and as he went away, Hierd followed with.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwduQj8eu9
The townsfolk were eyeing out the captain, Hierd, who looked and acted of nobility, and they did not dare to even approach him.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3ApqVqrCg
The man led Hierd into a big poorly made wooden house (akin to a barn house). The doors opened and a slew of men, women, children alike were sitting on the boarded-wooden floor.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXHgl9kMts7
"Holy! This scene looks like a gymnasium after an earthquake. Like a disaster had just fooken swept them... Well I guess a 'disaster' did sweep them."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3xBvCYApC
"Where is your chief?" Hierd questioned him as the man had just stood there eyeing out the watching crowd.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJoBb5DJT0Y
He didn't reply but after a second round of him observing the twenty or so people, he had finally responded. "There! O' lord."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6YVKgIiUS
Hierd followed the man, the chief was minding his business with a pile of paperwork and a group of his own men.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKO8vctmuwP
"Good afternoon." Hierd initiated the conversation with the chief, of which paid him no mind until the man from before had merely tapped his shoulder.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0rZpGaNEv
"Is he deaf? Pen and paper should be more morally accepted than shouting to an old deaf man with a high position."157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNi4pSM9hCI
The men surrounding him hadn't mind but after he touched him, the chief had finally reacted. A jolt. He was astonished.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBM6DudhbGN
"Ah! The lordly man who showed that... That Car 908kay! 157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgCgnK514L
Hierd's inner self wanted to laugh but his body simply rejected such an embarrassment of a thought.157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoy2HPOLa4Y
The chief had got up from his sat position, with a bright face, he said;157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LnLnoAfsv
"I am Hadi, chief of Ridge Village! Pleasure to meet you me lord!"157Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcV8hSNCIV6
