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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.."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjTm81zc60
His thoughts pre-occupied his mind which was looking at the piles of paperwork before him. 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XLBmV3EdT
"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." 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhIkHo3tOv
"Have you tried asking nearby cities or your kingdom's capital?" Hierd questioned. 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQecgPoGcW
"We have, but unfortunately... No matter what we did, no reply turned our way." He looked grim saying that.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdZB790OMX
"How poor is your kingdom, Naturvege?" 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOStn5aoYt
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhzlLpPJFW7
"I see..."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡme3gUHNNM2
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOAPvfUz4d
"Magic."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCd6zdkL7DD
"Magic? Captain?" Naturvege questioned.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLhkp4vWjz
"What is it to you?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MuqkpsqYm
"A daily commodity, Captain, from fire, water, ground, and many other elements. Magic's... Magic's just a human trait, why?" 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfsBCcPlkd
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDBBatYVCD
"Nothing in particular, I'll help with your village's problems, but in the meantime... Naturvege..."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdDUl3MUpE
"Yes, captain?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYV99SEYEgt
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6k0FNmAIWG
"Yes, captain."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Fgv7hREAi
"Ahem! I am acting in my purest form of intellect!" He imagined himself in a dramatic pose. "I am of such lordly presence!" 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1v5vGNEzlD
Hierd flew out the village hall with a smile on his face, phasing past the chief walking towards the direction of the training field.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLMAH4w0wd
"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..." 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfCVeG4qZZ5
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. 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GkGJHVJ1B
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBCzWU6GBR
[RESPONSE VAGUE]49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY12dAuZZUr
Hierd sighed, "A book that teaches me how to travel in the wilderness without tools like compasses and other mechanical devices...?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOKBHzfKzZ
[REQUEST GRANTED: CAMPING GUIDE BOOK]49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBhzTkvPVR
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. 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBza08KbhPV
"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. 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77saPKJNUt
"Alright, alright. Give me sunglasses." He was just about to look at the sun but had fortunately remembered the sun's dangerous rays."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeRRrvXR7p
[REQUEST GRANTED: SUNGLASS]49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEy6NowZhnm
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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtl6NxLg10O
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nl6HqxebO
Hierd walked to the front gate of the first barn house. Walking on the front porch and then knocking on the front door. 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnevxZULGUW
Two knocks!49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rhtejnu7O
"Hello! Is anybody home?" Hierd shouted in calm manner.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUyFCk6I7y
"Hello there." Behind him, greeted a nice old lady, "What do you want, O' lord?" 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1slXxQQVH
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?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8SFiXVOc7
"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." 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEOwtYYRgZ
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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNa72fMNoF
"Scoodles? Local term or maybe another name for her children?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMp2MwPYoIy
"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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh71FHHAdvC
"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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqRS7uTGpS
"There's no use telling him to retire, the fields are his home, and it's my home too..."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIcMkz2rop
She had just finished making the tea, bringing it then to Hierd. "Here, O' lord."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcv5gCDjB5E
"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?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmiAoriPjU2
"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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwwJYosTWZ
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBLYAbNEzQ
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0vCbstFKK8
"O' lord, you don't need to do such a thing..."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY51s9p8WtW
"I feel I have to..." Hierd took another sip, appreciating the taste, aroma. Until a knock rocked the door.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1lXLq8Wgb
"Oh! They're here O' lord. I shall unlock the door."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJW1vjXESu
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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9FE38PQCJ
"Good Afternoon, sir, I am Hierd Die Grace."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6qVodHi1b
He was shocked, very much so.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAlFQ8gmC4
"Captain! For you to be in my house suprises me so!"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahLEbwQW0k
"Captain? For he to refer me as captain... Is he a part of the footmen? No, that's insane, he's a farmer right?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBY0G5aExv
"Ah right, sorry you don't know who I am. But please, let me first retire myself of my work garments before we continue."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ292FE0GCjb
"That is so." Hierd replied.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Y5kHzA0jx
"Hey dad!" A voice came out of nowhere behind the man. "Can you finish early? We want to go back to the fields!"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjW8MxRCsf
"Yes, yes, I will. But I don't think I'll be early boys, so come inside and greet our visitor."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9paRDkiFPF
"Visitor?" They inquired, going in-"Is it Aunt Janelle agai--" they trembled, looking at the hunk of muscle which was Hierd.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4AckDAMIH
"G- G-- Good... Afternoon... O' lord..." Two boys, seemingly in their fourteens, looked as frightened as would a mouse in cat territory.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡteQBAyGh2D
"Good afternoon." Hierd replied, in comical 'jest.'49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSejhMFnrU
"Let's not wait at the door gentlemen!" She interjected, "Please O' lord, and... My dear, make yourselves home in the dining room."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTedPxUxzO
"Quickly now, my Scoodles, to your rooms~." She said in a quieter tone to the two boys.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYncV3IyrWz
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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQfjOdQ7Wl
Hierd already sat on the dining room chair, the man had made his way to the dinning room with he sitting opposite Hierd's.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoCjAzujr6
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5JrAo2vGM
"Oh stop~ I know I'm just that good."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbhEPdnQ7O
"I see, I thank you for your compliments. But what I'm here for is not about the footmen, instead for the food."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsTUfIZAGU
"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?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2XmHdJLoM
"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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIDWzWzyo8
"Right' way, captain."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzHHlPHO3V
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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRkhPDJxlu
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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJf4dOOjcM
Fin opened the door and out the four went. The boys ran forward and took first while the two men walked and stayed behind.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hjNPKsHnn
"Aren't they energetic?" Hierd asked in a light tone.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkpRh8DSx8
"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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKCC9oG2Zm
"What's wrong?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8g37B14Ha
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyg3OYWUQpi
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38f2YfCiU2
"Fertilizer hasn't worked?" Hierd questioned.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5GVe4WzO3
"Fertilizer, captain, what is that? Is that a cure for this sickness!?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡih6GiqKOy7
"Well what then did you use to make the crops better?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUe8EqTmaR
"Ennomite, captain."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfE063AhozJ
"I've yet to hear something like that..."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJMvnyaAd8
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNI4kIxduH
"I think I've found the problem..." 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagRRscvEBq
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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzpmICeJDO
"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!"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbmxhwBVFg
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?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFG4pPawDJ
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTJ8nDVf8J
"I see, than how so can it be done, what is this byproduct, captain?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLfOhQ1sI5
"Feces."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ153kvH1Qsa
"Feces?" Fin looked disgusted yet intrigued.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSN5d1UVmb
"Feces."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaSALLPYyk
"What can it do?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLD6LTVm2G
"You can collect the feces of your farm animals, put them onto your crops at spring and you shall see the results for yourselves."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXgjgCjXxS
"I... I see..."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLpBgm7tbr
"It's... I know it's really weird, I know hold on, Fin, I'll get you something... I want a book about farming!"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOON1I9QGY
[REQUEST GRANTED: FARMING BOOK]49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJVYt52Yep
Before it could appear in seconds, Hierd put his right hand onto his coat. Seconds after, an unexpectedly big and heavy book appeared.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAQblQW50o
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQAFVNDOzf
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..."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFaiRq0NaP
"O' please, don't be so humble, accept and read its contents. And soon you shall understand my words are not fiction."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbcfGww0XYx
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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkP9LOHnXnw
"The Honor's mine. Please, come back any time!" Fin said to Hierd walking away.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWO9m4RkD8c
It took quite a bit of time to reach the bridge from the farmhouse, but; Hierd came back to the bridge intersection,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzFMRgX6BY
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOsNZCgTuf
Hierd walked towards the village.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyyZNTPwkg
"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?"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTw5otsbP08
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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDVv0H7kXz
"Good Afternoon."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzqfsXVhzO9
He stood up, nervously so. "G... Goo' dafternoon, O' lord."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXp7JzVw3xs
"Please be at ease gentleman." Hierd reassured the man. "I want to see your village's... Chief..."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDTt5Sc1wJ
"Ah, I see... Pl-- please, follow me."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOIhfEi0Da
Hierd let the man gather his belongings on the ground and as he went away, Hierd followed with.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3XwEiCEKK
The townsfolk were eyeing out the captain, Hierd, who looked and acted of nobility, and they did not dare to even approach him.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllAEaMt2HO
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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NYSPsxOqv
"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."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9KbXVReGND
"Where is your chief?" Hierd questioned him as the man had just stood there eyeing out the watching crowd.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0N0BikxfCm
He didn't reply but after a second round of him observing the twenty or so people, he had finally responded. "There! O' lord."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJR1r7ACjJ
Hierd followed the man, the chief was minding his business with a pile of paperwork and a group of his own men.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsf3ff0k22
"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.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjySRcN5Z0
"Is he deaf? Pen and paper should be more morally accepted than shouting to an old deaf man with a high position."49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54K63xBpp3
The men surrounding him hadn't mind but after he touched him, the chief had finally reacted. A jolt. He was astonished.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMJQJ16gRK
"Ah! The lordly man who showed that... That Car 908kay! 49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55ZLCLNbwx
Hierd's inner self wanted to laugh but his body simply rejected such an embarrassment of a thought.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkV97wGbrw
The chief had got up from his sat position, with a bright face, he said;49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdY9d2ZfwxB
"I am Hadi, chief of Ridge Village! Pleasure to meet you me lord!"49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkp0Yb0xiP
