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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.."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxj8MY5qvV
His thoughts pre-occupied his mind which was looking at the piles of paperwork before him. 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaleZHtrQuc
"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." 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgX2f4m7rw
"Have you tried asking nearby cities or your kingdom's capital?" Hierd questioned. 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7N2c2pB4Q
"We have, but unfortunately... No matter what we did, no reply turned our way." He looked grim saying that.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGc0lFzloaL
"How poor is your kingdom, Naturvege?" 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8372hgNpB
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHR9Tjs2f5q
"I see..."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWKNu8mq5x
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPubTmk1V2h
"Magic."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAu3x59kvdy
"Magic? Captain?" Naturvege questioned.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIvJIygTPI
"What is it to you?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe71mxgMvOO
"A daily commodity, Captain, from fire, water, ground, and many other elements. Magic's... Magic's just a human trait, why?" 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwR4doLVqtH
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdHs2eLD5G
"Nothing in particular, I'll help with your village's problems, but in the meantime... Naturvege..."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG02GwYabsL
"Yes, captain?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTYBbPm3U4
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLNgwQwpON
"Yes, captain."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3K7S4S0F2
"Ahem! I am acting in my purest form of intellect!" He imagined himself in a dramatic pose. "I am of such lordly presence!" 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCVgR8Zc16
Hierd flew out the village hall with a smile on his face, phasing past the chief walking towards the direction of the training field.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA07fMx5t0A
"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..." 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdGvrM2jyE
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. 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdrsTiboPF
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AdkcPO2a0
[RESPONSE VAGUE]18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrpEDm0KUe
Hierd sighed, "A book that teaches me how to travel in the wilderness without tools like compasses and other mechanical devices...?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDJwYfbm0A
[REQUEST GRANTED: CAMPING GUIDE BOOK]18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bcuQcVTzy
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. 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7qnzf8pgp
"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. 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZ8noAp9L6
"Alright, alright. Give me sunglasses." He was just about to look at the sun but had fortunately remembered the sun's dangerous rays."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cMDGYHZtR
[REQUEST GRANTED: SUNGLASS]18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMf68VOT0GM
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjJgAwK616
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZRUYjAZMp
Hierd walked to the front gate of the first barn house. Walking on the front porch and then knocking on the front door. 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPoU6ZboRq
Two knocks!18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAL6PVh0KFL
"Hello! Is anybody home?" Hierd shouted in calm manner.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2z0Kul0Z4
"Hello there." Behind him, greeted a nice old lady, "What do you want, O' lord?" 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPr4NsuSBl
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?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwvd5Y7d0w
"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." 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmX2xMLuRN
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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDaMVy2yi2B
"Scoodles? Local term or maybe another name for her children?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWs06mQBhts
"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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJSFlJtZrh
"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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuny8mrx7U
"There's no use telling him to retire, the fields are his home, and it's my home too..."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFandXOx1z
She had just finished making the tea, bringing it then to Hierd. "Here, O' lord."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw13HBSsZAg
"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?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuN4jyI11dU
"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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMbLZfJkOM
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9jAaIAzxr
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxuvhCYcRYG
"O' lord, you don't need to do such a thing..."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZy4FGrNKED
"I feel I have to..." Hierd took another sip, appreciating the taste, aroma. Until a knock rocked the door.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqHlVggpeF
"Oh! They're here O' lord. I shall unlock the door."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzEkNxHZU4
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBUUS8kxHp
"Good Afternoon, sir, I am Hierd Die Grace."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhlpIwNXPH
He was shocked, very much so.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXURr8SkdSd
"Captain! For you to be in my house suprises me so!"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpJmwEtGl4
"Captain? For he to refer me as captain... Is he a part of the footmen? No, that's insane, he's a farmer right?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVVRq0eMGC
"Ah right, sorry you don't know who I am. But please, let me first retire myself of my work garments before we continue."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfnbHMWq9M
"That is so." Hierd replied.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffVgqRmhoD
"Hey dad!" A voice came out of nowhere behind the man. "Can you finish early? We want to go back to the fields!"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaE0L0NtPjR
"Yes, yes, I will. But I don't think I'll be early boys, so come inside and greet our visitor."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEzeXdG8bD
"Visitor?" They inquired, going in-"Is it Aunt Janelle agai--" they trembled, looking at the hunk of muscle which was Hierd.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MNypDrPCs
"G- G-- Good... Afternoon... O' lord..." Two boys, seemingly in their fourteens, looked as frightened as would a mouse in cat territory.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvoffEIa8K
"Good afternoon." Hierd replied, in comical 'jest.'18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBQ2E66Ko9
"Let's not wait at the door gentlemen!" She interjected, "Please O' lord, and... My dear, make yourselves home in the dining room."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8adPQ2mlAw
"Quickly now, my Scoodles, to your rooms~." She said in a quieter tone to the two boys.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOBpHRpBay
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPs2ZrPyLC
Hierd already sat on the dining room chair, the man had made his way to the dinning room with he sitting opposite Hierd's.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomIMVbw16i
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTXoZBCt9d
"Oh stop~ I know I'm just that good."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrzrU8GVT8
"I see, I thank you for your compliments. But what I'm here for is not about the footmen, instead for the food."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMIApW9N6e
"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?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MQfW8okJ8
"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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyB7bhig5s9
"Right' way, captain."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWhjs5OJap
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2t9PdLiQA
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetkcMXuHgO
Fin opened the door and out the four went. The boys ran forward and took first while the two men walked and stayed behind.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUZHC6VhDW
"Aren't they energetic?" Hierd asked in a light tone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38V6s4rQF3
"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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFt8Tg6zEkL
"What's wrong?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwquJnj6Ex
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6G5RD0sZy
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bdmt6fPjd
"Fertilizer hasn't worked?" Hierd questioned.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZATN8pZuS
"Fertilizer, captain, what is that? Is that a cure for this sickness!?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34kSGmypTA
"Well what then did you use to make the crops better?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuFfyc8ytz
"Ennomite, captain."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEooNF0eaiR
"I've yet to hear something like that..."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohnzRC10Ce
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAaigJAiGP
"I think I've found the problem..." 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJAJZpczZK
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8smpelYfx
"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!"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPk0vMdeiG7
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?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRamK5tqsw
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkDQARjJSx
"I see, than how so can it be done, what is this byproduct, captain?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoaA8TG1P98
"Feces."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVLEsjwlr9
"Feces?" Fin looked disgusted yet intrigued.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAIjRVkXu0
"Feces."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu1TcLHhZUa
"What can it do?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQp5z2WTc8
"You can collect the feces of your farm animals, put them onto your crops at spring and you shall see the results for yourselves."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7YRJUiz9c
"I... I see..."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYwWvxtz3K
"It's... I know it's really weird, I know hold on, Fin, I'll get you something... I want a book about farming!"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡriL71rPEQf
[REQUEST GRANTED: FARMING BOOK]18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6U2qub3iBg
Before it could appear in seconds, Hierd put his right hand onto his coat. Seconds after, an unexpectedly big and heavy book appeared.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhbLcjVBOM
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8CixW9wdG
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..."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Yfg2K89sx
"O' please, don't be so humble, accept and read its contents. And soon you shall understand my words are not fiction."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8ptLY4HKm
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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWcEbrdq9b
"The Honor's mine. Please, come back any time!" Fin said to Hierd walking away.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPWGvbMgVn
It took quite a bit of time to reach the bridge from the farmhouse, but; Hierd came back to the bridge intersection,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8HbQNIsT2
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8LqxmcBkg
Hierd walked towards the village.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvlii3IKGY
"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?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcz7cTO3sk8
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5EKFf1fGd
"Good Afternoon."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YvruwOcnv
He stood up, nervously so. "G... Goo' dafternoon, O' lord."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKhxsz5g4o
"Please be at ease gentleman." Hierd reassured the man. "I want to see your village's... Chief..."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EcqQzBlQy
"Ah, I see... Pl-- please, follow me."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0uA6Irjyfi
Hierd let the man gather his belongings on the ground and as he went away, Hierd followed with.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpj1g6KIpBe
The townsfolk were eyeing out the captain, Hierd, who looked and acted of nobility, and they did not dare to even approach him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQNSe48MN4
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIi793MvTZC
"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."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGX4jY01w2
"Where is your chief?" Hierd questioned him as the man had just stood there eyeing out the watching crowd.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiL4wipBzaz
He didn't reply but after a second round of him observing the twenty or so people, he had finally responded. "There! O' lord."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoU7mYuEkv7
Hierd followed the man, the chief was minding his business with a pile of paperwork and a group of his own men.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NhohtlHmp
"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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpOqomY8pI
"Is he deaf? Pen and paper should be more morally accepted than shouting to an old deaf man with a high position."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rhaapMJee
The men surrounding him hadn't mind but after he touched him, the chief had finally reacted. A jolt. He was astonished.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNy2fEXDSQc
"Ah! The lordly man who showed that... That Car 908kay! 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkkIFYMIAj
Hierd's inner self wanted to laugh but his body simply rejected such an embarrassment of a thought.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeu6AI89Cv
The chief had got up from his sat position, with a bright face, he said;18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpwvnwnYEA
"I am Hadi, chief of Ridge Village! Pleasure to meet you me lord!"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpCvE3yllG
