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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.."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHnziNDCmq
His thoughts pre-occupied his mind which was looking at the piles of paperwork before him. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5SmdWFnO7
"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." 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODtwxgqyOT
"Have you tried asking nearby cities or your kingdom's capital?" Hierd questioned. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuPjSlH8xl
"We have, but unfortunately... No matter what we did, no reply turned our way." He looked grim saying that.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mNbBT3lsi
"How poor is your kingdom, Naturvege?" 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYegKLIL97h
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5QTz4SemD
"I see..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJf9eOK9Gsk
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWmAYJyQXx
"Magic."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovfoeB4UDI
"Magic? Captain?" Naturvege questioned.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolzFtL9FwO
"What is it to you?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYx1mC6dBnl
"A daily commodity, Captain, from fire, water, ground, and many other elements. Magic's... Magic's just a human trait, why?" 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzEqerrXqKO
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoG3h12rqX
"Nothing in particular, I'll help with your village's problems, but in the meantime... Naturvege..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnuHAexwbYN
"Yes, captain?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYIF0T8WHL
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2e5hXo2dyb
"Yes, captain."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2XQrUmBdH
"Ahem! I am acting in my purest form of intellect!" He imagined himself in a dramatic pose. "I am of such lordly presence!" 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBdAJpYai9
Hierd flew out the village hall with a smile on his face, phasing past the chief walking towards the direction of the training field.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJx9PKstqT
"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..." 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdk2wc8nOLG
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. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoHUChWkN7
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYx9xewVvMB
[RESPONSE VAGUE]105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfVl3MLeVH
Hierd sighed, "A book that teaches me how to travel in the wilderness without tools like compasses and other mechanical devices...?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7quLF5Rlcq
[REQUEST GRANTED: CAMPING GUIDE BOOK]105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1ewqDoonM
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. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIessA2i4X
"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. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60gStSXShG
"Alright, alright. Give me sunglasses." He was just about to look at the sun but had fortunately remembered the sun's dangerous rays."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSpnY5uXG8
[REQUEST GRANTED: SUNGLASS]105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiR5HUHUbna
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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJuFsDJSCS
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuQEEOCyQA
Hierd walked to the front gate of the first barn house. Walking on the front porch and then knocking on the front door. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfucE7cVlWV
Two knocks!105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsItCD8IraW
"Hello! Is anybody home?" Hierd shouted in calm manner.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjtqs5DQfe
"Hello there." Behind him, greeted a nice old lady, "What do you want, O' lord?" 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKjtyF94Un
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?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbckWhAajPF
"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." 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvBxVOTFME
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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyAA4STvT3E
"Scoodles? Local term or maybe another name for her children?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2oyLTrNdIQ
"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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0RMXy88og
"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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvrT3oTPBX
"There's no use telling him to retire, the fields are his home, and it's my home too..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡedxGrmvMmf
She had just finished making the tea, bringing it then to Hierd. "Here, O' lord."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrHMKx6BJu
"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?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFPhnXZqhX
"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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MB6IRZ8DO
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWhf7QcjKo
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bumQlY5JS
"O' lord, you don't need to do such a thing..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vULRI3m18
"I feel I have to..." Hierd took another sip, appreciating the taste, aroma. Until a knock rocked the door.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAVuQjRxyy
"Oh! They're here O' lord. I shall unlock the door."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSj6NDor63
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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHTubEvVCH
"Good Afternoon, sir, I am Hierd Die Grace."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cQyT58mUq
He was shocked, very much so.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtYda86Rl4
"Captain! For you to be in my house suprises me so!"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9333bUHOe6
"Captain? For he to refer me as captain... Is he a part of the footmen? No, that's insane, he's a farmer right?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl05hJUh68P
"Ah right, sorry you don't know who I am. But please, let me first retire myself of my work garments before we continue."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4e1DevRBpj
"That is so." Hierd replied.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwz3jhnhKA
"Hey dad!" A voice came out of nowhere behind the man. "Can you finish early? We want to go back to the fields!"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuXXAYpI0k
"Yes, yes, I will. But I don't think I'll be early boys, so come inside and greet our visitor."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1CKrpI1Zd
"Visitor?" They inquired, going in-"Is it Aunt Janelle agai--" they trembled, looking at the hunk of muscle which was Hierd.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1d6niUVQ2F
"G- G-- Good... Afternoon... O' lord..." Two boys, seemingly in their fourteens, looked as frightened as would a mouse in cat territory.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jp9ju7UCB
"Good afternoon." Hierd replied, in comical 'jest.'105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kmz6xcmcZ
"Let's not wait at the door gentlemen!" She interjected, "Please O' lord, and... My dear, make yourselves home in the dining room."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYgchi3nNq
"Quickly now, my Scoodles, to your rooms~." She said in a quieter tone to the two boys.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabM2cUVlqC
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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDr7rocssN
Hierd already sat on the dining room chair, the man had made his way to the dinning room with he sitting opposite Hierd's.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsEQQJDUQX
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypKskUmFmS
"Oh stop~ I know I'm just that good."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzs0lyVramz
"I see, I thank you for your compliments. But what I'm here for is not about the footmen, instead for the food."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLQ2h7fdH8
"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?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOg9EPo01d
"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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzrOa0X0u37
"Right' way, captain."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kQcdx5lbc
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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jWfj2fzTm
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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgvQBQKUw1
Fin opened the door and out the four went. The boys ran forward and took first while the two men walked and stayed behind.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfNCSq9Vgwk
"Aren't they energetic?" Hierd asked in a light tone.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAEmJEWnjC
"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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsauyGZLIy
"What's wrong?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZQCJtPPSY
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBxy06taIw
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sZ3X908Uw
"Fertilizer hasn't worked?" Hierd questioned.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPwHVbaaSa
"Fertilizer, captain, what is that? Is that a cure for this sickness!?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXLK6gyXxx
"Well what then did you use to make the crops better?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0aN0MTVBf
"Ennomite, captain."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23zlAWIPYN
"I've yet to hear something like that..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkb0SfK2E8W
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4ZGez8iA7
"I think I've found the problem..." 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKuQjcd2E0
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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQjzYzdbOJ
"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!"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6lPkvQ1M4
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?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wNXwoZUun
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPq9EJspOh
"I see, than how so can it be done, what is this byproduct, captain?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnUMHqKg7R
"Feces."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkMGWx1q4x
"Feces?" Fin looked disgusted yet intrigued.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdhPRSPycU
"Feces."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJKQvb5KOq
"What can it do?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4J3fKRovVB
"You can collect the feces of your farm animals, put them onto your crops at spring and you shall see the results for yourselves."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEH57qjJE7S
"I... I see..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ194615OvTR
"It's... I know it's really weird, I know hold on, Fin, I'll get you something... I want a book about farming!"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKu9xqRwW8
[REQUEST GRANTED: FARMING BOOK]105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHJhxQ8QLw
Before it could appear in seconds, Hierd put his right hand onto his coat. Seconds after, an unexpectedly big and heavy book appeared.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeopSYwzdA7
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtcjL0CbtI
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..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDS3DD0OVd
"O' please, don't be so humble, accept and read its contents. And soon you shall understand my words are not fiction."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTxtSwwAhV
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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqm0cnldy06
"The Honor's mine. Please, come back any time!" Fin said to Hierd walking away.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyNmwTNWTp
It took quite a bit of time to reach the bridge from the farmhouse, but; Hierd came back to the bridge intersection,105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUB3kPGGMs
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Dq1OGMeA5
Hierd walked towards the village.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavpPAyDsFt
"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?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpp4xNKALOh
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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4rvqCu81R
"Good Afternoon."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6rJhpIHkc
He stood up, nervously so. "G... Goo' dafternoon, O' lord."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDwvrlRPoP
"Please be at ease gentleman." Hierd reassured the man. "I want to see your village's... Chief..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJw8pMifih
"Ah, I see... Pl-- please, follow me."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ154tiXHRT0
Hierd let the man gather his belongings on the ground and as he went away, Hierd followed with.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Jje25dDJr
The townsfolk were eyeing out the captain, Hierd, who looked and acted of nobility, and they did not dare to even approach him.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bLl8bq1hz
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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1H5dR2RbmR
"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."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEH6KF8Bi4
"Where is your chief?" Hierd questioned him as the man had just stood there eyeing out the watching crowd.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrSrbwOZWB
He didn't reply but after a second round of him observing the twenty or so people, he had finally responded. "There! O' lord."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZqJBkyChay
Hierd followed the man, the chief was minding his business with a pile of paperwork and a group of his own men.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DDUWDpuad
"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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkmkU0onZo
"Is he deaf? Pen and paper should be more morally accepted than shouting to an old deaf man with a high position."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPk31hDZ42
The men surrounding him hadn't mind but after he touched him, the chief had finally reacted. A jolt. He was astonished.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDD7ehKSRt
"Ah! The lordly man who showed that... That Car 908kay! 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBX4yuPnugV
Hierd's inner self wanted to laugh but his body simply rejected such an embarrassment of a thought.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XOI6h7LoV
The chief had got up from his sat position, with a bright face, he said;105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVM0ul83Ew8
"I am Hadi, chief of Ridge Village! Pleasure to meet you me lord!"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBg8D9kyGiY
