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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.."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRQzO72AXG
His thoughts pre-occupied his mind which was looking at the piles of paperwork before him. 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00Hf5wGGbi
"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." 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9ZAI3Qbc8
"Have you tried asking nearby cities or your kingdom's capital?" Hierd questioned. 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡooj9VjeD3H
"We have, but unfortunately... No matter what we did, no reply turned our way." He looked grim saying that.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFe2F3Zxgb5
"How poor is your kingdom, Naturvege?" 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnMXUJSchx
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYaYtf0NKR
"I see..."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWqQo3AAOp
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMAOALdqOQ
"Magic."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdFrpEedRJ
"Magic? Captain?" Naturvege questioned.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60jO01qcbY
"What is it to you?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3iVKWSFdz
"A daily commodity, Captain, from fire, water, ground, and many other elements. Magic's... Magic's just a human trait, why?" 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTFkPhoD72
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioOYqTPvUW
"Nothing in particular, I'll help with your village's problems, but in the meantime... Naturvege..."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoz2CISQEwX
"Yes, captain?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspBr6Hkbsw
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuTOniIkXp
"Yes, captain."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHNXjdWRUe
"Ahem! I am acting in my purest form of intellect!" He imagined himself in a dramatic pose. "I am of such lordly presence!" 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfv94rKwepo
Hierd flew out the village hall with a smile on his face, phasing past the chief walking towards the direction of the training field.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFOY0cGcjy
"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..." 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPdhSu62YH
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. 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBLiTBwTfL
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFLoZ1ISpK
[RESPONSE VAGUE]164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7AQ79Xtkb
Hierd sighed, "A book that teaches me how to travel in the wilderness without tools like compasses and other mechanical devices...?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSfDPTATG7
[REQUEST GRANTED: CAMPING GUIDE BOOK]164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRb8Oqv7Z2J
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. 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHG5s3VToi
"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. 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WtOpRwrXo
"Alright, alright. Give me sunglasses." He was just about to look at the sun but had fortunately remembered the sun's dangerous rays."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9oXU1yIAmi
[REQUEST GRANTED: SUNGLASS]164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNy6kpUj5a
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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8g0AdLCPK
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbj6jIYVoVj
Hierd walked to the front gate of the first barn house. Walking on the front porch and then knocking on the front door. 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYmDAYq6j9
Two knocks!164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmFoy6GHzM
"Hello! Is anybody home?" Hierd shouted in calm manner.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8A4RbAj4CY
"Hello there." Behind him, greeted a nice old lady, "What do you want, O' lord?" 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70AvHziyA7
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?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpotEqkWJS
"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." 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJWMdnIenI
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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDcHDWvJpz
"Scoodles? Local term or maybe another name for her children?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOlGuiUxKI
"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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvgWQnXUSn
"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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZ1WsvFAn6
"There's no use telling him to retire, the fields are his home, and it's my home too..."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxsDT2kA3M
She had just finished making the tea, bringing it then to Hierd. "Here, O' lord."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7QBEf3ak8
"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?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9Vqhie4du
"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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9EyzZ4tCk
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8Teu6YCh8
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2oXikw7cLJ
"O' lord, you don't need to do such a thing..."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTihH2vkDZ
"I feel I have to..." Hierd took another sip, appreciating the taste, aroma. Until a knock rocked the door.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNqrcsGRQc
"Oh! They're here O' lord. I shall unlock the door."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxDrWLLGYl
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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QFv8ez61g
"Good Afternoon, sir, I am Hierd Die Grace."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2jX6zXj4r
He was shocked, very much so.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwki2rIDOlx
"Captain! For you to be in my house suprises me so!"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWpFPDm8x4
"Captain? For he to refer me as captain... Is he a part of the footmen? No, that's insane, he's a farmer right?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcnT1VA2lt
"Ah right, sorry you don't know who I am. But please, let me first retire myself of my work garments before we continue."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfdZ4Mg0Fz3
"That is so." Hierd replied.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVi3XXDU8M
"Hey dad!" A voice came out of nowhere behind the man. "Can you finish early? We want to go back to the fields!"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPFaQ37ImN
"Yes, yes, I will. But I don't think I'll be early boys, so come inside and greet our visitor."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ799QF9uEo8
"Visitor?" They inquired, going in-"Is it Aunt Janelle agai--" they trembled, looking at the hunk of muscle which was Hierd.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtgb7qsHlW
"G- G-- Good... Afternoon... O' lord..." Two boys, seemingly in their fourteens, looked as frightened as would a mouse in cat territory.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVURVNmrpP
"Good afternoon." Hierd replied, in comical 'jest.'164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWeZADwHld
"Let's not wait at the door gentlemen!" She interjected, "Please O' lord, and... My dear, make yourselves home in the dining room."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2buB1JgzU
"Quickly now, my Scoodles, to your rooms~." She said in a quieter tone to the two boys.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcaWaXxTikn
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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKj1N7Pj3zD
Hierd already sat on the dining room chair, the man had made his way to the dinning room with he sitting opposite Hierd's.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJKS4kmWSe
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1ELH87Iv0
"Oh stop~ I know I'm just that good."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY66c5Llf70
"I see, I thank you for your compliments. But what I'm here for is not about the footmen, instead for the food."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2ngmHR2Mr
"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?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VLahyAW8f
"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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgx95J57m8B
"Right' way, captain."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttCAzp6k0i
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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaBMpSMF2L
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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoUHIeBWbg
Fin opened the door and out the four went. The boys ran forward and took first while the two men walked and stayed behind.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlmcneIjQ5
"Aren't they energetic?" Hierd asked in a light tone.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyotfdK4SN
"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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6p5en7gQG
"What's wrong?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1xrFb7KIE
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWvzRCWEoz
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgvGpyM2dy
"Fertilizer hasn't worked?" Hierd questioned.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztXZ3J17Cq
"Fertilizer, captain, what is that? Is that a cure for this sickness!?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkBfHnV2jQ
"Well what then did you use to make the crops better?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQuaB03UfMa
"Ennomite, captain."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxgkVQdsAu
"I've yet to hear something like that..."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqMVnLmoDu
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcczQ9T7gm0
"I think I've found the problem..." 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzDg0SzwIm
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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5oGtPMAKtd
"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!"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23lfhUzGFX
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?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgacUNeyJF
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCM5SPFHeI
"I see, than how so can it be done, what is this byproduct, captain?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdgjWHxl9Y
"Feces."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHkP0ntcRU
"Feces?" Fin looked disgusted yet intrigued.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7SRRGWbUU
"Feces."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkDlTZYo8n
"What can it do?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTfXTR1qxp
"You can collect the feces of your farm animals, put them onto your crops at spring and you shall see the results for yourselves."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjJYcCliOQ
"I... I see..."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtt5CK2MsL
"It's... I know it's really weird, I know hold on, Fin, I'll get you something... I want a book about farming!"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFzJuznAbl
[REQUEST GRANTED: FARMING BOOK]164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeOSVSHdIA
Before it could appear in seconds, Hierd put his right hand onto his coat. Seconds after, an unexpectedly big and heavy book appeared.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrO1ruQAxP2
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenDcSoSG1c
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..."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zpvryzywQ
"O' please, don't be so humble, accept and read its contents. And soon you shall understand my words are not fiction."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgY3ARXUgkk
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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrve3frBbgH
"The Honor's mine. Please, come back any time!" Fin said to Hierd walking away.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsu4M2W7ddW
It took quite a bit of time to reach the bridge from the farmhouse, but; Hierd came back to the bridge intersection,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1sCRizGDA
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7vpLONWPp
Hierd walked towards the village.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CX73NKLyt
"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?"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqABy365dL
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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOFDroVUQM
"Good Afternoon."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwhCbow6zN
He stood up, nervously so. "G... Goo' dafternoon, O' lord."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCptAXKtH4
"Please be at ease gentleman." Hierd reassured the man. "I want to see your village's... Chief..."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SHqOFS7dL
"Ah, I see... Pl-- please, follow me."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5efgxTywdK
Hierd let the man gather his belongings on the ground and as he went away, Hierd followed with.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSt9Hh15yMW
The townsfolk were eyeing out the captain, Hierd, who looked and acted of nobility, and they did not dare to even approach him.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2ysadWgVM
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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAhcSdnIrc
"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."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXi0O1yKmkP
"Where is your chief?" Hierd questioned him as the man had just stood there eyeing out the watching crowd.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXRtlBzwlR
He didn't reply but after a second round of him observing the twenty or so people, he had finally responded. "There! O' lord."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5iV8Qjh06
Hierd followed the man, the chief was minding his business with a pile of paperwork and a group of his own men.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWVbaqFamr
"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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrs4PoeuIe
"Is he deaf? Pen and paper should be more morally accepted than shouting to an old deaf man with a high position."164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRESmzdtqCV
The men surrounding him hadn't mind but after he touched him, the chief had finally reacted. A jolt. He was astonished.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnzzzZbrqQ
"Ah! The lordly man who showed that... That Car 908kay! 164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzs9n9AGg8
Hierd's inner self wanted to laugh but his body simply rejected such an embarrassment of a thought.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfKwXpLqdD
The chief had got up from his sat position, with a bright face, he said;164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzr0QSyMSE
"I am Hadi, chief of Ridge Village! Pleasure to meet you me lord!"164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPL9z6vNg8
