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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.."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyoBEWdRHn
His thoughts pre-occupied his mind which was looking at the piles of paperwork before him. 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgljo0GJyKK
"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." 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfc9MXjRLxF
"Have you tried asking nearby cities or your kingdom's capital?" Hierd questioned. 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctTrRKqC2q
"We have, but unfortunately... No matter what we did, no reply turned our way." He looked grim saying that.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡde8JwryRT9
"How poor is your kingdom, Naturvege?" 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6W5v6vC5K
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3HKYF6L3M
"I see..."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5r1ICliI8a
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZh4OWyYJqm
"Magic."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRNI7QvYsP
"Magic? Captain?" Naturvege questioned.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzazjHZQIu
"What is it to you?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7vZNn47Qz
"A daily commodity, Captain, from fire, water, ground, and many other elements. Magic's... Magic's just a human trait, why?" 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFWDuTUzFu
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXGvI28vy6
"Nothing in particular, I'll help with your village's problems, but in the meantime... Naturvege..."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxv3QTkla6i
"Yes, captain?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5HPg9Ywg4
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhB1Gf7IB9P
"Yes, captain."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpE0TaZFMv
"Ahem! I am acting in my purest form of intellect!" He imagined himself in a dramatic pose. "I am of such lordly presence!" 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiO8L43uPn
Hierd flew out the village hall with a smile on his face, phasing past the chief walking towards the direction of the training field.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDD2gme9hW
"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..." 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVUxWKb9rU
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. 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MNvaIPXuI
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGavcGirS6n
[RESPONSE VAGUE]232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tMvVzuKrd
Hierd sighed, "A book that teaches me how to travel in the wilderness without tools like compasses and other mechanical devices...?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7c4T6yHLg
[REQUEST GRANTED: CAMPING GUIDE BOOK]232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZFQ8YSAoC
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. 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrs7gF3nesR
"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. 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAS0Z8QAVV
"Alright, alright. Give me sunglasses." He was just about to look at the sun but had fortunately remembered the sun's dangerous rays."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6swqORSfEa
[REQUEST GRANTED: SUNGLASS]232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlUxmuiNUL
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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgU8ZUMymw
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWCtRLnYnC
Hierd walked to the front gate of the first barn house. Walking on the front porch and then knocking on the front door. 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiCidN8nJh
Two knocks!232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6D74XbN2D
"Hello! Is anybody home?" Hierd shouted in calm manner.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNrPjgNRjX
"Hello there." Behind him, greeted a nice old lady, "What do you want, O' lord?" 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwB51E4ZCdB
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?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXVN7jQsT7
"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." 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCPqYcMkJI
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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmcYCycV8h
"Scoodles? Local term or maybe another name for her children?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9X18dQrsH
"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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXoY5Pbsny
"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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyqSO5kGsA
"There's no use telling him to retire, the fields are his home, and it's my home too..."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuH2xgZRGj
She had just finished making the tea, bringing it then to Hierd. "Here, O' lord."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvlA6W2Acf
"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?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgB7cr4rYP
"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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDMm8FOJ9Q
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkFww62oLH
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJpgCtnyP6
"O' lord, you don't need to do such a thing..."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1dx7eA7N5
"I feel I have to..." Hierd took another sip, appreciating the taste, aroma. Until a knock rocked the door.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngGGPIGJ6X
"Oh! They're here O' lord. I shall unlock the door."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZr2kFwhbpY
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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKX1h7L8VS
"Good Afternoon, sir, I am Hierd Die Grace."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdmf07V4vl
He was shocked, very much so.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCm9L0fKjc1
"Captain! For you to be in my house suprises me so!"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpweQGdgY1X
"Captain? For he to refer me as captain... Is he a part of the footmen? No, that's insane, he's a farmer right?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtMUm2fQDD
"Ah right, sorry you don't know who I am. But please, let me first retire myself of my work garments before we continue."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0cp1vaDsb
"That is so." Hierd replied.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjDNkj4brs
"Hey dad!" A voice came out of nowhere behind the man. "Can you finish early? We want to go back to the fields!"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfJckScRPh
"Yes, yes, I will. But I don't think I'll be early boys, so come inside and greet our visitor."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCe0u4yGYi
"Visitor?" They inquired, going in-"Is it Aunt Janelle agai--" they trembled, looking at the hunk of muscle which was Hierd.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLb0nAC5PM
"G- G-- Good... Afternoon... O' lord..." Two boys, seemingly in their fourteens, looked as frightened as would a mouse in cat territory.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxuiBZkiZ8S
"Good afternoon." Hierd replied, in comical 'jest.'232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7w0hZZvYSx
"Let's not wait at the door gentlemen!" She interjected, "Please O' lord, and... My dear, make yourselves home in the dining room."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVz0SyrmySO
"Quickly now, my Scoodles, to your rooms~." She said in a quieter tone to the two boys.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5VCp9XvU1
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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizaAvtsd16
Hierd already sat on the dining room chair, the man had made his way to the dinning room with he sitting opposite Hierd's.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDAXvCUA3O
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lK0vy3wnx
"Oh stop~ I know I'm just that good."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMibwH2mvc
"I see, I thank you for your compliments. But what I'm here for is not about the footmen, instead for the food."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUk4HMLYVdg
"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?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoChQDm9qA
"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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRS5ep4y3ap
"Right' way, captain."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDNzKA4NyK
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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5V7dYASeGl
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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8idRMCXIf
Fin opened the door and out the four went. The boys ran forward and took first while the two men walked and stayed behind.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsrRv4TJdU
"Aren't they energetic?" Hierd asked in a light tone.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ33eKiG4s7
"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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPc3vZkI7tC
"What's wrong?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabfUlPfWg3
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPaL2PJhFN
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlBffkKwmf
"Fertilizer hasn't worked?" Hierd questioned.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumV2OksftK
"Fertilizer, captain, what is that? Is that a cure for this sickness!?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU1NdFGQvcO
"Well what then did you use to make the crops better?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41sVHz0nRa
"Ennomite, captain."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRvlE7gHQi
"I've yet to hear something like that..."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJzxnyefmk
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhsclYr3DH
"I think I've found the problem..." 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs22yGAONnY
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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGi9vbRwqq
"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!"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8LjlyOB2G
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?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOmfYE19pW
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvR2Alm1Zi
"I see, than how so can it be done, what is this byproduct, captain?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnYM6EkxyJ
"Feces."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmlFGRI2Kn
"Feces?" Fin looked disgusted yet intrigued.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxnsFXsuLNI
"Feces."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKIpg79wvb
"What can it do?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLtWDUflKs
"You can collect the feces of your farm animals, put them onto your crops at spring and you shall see the results for yourselves."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jW9Ps1UcZ
"I... I see..."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf76lhHQ3VG
"It's... I know it's really weird, I know hold on, Fin, I'll get you something... I want a book about farming!"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0wHDCY4dj
[REQUEST GRANTED: FARMING BOOK]232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUsniCeqvI
Before it could appear in seconds, Hierd put his right hand onto his coat. Seconds after, an unexpectedly big and heavy book appeared.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYDDUEVGWB
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2a2NGEE7C
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..."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlOVAmVbtw
"O' please, don't be so humble, accept and read its contents. And soon you shall understand my words are not fiction."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjP1p7TsUn
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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8X0vtMeHE6
"The Honor's mine. Please, come back any time!" Fin said to Hierd walking away.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJhGNXuaQQ
It took quite a bit of time to reach the bridge from the farmhouse, but; Hierd came back to the bridge intersection,232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OpiR3BtVl
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXPFmftB4P
Hierd walked towards the village.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkWGQajfcl
"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?"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDuHNasToL5
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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuPwMU3fkB
"Good Afternoon."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgbUCBnhWd
He stood up, nervously so. "G... Goo' dafternoon, O' lord."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfh1giSCen
"Please be at ease gentleman." Hierd reassured the man. "I want to see your village's... Chief..."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn37aF6bv78
"Ah, I see... Pl-- please, follow me."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcV7NJRori
Hierd let the man gather his belongings on the ground and as he went away, Hierd followed with.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡols6X0xxcj
The townsfolk were eyeing out the captain, Hierd, who looked and acted of nobility, and they did not dare to even approach him.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29Og5mEzDt
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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGn4hvvCtXp
"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."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSrkTu96c6
"Where is your chief?" Hierd questioned him as the man had just stood there eyeing out the watching crowd.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKKCEa7rGE
He didn't reply but after a second round of him observing the twenty or so people, he had finally responded. "There! O' lord."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvToy36L2AR
Hierd followed the man, the chief was minding his business with a pile of paperwork and a group of his own men.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0En0TmMga
"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.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3QnYvF6Gd
"Is he deaf? Pen and paper should be more morally accepted than shouting to an old deaf man with a high position."232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2WiLJj35lC
The men surrounding him hadn't mind but after he touched him, the chief had finally reacted. A jolt. He was astonished.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7KPcLCJcn
"Ah! The lordly man who showed that... That Car 908kay! 232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdg5JbPJsT
Hierd's inner self wanted to laugh but his body simply rejected such an embarrassment of a thought.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7lSUhaXD6
The chief had got up from his sat position, with a bright face, he said;232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwWCb5HEQF
"I am Hadi, chief of Ridge Village! Pleasure to meet you me lord!"232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8oDEqNjtkB
