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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.."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeMjK3sXvUM
His thoughts pre-occupied his mind which was looking at the piles of paperwork before him. 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJw28XfZvg
"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." 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kjkFQ4IUi
"Have you tried asking nearby cities or your kingdom's capital?" Hierd questioned. 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNwE6xBU4tY
"We have, but unfortunately... No matter what we did, no reply turned our way." He looked grim saying that.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPPtiNFUU1
"How poor is your kingdom, Naturvege?" 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKNSW4O0XZ
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpnCYOy4XI
"I see..."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlC9cs9haBy
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNXDzZmBpt
"Magic."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLsesbti67
"Magic? Captain?" Naturvege questioned.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc87vc60Xcc
"What is it to you?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwOtcR3z6e
"A daily commodity, Captain, from fire, water, ground, and many other elements. Magic's... Magic's just a human trait, why?" 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcAdV6p4dZk
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzgrDqD4dN
"Nothing in particular, I'll help with your village's problems, but in the meantime... Naturvege..."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9vEY03eYn
"Yes, captain?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQ3JG86jA1
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡib4pSdxGj6
"Yes, captain."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NH1zsz2p8
"Ahem! I am acting in my purest form of intellect!" He imagined himself in a dramatic pose. "I am of such lordly presence!" 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUcPuKOZbN
Hierd flew out the village hall with a smile on his face, phasing past the chief walking towards the direction of the training field.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBURbqHGCp
"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..." 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZAEazGDTOq
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. 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6IGNncnYN
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1j1euvdJl
[RESPONSE VAGUE]159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jYmNeFrlU
Hierd sighed, "A book that teaches me how to travel in the wilderness without tools like compasses and other mechanical devices...?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBqtmPi5Wy
[REQUEST GRANTED: CAMPING GUIDE BOOK]159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTC7VVf4NwH
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. 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXgSnikxWh
"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. 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdUYpXohit
"Alright, alright. Give me sunglasses." He was just about to look at the sun but had fortunately remembered the sun's dangerous rays."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyum2267S6
[REQUEST GRANTED: SUNGLASS]159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu27Tz7Oine
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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoUYbJNDFd
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CrGJtSTVE
Hierd walked to the front gate of the first barn house. Walking on the front porch and then knocking on the front door. 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5dpvGpxUi
Two knocks!159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUCn2bPClW
"Hello! Is anybody home?" Hierd shouted in calm manner.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIDPIGLTzP
"Hello there." Behind him, greeted a nice old lady, "What do you want, O' lord?" 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLgMl2WRv4
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?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuoJC4YKBx
"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." 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJM4Be8rFn
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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiXadg1RJr
"Scoodles? Local term or maybe another name for her children?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnILjbsgkvE
"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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzDx4A4ThY
"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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8uMDZ4pwN
"There's no use telling him to retire, the fields are his home, and it's my home too..."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7mod529f2
She had just finished making the tea, bringing it then to Hierd. "Here, O' lord."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUZA8bjErf
"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?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ypg0Xa8KI
"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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9UzMufj8P
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloyoEr1hqx
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ixCFNgNSn
"O' lord, you don't need to do such a thing..."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbbmnfYROH
"I feel I have to..." Hierd took another sip, appreciating the taste, aroma. Until a knock rocked the door.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxirK0NvARk
"Oh! They're here O' lord. I shall unlock the door."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqio347TquR
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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZOlixdtFf
"Good Afternoon, sir, I am Hierd Die Grace."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4dI3WfuqN
He was shocked, very much so.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9hCxyI4Bq
"Captain! For you to be in my house suprises me so!"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJK3kY4oBK
"Captain? For he to refer me as captain... Is he a part of the footmen? No, that's insane, he's a farmer right?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIVIbN1L5T
"Ah right, sorry you don't know who I am. But please, let me first retire myself of my work garments before we continue."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YW2tjAwpq
"That is so." Hierd replied.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5GK8t1bAy
"Hey dad!" A voice came out of nowhere behind the man. "Can you finish early? We want to go back to the fields!"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYb2ydO3tSR
"Yes, yes, I will. But I don't think I'll be early boys, so come inside and greet our visitor."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9eDva4Ots
"Visitor?" They inquired, going in-"Is it Aunt Janelle agai--" they trembled, looking at the hunk of muscle which was Hierd.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuepCc1crGt
"G- G-- Good... Afternoon... O' lord..." Two boys, seemingly in their fourteens, looked as frightened as would a mouse in cat territory.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJOaQuoAmo
"Good afternoon." Hierd replied, in comical 'jest.'159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpiAf1fVU7
"Let's not wait at the door gentlemen!" She interjected, "Please O' lord, and... My dear, make yourselves home in the dining room."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpenNaaDOIS
"Quickly now, my Scoodles, to your rooms~." She said in a quieter tone to the two boys.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQQsNdRidM
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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrD75ruKzZ
Hierd already sat on the dining room chair, the man had made his way to the dinning room with he sitting opposite Hierd's.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kzhkkKhTm
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlr9wRak4d8
"Oh stop~ I know I'm just that good."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0FIzL7v0C
"I see, I thank you for your compliments. But what I'm here for is not about the footmen, instead for the food."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxWJsIV75o
"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?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfBEZK6zlM
"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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCzoUq11UA
"Right' way, captain."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILwpEWXeyi
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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSeIztZHxBi
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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6CC2ptaLR
Fin opened the door and out the four went. The boys ran forward and took first while the two men walked and stayed behind.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwQeEeVjGW
"Aren't they energetic?" Hierd asked in a light tone.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0Vp6zjDbK
"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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9wMpOIdHp
"What's wrong?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HQwIrKlLv
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8kyoZKzA8
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7f3MOkUcFt
"Fertilizer hasn't worked?" Hierd questioned.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GuDxaHTri
"Fertilizer, captain, what is that? Is that a cure for this sickness!?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNw8K8HoFuR
"Well what then did you use to make the crops better?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzBAOSkzPz
"Ennomite, captain."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtWdbrQyAb
"I've yet to hear something like that..."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXMto9TtKn
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAONUjUE9nW
"I think I've found the problem..." 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWM0j27LF2
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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn26TD7BRlO
"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!"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc27k8SjeVS
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?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyTGPkYDVs
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTOVO4C2hNI
"I see, than how so can it be done, what is this byproduct, captain?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcefQoH8Pq
"Feces."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdo2JpKR2Qh
"Feces?" Fin looked disgusted yet intrigued.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHtyAdEdIy
"Feces."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjk0PcjeuE
"What can it do?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL1YliqKyGI
"You can collect the feces of your farm animals, put them onto your crops at spring and you shall see the results for yourselves."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRZDAwefm4
"I... I see..."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveQOdB2DHr
"It's... I know it's really weird, I know hold on, Fin, I'll get you something... I want a book about farming!"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRPAtENbxH
[REQUEST GRANTED: FARMING BOOK]159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIw6jUGRDsz
Before it could appear in seconds, Hierd put his right hand onto his coat. Seconds after, an unexpectedly big and heavy book appeared.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbo24pU3ok5
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfEIofy8Cq
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..."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIImdFBonA
"O' please, don't be so humble, accept and read its contents. And soon you shall understand my words are not fiction."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFG9GRUHli4
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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7w6N70END3
"The Honor's mine. Please, come back any time!" Fin said to Hierd walking away.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8Jk5rCdBI
It took quite a bit of time to reach the bridge from the farmhouse, but; Hierd came back to the bridge intersection,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQVnjNwksU
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYkEXQJysFs
Hierd walked towards the village.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpreisnv6I
"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?"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvVNsE8gHH
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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLWY7Rp32o
"Good Afternoon."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvSI6loKxD
He stood up, nervously so. "G... Goo' dafternoon, O' lord."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8dbduPisF
"Please be at ease gentleman." Hierd reassured the man. "I want to see your village's... Chief..."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6bwGxRSyu
"Ah, I see... Pl-- please, follow me."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXj8456QWe
Hierd let the man gather his belongings on the ground and as he went away, Hierd followed with.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaR65bQ79Q0
The townsfolk were eyeing out the captain, Hierd, who looked and acted of nobility, and they did not dare to even approach him.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzwYVdyXK3
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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXzE2kDj9Z
"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."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4iLt4Qjd4O
"Where is your chief?" Hierd questioned him as the man had just stood there eyeing out the watching crowd.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJcej3tB3U
He didn't reply but after a second round of him observing the twenty or so people, he had finally responded. "There! O' lord."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfciYklCBeU
Hierd followed the man, the chief was minding his business with a pile of paperwork and a group of his own men.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVB4GX7Zf1
"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.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHj8PmdUqO
"Is he deaf? Pen and paper should be more morally accepted than shouting to an old deaf man with a high position."159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuiZCtqculk
The men surrounding him hadn't mind but after he touched him, the chief had finally reacted. A jolt. He was astonished.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakckMtrsdL
"Ah! The lordly man who showed that... That Car 908kay! 159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyasrnbRqmw
Hierd's inner self wanted to laugh but his body simply rejected such an embarrassment of a thought.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQ88cXP43b
The chief had got up from his sat position, with a bright face, he said;159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgF9rSROwG6
"I am Hadi, chief of Ridge Village! Pleasure to meet you me lord!"159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNajwQq5s2U
