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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.."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cfnDVg125
His thoughts pre-occupied his mind which was looking at the piles of paperwork before him. 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKe0ryIDlh
"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." 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3GlM8FHoD
"Have you tried asking nearby cities or your kingdom's capital?" Hierd questioned. 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjcdgtuudN
"We have, but unfortunately... No matter what we did, no reply turned our way." He looked grim saying that.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsZ3NgHXj8
"How poor is your kingdom, Naturvege?" 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnybmfRix6
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyXU9HbXiz
"I see..."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MoCak2U4a
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55kXGoot9y
"Magic."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSPS8UiNHa
"Magic? Captain?" Naturvege questioned.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzltECYGflp
"What is it to you?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFjgu8SzVP
"A daily commodity, Captain, from fire, water, ground, and many other elements. Magic's... Magic's just a human trait, why?" 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6OW00uZEB
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmR0aVJ1ss
"Nothing in particular, I'll help with your village's problems, but in the meantime... Naturvege..."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKoJO8pebH
"Yes, captain?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2rOvVz1ba
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkY3nxAzP8V
"Yes, captain."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLGLA3G0Hq
"Ahem! I am acting in my purest form of intellect!" He imagined himself in a dramatic pose. "I am of such lordly presence!" 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXkn6JIqDQ
Hierd flew out the village hall with a smile on his face, phasing past the chief walking towards the direction of the training field.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59RjvvhgMX
"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..." 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBxXbSjblh
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. 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDM5X8Uc6u
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbJwLCwYv4
[RESPONSE VAGUE]203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQXrEeMp2Y
Hierd sighed, "A book that teaches me how to travel in the wilderness without tools like compasses and other mechanical devices...?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHu5MNbaxM
[REQUEST GRANTED: CAMPING GUIDE BOOK]203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSCw02F4I4
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. 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweuGqE4w9a
"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. 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GfeZLuFwZ
"Alright, alright. Give me sunglasses." He was just about to look at the sun but had fortunately remembered the sun's dangerous rays."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEdsAagzxh
[REQUEST GRANTED: SUNGLASS]203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYoT1izDYR
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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQURLaejRU
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDxuUSH9js
Hierd walked to the front gate of the first barn house. Walking on the front porch and then knocking on the front door. 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUzaixegUV
Two knocks!203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjhZALEOY1
"Hello! Is anybody home?" Hierd shouted in calm manner.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CNLZHG98Q
"Hello there." Behind him, greeted a nice old lady, "What do you want, O' lord?" 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoY0b5oqD1l
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?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZ6aOGmwy3
"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." 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrVNRfq5gT
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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDte8JN1Rc
"Scoodles? Local term or maybe another name for her children?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVS4Xr5Fr3e
"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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZnLsD8bDM
"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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IIII3a1aW
"There's no use telling him to retire, the fields are his home, and it's my home too..."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0tl3C8Xgq
She had just finished making the tea, bringing it then to Hierd. "Here, O' lord."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnv43o1NRx
"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?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTX7qfHwWp
"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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQXLJ8PApX
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uERDSoJap
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdQfQhX9zP
"O' lord, you don't need to do such a thing..."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPerMPL9vgw
"I feel I have to..." Hierd took another sip, appreciating the taste, aroma. Until a knock rocked the door.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmHoldjg39
"Oh! They're here O' lord. I shall unlock the door."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlOPYnNVYF
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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡit5ssbrLTd
"Good Afternoon, sir, I am Hierd Die Grace."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJgsP4UisY
He was shocked, very much so.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡov5QUf4qQu
"Captain! For you to be in my house suprises me so!"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PSbJZAb7E
"Captain? For he to refer me as captain... Is he a part of the footmen? No, that's insane, he's a farmer right?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLp3yVOcu2Y
"Ah right, sorry you don't know who I am. But please, let me first retire myself of my work garments before we continue."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYlIkzJ0X1
"That is so." Hierd replied.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQe0ciG4Y4P
"Hey dad!" A voice came out of nowhere behind the man. "Can you finish early? We want to go back to the fields!"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEeWEuMrQX
"Yes, yes, I will. But I don't think I'll be early boys, so come inside and greet our visitor."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rUWWMIL2o
"Visitor?" They inquired, going in-"Is it Aunt Janelle agai--" they trembled, looking at the hunk of muscle which was Hierd.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzl1ZbpygCr
"G- G-- Good... Afternoon... O' lord..." Two boys, seemingly in their fourteens, looked as frightened as would a mouse in cat territory.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiWG9JxVxet
"Good afternoon." Hierd replied, in comical 'jest.'203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDJS5DtPFh
"Let's not wait at the door gentlemen!" She interjected, "Please O' lord, and... My dear, make yourselves home in the dining room."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39fdeM3O46
"Quickly now, my Scoodles, to your rooms~." She said in a quieter tone to the two boys.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHpGV4nYlG
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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZhmRK3J0y
Hierd already sat on the dining room chair, the man had made his way to the dinning room with he sitting opposite Hierd's.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcu9Ze6JwJM
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueK6q8RHfP
"Oh stop~ I know I'm just that good."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZm5sGMQoBJ
"I see, I thank you for your compliments. But what I'm here for is not about the footmen, instead for the food."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3AL9FFqao
"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?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hjSsKtouh
"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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfipRzaIL0
"Right' way, captain."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6o0B8NiWGm
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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRq90xCW2I
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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9frsRWFbe1
Fin opened the door and out the four went. The boys ran forward and took first while the two men walked and stayed behind.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7T6KCYUYd
"Aren't they energetic?" Hierd asked in a light tone.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycSI5el5VT
"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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFcyt0pbMT
"What's wrong?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNcFoiYS8Bk
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjmEMUnmV2
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kwcOH3Ely
"Fertilizer hasn't worked?" Hierd questioned.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXin8b0xODt
"Fertilizer, captain, what is that? Is that a cure for this sickness!?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5SR2P6GBf
"Well what then did you use to make the crops better?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8eY20eZkh
"Ennomite, captain."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfMZPqzTYd
"I've yet to hear something like that..."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUoLozjiBY
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpMGtIcTdp
"I think I've found the problem..." 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8SMl9pTxw
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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDH4pgcduN
"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!"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZghK4YzCjt
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?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9BkUiEIoU
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ87kz1WWon
"I see, than how so can it be done, what is this byproduct, captain?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbqVZmtEsn
"Feces."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0bEKhnjcJ
"Feces?" Fin looked disgusted yet intrigued.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvd1IfjomOe
"Feces."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjR1ksyrR5t
"What can it do?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogEkQzwrXg
"You can collect the feces of your farm animals, put them onto your crops at spring and you shall see the results for yourselves."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64k5hqImwM
"I... I see..."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lb3C4V9tg
"It's... I know it's really weird, I know hold on, Fin, I'll get you something... I want a book about farming!"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYdSVM65L7
[REQUEST GRANTED: FARMING BOOK]203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJb5y1QPrAI
Before it could appear in seconds, Hierd put his right hand onto his coat. Seconds after, an unexpectedly big and heavy book appeared.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTGj9go0b2
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhwruzSZCF
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..."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk71mWnaFI2
"O' please, don't be so humble, accept and read its contents. And soon you shall understand my words are not fiction."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsS4sX6fvXO
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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUDbjMqUfo
"The Honor's mine. Please, come back any time!" Fin said to Hierd walking away.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIjDj7cZtZ
It took quite a bit of time to reach the bridge from the farmhouse, but; Hierd came back to the bridge intersection,203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLxpFdd70R
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ApPVcPj3L
Hierd walked towards the village.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnQjjWi586
"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?"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT3EiiMlhoy
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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4JcFZOIDE
"Good Afternoon."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcRnS3U3Rh
He stood up, nervously so. "G... Goo' dafternoon, O' lord."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYWOLvw2Ji
"Please be at ease gentleman." Hierd reassured the man. "I want to see your village's... Chief..."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp12ly6acCR
"Ah, I see... Pl-- please, follow me."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpvr77QITw
Hierd let the man gather his belongings on the ground and as he went away, Hierd followed with.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkgBTscytd
The townsfolk were eyeing out the captain, Hierd, who looked and acted of nobility, and they did not dare to even approach him.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkKCjB9YLC
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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCF72sfq4N7
"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."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlHr2JwzMx
"Where is your chief?" Hierd questioned him as the man had just stood there eyeing out the watching crowd.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPrzG1vDEW
He didn't reply but after a second round of him observing the twenty or so people, he had finally responded. "There! O' lord."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgueWZNjk4
Hierd followed the man, the chief was minding his business with a pile of paperwork and a group of his own men.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv31GnnTXgn
"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.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvng2z9g15
"Is he deaf? Pen and paper should be more morally accepted than shouting to an old deaf man with a high position."203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7VTFaPU7Ui
The men surrounding him hadn't mind but after he touched him, the chief had finally reacted. A jolt. He was astonished.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgR53Y7Gv9
"Ah! The lordly man who showed that... That Car 908kay! 203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHO3SiwDj8v
Hierd's inner self wanted to laugh but his body simply rejected such an embarrassment of a thought.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0r27vAZarR
The chief had got up from his sat position, with a bright face, he said;203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchzMpSudlv
"I am Hadi, chief of Ridge Village! Pleasure to meet you me lord!"203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtoWRkVx5YT
