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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.."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSkJOJfi84
His thoughts pre-occupied his mind which was looking at the piles of paperwork before him. 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVIGQNEXyG
"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." 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1LQlEduUO
"Have you tried asking nearby cities or your kingdom's capital?" Hierd questioned. 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqjCkKyfjY
"We have, but unfortunately... No matter what we did, no reply turned our way." He looked grim saying that.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ChqTiMqk8
"How poor is your kingdom, Naturvege?" 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzvLXIMRqD
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6zVwZmLwa
"I see..."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsLRT5VSGx
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRci9J99vaR
"Magic."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrl3tTyd4Q
"Magic? Captain?" Naturvege questioned.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbAKRqhFez
"What is it to you?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqPq6taBT6
"A daily commodity, Captain, from fire, water, ground, and many other elements. Magic's... Magic's just a human trait, why?" 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PrYLSotdN
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdOud2xQ48
"Nothing in particular, I'll help with your village's problems, but in the meantime... Naturvege..."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2E26YfbTQP
"Yes, captain?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRliQ383Cz
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRKr64q4Ti5
"Yes, captain."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2aHHwYGTU
"Ahem! I am acting in my purest form of intellect!" He imagined himself in a dramatic pose. "I am of such lordly presence!" 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTsKKr8GCY
Hierd flew out the village hall with a smile on his face, phasing past the chief walking towards the direction of the training field.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtjE0KRNCb
"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..." 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkctGAuNswr
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. 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDOurpMuvp
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64KZL999kN
[RESPONSE VAGUE]221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKgHA80wCHM
Hierd sighed, "A book that teaches me how to travel in the wilderness without tools like compasses and other mechanical devices...?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu66VmimoR8
[REQUEST GRANTED: CAMPING GUIDE BOOK]221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchaD7gXA5M
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. 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfEpvLv63Q
"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. 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8aMcAdwg7O
"Alright, alright. Give me sunglasses." He was just about to look at the sun but had fortunately remembered the sun's dangerous rays."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHiw6QUKf9
[REQUEST GRANTED: SUNGLASS]221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2BsLxHRt5
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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBlUo1gzh7
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtO81LJUGZ
Hierd walked to the front gate of the first barn house. Walking on the front porch and then knocking on the front door. 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcWiZ4bl47
Two knocks!221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9KAvXxWgk
"Hello! Is anybody home?" Hierd shouted in calm manner.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLq4gb1OfF
"Hello there." Behind him, greeted a nice old lady, "What do you want, O' lord?" 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YUxFpYqb6
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?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjoGJus6Wp
"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." 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJM9fHyVjkG
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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwsjv9pah3
"Scoodles? Local term or maybe another name for her children?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96ZQp9nICz
"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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMzvuUlqwL
"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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7OFJEy46Q
"There's no use telling him to retire, the fields are his home, and it's my home too..."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYZOp1cZit
She had just finished making the tea, bringing it then to Hierd. "Here, O' lord."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt524Tbmxz0
"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?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWNFU8R5GG
"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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMHmVOA9vE
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnqLNWcaRY
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3w0mjHWyHQ
"O' lord, you don't need to do such a thing..."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthWHkzYLpE
"I feel I have to..." Hierd took another sip, appreciating the taste, aroma. Until a knock rocked the door.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUW3YJ90NM5
"Oh! They're here O' lord. I shall unlock the door."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaT7SMwmLk
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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2bSHwtDMp
"Good Afternoon, sir, I am Hierd Die Grace."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAxMiQWpbK
He was shocked, very much so.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUqkfn6ISg
"Captain! For you to be in my house suprises me so!"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBrQvttJcZ
"Captain? For he to refer me as captain... Is he a part of the footmen? No, that's insane, he's a farmer right?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSJsixl9LV
"Ah right, sorry you don't know who I am. But please, let me first retire myself of my work garments before we continue."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNay7OXxQtN
"That is so." Hierd replied.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfprVbawDnB
"Hey dad!" A voice came out of nowhere behind the man. "Can you finish early? We want to go back to the fields!"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJ50RJr8mw
"Yes, yes, I will. But I don't think I'll be early boys, so come inside and greet our visitor."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVUsf49xj3
"Visitor?" They inquired, going in-"Is it Aunt Janelle agai--" they trembled, looking at the hunk of muscle which was Hierd.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4yID6HHK2
"G- G-- Good... Afternoon... O' lord..." Two boys, seemingly in their fourteens, looked as frightened as would a mouse in cat territory.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCConBCyzqR
"Good afternoon." Hierd replied, in comical 'jest.'221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYdN8pmnuF
"Let's not wait at the door gentlemen!" She interjected, "Please O' lord, and... My dear, make yourselves home in the dining room."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TKAwSrL7O
"Quickly now, my Scoodles, to your rooms~." She said in a quieter tone to the two boys.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJATf4p9PLs
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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhnlNBZrKn
Hierd already sat on the dining room chair, the man had made his way to the dinning room with he sitting opposite Hierd's.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUGvXl1ZeD
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOTb6hNWqT
"Oh stop~ I know I'm just that good."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkLjVDbY8A
"I see, I thank you for your compliments. But what I'm here for is not about the footmen, instead for the food."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfCHmdeLyX
"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?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9poPiPeRt
"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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2AG3YC6Ar
"Right' way, captain."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZe1E30HEk
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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLRIhX4FaM
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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtwCZ2TIRT
Fin opened the door and out the four went. The boys ran forward and took first while the two men walked and stayed behind.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPizFZv9wM
"Aren't they energetic?" Hierd asked in a light tone.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9BjGpURcY
"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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDSkkoTShD
"What's wrong?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwfEWE3BHW
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEVFaFGmpvb
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGs1Dxp9kXe
"Fertilizer hasn't worked?" Hierd questioned.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bO0E1550k
"Fertilizer, captain, what is that? Is that a cure for this sickness!?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJYLLxq3rp
"Well what then did you use to make the crops better?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVRYfS87hz
"Ennomite, captain."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mUGkbHnAQ
"I've yet to hear something like that..."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfSAfprYUG
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJCsdOisZl
"I think I've found the problem..." 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyXZSwFKXY
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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltwCw1R2rn
"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!"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbcEEXcIyi
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?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQhcNLXch7
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NrpE5VFC9
"I see, than how so can it be done, what is this byproduct, captain?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOq7KJCDPYR
"Feces."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTS8LRfAECG
"Feces?" Fin looked disgusted yet intrigued.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5O8dHHEmRl
"Feces."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3xkvFoC2I
"What can it do?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LL4FeKIku
"You can collect the feces of your farm animals, put them onto your crops at spring and you shall see the results for yourselves."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnrxulpeg5
"I... I see..."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG33okiQRp5
"It's... I know it's really weird, I know hold on, Fin, I'll get you something... I want a book about farming!"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHw2Rd6LaqU
[REQUEST GRANTED: FARMING BOOK]221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsLAH1pux5
Before it could appear in seconds, Hierd put his right hand onto his coat. Seconds after, an unexpectedly big and heavy book appeared.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNKwk0tJCv
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1qXk8fAal
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..."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uLwVDH2TZ
"O' please, don't be so humble, accept and read its contents. And soon you shall understand my words are not fiction."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlehduV5zjs
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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYFe82C1ER
"The Honor's mine. Please, come back any time!" Fin said to Hierd walking away.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICGROo9lQV
It took quite a bit of time to reach the bridge from the farmhouse, but; Hierd came back to the bridge intersection,221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZNMa37cFF
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImwJm5gb0H
Hierd walked towards the village.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo3iVQWXmsn
"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?"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqp42f16x6
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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOMlr1zEtH
"Good Afternoon."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDtiVmHwek
He stood up, nervously so. "G... Goo' dafternoon, O' lord."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEk23OefU1
"Please be at ease gentleman." Hierd reassured the man. "I want to see your village's... Chief..."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXUdrbrW4V
"Ah, I see... Pl-- please, follow me."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuUHfBZwyT
Hierd let the man gather his belongings on the ground and as he went away, Hierd followed with.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UQVWq3Cyi
The townsfolk were eyeing out the captain, Hierd, who looked and acted of nobility, and they did not dare to even approach him.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZ7yuVrbXa
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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5o8voTekH
"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."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0pWxA8f4i
"Where is your chief?" Hierd questioned him as the man had just stood there eyeing out the watching crowd.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RDlhLUkGz
He didn't reply but after a second round of him observing the twenty or so people, he had finally responded. "There! O' lord."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVf013jgu2V
Hierd followed the man, the chief was minding his business with a pile of paperwork and a group of his own men.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSXWHzt8Ps
"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.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIUfJWG65f
"Is he deaf? Pen and paper should be more morally accepted than shouting to an old deaf man with a high position."221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHfOlp7xBT
The men surrounding him hadn't mind but after he touched him, the chief had finally reacted. A jolt. He was astonished.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoK3Dm6dScV
"Ah! The lordly man who showed that... That Car 908kay! 221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0Kwump6nf
Hierd's inner self wanted to laugh but his body simply rejected such an embarrassment of a thought.221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkFo9pkteW
The chief had got up from his sat position, with a bright face, he said;221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3R0fqrewt
"I am Hadi, chief of Ridge Village! Pleasure to meet you me lord!"221Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIGqF0Ne4R
