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Chapter 214 Homesteading in a fantasy world
🕑 Added 2023-05-04 16:25:55 +0000 UTCThe next morning was quite joyous as everyone prepared their own small gifts to take to Arthur. I made him a proper anvil for his gift and everyone else also made some other useful things that he currently didn’t have.
France helped bring everything as we also had quite a lot of alcohol. We now had older people who wanted to drink, and Arthur also wanted to celebrate with his friends that were already there when we reached his home. He had more friends than I expected but I was happy to see them living their own lives.
After we were introduced to each other we started to cook and drink. About an hour in Arthur finally announced that he was ready to finish this. He placed the window cover into the correct position and expertly hammered in the few nails needed to secure it.
When he was done, he turned around a bit puzzled as to why it hadn’t worked but he found me behind him offering him my hand. “You have done well and have learned to be a homesteader, congratulations.” After that, he took my hand, and we shook.
His eyes went a bit out of focus and we all knew that he was reading notifications. What I wasn’t expecting was to get my own notification. My first homesteader class levelled up three times. I guess that was an even better incentive to apprentice new homesteaders. Gaining levels every time your apprentice upgrades his class is powerful.
Arthur proudly announced. “I now have the homesteader class, and I actually own my own land.” There were a few tears that rolled down his face, but they were tears of happiness and everyone else cheered for him.
The celebration continued. Eventually, I told everyone that I got a few levels thanks to Arthur becoming a full homesteader. Some of his friends already wanted him to take them as apprentices but they were just drunk talking at least for now. I of course didn’t drink as I was too young, and I didn’t want to mess up my body because of it. Later when my body was more mature, I would finally be able to drink without worrying about messing up my body or mind.
Before Arthur got drunk, I also took him to the side and explained to him a bit more about his new abilities. He was a bit overwhelmed by his owner’s land ability and the true nature connection trait.
He will learn to access them better later. This was a good thing as full access to those powers can quickly break an unprepared mind. Our nation also gained some land today as almost half of Arthurs claimed land was outside our nation’s borders.
Now Arthur also had more responsibilities as he was a landowner but that can wait, he deserved a break, and we were currently celebrating. He has an appointment to meet the proper people next week where he will learn about his new status.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have the true gift that I wanted to give him but hopefully, it will not take too long before I find what I’m looking for. The celebration went well into the night, and everyone was having a good time but eventually, it was time to get back to work, at least for me. Everyone else just slept behind bushes and on top of trees hoping that they wouldn’t wake too soon so they wouldn’t have to deal with their hangover for too long.
The days kind of blur together but everyone was busy helping Emma finish her house and then we would all go and help George finish his. Emma’s ceremony was like Arthur’s, but she had fewer friends who she invited. When she upgraded her class, I once again gained 3 levels but there seem to be less experienced this time. The celebration was even wilder this time as she seems to have friends who are more experienced at partying. It was a fun time.
George also announced that he would be marrying his girlfriend the same day that he will upgrade his class. Everyone was quite excited, and I was able to relax a bit. I was expecting there to be two more parties that I needed to attend but now there was only one and that meant that I might be able to relax a bit before the harvest starts. Around the village, a bit of harvesting was already happening as we had quite a good summer with lots of sunlight. The harvests were quite good, and we were going to gain a lot of food quite soon.
With everyone's combined efforts George was able to finish his house the week after Emma’s celebration. The event planned here was on a different scale. The guest list was almost 70 people and there were proper tables and even entertainment planned.
In the morning when fewer people were around George upgraded his class but after that more intimate celebration, more people started to show up for the wedding.
Thanks to my energy sight I already knew that George’s future wife was pregnant, but they had hoped to keep it the secret, but she was already starting to show and one of the guests who was a bit too drunk asked the question and soon after they had to announce the pregnancy as well.
It was a bit funny to witness this and it kind of felt like a soap opera back on earth without the anger and crying. During the wedding, I was standing beside George as I was currently the closest family member that he had besides his brother who by tradition wasn't allowed to be in my position.
There was no priest for this wedding just the bride and groom giving vows to be together and support each other. It was interesting that there wasn't the death to us apart part. Does this mean that they would have to be together even after death? Since they didn't believe in the afterlife, I guess that it didn’t matter. Otherwise, I was quite surprised at how similar it was to the wedding I knew.
After it was done, I had to admit to myself that it was quite a beautiful ceremony. It felt a lot less formal and more intimate than what I’m used to. For the wedding gift, I gave George four cows and two horses. It was quite troublesome to buy them off the refugees but with enough credits, I was able to purchase the cows. The horses were a lot easier, and I just had to pay a fixed amount to the government.
The way George ran to them and adored them was quite funny. He just left his bride behind and when he finally looked back and saw the angry look on her face, he knew that he had messed up. Everyone laughed at that and after George apologized for a little bit, it seemed that he was forgiven, and the celebration continued.
I was still a bit disappointed in myself that I hadn’t found the time to go and hunt for the real gifts that I wanted to give them for acquiring their own land but hopefully, I will be able to track it down soon.
Unfortunately, I still need to teach my former apprentices. They were able to manage their own homesteads, but the trait, true nature connection and the owner's land ability were different animals altogether. At first, I just thought that they might take longer to figure things out, but Arthur still hasn’t gotten even close to the basics. I really hope that I wouldn’t have to take time to teach them this, but these were the core powers of any homesteader.
I was glad that at least they had the meditation skills otherwise this would have taken even longer. I will need to add this to the report I will give David so he will know what supportive skills would be necessary for a homesteader.
During the next two weeks, I spent every possible moment teaching my old apprentices. It was quite troublesome to teach as it came quite naturally to me, but slowly I was beginning to understand what the problem was. The visual mind that they had wasn't as developed as mine. Mostly I think that was because of the entertainment back on earth that they simply don’t have here.
When I eventually figured that out teaching became easier, and they finally began to grasp what I was trying to teach them. I could finally leave them so they can figure the rest out for themselves. It was good to let a person figure out how to get through a door themselves but if they didn’t even know what a door was how could they even start, but now that was fixed and I could finally start to deal with other problems that have come up.
The biggest problem was deep into the grasslands near our southern border. A new type of insect monster was multiplying fast, and we needed to go down there to start dealing with it otherwise it might become a true problem.
At least it wasn’t ants but beetles, so the situation wasn't holy fuck we are all going to die but instead it was shit this is going to take a while to clean up. The main problem was that the beetles seemed to be quite resistant to slashing and piercing damage but crushing seemed to be working quite well.
They have been pushing other animals out of the area but the only ones that seemed to be thriving were bears and other bigger animals who were able to use crushing force to kill the multiplying beetles.
Just two days ago I felt a first-rank beetle and more have shown up, but they also brought some good news. They had a bit of dungeon energy still in them meaning that the beetles were from a dungeon that had broken which was quite exciting. It meant that I might be able to procure the gifts that I wanted to give.
Then there was the problem with the undead that had been gathered. Quite a few of them have been used to kill other beasts and monsters but the numbers seem to be getting larger and larger.
Currently, the plan is to send them against a huge wolf pack but after that it was decided that the legion will get its hands dirty. That will happen after everything has been harvested but that won't take that long. The harvest was another problem as I didn’t want to push it back any longer which meant it was time to upgrade my farming level.
With a smile on my face, I headed back home where I will make myself a blunt weapon to deal with the beetles and prepare my apprentices to start harvesting.
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Alnatura
Ty for the chapters :) how old will Rich be on his next Birthday?
