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Chapter 163 Homesteading in a fantasy world
🕑 Added 2023-02-10 14:21:41 +0000 UTCI woke up just before the sun started to rise. I only slept for about 2 hours, but I still felt great. The rest of the night was spent meditating on some of the new traits that I have gotten, but I still have a lot left to work through before I understand everything new that I have gotten. Thanks to my nightly discovery of what the trait life-giving energy does, I need to learn how to expel my energy in a controlled way so when I’m planting, I will be able to give some energy to all the seeds.
My trait of life-giving energy was a lot better than I expected and not only will it help the recovery of living things from disease it also boosts their vitality. It’s not something that I can turn off or on it's just a part of my energy. It won’t be able to heal anyone rapidly no matter what I do but it will boost recovery from serious wounds. I am really pleased with this trait and hope that the other new things I have will be at least half as good as this.
I did my morning stretches after which I went running while at the same time trying to slow my energy circulation as much as possible so I would actually exhaust my body. But I was unsuccessful. My body is just too strong even with almost minimal energy circulation to boost it. I will need to find new ways and one of the thoughts that I have is using my tattoo storage to weigh myself down in strategic places that would make exercising harder.
Goose was really enjoying the running as it allowed him to fly above me. I have noticed that the wind seems to be starting to support him while he flies without him consciously doing so. I am guessing that soon one of his evolutions will unlock giving him access to his air manipulation. When I got back to the farm Francis was already waiting by the farming equipment ready for some work.
We started by doing the grain fields and harrowing them before we will sow the seeds. It was peaceful work and something I loved to do. Francis was a lot stronger now and I was quite confident that he will be getting an evolution soon. Dealing with any rocks that appeared was a lot easier because I could simply pick them up and throw them far enough away to clear the field.
I was a bit annoyed that it seems collecting rocks will need to be a yearly job same as back on earth but I guess it’s to do with the geology of the area. There was also a need to add some new grain fields for some of the seeds so we would need to start ploughing some new land.
This was a lot simpler than last year and even some of the bigger rocks that appeared were easy to deal with. Most of them I could just stomp into smaller pieces and only a few of the bigger ones needed a tool for the job.
I expanded the grain fields along the road getting ever closer to the hordes of rabbits. Hopefully, the wolves can deal with them or even Goose, but if necessary, I can come up with a few protective measures for my plant.
During the entire day, I slowly felt how more people were joining our nation and that also made me smile. I did tell them to take it easy until they got their feet under them before continuing but I’m guessing that they didn’t want to wait.
I wondered if anyone would refuse to give the oath. I had no idea what we will do then but the more interesting thing would be if someone wanted to give the oath but didn't intend to follow it. Would he be punished by the oath I kind of want to know but also that would suck if someone would be willing to lie like that.
Francis and I worked until the sun was about to set before we packed everything up and cleaned everything so we could start again tomorrow. Shortly after I finished everything George made it to the house. It was finally time for us to talk about his house plans. They were a bit ambitious, to say the least, and I was able to convince him to change his plans.
The house he wanted to build would have been way too big and would have taken too long to finish. The first problem was that he didn't consider building a second floor and tried to fit everything into the first floor. A house with a large kitchen and living area and with ten bedrooms was a bit too much for a one-floor house. While the change helped it was still big, but the second floor made the footprint a lot smaller.
I also convinced him to not build out the second floor just yet and focus on the first floor which will give him time to finish to 2nd floor by himself. He wasn't going to have eight children within a year. While at first, he was a bit let down the more we discussed and planned I could see some stress leaving him and by the end he was quite pleased. We talked some more while eating and drinking some tea and I had him talk about his girlfriend a bit more and the kind of wedding they wanted to have.
He ended up sleeping here but I wasn’t tired enough to sleep. I decided to start to meditate on where to plant all the different tree samplings and that took the entire night. Even then I was only about halfway through all of the saplings. By the end, I will be planting a small forest with just a bit less than a thousand trees. But I will get past the thousand mark as I want to collect and plant some of the saplings from the other trees around here that have good properties including a lot more saplings for the iron oak.
After a few weeks when the saplings have settled down, I will get some of the farmers with fast-growing capabilities to come and boost the trees. It will probably take them quite a long time most likely to entire summer as they don’t have that much energy to use.
It would be best if they could perhaps live here, they could be my new apprentices. I believe my new class allows me to have a lot more than before and even with my older class I wasn’t at the limit of how many apprentices I could take.
Before the sun started to rise, I went and started planting some of the saplings which had really good locations for their needs. Some of the more exotic trees will need some terraforming but that will also mean I will need to build another building that I want. I guess it’s time for some automation for this farm.
The sun was properly up so Francis and I got back to work but it seems that today will bring a surprise. A group of goblins was approaching but it will take time some time to make it here as it seems they were bringing some heavy items with them.
I noticed them before they reached my land as the nation’s land was a bit further beyond my own borders but not by a lot. Not even the nation's borders came close to the goblin's village as I was able to guide it to stay along the river, but the land owned by the nation was a lot closer than the goblins might be comfortable with. There will also be a problem because the scouts will most definitely notice the huge goblin village that was basically at our border. I will not be able to keep them a secret for much longer.
I am quite confident that it will not come to any conflict at least not a physical one but there will still be trouble. I used the chance while working to think about all the problems of setting up a nation. There were so many things needed and honestly, I was not really that confident in my ability to think about everything necessary. Yeah, I know about warfare and how to run a homestead and just a bit about politics with a few more stuff sprinkled in but that’s where my skill sets end.
Towards the evening I was greeted with a wonderful notification that made my already good mood go even higher. I was able to level up my farming and finally got it to the advanced tier. I was given three magnificent choices but there was no question about which one I was going to pick.
The first option was fast growth which will be useful but not something I’m too interested in. The second one was disease removable. Incredibly useful and might even be of better use outside of farming but the last one, I just had to take that.
Evolution cultivation. As I read it my mind instantly started to think about all the possibilities. What if I could recreate the iron oak or make other plans as remarkable as that tree is? Perhaps I could make even better trees for bows or perhaps plants that would yield fabrics stronger than steel plate armour.
You have gained a new ability evolution cultivation level 1
Comments
Fred Riley
I wonder if the Goblins can join his new Nation. A Goblin Clan seems logical.
Straven
Ok that new ability is bloody nice! Thanks for another read.
