NOVEL NEXT chapter 104
We were back at the farm, and I was a bit annoyed, so I went inside the barn so that the animals could calm me. Everything had gone so well with having humans so close, but I guess everything must come to an end. Fortunately, it seems that it was just one bad apple and perhaps I can use it to my advantage later on.
I am starting to feel like myself again but now I have even more free time as I only have to sleep once every two days. At first, I thought it was because I was so out of it but now, I’m pretty certain that I just need a lot less rest.
In the fight, I was quite glad that I was able to stay defensive for so long as he kept learning my moves. I’m pretty sure that I could have just finished the fight straight away even without using my abilities but there was a possibility I might have hurt him badly.
It's actually kind of funny that controlling myself is harder when I tried to slow energy circulation to make myself weaker. But when I’m at full strength everything seems to work like a well-oiled machine.
Another thing this fight showed me was that I wanted to keep pushing myself not just by training but in a fight to truly see what I would be capable of. This was a lot harder to achieve. I could go and search for trouble in more energy-abundant areas but was I ready for that?
I walked out of the barn and started to stroll around my land. There was quite a lot of snow and if this kept going, we might have a true winter like the ones my grandfathers used to tell me about back on earth. Where there was so much snow it was higher than yourself. It's one thing that I have always regretted not seeing but in a month or two I might be able to check that off the list.
I got quite far down the road when I stopped and looked at the grass fields and using my eyes to see the rabbits and came to a realization. We need to start stocking up on meat or otherwise we would have to start digging underneath meters of snow to get to the rabbits.
It would be a good change of pace as we had done quite a lot of logging. Speaking of that we also needed to change our overall strategy for collecting wood. We were currently just cutting down trees that would make good building material but it would also be a good idea to cut down dead trees and fallen down trees so we could clean up the forest bit more.
I absolutely loved that my body didn’t feel the cold as it used to. It was still cold, but it was comfortable like a cold pillow underneath your head. I wanted to do so much with my land as different ideas kept running through my head but as I learned more about the world and about the current situation, I need to be stronger than I currently am, and I would need people around me that are also strong.
I looked at my homesteader class and thought about what it could represent in the future. I had a good idea of what it could be but for that, I would need a lot more people that are strong and loyal.
That brought me to my trait true nature connection. With it, I can at least know the people I choose will have the best interest of the land around us in mind and hopefully, that would mean we could come together as a community to build something powerful to protect our way of life.
I would enjoy living in this kind of society that doesn’t have a king or a dictator or even a president but people who would work with the land to improve it. That would be good and all and if it was just a few of us perhaps it could work but if we kept expanding even if it was just through our children, we would need a way to govern. Something is needed at the top to solve big problems and to keep improving everything else that is more complicated than a small community can handle.
I stop myself as I think my mind started to wander a bit. What was I even thinking about? Do I really want something like this to create a society around the homesteader class so no one could threaten my land again?
This would take time but I certainly have that what I don’t have is the strength to start or keep going unless I wanted to hope that no one will stop me. But this reminded me of the trait I got for passing 160 in energy storage.
energy storage reaches 160 new trait gained energy well
This trait is something that could be useless or absolutely the greatest thing ever. It all depends on how you will use it. With this, my energy restoration is a lot faster and it seemed to even help my cores to grow faster but that process is still supremely slow. But what this means is I can train my abilities a lot and learn how to use energy faster, simply because I can use it a lot more.
Normally this would put quite a strain on my body because it would be similar to what happened to my sword as I kept using it when my abilities just simply started to break it down. But now with my trait enriched body. Well, it seemed to like whenever my body is damaged so it can then try to make it better.
This is why energy well could be useful or useless, it will all depend on my dedication to keep pushing myself. So, the question remains do I keep going normally and hope I can get strong enough to keep my land and the life I like or do I go for it and try to create something new with the opportunities I have found?
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While Rich was contemplating his place in the world and if he was going to carve out a piece for himself others already know that they wanted a piece of this world. Not everyone wanted to get it the same way and there were even some who just wanted to see it all burn.
In the village, Falyr and Bert were discussing today’s event and the letter they just received from Tom. They were quite excited about the potential Rich displayed but they were also a little bit scared that in the future he might turn against them. But they both know that this would not be a problem for this year or even the next year.
Tomorrow they will receive the last of the people that were going to be sent to the village. Both were quite happy that they were able to fix up the broken houses and they even have a little bit extra room if it was needed.
In the Thorn Rose company headquarters, Tom was contemplating behind his desk. They had never been in a position where their families were safe. Some of the other powers had already started to notice that something was wrong simply because they couldn't find anyone that they could kidnap so they could ransom them for information or resources. Tom wished he could see their faces when they learned that they couldn't find anyone to kidnap. This image always brought a smile to his face.
Then his thoughts turned darker. When there was no need to be worried about anyone’s families perhaps, they could be a bit more proactive when anyone messed with them. This response would look to some people like ruthlessness but it will teach everyone not to mess with them. This could also cement their rule over trade securing the future of this company, but it would also burn a lot of bridges.
In the former capital of this Kingdom in the regional headquarters of the adventuring guild, a portal just closed that came from the other side of the world bringing back the leader of this branch of the adventuring guild. He was annoyed and everyone could feel it. Everyone hoped he would calm down as he was beyond the guild's classification system and he could kill them all without any effort. Luckily for them, he was not the kind of person who indiscriminately kill his employees.
When he made it to his office and looked at his table all he could see were reports filling every inch of it and every stack was taller than a dagger. His annoyance grew but he needed to look everything over. Thankfully he had abilities that would help him. In that pile were a few reports on a person called Rich Dirt and on one of those reports was a stamp classifying him as dangerous in big red letters.
But there was another group of people that had just secured their power base in the capital. This group of people all supported the previous princess of this Kingdom that was able to survive thanks to her being in an Academy on a different continent.
The Princess knew that she didn’t have the strength to forcefully take back her Kingdom but luckily some bureaucratic ways still existed, and they all knew that this would be the best way to start claiming back their kingdom. But that also meant possibly going against the interests of the adventuring guild. They all hoped that the Guild didn’t highly value this land otherwise they had no chance.