Chapter 92 – Assarting (End)

Chapter 92 – Assarting (End)

Early summer was still summer. Thunderstorms arrived quickly and also going just as quick.

Each month, Banner’s caravan would trudge with difficulties on the muddy roads. Finally, in the afternoon, he had finally reached the Forest Home.

What first entered the eyes was a large crowd just working away with fervor.

This crowd had amongst them ordinary workers, it also had strong and robust Adventurers. Recently, the numbers of Adventurers that entered the forest had increased, but the Adventurers Guild had on the contrary, issued missions that weren’t as good as previously. The aggravated competition directly lead to some Adventurers being more idle. Thus, some Adventurers had also then come here to work temporarily when Rumont had recruited workers.

Compared to those workers, the strength of the Adventurers were greater with more skill; they could also work even harder. If it wasn’t for the fact that the Adventurers that came forth weren’t many, it would be presumable that those ordinary workers wouldn’t have been hired at all.

And between the Adventurers, there was a person that was the most conspicuous. At this moment, he was just naked above the waist, really giving his all moving a large boulder from the ground and to the Shrine that was more or less already repaired. The surrounding people all sounded out a round of acclaim.

And at this time, a person who carried a longbow was just patrolling, watching these people. Banner’s heart was moved. This Sukhar’s identity was currently of an overseer, he had already quelled several matters. His archery was extremely formidable. With bow and arrows in hand, killing 10 soldiers was not any problem———who would have thought that Rumont would unexpectedly find such a talent.

Banner had also once tried to entice him over, but Sukhar’s heart was firmly steadfast. Even if there were better items placed in front of him, he absolutely wouldn’t waver.

This was also precisely the reason Rumont took a liking to him. This time, when Rumont obtained the land around this remnant, when he had prepared to go to work, the first person he had thought of was Sukhar. Furthermore, he had turned into the deputy peace Officer and Vice-Captain; even if the squadron was yet to be established.

Even though Fafnir and Nick were his best friends, Nick was already quite busy. As for Fafnir, in this period of time, he was just in the process of advancing up as a Warrior, and once again visiting his Master; training arduously each day. Furthermore, many a times he had taken missions to temper himself, leaving early and returning late. When he returned home, he was just the same as a dead dog; really couldn’t rely on him to be a Peace Officer.

Thus, Sukhar was currently the first line of defense for this land.

“Everybody, time for food.” at this time, Rumont had already brought a large pile of food out from the inn. There was liquor and meat. Once everyone saw this, they immediately swarmed up with joy.

“Sukhar, how are things, tired?” Rumont went near Sukhad and asked. “Even though you’ve been detoxified, you still need to take care of yourself for a bit. In the future, you can overseer this place, you don’t have to personally work with this job. It’s not good to tire yourself out eh.”

“Heheh, I’m fine. I’ll pay more attention to it in the future.” Sukhar smiled.

Rumont patted his shoulder. Afterwards, his vision turned towards Banner.

Banner gave a praising sigh as he looked. He felt that the former Shrine had already finished its repairs. The stone halls were packed with all kinds of long tables, glass instruments, scales and the sort. Evidently, the base camp where the medications were synthesized had already been relocated to within the stone hall.

“Aiya, you’re already prepared?” Banner inquired.

“I’m prepared Mister Banner. Come in and have a look, especially the underground room.” Rumont still spoke quite enthusiastically.

The Shrine that was originally used for prayers, it’s area was naturally quite large.

It was originally constructed of marble. Currently, after being polished a bit, getting rid of the exterior weatherings, it was now completely cleaned.

The originally large cavity had currently been sealed with glass, the sunshine penetrated through the glass and filled the grand hall full of sunshine.

Three hundred years prior, glass was a rare material and its pricing was extremely costly. But now, glass was only said to be a touch luxurious as a material. Within the city, there were 2 glass workshops. Even though they couldn’t produce large glass products, small glass products was still manageable. This kind of glass in general was something the townsfolk couldn’t even use. Some country gentlemen or perhaps of a Merchant household would then inlay a panel of glass works into the window, proving that they were of a household with status and Rank.

However, the piece of glass in eyesight was a metre high and wide. This kind of large piece of glass would have needed to be custom made.

Seeing Banner examine it, Rumont smiled and said: “our Lord Baron had once renovated his villa and castle, he had once custom made a batch of glassware, there were a surplus left over that was given to us for purchase.”

So that’s how it was, Banner felt more relieved inside as he said: “not bad, truly not bad at all!”

But the most eye-catching was still the lengthy, over a dozen metres long table, it was filled with various kinds of equipment.

Furthermore, it was also surrounded by enormous cupboards, with innumerable drawers filled with herbs. All of it were labelled on top with the names of the materials.

Seeing this, Banner’s heart was extremely envious, this was to be the alchemy room.

Within the eyes of a Merchant, this was to be a steady flowing silver mine, able to therefrom put out bright sparkling silver coins.

Mages and Druids, even Priests would all touch upon a bit of Alchemy. As the Merchants would put it, the difference between them would basically have no significance, what was important was that it was able to make money.

Synthesizing medicines, supplementing magics to weapons, manufacturing magic wands and oddities. So long as anyone was proficient in one category, they would then surge in financial resources. There was no need to speak of providing for a family, even if they provided a small territory, it would also be generous enough with spare.

What didn’t need to even be said was that Rumont was also a Rank 3 Druid, he would still continue to go onward later on. This investment was truly profitable.

Not knowing of Banner’s thoughts, feelings and envy, Rumont guided him towards entering the underground chamber.

The underground chamber was quite dim, Rumont spoke in silence for a moment and a light globe had then gently floated out, just like a light bulb. It floated above Rumont’s head, following along with Rumont’s footsteps, illuminating within 10 metres of the scene.

Illumination was a Rank 0 spell, which was a basic cantrip of Druids and Mages. It was able to create a light globe above the top of one’s head, issuing light just like a torch and illuminating the surroundings. The time was 10 minutes for each Rank. Merely, Rank 0 was just 5 minutes. With Rumont’s current Rank, in one day’s worth of use, it could last for half an hour without extinguishing; this was already enough.

The underground chamber being illuminated, separated rows of nursery cradles that could then be seen. The nursery beds were piled up with thick fertile soil; only it currently did not have seeds on it yet.

“Mister Banner, it’s just lacking the Daylight Crystals you brought over.”

“Oh oh, it’s here, it’s here.” Banner who was looking foolishly, had then promptly taken out a case from within his bosom. The case was opened. Four small crystal globes the size of a hen’s egg were inside, emitting out a faint radiance. They were already filled with energy from the sun.

“I’ll then install them.” Rumont spoke. He wasn’t polite in taking them, and extracted one of them out. He climbed a ladder he had prepared beforehand and approached the ceiling, which had a lamp like object. This was actually a small spell array, customized to stimulate a Daylight Crystal.

Placing the crystal in, setting it and pouring some power in, the crystal shortly shone, releasing out a light and causing all the surrounding people who saw it to immediately close their eyes.

“It’s finished then?” when Banner opened his eyes, he discovered Rumont had already extinguished the Illumination spell. As for the crystal, it was emitting a light similar to sunlight, illuminating the entire underground grand hall.

“Of course, it can illuminate for 8 hours, additionally the underground chamber is basically confined. The temperature will be relatively stable, this then is a greenhouse.” Rumont was also proud as he supposed: “I can now plant the seeds.”

“Oh oh!” Banner’s expression was complicated as he took measure, this was also another silver mine!

“Mister Banner, let’s settle our accounts then!” Rumont sized it up before just saying.

This was official business, Banner recovered his mind and followed him, sitting within a small room by the side of the grand hall. This room was quite simple, there were a couple of sofas and a long table.

Rumont queried and Banner had also just said: “we can already forget about the other funds. Just the Daylight Crystals is 1200 gold coins. The value of the others, the load of provisions, seeds, equipment and such is only 100.”

“One thousand three hundred gold coins huh!” Rumont paused for a bit and used his fingers to tap on the sofa. After a pause, he showed a trace of a smile, suddenly saying: “the greenhouse you just saw, it’s quite big right?”

“It’s really big.” Banner was just prepared for Rumont’s bitter cries, before then suddenly expressing a load and consequently owing him a favour. Being asked of this all of a sudden, he was stumped.

“The greenhouse is really big, the alchemy room is also really big. It’s just a pity that it’s lacking in manpower hey!” Rumont spoke quite vaguely about this.

But how intelligent was Banner, his eyes shortly lit up: “……excuse me for being presumptuous, but you’re wanting to take on students?”

Banner was acquainted with several Mages, business deals during normal times was still possible, but wanting to assign his own younger relatives to become an apprentice was yet very, very difficult. These kinds of skills and powers were all a strictly limited strength that was obtained.

Actually speaking, who Rumont needed to find and truly express his thanks to was the Baron. That year when Jeff had settled down at the town, the Baron only had one condition, which was to recruit a few apprentices. The end result was that the sons of the respectable households had difficulties in comprehending Nature. Instead, Rumont had gotten the advantage. Of course, even if it was like this, what Jeff taught was really the most basic and the most superficial. If it wasn’t for the Shennong Horn, he currently wouldn’t have been able to breakthrough.

“Apprentices, no no. I’m not prepared to instruct apprentices. But I can let them stay here and help out in the process.” Rumont spoke.

“Then what conditions do you have?” Banner’s eyes were still shining, not at all caring that though they wouldn’t be a definite apprentice, they could still learn quite a bit during the process eh. Later on, even if they did not have the chance to become a Druid, they would still learn about medicines in general and the basic energy meditation; which would allow them to become a specialized Alchemist.

This was different to the textbooks. Textbooks wouldn’t have a person to guide them. Solely on jargons and magic spell words, it was already enough of a deterrence to a large group of people; there was no need to even mention the cost.

“My requests aren’t that high, able to be obedient, a bit of intelligence……mmmm, young females would be the best!”

Young females eh, hiring prepubescent young female servants. This was an quite often seen matter———good to teach, could be pushed down, easy to provide for……Banner did not mind in the slightest for his own daughter to assume such a role, only he didn’t have one. Figuring out the prepubescent young girls within the family, he probed out a query: “how many do you want?”

“5 or so!”

“Done, leave it to me then.”

“Mm, then I’ll leave this matter to you, also, as for the matter of money, in another 3 months, is that alright?”

“Without a doubt, this is an honour for me, I’ll even waive the interest!” Banner immediately replied in one breath, speaking straightforwardly.

Speaking to thus, the pair couldn’t help but look amongst themselves and laugh.

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