Chapter 95 – Eagle Egg (Start)
The location was an area at the outer boundary of Briar Forest. The distance from the town of Ricca was only half a day of journeying.
A horse carriage travelled across a newly opened road. In the blink of an eye, it was now the 9th month. In the lead up, there were continuous bouts of clouds and rains. Afterwards, the weather had gradually become more clear in the recent times.
The horse carriage had a small muslin window, the winds carried about the fragrance of trees. Eleni was considerably joyful at such an enjoyment. She looked outside the window, what she saw was a endless forest, sparkling with a golden hue underneath the sunlight. She couldn’t help but take a deep breath in.
Running over the farming roads and passing through a narrow location, it was then suddenly spacious. As the carriage proceeded, it was increasingly faster. Only a moment had passed when the horse carriage then came to a halt, and the carriage driver said: “Miss, we’ve arrived.
Jumping off the horse carriage, what Eleni first saw was the row of fencing, raised high above and peaking at the top.
“Ah, it’s built nicely!” thought Eleni, as she walked over.
Passing the entrance, she then discovered the inside were rows of open lands. The initial estimation was about 1000 mu. It had approximately several scores of men working away amidst the fields; evidently preparing for the sowing of winter wheat.
Within the enclosure, the path was not a dirt road. There was a small path paved with gravel. The surroundings were also planted with some fruit trees. Given time, it would perhaps also form a path with a thicket of shade!
There were roughly 15 tenant styled dwellings; extremely orderly. Evidently, this was planned out well. They were all wooden houses, the surrounding produce gardens were all already filled with items, lush and verdant, growing with delight and swaying care-free in the winds. Chickens could be seen running about.
Everything seemed to be so significant and filled with vitality. She never thought that Rumont would really build up a small village.
Eleni swept her vision over and saw the two-storied inn, she also Rumont’s manor for the Lord. Of course, the most eye-catching was still the repaired ruins———it was now an alchemy lab and greenhouse base.
Although it was already repaired, the styling of a Shrine could still be seen from the vestiges of the building. Eleni could only guess that it was a touch ancient. Perhaps it was the Shrine of some God several hundreds of years ago.
Without seeing anyone familiar, Eleni herself then arrived at the front of the small villa building. At this time, there was a young girl with a picturesque appearance, with a silk braid in her hair and a small bell attached to it. When she moved, it sounded with crisp ringing. She awkwardly asked: “you are?”
“I’m Eleni, I wish to pay a visit to Rumont!”
“Oh, so it’s Miss Eleni. Master is already at the alchemy lab. I’ll take you over then.” saying this, the young girl then lead her over.
Entering the alchemy lab, Eleni sized it up. The marble of this place had gone through a cleaning. The former majestic elegance could be vaguely seen, but there wasn’t much furniture. The entire grand hall that could accommodate about 100 people, was distributed with rows of long tables, there were also various kinds of instruments and glassware on all of them.
On one of the longs tables, there were 4 young girls and Rumont just working away.
The 4 females were all bustling about. From Eleni’s point of view, they all worked on a different task. Though they were all extracting a liquid from the crucibles, it was quite evident that the raw materials were different.
As for Rumont, he was at the moment, calmly observing the actions of one of the females. Though he saw that Eleni had arrived, he had still only nodded and again focused on the changes of the several herbs within the crucible.
Afterwards, he suddenly took out a large bottle and the 4 females, practically at the same time, turned off the flames below the crucible and the compound was then poured into the large bottle. Rumont then took out a stirring rod and began to stir, neither hurriedly nor slowly.
Following his stirring, the 4 hued liquid from within the crucible had surprisingly began to slowly change into a semi-translucent milky white liquid. Rumont also took out a small flask from his body and dripped two drops into it, shortly, a round of gentle smoke ascended, distributing a scent amidst the air. When the smoke dispersed, the colour of the liquid within the bottle was also a slightly light blue hue.
With a slight waver, Rumont then poured this liquid, into a row of small opened bottles. Each bottle was roughly filled to two-thirds. After the 5th bottle, it was emptied.
The 4 girls immediately placed the stoppers on and placed a label on.
Rumont began to wash his hands and said to Eleni: “aiya, Miss Eleni, I’m truly sorry.”
“No problem, were you compounding up the Detoxification medicine? So quick ah!” Eleni watched with rapt attention, a light flickered in her pupils.
“This kind of Detoxification medicine is certainly uncomparable to the divine spell of Detoxification, but it’s capable of a long storage. Additionally, it would have a certain amount of use to the majority of toxins. It’s mainly used to help alleviate against toxins and offset against the flaring up of toxins. The true cure is still the divine spells or targeted medicines.” Rumont calmly said. Advancing to a Rank 3 Druid and becoming the Lord of a territory, he exuviated unconsciously, the previous youth was gradually disappearing. He gradually began have a type of hard to describe temperament.
Eleni was slightly despondent: “Rumont, I truly never guessed that you would this proficient in synthesizing medicines. You must also earn a lot of money!”
“It’s alright. Miss Eleni, it’s noon, let us first go have a meal. How about I tell you the details at that time?” Rumont suggested after he finished washing his hands.
“Okay!”
The pair then went to the Lord’s villa. The former 4 girls continued on with tidying up the equipment. The girl that wore a little bell had ran back on the road in advance.
The small villa building was a new wooden construct and it emitted out a fragrance. When the pair had entered, and had just sat down within the dining-hall, a middle-aged kitchen maid had already began to carry the food over.
Roast meat, mushroom and fish soup, cake, bread, cheese, and there was also liquor.
These dishes weren’t considered to be great, but neither was it bad. On the whole, it had already attained a standard for the town Officials. Eleni gave a laugh, and then after being gestured, she grabbed a fork and wooden spoon.
Rumont withheld a smile and watched her scoop up the soup. But once she tasted it, she wrinkled her brows and suddenly had a shocked expression.
She hurriedly scooped another spoonful and carefully sampled it. Shortly, she felt it was incomparably fresh and tasty.
Placing the wooden spoon down, she asked in amazement: “this soup is rather fresh and delicious, what have you added?”
“Hehe, I’m a Druid, it’s only natural I would be able to find suitable seasonings.” Rumont proudly said. In actuality, it was the fish from within the spatial region. He had recently discovered that the purity and the beneficial growth within the region, had indirectly affected the fishes and plants. It rid of the fishiness from the meat and made the meat also particularly fresh and tasty. When it was matched with mushrooms grown inside, it was truly exquisite.
Eleni eventually couldn’t help but begin to scoop up the fish soup again. The strong flavoured fish soup did not have a trace of fishiness; it was closer to milk. As she supped, it was even better than the ones using costly spices.
When she then sampled the other foods, she also thought that although it was ordinary, the taste was nevertheless, extremely delicate. As she ate and ate, her expression also changed.
She never thought that Rumont would enjoy such things, it was nearly the same as the hereditary nobles. What she didn’t comprehend even more, was that Rumont would have such an economic factor. It looks like he earnt a lot of money at the moment hey, she couldn’t help but ask this question again.
In regards to economics in this world, it was quite analogous to Western people; they attached heavy importance to it.
“Mm, currently with some helpers, each day I can produce up to 10 Detoxification medicines, 10 other kinds of medicines and 10 vulneraries set with the Mending spell.” Rumont said.
“Oh. Adding it up, you can earn about 200 silver coins each day?” Eleni calculated it and was greatly amazed.
“Correct, including the production costs, as well as the estimated market price and the tax on transportation and other such expenditures, I can roughly earn about 50 silver coins. Additionally, I can’t possibly compound daily across each month. In a month, the maximum of profits is only about 1000 silver coins!” Rumont said quite modestly. In honesty though, his production costs were practically nothing, his profits were closer to about 1500 silver coins.
“That’s already extremely amazing. A village with an export would only have such a figure from half a year’s worth of taxations!” Eleni knew that the Baron’s territory only had 1 town and 10 villages all up. Adding onto it some mines, the taxation revenues and such, the yearly income only had about 80,000 silver coins. And currently, just Rumont alone could also make 10,000 silver coins in a year!
It was an unknown before it was figured, but once it was figured, it cause people to jump in fright!
Rumont shook his head and laughed: “but it’s also only to this extent. I can’t expand it anymore.”
The difference then between a magical civilization, and a scientific and technological civilization was here. Reportedly, the upper-end of legendary Mages would even research into time and space. This was way beyond the many scientific and technological civilizations.
“This is already excellent!” Eleni was already quite amazed. She put down her fork and signified that she was finished with eating. At this time, Rumont noticed that on her hand, she had a ring. The ring was decorated in a filigree of silver.
Seeing Rumont notice it, Eleni laughed and said: “last month, I received the summons from the Bishop and went to the prefecture Shrine; officially nominating and appointing me as the head Priest at the town. Additionally, I was rewarded with this ring.”
“Oh, it’s really pretty. It suits you!” Rumont said. He felt that the ring had divine power in it. It looks like it wasn’t as simple as an ordinary ring, all of a sudden, he thought of Jeff’s ring.
Ah, until now, he still did not have even 1 magical or Nature related equipment. It was truly miserable!
“Miss Eleni, do you still remember the underground chamber I spoke to you about last time? Currently, there’s only us. Let me invite you for a look.” Rumont finished his meal and followed up with Eleni.
“Really? Okay, I also want to have a look!” she had long heard about Rumont constructing an underground greenhouse. If it wasn’t for the fact that she had been quite busy in the recent times, Eleni would have come here long ago.
Rumont first lead Eleni through to the mechanised area. The pair were currently at the flight of stairs, heading down from the top. It truly had quite the mysterious feel to it.
“Rumont, this place isn’t bad hey. Though it’s a touch dark.” Eleni said.
“It’s just around this corridor.” sure enough, after the corridor, a bright light was given off by the Daylight Crystal at the top of the grand hall. Rows of nurseries were verdantly growing with various kinds of plants. Eleni was fascinated by the surroundings as she went over. Her Goddess had a Domain over plants, and she had also selected a plant Domain. As a result, in some ways, she was not in least bit inferior to a Druid, she was able to perceive the good or bad.
“It truly is excellent ah. You’ve truly built a base of operations. Rumont, you’re truly amazing.” Eleni said.
Though he was more mature, when he heard her speak of heartfelt and sincere praises, Rumont’s face still reddened.
“This time, I’ve also brought a present for you eh. As a way of congratulating your established base.” Eleni spoke as she also extended her arms. There was an egg within her hands. Flickering about underneath the bright light: “I know you wanted to find the egg of a Cliff Eagle, and it just so happens I have an extra one!”
Truthfully, her previous good will towards Rumont was only a type of elder sisterly feeling towards a younger brother.
But currently, creating so many achievements like this, her feelings had gradually transformed. Furthermore, this youth had a strange type of temperament that attracted her, making her often unable to refrain from approaching him.
At this time, seeing that he was pleasantly surprised, she also began to rejoice.
Bo~ 
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