Chapter 105 – Guest (Start)
Returning to the estate from the city, it was now the 12th month.
Starting from a few days prior, the skies had been gloomy. Drizzling and grey. Seeming to have arrived with the nurturing of something, causing people to have quite the repressed feelings.
As expected, after a bout of thick fog, a cycle of magnificent snow had finally arrived in this expanse of Briar Forest.
At the estate, the first person to discover the first snowfall was Rumont.
He rose early in the morning, and once he opened the window, he had then seen that the previous day’s fog had already thinned away. In the above outside skies, soft snowflakes were just elegantly falling down amidst the overcast, descending upon the open spaces of the forest and the open fields of the estate.
A burst of incomparably refreshing air, welcomed his face. Shortly with a brushing, Rumont’s spirit was raised up again, after the several days of depression and fatigue.
Rumont was fond of snow. Long ago during the times on Earth, he had quite joyfully gone to the northern cities during winter to watch snowflakes float down. Afterwards, he gazed quietly, allowing the snow to fall onto his body.
Coming into this world, he had already welcomed a few bouts of snow. The snow of this place was the same as on Earth. Though the whole country was different, though it was a different world, the moment that the snowflakes were gently floating down, he seemingly felt as he had returned back to the homeland on Earth; seemingly as he had again returned to a location he was once familiar with.
He was quite joyful at seeing the snow fall outside. Rumont retreated back from the window, before opening the door at the same time, welcoming a big burst of frigid air as existing outside.
Standing atop of the stairs, he quietly watched as the snow arrived. The goose feather-like snowflakes continuously streamed downwards, creating a snow curtain; drifting profusely and disorderly, slowly floating down, twinkling with a silvery cold light.
Winter snow was also a course of Nature. Rumont sensed the fluctuating Heart of Nature.
“Lord Rumont, morning!” stepping out a short distance and standing at the front of the greenhouse base, he just happened to see a squadron of Adventurers pass by. Several of the people inside recognized Rumont, and greeted him one by one.
Rumont presently could already be permitted to be addressed as a Lord.
Rumont beamed a smile towards them and nodded: “good morning to you all!”
He stood there and watched them walk into the distance, he watched the boundless heaven and earth; as well as everything in the distance. He listened to the forest and the snow covered grounds, all the sounds issued from the living in that place .
Since the harvesting of the wheat fields last time, Rumont once again toiled away with planting all kinds of herbs.
And within these few coming days, the obtained fundamentals of a Druid had gradually been assimilated completely. As for the underground chambers, it persisted in carrying out transformation. Without the Nature altar from a Rank 5 Druid, it simply relied on the knowledge and informations he brought over from Earth. With the standard of a Rank 3 Druid, he increasingly perfect the greenhouse.
Any kind of standard wasn’t required, so long it reliably conformed to the needs of a greenhouse, it was sufficient enough for Rumont as far as things went.
The existence of the Shennong Horn couldn’t be exposed. The actual benefits that this greenhouse brought him was then utterly important. If he didn’t have this greenhouse, then the herbs he could normally sell for cheap, would then become more costly during winter and as well as spring; where he couldn’t help but conform to the trend. And as this kind of pricing increased, it would necessarily influence the sales of his herbs, which would also affect his income.
And currently, he had his own greenhouse. That way, these problems wouldn’t exist either.
Especially in addition to the Shennong Horn spatial region, there was also a batch of herbs just on the verge of being barely harvested in the greenhouse; Rumont’s face displayed a smile once again.
These planted herbs weren’t, in fact, a particular waste of time at all; the seeds had gone through optimization, and was coupled with a controlled temperature and humidity of a greenhouse. As a result, even if the quality of the herbs planted within weren’t comparable to the herbs from the Shennong Horn spatial region, it was neither the least bit inferior.
Thinking to here, he turned around and walked towards the grand hall building.
The grand hall was the alchemy lab. The underground was the greenhouse. If it was said that the grand hall still had young lolis to manage it, then the underground greenhouse in general, only had Rumont the one person that could enter. A Druid’s greenhouse, and a Mage’s laboratory, were both sacred in not tolerating the eyes of outsiders; Rumont was naturally happy about that.
However, the herbs within the greenhouse didn’t really need to be kept confidential. With the heavy toiling from last time, it still caused Rumont to have a deep impression of it until now. This time, when he again saw the welcoming harvest within the greenhouse, he decided to find others to come assist him. The grand hall could accommodate a hundred people and was also sectioned into 6 nursery beds. Which so much herbs, if it solely relied on him to work, then he would really be swamped.
Within the grand hall, there were 5 lolis just holding onto books and studying. Once they saw Rumont, they promptly stood up and greeted him.
Through the management of the small lolis in the half year, the grand hall had already changed greatly. Putting the laboratory hall aside, roughly 2 prayer rooms had been converted into a living rooms. The living rooms were fitted with several sofas with thick sheepskins on it.
Several tables were placed in the centre of the living room, with several candle holders placed on top of them, and with candles inserted……
“Master!” Jingle came forward at once in lighting a candle on the holder at the table, in front of the sofa. Though it was currently daytime, the snowing was quite heavy, the sunlight within the room wasn’t quite enough.
There was a fireplace up against the wall and next to it was a pile of split open wood. The other lolis wanted to quickly go and light a fire, but this of course needed a process. Rumont laughed and said: “no need, you guys step away.”
Rumont lifted his hand and a ball of fire ignited on his palms, emitting out a dark red light. Throwing it towards the fireplace, the ball of fire then flew into the centre of the long frigid fireplace.
The fire then came into contact with the firewood inside, this fireball would exist for 10 minutes, and 10 minutes was already sufficient enough for the firewood to ignite. The fire within the hearth then roared alive, the faces welcomed the heat wave that threw itself over. A moment later, the interior of the living room warmed up.
This then was the Fire Domain. After obtaining the Fire Domain, Rumont had a certain power of control towards fire. Through the course of researching, he could currently utilize a similar skill to a Mage’s “Blazing Palm”, and “Pyromancy”; which gave rise to a flame that could be tossed out. It was a pity though that this dark red flame, was only about 500 degrees and neither a scarlet hue.
The 5 lolis had their mouths wide agape. Even though it wasn’t their first time seeing magic, it still made them envious.
“The basic meditation used is generic, and is used to condense the spirit to get started. You girls need to cultivate well.” Rumont said it like this, and received their servicing: “once the basic meditation has been solidified, you can then choose to be a Priest, Mage, Druid or such vocations.”
Hearing these words, the 5 lolis all revealed an expression of longing. They had all recently attended him with all their utmost, they learnt culinary skills, coffee making, serving top notch liquor, they even tried to outdo one another in providing a massaging service; Rumont kept all of this in mind. During his leisurely times, he would explain fundamental knowledge of spells and impart it to the little lolis.
For the sake of changing their own destinies, the lolis were all assiduous. Only it was a pity that apart from Jingle, the other 5 lolis all had a limit in innate talent.
This magical status was 1 in a thousand chance. Though it was still possible for the 5 lolis to get started.
However, so long as they could continue to strive, then even ordinary people could also ascertain the level of an apprentice, henceforth becoming a person specialized in compounding medications; it was still a school of craftsmanship.
As the fire was flourishing within the fireplace, and was expelling all the moisture away, it caused the living room to be warm and toasty. A peal of footsteps sounded from the outside. Rumont heard the sounds and went outside, there he saw female outside the doorway wearing a cape.
“Eh? You are?” Rumont received a slight shock, he sensed an aura on the other’s body that was similar to his own. The other was also a Druid, only there was a slight different feeling in general.
“How do you do? So you’re Lord Rumont? I’m Ivis1, I’m also a Rank 3 Druid. I’ve rushed over from the city this time to have an exchange with you, especially hearing about your own established greenhouse. I wish to enter and observe. I hope you will allow me the liberty of this request.” the female released her cape and revealed a quiet and exquisite countenance. Her supple long hair draped over her front. She had a graceful demeanor, a curvaceous and gentle beauty.
Eh, could it be that this world gave birth to more beautiful women?
Rumont was slightly lost in thought as he saw her hand over an envelope.
Since it was a letter for him, he naturally couldn’t refuse, and casually opened the letter. Reading a bit, he then discovered that this was a mission form from the Adventurers Guild. He shortly remembered the matter of formerly promising an exchange on that day. Looking at the issue date of the letter, it was 3 days ago. Rumont wrinkled his brows slightly. It could be because of this heavy snow that delayed the arrival.
This kind of thought was only for a moment, he then smiled and adopted a welcoming: “Miss Ivis, I am Rumont, a Rank 3 Druid, and the Lord of this land, I welcome your arrival.”
Ivis faced Rumont with a smile. Afterwards she followed behind Rumont and went into the grand hall.
The alchemy hall that Rumont had constructed was entirely in accordance with the concepts from Earth. Long experiment tables, densely packed glass instruments, there were also spirit lamps, scales, glass stirring rods, and so forth.
Ivis looked all around. When she swept her gaze over the former architecture of the Shrine, her eyes immediately turned sentimental and melancholy. But her expressions, in the blink of an eye, had then disappeared. She sized it up as she walked, she would just ask if there were any questions, and Rumont neither had the intentions of concealing it; he simply answered. Of course, these questions wouldn’t have touched upon the core and overly sensitive details.
Rumont gave a presentation to the lass as he walked. It was then at this moment, another wave of footstep sound had sounded from the outside. Turning his head back to look, he then saw Fudi leading a group of people behind him.
Rumont smiled and greeted them, this group of people were sort for by Rumont, to help him harvest the herbs. Because the herbs grew quite fast within the greenhouse, and was maturing with the arrival of winter, Rumont with the power of one man would have truly needed to waste a fair bit of energy to completely harvest the entirety. Thus, Rumont made Fudi who was in-charge of the farmer tenants, select a few hard working men from the tenants, and brought them over for assistance.
Seeing that the group of people had already arrived, Rumont neither said anything else, and directly lead them, as well a Miss Ivis, into the underground greenhouse.
1. [艾維西- Ai Wei Xi]↩
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