Chapter 13

At the Time I wake up, the sun comes up, and I hear the first voices from the fortress.

I quickly float in that direction, and while doing so, I notice that the walls of the graveyard don’t have any real defensive properties, they wouldn’t even come up to the hips of a normal man, and are only about half a meter high. I have to make them higher and bigger, so my core is not in danger…

When I come out of the graveyard and float into the fortress, I see many people standing in front of the walls, they seem upset and are loudly talking with some of my servants…

When I come near, and ask one of my servants what kind of problem the people have, he answers:

“They are upset about their living conditions, they say it is too cramped living in this houses with more than 20 people” he looks rather troubled, but where is the problem? I intended to build more, it simply was to late yesterday evening…

“Don’t worry dear people, I will build more houses today, so everyone of you will have more privacy, please calm down and let us talk about your needs now…” Luckily I was able to speak really loud, so the crowd could hear me, then they calm down, and some people stand in front of the crowd. A woman, maybe in her 40 speaks up:

“We are more than 400 hundred people, we need food and more place for ourselves, then we need something where we can work. How do you want to make all of this?”

The crowd repeats this things with louder voices, hey don’t you know how to make a conversation? It’s about showing your points, not about intimidating the other party…

“Please calm down everyone, how can I answer your question, when you won’t let me talk?”

Thankfully they seem to be able to think at least a bit, stupid peasants… no, wrong they simply are uneducated, right that’s it…

“On the matter of food, don’t worry, I will make fields soon, so nobody of you will have to worry about this, nor work for it. I will have some of my servants care for the fields, so they will prosper. On the second point, I intended to construct more houses today, so after you talk with your house members, please tell me how many houses you need to have, I will do my best and build them…” A short break so the meaning of my words comes through to everyone…

“And on the point of work, no, you don’t need to work, you get food for free, and you are able to live for free in the houses, but if you want to work, why not make art? write poems and stories, carve out statues and paint pictures, enjoy your live. You had enough hardships, so live life to the fullest without having to worry about tomorrow.” I hope that actually works to calm them down…

From the expression the woman in front makes, it worked…

So thanks to my brilliant idea, the crowd disperses and the people go back into their houses to eat or whatever… wait do they have anything to eat? A quick check in one of the newly build halls says no… So I quickly make some fields in the back of the big halls, containing mostly vegetables and grow some herbal bushes, so they can make at least a few basic soups…

Then I begin building 6 new halls, thanks to the extreme mana gain, I don’t have to make any breaks, I can work all the time. 6 halls should be able to contain about 150 more people, but thanks to the generous distribution, that will come soon, there will be maybe about 10 people living together in a house, so with 450 people, I need 45 houses. will take some time...

Of course I also add some fields and bushes in the back of the new houses.

Then at some point I see Gerad coming out of his house, I float in his direction, because I have some things for him to do…

“Gerad, do you happen to know an influential family in this city, that might want to join us?”

He bows…

“No Sir, there are only a few really influential families in the city, but they wouldn’t want to join you. At that I’m sure because they only care about their personal gain, nothing else...But there might be some lesser noble family, that I can ask to join us. I have some ties with them, so it’s more likely that they will hear me out at least…” Well, at least some support will be important…

“Good, than please go and ask them, and in case they are interested, invite them to our fortress. I’m sure there is enough place for another house”

With that Gerad stands up and leaves, and I go back into building new houses and fields, I even have to expand my territory again…

Then when finishing the last house, and the people who want to live in it go in, a good message pops up

Due to helping people in need you have leveled up x 18

really? 18 levels? that’s my old level 8 + my new levels 18, which results into level 26, awesome…

[skills]

ohh, I seem to not have distributed all my previous skill points… I was level 8 and have upgraded ‘summoning’,’expand territory’ and ‘make treasure’ once which results in 3 points, then I have used 3 points into leveling up ‘building’ two times, so I have only spent 6 points out of 7, means I now have a total of 19 points. Because each time I invest points into a skill, the cost for the next level up will rise by one, I have to distribute them cleverly...

After distributing my new skill points, my skills looked like this

skillsAppraisalLevel 1summoningLevel 5expand territoryLevel 2make treasureLevel 3buildingLevel 5

I have 1 skill point remaining, and will save it up for later use…

Due to ‘summoning’ reaching level 5 you now have more options on what you want to summon. Simply think ‘summon warrior’ or ‘summon teacher’ and you will get different options to choose from.

Wait, I can summon teachers? so I can build a school? Let’s do that…

With that, I begin making a school outside of the fortress, only a little one, some classrooms, then I change the area around the building into one where you want to relax, and sleep under a tree…

I don’t know what else might be important in a school, I never was inside of one…

[summon teacher]

undead math teacherHe can teach you the basics of mathundead art teacherhe will show you the beauty of artundead music teacherhe will teach you music with his bones

I simply summon 2 of each kind, so for now I have enough to fill every room…

Then I send out my servants, to tell the families that I have built a school, and their children can come there to learn something…

A few parents come, and one of them says:

“I really miss the adventurers guild, when I was young, they also had a school for little kids and a training camp for those that wanted to become adventurers”

Wait, wasn’t there a adventurer guild in the town? I think Gerad mentioned something like that…

I have to think about that later… Now then the next thing to to, making more fields. The current number of fields might feed the people for about two weeks, so I have to make more fields…

Around the halls, there is much place in between them, I build many more fields, then I summon more undead farmers, or to be more specific, ‘genius undead farmers’

genius undead farmerhe is able to advance the growth of the plants, so they are able to be harvested more often, and are more abundant than the normal plants

You see the advantage? Much more food, right.

Now after finishing I see Gerad waiting at the edge of the field I’m floating on currently. He seems to be waiting for me…

I float in his direction

“And Gerad, has your mission succeeded?”

“Yes sir, they will come in a few hours, they only have to pack a few things.”

“Very good, then can you please tell me about the adventurer Guild, you told me that this town has one, earlier I heard that it doesn’t exist anymore…”

“Ahh right, it actually disbanded a few years ago, we call the ruins that were used by them the adventurer guild, they are some sort of lover place nowadays though…”

I see, so they disbanded… doesn’t that mean, that I can make a new guild hall? Maybe later on, when I have the city under control…

“Then Gerad tell me, why don’t the people have fear of the undead walking through the city? I mean they are skeletons, aren’t they scared by them?”

“Sir, you helped them to regain a live that is joyful, why should they be scared of something you make for their safety?”

I see, then let’s do a new project, I wanted to test something out…

I float back into the fortress, and make a few ‘magic stones’ of the water element. The stupid Goddess teached me about runes and these things, so maybe I can make this stone into a water dispenser.

A few tries, and it’s finally functional. The first try with a ‘water burst’ rune, nearly made the area in the fortress into a swamp, but with the ‘fountain’ rune, together with the ‘steadily’ rune, it works fine the fountain rune alone would let out one big splash of water and then some little drops, so I had to adjust it so the water comes out steadily…

The stones only hold for a few hours after being infused with mana though… maybe I have to get some bigger magic stones?

Doesn’t matter now, I float back through the evening breeze and into the room where my core is, I build a chest at the end of the room, and put the few magic stones that actually succeeded inside.

Then my ‘guarding’ skill warns of something at the outskirts of my territory, again some troops are coming in the direction of the fortress. Hopefully we can end this peacefully…

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Now then, the first school is build^^

I don’t actually know if the level data I wrote in this chapter is correct, I will see into it in the next hours…

If you have any ideas for how to continue the story, please let me know. I have some pretty nice ideas but I would enjoy adding some of your ideas in the story^^

If you find grammar or vocabulary mistakes, please tell me so I can correct them and you can read the story easier…

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