19 Finding Able Bodies! (1/2)

*WITH PRIMA*

Prima woke up with Tuff looking quite a mess in their little new humble abode. With a nice refreshing yawn, Prima began getting ready for her first day as village leader. She already heard the village in full working mode hours ago and walked outside the village chief's house. She received multiple thanks and greetings whenever the she passed by the villagers.

Prima was looking for the chief so that she could find out the surroundings for this place and then she could begin improving the village and its inhabitants. She won't be taking the front lines except in emergencies and will have the villagers mostly do everything for her, but at the same time if anyone comes to cause trouble for the village she will have to stand up. What kind of image would her village promote if she wasn't visible to see?

So, Prima found the village chief inside the weaponsmith's shop with the middle-aged man's young daughter. They both had soot over their faces, one smiling, one with a disgruntled look on his face. The girl was bringing the weaponsmith tools while he was working and the village head was talking to the weaponsmith.

The head noticed her entrance.

”Ah Prima. Are you in need of some weapons? Leroy here could be some help.” He smiled.

”I was looking for you actually chief. I wanted to know about the situation in the village and around us.”

”Oh oh yes. My apologies. Of course, you would want to know about the situation as our savior. Please follow me.” He said.

The weaponsmith grunted.

”Bye weaponsmith and weaponsmith's daughter!” Prima shouted as she left with the chief.

”Bye pretty lady!”

The chief escorted Majin around the village and talked about the many problems the village was facing. She started thinking of possible solutions for these things but they will come in time. For now, she had to solve the food problem. She could easily create a large abundance of vegetables, fruits, and such in their farming lands, but that wouldn't help her subjects in the long run. She doesn't want them to depend on her for everything and she didn't know the first thing about farming when thinking about her old world.

After taking her on a tour through town the chief explained to her about their local surroundings, the monster-filled forest to the south of the village, the larger noble-run town north of the village where the village got most of it's traffic and visitors from, the great plains to the east, and the town run by the Church in the west.

”We are forced by the baron to give half of our crops as payment for their supposed ”protection fee” and yet I saw none of them come to our help yesterday when we were facing certain doom.”

”Don't worry about the baron anymore chief. The crops that we have will only be for our own uses. I'll protect the village.” Prima told him.

He was about to get on his knees and start thanking her again but she quickly stopped him.

”Just a simple thanks is good enough. I'm was born a commoner, just like you.” She smiled.

Tears started raining down the chief's face as he looked into her eyes.

”Thank you…. So much….”

After a few seconds, he got himself together and left Prima to her own devices.

”It's time to start working!” She shouted.

Prima searched for some able-bodied people that didn't seem to be doing anything and only found a couple of teenagers. Along with the four pre-teen kids from yesterday that followed behind her. She took them to an open field inside the village and gathered them together.

”I'm not going to force you guys into doing anything you don't want to, but I am going to force you into doing something for the village. I'm going to teach you how to become stronger, smarter, or more skilled in something. So, shout out what you want to learn!” Prima told them.

”MAGIC!!!” the four little scamps from yesterday shouted.

”Hunting.”

”Being an adventurer.”

”Magic Chef ~~~.” She sang.

”Becoming stronger.”

”Making money.”

Prima smiled. At least they knew what they wanted to learn about. She told the older kids, who were probably around her real age, to gather around her while Tuff played with the kids. She used her magic and forcibly got the teenager's magic circulating throughout their bodies. If the mana doesn't get stirred or agitated good enough, it just sits inside a person's body and will not affect them at all. She looked at what their best suited for and nodded.

”Hmm good good. Okay you 6 sit there and you 3 over there.”

She split up the magic group and the physical group. Since the magic group is bigger, she decided to save them for last. She kept them busy by forcing them to do some exercises while she explained to the three how she was going to help them.

”Hunting is easy enough and becoming an adventurer is also easy. However, becoming stronger.. What exactly do you mean by that? How strong?” She asked.