Chapter 152 (2/2)
Even though Sui Xiong did not give out any orders that prohibited hunting, trailblazers were not willing to harm these cute living creatures. They referred these birds as their “neighbors,” and even raised a petition to the manager of trailblazers, Madame Liv, to request if they could adjust the distribution of the city in order to keep sufficient living space for the birds.
Since she arrived at Ash Woods from Garth City using transportation portal, Madame Liv, who was promoted from patrol team leader to manager of trailblazers, approved of the idea happily.
She originally thought that she would come to a place with barren hills and untamed rivers, join the rude adventurers and dirty labourers, and be busy fighting with various kinds of dangerous magic beasts. She never expected it would be a forest with picturesque mountain scenery.
Oh, there was nothing wrong with clear water, but green mountain seemed to be incorrect. The nearest mountain was about hundred miles away. Over there, the sky was gray and the ground was black. Even the leaves on the trees were covered with a layer of black soot.
The bad reputation of Ash Woods: even she at the other end of mainland heard about it. But she couldn’t imagine what kind of measures Void Mask Majesty took to be able to open up such a human world in a terrifyingly dark forest.
However, she did not go to the theme park construction to ask Sui Xiong, who was busy playing the foreign world real life version of “My World” all the time. She kept the question to herself and concentrated on her work.
His Void Mask Majesty sent out messengers to lend them a helping hand at their hardest time. Madame Liv’s teacher was also a believer of His Majesty. I heard that teacher is a deacon. That’s weird; why isn’t he a knight group leader, but a main deacon? Teacher didn’t look like a clergy at all…
With the combination of multiple factors, she felt that this God was reliable, and she should complete the tasks that He gave out.
It was to repay His Void Mask Majesty and her teacher. It was also a great opportunity to realise her own life’s value without wasting anything that was thought by her father!
She remembered that her father would occasionally be depressed. He sighed in private that he learned a lot of skills on how to manage the nation and people, but never got a chance to put the skills into practice. Every time he taught his daughter one on one, he would sigh with emotion.
At the moment, it was time to put the things that her dad taught into practice, to see if it was correct, and to certify if her dad had the ability to be a good leader.
Of course, she definitely believed in her father!
The fact was that the set of knowledge that Knight Brian taught his daughter was very useful. Even though the staff that she needed to manage was much more than Garth’s patrolling team and their quality was different, she managed to get situated very quickly and maintained the order of the entire region.
Every morning, she would bring along a few soldiers to patrol the region and listen to the trailblazer’s opinions, and gather all the problems that they found. After lunch, she would put her hands onto the problems and solve them one by one. In the evening, she would look for Frost, who was in charge of cleaning up, to do a stock count in order to ensure the entire region had stable provisions.
To have Frost to look after the storehouse was her idea. Back then, Frost seemed to be unhappy, and he even threatened her in his giant dragon form. But Liv erupted with a startling courage, and she didn’t concede, even when she was dealing with the sharp teeth of the giant dragon. In the end, Frost didn’t dare to really bite her to death and finally gave in, unwillingly becoming a store keeper.
The job did suit him. He became a young man that always looked unhappy and treated everyone with a “you owe me money and you better pay me back” kind of expression. Plus, he gave off a faint hint of dragon power, and the trailblazers didn’t dare pull any tricks with him. Even the most cunning old foxes didn’t try to take advantage of the giant dragon.
They didn’t have such strong nerves like Madame Liv, who dared to fight against the angry giant dragon. They’d rather not get into trouble!
Madame Liv was in charge of agriculture management. She worked along with a Druid ‘South’ that claimed to work for short term, assisted the farmers to cultivate the land, and sowed the seeds of crops using Elf Spells and Nature Spells.
As the soil was purified properly, they did not grow Golden Vine that took too long to grow and tasted bad. Instead they grew stem tubers and cereal crops, and vegetables.
The soil in Ash Woods was rich and fertile and the crops grew really well. It was the midsummer then, and even the temperature in the north of the city was considered warm. When the seeds were sown into the soil and matched up with the effects of magic, they sprouted in a few days. After only half a month, it was the picture of prosperity.
“But the winter here will be very cold,” South, the Druid with a weird name, said. “I am afraid that these plants can’t pass through the cold winter.”
“Don’t worry. The God that rules here can manipulate cold air as He wishes. By then, He will have absorbed the surrounding cold air so that it can maintain its warmth around here.” Madame Teague, who had communicated with Gerald earlier, and knew the information, replied. “If you are interested, stay back longer to watch it with your own eyes.”
South shook his head. “Although it is out of kindness, such actions that go against nature are opposite to what we Druids practice. It’s better if I don’t stay.”
He was a stubborn person and he meant every word. The autumn in the previous years, after the bumper harvest, he helped the farmers to complete the harvest and insisted that “the contract had ended;” then he left.
The autumn in winterland passed by very quickly. It felt like a blink of an eye, and the first snow would gradually fall.
The winter of Ash Woods, arrived earlier, as always…