Chapter 311 - Getting The Boat Done (1/2)
After making sure with just a slight sleight of words that no of the soldiers would bother helping with the creation of the boat, I took the liberty to pick some of the less wounded prisoners into what was going to be my building crew.
With the time flowing relentlessly, majority of the soldiers went back to their camp and started packing stuff with the intention of either going home or following the escaping enemies, leaving me with only four soldiers of escort, tasked with making sure I wouldn't escape with the prisoners.
Just this alone showed how little value did they put for those people, both prisoners and soldiers alike. They already knew that no one in their camp was even close to being capable of hurting me, which implied that I had some offensive means beyond their ability to contain as well! Yet despite that, they still left me to my own devices!
Not sure if I should take it as stupidity or a sign of good faith, I decided it would be better to not make the soldiers stand on their toes. After taking just a moment to explain the concept behind the boat and drawing some silly images on the sand of the beach, I took my leave back to the forest. Since I had now a way to get out of this place, it was important to secure some herbs and look for ores!
Just like everywhere else, it was the density of the mana that decided how rich one place would be. Obviously, if there was no ores in the first place in the ground, not even the most insane amounts of energy could lead to the formation of some more formidable metals, leaving me with just mana crystals if that was the case.
Thankfully, as I looked at the archipelago and added the nearby islands that soldiers told me about to a makeshift map in my head, I realised that either this place was formed by some kind of cataclysm or all of those islands were actually fruits of an enormous volcano eruption way in the past!
Taking my own island as an example, it was far too small to form naturally by itself, yet the total sum of all the islands in the area was just not enough to warrant the occurrence of Japan-like situation, where it was the tectonic plates responsible for creating such a relatively small and volatile land.
While I had to take into the account the possibility that the geological processes that formed not only this particular land but also the entire world differed from the ones I knew from earth from the times I was stupid enough to believe that I was capable of making a funny game based on the maps I learned to draw.
With all of that in mind, I didn't want to give up hope of finding some precious ores that would finally let me create something worthy of my abilities, or at least, allowing me to experience a bit around the concept of the entropy and containing it somehow in tools.
Regretfully, I didn't really have the time to dig into the ground or even scan it properly with my energy vision, as barely after I managed to pluck some promising looking herbs, one of the soldiers tasked with securing the building site approached me.
”Sir, we did everything you asked us to do, so could you please come with me?”
Looking at the changes on his face, I could only guess that he didn't expect to find me with my heads covered in dirt as I plucked some weeds with an elated smile on my lips!
”Sure, give me just a moment!”
There was no way I would just grab the plant and throw it into my bag!
I wanted to plant those herbs back in my private garden and grow them in my own discretion, not just obtain some valuable plants for a single-use!
Taking out a small piece of cloth, I made sure to dig up quite a bit of earth alongside with the roots of the herb before putting it all back into the cloth and forming a ball of earth with plant protruding from the small package.