Myriad's Conquest

The safe was filled with the amount of 100 gold coins. In this world, one gold coin is equivalent of 100 silver coins and 1,000 copper coins. Since the money inside the safe was Seastar"s treasury, Adrian did not touch it, even though he had every right to do so as the money was, in fact, his.

Afterward, he took the skill books he purchased last night and learned them all.

[System Notification: You have learned Basic Archery]

[System Notification: You have learned Basic Law]

[System Notification: You have learned Basic Riding]

[System Notification: You have learned Basic Construction Proficiency]

He requires all of those skills in order to help him ruling Seastar and to increase his personal combat ability.

Adrian went down to the first floor, where Rogar already prepared breakfast for him. He suddenly asks Rogar, "Where is everyone?"

"They"re still having breakfast, lord. The women had set up an outdoor kitchen next to the hall. So, it"s kinda busy outside."

Adrian then realized something as he slapped his forehead, "Right! We also need some kind of dining hall. I forgot about it... Eishh, nevermind... Rogar, gather everyone once they were finished."

"Yes, lord." Rogar respectfully complied and went outside, while Adrian is digging the wheat porridge and fruit at the dining table.

***

Outside the village.

Zilong is strolling leisurely around the village"s perimeter.

He got up from the bed early and strode outside the manor to practice his martial arts, earlier. It was an ancient habit of his.

Looking at the village as the sun began to rise in the west, he sighed in awe. This land belongs to his lord was beyond beautiful. It really has almost everything, the mountain, the sea, the forest, the river.

Although the village is still small now, Zilong believes it would become bigger and prosper in the future. And he would witness that moment himself.

"Sir Zhao!"

Zilong turns his head as he was being called out. It was several children, who had watched him practicing his martial art earlier, running towards him.

"h.e.l.lo, kids. What happen?" He gently smiled at as he asked.

One of the children responded, "Sir Zhao, Lord Dornan is looking for you. He also gathers everybody else."

Hearing the children"s word, Zilong realized that his lord had woken up. As this was an order, he didn"t waste any more time. He beckons the children and speaks, "Then, let"s go, We shouldn"t make the lord waits."

Zilong and the children returned to the village, where they see the front of the lord"s manor was crowded by the villagers. And Adrian could be seen talking with several men.

Adrian glanced at Zilong and spoke, "Ah! Zilong! It"s good you"re here."

"Milord. I"m sorry, I was late." Zilong cupped his hand as he apologized.

Adrian waved his hand, "What are you talking about? It"s fine, don"t worry about it..."

Then, he set his gaze at a tall and green-skinned orc male and inquire, "You"re Dorhok, right?"

The orc in question hastily replied, "Yes, Lord Dornan. I"m Dorhok, the one and only."

"It looks like this orc is a bit carefree, huh." Adrian thinking as he stares at Dorhok.

"Rogar said you"re really good at constructions, is that true?"

Dorhok scratched his head, while reply shyly, "Well, you could say that my skill wasn"t bad at all."

Adrian slowly nodded, "Can you read?"

"A bit, lord." one could see a proud expression on Dorhok"s face as he replied.

"An orc who could read... My fantasy world is utterly destroyed." Adrian sighed inwardly.

Adrian gave the fence"s drawing to Dorhok, "I want you to build that to protect the village. How many people do you need?"

Dorhok silently looks at the very detailed fences drawing for a while. Then, he answers hesitantly, "Ehm... I could use ten or fifteen people, lord."

Adrian smiled, "Good, you should choose and pick some workers. You"ll be the leader of this project. And by the way, how long it would take to complete the fences?"

"Ehmm... Since we only need to get the woods straight from the warehouse, and along with ten men... It"s possible to complete it by this evening..."

Adrian is looking at Dorhok in disbelieve, "Are you sure? The fences were 3 kilometers long, you know..."

3 km long fences are undoubtedly a big project, Adrian wasn"t sure it would only take that much of short time to build it.

Dorhok smile while patting his chest. He spoke grinningly, "I"m confident we would be able to complete the fences by the evening. What"s more, it"s only a simple wooden fence, not a wall."

Since it was like that, Adrian could only approve it, "Very well. You can start now, but make sure you built the fences exactly like in the drawing."

Dorhok along with 12 other villagers, immediately depart to construct the fence.

While Adrian called for Zilong and two other villagers.

These two villagers were recommended by Rogar for soon-to-be-formed militia unit. A wolfman and a kobold.

Both of their names are Schmidt and Zeke. They originally worked as the village"s hunters. Their professions matched well with their race"s special trait. Wolfman and kobold have almost the same special trait, which is their fearsome hunter instinct.

But when Adrian probes both of their stat. He was shocked to death as he found these two people have 2-star grade evaluation. Even Rogar and Dorhok only have 1 star, while the rest of the villager didn"t even have a star.

It could be said that Schmidt and Zeke"s future potential is quite good.

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Name: Schmidt

Race: Wolfman (Racial trait: +0.3 Strength, +0.2 Vitality, +65% finding target track, +25% teamwork)

Age: 19

t.i.tle: None

Grade: 2 star

Profession: Hunter

Profession level: Normal (724/1000) (+0.1 Strength, +0.1 Intelligence, +0.4 Agility)

Skills: Basic Archery (82%), Basic Swordsmanship (61%), Intermediate Gathering (52%), Basic Tracking (92%),

Martial arts: None

Combat technique: None

Equipment: None

Strength: 0.5

Intelligence: 0.2

Agility: 0.4

Const.i.tution: 0.0

Vitality: 0.2

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Name: Zeke

Race: Kobold (Racial trait: +0.2 Strength, +0.1 Vitality, +45% finding target track, +15% teamwork)

Age: 17

t.i.tle: None

Grade: 2 stars

Profession: Hunter

Profession level: Normal (431/1000) (+0.1 Strength, +0.1 Intelligence, +0.4 Agility)

Skills: Basic Archery (52%), Basic Axe Mastery (31%), Intermediate Gathering (12%), Basic Tracking (42%),

Martial arts: None

Combat technique: None

Equipment: None

Strength: 0.3

Intelligence: 0.1

Agility: 0.4

Const.i.tution: 0.0

Vitality: 0.1

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Their overall stat could be reared towards pure combat specialties. If Adrian wants them to enter the militia unit, they will adapt easily. Besides, they were still young. It"s possible to guide them becoming officers in the future.

The only thing Adrian need is to change both of their profession to soldier. However, he had no clue how to do that.

"System! Is there a way to change their profession into a soldier?" he couldn"t help but asked the almighty system.

[You did not have to do anything. Just let them train under your subordinate and make them do the specific soldierly task for some time. The option to change their profession into a soldier should available to them.]

"I see... So just make them do a soldier activity for the time being, isn"t it? Good!" Adrian nodded in satisfaction.

Then, he called them out, "Schmidt! Zeke!"

"Yes, Lord!" both of them simultaneously replied.

Schmidt"s appearance is a humanoid fierce wolf. He was relatively tall, around 1,85 meters. His furs were dark grayish that covered his ripped body. Adrian didn"t know anything about wolfman"s aesthetic, but to him, Schmidt is one handsome wolf.

Zeke"s height is about the same as Schmidt. Overall, he looked exactly like a humanoid german shepherd, but Zeke"s furs are dark blueish instead of dark and golden.

"From now on, both of you will quit from being hunters. I"m putting you both as the member of the newly formed militia unit. Zilong is the militia leader, so both of you would be trained by him and work under him. Are you both willing?"

Schmidt and Zeke take a look at each other faces before staring at Zilong.

They already saw him fighting the beetles yesterday. They even fought together side by side with him. They were amazed and fascinated by Zilong"s strength and his natural heroic bearing. It could be said that they were his admirers.

And young blooded they were. To be trained by that kind of powerful person, it"s like a dream come true. Not only that, having to live in this boring village their entire life, they longed for an exciting life. Both of them have some kind of premonition, that Adrian and Zilong could take them to places beyond their wildest dream.

They wanted to prove themselves, in hope that Adrian might saw something within them and well, brought them to wherever he goes.

Hence, they immediately agreed to join the militia as they fiercely nodded their head and replied energetically, "Yes, lord. We are willing!!!"

Adrian nodded to them, "Great. You must report to him from now." then he turns to Zilong, "Zhao. I"ve changed my mind. You need to start forming the militia unit immediately. These two belong to you. I"ve already checked their potential, and they"re good."

Zilong understood the reason Adrian changed his mind. He wants to accelerate the village rebuilding project and formed every organization component that could help the village"s administration, in the shortest time.

Zilong quickly bowed as he respectfully spoke, "Don"t worry, milord. I will immediately form the militia. You can rest a.s.sured."

"Umm... And take this too. Don"t ask anything about it, just quickly learn it. It would be very useful for you." Adrian gave a skill book to Zilong.

It"s Status Check skill that could show peoples, animals, beasts, and items stats. It"s almost the same as what Adrian"s system could do, but not as detailed. If it"s used on people, it could only show their general ident.i.ty, but won"t be able to reveal their body stat and grade evaluation.

People who possess this skill could be found throughout the Myriad"s Realm. And according to the system, all of the otherworlder that was summoned by the world"s will also receive this Status Check skill.

After learning the skill, Zilong quickly selects eight young and able-bodied men and brought them together with Schmidt and Zeke to leave in order to commence their training.

***

Afterward, Adrian starts giving the other villagers their own work a.s.signments.

He dispatched four men, that usually work as loggers, to gather woods and timber in the logging camp near the southeast forest. They were headed by a 30 years old cat people male named Remus. This Remus also promoted by Adrian as the head of the logging camp, which he excitedly accepted.

Then, Adrian orders another group of four men, headed by a 40 years old or so human male called Angus, to head for the quarry and start gathering stone. Angus was promoted as the head of the quarry. He did not show any reaction from being promoted, but he still sincerely thanked Adrian. It might be because Angus"s mood is still not recovered as he just lost his younger brother yesterday.

Next, he orders five women, that originally used to work harvesting salts, to begin working at the salt pan again. Leading them was 30 something years old cat people woman named Gina, she"s quite pretty honestly. Adrian promoted her as the head of the salt pan and gave her a Salt Harvesting Manual that he purchased last night, which contained more efficient and more economical harvesting technique.

After reading it for a while, Gina was elated as the technique in the manual, in theory, might be a thousand times better than the technique the village has currently. She hastily went to the salt pan while bringing the other four woman.

The salt pan is the only money-making machine that the territory had currently, so Adrian put his utmost attention on it. Hopefully, the new harvesting technique could increase the salts productions as well as the increase of its quality.

As for the rest of the villagers, Adrian ordered them to start cleaning the beetle"s corpses that still littered the village"s landscape. But one of the villagers, a fox people named Guido in which he was also the village"s only blacksmith, is advising Adrian to gather some of the beetles inner carapace.

Guido said that the carapace was really durable and strong. Its toughness could rival iron. And it"s a good material for making armor. Adrian instantly agreed as he thought that he could provide the militia with armors made from these beetle"s carapace.

Guido"s workshop was destroyed during yesterday attack, but his blacksmithing equipment was intact and survived, so he could make the armors right away once he gathered the equipment.

Adrian didn"t order the children around, but they start helping cleaning the beetle"s corpses.

Since there wasn"t enough manpower, Adrian couldn"t help but to postpone his plan for the copper mine. Probably later, after the fences are completed, he could a.s.sign some people to mine the copper.

In Gloria, the date is basically the same as the earth. One year consist of 365 days and 12 months.

But here, months did not have a name as on earth. People merely called the month with its chronologically name like, the first month, the second month, the third month, so on and so forth. And currently, it was still in the middle of the first month.

Grain could only be planted thrice a year according to Rogar. In the second month, the seventh month, and the tenth month. There still some time until the grain could be planted, so currently, the farmland was only being used to grow some vegetables, which already been taken care of by several women.

Luckily, there was no winter in Wilderness Island as the island was located near the equator zone. Making Adrian having fewer headaches.