The next day Henry began working on his farm officially, He started pulling the plough using physical force as usual. The difference was that Henry could now pull the plough quite easily when compared to his previous self, his physical strength had tremendous growth but still, it was tiring so he thought of building a mini tractor for the task but he lacked sufficient assets, he wanted to go to Palamuru city to buy them but he was not allowed to go out as he did not get his identity card as a villager of Lost Tomb village.
Henry came to know about them from uncle Gen, Uncle Gen often visited him and Ivar and helped them in many aspects,
He also described the importance of identity cards, if you do not have one then you are not allowed in any city of Assassin Domain.
Assassin Domain is ruled by Assassin Academy and the cards were issued by Academy itself.
Village chief Duku applied for Henry's identity card but it got delayed due to the conflicts between Assassin Domain and Arrow Head Domain.
Arrow Head Domain lies next to Assassin Domain and they often had conflicts over the border which includes Palamuru city and the village itself, the battle of woods also related to these conflicts and these are some things Henry forced out from Uncle Gen but he still could not force him to describe about the battle of woods.
While Henry was pulling the plough
"Haha..kiddo I have got what you asked for"
Henry heard the familiar voice and he stopped working, looking at uncle Gen, Henry said
"Uncle Gen, don't start talking just give them to me"
uncle gen was quite a talkative guy, his mouth would not stop 24 hours he talked about all useless things from ants to monsters, gods, devils and so on...
"Haha..kiddo don't be so impatient, they are in this bag"
Henry grabbed the bag and said
"You can go now"
"Kiddo,I am your uncle at least you serve me something before asking me to get out"
"There's water in a pot under the tree you can have it and then just leave"
"kiddo at least thank me "
"I am very grateful to you, uncle please you can leave now"
Uncle Gen left and Henry resumed his work, In the evening Henry opened the cloth bag and took out an Iron sheet and a bottle filled with oil.
Henry gathered some wood and poured oil on the wood then lit a fire, He put Iron sheet on it and heated it until it became red then he used a pickaxe to break the red sheet to pieces after having them cool down he picked up the pieces then he made them into half-moon shape using a hammer, Henry heated these pieces again and joined them and finally he completed his task and put it to cool down.
It was already late, Henry was tired so he fell asleep.
Henry woke up early and waited for grandpa Luo
"kid,you are fighting me daily but still you could not defeat me nor you started cultivating crops,so you want to be kicked out from village"
grandpa Luo appeared while lecturing Henry.
"Senior, you don't need to worry"
even though Henry said it,this thing was bothering him a lot as he was too much distracted in helping Ivar that he forgot about himself.
"Senior, I will defeat you this time"
Henry shouted and charged at grandpa Luo.
Henry and grandpa Luo sparred for some time but still current Henry lost to Luo time and time again.
Henry realized that he still was no match for grandpa Luo, he could not understand how grandpa Luo was able to anticipate each and every move of him.
Henry's routine was simple to wake up, to spar, to work, and then sleep, he followed this routine for next 10 days, during these 10 days Henry overworked himself, time and time again he broke through his physical limits.
On this day Henry called out the little devils.
"Timmy, carry it carefully"
Buntoo warned Timmy,
"Buntoo, you don't need to show concern I know how important these wood are for brother Henry "
Timmy was dissatisfied with Buntoo,Timmy still remembered the incident of bear and he also knew how Buntoo acted loyal and strong outside but when the boss was about to die Redlap stayed but Buntoo who used to lick boss all the time ran away, Timmy does not know why he began to dislike Buntoo when he himself ran away at the moment of crisis.
The duo were carrying wood as they proceeded through forest soon they reached the village farming fields then they appeared in a field which is mostly a barren land
"You guys are back"
Zen welcomed them back and carried the load towards Henry.
Henry was busy in cutting down the wood and making them into different shapes with a pickaxe, It was difficult task but not impossible, Henry made the wood into different shapes
"Brother Henry,you said that the thing you are making is important, but I can see different things, not one"
Redlap raised his doubt,
"Redlap, I haven't done yet, wait until I complete it, it will be a big surprise"
Redlap did not raise more doubts,
"Brother Henry,you are awesome you must be making a deadly weapon which can even destroy the sun and moon"
"Looks like Buntoo is back"
Henry habituated to his exaggeration so he detected him just by exaggerated words.
"Hahaha..Buntoo I am making something big but not for destroying something "
Henry after listening to Buntoo clarified the misunderstanding,he does not want to be guy who likes destruction and killing.
"Zen give me that part"
"Redlap hold it tightly"
"Buntoo watch out for thieves"
"Timmy carry it without being afraid "
The work was progressing swiftly
"And here is the final touch "
Henry took a chain and integrated it to the thing he made"
"Brother Henry somehow it looks like a chair"
Zen asked.
"Yeah it is a chair"
Henry cleared Zen
"But brother Henry you said it would be a big surprise for Ivar,how could a chair can do that?"
Redlap questioned.
"Just follow my orders you will understand"
Meanwhile today was harvest day for Ivar when Henry became busy with his farm, Ivar was alone so he had to harvest two days to collect and put all the paddy together.
Soon Ivar completed harvesting,he cleaned his hands and face with water and departed towards the village
"Ivar wait"
but he was stopped by Buntoo and Redlap
"Ivar,boss Zen asked us to sweep the road which leads to the village give us a hand"
Buntoo said.
When did boss Zen decide to do good work? Sweeping the raw road it would be just a waste of time, Isn't it?
Ivar was surprised and shocked with myriad of thoughts.
"Ivar, why are you dilly-dallying hurry uptake this broom and help us"
Buntoo handed Ivar a sweep.
Ivar did not want to do this thing but he had no other choice because he enjoyed his time with these friends of him, he could not say no to him.
then the trio started to walk while sweeping,
"Aren't they little devils? what are they doing?"
"Holy shit!! Am I seeing wrong?, they are sweeping"
"Fuck are they mad? they are sweeping a raw road "
Similar exclamations can be seen from passers.
After exactly half an hour
Buntoo and Redlap stopped sweeping and said
"Let's stop"
Ivar didn't get it, why they had to stop now,
"why?"
this was the first time Ivar questioned their decisions as he found these instructions completely different than usual ones.
"Because I said so,but if you wanted to look like a fool you can continue,we are going "
"Let's go Redlap"
Buntoo and Redlap walked away
Ivar could not understand a thing,he threw away the broom then he rushed to the village.
Ivar rushed to his home and when he went in,his heart began to beat faster and faster,he could not find his mother.
He ran outside and started shouting
"Mother"
"Mother,where are you ?"
Hearing the shouts all the neighbours surrounded him and questioned
"Ivar,what happened?"
"I could not find my mother"
"Everyone let's search for her"
The villagers halted their respective works to search for Zia.
The always silent Ivar shouting out loudly itself shows his seriousness about the matter,finding her nowhere inside the village, Ivar decided to go out and search
when he about to step out
"Ivar..."
He heard his mother's voice,Ivar turned around without delay and saw his mother coming towards him.
yes,she was coming towards him when Ivar saw her smile all he felt relieved and specially when he saw her to be joyful and her happiness.
Zia came near Ivar using a wheelchair,
"Ivar,look mommy can walk now"
"Thanks to brother Henry,he is such a genius"
Zia while showing off her wheelchair praised Henry.
Tears of joy fell down from Ivar's eyes and the first time he was smiling and looked to be happy
The spectators also felt happiness just by looking at the scene playing right now.
While everyone is celebrating Henry slipped away,
Henry returned to his farm to sow seeds he hardly left two more days to complete the task but it looked to be almost impossible.
Two days were very less in a blink the deadline for crop production is arrived for Henry.
It was not possible to make seeds into plants naturally in two days, Henry was not able to do so either, In the evening grandpa Luo arrived.
"Kiddo, it's time to pack and get out from here"
grandpa Luo's tone was serious and loud.
"Senior, please give me some more time"
Henry tried to ask for more days.
"You want me to extend the deadline, dream on"
"If you are a man leave now or I will kick you out myself"
grandpa Luo looked to be hell-bent on kicking him out
"Senior please....."
grandpa Luo did not reply.
Henry knew that the pleads were useless only thing he can do now was to leave the village.
Henry did not want to leave, he had very sweet memories here and he did already consider the village as his home and he was crying internally while packing the necessities
"Old Luo, don't be ruthless"
"Old Luo, How can you do that to such a good kid"
"Old Luo, You want paddy right then I am willing to share my harvest with Henry"
"Me too"
"Old Luo, I am going to gift him all my production"
The group of villagers who were at the river came forward to help Henry and defend him
"Kid, Half of my harvest is yours, you can have it"
"Haha mine too"
"kiddo, your uncle described your situation to these guys and they all came here to help you"
uncle Gen was also there and he told Henry the truth.
While yesterday It was Ivar and his mother who were surprised and today it turned out be his turn.
"Thank you all, Thank you"
while wiping out tears Henry thanked all of them.
Grandpa Luo opened his mouth as he said
"Kiddo look at them, they all came here to defend you"
"stop crying, I just wanted to teach you some lessons of life, nothing beats practical lessons"
"kiddo listen carefully
--->The village is home and every one in the village are closed ones.
---->Farming is not shit,It is just like the occupation of Battle Masters.
---->Being Battle Master one can save lives and being being Farmer one can provide continuation of life.
---->Battle Masters need to cooperate and understand each other and farmers also need to work together in many occasions
---->Battle Masters need to learn how to use their relics and we need to learn how to use our tools for farming.
---->If a crisis or a war breaks out both Battle Masters and the Farmers play a major role for the outcome.
You wanted to be a Battle Master right, You can be one but don't underestimate farming which feeds the world while farmers themselves had to fight against weather and the nature for it."
"Senior.."
"Call me grandpa"
"Grandpa I understand,I was wrong, please forgive me"
Henry bent down in front of grandpa Luo.
"Hahaha..as long as you understood"
Grandpa felt delighted as he said.
"Let's go"
Seeing the situation turned to be good others began to leave
"Wait, I have an announcement to make"
Uncle Gen stopped them with the shout.
Everyone looked at him at anticipation because last time when he made the announcement he brought free supplies from Palamuru city.
"We have gained ourselves a fellow new villager"
"Henry, please accept your Identity card"
Uncle Gen called out.
Henry did not want to waste time and accepted the card from uncle Gen's hand.
The card was very weird to forget about picture there was not even his name, it was just plain circular red-coloured metal.
"And I also invite everyone to attend the small function in our home for gaining a new villager during the night, Hope you would come"
"Gen, we will we can't miss those delicious food right"
"yeah"
The villagers answered.
"Shameless"
Uncle Gen cursed.
The villagers then dispersed.
"Old Luo,I have to go too to make the preparations"
Uncle Gen left.
"Let's go home"
"yes, grandpa"
Luo and Henry went back to home.
The evening the village chief's home was bustling, they prepared a huge pot full of rice and wine made up of rice all the villagers including village chief Duku, Gen, Luo, little devils, Mantra and Henry attended it.