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Chapter 10 - chapter 9: acting hospitable and putting my mind control spell to use

With this news of a caravan we could use this as a way to start a way of making cash or whatever this world's form of currency is. I looked at Luna as she simply said "I'll answer your question later this is a bit important don't you think?" I nodded to Luna as I made my way down to the courtyard Leo following me but Luna stay behind on the tower Leo spoke "so what we're going to do jack?" I replied calmly "simple I have a plan get their caravan leader to come to one of our empty rooms to meet the person who's in charge here with antique pot and quill to make a deal about them ever needing a place to stay we would shelter them" Leo would go ahead knowing the only room then I would have an outsider meet me in would probably be The berrics and he would be right I would be heading towards The berrics where we had an ink pot. Quills and some parchment if everything goes to plan I could have a deal set up with their caravan Master with the help of my mind control spells to benefit us greatly I sat in a chair waiting as I close my eyes I hear walking a pair of footsteps probably heading towards my direction I would begin writing up a contract in exchange for them helping to trade things we make to the other villages we will always have a place for them to stay and we will make sure they are provided food for SLI made you know the bare essentials for living here and in exchange they helped us trade with other places as I looked in my peripheral vision of my left eye I saw Leo and only person I could assume was the caravan leader I spoke up calmly "hello my name is Jack I'm currently the one in charge of this place and I'm sure you are wondering what kind of deal I'm offering" to be perfectly honest I didn't look like a religious person but the caravan leader did say Right Cross form me seeing me writing the contract the caravan Master did speak up "yes I am I can tell you're not a temple but you do follow akatosh so it is reasonable to listen to your request" I smiled looking at him stopping writing the contract as I spoke "alright then I'll get straight to the point basically what this contract entails we are trying to set this place up as not just a sanctuary for travelers but as a village a place where a new empire will begin we're all are united under one banner" I said this I pointed one finger slightly to him and whisper to myself "mind control human" I then got a notification "you have successfully taking control of the caravan Masters mine you may give him two orders that he will carry out and think that he agreed to" I smiled as I quickly finished up the contract and I looked at him with a smile "just sign here and pledge yourself to me" the blank look in the caravan Masters eyes was somewhat scary to Jack but he did signed and see what then get up and begin to Boeing to Jack "of course my Lord" then I got notification "you still have one order remaining for the mind-controlled caravan master" I smiled as I begin to think what could I use this last order for then it came to me "I want you and your caravan to help us build houses around the fortress so we can start making up village here after The village has been completed you and your caravan will make this place your and your caravan home" without saying anyting the caravan Master nodded and went to is caravan to give them the news about this deal Jack would follow with a smile on his face after a few minutes they reach the caravan they all seem to approach as soon as they see their caravan master stand in the center with someone like they're waiting for the rest of the caravan to come to them the caravan Master shouted "all right my friends me and the person in charge you have made an agreement I would like you to come to me to hear what it is" they did what was asked of their caravan master "all right people in exchange for him sheltering us we are to help him establish a village here around the fort and in exchange for that as well he will have homes ready for us to live in if we ever decide to settle down here" the looks of the caravan we're in awe actor hosts and their masters ability to negotiate I did speak up "yes that's quite right I do hope you do decide to settle in to our village" Jack faked a kind smile but he was at least decent enough of acting to actually pull it off barely any way Leon quickly ran up to Jack "Jack I would like to know if you need me to do anything so I can get it done now before I go to bed" Jack smiled and look at leo "of course Leon I would like you to start picking out areas where would be a good place to start building a home there and mark them with sticks in the ground pointing up where please around the fortress" Leo nodded as he went to go do that Jack then look at the caravan master who had a smile on his face "well Jack in the morning since it is pretty late we will begin to help building those houses if that's all right" Jack smiled at them "of course it is it is quite late so it would be smart to do so" I begin to walk towards the body piling room and see paarthurnax standing out of it "parsonex before you make all the undead soldiers get to their positions make sure they all wear armor covering their undead features we have guests" paarthurnax noted as he would go do that and when he was finally done all the undead soldiers did go out to their posts Jack would begin to head towards the barracks where most of the caravan was already in there the body piling room was in the deepest parts of this fortress well the barracks was near the entrance about only a few footsteps away from the entrance I smiled as I looked at them I noticed there was two children and a dwarf amongst them I smoked " I would have given you more comfortable place to sleep but sadly at the current time this is all we have to offer I'm sorry if it's not comfortable" a woman smiled and spoke who I assumed were the children's mother "no this is perfectly fine and also thank you for your kindness" I smiled as I bowed and made my way towards the tower on my way there I saw it about something I did notice there was a dwarf I wonder how often do humans travel with the other species I continue to walk and ended up being about halfway to the top of the tower as I heard talking up there I stayed in the little below the roof just to hear and as I waited I could hear that it was Luna and Helga speaking "Helga you sure I should tell him?" Then I recognized Helga's voice "of course you should tell him he's not an elf he can't live for as long as you can hell I don't even know how long humans live in his world they could live for like 40 years and then die for all we know" I started to walk up the stairs to break up this conversation I shouted before I could pick my head over the floor of the roof "Luna you there?" It got silent as I made my way up as I looked over to where Luna typically saw I saw Helga and Luna both of them were quiet "did I interrupt something I apologize if I did? I'll leave" how they got up and started walking towards the stairs behind me laughing "nah Jack we were just finishing up anyway" I know I did and I begin to walk towards Luna to sit next to her she did spoke "well remember your question about I have feeling for you?" I didn't speak I noted "well Jack I do but I don't want to pursue them if you will die in a short time like 10 years" I know I did as then I would speak "well in my world if a human ate well and add proper amount of exercise they could live about 80 years maybe even to a hundred if they're lucky" this put a surprised look on her face as she heard this "really Jack most humans in this world die in their 40s and barely make it to their 70s?!" I nodded as I looked up to the night sky I had a pretty big smile on my face the sky looked very beautiful I could see more Stars here in this world than I could in my own world because of light pollution in my world there was barely any stars in the big cities that you could see even less because of all the skyscrapers I then heard her speak "well then I would like to pursue those feelings but I don't know how since I haven't been in a relationship a romantic one with the list I've had friendships and business partner relationships but never a romantic relationship" I left a little bit and then I smiled a little bit bigger "just follow your heart if it says you feel happy or just when they are round and you feel like nothing can go wrong around them as long as you're right there next time then you love them and you'll just have to listen to your heart on how to pursue your love for them after all your heart it's where all your feelings dwell" as I looked from the corner of my left eye I know this her face was quite red I then got up and spoke "well we have a lot of work tomorrow you can stay up if you want but I'm going to go get some sleep" I saw her walking as I noticed she got up and followed me I ended up going to the barracks and laying on one of the bends we all fell asleep that night all the living was asleep and the dead were still up defending the fort if we came under attack in a few hours I begin to wake up I looked around and everyone was still asleep I got up and begin to move towards the outside paarthurnax was at center of the courtyard "paarthurnax you can bring everyone back to the body pile room I don't know how long I every one else is going to be asleep this is the best chance you guys I'll keep watch for a little bit" paarthurnax nodded and made a few sounds as all the undead minions Begin to Fall in to the body pile room they didn't make much noise sense not any of them we're really wearing anything metal mainly it was all letter I begin to make my way towards the wall of the fort to lookout noticing the places that leo marked with sticks for houses there was really only one entrance currently of the fort so I didn't have more than one entrance to watch out for anyone trying to sneak in I continue to look out for about 4 hours before I noticed Leo Drake and Helga we're awake now coming towards me leo shout up to me "Jack how long have you been awake?!" I shouted back without moving "I would say about 4 hours maybe?" as the sun begin to rise I stared at it wondering what today will hold