Chapter 37 - Helping Around
The brother and sisters went on their way to help the villagers. Yue went in the direction of the construction to help them with her magic. She would use levitation and weight magic to help them move heavy objects around.
Meanwhile, Avery would help the villagers in gathering logs by using some basic magic enhancement to help him cut trees more efficiently.
"Your Majesty!"
As Avery walked to the forest, the villagers that were working nearby stopped what they were doing and greeted him.
"Nn. Continue." Avery acknowledge them and told them to continue working.
He then went to the clearing where the villagers placed the gathered logs and took an axe that was enchanted by Lindir as per orders.
The villager that was organizing the logs noticed him and asked him if he needed something.
"I would be borrowing this axe for a while."
"It's fine your majesty, these are your properties in the first place."
Avery then went to a tall tree.
He first activated his magic.
[Sharpness Enhancement]
[Weight Magic - Weight Reduction]
The axe he was holding started to glow a little which showed that the magic was in effect.
The increase in sharpness would allow him to be able to cut through the tree with much more ease. While the weight magic would allow him to expend less energy to cut the trees.
The villager who was organizing the logs as well as the other villagers who were cutting trees curiously looked at what their king was planning to do with the axe.
Avery then started to cut the tree in front of him.
The villagers that were looking were surprised that he would be chopping trees as they don't recall anything in their memories of a leader doing menial work with their subjects.
The one organizing the logs was also surprised
"Y-your majesty?"
Avery ignored them and continued to do his work.
After coming out of their surprise, the villager that was organizing quickly went towards Avery.
"Your majesty! Please leave this work to us; how could we allow Your Majesty to do heavy jobs."
The other villager who heard what he said also became worried as they had not seen a leader who would do heavy jobs with them. The memories that they retained said that the leader would not do such jobs. So they were surprised when they saw him work.
Though some villagers who were summoned earlier than others were not that surprised as they remembered the meat that their majesty hunted for them on the first night.
However not all were present at that time so they were surprised that their leader was willing to do heavy jobs.
Avery who heard their concern only smiled and said, "Don't worry; we needed some more logs so that we could build some accommodations for the newly summoned villagers. We can't let them sleep without a roof right?"
The villagers were touched when they heard him. However, the one who spoke to him was not satisfied. Avery was one of two people who was destined to rise to the throne of the Aevum Empire and becomes its emperor one day. As he was about to speak, Avery quickly cut him off.
"Anyway! Let's get to work."
On the other side with Yue, something similar was also happening.
They were worried about their leader, but Yue made an excuse to stop them from not allowing her to work with them.
"Don't worry! This is no trouble to me. Plus with the new batch of villagers this time we are going to need every help we can right? So I thought that why not practice my magic and at the same time help out in the construction."
With that, she was able to force them to agree into allowing her to help them out.
Without knowing it Avery and Yue had unknowingly increased the resident's loyalty by 10 which increased the popular support from 62% to 72%. It was at 62% as the sudden increase of population has brought the average down.
With that, time passed by as Yue and Avery helped out in the construction inside the village.
When the sun was going down, Avery reunited with Yue with a warm hug and chatted with her happily.
They then went outside the village where everyone was gathered.
The villagers along with Yue and Avery marvelled at their work.
After a whole day of working, they were finally able to build additional houses.
The great thing is that the houses are not the only thing they finished. They were also able to finish the temporary school along with the watchtower at the side.
With that, they would have a place for the children as well as have someone be able to sight enemies as soon as they appear in the distance with the help of the watchtower especially since their village is located in the plains.
Everyone was satisfied with their progress and were grateful to both Yue and Avery as they greatly helped in the process.
Haldir who was standing beside Avery and Yue naturally also saw it and thank them.
"Your Majesties, we would not be able to do it in such a small amount of time without your help."
"No, Haldir. It was everyone's hard work that we were able to accomplish these in a short amount of time! We can't let the hard work that the villagers put through go unnoticed." Yue said with a smile.
The villagers who heard her were happy to receive the praise of their leader.
"Anyway, its getting late. Prepare the dinner for the villagers and organized the lodging of the new villagers, Haldir."
"Right away Your majesty!" Haldir was happy to follow through with his orders and quickly went to work.
The residents also followed not long behind.
Avery and Yue were the only ones left.
They then decided to check the status of their village.
[ Aevum Empire (Legendary)
Level: Basic Village (52/1000)
Population: 94/1500
Military: 2/750
Popular Support: 72%
Special Stats: Mana Attraction: +50% ]
"Though it is small, the village experience increased quite a bit."
"Yes. The goblins we killed as well as the animals that the villagers hunted increased the exp."
"They also dropped some copper coins. It's a bit weird that money would appear after killing animals." Yue said.
"Anyway, what's next on the plan, Big brother?"
"What do you think should our next step be?"
"Hmm… Military?"
"Right. We need to form our military next and start going on expeditions."
They then discussed what they want for their military. They have a great affinity for magic, light weapons, and ranged weapons. So they were going to take advantage of it.
They also discussed their weak points and the things they lacked. They knew that they were weak in direct confrontation as their race is more specialized in speed. Naturally, they had a solution for this.
Another thing that they also lacked is cavalry. However, that is not really a problem as their location is in the plains so finding some horses would not really be a problem.
So their first expedition would be directed to finding a good horse for their cavalry.
After discussing the details and some other things, Avery and Yue went back inside the village.