[7th day]
I woke up to the sound of beasts fighting.
Again.
I was going to kill them all one of these days.
The weather seemed colder these days so I reckoned winter was coming.
Moving on, I had new guests at 4 ish, I believe, so it was a regular day until then.
Several hours later, I received them.
One looked to have ambition, but the rest had the usual attitude. I'm sure they will be happy with their new environment.
He had orange hair, and his name was Tyranny. He was a big guy who fit his name. For a lower demon, he had 3 strength, which was very odd. Deviating from the normal stats was something I had not seen before in lower demons.
That only raised my expectations of him. Hopefully, he can fulfil my expectations.
The daily mission was to find a proper way to make a campfire, which we needed as we just piled wood in a pile and lit it on fire using our extra speed and strength to use friction to make fires, but this one had an actual method that was not just brute forcing it.
Training was getting better and people in general were getting much better. My opponents were getting used to being blinded and were starting to land strikes on me. Not wanting to keep on getting hit, I started to think of methods to block them and defeat them.
I had decided that I was going to teach the magic art of the sun to the normal demons, but any I found to be of interest I would teach the earth method.
But that was for another time I still had not decided when I was going to teach them at all.
[10th day]
Today's agenda is the same as it has always been training, training, and more training.
and sleep. I still do sleep.
An update on my mana capacity is at 1.48. I am so close to 1.5, I can practically feel it.
Lately, I had noticed my citizens were splitting themselves into factions. Okay, that makes it sound bad. No, there were 2 factions: the week 1 group and the week 2 group. It was relatively harmless now, but if this continued, I feared that there may be a wide gap in strength between the week 1 and maybe the week 10 group.
To fix the faction issue, I gave each member of the kingdom a partner for the week.
I made each week's 1 members, and each week's 2 members join to make a duo for the week.
Would it work? I have no idea, but I tried it, and so far, it seems to be working.
My citizens were so childish sometimes, joining different cliques and all. I liked them though as they all worked so hard for little to nothing.
I completed my medium-difficulty mission relatively easily. I just had to make 10 stone swords, which was originally going to be hard, but on the 9th day, the same day I got the medium mission, I got an easy mission that gave us the blueprint to make them.
It was hard to make a stone sword, and the blueprint of the stone swords was more of a dagger than a sword, but it said "sword" on the blueprint, so it counted.
We then got five more citizens, which were four lower and one regular.
The regular was a guy named Randol, who had immediately taken up the workbench. We now had 3 of them: the tool bench, the clothing bench, and a new clay bench.
The clay bench was just one of those spiny stone things people use to make pottery, and when you tried yourself, you failed miserably, even though it looked easy.
We started to mine out the mines properly as well, for both clay and ores. I was sure we would get a furnace sometime soon, and then we could start to properly make some weapons.
We did get our first batch of hedgehog weapons made. They were bows made of thin but strong vines woven between thick wood, carved into a reasonable shape. You would place a needle on the string and fire it.
I believe it was Aggressor who took a liking to the bow. She was now the designated archer of the kingdom. When she was a child, she had some practise, she said, and seeing her shoot myself, I could say she was pretty good.
Her smile when she remembered those memories warmed my day.
Why am I procrastinating all of a sudden?
I'm in training right now, so focus up, Alex.
Is that Dante running at me?
Come at me, you sad beast.
[14th day]
Today was another day and I would get another set of 10 lower demons.
The population was looking good at a whopping 33, with 1 higher demon, 4 regular demons, and 28 lower demons.
Today, that number would rise to 38 lower demons.
The city was getting bigger, and people were putting up houses for the newcomers already. The community was looking great, and people called me "The Great Lord," which was the worst name I had ever heard, and I wanted to shrivel up and die whenever I heard them call me that.
Today was also the day I would start teaching my magic arts.
Earth magic was to be taught first to the regular demons. Originally, I did not want to widen the gap, but I also realised that the sun users would grow faster and that this was the way I could lessen the gap in strength.
Earth users would still be stronger than fire users over the long term, but sun users would raise their ranks quicker and gain a massive short-term growth period.
I would also teach Tranny as he had enough ambition to raise his blood rank, at least I thought he could.
It was a shame about the demons' bad mana, and I had nothing to fix that.
Talking about mana, I had 1.80, which meant today was the 10th day I had the technique. My anniversary gift was that I was going to teach my greatest secret today, and I was nervous.
No, I had to man up; confidence was essential in trickery, and I needed it.
So, at 8pm, I called the 1 lower demon, 4 regular demons, and Dante to the viewing cave.
I sat like a great monk in the lotus position overlooking the view. The posture hurt, but I needed to look the part.
Five minutes after I sent the word out that I wanted them to come here, they arrived.
Oliver, Asylum, Aggressor, Randol, Dante, and Tranny soon entered my cave and stood next to me.
"What do you see?" I said, with my eyes closed, I had planned this scene many times and was ready to give them the play of their lives.
They all looked out at the view and gave varying thoughts: beautiful, deadly, and massive were the general ideas being given out.
"But what do you feel when looking at it?"
Awe, wonder, and fear were the general answers.
"Try to imagine it all. Try to imagine all of the earth, then try and feel it." I motioned for them to also come sit with me.
After a few moments, I noticed Dante had gotten it and a small crust of rock was forming over his body.
But what happened after confused me. Aggressor, the archer, got a layer of water forming around her.
I thought it would all be on earth.
Ah, they probably imagined the earth differently. Dante focused on the land, and Aggressor thought of the sea. But did the demon world even have water?
Randol then started to shine, multi-coloured, and a layer of metal formed over his body. The craftsmen seemed to think of the earth's ore.
Then Asylum went pitch black, and I couldn't see her. It seemed she thought of the night of the earth without the presence of the sun.
Oliver started to grow plants over himself. It seemed he thought of nature and therefore got the nature element. He was a tracker, if I remember correctly, and his focusing on plants and how they moved in relation to beasts could have changed his outcome.
Tranny seemed to be having the most trouble. He did have 1/4 magic though, so it's no surprise he's doing worse than the others.
After 10 minutes or so, I felt the temperature rise a bit, and a red layer of light formed over Tranny. It was lava. Its temperature was absurd. It seemed he thought of magma or volcanoes or something when he thought of the earth.
This did shed light on my moon cultivation. Maybe I should think of the moon in diverse ways apart from just what I had seen and could infer.
Promising idea. It seems I have learned a lot from this.
These guys need to move, though. This is my restricted area, and they are intruding. I wanted to cultivate
I told them to leave after I woke them. They seemed disappointed to be stopped but were too thankful for the opportunity to say anything about it. They could always do it tomorrow, after all.
That night, I thought of the moon differently than usual.
And when I woke up, I got a welcome surprise.