Running for fifteen minutes had made Kai to be out of breath but had to keep running because the sign bearing the name Berries Nectar Orchard was already at his sight but he had to keep running because he was already late.
He had to pray for the supervisor to be absent or not notice his lateness.
He might either get an ear full or have his daily wages deducted if he does not finish his quota for the day.
As he got to the entrance he showed his permission slip, while the security guard verified his identify one of them said
"You are late again Kai" Carlos the captain of the orchard said to Kai in a disdainful manner.
He had never been in good terms with Kai, its not that Kai has done anything to annoy him before but he just doesn't like him.
"Good morning captain captain Carlos hope all is well" Kai greeted him with a smile on his young and handsome face, ignoring his earlier statement.
"tch"
Captain Carlos reply to him was enough for him to know that he was not in the mood to talk.
After his permit had been proven valid he took it from the attendant gave a short bow and left the scene.
Berries Nectar is one of the largest orchard in this retirement zones. it is one of the most valued asserts in this region because it produces not only one type of berry species but different types of berries.
They are highly valued by nobles and wine production industries.
This orchard is owned by the chief of little sun village who was a lover of wine.
Some berries are extremely expensive and they have status effect, some of them have permanent status effect.
Most of them have mind clearing effect. This type of berries are highly sorted commodity among rich people and noblemen.
The more valuable a species of berry is the more special attention is required to bring out the best results.
Most of the are immediately stored in special storage tools for preservation.
Most special berries are been attend to by elves that have affinity to nature to provide the proper treatment at the right time for easy nurturing.
Hiring this elves are expensive but the profit always out weight the cost.
Kai's job was to harvest common berries. Though this have lower quality, they were still of high demand in the market and this berries takes a large portion of the orchard so they need more workers that is why they even allow a ten years old boy to work there .
After Kai got approved to enter the orchard so he sneaked into the changing room to avoid being detected by any of the supervisors.
He change into his work clothes made of short khaki shorts, a brown shirt a hat made of straws and his rain boots, he quickly grabbed his short sickle magic tool and sneaked out of the changing room.
Just as he thought his day won't get any worst he was greeted with the ugly face of his fat supervisor.
"Good morning Mr Chan" Kai hurriedly greeted him, trying to at least appease him with his greetings
"You really are testing my patience aren't you Kai ?"
"Am sorry Mr Chan it won't happen again" Kai apologized
"That's your problem but keep in mind that your quota for today has been increased by two" Mr Chan broke the news without taking into consideration that he was talking to a ten years old.
"But Mr chan why do I have to fill more quotas to day?"
"You don't need to know much, you just have to do what you are told or you will be having a pay cut today." Mr chan bellowed at him.
Kai still doesn't understand why his simple question will result to such exaggerated reaction.
He knew better not to bother him with any more questions and he hurried off to the fields.
Berries Nectar Orchard is divided into different sections with the western part of the field use to plant common berries that are used for wine, jam and other highly sort after commodities.
As Kai hurried in to the fields he saw some of his co-workers who were all common people with no abilities.
Some of them greeted him as he arrived while others just ignored hi greetings.
Some of the worker like him for his hardworking nature and among them was Mrs Ruth who was a middle aged woman who looked to be in her early forties.
In this world you can't really tell someones real age just by their facial appearance because as you break through the ranks it grants longer life and healthier physics.
Although Mrs Ruth is just a common person discerning her age is much easier.
"You are late again. Kai this is the third time this week you are arriving late. are you having any issues? or are you working till late at the night?" Mrs Ruth started by questioning him.
"Calm down Ruth he just arrived at least let him start working them you can ask him whatever you want." An elderly man called grandpa Jo tried to stop her before she forgot what they came to the fields to do
"Thank you Mrs Ruth for your concern, I will try to work harder and don't disappoint" Kai quickly appreciated her concern and asked for his own portion of work before he left them to start his own work.
He was definitely not get any breaks today so as to meet up with his daily quotas and with the additional quota today was definitely going to be a rough day.
The daily quota was usually to fill five large basket that was three meters wide and two meter tall. so basically this basket was larger than Kai but he had to do it to fend for him self.
He had to harvest a large amount of berries together and this might take him from morning till mid-day to harvest the required amount before transferring them into a runic tractor before registering his number plaque to the tractor.
This tractor had special Inscriptions that makes it able to follow the plaque while ones it is activated by the owner of the plaque.
So the tractor just follows the plaque once it is activated in front of it and stops ones the plaque is deactivated.
This mode of carrying goods is really unique and stress free. so this is one of the reasons Kai still works here.
Most kids his age don't even know how to value money at this age but here he was making his own money.
Few day from now will be his eleventh birthday so he had to at least have some money at hand even if he doesn't have much.
Working in the orchard he is able to earn at least 50 silver coins after completing his quota for the day.
So for most kids his age he can be considered wealth when you sum up his savings together.
As he was also saving for his awaken ceremony registration fee and also money for equipments.
Just incase he awakens he does not have high hopes for the ceremony but he hopes he awakens something useful.
Since he believed that his parents were ordinary people, He does not want to raise his hopes high about the awakening ceremony, but right now he hopes he could meet up on time and finish his duties so that he can go to bed early today.
Recently he noticed that had been over sleeping this days so he really had to finish quickly.