38 First Settlement War (1)
"..." One minute past.
"Eh?" when two minutes past, Mu Qing Lang stares at the door with a puzzled expression.
"They're not bothering me today?" the silence made him feel uncomfortable. Although it was disturbing to have them came and trouble him when he's so into reading, when they did not appear today, it made him feel lonely.
"That's fine. I guess?" Mu Qing Lang sighed. He turned to his table again and tapped on the first choice, Root Sucrose. This product is made from the Prairie Sugar Root, one of the newest plant in his collection.
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Root Sucrose Liquid [Unranked]
Condition: Edible Seasoning
Benefit: Adjust the taste in applicable food
Side Benefit:
[1] Quick energy rejuvenation.
[2] Alleviate any (Fury)(Depress)(Confusion) status effect when taken in a considerate amount.
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Item Description: A viscous liquid with natural sweetness extracted from the high sugar content Prairie Sugar Root. Although sweet, the Root Sucrose Liquid contained natural properties to alleviate negative emotion brewing inside the user.
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Pure Growth Crystal [Unranked]
Condition: Growth Enhancer
Benefit: Strengthen the plant innate quality
Side Benefit:
[1] Promotes the plant quality through continuous feeding.
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Item Description: Made from processing the Prairie Sugar Root into three stage of fermetation, extraction, and removal of unusable element properties, the Pure Growth Crystal is born. Rich with natural plant-type phosphate, nitrogenous crystals, and potassium ash, it enhance the plant when administered regularly.
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"Oh? A crystal fertilizer?" Mu Qing Lang understands the description differently due to his two worlds of knowledge. Still, it was a proper product due to the ability to promotes the quality of a plant.
That said, it might shorten the time he needs to promote the plant into something better than what he has right now. And this arrival made Mu Qing Lang started his daydreaming.
"How good..."
"If an unranked plant like the Chang-Er Bronze Wheat becomes Golden grade, won't it become something like a head-size ear of grains when they matured?"
"That said, I can even promote the Xian-Ren Grass to grow five stalks instead of two, and even more than that. Hahaha!"
His daydream continued until dinner. Woken up due to the smell of food, Mu Qing Lang embarrassedly joins them for the meal. When everyone already had their fill, each returned to their own sections.
Soon, Guan Yi came to him to give a report.
"Master. The Ashen Wolf King led me to their destroyed den this afternoon. I believe that we can start mining for stones there to be brought back to our settlement." undoubtedly, Guan Yi is one of the better candidates to lead the settlement.
"Good. Who do you suggest to help with the mining?" Mu Qing Lang knows who to choose from but to make sure Guan Yi is capable of learning, he decided to give him more chances to perform well.
"Guan Yi thinks that sending the Tiezu-Orcs there should be the best option. With a few friendly humans in their ranks, I'm sure that they can work with each another nicely."
"Additionally, Guan Yi hope that master will agree with the suggestion to build a storehouse in between our settlement to lighten their workload." Guan Yi's suggestion hits all the point he wanted the Goblin Champion to suggest.
"Sure. We'll build a storehouse and relay building in between the two locations. Do you have a place in mind on where should it be built?" Mu Qing Lang continued.
"Yes. The location is almost one day away from our settlement, and about fifteen minutes away from two Water Collection Ponds." Guan Yi added his report, which gains a more favoritism impression from Mu Qing Lang.
"Then, I'll give you all the rights to arrange the people to work. Don't disappoint me." Mu Qing Lang allowed Guan Yi to act on his behalf and also to see what kind of results can he brings.
With the meeting ends, Guan Yi returned to their hut happily, while Mu Qing Lang is still pondering about the next step his settlement should take. While the Namu Settlement is located at the north, the Yelu Settlement and Wuhan Settlement are at his Northwest.
Ka-Ruo settlement is at the border of Chang Emperor Prairie and Yan Emperor Grassland, with two additional Orcs Villages, he'd yet to seen them. As for the East, there's nothing else there except a rumored goblin settlement near to the seaside.
"Ah! Xiao Qing!" Mu Qing Lang caught the Goblin Teacher walking back to the hut, and stopped him from going in.
"Master. Is there anything can Xiao Qing help?" although the goblin teacher is lack of fighting strength, his ability in teaching and educating the goblin, human, and orcs cannot be doubted.
"This is Pure Growth Crystal, used to enhance a plant and their growth. I'll need you to grow a Chang Empress Poppy for me with this Pure Growth Crystal as the fertilizer. For the two remaining crystals, I'll give you tomorrow morning."
After giving his instructions, Mu Qing Lang saw Yulin sneaking outside of the settlement. Weirdly, the direction she's headed to is towards the western entrance, which leads to the water collection pond not far from them.
"What is that lass trying to do?" Mu Qing Lang followed without bringing the carriage along. After patting Xiao Hui's head and gave that lovely donkey a stack of 200gm Herbal-Cress and the two remaining Prairie Rock Sage to eat, he followed Yulin's footsteps and headed outside of the settlement.
The lass did not try to hide her trail at all, which gave Mu Qing Lang an easy time to follow her until where she stayed. Catching up with her, Mu Qing Lang tried to take a peek on what she was doing.
"Coo!" a chirp came from where she kneeled. When he catches a clearer glimpse on her bosom, it was an injured blue colored bird. The chirp he heard earlier is due to Yulin feeding it with some unprocessed wheat grains.
"Coo! Coo!" it chirps happily for being fed. But when it tries to open its wings, the injury makes the bird cried louder.
"Coo..." it went weak and lied completely on Yulin's bosom.
"Damn bird. I also want to try to place my head on that thigh." Mu Qing Lang complained in his heart. But knowing how mature is Yulin and the way she carries herself, Mu Qing Lang knows that she will not come and ask her for the Recovery Ointment.
"Don't worry. I'll take care of you. Don't worry about your broken wings." Yulin pats its head and calms the bird down. Due to the struggling pain, the bird no longer tried to reply to her.
"Broken bones? I think the Healing Ointment should do the work." Mu Qing Lang stands up from where he hides and startled Yulin.
"Master!" Yulin grabbed the blue bird with both hands as she hid it between her cleavage. And because the bird's feather is too distinctive, it was hardly hidden from Mu Qing Lang.
"Here... Take this ointment and apply to the bird. Just bring it back to your hut and take care of it until it can fly." Mu Qing Lang took the Healing Ointment out from his waist pouch and gave it to Yulin.
"Please forgive Yulin, but I tried applying the Recovery Ointment on the Blue Lightning Sparrow." Yulin's answer did not shock him as much as she thinks. Still, her reply allowed Mu Qing Lang to recognize what kind of breed is this bird with the size of the Prairie Horn Rabbit.
"The one I give you is called Healing Ointment. It will work for the broken wings the bird suffered." Mu Qing Lang sat by her side, and take a proper look on the Blue Lightning Sparrow.
Beautiful bluish feathers and the pair of wings about the length of its own body, sharp talons. This bird is a decent hunting bird. As it was easy to discern the sexual orientation of the bird, Mu Qing Lang deducted that this Blue Lightning Sparrow should be a female bird.
After applying the ointment on the bird, Yulin stares at Mu Qing Lang. This mysterious master of hers always come out with some miraculous product that nobody can ever create. The Infusion Juniper Oil brings flavor to their food, the noodles become a better food after processing the Wheat Grains into Flour, and the Recovery Ointment that heals the wound.
Each and every one of his products makes their life better.
"It's a very wonderful night." Mu Qing Lang pats the Blue Lightning Sparrow and ready to leave. As for Yulin, she followed behind like a little duckling, worrying about getting separated from this leading duck.
Once Yulin returned to her shared hut, Mu Qing Lang headed to his Carriage of Immortality, took the usual medication and went to bed.
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Day Thirty.
Their morning proceed like usual. While the Orcs focused on handling the Pigsty and Rabbit's barn, the human and goblin work together on the farm.
As for the Ashen Wolves, they're busy copulating and starting to extends their numbers. What nobody knows is, the Namu Settlement had themselves prepared to fight.
Two groups of militia under Fourth and Fifth Young Chiefs order, totaling up to three hundred members, along with their Goblin and satyr slaves helping in logistics. Behind them is a man in a straw-woven cloak, mysterious yet dangerous.
