Subdue One More Soldier

Since Marissa couldn't get the answer from the system, she decided to just stop thinking about that woman named Serre or whether she was related to her or not.

"It's better to shop now..." She muttered as her mood instantly brighten up.

Marissa opened the system and directly went to the system's shop. There, she bought 525 kilograms of common grade paddy seeds and 600 kilograms of high grade paddy seeds. This whole purchases costed her 5,700 silver coins. Aside from that, she also purchased the three hectares lands from the system which made her spent a total of 35,000 copper coins. As a result, her previous total of money which was 6 golds and 226,057 copper coins now reduced to only 491,057 copper coins. More than 92% of her money was spent just like that.

Sigh!

She became so penniless once again! Money was sure so easy to fly away just like that.

Nevertheless, she now possessed 8 hectares of lands in total. She planted 3 hectares of lands with common grade paddy seeds, 3 hectares of lands with high grade paddy seeds, and 2 hectares of lands with cofeé beans. And because at this moment, she just spent more than 5 gold coins at the system, the system rewarded her with an <Accelerator1>. This <Accelerator1> could be used to accelerate the time of the paddy growth or other farming commodities.

There were many 'Accelerator' in the system. <Accelerator1> in which Marissa possessed now was the type of accelerator that could accelerate the time by following the commodities with the shortest time or the nearest to the harvest time. Currently, the commodity with the nearest for the harvest time is the 75 kilograms of common grade paddy seeds which was left with '5 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes'. Whereas the coffeé beans needed more than twenty days from the harvest time. And so, after using the <Accelerator1>, all the commodities on the 8 hectares of lands, whether they were coffeé beans, the old paddy seeds or the newly purchased ones, were left with '5 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes' until they could be harvested.

...

A while later...

Marissa went out of her room and going upstairs. She looked at the system's clock and saw that it was still a quarter past eleven in the afternoon. It was only at this moment that she realized that the whole time she spent in the 'World of Glass' was only about more or less ten minutes. She thought she'd been unconscious for a few days, but now she realized that it was only her imagination.

"Miss..."

"Boss..."

"Madam..."

Noticing that Marissa came out, the free employees from the Wild Boars and Tiger Tribe, as well as the customers, greeted her enthusiastically. There were some who called her Miss, some called her Boss or Madam.

Marissa waved her hand nonchalantly as a warm smile suffused on her small red lips. She then turned her gaze to the man who was being possessed by the evil incarnation a while ago. "How are you feeling now?"

Suddenly...

Plop!

The man kowtowed profusely as his forehead touched the floor and produced a 'Thump-thump' sounds.

"It's alright, it's alright... You don't need to kowtow. Please, rise." Marissa waved her hand furiously to stop the young man from kowtowing again. However, the young man seemed to get addicted to kowtow. The heck! How come ancient peoples always kowtowing here and kowtowing there, kowtowing now and kowtowing then. Do you guys have to do that? Please, have some backbone!

"No, Miss... Um, my lord..." The young man was stuttered.

"Enough... Please, rise, and then talk. " Marissa was helpless. "If you don't rise first, I'm not gonna listening to your words."

Hearing that his benefactor would ignored him if he insisted on kowtowing, the young man finally rose to his feet. "My lord, thank you for your benevolence. I will remember this for the rest of my life. Please accept me and let me share your burden. I will be loyal to you from now on." He then bowed again and again with a very serious and sincere heart. If not for he got scolded by Marissa, he would be kowtowing again.

"Ah? You don't need to. It's just a simple matter. Helping each other is what we ought to do as a human being. As long as I have the ability, I will surely help." Marissa said modestly as she kept her faint smile.

"No, my lord has given me a chance to live again. It's like I was given a new life. If not because of the kindness of my lord, I will die in a while. So please, accept my gratitude. From now on, I will be loyal to you. My life now was entirely on your hand, my lord." As he said that, the young man suddenly made an oath to the heaven. It was the same oath that Prince Anusapati did back then in the underground room, which was constructed underneath the Sunghasari Palace.

Right after that, a loud sound of thunder were echoing in the cloudy sky before it was gone in just a few seconds.

Sshhhh!

The young man shortly produced something like a little thunder and offered it respectfully to Marissa whose face now was full of astonishment. She was so surprised as she didn't expect that young man to easily offer his will to her. She had helped hundreds of human and spiritual creatures from the Wild Boars Tribe when they were being infected by the 'curse' as a result of being possessed by the group of evil souls. However, not one of them were truly loyal to her, much less given their life to her. All along, only this young man and Prince Anusapati who had given their will to her, which meant they had trusted their entire life to her. Marissa could even kill both of them at any moment if she crushed that wills.

Other than this young man and Prince Anusapati, only Uncle Huth and the ten members of the Tiger Tribe that their loyalties or adherence were acknowledged by the system although they and Marissa didn't make any blood contract or heavenly oath, yet. And, although the group of wild boars also already pledged their loyalties to her, but up until now, their loyalty hadn't been acknowledged by the system. That was the reason as to why her charisma points hadn't been increased even until this moment. But, now, added with this young man, her charisma points had increased by one from 12/187,500 into 13/187,500.

Haish, it seemed like getting the tittle as the 'Head of Soldiers' turned out wasn't that easy. She wondered how long it would be for her to achieve that number of 187,500? What would be the benefit that she could obtain by becoming a 'Head of Soldiers'? She shook her head silently and stop thinking about it.

Marissa then looked at the young man carefully and feeling gratified for his action. Not many peoples could do what he did.

Human was a very prideful creature after all. They always want to be above everything and sat at the highest place to rule everyone. Most of the peoples always wanted to be the boss, not an underling. Even for her, she couldn't be sure that she could lower herself to do what the young man or Prince Anusapati did. Just how big must be their heart to do that? Just how much must be their trust for her to willingly give their life just like that? She didn't know, that's why she felt so touched.

"Thank you..." Marissa whispered. In her heart, she vowed to give the best of life for them who were truly loyal to her. She would return their kindness many times and would never make them regretting their decision to be loyal to her.

"No, no, no... It's me who should thanks my lord for all her kindness." The young man shook his head furiously.

"Alright. Let's not talk about it anymore." Marissa nodded. "Well, you could live here from now on if you want and help me manage this shop together with the other of my employees. If you have family that you couldn't leave outside, you could choose to no live here or bring your family members here. We will become one family from this moment onward." She said warmly. After all, the 'little shop' of hers actually was so huge if one was to enter inside. There were also many rooms inside that could be used by her employees who choose to live in the shop.

In short, this 'little shop' was actually like a giant hotel which could be occupied by lots of human and creatures. Marissa wasn't sure as to how many rooms that she could actually access or how many occupants that this shop could accomodate as of this moment. However, recalling one of her missions, which was in order to get the tittle 'Head of Soldiers' on the 'Charisma' section, she reckoned that she could probably accommodated at least 187,500 occupants.

She was sure the system would help her to accommodate her devoted soldiers. If not, where would her prestige as the only chosen candidate to conquer the Nusantara Continent should be put onto? Also, it would be a necessary to gather all her devoted members or soldiers in one place so that she could manage them well, right?

"Ah?" Hearing that his benefactor even offered him a dwelling, he was so astonished. Moreover, he could even brough his family members to this shop? Really, his benefactor must be the incarnation of an angel from the ninth heaven! Yes, it must be so! He thought inwardly. "Well, my lord..."

"No lord, just call me Miss or Madam just like the others call me. Anyhow, you could also call me sister in-law." Marissa said.

"Al-Alright, Madam. Thank you very much for your help. Your benevolent heart would surely noticed by the Mighty God, and He will definitely reward you with a life full of blessings." The young man said solemnly.

Marissa beamed hearing that sentences. As person who was 'rather' religious person from Earth, she was someone who believed in the power of hopes and prayers. So, she was very pleased to hear the blessing words.

"However, I don't have any family members right now." The young man said with a crestfallen face.

"Hm? Right now? Do you mean you were supposed to have ones or you have a plan to get married and have a family soon?" Marissa asked.

The young man blushed a little when he heard the words 'get married', then turned sorrow once again. "I should have an old mother, a younger brother, and a fianceé... But, th-they have..." He suddenly couldn't continue his words. He chocked a bit as he suppressed his emotions and his tears to not coming out of his eyes. Thinking about his mournful past, his eyes turned red. "Sometimes ago, the village where I and my family lived in was attacked by a group of living corpses. My mother was attacked and died, but my younger brother and fianceé had gone missing since then. I don't know whether they are still alive or not, but I've searched the entire village for a long time. However, I couldn't find their bodies up until now." He said sorrowfully.

"Living corpses?" Marissa asked in bewildered. Could it be in this world, there was also that kind of creatures which is called as zombies?

"Yeah, if Madam may had ever heard of it, the citizens around Singhasari usually called them as 'Revenant' or 'Jadian'." The young man said.

Marissa asked Mr. Angel inwardly. "What is he talking about? What is it the so called Revenant or Jadian?"

Not even a second passed when the monotone voice of Mr. Angel was heard inside her mind, answering to her question.

[Revenant or Jadian was the names given for the evil souls. This Revenant or Jadian was divided into a few types. But there were only two famous types in the surrounding of Nusantara Continent]

[The first type is called as Red Jadian or Red Revenant. This was a type of evil soul who could possessed human or the other creatures before slowly sucking their blood and life force. The Host which had been possessed by them would usually die after five to seven hours later]

[The second type was called as Black Revenant or Black Jadian. This type usually capable to possess the dead bodies or any living human and spiritual creatures as well as ordinary beast and animals, and then order them to do many things, such as attacking the the other living beings, manipulate the mind of the Host, sucking their life force and blood, and even creating a new Black Revenant by controlling two or more souls depending on the power of the original Black Revenant]

"So, to say, the first type of the Revenant was the one who the peoples here mentioned as the curse? And the ones which attacked the village where this young man and his family lived on previously was the second type of the Revenant?" Marissa asked to confirm her speculation.

[Yes] Mr. Angel responded.

"I see..." Marissa nodded inwardly.

Right after that, she then turned her attention again to the young man in front of her. "Sigh... What could I say? This life... I hope you're strong enough and don't have any negative feeling or thoughts such as you want to do suicide or whatnot. I wouldn't make a promise, but one thing for sure, I will surely help you to get justice and eradicate the evil beings who had created a lots of chaos everywhere, including the evil beings who had attacked your village and ruin many families there. It's just that, I hope you are patient and strong enough before the time comes."

"Definitely... I will surely be strong. I have been waiting for a long time. Waiting for a bit more isn't a big problem for me. Thank you. Thank you very much, my lor.. Madam. I will surely work hard to repay your kindness in the future." He bowed again and again to express his gratitude.

"Alright. We've been talking since a while ago, but I still don't know what's your name. Could you tell me, please?" Marissa waved her hand to stop the young man from bowing again and again.

"Madam, my name is Mandala." The young man said as he smiled and bowed once.

'Uh? It can't be he was that Mandala who am I thinking now, right?' Marissa was a bit surprised to hear that name.

Just as she wanted to probe more whether he was 'that' Mandala who she knew from the story on Earth or not, there was once again a commotion outside of the shop. A big battle was seemingly ensued right now.

Sila! Sila! Sila!

Swoosh!

Kick!

Boom!

Marissa and the whole employees and customers in the shop who were still in shock when they saw the young man offered his will to the Miss by making a heavenly oath, also rushed outside to see what was happening to create such disturbance.

Then...

What they saw outside of the shop made them bewildered. A big black wild boar was now fighting against a group of dark yellow-robe peoples which numbers were amount to thirty or forty, but the black wild boar seemed to be in the winning side. In fact, the black wild boar didn't even seem to have mustered all it's strength. It's like it was just playing with that group of peoples by sending them flying one by one into the air like a rocket toys.

"Heheheh, come come come, let's fight until the dusk arrives. Do you think I, your father, is so easily to be bullied?" The wild boar suddenly spoke and taunted it's opponents arrogantly. There was also a hint of anger and annoyed in it's voice, but it tried to suppress it.

Meanwhile, Marissa who heard that voice was feeling astonished. She looked at that wild boar once again and finally realized who was it and why she found that voice was a bit familiar as if she had ever heard it before. Actually, if she only heard that voice, she wouldn't be that sure, but because she heard that voice coming out of a male wild boar, she was finally sure who was it. It was one of the members of the 'Thirteen Heroes'!

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Quizz:

Hello, Nusantara Historical Drama Lovers, who might be the wild boar who fought against that group of dark yellow-robed peoples?

A. Young Master Wiro

B. Gundala

C. Jaka sembung

D. Jaka Tarub

E. Jaka Tingkir