Buying information

Midday breaking, Eric synced in another task demanded by the Village's elder. The 50 big logs and many smaller took less than an hour to slice down, the only thing between this task taking additional time was picking the right trees.

Massacring the branches off the trunks took time too, but at least that labour picked the villagers to put work on, they used chipped and broken axes to do the job but it was nothing impossible.

But the next task isn't anything poor tools can do swimmingly, it requires the force of a Fire Blaster.

You can easily guess that this is another task for the sake of winning over information. 

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"This is getting too difficult, I can't swing my arms if I lay on my chest." Eric complained, pointing out the insane working condition.

Pointing at the havoc of a winter aftermath, the Elder shook his words as he mumbled. "We need planks, those Houses can't be fixed with sturdy trunks."