A strange world

The sparkling beautiful bay washes away the torment of the long journey.

These people have never seen the ocean, and the widest streams and long rivers they have ever seen cannot compare with the vast sea in front of them.

Even if the sea breeze blows the tips of their noses red, they are unwilling to move away from the shore that brings indescribable touch.

"Xingyue Bay, the place where hope begins..."

Annan looked at his territory and his subjects and murmured softly.

The pain, anxiety, and uneasiness caused by traveling for ten consecutive days turned into a substantial sense of belonging at this moment.

They like it here, and they show it with their actions - these people in dirty cotton clothes can't wait to get in front of the lord, ready to build their homes.

Ingrid, the borrowed assistant, told Annan what to say at this time.

Covered in the morning light, Annan responds to these eyes that may be haggard, immature, or expectant, but without exception are filled with light:

"Someone once told me that when a person owns a village, he will work hard for the development of the village. He will strengthen the walls because he is worried about alien attacks, he will store food because he is worried about disasters, he will increase revenue and reduce expenditure because of the lack of tax revenue... I will Do it and I hope you do too.”

"This is our home."

There were noisy responses to Annan's speech, and everyone's face was filled with expectations and longing for the future.

"Take a break for thirty minutes and don't leave the shore."

Annan asked the people who were rushing to rest and asked Ingrid back.

"Is it okay?"

"Lack of preparation, lack of formality, but full of emotion, you performed well as an improvised speech."

"Better than Olmedo?"

This assistant with short brown hair, a concise and cold tone, and an exquisite appearance told the truth: "The Lord of the City was deeply influenced by Mr. Augusta. He showed no faults at the age of eight."

"All right……"

Annan waved to the ogre and the guard captain in the distance, leaving the former behind and letting the latter survey the surroundings of the bay, and then went to the headland - the big log house still stood there.

Annan, Ogre, Ingrid, and Francois are the only four think tanks in Xingyue Bay.

But Ingrid's slender eyebrows wrinkled: "You asked an ogre to make plans?"

The ogre looked down at the resisting woman: "A wise man's brain is sweet and delicious. I hope yours won't be smelly and foul."

"It is the wise man among the ogres." Annan eased the relationship between them.

"Still an ogre."

Annan had to remind Ingrid that Olmedo sent her to assist him. Ingrid did not reduce her resistance to the ogre, but reluctantly acquiesced to its existence.

"Where should we build our territory first?"

The headland has a better view, and the north side is closer to the water source.

Ingrid opened the map of Xingyue Bay she had prepared and pointed to both ends of the crescent moon: "Then you can set up a watchtower on the promontory and then place your territory in the north."

After saying that, she glanced at the ogre as though she were confused.

"We are not thirsty for the river, but we need the harbor. The river is too far from the harbor." The ogre pointed at the map, but his finger covered the entire map.

"Preferably in the middle of the bay."

As a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Annan thinks so too.

Ingrid did not object, but Francois agreed. After the break, Annan asked Francois to lead the people to get tools to cut down the trees.

Then the Knights returned and found no gnolls or other races in Star Moon Bay.

However, they found gnoll tracks around the promontory house.

Annan still remembered the location where the Jackal scouts appeared that night, and was ready to lead the knights to search from there.

"Lord Annan, as a lord you should not put yourself in danger." Ingrid stopped Annan.

Annan thought that you should say this to Olmedo, who was leading the cavalry charge, instead of yourself, but he still accepted her suggestion.

Ingrid measured the lengths of Xingyue Bay, Glacier River and Cape, and then led the ogres to pull out trees to circle the village around the edge of the coast - it was only a hundred meters in diameter for the time being, but it was enough for them. .

The young and strong locals hold axes to cut down the trees, while the old men, women and children handle the logs.

Everyone is working hard for the happy future life they imagined in their minds, and no one complains. Those who are sneaky and sneaky have long been screened out - those who get cotton-padded clothes and run away.

This small patch of forest should not attract druids...

Annan saw the area circled on the map and thought, just in case, he asked the people to leave a few saplings and plant them in the forest outside himself.

The citizens regarded the young lord's behavior as a strange way of praying, and Annan, who planted the tree, felt as if he was being watched.

From early morning to noon, from afternoon to evening, the exhausted villagers only cut down about 10 meters of open space, and did not clean up the tree roots buried deep in the ground.

"We can't clear the village in a week, but we can set fire to it in one night."

"don't want……"

Annan had heard from Olmedo about how difficult the druids were, and he didn't want to bother visiting Xingyue Bay.

And because no trace of the Jackal was found, they had no choice but to continue spending the night in the car.

Annan activates the magic ring, creating drinking water if it is a water element, dealing with tree roots if it is a fire element, and building a watchtower wall with the earth element - a large earth element takes shape.

Annan assigned it to work on the mountain promontory, and after the summons was completed, a simple but sturdy watchtower was left behind.

Ingrid asked Annan if he wanted to build the castle on the promontory.

"The castle...I don't need that kind of thing." Annan shook his head.

Who the hell would live on a cliff?

"Do you want to build a city-state?" Ingrid asked again.

Annan hasn't thought about this yet, but he is obviously not satisfied with being just a village.

In order to reward the citizens for their hard work throughout the day, Annan screened "The Fall of the Master's Tower" at night by the seaside.

But I didn't expect that Ingrid was watching it for the first time, and she became much softer when talking to Annan.

The next few days were uneventful, and the people continued to cut trees. The patrol range of the Knights is only around Xingyue Bay. They found scattered kobolds and lizardfolk, but only tracks of gnolls and orcs.

The entertainment on the second night was also "The Fall of the Wizard's Tower".

The entertainment on the third night was still "The Fall of the Mage Tower".

For entertainment on the fourth night, Annan proposed to hold a bonfire banquet, but the citizens wanted to watch "The Fall of the Wizard's Tower", so they had to watch "The Fall of the Wizard's Tower" during the bonfire banquet instead.

"I have a question."

On the fifth day, Ingrid came to Annan with the notes she never left behind. The notes she opened were densely packed with opinions on watching "The Fall of the Wizard's Tower": "That attic can hide you and Evelin. Personally, why don’t you go in?”

"Because that's not true."