vstars Chapter 30 The Village Chief's Difficulties
Chapter 30 The Village Chief's Difficulties
Oakleaf Village, Sovia's house.
Yue Feng looked around the room with curiosity.
The house was built with thick, solid logs as walls, and the gaps were filled with straw and mud to prevent air from leaking out.
A thick layer of rye straw was laid on top, and that served as the roof.
As for the renovation?
There is no such thing.
The bed was a wooden board covered with straw, and the stool was a piece of felled wood.
Two earthenware jars filled with cured meat in the corner, along with a few ironware items, constituted the entirety of the family's possessions.
It was even more rudimentary and shabby than the temporary camp of the forest rangers in my previous life.
This was Yue Feng's first time entering the home of a native in another world.
The first two times I was summoned to the material plane, I was either in the middle of nowhere or in an underground labyrinth, and at most I stayed in an inn for a few days.
"That shouldn't be the case. Didn't Sovia have the two gold coins I gave her in her pocket?"
Yue Feng muttered to himself, puzzled.
But when he looked around the room, he didn't see Sovia's mother.
He immediately understood.
An image of a single person struggling to raise a child slowly emerged in his mind.
Yue Feng somewhat awkwardly put down the goblin and the giant rat, then casually kicked the two corpses outside the door, chewing on the sand as he said:
"This is my first time visiting, and I didn't have time to prepare any gifts. This is something I killed on the way here. Do you want it?"
The room fell into a deathly silence, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
The villagers looked at the earth elemental that had entered the door and felt that it was a demon that had crawled out of hell.
Tiny brain matter and bone fragments were embedded in the crevices of the rock, and the stench of fresh blood stained the rock body, turning the entire stone body a terrifying dark red.
Yue Feng admitted that he looked truly terrifying at that moment.
But he didn't have the time to care about the villagers' feelings.
"Cough cough~"
Sovia's father coughed twice and then said:
"Today I went to the neighboring Moxiang Village to grind flour, and I overheard the villagers chatting. They said that the village had indeed been attacked by goblins before."
"I'll make another trip to Moxiang Village tomorrow and find out exactly where those goblins came from."
He paused, his gaze sweeping over everyone in the room, before continuing, "Who wants to come with me?"
The room remained deathly silent.
Not a single villager dared to speak up.
Previously, no one was certain that goblins were hiding around the village.
But now the goblin's corpse lies right outside the door.
Under these circumstances, who would dare to easily step out of the village?
Seeing that the villagers remained silent, Sovia's father had no choice but to speak:
"Then we'll have to raise the price and hire adventurers to track down the goblins."
Upon hearing this, the villagers, who had been silent, immediately retorted:
"Village chief, our village hasn't even started harvesting the wheat yet, where would we get any extra money?"
Under normal circumstances.
Once adventurers accept a commission, they are always only responsible for hunting down the designated target.
For example, information such as where the goblin nest is located, how many goblins there are, and whether there are any special individuals.
All these details must be clearly explained when issuing the commission; the discrepancies in information must not be too significant.
If even basic clues cannot be provided, the Adventurers' Guild will have no choice but to send more adventurers.
But that's a different price.
For this reason, most commissions to exterminate goblins are usually only announced after something has happened.
"I understand everyone's difficulties. If all else fails, I'll take Sovia to Moxiang Village tomorrow."
Sovia's village chief father said helplessly.
Hearing the village chief's words.
A tall, thin man glanced at Yue Feng and asked, "Is this earth elemental going too? Can it stay in the village?"
Although everyone was afraid of Yue Feng, they also knew that he had the formidable strength to kill goblins with his bare hands.
"No! Mr. Earth Elemental can't be too far from me!"
Sovia exclaimed in surprise:
"I need to take the earth element to cleanse my body."
After saying that, she immediately pulled Yue Feng out of the house and headed straight for the stream in the distance.
Yue Feng followed Suo Weiya in a daze, all the way to the stream at the east end of the village.
He was thinking about something else.
Sovia's Earth Elemental Summoning Magic has now reached level 4.
If I calculate it roughly, I've been able to stay in the material plane for about half a month.
The time was a bit short.
This time, he wanted to find a blacksmith to make weapons from Kunamota's forepaws.
They've even come up with the design for the weapons.
Heavy-duty brass knuckles.
For humans, brass knuckles have many drawbacks.
For example, the short attack range and incorrect force application can easily lead to finger dislocation and hand bone fractures, strong recoil, and locking of hand movement space.
However, for the earth element, the knuckle duster has many advantages.
The earth element can control the rock and sand to drill directly into the finger holes, greatly reducing the risk of slipping out of the hand.
Without fingers and hand bones, there will be no joint misalignment, and the two knuckle dusters can be moved to the chest to strengthen the defense of weak points.
more importantly.
Yue Feng only had two tarsal segments of the Kunamota's forepaws, and he wanted to make two weapons, so his options were limited.
"Mr. Earth Elemental! Mr. Earth Elemental!"
Sovia called out several times, but Yue Feng was still in a daze and didn't respond at all.
So I simply reached out and gently shook his arm.
Yue Feng's chaotic thoughts gradually came together.
Look closely.
Sovia was seen standing by the stream, her trousers rolled up, a piece of linen in her hand, calling out loudly.
"Mr. Earth Elemental, come down quickly, let me help you clean yourself up."
Yue Feng hesitated for a long time.
A tattered rag can't clean the goblin's brain matter from the cracks in the rocks.
He ignored Sovia and instead walked to the middle of the stream and lay down.
"Change your body shape!"
As magic flowed throughout his body, layers of rock and sand surged within him, gradually shifting and rising to the surface.
Yue Feng used the flowing water to slowly wash away the bloodstains and filth adhering to the rocks and sand.
A few minutes later, a clean earth elemental stood up from the stream.
He waved his hand dismissively and said to himself, "Elbow, let's go home."
By the time the two people returned home together, the other villagers had already gone home.
"Go to sleep early, you have to get up early to travel tomorrow."
"That's what Sovia's father said."
"Okay, Dad, but I still want to chat with Mr. Earth Elemental," Sovia replied in a coquettish tone.
Yue Feng, who had not found an opportunity earlier, slowly turned his gaze to Sovia's father.
"View panel!"
The gray light in the lower right corner of the eye returned to a constant state.
A dozen minutes later, the gray light went out.
Ding.
[Name: Aaron Agraria (lv10)]
[Race: Human, Male, Level 9 (Common Species)]
[Status]: Moderate lumbar muscle strain, mild muscle stiffness, racial level -1
[Occupation]: Farmer lv1
[Talent]: None
[Protection]: None
[Martial Arts]: Falling Chisel Lv5 (Apprentice), Downward Chop Lv5 (Apprentice)
[Magic]: None
[Skills]: Sewing lv3 (Apprentice), Planting lv5 (Apprentice), Digging lv3 (Apprentice), Music lv1 (Apprentice)
[Equipment]: Pickaxe, Iron Axe
"Hey, surprisingly, they have some fighting power!"