522 The Food Big Problem
[Just prepare all] I paused for a second when he said that. Indeed the Selvators were now bound tightly with my ship, but it didn’t mean they wouldn’t try anything funny.
[Give me a couple of days then]
[Don’t drop it off your mind, ok?]
[I said I’ll look for it]
I closed the chat knowing that this dude was trustworthy. If he said he would do it, then he would.
Well… That was all I could for her for now. I knew with my contract, she wouldn’t be used to harm me.
And that dude seemed to plan something in the future for me to suffer in her hands. Even if he tried to break the contract, I doubted he would do it anytime soon.
If he had the ability, he would rather have done it by now. But who was the paragon that would be so weak and poor to not be able to do it?
Was he an illusionist? Was he part of that cowardly race? Of course I killed a few of their archlords, destroyed their progress here and left them in the rightful position of such a cowardly race; at the rock bottom.
But I didn’t recall killing any of their paragons yet. Or did I kill by accident at my last battle? It was so damn chaotic and I didn’t find any paragon corpses back there after the dust settled.
If I found any missing paragons in the list from that race, that meant I killed it by accident in that fight back then. Or perhaps he got killed at the hands of other paragons?
Of course I wasn’t the only one who roamed around and killed paragons in the apocalypse, right?
Anyway, I decided to keep checking the status of her condition in my contract list. If that bastard tried to break the contract, I’d get to know it at once.
As enough time passed, I moved my chariot back to the capital. The humans there had time to check the capital and see things there.
It was time for them to get arranged and classified. Hopefully not all of them would be workers or labour dudes.
I hoped good seeds would be found there, especially to help my small group of MIT youths.
“How are things here?” As I reached the central part of the capital, I stood above the large group of people led by Hilary.
The look of people right now was quite different. Instead of all the bare chested humans, I got to see all humans cladded in armour from head to toe.
Even many got their weapons raised, as if they were waiting or preparing for a fight.
“They got to know the current situation here,” she came on board while saying this, “but… They really lived a harsh life! The stories I heard… The poor lives they lived… The misery they saw… I don’t know if we can wash these away easily.”
“Sigh, we will do our best,” I sighed while giving her a warm hug, “it’s not time for them to get classified and arranged into smaller teams.”
“I know,” she moved away before asking, “any news about her?” ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
I knew she meant Karoline. And when I heard the question coming from her, I couldn’t help but bitterly smile.
“She… Is far away from here right now.”
“On another continent?”
“Another world,” I paused, “someone kidnapped her and moved her away.”
“That… What are you going to do?”
I knew her care and concern wasn’t just for Karoline, but for herself. After all, Karoline was my first girl, the one that held a special place in my heart.
Even when I had Hilary, I couldn’t forget about her. I didn’t know if that was a good or bad thing, but I decided to let such a dilemma for later.
“The same thing I always did, fight!” I said in a firm tone before adding, “but not now. Now is the hour to get my kingdom stand on her legs and be tall and mighty over others.”
“O… Ok…” she seemed to be thinking about something, and I didn’t want to know.
“Go and lead the teams to organise these humans,” I returned to my topic, “let them be arranged according to their skills. We are looking for everything, builders, workers, miners, carpenters, scientists, and even farmers.”
“Farmers? Can we plant anything in this cursed world?!!” She looked astonished when she heard that. And she didn’t stop just there.
“You know this issue posed a challenging problem to me all this time? I tried, tried everything, but nothing worked! Our world is cursed! One week without a light or warmth, and one more with blazing suns scorching our lands and making nothing grow!”
I knew what she was talking about. In fact the dilemma of planting crops wasn’t solved until the passage of more than eighty years after the apocalypse.
I read many records back then about how hard and impossible growing anything was. But eventually humans managed to borrow such technology from other races.
However with such knowledge, humans took a decade more to be able to grow crops regularly and solve this problem.
During all this time, we used to buy crops from other races using coins and treasures. It was a very hard time as I got it from the records.
I didn’t live through this period except when I was a kid. I didn’t recall that much about this period.
But I knew how hard it was on humans to secure their food, depending entirely on monster meat for a long time before starting to trade with other races.
So since the first hours of my presence here, I took steps to solve this problem. I got that Hilary wasn’t aware of this as she didn’t live long enough before to know such info.
“I got a solution,” I said with confidence, “but let us first see what we got here before rushing to do it.”