A018 – Prosperity


    Meanwhile, at <strong>Ornus Vige</strong>.


    A female yer, stood in the side, wearing a white full-te armor that symbolized her 3rd-tier ss, <strong>Pdin</strong>.


    Her armor also installed on her long tail, using a special design that utilized several joints, making it able to move fluently without any obstruction. This tail can also act as a secondary weapon, and can be controlled with a simple thoughtmand.


    A horn-shaped full te helm of the same motif as the armor, hides everything in her head except her face. Everyone that saw her tail should have understood that inside the horn part in the helm, there are real horns that symbolized her <strong>Draconid</strong> race.


    Astrid, a <strong>Draconid</strong> pioneer yer, as well as one of the Genesis Guild''s Seven Stars.


    Currently, she was monitoring people who she escorted from the valley. Just a few minutes ago, Emilia called her and entrusted them to her. They were people who jumped to Renahi''s <strong>Corridor Gate</strong> and stuck in the valley, surrounded by high-leveled monster field area.


    "Thank you very much, Miss Pdin."


    "Yeah, you saved us. I don''t know what to do if you did note to help."


    "You''re wee. As a fellow Kingdom citizen, we should be getting along. It was merely a chance that I passed by."


    Astrid exchanged pleasantries with a smile.


    As Emilia predicted, mostly of the yers have returned by themselves using various methods, either by using <strong>Return Crystal</strong>, <strong>Town Scroll</strong>, or <strong>Return Base</strong> skill. Those who did so already gone and safely arrived at their destination.


    However, there were still a few people left. <ul> <li>Those who did not bring any teleportation items.


    These people are either guildless, or joined a guild that doesn''t have a Guild Base. Natives who inherently cannot join the yer guild also belongs to this group.


    </li> <li>Those who have, but chose NOT to use any teleportation items.


    These people were merchants, either yers or Natives, who took their carts and horses with them. They hesitated to use the item because if they did, it would mean giving up their wagon along with its contents. That would be a disastrous loss.


    </li> <li>Andstly, those who stayed behind just for fun.


    They are yers who have no problem with the current situation and are in no rush to return.


    </li> </ul>


    Astrid did not care about thest group that much. But the merchants and Natives were very useful to develop the vige.


    Astrid identally became the vige chief in Ornus Vige.


    Shortly after thepletion of a chain quest, she obtained the right to manage itsnd as the quest reward. Although it was just a vige and only consisted of a few acres, but it was still a manageable territory.


    - There is no reason to not develop it.


    Besides her identity as the Genesis Guild''s Seven Stars, Astrid also has another important identity. She was Leon''s cousin, as well one of the three founders who formed the Genesis Guild, along with Leon and Grim.


    In addition of that, she was also a shareholder who owns 30% share of the guild!


    The dpidated vige originally serve just as a keeper of the Mausoleum. There are not many resident left except the sick and elderly, and its numbers was less than 200. With its bad geographical location, it would be hard to expect any people who want to migrate here. Not to mention the barren soil that makes it hard to grow crops.


    But, with the support of the guild, Astrid solved these problems one by one.


    To fix the poption problem, she asked Grim to procure some Native ves from the City of Trade, <strong>Nerkia City</strong>. These ves were consisted of mixed race, which mostly Beastkins, and a few of Humans, and Elves. Their totals reached about 500 people. They were only weak ves who did not have highbat power. Hence, they were bought cheap.


    As the vige chief, Astrid gave a series of policy and included them as a residents. It was unknown the reason why they were be ves, but Astrid did not really care about that.


    - The ves were just used to increase the headcount number.


    And then, there were also the Natives she escorted. Considering the long distance journey to the Capital City, they would definitely stay in this vige for a while. Perhaps some of them would be permanent residents of this vige.


    Astrid entered the vige and observed the life of the vige.


    Besides a few rammed earth houses that the original resident have, there were several tent houses. Those tents were built in emergency for 500 ves who had just be residents.


    She had only intended to use those tents as a temporary houses and had already prepared major constructions for another time.


    <em>''To upgrade this vige to a town, the poption number had to reach 2000 people... Still a long way to go.''</em>


    The moment Ornus Vige upgraded and became Ornus Town, Astrid can start building a <strong>Teleportation Gate</strong>.


    Then, every time someone activated it, a huge profit of


    1.000.000 flows to the town fund. With her position of the Town Lord, Astrid has the right to utilize that fund.


    As for who would be that someone, that would be definitely yers!


    <em>''But firstly, I need to build a few of apartment houses. This kind of building can be upied by a lot of people and can save a lot ofnds. With this, I can build many real estates and sell them high!''</em>


    The Valley of Death is a good hunting area.


    A few of undead monsters roaming around, such as Zombie, Skeleton, and other kinds with level range of Lv80 to Lv90. It was a hunting area that can be used by yers to do stable levelings until they reach lv99.


    yers who aimed to reach tier-3 sses would definitely love this ce, and with their level, certainly they would not short of gold coins.


    <em>''When there is a lot of people, I can raise the tax to 20% and reap a lot of benefit!''</em>


    The reason why a Lord position is so desirable, obviously due to how profitable it is. The Lord can build facilities in their domain and receives payment from the one who used it. They can also extort tax to their citizen, as well as the Merchants who doing business in their domain.


    The prospect of this upation was limitless, and the profit generated from it would be extremely huge!


    Of course, this profit had to be shared to Genesis Guild, but Astrid did not mind that much. Anyways, the cake is too big for her to eat and had to be shared. After the big cake is sliced, by percentage of share, she had the right to receive 30% of the cake.


    And if this slice of cake is converted to real money, her profit would''ve still reach billions of !


    "But, that is for future event. Right now, maintaining the bnce is more important..."


    Astrid closed her eyes, contemting the current situation.


    Just blindly increasing the vige poption is not a good move.


    Her people obviously needed to eat. However, the soil of Ornus Vige was barren and could not be made for agriculture. The death mist that leaked from the valley, had rendered thend infertile, or at least that was what the old vige chief told her.


    Until now, the vigers find their own food from fishing in the river that flows near the vige. It would be fine before when the poption were low, but now there are 700 mouths that need to eat, food has be a problem. For the time being, Astrid transported food from Brynhildr Fort to deal with the food problem.


    This used to be a fine y... Until the spiders outbreak a few days ago.


    To maintain itsrge troops, Genesis Guild also requires a lot of food. However, due to the spiders, nobody doing material collection, such as meats, fruits, or herbs. Many crops were damaged and failed to be harvested. The food that can be transported from the Fort was greatly reduced.


    And this is where the role of Merchants is needed.


    By trading food with them, the short term solution of food problem has been dealt.


    As for the long term solution, Leon himself is a Temr of the <strong>Church of Light</strong>. With his position, he can borrow their Priests to sprinkle Holy Water every day into the soil of Ornus Vige.


    And then, she released regr mission to guild members who have the <strong>Druid</strong> ss and <strong>Farmer</strong> subss. For time to time, they were given the mission to cultivate thend that has been partially purified. With their effort, thend of Ornus Vige would soon be fertile.


    By that time, the food problem would be nothing!


    "Thankfully, these Merchants came just in time. This is like sending charcoal in the snow!"


    Astrid was very thankful to Emilia who send these people to her territory.


    It was the fact that Emilia and her party contributed to the development of the vige. Perhaps it might not be intentional that Renahi chose to explore the Mausoleum, opened the Corridor Gate, and caused this whole incident. But Emilia easily adjusted and make use of it to the fullest.


    With that thinking, Astrid let out a smile.


    "I should give Emilia and her party Contribution Point. Let''s see..."


    With a swipe of hand, Astrid opened the Guild Menu and clicked a few times.


    She transferred 1.000.000 GCP to Emilia, since she was the one who directly contributed by sending the crowd to her territory.


    "Emilia seems talented in management. I heard she is still in High School. Maybe, I should recruit her to work in our Tenkawa Group. She can start as an intern while attending her school..."


    This kind of talent deserves to be groomed. The sooner the better.


    "Hmm, I should have a talk with herter about this."


    Astrid nodded in satisfaction.


    Done with Emilia''s share, Astrid''s gaze shifted to each of the names of Emilia''s party members. They also contributed indirectly by causing this whole incident.


    Then, 1.000.000 GCP each to Renahi, KAZU, andstly, Hecate.


    But then, she frowned.


    "Hmm, this is not right. I should give more to our mascot... As a lucky charm!"


    She sent Hecate another 500.000 GCP.


    There was a weird myth in the guild that if you manage to pat Hecate''s head, a good thing will happen. Astrid is not a person who believes in superstition. But, when looking at Hecate''s loveliness, she thought that perhaps this myth holds some truth... Probably?


    Since Hecate was not nearby and can''t be patted, then just send her some coins.


    This is like paying homage and donated money to a shrine. Hoping to invite good luck and avoid misfortune!


    Recently, there were so much bad things happened, as if the luck seems not on their side. The whole guild got ughtered by ck Phantom, sudden spiders outbreak, trade line got cut-off... If there was any method that could be used to reverse this bad luck, Astrid wouldn''t mind trying them one by one, even if they were just superstition.


    "This should do it... Oh, it''s already thiste. I should take a break."


    Feeling satisfied, Astrid closed the window.


    She then pressed the log out button and prepared to call a food delivery for lunch.; ; <table><tbody><tr> <td>


    The difference between Vige, Town, and City: <ul> <li>Vige, have poption of 100 - 1999 people.</li> <li>Town, have poption of 2000 - 9999 people.</li> <li>City, have poption more than 10000 people.</li> </ul>


    How Teleportation Gate work: <ul> <li>Each time it activated requires a lot of mana, which taken from the Town or City mana reserves. </li> <li>The city barrier that repels monsters also powered by the same mana reserves.</li> <li>Mana reserves can only be slowly umted in the city, using the residual mana of its poption. Hence, it cannot recover overnight. </li> <li>Using the Teleportation Gate too much can cause the city mana reserves to deplete, which in turn weakens and worst case, dispelling the city barrier. This is why the Teleportation Gate fee is astronomical.</li> <li>The system allowed the lords to build a Teleportation Gate when their domain upgraded into a Town, but immediately building it right away is not rmended.</li> <li>Astrid and other yers still doesn''t know about this.</li> </ul> </td> </tr></tbody></table>


    Druid ; ; <table><tbody><tr> <td>


    Druid: Alternate 2nd-tier Main-ss originated from Mage, besides Wizard / Witch.


    To be a Druid: <ul> <li>Novice, Lv1  Lv10</li> <li>Mage, Lv1  Lv40</li> <li>Learn a considerable of Water & Earth spells in the skill tree  Unlock Wood spells</li> <li>Go to Elven Kingdom, meet with their Elder (Druid)  Job advance to Druid.</li> <li>Best if the race is Elf, and their starting ce is the Elven Kingdom.</li> <li>Not applicable if have negative Nature Affinity.</li> <li>Lost ess to Light and Dark spells upon job advancement.</li> </ul>


    Mage  Druid  Nature Guardian </td> </tr></tbody></table>


    Churches ; ; <table><tbody><tr> <td>


    Church of Light = Worships Licht, and her mother, the Goddess of Life, Norn.


    Church of Dark = Worships Umbra, and her mother, the Goddess of Death, Norn.


    The same goddess, but have different title. </td> </tr></tbody></table>