Bab 26: The Wall
After thanking Klein for his explanation, Faruth sent the two back towards the group, to continue with whatever they had been doing before he called them over. As Klein was dragging the still frozen stiff Auram with him, Faruth summoned the menu within his mind.
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[[Name: _______]]
[[Positions: [More]]]
[[Structures: [More]]]
[[Soldiers: [More]]]
[[Allies: [More]]]
[[Enemies: [More]]]
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Without further ado Faruth selected the [More] on the [Structures] section and the menu changed to display the relevant information.
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[[Structures]]
[[Built:_______]]
[[Available: [More]]]
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Obviously, Faruth had no buildings within his village, after all, their current base of operations was only a cave in a hollowed out hillside. So he chose the [Available] category instead.
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[[Available: Tier 1]]
[[Basic Shack]]
[[Hunter's Hut]]
[[Basic Farm]]
[[Chieftain's Hut]]
[[Basic Wall]]
[[Basic Pen]]
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These were all in the expectations of Faruth, after all, the totem that he had set up within the centre of the cave was only in its most basic form. However, he was confused as to how he would obtain the schematics required to build any of these buildings. He selected the [Basic Wall] from the options simply as a test, only to have yet another sub-menu appear in his vision.
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[[Name: Basic Wall]]
[[Requirements: Tier 1]]
[[Building Requirements: Wood x 60 + Stone x 20 + Rope x 5]]
[[Schematics Requirements: Village Points x 10]]
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Faruth felt a further sense of confusion. One of his questions had been answered but another one had sprouted up in its place. He had absolutely no idea what 'Village Points' were, it seemed that a little bit of information digging was required.
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An hour or so had passed before Faruth had discovered the secrets behind the mysterious 'Village Points'. He found scattered bits of information throughout the menu as a whole, only to compile it into a single area that contained every bit of information on it.
He had found that their uses were to unlock things within his Village, such as new positions to place people in, assigning new soldiers and of course unlocking schematics for various buildings.
Along with this, he discovered the ways to gain these points and there was a few of them. The main ways that he could gain them is by upgrading his totem within the centre of his village, he found that at the first level, it gave him 30 points for free, hence he assumed that it would give him increasingly more as it upgraded.
However, in doing this he also found that he required three [Totemic Shards], similar to the one that he gained from destroying the Goblin village, to upgrade his Totem to the second level, meaning that an upgrade was far away into the future.
But because of this, the second and third options that he found were more applicable to his current state. The second is fairly self explanatory, for every new member of his village, he would gain a single point. The third was easily just as simple, but considerably more difficult. For every evolution that occurred within his subordinates or himself, he would gain a set amount of points. Evolving to Stage 2 gave a total of 10 points, however, anything beyond the 2nd Stage was completely unknown to Faruth.
So overall, he had accumulated a total of 61 [Village Points] (30 from the first level of the totem, 21 from the people in his village (including Wulfarth, himself and the other 19) and 10 from the 1 Stage 2 monster), more than enough to unlock the schematic for the Basic Wall.
Choosing to unlock the aforementioned schematic, Faruth was greeted by a flash of bright white light. As this white light dissipated, an animal hide parchment appeared in front of him, covered in symbols that were nothing of nonsense to Faruth, but he could only assume that this was the very wall schematic in question.
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Within the entrance of the cave, the Gnolls visibly shuddered once again as Faruth entered, though it was slightly less than last time, testament to him quickly beginning to grasp the [Buddhism] skill.
He called over the elderly carpenter Klein, leaving Auram behind in case a repeat of what happened prior to this occurred. As Klein approached, Faruth retrieved the schematics from his inventory before placing them in his outstretched hand.
Klein couldn't stop himself from marvelling at the mysterious parchment in the chief's hand as he drew closer, every step seeming to entice his curiosity even further. Until he finally came almost face to face with the chief where the Kobold in question began to talk.
["Klein, I have the schematics that you have asked for."] {Faruth}
Klein was completely baffled. Did the chief have these schematics beforehand, or did he obtain them within the short space of an hour or two since they had last spoken. Whatever the answer was, Klein couldn't tell which would be more impressive, but he also didn't care. The only thing that managed to catch his attention at this point was the schematic itself.
["Chief... I have never seen schematics as intricate as this in my entire life! Please, I beg of you to tell me where you obtained them!"] {Klein}
["Where I obtained it from is none of your concern, Klein. The only thing that matters is whether or not you can complete what is shown inside."] {Faruth}
At Faruth's cold voice, Klein snapped back to reality. Thinking of what he had just said, he felt as if a bucket of cold water had been thrown at his head as he swiftly apologized.
["Please forgive my impertinence chief! I-I didn't mean any offence. Of-of course we can complete this task!"] {Klein}
At this, Faruth placed the schematic in Klein's hand, before walking towards the group of Gnolls in the back.
["Good. If you can do it, then I am entrusting it to you. Do not disappoint me Klein."] {Faruth}
Klein was left looking at the back of his chief slowly sauntering away with a sense of pride, happiness and reverence in his heart.
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The rest of the day consisted of Faruth assigning the precious manpower that Klein had mentioned to their positions. While Klein and Auram studied the schematic Faruth had given them, all of the male Gnolls, excluding the 3 elders and the children were sent to gather the resources required to build the wall.
Amongst them, Faruth and Alneth were the most prominent, able to chop down trees and harvest stone in a few strikes, whereas it took the others considerably longer, even with the stone tools that the 2 female Gnolls with [Basic Toolmaking] had created.
The two female hunter gatherers and the sole alchemist were sent to collect the materials required to make the rope, which they then sent back to the remaining Gnolls in the village to produce said rope.
Faruth's day consisted of harvesting these resources, managing his village and learning [Buddhism] form Alneth, and like this, 4 days passed.
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What awoke Faruth from his dreamlike state was two notifications appearing in front of his vision, leaving a smirk straight across his face.
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[[Congratulations! You have learned the skill: [Buddhism lvl.1]]]
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[[Congratulations! [Basic Wall] has been completed!]]
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