Capítulo 126: Chapter 17
Back at Dragonshome, Ben sat at the head of the table in a large meeting hall. He was currently in the office building he had built for his staff on the site where his keep used to stand. This once empty office building was now occupied by the people who in the past were slaves and had been rescued by Ben from an ambush of bandits.
Sitting around the table Ben looked upon the familiar faces of those people he randomly saved and brought back to the fortress over a year ago. They had all come a long way in the past year and no one would believe they were all once slaves who were nothing but skin and bones.
Each of them has a healthy appearance and wore clothing suited for the wealthiest of nobles. They had all gathered to submit their reports on the current state of the Avalon Kingdom.
These once illiterate slaves had already graduated from high school and were currently now working to graduate from the Aristocratic Academy where they were learning etiquette, dance, music, medicine, literature, economics, philosophy, sociology, geography, military science, business administration and management, and supply chain management.
It could be said these poor souls who were destined to be tossed away after they were worked to death are now some of the smartest people on this planet. Every one of them were now receiving an education that would make Aristotle the Greek philosopher green with envy.
Not only were these small handful of former slaves increasing their education. Everyone who came to live inside the walls of Dragonshome is required to also attend school. This meant they would all have a modern high school education with permission to attend a college, military college, vocational school, or the Aristocratic Academy if they stood out from the crowd.
The modern knowledge brought from Earth was slowly being relayed to these people and in the years to come it would help advance the Planet of Victus from the current iron age it had mired in for so long.
Without realizing it, Ben was laying the groundwork for the lesser god who had brought him to planet. Ben only wanted to use everything, he was gifted to make a kingdom that could stand against anything this world threw at it. By providing his people with the best education he could offer he made his kingdom stronger while also making the dream of the lesser god who looked over this planet come true.
Dragonshome had gone through many changes from its founding. The area with Ben's system workshops and unmanned facilities were walled now off from the larger portion of the fortress, where the people who came to live here later on now resided.
For anyone who did not have access to the secret walled off areas of Dragonshome, it wasn't that different from any other prosperous town. There were individually owned shops, restaurants, taverns, inns, and other businesses which employed people of the local populace.
The main difference would have to be the infrastructure and the architecture of the Dragonshome. The concrete roads and modern building which had electricity, running water, and sewage outflow made Dragonshome a cross between a historical and modern town combined.
The reports Rayner was reading off explained how the kingdoms they had conquered which were now a part of the Avalon Kingdom were also being treated to the system schools Ben had built in each of the capitals.
In those capitals who have schools the people were also required to attend them. If anyone wished to remain living in the capital cities they would need to attend school up until they graduated from high school. If they wished to continue their education they could attend any of the colleges for free. It did not matter who they were. Freed slaves, commoners, and nobles alike would need to attend school or leave the capital to live in one of the other smaller towns or kingdoms not a part of Avalon.
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The Avalon Kingdom still kept in contact with the Aregard and Ciral Kingdoms, but the western kingdoms seemed to have withdraw into themselves. Ben began to grow wary from the reports of how the western kingdoms had seemed to cut off trade and contact from the rest of the continent.
He could only think they were nervous about how his Avalon Kingdom continued growing in strength and were afraid they might be on the list for invasion in the future. If their nervousness ate away at them too much he knew it could lead to them making a rash advancement against his kingdom.
For now, he could only make sure their defenses were in place and to remain vigilant of any strange movements made by the western kingdoms.
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Over at the Sect located west of Dragonshome now called Spiritual Summit there is a small arena with experimental formations. The growing members of the Spiritual Summit were able to obtain battle experience from the random monsters which were 'spawning' from the interlinking Qi and Mana experimental formations.
Ben had worked together with Athena using the information they learned from the valley containing the Origin Crystals. By interlinking Qi, and Mana formations with Origin Crystals they were able to spawn small amounts of various monsters. Athena stated with more information it would one day be possible to fine tune this formation to the point they could have it spawn a specific type of monster at higher spawn rates. For the time being it was more of an experiment which allowed his Sect disciples to test out their strength and learned techniques before being thrown into future battles.
Princess Alessandra Sletten began to learn new techniques and her cultivation stages were advancing at a quicker rate due to the facilities offered to her inside Spiritual Summit. With the replacement of her cultivation technique, the Qi chambers, pills, and being fed spirit food daily, it all was allowing her to grow at an impressive rate. One day when she sat on the throne of Aregard she would rule over her kingdom for hundreds of years with a cultivation strength only matched by those of the Spiritual Summit Sect.
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Ben spent a week in Dragonshome going over reports and giving out new orders before he used the new teleport formation that took him directly into a safe room located in the Rodwynne royal palace located in the Rodara kingdom on the new continent.
Declan Burgess was doing a great job of managing the Rodara region for Ben. Now that he had some time to step away from everything Ben wanted to do some traveling. There was still so much of this new continent that he wanted to see.
Even if he could open his virtual map and see the entirety of the landmass it wasn't the same as entering a town or a city and being exposed to the new people and their culture.
He had heard some interesting information from Declan Burgess the Rodara region regent. As they sat in the royal quarters and chatted about the other kingdoms, Ben was told the Varene Kingdom to the east of Rodara was a closed border kingdom with strange religious beliefs.
They are a matriarchal society who worships a beautiful female god. The people of the Varene Kingdom had a particular set of genes that gave them all pure white hair and red colored eyes.
The goddess they had worshiped for generations also has white hair and red eyes. Earlier generations claimed their goddess gifted their people with her beautiful looks along with her white hair and red eyes.
The Varene people had cut themselves off from the outside world to prevent these genes from being bred out. If this wasn't strange enough for some reason the Varene people have a skewed male to female ratio. For every twenty females born one male might be born. This forced their society to become a matriarchal society which practiced polyamory[1].
Each person had multi-partner relationships and the women were encouraged to birth as many children as possible to increase the number of males. Women who produced male children were given titles and the more males they could give birth to the higher the title they would receive.
Every woman above the age of sixteen is considered an adult who should be actively looking for a male partner to increase their station in life.
Ben had been so busy with building up his kingdom and warring against those who stood against him, he decided it was time for a vacation.
Normally it would be impossible for Ben to travel to the Varene Kingdom due to the way he looked. It just so happens he has his Disguise Self spell and has worked hard to increase its level to the point he could alter his looks to how he wished.
With the seed of white-haired promiscuous beauties sprouting in his imagination Ben set off east toward the closed border of the Varene Kingdom.
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[1] polyamory: the practice of engaging in multiple sexual relationships with the consent of all the people involved.
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