Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 4 Fording decides to stay

   "I want to go back to my own world, just find a direction and go out of the village?" Laura said with an unbelievable expression: "It's so simple?"

   "Yes." Fording nodded: "I just tried a few times, and it is indeed that simple."

After discovering a way to go back and forth freely, Fording felt a lot more relaxed. He didn't have anything to worry about. As long as he can go back when he misses his wife and children, it doesn't matter where he is...even if it's another world.

   As for, will this world threaten Azeroth? He hasn't discovered this possibility for the time being, maybe he can stay and observe more?

  David didn't know that Fording already had the idea of ​​​​settling here. Although it was a bit of surveillance, he didn't care even if he knew it.

As the protagonist of that world, Azeroth is suffering from various invasions, so it is not surprising that people living there will worry about this issue. It is also for this reason that David really has no idea about Azeroth. Chaos, even if he had the strength to invade other worlds, he would not choose that world. What's more, he doesn't have the ability to travel to other worlds at all.

   "Then how do you get back?" Compared to Laura's concern about how to return to her own world, David is curious about another question: How did Fording come back after going back?

   "Same, as long as I think about coming to you in my heart, I will come."

   "..."

  The simple David was a little speechless: "Are you going in a random direction?"

   "It's simpler, you can just stand still." Fording's bearded and majestic face showed a bit of humor. He just tried it casually at the time, but he didn't expect it to work.

Listening to Fording's next narration, David already understood that for those who have been to his place, as long as they think about his place and make a gesture of 'going', they can come here, which is easier than returning to their world much.

   On the contrary, if you want to leave, you have to go outside the village, in any direction, and just turning around in the village will have no effect.

   "I'll try." After listening to Fording's introduction, Laura didn't even feel in the mood to eat breakfast, so she immediately left the cabin and chose a random direction to move forward.

  David followed quickly to the outside of the wooden house, and then stood at the door and looked at Laura who was running in the distance—he wanted to see what Laura was like when she left.

  He didn't wait too long, and soon saw that Laura's figure became translucent, faintly visible, and then gradually disappeared, basically the opposite of when they appeared.

   "It turned out that it was like this when I left..." Fording saw it for the first time, after all, he couldn't see what he looked like when he appeared and left.

   "Did you feel anything when you left?" David was curious, how did Laura and Fording feel in this seemingly non-existent state? The answer turned out to be completely different from what he had imagined.

   "I don't feel anything. In fact, I'm walking, and I'm in another place in a blink of an eye." This kind of space transfer has no process, just like when he walks forward, the surrounding environment changes in the next second.

  At this moment, Laura's figure appeared outside the village again, the still faint figure gradually became clear, and finally Laura's appearance was revealed.

"It's so amazing!" Similar to Fording, after realizing that she could go back and forth freely, Laura no longer struggled with the matter of not going back, but was full of curiosity about this miraculous situation, and wanted to find out what happened what's going on? What is the reason for all this? There may be something with mysterious power hidden near this village, such as ancient ruins, altars and so on.

  However, she still remembers that she has a partner. Maybe she will study this issue after she rejoins her partner and the rescuers take them away from the island.

  With no worries in her heart, Laura was naturally troubled by other problems on her body. She was hungry.

   It’s not just Laura who is hungry. Fording is actually very hungry, but as a guest, he is embarrassed to rummage around looking for food, and he is not sure if there is enough food in this seemingly simple village? You must know that as a powerful paladin, he has a lot of food.

   After thinking about it, Fording made a suggestion: Go around and see what prey there is?

"No, there is still the venison I hunted yesterday in the kitchen, enough for the three of us to eat." It was a whole deer, and he and Laura didn't eat much together yesterday, and now add the meat from Fording to make it Breakfast was more than enough.

David took the two of them to the wooden barrel where the water was stored, took out the wooden basin and a few clean cloth towels for the two to wash, and then the three of them made a hearty breakfast together: roast venison and a small amount of offal. Soup made with wild vegetables.

   All three of them enjoyed this breakfast.

  David has the motivation to continue to work hard, build the village, welcome more people from all over the world, get rewards from them, and learn special abilities such as holy light;

  Laura knows how to go back, and with David's help, she can come to ask for help when she is in trouble, but she doesn't know if she can bring her partner to take refuge? At the same time, I became curious about this magical and strange world, and only waited for safety to come here to find out the truth;

   Fording thinks this is a good place to live in seclusion. No one knows him here. He can live a peaceful and stable life, and he can go home to visit whenever he misses his wife and children.

   After breakfast, Laura said that she was going to go back, and she had to meet up with her partners first, and then find a way to contact the rescuers.

"Bring this." Hearing that Laura was about to set off, David took his spare hunting bow, a barrel of arrows, and a short knife and handed them to Laura: "You have been attacked by strange people before, That island looks very unsafe, and you can defend yourself with a weapon."

Putting the sheathed dagger on her waist and the quiver behind her back, Laura holding a hunting bow gave David a warm hug: "Thank you so much, I am very glad to be here and meet you. "

   "Cough~ you don't need to be so polite." David, who was slightly enjoying himself at the beginning and then slightly embarrassed, had no intention of pushing Laura away.

  Laura, with a little red on her neck, didn't say anything more, let go of David, turned around and left the village with a hunting bow in hand.

  David stood still and did not move. After a while, he straightened his back, and then saw Fording looking at him with a smile on his face.

"how?"

   "It's nothing... You said earlier that I'm welcome to live here for a long time. Is it just a polite word or is it serious?"

   "Of course you are really welcome!" David was very happy when he heard that. He very much hoped that Fording would stay here. Only by spending more time with him would he have the opportunity to learn all kinds of knowledge about the Holy Light from this paladin.

   Even without mentioning the knowledge of the Holy Light, if David wants to develop the pioneering camp into an official village of the Kingdom of Tilan, he still needs enough population.

Originally, the barren land, the harsh climate, and the unusually remote location were difficult to attract farmers to settle here, but if the direction was changed, David could definitely attract people from other worlds to live here, such as Fording who wanted to live in seclusion This kind.

   "I ask the village chief to take care of you in the future."

  David stretched out his hand and shook Fording's big hand. The moment he shook hands, David felt that he seemed to have changed, but he felt it carefully and found no change.

   "Illusion?"

Putting this matter aside, David introduced the general situation of the village to Fording. In fact, there is not much to say: four temporary wooden houses, three of which are inhabited, with the same internal structure; one is used as a warehouse, Kitchen, blacksmith shop.

To the west of the village is a big river with rich aquatic products; to the north is a forest with many wild vegetables, wild fruits and wild animals. So far, David has not penetrated into the depths of the forest, but only circled around the periphery, so how dangerous is the depth of the forest? He doesn't know.

"The east and south are plains, but if you walk along the river bank in the south, you will reach the Iron Tree Forest." The Iron Tree Forest is located on the northwest side of Iron Tree Fort. It is an extremely vast forest. named.

   It was the barrier between the Iron Tree Forest and the Tilan Mountains that kept the Tilan Kingdom from occupying this vast plain area for a long time.

  David’s pioneering camp is quite far away from Iron Tree Fort, and should be the northernmost area of ​​the Tilan Kingdom—if he can build a village.

"There are only you and me in the village now. Although there is a lack of crops that can be planted, we can still get enough food by hunting and fishing." After telling the general situation, David took the opportunity to express his plan: "If you want to grow To live, we need to build new wooden houses."

   Fording agreed with David's words. He originally wanted to suggest that David build a few better houses: "There is a forest not far away, and there is no shortage of wood here."

  Although houses made of stone are better, Fording is not a mason. It is okay to ask him to build a wooden house, but he really does not know how to build a stone house.

   "There are some tools in the blacksmith's shop." Although the blacksmith took a lot of tools with him when he left, there are still many things left behind, which are enough for David and Fording.

   While talking, the two men took their tools and prepared to go to the forest.

  When David was holding his own bow and arrow, he found that the feeling when holding the bow was different from the original one, so he took out an arrow and put it on the bowstring, and then pulled the bowstring to make an aiming action.

"What's wrong?"

   "Nothing!" In a short time, David confirmed one thing: he did not know when he got another reward from Laura.

  Why are you sure it's Laura? Because Fording, a paladin, seems to have nothing to do with bows and arrows, and Laura's main weapon in the storyline is bows and arrows.

   "Speaking of it this way... the weird feeling when shaking hands with Fording earlier is not necessarily an illusion. I don't know what reward Fording gave?"

  (end of this chapter)