Getting Up

After some time Mark was woken up by the robotic voice in his head.

((( All construction has been finished )))

He let out a sigh of relief "Thank god that's the only thing that she wanted to say, I'm scared something bad will happen every time I hear her voice hehe."

He looked at his ring and opened up the screen, and sure enough there they were the gold and elixir storage placed in the range of the cannon. He looked around at the builder huts and saw the floating zzzs "Pinche builders they are hella lazy."

He clicked on the shop icon and looked around at what he could build, which at the moment was only a Barrack; the other things seemed to be locked until he reached Town Hall level 2.

Mark bought the Barracks for 200 elixir and immediately the closet builder got out of his hut to work on it for the next 10 minutes. Since he now knew that the weird robotic lady voice was going to wake him up he decided to sleep.

After another 10 minutes, he was woken up again and received the notification ((( All construction has been finished ))). He stood up and summoned a portal to the village, once he was there he walked towards the barracks. He found that it, like every other building in the village, defied the law of space. As soon as he entered he was taken into a huge arena that looked like the Roman Colosseum.

He looked around to see if there was any way to get out but ended up finding none. The gates were closed and no matter how much he tried they wouldn't budge. He began to get scared but then he remembered that all he had to do was calm down and think "Go to village".

The blue portal immediately appeared and he walked into it. He found himself back inside the living room of the Town Hall. "Phew, I thought that I was going to be stuck inside there for good."

He walked out and began looking around, he found 3 hooded men standing next to a campfire. That's when he remembered that he still had 3 wizards left from the attack of the tutorial. He got closer and began to inspect the wizards, they were wearing a blue hooded cloak, were about 5ft 8, and looked like exact copies.

Mark remembered that when he was in high school there was a video that came out on Youtube that showed that the wizard had an afro. Due to his curiosity, Mark tried to pull off the hood and reveal the hair of one of the Wizards, but like earlier, as soon as he made contact with the hood he was sent flying after being electrocuted.

((Host is not yet at a high enough level to be able to interact with people or objects))

He gave a sigh and shook his head "Of course, how could I forget"

Once he had gotten up he gave the 3 unresponsive men a last glance and began to walk back towards the Barack. This time as soon as he entered he opened up the screen from his ring and clicked on the barbarians. They each cost 25 elixir but as soon as he saw the training time he nearly puked out blood, "WHAT??? Why is it a 20 minute training time?"

As soon as he clicked on the face of the barbarian, the doors of the coliseum opened up and a shirtless man with the face of the actor Michael Cudlitz and the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger came running out with a sword in hand.

Soon another 7 followed and they began to swing their swords around training their moves. Mark nodded and looked back at the screen from his ring and found out that the timer on all the barbarians was decreasing at the same time, he gave out a relieved sigh "Well at least they can be trained in batches and I don't have to wait 20 minutes for each one."

On the screen, he exited out of the barracks and clicked on the collectors to collect the loot that they had. He turned the screen off and made the ring disappear as he took one last look at the colosseum and opened a portal back to his room.

Once he was back Mark looked around his room and took a deep breath "I really got to get out of that bed, I can't let Amy work hard while I'm here relaxing." He looked at his wound a little closer and nodded "This should be fine as long as I don't do something that requires me to move around a lot, heck I survived being electrocuted twice what's the worst that can happen."

He made up his mind and walked out of his room and into a small living room. It was empty since his mother had to leave most of their old things during the trip. Mark remembered that Luke's father had saved money to send him to school, if he had to guess the mother must have used the money to buy the small house he was currently in.

He inspected the structure of the small house and nodded, he liked how it was made out of small stones that fit perfectly together. Mark looked at the thick wooden door in front of him and opened it. As soon as he did he was met with the most beautiful sight that he had ever seen, the house was surrounded by bright green grass and a dirt road in front. He got out and looked at the surrounding structures, he found that the village was made of about 40 homes.

He went behind the house and saw a field that seemed to be recently planted. He found Amy washing the clothes behind the house. She had a wooden tub full of clothes as she scrubbed them together, besides the tub, there were two empty buckets that she had used to fill the tub with water.

When Amy saw him she immediately stood up and ran up to him "Son what do you think that you're doing out of bed? Get back now!!"

Mark shook his head "Let me help with little that I can mother, trust me as long as I don't move around too much I'll be fine. I might not be able to help you wash the clothes but I can easily hang the ones that you already washed and get you some more water."

The mother hesitated but in the end, sighed and nodded, she could see that her son wasn't going to back down. She gave him a forced smile "Fine but make sure not to overwork yourself okay"

He nodded and began picking up the wooden tub with the washed clothes and started hanging them up to dry. When he was done he received the notification from the voice ((( All troops have finished training ))). He opened the screen, and clicked the map function, and attacked the second goblin village to attack. He spawned the 8 barbarians that he had at the archer tower, soon it was destroyed and they began attacking the town hall and the barrack.

After an easy 3 star, he received another 500 gold and elixir, when he went back to the village he upgraded the town hall for 1000 gold. The 10-minute construction began once again and Mark closed the screen and went to the empty buckets. He looked around for a water source but found none "Mother where do you get the water from?"

She pointed towards the west "There's a well in the center of the village, if you follow that road then you should reach it eventually."

He nodded and picked the buckets up, he began following the trail and passed about 16 houses before he finally reached it. Along the way, he was met with hostile stares from the people but he paid them no notice and just waved at them. "Man no matter where you go people don't like strangers haha". He began remembering the faces of the people from their new territories every time the gang took over, the residents would always glare at them with hatred as they prepared to be pushed around or something.

At the moment the people didn't trust him probably due to the fact that they had never seen him before and thanks to his past life he just brushed it off. When he reached the well he found a woman pulling on a rope to raise up the bucket of water.

He noticed that they had no pulley system installed and began wondering if they had thought about it yet. He searched through Luke's memories but didn't find anything related to it, most of the people focused on magic and totally disregarded modern science. Since the people that went to school were rare and rich there wasn't much development yet, especially in small villages.

Mark walked to the old woman and tapped her shoulder "May I help Ma'am?"

She turned around and nodded "Yes, please". The woman handed him the rope and smiled, showing her decaying teeth. Mark flinched and thought "Note to self make sure that you keep up dental hygiene."

He quickly scanned through Luke's memory and was relieved to find out that since they lived in a town Luke washed his teeth at least thrice a week. He grabbed the rope and began pulling, once the bucket was up he poured the water in the woman's empty bucket. He picked it up and smiled at her "I'll carry it, you just lead the way."

She hesitated but nodded and began walking further west, after passing another 7 houses she opened the door and took the bucket from his hands "Thank you, young man, may I know your name?"

He nodded "My name is Ma...Luke…...Luke Reed"

The old woman smiled "Reed huh, are you related to that girl Amy that just moved in?"

Mark nodded "Yeah she's my mother. I was injured but felt better soooo yeah I'm helping her out with what I can."

The woman nodded "Tell your mother to come to me tomorrow my name is Anna Stone. We met once before."

He nodded and waved her goodbye as he began walking back to the well. He quickly got the water he needed and returned home, when he arrived his mother was hanging the clothing. Mark walked up to her and pulled her off to the side "Mother I told you I'll do this since I can't move around much for scrubbing the clothes I can still at least help you out with this much."

Amy looked at him with teary eyes "Oh son how did I get so lucky to get a son like you."

Mark shook his head and thought "Don't forget that the whole reason we are in this mess was because of him, but hey I can't complain since who knows if I could have been sent here if he didn't die."

Once everything was finished his mother and him returned home, he noticed that the house only had one room and a small bed and began to feel bad. His mother was about to lay on the ground but he lifted her up and shook his head "Mother go sleep in the bed, I've gotten tired of laying down for so long so I'll be outside stretching for a bit."

She hesitated but nodded and went to the room, Mark was left alone in the empty living room. He opened up the screen and purchased another gold and elixir collecter. The Town Hall upgrade had finished it's upgrade while he was collecting water from the well. He went to the barracks and began training another 8 barbarians. Then he sighed and sat on the ground "Looks like it's about time to remember more about the world I'm in."

He closed his eyes and began to filter through Luke's memories.