Developments in the Village

"I'm done harvesting the traps over here! I got quite a few tilapias and catfish."

"Same here, but I also got some freshwater eel here."

"The traps here don't have any of those but there are lots of shrimp!"

Similar such conversations can be heard along the river.

A new day had come and the traps were ready for harvest. 

Blanc is also at the river helping out the villagers transfer the fishes, eels, and shrimps from the traps to the ponds.

Since they took the time to create and install lots of traps, coupled with not being stingy with the bait, the villagers managed to catch a lot.

They carefully divided and placed the tilapias, catfish, eels, and shrimps to their respective ponds.

Then, they continued to reinstall the traps along the river in order to add more population to the ponds.

The fish ponds were finally up and running!

Also, the other new villagers were assigned new tasks based on what they're good at.

Hence, the new team distribution among the village is as follows:

Gathering squad - 30 villagers

Cooking squad - 15 villagers

Military squad - 1 Captain/Drill Master, 10 warriors , 40 new trainees

Construction squad - 25 villagers

Farming squad - 39 villagers

Non work-capable (children and very old villagers) - 15 villagers

Total number of villagers: 175

Team tasks assigned by Blanc is as follows:

Gathering squad : To continue gathering and stockpiling building materials, rare herbs, and firewood.

Farming squad: To continuously expand the fields, build pens for the new animals, add population to the ponds, and carefully grow the current crops.

The construction squad was split into two teams,

Construction squad 1:  Responsible for creating defenses for the village such as wooden spiked walls to prevent mutated wild animal attacks.

Construction squad 2: Responsible for the continuous building of small huts and large warehouses.

It can be said that the construction squad has contributed quite a lot of structures to the village as they had been working tirelessly since the creation of the village.

Blanc knew that things shouldn't stay like this though, he can't let the villagers work for a whole day and not give them wages. 

The village had to start operating like a town wherein everyone has their own money and is able to buy things that they want.

However, the current state of the village is still too primitive to achieve that.

The villagers will have nothing to buy even if they had money.

Naturally, Blanc already had a plan on how to upgrade from a village to a town.

But for now, they shall continue operating as a village. 

Although the villagers are currently satisfied with only having food, shelter, and clothes, Blanc wanted to introduce a better life to everyone,

He will begin his transition from a village to a town when there are enough people, the town can support its own economy, and the structures are ready.

At the training field.

"Go! Go! Go! Don't stop you little weakshits! It has only been an hour since the light jog! we still have one more hour!"

Demonic drill master Helena is currently training the 40 new trainees with the same training regimen as the first ten when they first started out as trainees.

The ten first trainees were promoted to true warriors by Helena after their first battle against the wolves.

Since they are currently wounded, they were exempted from training and were resting in their respective huts.

The day passed just like that and night finally came.

This will be the first night that the new villagers will spend in the village after working on their assigned tasks.

The food made by the cooking squad surely tastes better when you are tired and hungry!

An hour later, everyone finished eating and went back to their own huts.

Helena was also inside her hut preparing herself for another night watch.

The ten warriors are currently wounded so she had to take their shift for the night.

*knock* *knock*

"Helena? Are you there?"

"Hmm? Blanc? What's the matter? Come in."

"So about the matter regardi…H..Hey! why didn't you tell me you were changing!"

"Hmm?? what about it? it's not like you haven't seen it before!" Helena then showed a teasing smile while massaging her own huge chest.

"You wanna do it once quickly?" Helena offered.

"N..not this time unfortunately, Adelaine might come anytime, it's too risky here. Maybe in my hut next time okay?" Although Blanc wanted to do her badly, his reason still wins out this time.

"After you change, come outside okay? I have something important to talk to you about." He added.

"Okay."

Helena quickly finished changing and went outside her hut.

"So, what is it?"

"Well, currently, we have quite a lot of manpower now in the military so I would like for you and the other ten warriors to explore the forest of echoes bit by bit. We need to find new resources that we can use."

"I see, sure thing! After the guys recover, I will explore the forest with them."

"Thanks."