Department Buildings

The first thing Darren did after everyone had picked spots for their houses and got settled in was hold a big meeting. Even Dan would be there while Sharrol stayed home with Miranda, who was getting along very well with Nina. Nina had moved in with Miranda and lived there full time now. 

After everyone was gathered in a open field in front of Darren's house, he gestured for everyone to quite their chatting and to listen up. 

" Ok. Ill make this brief. I just want to separate each of you by your departments and then assign a leader among them... aside for the three departments with only one member of course. " Darren gave his introduction and an explanation for his goals then started giving orders to get into groups. 

Once everybody was in their respective department groups and lined up in front of him, Darren then approached the group to the far left. There were only four groups in front of him since the other 3 were the single member departments, and the group on the very left was the Plant Research Department.

This group only had two members, a older woman and a young boy in his teens. They looked at him then looked at eachother and the boy was the first to speak. 

" Sir, I think Grandma Alma should lead this department since she had more experience with plants." Alma nodded in thanks to the boy and didn't object to the suggestion.

"Alrighty then, it's settled. Grandma Alma will be the new leader of the Plant Research Department." After that settled, Darren addressed the whole group again, " Also, I will be having a Leader-only meeting right after this one so if picked please stick around."

Moving to his right, Darren looked at the two members that made up the Animal Research Department. There were actually 3 but Miranda was too little to be considered for the role of leader.

This time there were two middle aged women that made up the group and Darren was surprised to see that they were almost identical.

' Twins?' Darren thought. The only difference Darren could find was that the one on the left had a slightly wider face than the one on the right. 

" Hello sir, my sister and I have decided that I'll be the leader the the Animal Research Department. My name's Tina and this is Tera and yes we are twins to save you the trouble of asking." The one on the left spoke up and made Darren smile.

" Haha. That's good to know. nice to meet you Tina, Tera." Darren nodded in approval then moved on to the bigger groups. 

The next department was the Fishing department with five members. Most of the members were males with the split being four males and one female. Three of the four males seemed to be in their mid teens while the last looked much older, maybe 40's to 50's. The female was the same age as the three other males. The older man spoke before Darren could ask his question.

"Nice to meet you sir. My name is Kevin and I'll be the leader here. None of these kids have the experience." Darren nodded in agreement and seeing that the teens just rolled their eyes but didn't argue, Darren continued to the last and biggest department.

The Hunting Department had eight members Including both Dan and Sharrol. It also included Ethan who was a Spearman Class and Darren had already made his choice of leader before he arrived at the group. 

" Ethan will lead this group. I think there will be no objections considering he's your chief?" Darren inquired and he was met with silence. The Hunting Departments consisted of those previously mentioned and five random villagers. Of the five, three were female and two were male. Of the three females, two of them were relatively young, in their late twenty's at most while the last one was a bit younger and looked to be mid to late teens. 

Darren had previously been using inspect on everyone in his farm and hadn't found anything unusual. However, when he tried the same thing on the three women in front of him, he found something interesting about the younger one's status. 

[Name: Kayla Spark]

[Cultivation: 0]

[Class: Swordsman]

[Daos: Lightning, Fire]

[Bloodline: Firestorm Monarch(0.001%)]

Darren looked at the information with wide eyes as this was the first time he was seeing someone with a bloodline, even if it was only a fraction of a percent progressed toward awakening.

" Swordsman Class and a powerful sounding bloodline! I think the Hunter's Departments grows a bit larger you would be a great vice leader." Darren said and Ethan looked over at Kayla in surprise.

" Kayla. You didn't say you had a class. I thought I was the only one." Ethan said, seemingly more confused than hurt. 

Kayla let out a breath and started talking. " I saw how the monsters were and I was afraid that if it got out, then I would have to fight the monsters like you." Kayla then turned away ashamed. 

" It's ok no one died and we got here in one piece so no harm was done." Ethan comforted her and no one breeched the subject further.

Darren just shrugged and walked. ' If she was a little timid, that was ok. she would just get stronger through the protection of his farm and confidence would come that way.' Darren thought. 

"Alright everyone that's not a leader, please head back and rest. Work will start tomorrow after I've spoke to the leaders." Darren announced to the entire village and slowly everyone left beside those asked to stay. Soon, only the leaders were left and Darren addressed the group with a much lighter and matter of fact tone. 

" Ok so first things first, before this meeting, I set up Department buildings for each department in suitable places around my land. These were system provided and have unique functions exclusive for the leaders. " Darren paused to gage the reactions of everyone and only once he was satisfied with the anticipation shown on everyone's faces did he continue. " This is also where everyone in the respective departments will be given quests or certain jobs. I will set a quota for quests in the future but each department is lacking in members right now so that is a little hard. Any questions so far?" 

Ethan was the first to speak up after a couple of seconds of silence. " What type of quests exactly?" 

 Darren thought for a moment then responded, " The system said it would be department related so I would assume for you something like, 'Kill 10 Spirit Boars.' or something else hunting related." 

Ethan nodded in understanding and Darren gave a final reminder to work hard and sent each leader off with a map to their respective Department buildings. Darren then decided to look at his territory status again. After all, it had been almost a week since he last checked it.

[Territory: Wuguay Farm] 

[Contracted: Darren Jones] 

[Level: 1] 

[Soul: Infancy Stage] 

[Affinities: Earth, Water, Life] 

[Upgrade Requirements: 20 Members, Department Buildings Unlocked, 20 gold]

Darren looked at the new info with excitement. He was only one requirement away from upgrading his territory to level two. Darren then opened the store and went to a section that he had never tried before.

[Sell Items]

[Please select items you wish to sell...]

Darren walked over to his Spirit grass farm selected the harvest option that had been blinking since yesterday. 

[+569 Stocks of Springsage Grass]

" Sell 300 stocks and store the rest please." Darrem commanded and the system obeyed.

[Selling 300 Stocks of Springsage Grass -- Intermediate Quality]

[Springsage Grass can be redeemed for 1 gold per stock.]

[+300 gold] 

Darren was ecstatic and immediately started the process to upgrade his Farm.

[Initializing Upgrade... Please wait...]