Chapter 42

 The village of Huisheng has been very lively these days.

 The daily life of the villagers is very monotonous.

 They have only a few things to do, either working in the fields or hunting in the mountains.

 Sometimes, they prepare offerings, repair old household items.

 Occasionally, if someone creates a novel handicraft, it will be discussed for a long time.

 The current life is unimaginable for the former villagers.

 Helping to build the school during the day has brought them a lot of freshness.

 They actually don't know how the school should be built.

 Du Mingna proposed a grand design, and they used their own experience to judge whether it could be done and how to do it.

 Old John also occasionally gave them pointers, so they knew better how to build a qualified building.

 In the evening, those interested can also go to Du Mingna's stone house for lectures.

 Of course, with many people in the evening, everyone has more free time at night.

 If they go late, they may not be able to squeeze into the stone house and have to return.

 But by walking around like this, they can have a post-dinner stroll and chat.

 This kind of life is really comfortable and relaxing.

 By the way, Du Mingna didn't know how he managed to invite a group of people to build a tower in a place far away from them.

 Those people work hard! According to Master Oakfa, they all seem to be practitioners, including a master who can use spells to compact the soil.

 This almost subverted the villagers' cognition.

 Originally, when they saw those people building so skillfully, they wanted to watch and learn, but when they found out that those people were practitioners, they didn't dare to approach them.

 When they sent various building materials to those people, they found that those people were easy to get along with.

 Under the guise of delivering materials, they lingered around, trying to see how they worked.

 Those people even explained to them how to do things, which emboldened them to openly go and watch them build the tower, turn the soil, and build the walls during their rest time.

 Those people worked especially hard, even working at night.

 If the villagers couldn't attend Du Mingna's class at night, they would go watch those people build the tower.

 The outer perimeter of the tower was divided into four large plots of land in different directions, with furrows marked out, looking neater than the farmland in the village.

 This truly opened the villagers' eyes.

 The villagers lived interesting lives, while Du Mingna's days were more orderly and busy.

 The tower builders were of course summoned by Du Mingna using random team summoning orders.

 It seemed like the system had heard Du Mingna's prayers and truly provided him with a random building team.

 The system required him to establish his own research department within a month, so Du Mingna had to quickly build the research tower.

 This matter couldn't be delayed more than building the school.

 The team summoned by the random team summoning order would only work for him for seven days.

 If the research tower couldn't be built within seven days, he would have to consider using the random team summoning order again, or let the villagers take over, or ask Oak for help with the land...

 In any case, this matter had to be settled in advance to give him enough time.

 He also had to be busy making paper.

 If there were modern technology, making paper would be relatively simple.

 But Du Mingna could only make paper by hand now, which took a long time.

 Even the first step of making pulp required multiple steps.

 During this period, he needed a water tank, or a large wide-mouthed water tub, and also had to prepare vessels for boiling plants...

 Du Mingna once asked the villagers to help him buy a lot of things in the city, just to barely gather these things, which could be considered basic enough.

 The children were not convenient to help build the school, but the older children had been taught by him how to boil pulp.

 Boiling is one of the methods for separating raw materials for papermaking.

 There are also more complex steps.

 Du Mingna was most fortunate that teaching now was not too troublesome.

 He only needed to teach the villagers how to read.

 The only lesson preparation work he had to do was to prepare the character recognition boards for common characters.

 Even for such a task, there were villagers who could help him complete it.

 Tait was very skilled in handicrafts and knew how to carve wood.

 As long as Duminar marked the traces on the wooden board beforehand, Tait could help deepen the characters for him.

 Even if Tait had not fully learned these characters, he could still do this job well.

 In addition, there were other villagers who could help.

 The character recognition boards in Duminar's hands were enough for the villagers to learn for a while.

 He didn't have to worry too much about teaching, as fast-learning students could help teach the slower ones.

 Oak, the only full-time teacher, also came over every day to teach a two-hour basic training course, further ensuring that Duminar's students met the class duration standards.

 Dora, Jade, Arthur, and Belinda, four of the eight regular students, were all under fifteen and had the potential for self-awakening, so they all had to attend Oak's basic training course.

 Arthur was a child designated by the system with a talent for magic.

 Jade, Dora, and others did not have this talent designation.

 Duminar didn't know if this meant that Jade and the others had not awakened their talents for magic or knighthood, or if they simply did not have such talents, or if they might not be able to become magicians or knights through the current common training methods in this world.

 He could only see that these children were all working hard.

 Perhaps studying together had a great mutual motivating effect, as they hardly ever slackened.

 Like Arthur, who had a weaker physique than the other children and was more prone to fatigue, he was also studying diligently.

 He only took a slight rest when he truly felt his body couldn't take it anymore.

 Duminar noticed Arthur's expression when he had to rest.

 It was filled with a longing for a healthy body and a desire to work as hard as others.

 Arthur didn't say it, but Duminar could tell that Arthur was actually upset about his physical condition.

 All Duminar could do was make slight adjustments to the children's schedules.

 Four of the eight regular students, who were adults, had recently been helping to build the school.

 They could only come to class at night, just like other villagers who came to listen and learn characters with Duminar.

 Dora and the other four children had character recognition classes during the day and attended Oak's training classes.

 These two classes together took up four hours, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

 With extra time, they could learn to identify various plants with Old John, exercise, or simply observe their surroundings to improve their perception.

 Duminar discovered that Old John had a deep understanding of various plants when he was studying paper pulp ratios.

 Unfortunately, Old John had to help Duminar with some miscellaneous tasks on weekdays and had subtly become responsible for school safety, so he couldn't become a full-time teacher at the school.

 He could only serve as a part-time botany teacher, or else Duminar could have raised his side mission score even higher.

 Duminar had spent the past few days carefully observing his regular students and trying to learn more about the villagers who often attended classes.

 He was also working hard at night to study the new training methods he had discovered and investigate what seemed to be meridians.

 He also tried to restore his mental strength through meditation and deep sleep.

 Thus, it was the sixth night since he received the side mission as a full-time teacher.

 There was one more day left until the deadline for the mission.

 Strictly speaking, a little more than a day.

 He didn't receive the task at night, but the system counted it as twenty-four hours as a day, so he would have a total of eight days.

 Duminar had been worried that his mental strength would not be able to support the consumption of a new round of recruitment, so he had been suppressing the urge to recruit again.

 But now, he had no time left.

 In any case, he had to give it a try.

 He had to strive to increase the number of full-time teachers to 2 before the deadline of the task arrives.

 Even if the recruited teachers couldn't make it in time, he had already reached a recruitment agreement with them, which should improve the task score, right? With such hope in mind, Du Mingna opened the recruitment system.

 Recruit workers.

 Teacher recruitment pool.

 Click, recruit! A purple light flashed, mixed with a hint of blue light.

 Then some runes gradually formed in the light.

 With the experience from the last recruitment, Du Mingna was more conscious this time.

 He quickly closed the system interface, letting the system extract his mental power.

 He wanted to verify his previous guess.

 Was it because he foolishly looked at the runes last time that so much mental power was extracted at once, or does the system really extract a large amount of mental power quickly and then slowly? The familiar feeling of rapid loss of internal mental power struck.

 However, Du Mingna felt that his brain didn't hurt like last time.

 He could barely endure it.

 And then...

 he passed out directly.

 Before passing out, Du Mingna vaguely had a thought.

 It seemed like the system knew it was his sleeping time now, so it made him sleep directly.

 In a deep sleep state, he could quickly recover his overall condition.

 Meditation could have a certain restorative effect, but meditation mainly focused on expanding mental power and maximizing the total amount of mental power that could be accommodated, and meditation itself consumed energy.

 Deep sleep was the best rest.

 At least for the ninth rank and below.

 As for whether more strength required more sleep, that was not something Du Mingna could know now.

 Even Oak couldn't say for sure.

 Du Mingna had only briefly discussed the issue of sleep with Oak, who said he had to sleep one night a week, or his body would always feel heavy and tired, as if something was missing.

 Old John was there at the time and added that as long as one was human, it was impossible to completely avoid sleep.

 In Du Mingna's view, this should be Old John's answer.

 Still need to sleep.

 Du Mingna slept until it was dimly bright outside.

 This happened to be the time he habitually woke up every day.

 Pressing his slightly throbbing head, he sat up from the bed.

 The system was still extracting his mental power, but it had restored his mental power to about sixty percent.

 Comparing this, Du Mingna confirmed that his previous guess was correct.

 The system had a certain intelligence and would extract the corresponding amount of mental power based on his current condition.

 Logically, the last time he was with the children informing the villagers in the shelter, the system couldn't have extracted so much mental power from him at once.

 And the headache symptoms he experienced last time were not directly related to the system's extraction of mental power.

 Just like this time, the system considered that he was already lying in bed ready to sleep, and directly extracted his mental power to a level that would allow him to enter a deep sleep.

 Yet, he didn't feel a strong headache in his brain.

 He slightly sensed that the system still wanted to "dig" something in his mind, but even this digging action had become much lighter.

 It could be said that he, at this moment, apart from not having fully recovered his mental power, felt no other discomfort.

 Du Mingna got out of bed.

 The daily tasks still needed to be done.