Chapter 45

 "Huh? Teach them basic physical training?!"

"What! What is this?! You want me to create them?!"

"Ah, find a place to stay casually? Can I do that?" "Shower? Oh, right, it's been a long time since I showered.Um...

" Old John took Batan to the river to bathe.

 Batan didn't bring any personal items with him, his clothes he wore before were already dirty and stiff, so Old John had Batan soak in the river, then went to borrow clothes from the villagers and made some simple alterations.

 Finally, clothes suitable for Batan to wear were made.

 However, the makeshift clothes only fit him barely, and when Batan put them on, a large part of his chest was still exposed.

 Dumina sat by the river, watching Batan, who was still damp, helplessly tightening his belt.

 Obviously, he was not used to the new clothes he had put on.

 He tugged at the hem of his clothes again, and asked embarrassedly, "Principal, Old John, is it okay for me to wear like this?" Dumina nodded, stood up, and casually brushed off a bit of grass stuck to his clothes.

 "It's fine, much cleaner now.

 Tomorrow... no." Dumina looked up at the crescent moon in the sky.

 Judging by the moon's position, it was past midnight, marking a new day.

 "I'll give you a day off during the day today.

 You can choose an empty stone house, clean it up and live there, or if you want to build your own house, that's fine too.

 Also, let Winnie take your measurements and make two new sets of clothes for you.

" Winnie is Daniel's wife.

 Dumina has been getting closer to Dora and Daniel recently, and has learned a lot about Winnie as well.

 He already knew that Winnie was very skilled at sewing and tailoring.

 Batan stared with wide eyes, as if he had heard something unbelievable.

 Dumina tilted his head slightly.

 "What's wrong?"

 "I, I..." Batan couldn't even complete a full sentence.

 He started to cry loudly, a young man in his twenties, crying like a child of a few years old.

 Considering his appearance made him look like he was in his thirties or forties, it was even more out of place.

 Dumina had never encountered such a situation before, and now he didn't know what to do.

 "Um..." Old John, with more experience, gently patted Batan's back.

 "It's okay, go ahead and cry, let out whatever is bothering you.

 You, coming from Danper Mountain to here, must have gone through a lot of hardships along the way, right?" Batan cried even louder.

 His physique alone was more robust than three or four Old Johns combined.

 But he was shorter than Old John.

 He now embraced Old John, leaning on him like a helpless child finally finding support.

 Dumina's eyelid twitched.

 If it weren't for knowing that Old John was also a strong individual, much stronger than Batan, he would have been worried about Batan losing control of his emotions and accidentally breaking Old John's old bones.

 But now...

 Dumina sat back down, leisurely looking up at the sky.

 Relaxing the mind also helps to restore mental strength.

 It's not as effective as deep sleep, but it may lead to insights during relaxation, increasing one's affinity with specific elements.

 Just like now, Dumina faintly felt that there were three types of elemental particles particularly active in the air.

 One related to the green grass growing by the river, one related to the rushing river water, and one related to the night wind.

 Dumina did not deliberately draw them into his body, but they automatically flowed into Dumina's body.

 Familiar, flowing towards the spiritual sea, then following the meridian circulation Dumina had been studying for the past few days, and then dispersing...

 But this time, it was clear that more elemental particles remained in Dumina's body! Dumina even felt that the elemental particles flowing in his body followed the meridians, flowing a short distance further before truly dispersing outside his body.

 He just wanted to relax this time, without paying attention to how the elemental particles flowed in his body.

 Instead, he felt that he remembered the flow trajectory very clearly and discovered that some elemental particles actually remained permanently in his body.

 The total amount of elemental particles that scattered out in the end was less than the total amount that entered his body.

 Batan finally cried almost enough.

 He wiped away his tears and choked out his experience.

 Batan and Dumina met in the recruitment space, claiming to be the great craftsman of the dwarf tribe.

 And it was true.

 He was the great craftsman of the Danper dwarf tribe.

 The talent and strength he displayed were far ahead of other dwarfs of the same age.

 In the entire Danper dwarf tribe, only those older dwarf craftsmen who had not yet aged to the point of losing their strength might be more powerful than Batan based on experience.

 But Batan was only a half-dwarf.

 His mother had once left the dwarf tribe to work in the human world, forging weapons for those noble gentlemen.

 One day, his mother returned to the Danper dwarf tribe with a big belly and gave birth to Batan.

 Children with unknown fathers were always easy targets for criticism.

 Batan was still a half-dwarf of impure bloodline.

 Batan lived a difficult life in the tribe.

 He wanted to create more things, but the other dwarfs in the tribe did not give him a chance.

 If he stayed in the dwarf tribe, he could only create the most common things, which the tribe would then sell to cover his living expenses.

 But the dwarf tribe was still reluctant to provide him with enough food and clothing.

 When his mother was still alive, she had told him more than once that whatever the other dwarfs in the tribe did to them, mother and son, was reasonable.

 Batan endured it all, until his mother passed away.

 After giving birth to him, his mother Janet often fell ill and had a particularly bad mental state.

 When Janet died, Batan was sad but also felt it might be his mother's liberation, as well as his own.

 He finally left the Danper dwarf tribe secretly.

 The Danper Mountain was close to the Gray Rock Kingdom but not under its jurisdiction.

 This mountain, like the Sipu Mountain Range, was a chaotic area with no one in charge.

 After leaving the familiar dwarf tribe, Batan wandered around.

 To earn money, he worked for others.

 However, he had a large appetite, and others deducted his wages.

 He felt uncomfortable working in those places and had to move on to live elsewhere.

 He even considered mining stones and making weapons to sell for money.

 But his actions were discovered by the goblin team of the Earl Charles family, who demanded compensation, claiming he had caused them great losses.

 Earl Charles even proposed that Batan stay in the Earl's house to work off his debt, but the goblins in the team mocked Batan, and other members of the Charles family always acted as if they had done him a great favor.

 Batan ultimately chose to escape from the Earl Charles family.

 He knew very well that he had not mined any precious stones in the Earl Charles's territory; he had just swung a pickaxe at the mountains! It was the Earl Charles family bullying him and forcibly taking advantage of his labor! Before the system found him, Batan had already spent a good amount of time on the run.

 He left the Charles family's territory and came to the Hall family's territory.

 Batan once thought he was safe.

 But to his surprise, the Hall family was also looking for him on behalf of the Charles family, and he once again lived a life of avoiding people.

 He had always wanted to find a place with people.

 After all, he was used to living in a community and had not yet adapted to wandering alone.

 In places with people, resources were usually concentrated in human hands.

 Without interacting with people, it was difficult for him to find things like food.

 Conscious of his problematic background, he didn't dare to exchange money in any other way, so he could only live like a homeless person...

 Perhaps with more time, he would gradually find his own way of survival.

 Just then, he received a mysterious guidance and knew to go to Hui Sheng Village to find Du Mingna.

 "Mysterious guidance," that's how Batan described it to Old John.

 Both Batan and Du Mingna knew it was the system's doing.

 The system contacted Batan.

 Feeling very hungry and conveniently within the Hall family's territory, not too far from Hui Sheng Village, Batan hurried over at the fastest speed and had a hearty meal.

 Batan tearfully looked at Old John and Du Mingna.

 "I've been in the human world for over a year.

 This is the first time someone has voluntarily talked to me and made clothes for me!" He sniffed hard, sucking back the snot that was about to come out.

 "Alright, alright," Old John patted Batan's back with a smile, "You live here well in the future, rest assured, our young master is very kind.

" Batan nodded continuously.

 Providing meals, even taking care of his personal hygiene proactively, was genuine care, not looking at him with disdain and mocking him with a sarcastic tone...

 It was really great! He was just hungry and uncomfortable, so when that mysterious force found him, he chose without hesitation to come here as a full-time teacher.

 Unexpectedly, what he could get here was much better than he had imagined.

 Dawn was approaching.

 Du Mingna yawned lazily.

 "Old John, please accompany Batan.

 I'll go back to sleep first.

" His mental power hadn't fully recovered yet.

 But the system wasn't draining his mental power for recruitment now.

 If he had a good sleep, there should be hope for his mental power to recover before waking up in the morning, right? Hmm, before that, he needed to submit the task.

 He couldn't recruit for the third time; his mental power definitely couldn't hold up.

 So, let's submit the main task of the third round.

 The system had reminded him twice.

 After arriving in the village and obtaining the land, the system reminded him that the task progress had reached 100% and could be submitted.

 When Batan arrived and met Du Mingna, the system reminded him again.

 Until now, on his way back home from the river, Du Mingna chose to submit the task.

 The familiar system notification sounded.

 "Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully completing the main task of the third round!" "Detecting that the host has exceeded the task completion, the task rewards have been increased for the host.

 Congratulations to the host for receiving 2 teaching material gift boxes, 2 random invention gift boxes, and 20 energy potions.

 The rewards have been deposited into the system backpack.

" This was twice the task rewards the system had mentioned before.

 "Ding! Now releasing the main task of the fourth round: Enhance Strength! As the principal of the Magic First School, how can you not have learned how to practice magic yet? Brave young man, please become a first-order magician before your fifteenth birthday! "Successful task reward: Complete Basic Magic*1.

 Failure penalty: Permanent decrease of one-tenth in all elemental affinities.

" Du Mingna's steps back to the house paused.