- Son, if I did not know about your blessing this would have been a massive indication that you are hiding something – says my dad while he chuckles and continue checking the documents.

- Why? – I ask

- No one have presentations like these, with whole documents and calculations, cost, maintenance, construction cost and extras, this is a very detailed project, but I have 2 major questions, the first one is about human waste and sickness could you explain a bit more, and the second is this indoor plumbing what is it? – ask my dad.

At that moment I see that I forgot to make a design for making a water pumping station and well that design is not difficult, I can make it now, at that moment I see both my dad and second mom have a smile on their faces, I’m embarrassed.

- Well dad, I forgot to make a design to pump clear water to the houses, there is a way to make pipes to bring clear water into houses, to help in the bathroom and the kitchen, that is indoor plumbing, the design would be simple and I have like 2 or 3 different designs that can be made, I can prepare one that I think is very suitable for us, but I forgot, I would also have to explain how the pipes work inside the house especially because of the P-Trap, that one is important – I say this then take some breath.

- About your first question, human waste can cause several types of sicknesses, some of them when we smell them, others when it soak into the ground and gets into the water of the wells, keeping the waste isolated until it has been properly treated for fertilizer, is one of the best ways to avoid a lot of sickness that tend to happen in cities, plagues and quite a lot of other stuff, at least that is what I remember – I answer his first question.

- Ok son, I want to see the design of the “pump” and normally I would not spend money in such a project, but I know you have been working for 2 years on this, and you have been through in your research, so I will make the sacrifice, we have some extra in the treasury, and the budget you gave me, is well within what we can afford. – my father finish with this.

I look at him and my emotions are complicated.

- Son we are proud of you – says my second mom finally speaking – but you have to understand that we have priorities, and this does not look like a priority, if the king ask why he approved the project what will your father tell him?

Oh now I see why his face is like that.

- Well what he can say is that this is a long term benefit project, by reducing the amount of sickness, he reduces the amount of healing needed in the cities, so the healers can heal more soldiers, second better health will mean less people die in childhood and with more children we will have more adults later, meaning more soldiers, I know that you lose less children than we did in earth during the same era of technology, but you still lose a good amount, this will help reduce this a lot, did we not have a plague 3 years ago? And is there not several plagues going in other cities of the kingdom? If this sewer system is done properly we won’t have a plague in a long time, at least not one of the common ones, because even though I do not know a lot about medicine, I think the most common plagues are from side effects of human waste and animal waste in the cities, with a proper sewer system we can make sure everything stays cleaner, you could use water mages to clean the streets and push the animal waste to the sewers through grates. – I show one of the canvases that I had put before where it shows the sewer system and grates for the streets and how they are connected and finally take some breath after talking so much.

- Now those are good reasons and if this project does what you say and we can see the results in 10 years, I can even give it to the king and this would be a contribution. – says my father a bit more enthusiastically now that he understand that this is not a short term project.

For the next few days I finished the design of the water pump, it was a simple system that took from the river and pumped the water into several water towers, the water towers purify the water and let gravity keep the pressure on the pipes, I also made the design of the pipes and well I did not remember much about plumbing but one of the heroes had left a lot about it, so we did not have to mess around too much, I helped the blacksmith make the valves and all other fixtures we needed, until we had a working model, that took about a month.

Then finally I took 2 weeks off from the smithy to help and direct a group of mages that started to make the pipes in the city, we did plenty but 2 weeks was not enough for it, and once they knew what I needed and how I wanted it done, they continued the construction themselves, after 6 months finally the project was mostly done, I had insisted in creating 5 bathrooms on our house, and modifying the kitchen, not many people in the city had asked to modify their houses yet, so we went and created some public toilets, some people asked, mostly family members of people that worked in the household, Dina’s family also asked for a bathroom, I insisted in giving them 2.

Finally the day came when everything started working and well in our house pandemonium ensued, I had created a bathroom for the parents, one for male kids, there is a lot of us when you count all my cousins from my 2 uncles, another one for the female kids, and then the last 2 also male and female divided for the staff.

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One thing I added that I forgot to tell my dad, was a water heater, so when all the girls in the house knew they could take hot showers and hot baths with practically no preparation time, well I was pampered a lot even by the staff, even my meals at the smithy were bigger and more crafted, I insisted in giving them the water heater too.

A month after the system came online you could notice the difference in the city, it looked and smelled better, for all the other effects well time will tell.

A month before my 8th birthday I started using a practice sword, and I saw in my status the skill of swordsmanship level 1 appear in red letters, I was taking the training really seriously, and also my mana sense training had advanced a lot, here I discover something, and this left me a bit perplexed, some skill and sword movements you just had to learn them and they would appear as subskills of your swordsmanship, like stab or overhead chop, I was told by my dad that by learning this moves and calling them at the right moment in battle I would be able to damage and kill demons, after a lot of training I learned the 9 basic offensive moves, one for each direction and the straightforward stab, also I learned 5 basic defense moves and well the most important one dodge.

Something was bothering me, and I started to look deeper, I was able to enter meditation and able to sense energy while I was doing some of my swordsmanship training, I was trying to see what was happening, my mana sense was my best skill and I had already maxed it at a hundred, but I felt that the skill had more to give, I used this skill a lot when I casted magic and when I saw my family members cast, but I knew that some things that they told me were happening I could not see them, they could not see it either, but it was written in some of our older books like if someone did see them and wrote about them, so the skill should have more, my second mom had it at a hundred also.

Finally while I was doing an upper left diagonal chop I saw something else, I saw some energy, this one inside my body, it moved with my body guiding my muscles putting them in the right position, and helping deliver the chop, this energy was pearl colored and I had never seen that color, from that point I started training and checking this energy if I moved my sword without any skill the energy would not appear, but once I did cast a skill the energy would be there, helping going towards my legs, towards my torso, hips and arms, helping them move in the right position and helping me complete the movement.

I decided on my own to see what the energy did to my muscles and try to replicate it myself, I tried hard to do the movements myself and not let the energy move the muscles,

My 8th birthday finally arrived and well we were having a bit of a celebration, my brother Gunnar came back from the capital, he had finished the 2 years of academy training that he needed to, I also knew that he went there to meet other nobles and that he would see if he found a lady that he wanted to marry, I saw my 3 moms pestering him, while he had a red face full of embarrassment due to how the conversation was going, on the other hand Albert and Desmond were going to start the academy this year, my birthday was at the time when the academy was at recess.

My brother Gunnar got assigned to the fort close to our household, also my third mother got pregnant again, I ended up asking my mom about it, and she said that she was also going to have another child, not yet since she was a bit busy, but at least in noble houses they tried to keep the amount of babies equal, since my second mom had 5, while my own mom and my third mom had 4 each, well they were going to equal the numbers, I dropped the conversation there, too much information.

After my eight birthday, I saw my status screen again, and well I saw my mana sense skill had had a reset and it was now at level 10, the words had changed color from red to orange, but I did not feel that the skill was sluggish at all, it felt more of the same, I was able to see a lot more fireflies, and some of them were smaller than before, I also could see the pearl energy, especially in the training grounds whenever a soldier would use a skill, I could see some of that energy in the swords, arrows, bows and spears that they were using, so at this point, well a suspicion started to grow on me and I started to investigate more about how knowledge is kept and distributed in our kingdom, also I decided that my first instance of the demonic bite was going to be my secret, for now.

My second Project was also in the works, and I was preparing another presentation for my dad, but before I could do that I had to ask a question and I went to my third mom to ask.

- Hey mom, I discover some druid spells the last time I was investigating for my project, do we have druids? – I asked her

- Yes and no, yes we do have druids, but they are mostly pixies and elves, the elves had found a way to keep the class going, and some pixies do receive the class, especially the pixies that are the closest to plants, our gardener is a druid. – She answers me, and before I can ask the obvious question she answers – Human druids, well they exist in history, but we have not seen the class in a very long time.

- What are the classes mom? And how do I get one? – I ask her

- Well first you cannot get one yet, you will get one on your 10th birthday, second the classes give you bonuses, remember the system is made by the gods, so those classes is a way that the gods have to give us a more direct blessing, more strength, speed, magical power, and other bonuses, each class will boost your stats in some way, allowing you to become better. – she answers me.

- So you can only get 1 class? – I ask

- Complicated answer, we have historical evidence that people could change their class or evolve it on their own, but it does happen very rarely nowadays, I think there has not been a class change or class evolution in a century at least, also the gods can help change your class, how is this different from doing it on your own I do not know, also the Heroes had 2 classes, and from the information we got from the royal library we expect you will also have 2 classes. – She answers me.

- Really, why? – I ask surprised.

- Simple your title as Chosen of the Goddess of Art, every person with the tile of Chosen by a God has access to a 2nd class, we have this documented, so we are expecting it and we were going to tell you before your tenth birthday, but since you asked now, there is no reason to keep it from you. – She says.

- You can choose your class? Right? – I ask a bit dubiously.

- At least 1 of them, the second one because the gods are involved I think it is bestowed by them, so I’m sure you will get one and the Goddess will bestow the other one, and this means that for your 10th birthday is better if we go back to the church, in case you need to try and contact her, it is rare for the gods to contact people but it is easier for it to happen in churches, and well we have had our share of contact with the Goddess thanks to you – she says while she smiles at me.

- I have some questions about the gods, do you think I should ask Priest Raul about it?

- If you have question about it, we can talk with your Aunt Valeria, who is a priestess, she is married and in another city but we could send her an invitation – she says.

- Any reason why we need to call family? – I ask

- This is under orders of your dad, maybe he is jumping at shadows, but he wants everything that has to do with you done by the family if possible, sadly the family never had a blacksmith, and why does he insists on this I have no idea, now that is enough go out and keep company to your sisters they wanted to have a tea party with you. - she says while smiling.

I smile back at her and then go out of the door and towards the garden, where I see my 3 younger sisters, Betty, Sally and Karina playing and serving tea.