It was now deep into the night, and I was sitting in my office thinking about how the day ended. A lot has happened. It was probably around midday when I met with my new Government Officials in the conference room and was forced by Richard to stay and discuss everything. There was so much to discuss. I really would rather go fight a horde of monsters with my life on the line that do that again.

Even still, it was worth it in the end. We genuinely got a lot done. I now understand why they all wanted to be a part of the Government; they were very zealous about it all. Thinking up things I didn’t even consider, like permits for example. If you wanted to fish in the City, you needed a fishing license or something. I didn’t really agree with it at first because I don’t want to become a bother to people just trying to earn a living, but apparently, it’s a form of credibility for the fishermen. People would likely buy from the fisherman associated with the City than the one who wasn’t.

There was even the problem of documentation. We eventually found the Blacksmith’s shop, and he said he can build thousands of small metal plates with a few lines of writing on them. That was of course a blessing. After finding that out, we decided that every person who lives here should get one, it should have your name, the district you live in, and the date. The metal plates will expire after one year. Which then also brought up the problem of what the actual date is. We could’ve figured out the month easily and we still knew the year but the day itself was a lost cause.

The point was also made that what if the length of the days, and the changing of the season were different now, wouldn’t throw things off? I had no idea, nor did I really feel like figuring it out, so I just asked Frian and Lirian what type of calendar they used. They kind of surprised me with their answer.

It was simple. According to one of their books used for their studies every planet had their own calendar. There wasn’t a universal standard or anything like that. At least not to their knowledge. So, we decided right then and there to make our own calendar. It was a bit weird to be making a calendar, but we thought it was best. It wasn’t like we were changing too much from the previous one. Still going to call 12 months a year, and have 7 days a week, but each month will 35 days and 5 weeks. So, 1 Year is 12 months, 60 weeks, and 420 days.

We did that to try and factor in the fact that Earth might take even longer to go around the Sun now, but we had no way to actually verify it…perhaps Elder Zal can help us with it, but I have no way to contact her so this will work for now. The calendar will be called The New Earth Calendar. It’s actually a very corny name, but that was all we could come up with in the moment, so the plan now was for the scribes to make a whole bunch of copies to be passed around to the rest of the City and then be placed in Greja’s shop.

The goal there is for people in other Cities to buy it so that the majority of Earth is working with the same calendar. Speaking of majority. By the end of the day, the entire line was dealt with and now roughly 150,000 people were now living in this City. Jral and the others did an amazing job to be honest with you. To be able to get through that many people in less than a day was amazing. Of course, that also meant we earned that same amount in Copper Coins which wasn’t a small sum. I also took 10 Gold Coins back from the budget, 20 was likely too much for now.

After everyone was inside, all the members from Outpost G met up one more time to go over things. They were all given first dibs on things they wanted to do. Micah and a few others immediately signed up for the City Guard positions while a couple others pledged to be our first couple adventurers. Still, a good portion of them were undecided but there was nothing I could do about that. The positions were offered, but this wasn’t the Tutorial anymore. They needed to make their own decisions. The last thing I did for them was to pass out a few funds to each of them, and hand out all those Rings and Necklaces we stacked up from the Dungeons in the Tutorial. I didn’t need the ring anymore, but I kept that very first necklace for myself, and I gave the dagger to Irene.

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While Micah planned to move away from his life as an archer in the Tutorial to one with swords now, Irene didn’t want to give up her bow. So, although she was still far from Qi Refinement, she would eventually make it, and the dagger would be a big help to her at that time. She was also one of the ones who wanted to be an adventurer, which was honestly kind of surprising. Anyway, after all that was taken care of, there was one final thing we did as the Government, spend a lot of money.

We commissioned a few hundred thousand plates from the Blacksmith, who assured us that it wouldn’t take long and was a simple task. He apparently had a machine which would make it fairly simple. Despite that, it still costs 1 Gold Coin to do. Not only was he making hundreds of thousands of metal plates with writing on them, but he would also be inlaying all the plates with a thin special lining that would make it hard for the plates to be reforged. Each plate was only going to be about the size of a debit card. Just metal. No names will be on them, people will have to go that themselves individually, so that was paid for in advance as well.

Next was the other bulk purchases. The homes had furniture, and a functioning toilet and pipe system, it even had a stove. But there was no fridge of any kind, and the stove worked on coal or wood. We didn’t have either, but coal could be acquired from the shop. Meanwhile, for the ‘fridge’, there was a cooler thing available in one of the shops.

They were called frost boxes and used something called an Icerock to keep its contents cool. The rocks came in sizes of small, medium and large, with small lasting around 3 days, medium around a week, and the large one around 3 weeks.

I don’t know where it comes from, but they will keep our stuff cool. The box itself cost 1, 5, or 10 Bronze depending on the size, while the large Icerock was 30 Copper.

That shop is going to make a lot of money.

For now, we bought 5 Large Boxes, one for the City Lord Mansion, one for the Adventures Guild, one for Grant and his fishing business, and this one was surprising, but one for Li and Trinity. We only found this out later but when they learned that we could buy food items (from the shop that also sells the Frost Box), they decided to open up a restaurant together. Good for them, though I wonder how they’re going to cook beast meat? Since that shop only sold meat of things I’d never heard of, like Weegul Steak for example. Where are they even getting it?

Tomorrow there will also be an announcement about jobs and hiring people for the various things we have planned. Or if anyone wanted to start something, we would support them to an extent. Needless to say, the Government will be doing a lot of spending to get this City up and running.

So yeah, I gave Richard and the others the 10 Gold back…

Though one of the main reasons I did it, was although I plan to be involved with the management of the City, there will be many times when I’m gone or focused on something else.

I want to explore this new Earth, get stronger, and continue to fight stronger opponents. Which is why after making sure things are in order tomorrow, I’ll be leaving to go explore or scout as Richard wanted me to call it.

Sean was our scout in the Tutorial, and apparently, he still wanted to do things of that nature, so he joined the City Guard, but he won’t be allowed to go scout until some proper training from Eriog. Which is who trained Richard’s group in the Tutorial, and who will be training the City Guard.

While the Tutorial was deadly, the number of things that could happen to us after a while were somewhat limited. This won’t be the case here. Who knows what could be lurking outside of these walls? I won’t stop anyone from leaving the City, but the City Guard is different. They need to be of a certain standard. Obviously, they won’t all suddenly get stronger in cultivation out of nowhere, but they need to be the best version of themselves, since they are basically the military/police of the City.

So, in place of Sean. I’ll be going instead. Along with Frian.

When I told them I’ll only be taking one of them since I’d like the other one to guard the City while I was gone, they immediately asked to be excused for a moment and when they came back, Lirian looked like he lost a loved one, while Frian looked as if he won a prestigious award.

Heh.

So tomorrow, Frian and I will be going outside to see what’s around us. Although the primary reason is that I want to explore, as the City Lord, I need to know if there is anything dangerous nearby so we can plan for it.

So, killing two birds with one stone.