His face quickly changed to one of horror as I started to tell the story.

"Wait, I think the Royal Family needs to hear this as well, good thing that my wife Elizabeth came with me."

He said that while calling Elizabeth who was waiting at a respectful distance until she was permitted to get close.

"Wait, you got married?! Why didn't you invite me to the wedding, Froggy is going to be pissed as well!"

"Theoretically we're not married yet, just engaged so you didn't miss anything."

Elizabeth explained while she joined us, even holding Bobby's hand which resulted in him getting embarrassed.

"Yes, also don't spin this on me, I never know where you are, so how could I send you an invitation? Also, can you send my condolences to Froggy while also sending him the invitation to our wedding?"

While the man was a little embarrassed about the situation, he seemed to be happy with his life.

"Looks like you didn't call me because of the good news."

"Unfortunately not honey, Trader managed to get himself into another mess."

Now she looked at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Bobby told me a few of your 'adventures' and I'm shocked how you're still alive, but at the same time you managed to resolve your problems so I don't think you came to ask for help... or I least I hope so, since I'm afraid of what he considers problematic enough to ask for help."

She was right in that regard.

I was still in shock that Bobby was going to be a Royalty, maybe even a king in the future.

"I'm going to tell my story and you can judge if it's troublesome or not."

I then started from the beginning, telling them more details than what I shared with Toby.

The only things I didn't share were the location of the Clan, Violet, and the Artificial System.

When I finished the story both of them were messaging their forehead like they had a headache.

"I understood now why you always worried about him. He just doesn't know how to live In moderation."

Hey!

It's not my fault trouble finds me!

I think so at least...

"So those people behind you are the rest of the prisoners? Of course, we're going to help them, we'll relocate them in whatever town they want to, even if they go to another kingdom."

I let out a sigh of relief when I heard that, I'm glad they want to help them no matter what nation they're from.

Once everything was made clear, the princess got to work, calling servants to take care of them and their horses, guiding them to their dorms, asked if they needed healing and what place they wanted to go next.

Bobby and I were going to the castle.

"So what's the story between you two?"

His face got a little red but still kept a smile.

"We've been closely working together for almost a year and slowly developing feelings for each other, unfortunately, I was nothing but a small noble with my Brewing skill, not enough for us to be together. Funnily enough, I managed to get a good reputation because I brought the witches and heroes to our nation. But I think the biggest reason they let us marry is to lessen your anger towards them, so I guess I have to thank you for getting me married."

I'm sure that's what he thinks, but at the same time a princess like Elizabeth wouldn't marry him if he wasn't so hard-working and reliable, she must've pushed a few buttons behind the scenes for this to happen.

We arrived at Bobby's office, which got an upgrade from the last time I had seen it.

The room was bigger, it had more bookshelves and chests.

It wasn't the most amazing one I saw, but it was cozy enough and it did the job.

We sat down, exchanging stories and what happened in the past few months.

Apparently the king wasn't happy that I ditched the party made for the heroes, Merry got invited by the pope to meet with him urgently and she accepted it in hopes of learning more about enchanting.

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Now the kingdom was busy recuperating its losses from the last fight, which was going great with the help of the Piglings in the Nether.

They also made a few more iron golems, but this time made sure they had multiple masters so there wouldn't be any more accidents.

We exchanged stories like that until the door of the office was opened.

It was the princess.

"I've finished with the refugees, everyone is resting or eating right now. Now the only thing that's left is to plan for the Piligers attack."

The atmosphere in the room got serious quickly.

"Wouldn't be better to talk with the king and everyone else as well?"

"Don't worry, I'm going to tell him about this later myself, plus I thought you'll want to stay as far as possible from politics."

Bobby truly chooses a great woman if she can understand me so Well.

"True, I have a few ideas in mind but I want to hear what you two have instead."

"I think we can try using the iron golems in this fight, of course after we take precautions against them turning against us, we also got a lot of diamond equipment from the Piglings, and we can split it to our most loyal soldiers. The only downside is that we'll have to purchase a lot of enchanted books to make the armor more resistant."

Bobby said with confidence in his voice.

"I think we should also warn the Sandstone kingdom about the attack and get them on board especially since the hero is there. Fortunately, the political war is over, and the princess won so I think she would be willing to fight against the Piligers."

Elizabeth continued.

Both of them had good points, and if they managed to work closely I'm sure they would be able to defend their homes.

"Those are some good ideas, especially working together with the other nations, maybe you can rope in the Coral Kingdom as well since I think they're the real target. The only thing that I can say is to call back all the villages at the border, or at least send some soldiers to protect it, since the Piligers can't live without them."

"What do you mean by that?"

"From what I understood they don't have access to Skills, which means they can't use the crafting table at all."

Both of them opened their eyes with shock.

"Not only that, but I think they have a method of turning normal people into loyal Piligers. So we want to minimize the damage as much as possible."

"This is indeed something we have to act on, I'll speak with my father first."

We exchanged ideas for one more hour, and then the Princess left to speak with the king and his advisers, leaving me and Bobby alone once again.

"Will you stay here for this war?"

"Unfortunately I don't intend to, it's not my war to fight after all. The Zombie Lord was an exception and I hope I don't have to repeat it. But it's not like I won't be helping you in any way, I can think of a few ways to help if you're in dire need of resources."

Plus, I wanted to go back to the outpost when everyone would leave and rob them blind.

That's what you get for killing me and try to kidnap my friend.

"We don't lack a lot of resources right now, we actually have a lot more than we expected. Most of our complex items used to be brought from the Coral Kingdom at sky-high prices but with the Piglings, we can do our items as long as we know the recipe."

That was an unexpected boon, and I was glad that my friend had it.

Instead, I was thinking of what I should do in the next few months.

I still want to max my Crafting skill, I think I can also order some craftsmen to do another printing press for me and max out my Enchanting skill as well.

At the same time, I want to put a few golems in my home base for protection and move all of my chests from the Clan to my base.

Of course, I intend to leave some items to them, but that was primarily my treasure, so I intend on using it.

It's not like I didn't know what to do, but had too many things to do in such a short time.

It was like back on Earth where I had too many options and decided to do nothing.

No!

I was going to be productive, no break for me yet.

"Hey Bobby, do you think they'll let me look through the royal library?"

"I don't think they'll have a problem with that, but I'll have to ask what levels are you allowed on."

"That sounds fair, tell me when you know the results, and I'll probably think of how I should manage my time for the next few months."

"Sure, no problem, I will ask right now."

"Thank, you once again."

He just waved his hand as he left the office.

"Violet, are you here?"

I waited a few seconds and she appeared beside me like an assassin.

"I need you to help me with moving some stuff, BUT! I intend on paying upfront. "

She raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms signaling for me to continue.

"Do you know how to read?"

She shook her head as no.

"I'm sure Bobby would manage to get me the permission to browse through the library. In there, I can find some books with Redstone and I can read them out loud for you. What do you think?"

She closed her eyes to think before accepting my deal.

I could only smile at this since I planned on making her teleport throughout the whole Nather to move my storage.

Of course, I did have a plan to make her another Redstone room in my home base as payment for all the hard work, for now, I'm only waiting to get permission.

Half an hour later, Bobby came back with a smile on his face.

"Good news, I managed to get permission on all the levels except the last one, here's the permit if anyone asks you anything."

He gave me a book that said whoever had thid book, could go wherever he wanted, signed by someone I didn't recognize but someone else will.

"I'll show you where the library is, unfortunately I have to get back to work after this so I can't hang out with you anymore."

"Don't worry, I understand. Your now a man that has a lot of responsibilities on his shoulders, and with the upcoming invasion it would only get worse."

"Don't remid me of that, I don't even want to think about all the paperwork that I have to do."

We joked as we walked on the long hallways until we arrived at a wooden door.

"Here is the library, if you need anything don't hesitate to ask for me."

"Thank you again!"

After we said our goodbyes I opend the door and admired the royal library.

The library in here had an interesting design, similar with the one at the Sandstone Palace but different.

There was the huge opening in the middle where you could see all the floors filled with books, but the unique part of it, was the fact that the first floor was the top floor, and the rest were going downwards for three more levels.

While the Sandstone Palace used the natural light to illuminate the huge library, here instead they used lanterns, glowstone and even shroomlights.

It went for a different atmosphere but it was still comforting to browse around.

I slowly walked around the shelfs, looking at all the labels and noting down everything that caught my attention, until finally I found what we were looking for.

The Redstone category.

"Here it is Violet, let's do some reading."