Grandpa is stronger thank to his quotidian mana dose. He look around the Baronet through the day and come to observe new worlds with me at night.

Grandpa said he was preparing a plan for the baronet based on the new knowledge. Since our Territory is on the border near the monster empire we don’t have a lot of visitors, merchants come every six months. The road between us and the nearest city is full of magic beast, and sometimes monster raid the land near the border, moreover our baronet is quite poor which don’t attract merchants.

Our Baronet has 2 entries one on the west and the only entry that is currently used, the second to the south it lead to the ocean it is really hard walk down to the shore.

In the north, the east and the south there is three mountains, on each a village has been constructed and in the middle of all of it a valley with Bladebreaker city in the center.

Our baronet is really grand 3/4 of a Count territory but really impracticable, it took a long time to grandpa to reclaim the lands. Between the north and south mountain there is a large wall to stop monster and bandits invasion.

The flanks of the mountains are dangerous to climb and are rarely used as point of invasion, nonetheless patrol still go there everyday to look for trace of potential enemies. It was easy to defend it from an invasion.

He wants to first develop the village around the Bladebreaker city since nobody outside the baronet citizen go there, second to develop the baronet army a Baron is allowed to have 500 soldiers, but our poverty limit us to 50 soldiers which limit our diplomacy, dad can’t visit or respond to invitation from other nobles because to leave he needs guards, that would leave the baronet with a very limited protection.

Once we are strong enough to keep our wealth, we will develop the city. Grandpa was seduced by Earth Industry, he wants to do something like that by exchanging electricity by mana. He said the humans of earth are on suicide path.

My days went like that training, learning and peeking to other worlds. Grandpa changed my knight training to match with otherworld Qi refiners, now mana change my blood, my bones, my organs, before it was only muscles and skins were trained. As for magic Grandpa couldn’t help me so i trained a lot to master all the difference way to use it.

Two months after dad came back from his Two years of war against the monster empire, the elf aunt gave birth to a little girl. I began my work as a big brother, thank to my eyes i could see my sister even if i was in the mansion.

I began to ask to go to see her everyday, i couldn’t go alone so guards would come with me. After a few days i began to complain because it was too far and aunt Elise house was too small for me to sleep there.

I did that for 3 months, it was really annoying so i asked for my sister Eva to be moved to the mansion. Mother was displeased so grandpa told me to say a magic phrase « mom elves are only allowed as slave in our kingdom, its dad fault if her freedom has been taken, little Eva can’t inherit because of being an half-elfe, so you could just let go Aunt Elise back to the Elven Empire. She too has a family maybe an elf husband and children, she is the victim here. We keep Eva and free Aunt Elise. Like that everyone is happy. »

Dad grunted and mother smiled « sure our son has taken from me, go suggest this to your aunt if she agree we would escort her back to her family ».

Dad said « we can’t do that the elven empire is too far »

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Mom smiled and answered « the elven and monster empire are allied, we can escort her to the monster empire and give her money for her to travel back »

Dad grimaced and said « fine if she agree, i agree ».

I became the messenger while i visited my sister. Aunt Elise said that now that she gave birth to a mix blooded child the elves would not take her back and she will be hunted to death. I went back to my parents, they didn’t know about the elf usages. Mother after a long silence said that she could live with us in the mansion. Dad quickly hided his smile.

The days passed, my tenth birthday came and something changed. My parents, George and 10 guards went to tour the different  nobles neighbors to look for a fiancé to the future baron… ME.

Caroline also needed an engagement so uncle George went with them, Dad said Caroline had high chance to be ranked up to Baron. He explained he would us his relations with people in the front line for both of us to be well received, when we do our military service.

Dad offered to help them because the land that they may be given by the king will certainly be between us and the viscount Harlot. That would be a trade bridge and increase the safety of the trade roads. It would benefit the baronet a lot.

The goal of the two marriages would be to earn support to clear the future baronet of the Redgazer family.

My parents were not here, it meant that i was in charge of the baronet. Moreover, my father belong to Duke Landerson faction who controls a lot of military power, all the noble on the east which is the border with the Monster Empire are in this faction. My parents trip will last for a long time since he will stop a lot.

My father is well liked because he exchanged military merits against money. A lot of noble went to my father to get his services, to flaunt their house prestige. My father is a silver knight, a good military officer and he his in the good grace of current Landerson Duke and the also the old Duke. 

He told  me « i couldn’t improve our rank because the year i did my military service Duke Landerson did his too, and taking the light from a Duke is a very bad idea, so i offered my service in exchange of benefits, and i got the Duke words that in your generation we would improve to Viscount ».

I will be the Baron for few months, actually i have nothing to do other that training magic and my body, Caroline should have taken her father job but Aunt Elise is far more qualified.

Winter has passed and spring is coming, during these two years Grandpa and i prepared a new agricultural plans, now our baronet went toward higher legumes and fruits productivity.

Caroline followed my father to learn how to manage a Baronet, she got to see the change too. In permaculture the first year is observation of the lands and the environment to see how it react and the second year is to began the culture.

We gave up the observation step and directly planted, the first year the production of food increase by 4 times, a lot of unused land have been reclaimed during that year, new agricultural lands would be used. We built greenhouse to grow seed in security, and to have some food growing in winter.

This year we hope to increase again our food production to export it out of the baronet. We plan to sell fruits during the end of summer the extra will be transformed and sell as jam.

Grandpa and i stole a lot of recipe from earth, the food development is far higher than us. We stole the way of making butter, before goat were used for meat now we use them for milk too. We copied the recipe for crêpes too, it will become our baronet speciality!

Grandpa decided to stop to agricultural improvement until i do my military service. My duties for the following months are, to control the process of planting seed, organizing the soldiers patrol, read their reports and to arbitrate in case of conflict between citizens.

Depending of when my father return i might have to negotiate with the merchants, they will come in the end of June.

The head of soldiers Bernard is a veteran of war, i asked him if he needed my help to manage the soldiers and patrol, he laughed and said that i could train without worry. i asked that in case of monster or bandit attack he had to alert me.

After 3 years of training both Caroline and me were able to grow to copper skin level, however with the new method its all my body that became copper my blood has a copper tint in it.