Chapter 2 How to survive in a desert

Xhemile turned her gaze to her subjects and asked the how they would survive here in this desert.

“My Lady, we can bring you supplies but it would be better for you to see it and learn it yourself so you could do it too if we are not around.”: the second tallest woman responded softly as not to scare her. Xhemile was confused for a second and tried to refute her subject, but didn't find any words as she knew deep down that she was right. “Ok.”: she said defeated. “But at least let me give you names so that I can communicate better with you.” “It would be our honor, my Lady.”: the three women bowed deeply. She named the tallest woman of the trio Nane, the second tallest Nanu and the last Nour. Her subjects looked happier now named, but the happiness was disrupted from a roar outside the building. Xhemile looked confused at the door where she entered and let Nane go outside to look for the disturbance. “My Lady, please come outside. It is safe.”: she heard her say. Xhemile then followed after her voice and soon stood beside her to look what was there, it was a weird doglike creature.

[Desert Dog

Rank 1

Level 1]

“My lady, this is a Desert Dog. It commonly only lives as the name suggests in desert and despite the name dog cannot be tamed. These creatures are highly aggressive and vicious, they hunt everything which smells like prey, including humans. These monsters normally hunt in packs and use sometimes a tactic to bait inexperienced people to follow them and then be brutally attacked by the hiding remaining dogs.”: Nour explained to her. The desert dog then suddenly snarled aggressively, startling Xhemile which quickly hid behind Nane. "I-I see”: she said frightened. Nanu, holding the spear Xhemile found under the bed, walked confidently towards the dog, it tried to look weak, when she stood in front of it, it suddenly jumped up trying to rip the careless persons throat out, only to get stopped by the protection barrier. Letting out a pathetic whine it stood up again, this time not deceiving anymore and started to bark and growl loudly. Nanu wasn't even startled. In the contrary she knew it would do this, but she wanted to show her lady how devious these dogs were.” My Lady, shall we kill this monster?”: she asked. “Is there no other way?”: Xhemile tried to sound confident asking this question. “No, my lady, these monsters will come back if they found prey in specific areas. Thats why they are very hated by cattle farmers, they keep coming back and eat the cattle or the helpers of the farmer.”: she answered truthfully. Xhemile then thought about it, looking between the dog and Nanu, finally resigning and nodding towards her. Nanu saw the resolve of her lady and took a fighting stance, she then thrusted the spear with high precision towards the dog's chest. Xhemile closed her eyes and she only heard a squelching sound and a high-pitched whine. She opened her unfortunately to early and saw Nanu retract the bloody spear out of the desert dog's chest. Immediately her vision started spinning and she started puking onto the desert sand, she vaguely felt the hand of her subject trying to comfort her. After retching until nothing came anymore, she sat up again only to look at her worried subjects and the dog's corpse. “My Lady, you will become better at seeing such things, after all surely more monsters will come.” Xhemile only nodded. After that she concentrated on her system messages.

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{[Subject (Nanu) killed one [Desert Dog] of Rank 1

Gained Lord Power.]}

What is Lord Power? She asked herself. Fortunately, the system responded.

{Lord Power can be acquired through various means, like: slaying any creature yourself, subject slaying any creature, fulfilling quests, building buildings, leveling up buildings, etc.}

Her thoughts were disrupted as Nour asked her for other orders.

“My Lady, shall we butcher this creature's body and prepare its meat?”

“Yes, please do this, we all need to eat something.”: Xhemile answered. So, the problem for food and shelter is off the table but we also need water, where do I get water from in the desert? “Nanu, do you know how we get water in this desert?”: she asked finally.

“My Lady, please follow me I will show you.”

Nour walked towards a small hole in the sand by a small dune. She the thrusts her arm inside the hole grabbing something. Xhemile’s eyes almost fell out her sockets as Nour pulled out of the hole a really big insect with a large butt.

[Desert Beetle

Rank 0

Level 0]

“My Lady, this is a Desert Beetle. Despite its size, it is completely harmless as it only eats plant matter. The butt of this bug is so big because in there it stores a lot of water.”

Nour then shocked her as she pressed on the butt of the beetle and started to drink the water which flowed out of it.

“Do we not need to purify it first?”: she then questioned, hoping that she said yes.

“No, my Lady, the water which comes out of the butt of a desert beetle is purified and doesn't make sick, in the contrary it helps to supply the body with needed minerals. Would you like to try it my Lady?”

Xhemile’s face shifted to disgust and then quickly shook her head. Nanu then came with a cup in hand, holding it under the butt of the beetle and filling it with water. She then approached Xhemile holding the cup in front of her. She first hesitated a bit, but after encouraging motions of both Nour and Nanu she sipped a bit, surprised by the refreshing taste she gulped the cup completely down her now suddenly parched throat. She then felt a message from her system and opened the screen.

{[Access to the worldwide lord and lady channel now open.]

[Here you can message with lords and ladies worldwide.]

[A friends list is added]}

Xhemile opened the page and was completely overwhelmed as billions of lords and ladies tipped their messages.

[Messages]

“Where am I?”

“Does somebody know what is happening?”

“FINALLY, I WILL BUILD MY HAREM EMPIRE!!!”

“Has somebody seen my wife? Her name is Sophie Spark.”

“IM THE MAIN CHARACTER!!!!”

“Please help me there are hundreds of small green men in front of my barrier!”

“How Lucky! My troops are Lizardmen! I will rule the swamps!”

“What? My castle is inside a fu**ing cave. How am I supposed to survive here?”