Chapter 9: Second night is there! Make mudbricks!
Xhemile now had to wait until the bricks were dry, which would take a full day. She could upgrade the castle at the end of the next day. She sighed. She would use the next hours with her subordinates to make mudbricks.
“So, guys, you ready to craft 300 mudbricks?”: She asked full of enthusiasm.
“Eeeh... my lady, I must stand guard to protect the castle.”: Nane tried to flee, but Nour was faster and held her by her ear and said seriously.
“You will also make mudbricks. There is a barrier for the next eight days and before that we are relatively safe.”
“Okay...”: Nane said meekly.
They gathered in front of the castle and started to craft mudbricks. This took several hours and before long, the system announced the second night.
{[Lords and ladies, the second night is approaching.]
[In one hour, all monsters will be buffed by 100% more aggressiveness and their stats increase by 100%]
[Hide or stand and fight is the question.]}
Xhemile wasn't extremely worried and they continued to craft. They finished the crafting of mudbricks and few additional bone spears five minutes before night fell. She opened the lords message platform to look at the reaction of the people.
[Messages]
“Shit! Second night, I'm going to hide like a mouse!”
“Me too!”
“I will fight, bunch of weaklings here in chat!”
“Let him fight, but don't curse when your troops get annihilated!”
“I didn't have much monsters in front of my barrier last night and they were all giant rats.”
“How lucky can one be! I had a full horde of undead in front of mine!”
She closed the message platform. The panic and fear of the previous night didn't settle as much as she thought.
{[Night is here! Please try to survive.]}
The world went dark and Xhemile heard the familiar howls in the distance. A short period of time later, they heard the barking and whining of many desert dogs. The dogs again surrounded the barrier and tried to force themselves in. The frenzied dogs were not much of a threat but the alpha was also there, he stared at Xhemile, waiting to finally eat her.
“Everybody! On your positions! We try the same strategy as last night! Split up and position in regular distances. When the alpha comes to close, stop killing the dogs and wait until he left the surroundings and can't control the dogs anymore.”: Xhemile ordered, completely missing that she just gave an order like a seasoned general.
“Yes, my lady!”: Her subjects answered her. They then started to split up and killing dogs. Soon the system notifications started to roll in. Xhemile positioned herself too but needed to wait until the alpha distanced himself enough so she can without worry kill dogs. But she changed her killing pattern and only targeted rank 1 dogs so she could level faster. They soon entered the rhythm of slaying dogs and resting to replenish energy and eat. The entire night they killed dogs and stopped when the alpha came too close. When daybreak came and the dogs retreated again, the alpha stared at Xhemile with hate filled eyes until it left too. Xhemile too exhausted to care anymore just went upstairs to sleep.
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After resting for four hours, she sat up in her small bed and looked through the system messages.
{[Notifications]
[Youve slain 14 [desert dogs] of Rank 0]
[Youve slain 43 [desert dogs] of Rank 1]
[Your subjects have slain 245 [desert dogs] of Rank 0]
[Your subjects have slain 51 [desert dogs] of Rank 1]
[Gained Lord Power.]
[Gained 1 unknown blueprints.]
[You leveled to level 9. 20 undistributed stat points gained.]
[Your subjects (Nane, Nanu, Nour) have leveled up to level 10.]
[Your subject (Neeth) leveled up to level 2.]
[Your remaining subjects reached level 4.]
[Your subjects (Nane, Nanu, Nour) reached level 10 would you like to rank the up?] [Y/N]
She willed ‘yes’ and looked at the new stats of her subjects.
{[Tribeswoman of the Karomama Tribe]
Name: Nane
Age:22
Level: 0
Rank: 1
Class: Worker
Loyalty: 90
Stats:
Strength (Str): 15
Constitution (Con): 17
Dexterity (Dex): 13
Intelligence (Int): 8
Wisdom (Wis): 6
Charisma (Cha): 10
[Skills]:
(Trained Desert adaptably Rank 5) (Trained Desert maneuvering Rank 3) (Apprentice Logging Rank 1) (Apprentice Mining Rank 2) (Apprentice Digging Rank 3) (Trained Construction Rank 2)}
Xhemile was positively surprised by the strength she gained from ranking up her subjects. She then opened her own status and allocated some status points.
{[Status]
Name: Xhemile Sanders (Queen of the forsaken deserts)
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Class: Lady
Territory: Karomama Castle
Level: 9
Stats:
Unallocated: 30 -> 0
Strength (Str): 8 -> 15
Constitution (Con): 8 -> 16
Dexterity (Dex): 8 -> 14
Intelligence (Int): 9 -> 13
Wisdom (Wis): 5 -> 10
Charisma (Cha): 4
[Skills]:
(Apprentice Desert adaptability Rank 4-> 9) (Apprentice Desert maneuvering Rank 4-> 8) (Trained Spearmanship Rank 1) *
[Structures]:
(Derelict Mudbrick Outpost Rank 0)
(Summoning Circle Rank 0)
[Subjects]:
[Rank 0
Workers: two others
Rank 1
Workers: Nane, Nanu, Nour
Leatherworkers: Neeth]}
Yes, I am definitely stronger now. She celebrated her level ups with small jump off from the bed. She then looked at the unknown blueprint she obtained and let the system identify it.
[1 common blueprint: Leather soaking Pot
A pot used to soak bigger amounts of leather in water.
Costs:
20 units of refined iron]
This blueprint was definitely useful but she didn't have any iron at hand but she didn't worry too much as she has obtained another large amount of meat to trade with. She walked to the mirror and started to clean herself with the water somebody placed on a small table next to the mirror. After cleaning herself and brushing her hair she walked downstairs to the table where her subordinates all waited to eat with her. While eating she saw that the aura of Nane, Nour and Nanu now resembled Neeths a little, they all ranked up. To her shock she also noticed that their skin now looked much softer than before and they all looked more attractive than before. Her mood instantly plummeted. She shook of her envy and focused on eating. After a late breakfast the went outside to check up on the mudbricks, they would be ready faster as the sun mercilessly shone from above. She then decided that they would rest today as the sun even with [desert adaptivity] burnt the skin after an hour of being outside. The good side of it is that the dogs also didn't leave their hideouts as it was too hot even for them.