A week has passed since the building of the wooden barricades. At first, countless beasts would head straight into the barricade only to meet their end instantly and some would back off contracting poisons on their body and the villagers would just have to deal a bit more damage for them to fall.

The meat wasn't a problem anymore every night the villagers would dine with meat and fruits. I asked Gerrart what was the village specialty before they moved out and he happily replied that back in the kingdom they were good at making clothes using the hides from the beasts but after moving here in the wilderness it got hard for them to make clothes because the lack of tools and the dangers of hunting with limited people.

Now with the continued supply of beast, I could see the villagers wearing a new set of clothes from time to time, they have changed from their ragged clothes from before. Now with their livelihood back at their tracks, they were all excited for new things to come.

"How far is the next village to our place?" While eating I asked Gerrart.

"The nearest would be a five days travel while walking, but every three months there would be traders from their village that would come here and I think the next time they come would be two days from now.

Gerrart would reply immediately from every question I ask, even with everyone eating at the center and enjoying all were sober as there was no wine or any alcoholic drinks that they could drink. I asked if they ever have tasted wine at all but I was only met with disappointment they said that only nobles on their kingdom could afford wine and even their past village elder only has tasted one cup from a noble who visited their village before.

Seeing a bunch of fruits especially berries on the table I could see the potential Winemaking here in the village in the future but for now, it would be just a waste of time. Even I don't have any idea how to make wines at all.

After having a few more conversations with the villagers and Gerrart I came back to my hut to get some rest. The next day was pretty normal the villagers continued replacing their crude wall that was only meant for humans to the barricade that I have introduced to them. Now the barricade had almost started to surround the village there fewer villagers that were assigned to guard and now I have few more extra people that are available to my plans.

Now with the barricade on track and also the wheelbarrow being used as a way of transport for materials and food everything went well until I heard shouts from the villagers outside the wall. After hearing the shouts Gerrart and I instantly became serious. With Gerrart having the experience to intruders he immediately got himself a spear and threw one for me too.

After heading to the entrance of the village there were roughly 50 people outside with ragged clothes and look super malnourished.

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"What's the problem where did these people came from?" I asked while talking in the distance. A villager runs off to me and replied that they were from the neighboring village but was suddenly attacked by a beasts horde and had just escaped.

For fifteen years the village had never experienced a beast horde so when they heard that the neighboring village had been destroyed by beasts everyone was starting to get scared.

After confirming they weren't hostile I commanded Gerrart to let them go inside and feed them. After that, I called Gerrart again and called the villagers that were placed to guard the barricades for a meeting. I commanded some villagers to conduct a census to those who have just arrived and see if any people have specialized in something.

An hour later the villager arrived with the complete census of the refugees. there were 3 blacksmiths, 15 carpenters, and 2 retired soldiers and the rest were the residents of the neighboring village. After hearing the report I was ecstatic finally a blacksmith! there was no blacksmith in the village so having the news of a blacksmith joining us was the best that I could hear since I came here now it was possible to forge metal and iron I can finally move away from wooden and stone tools.

"Bring the blacksmiths and retired soldiers to me, and also bring those carpenters to the barricades and let them know how to build it and ask them if they can even make it sturdier and better."

"Yes, Sir!" The village hurriedly came back with both blacksmith and the retired soldier. They were a bit nervous when they heard that I was a Royal Inventor even the retired soldiers were surprised.

"Please be at ease, I just want to ask some questions." Hearing me that I wasn't so commanding they were at ease immediately.

"As you can see, we don't have any blacksmiths nor soldiers in our village and we would be glad if you're people would decide to stay in our village from now on."

Both the blacksmith and the retired soldiers were surprised, they thought that after eating their fill they would be chased out as it would be normal to do so. They were roughly 50 people and the food consumption would be huge and it would be hard to support them.

"If you think about how we will be able to feed all of you then worry not, those barricades that you saw outside the village have at least defended and killed countless beasts already. So we don't lack any food It's just that in our village their arent many people who have specialties on something."

"Oh, that's why I could smell poisons at the walls when we reached the village. The wall serves both defense and offense at the same time If only these structures were at our village then we can fend off some of the beasts." The retired soldiers were both surprised and saddened at the same time. If only they have this kind of structure they could have at least defended their village and not getting overrun by the beast horde forcing everyone to flee everywhere.

After a thorough conversation with both blacksmith and the retired soldiers, they came back to their people and return an hour later to give their allegiance to me knowing that I was a supposedly a Royal Inventor the five of them kneeling before me as a sign of respect and as a representative to their group.

Placing them on a temporary shelter tomorrow would be different from the neighboring village getting attacked by a beasts horde, there would beg a possibility that they could come after our village so I must prepare to defend the village and strengthen the security.