Blood Core: Pursuit of Madness and Purpose by Matthew Peed

Author:Matthew Peed [Peed, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

The Blood Core – 19

Maxwell

Fortune smiled on my village during the night. I had feared with the creation of the wall, we would alert something hostile to our presence. When I woke in the morning, no alarm had been raised, and everyone got a decent night’s sleep in the new cabins. That was all the report I needed as I teleported up to the Immigration Gate.

Munching on some cold jerky, I waited for the timer to end. With the gate activating every twelve hours, I was able to divvy up my day easily enough. For the first half, I planned to gather resources, which mainly implied that I would be cutting down trees with Spatial Tear. I also wanted to check out the mining and quarry nodes. If I could speed that up even a little, it would help out greatly.

“Could really use a mana stone,” I mumbled, tearing a piece from the jerky. I knew that jerky was the most common travel food in this world. Rowena had several inventory slots worth since it was so cheap in the city. Still, I wanted something with a bit more taste. The meat soup that the village served every meal right now was good, but again after four meals of it, I had wanted a change, hence the jerky. In this case, I decided I would have preferred the soup.

A lot of the buildings that I wanted to construct required mana stones. I had a feeling that was due to the nature of magicworks. One of the cons, as it were. I had discussed it with Rowena this morning, but like she’d said yesterday, she wasn’t too familiar with the lordship and village-building mechanics of the game.

The gate started to activate as I took my last bite of the jerky. I stood up from the boulder I was sitting on and walked over to welcome the newest members of our community. There were only three portals this time. Two women and a man. When I asked their stories, they were much the same as the last group’s, mainly consisting of them having wanted to leave their current location or lot in life. Either way, I welcomed them before teleporting us down to the plaza, as I was starting to consider it. I directed them to get some food and help out where they could.

“Welcome back,” Rowena called as I watched the group leave.

“Thanks. Only three this time. The gate appears random.”

“What can you do?” She shrugged. “Just be glad we are getting new members at all. Twenty-five would have made this whole operation nearly impossible.”

I chuckled and nodded in agreement. “I’m going to head over and start cutting trees down. Are you going to commune?”

“Yes. I can sense when a place will work. Luckily, there are a few inside the wall, so I don’t have to be quite on edge today.”

“Don’t forget about him,” I remarked, pointing to the giant blue bird that was casting a shadow over us. Greavefeather was seemingly enjoying his freedom from the cave.

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