HPDBC Chapter 24: Provocation
Chapter 24: Provocation
chapter 24: provocation
three days have passed since i started digging potatoes. it is almost the end of october now.
“i’m going out at noon today.”
“what? is that so? don’t be too late.”
“yeah, i’ll be home before dusk.”
i have finished digging all the potatoes and have a lot of potatoes in the garden. i’m going to sort the potatoes into small and large, and deliver 60% of the potatoes, excluding the seed potatoes, to the village mayor. during the harvesting season, the garden is quite overwhelmed.
as for the collection of taxes, people in wagons come regularly several times a year at a certain time. the next one will come in early december, so i can sort through them until then.
i have more potato sorting to do in the morning. i’m becoming a farmer.
gelda also told me about the work to be done after the potatoes were sorted. i have to remove the stems and roots that are still growing in the field. if i don’t, they will be in the way when i plant new ones next spring. then there was the work of checking the narrow canals to see if they were buried and making sure they were of uniform depth. i will manage the irrigation canals that border the fields assigned to rodan.
(i’ll work on this one in between. but still, the cards are finally ready.)
three days have passed since rodan woke up from his injury.
3 days ago
-11 f-rank beast
-2 f-rank insect
-2 f-rank bird
-15 f-rank grass
current
-16 f-rank beast
-3 g-rank insect
-2 f-rank insect
-2 f-rank bird
-7 f-rank grass
(i’ve finished adjusting the cards and strengthening has reached level 2.)
i reduced the number of grass cards and increased the number of f-rank beast cards so that i could gain strength and work in the field more easily. and now that i had finished organizing the cards, i continued to spend mana to raise strengthening to level 2. i have also got a general idea of the effects of strengthening level 2.
strengthening level 2
consumes 10 mana.
the effect is to increase two statuses of the target by 20.
however, rodan was unable to go boar hunting this winter. he only had enough meat of one kill despite being seriously injured, and a small amount of food that the village mayor had left as a sympathy gift. he also received gifts from his fellow serfs who had been hunting the boars with him. but compared to the 100 kilograms of meat from the great boar other years, it doesn’t seem like we can buy enough firewood this winter.
in order to protect the new life in theresia’s belly and his family, allen was trying to catch a bird.
(well, aside from a magical beast like the albaheron, even a crane like bird would have an edible portion of two kilograms, and i am hoping to catch fifty of them.)
there are also some magical beasts in the sky, like albaheron, who are crossing to the north. however, i have no intention of catching them. i was aiming for large crane-like birds that also fly in this season. i decided to provoke them using pyonta and lure them to this trap.
an hour passed by as i laid low with such thoughts.
(one of them doesn’t work, huh? guess it was a good thing i made three cards just in case.)
i summoned a second pyonta. the second pyonta started bouncing around in the same place using provocation.
another hour passed by.
(damn – even two are not enough. or maybe they are flying too high in the sky and out of range. i don’t even know the range of the provocation in the first place.
kahn
kahn
kahn
the three o’clock bell was ringing.
(it’s already 3:00. i told kurena i couldn’t play with her today. i haven’t seen her for days.)
i haven’t played knight with kurena since rodan was seriously injured. i refused to do so because i have to take care of the house. kurena looked lonely for a moment, but then replied that she understood. for the past two days, kurena had not come to my house.
(okay, let’s add one more to make it three. this is all i’ve got.)
“gekko gekko.”
“gekko gekko.”
“gekko gekko.”
three pyontas were jumping apart in a round space created in a fallow field. they become red, blue and yellow alternately.
i was ready with my wooden sword at any time, but there was no change at all.
(it’s too early to give up. maybe i’ll increase the number of pyonta and try again tomorrow.)
that’s when it happened.
there was an object that swooped down from the sky. it appeared right in front of allen, who was about to give up and let his guard down. a large claw-like foot attacked one of the insects. it turned into a glowing bubble and disappeared.
“gaaaaaaaah!”
as it landed in the center of the round space, it spread its four-meter wings menacingly and let out a loud cry.
albaheron had descended from the sky.