Alina finally decides to accept it and says: "I will accept the contract as long as there are not many humiliating conditions…"
Feicui Long smiles and says: "Do not worry, the only conditions are that you will never reveal the information you hear in this house, nor my identity nor will you do anything that could cause harm to me or everyone in this house, such as betraying us or selling us out, besides that you are free to do whatever you wish."
Feicui Long closes his hand and the contract is generated immediately, releasing flashes of light and then he hands it to Ayame, who receives it and takes care of passing it to Alina.
Alina, a little embarrassed, asks: "How is it supposed to be signed?"
Andrea, who is at her side, kindly leans over and tells her: "Come, I suppose you do not know much about this, but you only have to do this." Taking a needle, Andrea gently pricks Alina's finger and lets a drop fall onto the paper.
The characteristic glow begins to appear while Alina's name is imprinted on the paper, then the contract fades into fragments of energy before disappearing completely.
Feicui Long then stands up and approaches her to tell her while touching her shoulder: "Congratulations, now you are one of ours, if you want you can move into this house, on the second floor there are empty rooms."
Feicui Long takes out a cultivation technique and some cultivation materials in a bag and hands it to her: "This is a technique that I have been designing for the army, it is unfinished, only at 33.33% but even so with that it will already allow you to cultivate up to the spiritual palace realm, of course it is not perfect, but I think it will adapt well to you, after all it is designed for people who did not advance much in their cultivation or started their cultivation at the age of 13."
Alina opens the bag and sees a book carefully wrapped in the leather of an energetic beast, on the cover it says, Emerald-Golden Radiance Technique vol 1, she could see stones of strange colors, medicines and more, she does not know much about this cultivation they talk about, when her memories awakened a few months ago in her village the first thing she thought of was escaping to see if she could find a way to return to Earth…
Feicui Long also takes out a few more books, these he had also written himself, he planned to place them in the library so that whoever wished to learn could read them, but they are basically books of inscription mastery, refinement and alchemy, he created several copies, so he was going to give these to Alina, originally he planned to keep them himself but he thinks it is better this way.
Then he tells her: "This will also help you, with your knowledge of chemistry you could perfectly practice alchemy or if you wish inscription mastery… as for your central priority, I want it to be helping me develop purification systems and the obtaining of acids, bases and other reagents, there are certain things that, although they are not useful for combat, can be useful to improve the village."
Alina saw the other books and took them, she is a fanatic of reading and learning, for a reason she did two doctorates, besides if this could give her more usefulness… perhaps her situation could improve even more.
Feicui Long then looks at everyone and speaks: "Well, with that said I hope you treat Miss Alina well, Mariane if you can teach her how to cultivate and give her bases in inscription mastery it could be useful."
Feicui Long then leaves the room accompanied by Elise and Isabella, talking about the budget and trade, with spring already here, soon the path toward this village will open and they must begin to build more things such as the barracks, training fields, the school he plans to make and completely restore the road between Skydragon village and Skylion town.
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From that day on, life in Skydragon village went on normally, with slow improvements, but little by little everything happened, from that meeting 6 full months have passed.
Feicui Long looks at the village, it had changed a lot… or well not so much compared to how it already was since everything was still almost the same as before, but at least its appearance did, now all its roads are paved, two schools were built and in planning a space was left for a university, one of the two schools is for children and the other for adults.
He could see Milena and Alexa, Clarisa's sisters, teaching children in the schools, although he did not see the content he knew what they were teaching them, they taught them to read, write and basic mathematics.
He was happy to see the schools, since they are beautiful schools, each has a library, 21 classrooms, 1 auditorium, 4 bathrooms, a dining hall and 2 teachers' rooms and the office for the principals, they were the first buildings that construction focused on, thanks to Feicui Long increasing his cultivation and recreating the golems that he had lost in the battle, now between his golems and Mariane's they had 210 golems that could work without rest for the first 3 months.
While seeing that he thought about the other constructions, his mind flew to the barracks…
The barracks are being built next to the training area for cultivators where Feicui Long used to train, they are large barracks for the village of course, the barracks are expected to be able to accommodate up to 1000 people.
One of the buildings has three floors and 50 rooms designed to have bunks and accommodate 4 people per room, that alone would house up to 600 people and for the moment it is the only one in the process of being finished, although it is only on the second floor.
But there are two auxiliary buildings planned for squad leaders and higher ranks, one with 50 rooms and three floors, with two people per room, lastly one with four floors with 25 rooms per floor for squad commanders and centurions.
Of course there will also be a storage warehouse for equipment, a dining hall, among others, one cannot have a barracks only with buildings, in addition to another library to store cultivation techniques, combat techniques, skills, etc and military stables.
All of this he thought of for a future perhaps not very distant where he would have to raise a decent army, having everything already prepared…
On the other hand, the training area was completely finished, since it was only necessary to build group and individual cultivation halls, in addition to using and expanding the already cleared area of trees by putting training tracks with mannequins, target practice, a covered area and a warehouse for training equipment.
As for why the training area was finished, it was because it was more of a priority than the barracks themselves after all, he only has 70 troops, 35 of which are his personal guards and 35 that are the army of his barony, so it does not make sense to give so much priority to the barracks when the training area has more use.
That was his idea, after all although he likes to plan for the future one must never lose sight of the present… that is why now he finds himself in a certain predicament…
During these three months he spent his time on the construction of the road and supervising the construction of the city in the middle of the Leechwald forest, which have been a heavy investment, of the 170 platinum coins he had 6 months ago and the other 30 that he earned in those 6 months, he spent approximately 55 coins paying external builders and the road barely managed to go beyond the new city.
There is still almost half left, while the city also advanced quite a lot, there are already 5 inns operating, a market, the governor's house, the forge and the sawmill, obviously houses for the inhabitants, a total of 100 houses, the gold mine and the energy stone mine were also built and the energetic tree logging area, which by the way the energetic tree in question turned out to be copper-bark oaks…
In addition without counting the cultivation fields and the houses for farmers and ranchers, along with stables, granaries, mills and more, which was the first thing that was built.
Currently counting that the city has garrisoned a thousand troops from Skylion county, plus the inhabitants and adventurers, the city has about 2 thousand people, of course it was not cheap at all, he literally had to hire builders from the entire Skylion county, to work for a full 6 months and obviously he has to pay the workers of the mines, the inns and the initial food that he had to buy.
Certainly he could have waited and reduced his expenses by approximately 80%, especially if he paid little…
Of course that is why he was in this uncomfortable position at these moments… in front of him was a furious Elise over his excessive expenses.
Elise tells him: "Are you crazy young master?, 55 platinum coins went just like that?, that is 20% of the Skylion county budget and you invest it… just like that?"
Feicui Long sighs heavily, he had been being scolded for some time, he knows that Elise is right, he spent too much but the truth is he does not have time on his side so he does not regret it and answers: "I know it was a big expense, but it is necessary, otherwise how do you attract people to a forest that was previously treated as forbidden land?, besides we cannot afford to delay the city, it has to be finished at least the essentials by the end of the year."
Feicui Long then stands up and looks through the clear glass window that he had installed in his office in order to observe his village and says: "Besides do we not benefit from this as well?, look at those merchants, I still remember the first ones who came they looked like frightened children and there were only 3 with few goods, thanks to that big investment, now they come in decent quantities."
Elise, frustrated, has to agree, without the investment in the road and the city these frightened merchants would not risk coming all the way here.
Feicui Long changes the subject and asks her: "By the way Elise, did you manage to open a branch of the Dragon Sky chamber of commerce in Skylion town?"
Elise then smiles when she thinks about it, she had been working hard to buy a good building and expand the commercial power of the barony, thanks to her father she managed to get good workers and now the barony has its own commercial caravan and an external branch.
Elise answers him: "Of course, in fact, I was waiting for you to free up a bit to go visit it and inaugurate it."
Feicui Long nods and says: "Good, then you can tell them that tomorrow I will go to visit it, I want to see who our new members will be."
Feicui Long was preparing to sit down and dismiss Elise when suddenly an alarmed and very violent knocking sounds on the office door…
When one of the guards opens the door, Irina quickly arrives panting: "Y-young master, there is a big urgent problem!"