Chapter 44: Chapter 44: Five year plan
The night was almost over, even the men who were skeptical were now willing to follow him whole heartedly, after discussing with Samantha and Drago they decided to move the people.
These two trucks and four cars would certainly not be enough not to mention he didn’t plan to leave behind his freezers.
So the plan was to take one truck back with all the freezers then return with every vehicle they had.
Which was not a lot, they only had 15 trucks and 44 cars. However he figured they would be enough.
After all, of the 15 trucks, 10 were military trucks like the one they brought. They were smaller but more fortified.
The rest were 18 wheels trailer trucks, they were made more for transport than battle. The truck left with most of the warriors.
A few hours passed, Samantha and Drago had everybody pack all they can pack and leave behind what is unnecessary.
From the distance they saw a row of vehicles heading their way, within minutes they were already Infront of the cave.
The new people watched them with amazement, especially the children. They were too excited.
Khali had the drivers open the umbrellas and told everybody to get in. They hesitated, the fear of the sun was deeply etched into their hearts.
Even though they can see his soldiers standing outside next to the vehicles unharmed they still feared going out during the day.
Samantha and Drago had to take the lead for them to follow. Once everybody was in they took off.
Their cave was left unattended, it took them around 3 hours to get back. The heavy transport trucks found it harder to drive in the desert.
Their trailers kept tilting as if they would fall anytime they tried to drive faster. The glass gates opened letting them in.
Everybody got out, they looked around at everything with amazement. " So much glass." Samantha whispered.
Khali had one of the warriors lead them in, they kept looking around the glass dome, everything they were seeing was new and interesting to them.
To be fair even his own people were still amazed by this. They entered the cave and came face to face with his statue.
His people clasped their hands in prayer, the others watched them and followed their lead. Khali used a few points of divine energy to make himself known.
This made his own people excited prompting the others to ask what that meant.
" The great lord acknowledged our prayer, that was him making his presence known and welcoming you." One warrior answered them with a happy smile.
The new people looked at the statue with wonder, even though they had never felt divinity before they knew.
They knew what they felt was not human at all, it was too perfect. Samantha was the most interested.
She desired to be a magic scholar so something like this was too fascinating to her.
She could feel it was not mana at all but it was energy. A different type of energy that felt superior to mana.
She decided to ask Khali, he seemed the most knowledgeable about Gods here.
" Divinity, what you felt is divinity."
" Is it possible for humans to use that divinity?" She asked. Khali laughed out loud drawing everybody’s attention.
" Not without permission no." He answered her. She nodded with a dejected look. Somebody else came and led them further in.
They were led to the first layer, the top layer was the living quarters of a few people like him, Viona, Lucy, etc.
The first layer was going to be the living quarters of others. He decided to place them across the river.
The other side was where Sam’s workshop was, he didn’t want them to not sleep because of that.
They were shown the rails and everything on the first day. Using earth magic, basic caves were created for each person.
Seeing the increase in population he decided it was time he introduced currency, that way everybody would earn as much as they worked.
Before, because of their low numbers he was willing to give everybody the equal amount of resources.
But now he was certain that would feel unfair to others. Of course certain things like food and clothing will still be provided.
But they will be the most basic, the one thing they will have to earn are mana cultivation techniques and spells.
Even his own people will have to pay for better techniques if they want to change the ones they were currently using.
Which most did, after all, he did give them basic techniques, their cultivation speed was low because of that.
With a better technique, it would be like having a higher affinity. Not only making their mana more pure but their cultivation speed faster.
Not to mention the awakened spells or techniques of higher ranked mana cultivation techniques were stronger as well.
So he called the chosen leaders to hold a meeting, namely, Freya, Lucy, Sam, Sebastian.
He and Viona, he also decided to bring Samantha and Drago to represent the new additions.
" Okay, now that we’re all here, let us begin." Lucy took out a stack of papers. Samantha touched the papers with interest.
" I’ve never seen such high quality paper, how do you make it?" Lucy beamed with happiness and was about to answer when he stopped her.
" It’s very nice listening to the two of you, I mean it’s not like what we’re about to discuss is important or anything so carry on."
Lucy nodded and was about to continue when Samantha coughed. " I feel like he was being sarcastic." She whispered.
" He was?" Viona asked, she really thought he was giving them permission, not that she cared, she was bored here anyways.
" Okay let continue." Booklet were given to everybody who was sitting around the table. " Those are my plans for the next five years."
Everybody read through them then looked at him. Turned out Drago couldn’t read. " Okay, introducing currency and laws is understandable but what’s this about school?" Lucy asked with a frown.
" It’s as you see it, we’re going to make an official school. You will teach science and maths and Freya will do biology.
Sebastian will take care of economics and politics, Sam will take arts, Samantha will teach about magic and mana and Viona will teach martial arts."
Their reactions were different, Lucy didn’t look happy and Viona was beaming like an idiot.
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Apologies readers to those who hate time skips but there will be quite a few.