After taking his dinner, Eduard immediately proceed to his room. He opened his system panel and choose to take his reward for accomplishing his mission.
[ ding! Successfully bestowing Hand to Hand Combat Skill]
A row of information appears on Eduard's head. The Information contains different skills to fight unarmed and fully utilizing his body as a weapon in combat. After a moment, the memories have fully integrated to his mind. The feeling was the same as he had train on it for more than a decade. Including his muscle memory, they are also part of the reaction. As long as he wants, he can show a prowess of an expert in Hand to Hand Combat.
"With this skill I should be able to match those people that in tier 3 iron level knight with an average skill even if they wield their weapon". He clenches his fist and punch in the air, a gust of wind was created from his punch. The curtains on his bed room were swayed from the punch.
After a moment of reviewing his improvements, he opened up his System Panel.
Host: Eduard
Occupation: Viscount/ Knight
Cultivation: Tier 1 iron knight (-> tier 2; 2 1/4 days)
Skills: ruler command (system bonus skill), Hand to Hand Combat Skill (expert)
Mission:
[ mission: create a farm land] [ Reward: 10x high yielding grain (3 sacks)][ mission: Buy slaves 0/20] [ reward: Military Training Manual (superior)].
Observing his status, there is 2 days left before he improved to tier 2 iron level knight. He did not bother to think much of it since it will release it's result in two days. He scan the other information and stopped his eyes in front of his new mission.
[ mission: Buy slaves 0/20] [ reward: Military Training Manual (superior)].
"This new mission is quite easy also; I should assign 3 knights tomorrow to make haste and buy them to the nearby city"
The rewards of the mission caught the interest of Eduard, since he was weak right now, he need a method to protect himself. This Military Training Manual will help his domain to improve the defense of his territory. Since his strongest knight was at Tier 8 Iron Level Knight, it cannot guarantee his safety and his territory. Specially when there are hunters and mercenaries at silver Levels that passed by who have bad intentions and tend to rob them.
Having this Manual will boost the ability of his knights and even help him to raise their tiers. Moreover, using his rulers command can help them, to be more dedicated to train as long as he commands them. Additionally, a sudden idea appears on Eduard's mind.
"Maybe I should add as well some children within 10 years old to be trained as guards and servants in the house" having the thoughts. He decided to discuss it tomorrow with Linda since some of this children slaves will be assigned to them.
After a while, Eduard feels tired and decided to go to sleep.
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Early in the morning, Eduard talked to Linda after his breakfast.
They discussed his idea of buying slaves and adding children slaves to be trained as servant and guard in his residence. Linda first opposes it specially the addition of slaves, they don't have much money and they are supposed to kept their money for unexpected expenditure and they also need to pay the knights of 5 silver per month. The tax they should pay was already under the family budget so they won't have to be bothered by it. But, buying slaves cost around 1 gold coins for male and 7 silvers for female. The price of children varied from 4 to 6 silver based on the age and their gender.
At the end of the discussion, they finally decided to take 5 children, two of these will be female to be assigned on Linda and Angie to train them inside the household chores, the 3 will be male to be trained as a guard. The rest will be 5 female and 10 males since having female slave can also help to increase the population of their laborer in the future. the cost of the slaves will be between 16 to 17 gold coins.
They also discussed that they should raise some chicken to be use for egg laying including the feeds for raising it as well as some seeds of vegetables that appropriate for the season to be planted. Eduard did not tell her that he will receive a batch of seeds of grains as reward after the farming bed was prepared, since the system existence should be kept as his secret.
"Alright Linda, you should talk to the Knight Captain Martin to assign the knights and make haste so they will reach the city by tomorrow".
Linda complied to Eduard's command and excuse himself. Eduard's on the other hand proceed at the backyard of his residence. Since it was still early in the morning, he choose to train first before he starts to help Angie and Linda in the kitchen.
Yesterday the two maids were surprised that he was good at cooking. They bombarded him with questions when they tasted his cooking and ask him to teach them his technique. He can't stop the two so he was compelled to teach them. Even though he was the Lord of this house, he was casual in front of his people like a friendly neighborhood, specially with the two maids which was treated by him as a family. The Slave and knight happily ate his cooking during lunch. He was also glad that his cooking was to their liking. So, he decided that he will help them to cook if he has time to cook at lunch.
The two maids also flaunt to knights and slaves that he was the one that cooked the soup for them, turning the attention everyone to him. He was shy by the gaze of this people; they look at him with adoration and reverence just because of his cooking.
But for the people, they respected him. Specially that he was the Lord, but he cooked for them, this was the first time that they see a noble that do this to his subordinates as well as the slaves.
"After a few moments, Eduard was bored in doing his exercise. There was no difference if he trains or not. He was already expert in this skill. He needs a sparring partner to train and gained a combat experience. But he can't disturb the knights since they were busy at making tents outside for residence".
When he was thinking of building houses, he realizes that he forgot to ask a skilled craftsman slaves to assign in making the houses in the future. Additionally, he needs someone to create a pen for the chicken.
He immediately run inside the house. Linda and Angie who were cleaning his residence was surprised when they see Eduard rushing to them.
"Young master, is there something you want you need some help?" Linda offered.
"Linda did the knight's that assign to go to city already departed?"
"Hmm, they are already preparing, they should be outside" Linda responded.
He immediately asked Linda to get some money to buy some skilled slaves for craftmanship. Linda immediately complied as she also forgotten to look for skilled people to do the work of constructing when they discuss the purchase of slaves, as her attention was on children to be recruited as servants and knights.
Reaching the site of Knight Captain Martin where they are repairing the tent for the slaves. He saw three of his knights saying goodbye to the Knight Captain.
When they saw the coming Eduard, they kneeled in front of him. Eduard sighed, he was thankful that he reaches them before they had gone or else he had to wait for their return to assigned them the task and get back to the city.
Three days after the departure of the knight, Eduard was now again at his backyard sparring with two of his knights. These two was Erin and Ernie, they are brothers that are both at 5th tier Iron Level Knight. The two was already at the age of 25, being stuck on tier 5 for almost 5 years they were both assigned to him . The family, already regarded them as talentless and have no future and use for them.This morning he only learned that the two knights was always bullied in the household and the resources for them was always seized by the stronger knights on their group. They also used them as a training dummy for their technique, in the end they always received injury resulting to stagnating of their cultivation.Eduard pitied them, luckily the family had given up to the two. After the 3 knights came back from the city with the 20 slaves, he will have the manual to improve them. Since this two endure their predicament for 5 years and still dedicated to tra
Inside the Chris Manor, a young man at around age of 20 is sitting on the chair, while holding a cup of coffee. the man resembles the face of Eduard but look much older than him. The color of his hair was also different from Eduard dark color hair, his hair is gray in color.This man was Darwin, the first son of Chris Family Leader.He was now facing an old man in a butler uniform. The old man was at the age of 60's, but his body is vigorous as a young adult. There is also a silver aura that surround him, indicating that he was in Silver Tier Level Knight. He was only standing silent on the side, waiting for the young man in front of him to speak."Steve, did you confirm that my brother Eduard placed was only a desolated area?" the Darwin asked. The old man move in front of him, "Yes Young Master, it is at the border near the beast man territory. The young master Eduard troops will have a hard time there to gain foot h
Two days after the arrival of the new slaves. Eduard was now happily taking his breakfast together with the five kids and maids. The complexion of the five turn better within this two days. A livelier aura was surrounding them, unlike 2 days ago when they arrive, their eyes are lifeless. Their fever was also gone away.Beside, the kids was also attach to him, as he tend to them when he was nothing to do in his mansion. Right now they are happily eating their breakfast while enthusiastic to help him. Since this morning, he announced to them that they will be trained by the maids and knights to serve for him. The kids did not show dissatisfaction in the course of his expectation. They are more than happy, since they will not joined the other slaves instead their task are within the mansion.He also learned that before they were catch by the slave trader they are already abandoned kids in the street.Well, they are lucky that they fall in Ed
Reaching the location near the forest, Captain Martin immediately come to Eduard, " My Lord, we have caught a Horned Board. Please give us the instruction ". Eduard eyes wandered on the surrounding Knights before he face Martin, " Captain, is there any casualties on the knights?". " You don't have tio worry my lord, the Boar just manage to enter the rank of Iron level, so the knights easily killed it. ". Martin said with assurance. Eduard was thankful that nobody was injured, since they have only limited supply of medicine if anybody was grievously wounded. Eduard walk near the boar and observe the look of the beast. He was shocked to see that the boar was thrice the size of regular boar on earth. ' this boar just enter the rank of iron level with this size, how much larger the other beast t
Eduard was looking at his System panel while walking to the knights barracks. Host: EduardOccupation: Viscount/ KnightCultivation: Tier 4 iron knight (-> tier 5; 1 day)Skills:ruler command (system bonus skill), Hand to Hand Combat Skill (expert)Mission:[ Mission : Raise the level of your 10 knights to Silver Level] [ Reward: Magician Occupation][ Mission: Hunt a hundred Iron Level Beast 3/100 ] [ Reward: 10x Healing Potion ( Superior Grade)][ Mission: Create a water path for irrigating the field ] [reward: High quality corn seed x 1 sack] The Beast Hunting count had added another two since the knights met another Horned boar in the East forest while doing their patrol. They should have lost from their group and accidentally run into hos territory. Horned Boar are the types of beast that move in group of t
Digong was on the post of the knight. His given job by Eduard was to assist the knight in looking for any people that appear on the territory, and as a message deliverer, if an intruder had come to invade. It was only passed the Lunch time, he has to accompany one of the knights on duty who assigned as his guardian in training. Looking from a far, he noticed a carriage that is coming at a fast speed in their direction. He called out the attention of the knight beside him who is facing the opposite side."Uncle Eren, Look! A carriage was coming to this direction in a fast speed". Eren also looked at the direction that Digong was pointing out. A familiar insignia in front of the carriage was visibly hanging in front of the carriage. ' someone from the Chris family', he muttered." Digong, immediately look for Captain Martin, inform him that someone from Chris family is coming" 
" Alright 90 beast to go ", Eduard muttered, seeing the count of the beast they hunted.The red eyed wolf was the seventh beast that they encountered during their hunt. The knights with him was already worn out and taking a rest to regain their energy. During his fight with the red eyed wolf. He requested the knight to let him take it solo. They were only allowed to interfere if he is in danger. His Knight complied to his request and move to the side. They are observing his battle and preparing themselves to rescue. Afraid that he will be in danger in any moment. At the end, they are shock to the capability of Eduard to parry the wolf. Even though the wolf was already a six tier iron level beast. It didn't gain any advantage during the battle. The most eye catching only is its speed that was hard to follow by the naked eye even for an eight tier knight.
It is already dark when Eduard reach his house, the guards escorted him when they saw his team coming out of the forest. They also assisted to bring the corpse of the beast that they hunted, bringing it to gather the selable materials and keep the meat. Roxy was still on Eduard's arm, he planned to let her stay and her father in the mansion, since there is no place that is better for them to stay until they recovered. Entering the door of the mansion, Eduard saw a familiar face at the door."Ehmm, E-elder sister your already here." He said. Eduard voice was strutted from the appearance of Estrella in his mansion. He thought that she will appear by next week. Alas , Eduard suddenly move to the vacant room on the first floor of his mansion, feeling that his arm was numbed on carrying Roxy. He ignored Estrella and passed through her. Estrella was shock from what she had seen. The fo