<h4>Chapter 1193: Water</h4>


    Krune woke up in the morning of the next day, ate some of the rations brought by the bandits and helped Wang Hao learn some more words.


    As his grandson continued to learn, Krune smiled, exiting the house to see that there was nomotion in the vige. The bandits were healthy, brimming with power. It was because they had a surplus of food to eat, enough to even make snacks.


    To remain on night duty, the three bandits had brought a lot of provisions with them. Krune stored them all in his house, sighing as he thought, ''That''ll be enough tost three days for us.''


    As he was an old man while Wang Hao was still a child, the amount of food they consumed was very littlepared to burly men like the bandits who had to eat a lot to keep up with the energy requirements of theirrge figures.


    Krune didn''t head towards the location of the sentry of the bandits now. That would just be tantamount to suicide. They would be investigating the ce for any signs of clues. Thankfully for him, Krune had hidden the weapons he had looted from them.


    They weren''t stored anywhere in the vige. That would just be risky. Instead, Krune had cleverly ced them in the crack of a boulder far away from the vige. On top of that, the boulder was located in a barren location.


    No one would be going there. Plus, even if they were searching there, they still wouldn''t be able to notice the weapons ced at the end of the crack in the boulder where it waspletely dark, even during noon.


    So, it was pretty easy to overlook.


    As he had expected, there was a suddenmotion in the vige as the violent shouts of men resounded.


    "Everyone in this vige! Get out within a minute! Otherwise, we''ll exterminate the lot of you!" A burly man waved a scimitar around as he bellowed. Upon sight of him, all the vigers trembled and cautiously walked out of their homes.


    Upon seeing how skinny everyone had gotten since thest time he had seen, the burly man frowned, whispering something to the men he apanied.


    He then found the vige head, asking, "Did anyone from your vige disappear recently?"


    "Yes." The vige head shuddered in fear as he replied, "Old Leaf vanished yesterday."


    "Anyone else?"


    "Only him."


    "Show the way to his house."


    "Yes." The vige head humbly nodded, fear evident on his face, his body trembling from time to time. In the meantime, all the vigers had gathered in one location, dispirited. Most of them didn''t even seem to care about the bandits, ready to ept their fate.


    "This ce is done for." A bandit whispered to his colleague.


    "Yeah, it seems we pushed them too much recently. This vige has been the poorest among all the viges, after all." Another bandit nodded.


    "Anyway, once they die from starvation, we''ll demolish this vige and build a stronghold for us here," another bandit whispered.


    "Yeah, it seems our boss has some ns regarding the Barren Range. Since this ce is the closest settlement to it, it''s necessary for us," a smart bandit replied.


    "Why can''t we just kill them all?" Another bandit asked in confusion. "Why waste so much time waiting for their deaths? They''re bound to die anyway."


    "It''s not the right time yet," the smart bandit replied. "Boss said we still have a lot of other ns to execute before beginning our n here. And also, he ns to use the vigers to build our base. Might as well use the freebor, right?"


    "Hahaha!"


    Krune overheard their discussions through his sharp senses, frowning while kneeling on the ground with the rest of the vigers.


    In the meantime, the vige head showed a couple of bandits to Old Leaf''s house. Upon inspecting the inside, they were unable to find any clues, sighing as they nned to return. But suddenly, one of the bandits frowned, pointing at a window while asking, "Wait, what''s this?"


    "This…!" The other bandit frowned. "Looks like a beast''s w marks. But the way it has been done…"


    He then returned and informed the others as soon all the bandits finished inspecting Old Leaf''s house before leaving the vige. They left as quickly as they had arrived. After all, there was nothing of worth in this vige.


    Once the bandits left, the vigers got up one after another and dispiritedly returned to their work, tending to whatever remained of their farms.


    After ensuring that the vige head wasn''t injured, Krune arrived at the rocky patch ofnd and took a seat on the usual boulder, making the Cloud Whale bore holes into the ground. There was only a faintyer of soil, spanning a few centimeters in thickness over a patch of rock in the area the Cloud Whale was digging.


    So, once the soil patch was removed, the Cloud Whale cleaned up the ce neatly. It was noon when Krune gazed at the circle before him, shaped into a basin. The circle only spanned a meter in radius.


    And, at its center, the depth reached a meter. ''This is good enough to act as a reservoir of water.''


    Smiling, Krune made the Cloud Whale do all the work, using its suction ability to transport the soil elsewhere. In the meantime, he was continuing to carve the metal b.


    It was finally evening time as Krunepleted the task he had set out to achieve, calling the vige head as the two arrived before the basin.


    Upon seeing the Cloud Whale, the Vige Head was shocked, finally realizing that this was the ability resulting from Krune''s Imperial Arms—that was what he believed. Seeing his expression, Krune smiled, causing the Cloud Whale to hover in the center.


    Air Needle!


    A tiny hole was poked into the center of the basin as immediately, a thin, tiny geyser erupted out, reaching a height of a couple of feet. The water in the basin began to fill up as Krune muttered, "The source here is connected to a thicker underground water stream.. So, it''ll be b?r?ly enough for our vige''s needs."