《New earth》 The start of a journey I woke up the sun dazzling my eyes . I I looked up at my old tattered calendar and saw the large circle around this day it was the day ,the day the latest vr video game the new earth would be released excitement instantly replaced my tired cloudy eyes.Due to its jaw breaking graphics and its cheap marketing price it was an instant hit to people from all walks of life. I booted up my cranky old computer to have a final look at the dream techs forums they had released very little apart from a countdown to the games opening time and a few clips to show off the games incredible graphics. The countdown finally hit one minute as I strapped on his vr mask and waited. A minute later the darkness disappeared replaced my a fiery battle between monsters and people it was a chaotic scene with spells flying around and swords crashing into each other it was quickly changed to a picture of a scene with 4 choices adventurer lord dungeon core or divine.i thought about it for a while I was bored of the generic RPG adventurer so I quickly crossed that one out , being a god in heaven seemed boring so I crossed out the divine I was left with being a lord or dungeon core player and chose a lord crossing out a dungeon as being in an abyss like darkness 24 7 didn¡¯t seem my cup of tea.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. - [ ] Those four large words merged and transformed into a a multitude of different races of which there were orca goblins and elves to note a few, I looked over most of the races without blinking but my gaze lingered on elves it was a childhood fantasy of mine , eventually while gritting my teath I picked the vanilla human race as I didn¡¯t want to min max my play this early. Finnally the people each turned into a stream of different islands or continents some were massive and others tiny and on the outskirts of the map. I grinned as I picked a spot on the mouth of a river on the largest continent it is better to be a small fish in an ocean than a big fish in a pond.i appeared 100 metres in the sky and floated down to the ground.Next to me was a river which was wider than the eye could see after making sure I was in th correct place I took out the only item in my inventory an ordinary village token and planted it in the ground 200 metres from the river for a few moments nothing happened and than the token turned into particles of light and turned into a fairly big house with village Lord¡¯s manor on front of it.Infront of the manor was a stone pillar from where I could manage the settlement it was the heart of my future kingdom. My new journey had started. The start of something great After making sure there were no more changes in the landscape apart from the manor and the stone pillar. I walked up and put my hand on the stone pillar. For a second nothing happened and then some scrawled script appeared an arm length from my face. player notification:As a congratulations on taking your first steps as the lord of a kingdom we will give you 10 gold, 100 villagers with 20 special talents among them and 300 merit points . Before seeing the stats of your newly made village please grace your territory with a name. A table than came up from the ground with a quill in a bottle of ink and a stamp next to it. The price of paper went through a few mumbling lines before finishing with a line with name wanted next to it. I stood for a while before the table my mind as blank as a blank peice of paper before a struck inspiration from the surroundings in particular the river I wrote in a flowing handwriting that I had always wanted Riverside. The paper than proceeded to turn into particulars of light and turn into a table . Territory:River side(Grade 1 ordinary Village) Lord: Jack (3rd class citizen 300/1000 merit points) Title: none People¡¯s average loyalty: 70 Security: 0 Territory population: 100/200 Flow rate of immigrants: 10 * (10 x 0%) = 10/ day Amount of vassal players0/10 Territory area: 9 square kilometers Territorial characteristics: 0% increase attracting immigrants, 0% increase in attracting special talents, 0% increase in crop production, 0%increase in production capacity of residents, 0% increase in military promotion, 0% increase in talent breakthroughs. Treasury: 10 gold coins Territory Resources: 5000 units of food, 500 units of wood, 500 units of stone, 500 units of iron ore Territorial army: None Territory Industry: NoneThe author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Main religions:None Political index: 5/100 (determines administrative efficiency and relationship with the people) Economic index: 5/100 (determines trade prosperity and ability to pay taxes) Cultural index: 0/100 (represents the degree of educational development and quality of life of residents) Military: 0/100 (indicates military strength and morale) Existing Buildings: Village level Lord¡¯s Manor List of basic construction buildings Simple fence: Basic fortification, Weak defense, can stop wild animals. Construction conditions: wood: 100 units. Construction time: twenty four hours. Village level dining hall: Dining area for residents. Construction conditions: dining hall construction drawings, wood: 30 units, stone: 20 units. Construction time: twelve hours. Village level bathrooms: Enhances sanitation and health of the village. Construction conditions: toilet construction drawings, wood: 10 units, stone: 10 units. Construction time: six hours. Wooden small residential courtyard: Provides living space for 20 residents. Construction conditions: Small residential courtyard construction drawings, wood: 40 units, stone: 20 units. Construction time: twelve hours. Basic blacksmith shop: Builds a variety of farm tools, such as axes, chisels, and other iron tools. Construction conditions: junior blacksmith, blacksmith shop construction drawings, wood: 20 units, stone: 10 units. Construction time: twelve hours. Basic grocery shop: Distributes various types of daily necessities. Construction conditions: grocer, grocery building drawings, wood 20 units, stone 10 units. Basic logging field: Speeds up the collection of wood resources, the average production is 10 units of wood / person / day. Construction conditions: Wood: 30 units. Construction time: six hours. Basic quarry: Speeds up the collection of stone resources, the average production is 5 units of stone / person / day. Construction conditions: wood: 20 units, stone: 10 units. Construction time: six hours. Simple farmland: grows crops, the average is 200 units of food production per acre Description: grain is planted twice per year. When the best seeding time is missed, the yield is reduced by 10% to 50%. Basic barracks: farmers can be converted into militia. Construction conditions: officers, barracks construction drawings, wood: 100 units, stone: 40 units. Construction time: twenty four hours. Basic Market: Place where you can buy and sell equipment aswell as raw materials. More functions after it has been upgraded. I looked at it for a while as a voice suddenly started talking about each element of the table. To upgrade your kingdom you would need certain requirements which to name some are a certain rank of nobility, enough people , to finish all the buildings listed under basic construction buildings and later on a certain amount of subsidiary territory¡¯s, a certain amount of each index and some other miscellaneous requirements.There were also another rank for rarity of the village which goes from ordinary, to uncommon etc this would effect the territorycharacteristics. It also mentioned that the npcs used in the game had very realistic emotions meaning they would get angry if you ignored there options and did not give them a good quality of life, this would mean that there loyalty would be low and they could rebel or run away from your village or the army would have low morale with fighting with all these things which could happen it was a must to keep them happy. That was when I nearly jumped out of my skin in panic when I remembered the villagers were still waiting for me. Needs of the people I swiftly turned only to see a caravan of 100 people in rags, with 2 wagons pulled slowly by 2 pairs of scrawny horses their ribs gauntly standing out. in the caravans there was an abundance of grain with some bits of stone, cut timber planks and iron ore which had not yet been smelted down. Eventually the villagers suddenly noticed my solitary manor and made towards it a glimmer of hope in their otherwise downcast eyes. Once they were within ten metres of me they knelt down and asked¡± lord will u accept us our village was destroyed by a group of nomad bandits who massacred the rest of our old village.We are on the edge of death so please accept our sorry souls¡±. I answered in a kind voice¡± i will accept all good people who seek refuge in my kingdom¡±, any settlement needed people to survive, to build, to farm and to make a place more than just a desolate plot of land. After the elder of those 100 people had spoken I got another notification. Player notification:quest take the nomad bandits village core before they conquer you. Reward:1000 merit points I than split the 100 people into farmers and builders with 80 builders and 20 farmers as it was not the seeding or harvesting period I needed very few people.For the builders I asked them to build a simple fence, 5 small residential courtyards well and a dining room. To meet the basic needs of protection, somewhere to sleep and food and water. This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.This all added up to 330 wood and 230¡¯stone as well as a total of 8 gold to buy the various building blueprints needed for the buildings. Luckily to make the first village level easy you could buy the blueprints needed for all the buildings at half price and straight off the stone pillar. This meant I only had 2 dismal gold left over.After a moment of sorrow of the fact I had turned from rich to poor in a moment I asked the farmers to start clearing the land for later use for farming and appointed the leader of the people who talked to me for the rest of the people back then as the leader of the builders.I then tied up the horses on a few trees behind the villages manor and put the two wagons beside them as they may be useful in the future after I did that I found the materials when touched within my territory could be put in near piles next to the villages stone pillar. After they had all left me and I had finished what I needed to.I thought of the two issues I had how would the nomad bandits if they found me as I was to weak to even think about finishing the first quest I had gotten in the new earth and also why did I have no clue who the twenty talents were among that group of builders and farmers with that I rescinded to leave the game to have a look at the forums for the answers to these large problems. Home sweet home The moment I took off my breath headset I was taken aback as my younger sister who was 5 years younger than me at 14 years old was standing with both her hands on her hips glaring at me ¡° you said you would cook dinner tonight but it¡¯s 7:00 I am hungry and theirs no dinner¡± she screamed before stomping off in a sulk. I decided to leave the problems in game aside as I went to the kitchen in our 4 room apartment and put the gas stove on , I then threw some rice on , chopped up various vegetables and threw in some mince let it brown and then put a good amount of water in to let it simmer( don¡¯t worry I won¡¯t talk about cooking much), I then booted up my old faithful brick of a computer and looked at the forums. As soon as I looked at them I my eyes nearly burst from the amount of comments on the game most of it were the people who had chosen to be a divine as after they chose what bonuses their religion gave they found they were essentially were useless if they had no followers and the only way to get followers was to get players to put them in as their chosen religion or for Lord¡¯s to build them temples. This led to them begging on their metaphoric knees for followers. After A good 20 minutes when I thought I would have no hope of finding this needle in a haystack I found it like a ray of sunshine through the clouds it just was there, all Lord¡¯s can buy an identity scroll from the market after building it for 100 GOLD damn that¡¯s one more big problem. That literally meant I had no clue who the talented generals and politicians were as opposed to the builders for a unknown but undoubtedly long amount of time. When I finally had stoped my crying heart I noticed that I had burnt the pans and the food was overdone. I can already feel that my sister will scream at me.Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. After a long two hours I was finally able to get myself back into the game. When I appeared I noticed that the loyalty of my people had gone down by 5.As the builders would only build between dawn and dusk and their had only been 6 hours before the sun went down when I asked them to start building the residential courtyards they had not finished them yet , which meant they had no where to sleep. I quickly told the elder of the people that the people could sleep in the villages manor tonight, it was important to establish a chain of command and as the elder was the only one I was sure was a talent he was the best one to talk to.After doing that and making sure everything else was good I left to sleep intelligent life. Bandits A few days went past in the blink of an eye. The fence, well, courtyards and basic dining area had all been finished. They were now working on the militia barracks so I could make some force out of these ordinary villagers.Due to my fear of being caught unaware by the bandits , I started getting four of the villagers to be scouts with there slightly less scrawny horses after they were given food. This had little effect for the 3 days the builders were making the various buildings and then suddenly a yellow horse came into the village at a gallop . They are coming they are here he shouted.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Other the the last few days I had also found a villager who had a somewhat rudimentary experience with blacksmithing. He had been able to get the iron out of the ore and into a purer state and then turn that into swords knifes and daggers. Apart from that I had a brainwave idea to put large cauldrons of boiling water on the fence and make various traps and put calrrops down befrore the fence. If you looked on the horizon you could see about 20 horses riding towards us their war cry¡¯s reaching our ears, They were here!