The four of them continues to talk about their future plans.
All four of them are lords, making their territory quite complicated.
Fortunately for them, they consider one another as family.
"Our lords, we have completed the task."
One of the older subjects informed them.
"Good, we need to eat in order to grow stronger and I think that eating food from this world would make us stronger."
His [Evolution] has already informed him about the requirement for his rank up.
He knows that they need to eat in order to grow stronger.
The three girls are actually quite hesitant, the hounds truly looks like large dogs.
"We need to grow stronger to survive!"
Seeing the hesitation in their faces, he knows that he needs to remind them about the stakes.
Scarlet's expression becomes determined.
No longer hesitating, she follows Cloyd, the other two looks at each other and follows after them.
Cloyd looks at their subjects and feels satisfied, they are following his order without any complain.
As he sits down and takes a piece of meat from the dog that is now barbecued in front of him, sound of swallowing can be heard.
He looks at his subjects and can see that all of them are staring at the meat with desire.
"All of you may take a piece."
"Really!?"
"We can eat meat!?"
"What a generous lord!"
Every subject's loyalty increases by ten to twelve, it seems that meat was truly tempting for them.
Cloyd nods his head, he then turns to the pile of meat stripped from the two corpses and decided to use their bones as weapon.
It was their first time eating meat from this world and they were surprised by how good they taste.
Suddenly, all of them feels a warm sensation coursing through their bodies after eating the meat.
Cloyd and Scarlet immediately looks at each other as they realized that they had grown stronger.
The subjects ate with relish even though their pieces can't compare to the four.
Each one of them has a piece of bread that they eat with the meat.
After their lunch, Cloyd looks at his current progress.
Evolution (Rank Normal to Elite): Devour in order to gain enough life force for evolution.
Progress: 1%]
He feels stronger already, as expected, beings from this world carries some sort of energy.
Since they just arrived, they don't know how to absorb or even sense this energy.
Seeing Scarlet stretching, he knows that she wants to work out.
"I think that you need to train your swordsmanship first."
He suggested.
Scarlet pauses, she feels conflicted, she knows her brother is correct.
Compared to judo or other combat skills on their world, practicing wielding weapons is much important.
She nods her head.
"What about you?"
He smiles as he lifts the bone from the level 3 hound and starts swinging it.
His movement is fluid, it is as if he has experience wielding similar weapons.
He might not had used bones as weapon before but their shapes is similar to staffs or bats.
Unfortunately for him, the girls will not let him scout today.
'It seems that they are actually feeling anxious.'
He thought.
Their territory is actually quite big, it is comparable to a small estate.
At least fifty people can stay here without feeling crowded.
That is probably why the information of their territory is like this.
Unnamed Territory: Low Level Territory
Size: 5,000 m²
Subjects: 12/50
Militia: 0
Buff: Beast Affinity (Cloyd - Main Lord)
Martial Art Prosperity (Scarlet - Subordinate Lord)
Rise of Technology (Aria - Subordinate Lord)
Plant Domain (Lucy - Subordinate Lord)
It was his stepsisters that decided that he should be the main lord.
They don't want to be pressured by the responsibility as they are not like him who was used to difficult situation.
ROAR!
In the deep of the night, while their group were eating another hound, they heard a frightening roar just outside their territory.
Lucy immediately runs towards him and hugs him tightly.
The other two girls might not have run but they did hug him for security.
Meanwhile, their subjects seems to be used with this type of situation as their eyes never left the meat they are cooking.
They can't believe that they are eating meat once again.
"We need to find seeds to plant, our territory contains nothing and we are filled with a vast land that also contains nothing."
He can only sigh about their current location.
From the regional chat, the majority of territory are at least located near places that one can gather resources.
"Our lords, we are grateful for your kind heart." One of the older subjects suddenly bows to them.
It seems that meat in this world is quite scarce or should be extremely difficult to procure.
They ate with relish, trying to ignore the roaring beasts outside their territory.
The next day.
A voice once again appears in everyone's head.
[Congratulations for passing the first night.
Rewarding every survivors with basic wooden swords, axes and pickaxes.]
Cloyd's eyes lights up, from what he remember, the requirement to upgrade the Lord's Hut are.
100 woods.
He does not know how the system counts but he does know that one needed at least an axe to cut woods.
He tried to stand up, only to feel slightly heavy as he turns his head to the blushing red head besides him.
Scarlet was embarrassed, she can't believe that she would use her stepbrother as comfort during their sleep.
"Wake up everyone, I want all of you to check the area around our territory, if there's a location that does not have any beast, report immediately."
He commanded.
The subjects nods their heads.
"Wait, you three, come with me, I am going to train you to become militias."
Suddenly Scarlet interjected.
Upon hearing this, the eyes of the three chosen individuals lights up.
They were ecstatic as their loyalties immediately rises up by one.
[Wu: A male Grassman
Race: Human
Level: 1 (1/100)
Tier: 0
Skills: None]
[Fei: A male Grassman
Race: Human
Level: 1 (1/100)
Tier: 0
Skills: None]
[Xie: A male Grassman
Race: Human
Level: 1 (1/100)
Tier: 0
Skills: None]
The three are young men with fit bodies, they are the only candidates that has the potential to become militias.
Cloyd looks at the three and nods his head, it seems that this world operate in similar manners as some games.
Just as he was about to walk out his territory, a notification appears in his head.
[Due to your achievement as First Kill, you are rewarded with a basic skill.]
[Please choose your reward.
(Dismantle), (Swore Strike), (Heaven Sight)]
Dismantle (F Class): Able to dismantle carcasses
Usage: 3/3
Cooldown: 1 per 8 hour
Sword Strike (F Class): Covers the sword with world energy and strike.
Cooldown: Ten Minutes
Heaven Sight (F Class): See information about target.
Usage: 3/3
Cooldown: 1 per 8 hour.
His eyes narrows and he wants to pick the combat skill since it would help him kill more beasts.
Dismantle is also a pretty nifty skill, he might be able to gather more resources if he has this.
He does not care about Heaven Sight because he has [Evolution].
"According to the system, some monsters might drop unexpected loot." He mutters.
Gritting his teeth, he chose Dismantle.
With the existence of the barrier, he can kill beasts safely so he still has no need of combat skill.
Right now, he needs to develop as quickly as possible.
[Learned Dismantle]
[Congratulations to the survivor to be the first one to learn a skill.]
[Raise skill class by one.]
His eyes widens.
He laughs out loud and says. "I apologize for calling you stingy yesterday."
The system he thought that was fair is actually very bias to those that achieved something.
One step ahead will make any survivor ten step ahead.
Rubbing his hand, he went out of the barrier.
Checking the surroundings, he release a sigh of relief seeing that there were no beasts.
Twenty minutes later, he walked a bit of distance but still has not found any source of resources.
He is still greeted by a vast land containing nothing but dirt but as he goes further, the color of the soil is starting to lighten.
From mud like color to a healthy brown, this is the reason why he continues to travel forward.
Just as he was about to continue forward, his senses screams danger and his expression changes.
Taking out his wooden sword from his storage, he scans his surroundings.
Finally, he saw the source of danger.
Name: Wild Wolves
Race: Beasts
Level: 2-3
Tier: 0
Rank: Normal
Description: Common beasts, known for their pack hunting skill, they are feared by villagers.
Evolution: ???
There are two of them, one of them has a large brown rabbit on its mouth, it was clearly dead.
At this moment, the two of them were staring at him with hostility and greed.