Chapter 38 Opening up space
The next morning, Gervis got up early and after having a hearty breakfast, he came to the vestibule. He touched his round stomach and felt a little bloated. This was mainly because he had drunk a bowl of fresh milk for breakfast, which made Gervis feel a little nauseous.
The milk was sent by the serfs in the town. There are five dairy cows in Storm Territory. These cows originally belonged to the Jones family and now naturally became Gervis' property.
The original purpose of these five cows was to squeeze out milk and give it to pregnant women and newborn babies for free. This was probably the only subsidy the nobles gave to the serfs, and population was also an important matter for the nobles.
After knowing this, Gervis asked Thomas whether there would be enough milk for pregnant women and babies after some of the milk was distributed to the castle. Only after getting a sufficiently positive answer from Thomas did Gervis start drinking it. Otherwise, he would not have taken the milk no matter what.
"Good morning, Lord!"
"Good morning, Lord!"
In the vestibule, the guards who passed by from time to time greeted Gervis respectfully when they saw him, with a bit of admiration in their eyes, no longer like they did at the beginning when they were just afraid of Gervis.
Gervis nodded one by one. Thomas had already gone to the town. Last night, Gervis appointed Thomas as the castle steward, and Thomas will be even busier.
In view of Johnny and another servant's performance in the past two days, they officially became the first batch of male servants in Gervis Castle. Thomas planned to let Johnny do the purchase of fresh food in the future, so he took Johnny to familiarize himself with it today.
In fact, other lords do not need to buy the fresh ingredients they usually eat, because they have special serfs responsible for farming, and then directly supply the castle after farming.
The Storm Territory has been without a lord for thirty years. The serfs paid taxes directly after farming. The castle had no serfs directly under its command to supply food, so they had to buy it. Gervis couldn't force them to give it to him for free. If he wanted to say goodbye to this situation, he had to at least allocate the quota for supplying food to the castle in the next quarter.
The quota for supplying food to the castle is actually very popular, because with this quota not only do you not have to pay taxes, but the fields are also the most suitable for farming. In order to ensure sufficient supply, the area of the land will also be much larger.
In other noble territories, such assignments were usually only given to serfs with connections, such as guards or servants' families. This was also a disguised favor from the nobles to these subordinates, allowing them to stand on the same front with the nobles for the sake of interests.
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The letter written last night has also been sent out. The person responsible for the delivery is Laurie. Because the matter is of great importance and some things cannot be explained clearly in the letter, Laurie's main role is to inform Gandalf of Gervase's plan in detail to ensure that everything goes well.
When Gervis came to the vestibule, he walked towards the southwest corner of the city wall. There was a courtyard close to the castle wall. The courtyard was square with only one spacious gate. The wall was about five or six meters high and very thick.
This courtyard is also a unique feature of this world. Every noble castle will build a private courtyard like this in the front yard.
This courtyard was specially opened for the elf bugs, because the space of the elf bugs is open to anyone and there are no special restrictions.
In order to prevent irrelevant people from sneaking in, the nobles had to place the opened space in such a closed courtyard to protect the safety of the property in the space. As long as guards were posted outside the only gate of the courtyard, theft accidents could basically be prevented.
At this moment, there is already a guard outside the courtyard. This is because of Gervis's order. He is going to open the first elf insect space in his castle today.
"Good morning, Lord!"
Amid the guard's greetings, Gervis walked into the courtyard. The yard was about a hundred square meters in size, extremely spacious, and the weeds on the ground had been cleared, making it exceptionally flat and clean.
Gervis paced around the courtyard and finally came to a corner of the courtyard, preparing to create a space for Betty here.
Those open areas are reserved for use by other elf bugs. Betty's training space does not produce anything, so there is no need to transport goods from it. However, it is different for those green elf bugs. There must be a lot of output that needs to be transported, so at least a gap for a carriage to pass through must be left for easy passage.
Coming to the corner, Gervis slowly opened the jade box containing Betty.
Betty is still sleeping in, as if she will never wake up.
"Betty, get up and work!" Gervis poked Betty who was sleeping with his finger.
"Squeak~" This morning Betty didn't pretend to be asleep like she did last night. Perhaps she knew that Gervis had something important to talk to her about today. She woke up with a squeak, opened her big round eyes, and looked around curiously.
"Little guy, start to work." After seeing Betty wake up, Gervis stretched out his hand, gently picked up Betty, and then put its fat body on the flat ground.
"Squeak~Squeak~" When Betty reached the ground, she heard Gervis's order and squeaked twice to show that she understood. She slowly closed her big round eyes, as if she was going to practice internal energy. Her serious look made Gervis couldn't help laughing.
Gervis took a few steps back and did not disturb Betty, but just watched Betty's movements intently.
This was the first time he had seen an elf worm open up a space with his own eyes. The original owner had actually seen it once, when the royal blue elf worm bought by Gandalf opened up a space. However, memories are only memories after all, and for Gervis now, there was a sense of unreality, so he was full of anticipation for what would happen next.
As Betty's big round eyes closed, changes finally and slowly began to take place in the little girl.
Betty's royal blue translucent body slowly began to gather energy, and the faint light in the transparent body began to flicker gradually. As time passed, the flickering light became brighter and brighter, and slowly made Gervis feel a little dazzling.
"How can this little guy have so much energy? He's like a light bulb."
After the energy gathered, it began to move slowly again. At first it gathered in Betty's abdomen, and now it is slowly moving from Betty's abdomen to Betty's little head.
"I wonder if a high-ranking gold title knight can tear space apart."
Suddenly, a question popped up in Gervis' mind. Tearing space apart is a miraculous thing. Although this world has fighting spirit, as far as Gervis knows, he has never heard of any human being who can tear space apart. It is hard to imagine that a little girl like Betty can do it.
At this moment, Gervis could no longer look directly at Betty, because the light on Betty's body had become extremely dazzling. Gervis could only use his hands to block the light, and he could only see a vast expanse of white through the gaps between his fingers.
Just when Gervis was unable to open his eyes due to the dazzling light.
On Betty's side, as all the light from her body gathered on Betty's little head, the little girl's body suddenly floated up from the flat ground, slowly floated to the air more than one meter high, and stood in the air.
As the energy in Betty's body gathered to the extreme, the nearby space began to become unstable, and visible fluctuations appeared in the air.
Bang!
At this moment, there was a slight sound in Gervis' ears, just like a bloated balloon being popped. After hearing the sound, when Gervis opened his eyes again, the dazzling light had disappeared, and instead, in front of him was a strange space entrance.
Squeak~squeak~squeak~
Just as Gervis was staring at the strange space gate in a daze, he suddenly felt a collision on his feet.
Gervis looked down and saw that little Betty was banging her toes on the ground and squeaking.
Gervis quickly squatted down and picked Betty up. He looked at her carefully and found that although the little girl's appearance had not changed, her expression was a little listless and her eyes were watery, as if she was sick.
"Thank you for your hard work, little Betty!" Gervis looked at her with pity. He did not dare to neglect her and immediately put Betty back into the jade box. Then he scooped two spoonfuls of rose powder from the small drawer of the jade box and poured them in front of Betty.
Although the elf bugs are magical and can open up a space, opening up this space also consumes a lot of their own power. If there is no magic potion powder to replenish it, it will take at least two years for the elf bugs to recover their strength.
"Okay, little one, have a good rest!" After Gervis finished feeding Betty, he saw that the little one fell asleep immediately after eating the rose powder, so he covered the jade box.
(End of this chapter)
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