Banished Prince Charming

Saturday, 26th November 1442 LATE PM

When all of us were having some refreshments over at the Greasy Spoon since we noticed that Aragorn had bags under his eyes and somehow the bags made him look much older than he is before.

Doc and the rest of the 6 other dwarves were sitting around and were enjoying some cider which they discovered was quite nice. It was much smoother than the ale that we had once brought over to Safehaven and shared with them before.

"Aragorn, don't you worry so much about Aerin's condition, alright? I understand and I feel for you as well. Even we are of different races, but we are both fathers, don't you think so? Besides, would you like to tell me more about your family, if you do not mind, that is..."

Aragorn looked at me and gave a slight nod and informed us that he had been married for some hundred over years.

His wife would be manning the governance once Aragorn would be off and be with the children to ensure that the kingdom would be well protected.

"Something like what you do, His Majesty. I guess the women, regardless of mythical races, would be the most appropriate person to stay back in the kingdom while their husband or rulers were out there, don't you think so?"

"Does your wife governs the town when you leave this place to attend to some matters as well? I am sure that your wife and children do not mind a bit since it seems the town is already moving along fine by itself."

"Hmm, seems quite true there, Aragorn. My wife does not mind staying back in town to settle the matter but we can't be leaving them too long back in town while we were off somewhere in the forest, don't you agree?"

"What I mean to say is that your wife would be worried if something happens to the children, am I right? Once Aerin is out of the danger zone, we can all visit her in the ward and once you are done, you can go home first and inform your wife that Aerin had to perform some tasks, and your wife would not be too worried, you know what I mean?"

"Besides, all women are alike. Once you had calmed their nerves, they should be easy to deal with. Artemis can stay here or he can go back with you."

"But from the past experience, i think he would like to stay here as well. Besides, I am sure he would miss eating hospital food. Hahahaha...!"

"Oh...I think I would be staying here with my son, His Majesty. Once my daughter is out of danger, then I think I would be heading back to Caras."

"Other than that, I would prefer to remain here to monitor her progress. Would that be alright, His Majesty? Do not worry about accommodations since we could do with sleeping above ground."

Doc looked at Aragorn with a kind of dirty look since the latter would not spend his time on the ground instead but prefer to practise his usual way of resting et cetera.

"There are no tall trees here, Aragorn. Do not worry much since you can spend the evenings in the domain. We can get the helpers to get the room ready for both of you. Hope you would not mind spending the time on the same bed with your son...I mean, sleeping next to each other."

"Ah... In that case, I would be much obliged to be able to sleep in the domain. Well, Artemis is here so he may have experienced all the amenities in this town, so he would be able to bring me around later."

"As for coins, well...we do have a request from you so I do hope you would be able to accommodate us. Hehehe..."

Aragorn looked rather sheepish when he mentioned about the coins because he does not practise of asking some from anyone else and this is his first time doing so.

Furthermore, this is the way the human's trade within the town so he would need some coins to while it away. Hahaha...!

"Tchick... Its a small matter, Aragorn. Don't you worry. But first, we wait for the results from the recuperation ward since Aerin had been discharged from the surgery but Priestess Isabela is still attending to her first."

"Once everything had been settled, I am sure she would be feeling alright as the hospital health attendants were preparing some of the food to replenish the loss of blood from the injuries."

Artemis perked his ears when he heard about the food that would be served to his sister since he had been missing the kinds of food ever since he was hospitalised here before.

Right after he had heard that he looked forlornly at his father and his father simply dismissed his look of longing for the food.

Besides, they are already in the Greasy Spoon and there is more variety of food that they can choose from the menu.

Ever since there had been an emergence of mythical races in the town lately, Strongbow had once again upgraded his menu and had also included more kiddie meals as well as other wholesome meals for the family.

Strongbow believed that filling up one's tummy with good food will also bring prosperity and harmony within the community that had already reached an approximate of 15k residents...!

After the mythical races had drunk copious mugs of ale and cider, they were feeling much more relaxed and not as tense as they were feeling before.

Soon, it was dinner time and Artemis tugged on the sleeves of Amadeus and asked if the latter wanted to get some skewered barbeque meat. Amadeus was curious about the new gastronomical experience and he just nodded his head and passed some coins to Artemis as he called upon the waiter to serve some over on the table.

Even is the ale and cider was not up to their standards as it was considered as much milder than those served in their own kingdom.

I overheard the conversation and can't help but call the waiter over, "Get 4 portions of what he had ordered.

"It would be great to go round for the rest of the group here." The waiter nodded his head and adjusted his orders and went to the counter where there was a voice pipe and sent the orders to the kitchen including the table number et cetera.

When the food arrived, Amadeus was curious as he picked one up and sniffed at it. The moment the aroma entered his nostrils, he can not help but licked his lips as the strong aroma of barbeque meat salivated his whole mouth.

When he placed the wooden skewer into his mouth and his teeth pulled on the meat, he was already in an o.r.g.a.s.mic state.

"Artemis...! Is this why you wanted to stay in this hospital the first time you got injured and got a new left arm before?!

The food here is super delicious and I can tell you that I like this place already. His Majesty, do you allow us to hunt for our own food instead?"

Artemis smiled and gave a pat on Amadeus's shoulder as I answered that, "To hunt for your own food, you would need to exit the town perimeter and that would be at least 3 miles on all sides.

"If you do not mind walking then, you can do so. Furthermore, you had informed us that you would prefer to stay at the Baobab trees around the perimeter. To tell you the truth, the external third perimeter is 36 square miles all around...!"

The mythical races were surprised at the magnitude of the town and I explained that the second phase is still under construction and would be ready by the first month of Spring.

"Right now, even though it would be winter soon, the climate here had been controlled by one of our Priests and it would remain in this type of weather and crops would be bountiful all year round."

"There is no need for one to plant for the winter crops but instead can have 2 harvests per month or even once a month if we have an abundance of grains."

When Amadeus heard about 2 harvests per month, he thought that he had wrong but in fact, it was the darn truth. He thought I had made a slip of the tongue and supposed to mention 2 harvests per season but actually, it was a bumper harvest of 2 per month...!"

"No wonder this town is self-sustainable and have plans to increase the population as there was at least a land expansion that would be able to accommodate as many as 3000 more homes on the third cl.u.s.ter and additional 1800 more crop fields.

An increase of 3000 homes would mean that the town would have an additional 12,000 to 15,000 more residents once the whole town had been populated. This would bring the whole population to 30,000...!!!

As planned by Amadeus and the other 3 sub-leaders of the 3 other classes, the womenfolk and minors would be occupying the houses instead of dangling upside down from trees like bats. Hahaha.

The rest of the combatant and able-bodied men would be heading towards the Baobab trees once it had reached full maturity in about 2 months or more.

"Well, it is up to you, Amadeus since you are the overall leader of the sub-race or wood elves adventurers. Right now, as you can see, we have several leaders here in this town. We have Phoenix and Eagle that would be in charge of the militiamen as well as the Shadow unit members."

"Their get up for the military force is quite similar to you since they have archers, guardian knights, assassins and also pikeman where another group is handling it. At the moment we do not need any pikemen but we still have the garrison where we could activate them whenever we need."

Amadeus nodded his head as he listened to me when a guardsman came up to me and addressed us.

"Your Majesty, the two airsh.i.p.s had landed and there are a lot of passengers that had exited from both of the airsh.i.p.s. The passengers are helping to offload the mithril and obsidian pieces from the cargo hold as we speak and were placing them inside the storage warehouse."

"Would you need us to do the induction later on once they had completed helping us to bring in the cargo? We had told them it was not necessary but someone, I think he was wearing a kind of grandiose armour and was telling us that 'Many hands make light work.'"

Hmm, that term really sounded rather familiar when I heard it from someone else's mouth. Besides, it had been so long since any community work had been done around here since this town was like a clockwork and the community here are quite docile.

I am not sure if the community is ready to accept the wood elves adventurers which had different skin texture than the firstborn wood elves which had fair and almost translucent skin.

Besides, the community would be experiencing the first time of having the wood elves adventurers moving and living among the rest of them.

If the wood elves, adventurers do not have such greenskins like the orcs, even though the shade of their skin can be considered as some tones of a shade lighter than those monstrosities, at least the community would not have a culture shock. I just hoped that the children of our town would not go around poking fun of the others.

We ate and dined when one of the guardsmen on duty at the hospital arrived and whispered to me that Aerin had already regained her consciousness and have already been attended by Priestess Isabela.

When Aerin heard that her father and brother were in the Greasy Spoon, she too wanted to leave the hospital and join them, even if she has to hobble around on one leg using a crutch...!

She really felt left out once she realises that her father and brother were having such a feast without her...! Hahaha...!

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Good day my dear friends and readers. Please take note that this novel would be taken off the air and would be continuing its storyline and development in 2 seperate parts. The forst part would be without the system and concentrating more on kingdom building while the other one would be more on system with the existence of Ceres and Max.

The new platform that I would be publishing would be in Ringdom, a subsidiary platform of STARY as well as Dreame.

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