Chapter 38 - Aftermath

I look at all the corpses in front of me before looking at the battlefield around me. Seeing the enemy retreating, I rise my spear in the air and shout a victory.

"VICTORY!!!!"

After celebrating our victory, I ordered the troops to go back to the fortress. When I arrive at the fortress, I order some of the troops to take care of the corpse in the area. After ordering some of the archers to take care of the corpse in the area and take back the corpse of my army to the fortress to be given to their family and give them a proper burial, Lord Byron, Leonardo, and I walk toward the war room where I sit down on the General chair before saying.

"Lord Byron, do you think they will attack us the second time?"

Daniel Byron shakes his head and says.

"Very unlikely, My Lord. Not only is winter here, but there is also a huge chance of a snowstorm happening. Not only do they need more food in case the snowstorm appears, but they also need shelter when the snowstorm appears. I don't think any landowner wants to accept a few hundred or maybe a thousand soldiers into their land, especially when winter is happening."

"I see, that is good then. We also cannot let the soldier stay in this fort. We don't have enough food for a long fight."

"I agree, My Lord. So what should we do next, my lord?"

"I think we should stay here for another day just to make sure. What do you think, Lord Byron?"

"Hmmm… I guess we can do that. However, by the feel of the wind, the first storm will happen in a week or so time."

"Really?"

"Yes. We cannot stay in this place for more than two days. We don't want to get caught up by the storm."

I think about it for a second before looking at Lord Byron once again and saying.

"Are you really sure about the snowstorm?"

"Yes, My Lord. I live long enough to know about it."

"If you are really sure about it, then we don't need to stay here."

"Then we will go back home?"

"Yes. Tell the soldier to start packing. We will move when the sun is above us."

"Very well."

I take out a smartphone from my pocket dimension and see that the clock is showing at 10 AM. We could begin to move out at 1 PM.

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It had been a week since the Blackbriar attacked us. Richard says that the Blackbriar family is busy preparing for the winter as their food supply is getting low from the war. Hearing what Richard says, I know that the Blackbriar family decide to conceal the fact that they are getting robbed by Yuka.

The weather becomes colder and colder, and true to Lord Byron. I can see the sign of a snowstorm will happen not too long from now on.

Two days after the fight, the marriage between Lucina and me is happening. That day is a happy day between the Lionheart family and the MacGrath family. I invite all the northern nobles. Some of them still stay here to avoid the snowstorm.

They ask me if I can help them build the Greenhouse in their territory. I could do that, but I need to transfer some knowledge to a trusted person before building it for them. The greenhouse is something that I build using the material I get from my pocket dimension.

As for transferring the knowledge, I could do it with one of the branch spells of Legilimency Spell. This spell let me transfer a little bit of my knowledge into someone. However, before I could do that, I need to create an unbreakable contract for the people I will transfer my knowledge to sign.

Yeah, let's do that.

"Isaac."

I snap from my thoughts when I see Lucina walk inside my office.

"You want to see me?"

"Yes. As we are a wife and husband now, I want to show you something. Please follow me to my room."

I take Lucina to my room, where I touch one of the walls. When I touch the wall, I can see Lucina's eyes widen when a portal appears in front of her.

"This is…"

"This is the power that I awakened when my father passed away. Come one. I will show you around."

I take Lucina's hand and walk inside my pocket dimension. When we arrive inside my pocket dimension, her eyes widen, seeing what is inside my pocket dimension.

"Isaac. This is…."

"This is my power. You could say that this is a different world from what we live in. However, unlike our world, this world doesn't have any humans other than me, but there is a monster roaming around when you walk away far enough from that mansion over there."

"This… Really another world?"

"Yes. Come on. I will show you what is inside the mansion."

I walk toward the mansion while Lucina follows me to the mansion. I show her around the mansion and explain to her the technology inside the mansion. She did not understand many of them, but she said that she would learn. For now, she thinks all of the electronics are powered by magic, and that said electronics are magic items.

"This is….. Wow…. You can take as much of the item you want from here?"

"Yes."

"That means you can summon gold?"

"There is a limit for it, however."

"I thought you said that you could take out as many items as you want?"

"That is different. I can only take as many items I want when I place them inside the pocket dimension. On the other hand, the gold is something I summon, and I can only take them outside for a certain amount."

"That means this place is a storage where you can store an item from the outside world and let you take out the item you store inside this place."

"I also took out the item that was already inside this place.

"And this place has an ability to let you summon any material you need out of nowhere, but it has a limited use per day."

"Yes."

"Then why don't you take a massive amount of gold in this place and then take it out outside?"

"It doesn't work. As long as I summon that said item, I can only take a certain amount of items out to the outside world. However, I can take out something that I made with that said material to the outside world as much as I want."

"Hmmm. Then why don't you make a gold statue and then bring them out? You have a smelting room, right? I could help you craft any items. I'm a dwarf, after all, crafting is in our blood."

That… Could work. While I cannot bring out more than ten kilos of material, I could bring out a golden statue, a sword made of mithril, or a sword made of anything valuable. After taking it out to the outside world, I could melt them and then make a gold bar once again.

"You are right. Will you teach me a basic in crafting?"

"Which kind of crafting?"

"Hmmm… Swordcraft would be good for me."

"Then I will teach you! I will teach you how to craft a sword that makes dwarf praise you for your work."

"Then, I will be in your care, teacher Lucina."

Lucina blushed a little before saying.

"Sadly, to become a swordsmith, you need years of training. I started my journey as a crafter when I was five years old. I needed to learn to be a swordsmith for two years before it was considered acceptable by my father."

"Then we are lucky."

"Huh?"

"While we are here, we don't need to think about time."

"Wait. What?"

I couldn't help but chuckle a little when I saw her shocked face.