Matilda trained under the moonlight for after supper right till the break of dawn to get her newly acquired skills of an Assassins to Level up to a comfortable 25% increase before she stopped and washed up.
Little did she knew I was just sitting under a tree and was observing her the whole night, as she diligently executed 10 of those skills repetitiously hour after hour as she would not be outdone with the rest of the Assassins who had acquired these additional skills from the time they joined the band.
I looked at the tenacity of her training and despite snacking during the times if she has nothing to say in the script or simply lazing around, she does attend to these tasks of learning to a maximum level of concentration and responsibility.
The moment she walked past me I called out to her and that made her jump slightly... "Haiya... How can you be an Assassin Warrior if just a call of your name could make you jump already? Hah hah hah hah..." I said to her and patted the ground next to me.
"You... You, how long have you been sitting here? Have you been watching me all along? You didn't rest with the others?" she hissed at me right after she had washed up and had a small face towel around her neck to cook herself off.
"You may need a new set of clothes when the time comes. It would an all back Assassin set of clothes and then coupled with the body armour over it." I said as I saw her rounded edges were simply pushing hard against her Body Shield.
"Hey, silly boy... Why are you staring at my boobies? You have your own to see, right? I can see the devil's tail behind you right now, whiplashing in excitement."
"Oh... Hah hah hah... I was thinking of designing a new Body Shield with two cups in front, at least those two could breathe. It's a unisex set of armour that I bought and I was wondering if there's a female version for that."
"Furthermore, wearing those nearly 14 hours a day before taking them off to bed would really flatten those pillows." I joked as I pulled at my own Body Shield, showing how to make some space for such boobies like hers.
"You haaaa... Go and check on the Amazonian Fighters, they were just wearing a bra and a loincloth when they first joined us, carrying a wooden spear and a bow. In fact, they looked kinda sexy and if I cover myself up like the Assassins, I won't be able to differentiate who is man or woman except looking at their chest."
Matilda explained while poling fun at me and to see how my reaction at the mention of the Amazonian Fighters, who currently were undertaking some English language course from 'Mind Your Language' classes.
"Whatever you're doing, just keep it up, lovely. Cut down on snacking and concentrate more on levelling up all the 10 skills you got right now. It would be best to prepare it and once you hit 100% for all the skills, do let me know."
"Err, Robin... What did you call me just now? And 100%, you yourself know how long I need to make it level up to 100%. Hii Hii Hii... You called me lovely, right? This deserves a kiss..." and she turned, held my face in her hands and kissed me fully on my lips. I responded and kissed her back.
"*Ahem*, Sir Robin, Ma'am Matilda... Both of you are up so early... "said Will.I.Am casually as he went about to fetch some water to fill up the cauldron and prepared tea for the sleeping 152 adventurers.
"Eeewww... Did you both had brushed your teeth before engaging in the exchange of body fluids in the morning, Sir Robin and Ma'am Matilda?" said Alleicea as she poked fun at the two of us as she poured a catty of flour into a basin, added hot water, some fat and salt to make a dough.
"Hmm... Like what Hiko Seijuro used to say,'Boy! Go get yourself a room.' Hik Hik Hik..." laughed Aventina as she took the red beans that had been boiled the night before and went to mash them up together in a bowl with some heaps of brown sugar.
Matilda pushed me away on the chest and she suddenly stood up and removed her face towel that she had placed around her neck before she gave it a rats-tail over my head and a crack of the towel was heard resounding over the slow-flowing stream.
"Hah hah hah... Feeling embarrassed, already, lovely? Well, train harder alright, make sure you surpass the level 100." I laughed at her antics and then advised seriously for her to train for the next few days in order to be on par with her subordinates. It's not nice if the subordinates are doing better than their seniors.
There were 6 rocket stoves and the coals that were mined from the stone and iron mines were being used as fuel besides the firewood as it was less smoker and cleaner. 4 of the rockets stoves had woks filled with water and that means, "We're going to have hot steamed black beans buns for breakfast today...!!!"
Each catty of flour would be able to produce 20 round balls of dough that could be turned into dumplings or buns and nothing beats having hot steamed buns in the morning.
The preparation of 3 catties of flour would take about 5 minutes to knead it to be dough and both Will.I.Am and Aventina were furiously were inserting the fillings and arranging them in a circular fashion on the bamboo steamer.
The good thing about the bamboo steamer was that it is stackable and each wok that was filled with boiling water could heat up 10 to 12 layers of the bamboo steamer at one time. Each bamboo steamer holds 10 of those small-sized dumplings that would expand during the steaming process.
10 layers of 10 dumplings each on 4 rocket stoves could easily make 400 dumplings and the 3 support staffs worked fervently as they slowly stacked one layer per wok at one time before completing 40 layers of bamboo steamers. It took them almost nearly 1 hour to achieve that thanks to the tomes that they had read for preparing breakfast.
Those tomes were cheap and practical as the 3 of them had read these breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper tomes and learned it for some time. They had achieved nearly 70% of all the skills needed to prepare such foods already.
Since they made more than 400 steamed dumplings, the adventurers would be getting seconds as 14 of these dumplings were being set aside for the dwarves later and there's more left aside for thirds as well.
*Tock... tock... tock... tock... tock*
Will.I.Am had designed a call bell made of a hollowed-out bamboo piece and used a stick to knock against it, indicating that its time to be awake for breakfast. The method seems somewhat similar to yatai sellers promoting their wares of Yakisoba.
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Right after breakfast, the adventurers went to perform their ritual party raids in York and as for Matilda, she practised her Assassin skills deep in the forest as it was more shady and cooler.
Will.I.Am and the two support girls cleaned up after their breakfast and headed to Barkston Ash settlement to acquire their plots of land for production as well as fact-finding before the come back before lunchtime to prepare lunch for the weary but satisfied adventurers.
Before long, news of the three youngsters had reached other towns and they realised that these three so-called Baronets were, in fact, helping to raise the economy of their settlements and these investments made it ideal for the settlement to grow.
Meanwhile, the 3 support staffs had completed their transaction at Saxton and had returned to prepare dinner as usual. After everyone had settled for dinner, they made their investments report as well as the fact-finding.
Each settlement at Barkston Ash and Saxton had approximately 500 settlers and there was the same number of nobles as the Church governing within it.
On that day itself, the trio had purchased 24 plots of land and Will.I.Am had placed every single binding folder and had named it according to the towns.
Inside the binding folders were 3 sections based on 3 individuals with title deeds, proof of purchase, statistics for the returns and who are the livestock herders who would be involved in the sales proceeding of eggs and pints of milk.
The main traders for this livestock were more than happy to serve these 3 Baronets and had even arranged for the next two settlements in the next day meetup. At this rate, the trio could cover the 12 settlements within a week.