Chapter 41 - On the Others’ Side 5

The Silvaria family's main house was built on a small plateau near that was attached to the Sky-Piercing Mountains. The plateau was big enough to build a small housing complex and the Silvaria family claimed this land.

The Silvarias built their main house here, which could oversee the entirety of the valley. The other family branches' houses were also built on this plateau. The plateau was pretty vast that they could house all their family members and subordinates along with their families here.

There was even enough space that after all the family and subordinates were settled, they created a medium sized pond at the edge of the plateau. The earth's composition was different than back on Earth.

Just digging through the earth was a difficult thing to do. The Silvaria subordinates felt as if they were digging through bedrock instead of soil. But because of this, there were no worries of the ground being unstable even after they dug out the earth to create the pond.

The pond was connected to the water source that came from the mountain which ran through the valley. This pond acted as the Silvaria family's water source, separate from the valley's citizens.

In the pond they raised the fish they caught at the lake close to the valley. At first the plateau was somewhat barren, but the Silvaria's pulled up some trees in the valley and planted them around the plateau and at the edge of the plateau.

With their family's subordinates' new found strength, although it was hard it was still doable. The project took the subordinates 3 weeks to finish.

Now, there were trees growing around and on the plateau, since they were on higher grounds, the trees obstructed anybody's view of the Silvaria's Housing Complex. The only road up was the one the Silvarias created which was located at the east side of the plateau. It was still in development, but at least people could now walk up and down from the plateau.

Before, they had to walk along the narrow path at the sides of the plateau to make it up there.

In front of the main house was a large field. On that field were a large group of people currently training and sparring. It was very early in the morning, but more than 100 people were training on the large field.

On the balcony of the main house, Kaiser was standing with his hands behind his back. His gaze was sharp as he observed his subordinates and family members training.

As Kaiser was observing the training, his wife Anastasia, had finished preparing breakfast. She came out of the house and walked towards him with a wooden tray that had a bowl of steamy soup. In the thick soup were small bite-sized chunks of red-colored meat and a small array of finely diced vegetables.

The meat was from the monsters that the valley's hunting squad had hunted, while the vegetables were from the edible plants that the people planted in their fields.

After 2 months of adaptation, the people in the valley were finally able to catalogue all edible and non-edible foods and vegetables. There were mishaps on the way, but at least no one died from experimenting and ingesting the herbs and plants in the valley.

The people were also able to tame and domesticate some of the monsters in the valley. Not all of the monsters were carnivorous man-eating beasts.

There were similar to some animals back on earth which were able to be domesticated by humans and brought up as farm animals– well in this case, farm monsters.

Some examples of the livestock monsters would be the ones that look like cows back on Earth, except in this case, the monster cow had 3 pairs of legs, bristles on its back, and 2 curled horns on its head. The humans dubbed it the 6 Hoof Horned Bull. They were able to harvest milk and meat from it.

Another example would be the Storm Horse, another monster in the shape of a horse that the people named. The Storm Horse was in the shape of a horse, only their sizes were much more different. They had a muscular build with a height of 3 meters and a length of 4-5 meters from head to tail.

They sported 3 horns on their heads and although they seemed intimidating, the Storm Horses were in fact docile and well tamed.

After a month of bonding with the humans, the Storm Horses had even grown fond of them and were willing to go out of their way to defend the humans from the monsters that regularly attacked the valley.

Some of the humans even used these beasts as mounts and rode them into battle, but mostly, the Storm Horses were used to pull plows, carts, and wagons.

Although the size and the horns were a big difference between a Storm Horse and the regular earth horse, the most prominent difference would be the Storm Horse's unique ability to create lightning and fire the bolt out of their horns.

The human's in the valley had attributed this to the horse having some kind of electrical organ that enabled them to wield lightning. This was half true and half false. There were no special organ, it was just the mana core inside the horse that gave it the ability to use lightning elemental mana.

Even after 2 months of being transported to Alterna, the humans that lived in the Silvaria Valley Settlement still haven't had the slightest idea of mana's presence.

Although there was a noticeable change in their physique, the humans only attributed this to the unique foods and vegetables that they ate and the daily training that they did. This was true since all the foods they ate had mana in it.

After arriving at her husband's side, Anastasia places the tray on the table at the side and says.

"Breakfast is ready, honey."

"Thank you... ALRIGHT EVERYONE! ATTEN~TION!"

The men and women, who were training, immediately stop. They quickly move and begin lining up and face their instructor.

"This morning's training has finished. Go home and have breakfast. The squads who are on patrol duty immediately begin patrolling after gathering together at the valley's entrance. As for the other squads... we'll continue our SAR for other humans in the area. ANY QUESTIONS?"

A strong, well-built man on the front row of the line steps out and raises his hands and shouts.

"What about the scouting squad? What are we going to be doing, SIR?!"

Remembering that the scouting squads 2 day break had finally ended, Kaiser quickly responds.

"They will continue scouting and mapping out the area from the last checkpoint. Don't stray too far from the SAR Teams and immediately request back up when you need it. ANY OTHERS?!"

The man quickly step back and fall in line after having his question answered.

"No more? Alright then, DISMISSED!"

The crowd of people disperse heading back toward their homes. The sun had finally started shining down onto the valley as the people were heading back. It was a beautiful sight that left many smiling and in awe.

The sun was rising and so was the rise of the next era of humanity.