FAW Chapter 2: My farm

Dear readers here I am with a new chapter.
I hope you'll like it (^_^)

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It had been a month since I arrived into this new world. During these past month I have been working really hard to gain more knowledge about this world as well as establish my business. I also renovated my house so it looked more like a house. To summarize how things looked right now. I must praise myself. Because of my [Growth] skill I could harvest my plants much faster. With my goods I then either sold or ex-changed them for something else. And because my goods were of high quality many people came to me for them. When the village chied asked why my plants grew much quicker I revealed my powers. He told me I must have been loved by The Mother otherwise I wouldn’t have been blessed by such wonderful gifts. But he also warned me to be aware of who I showed them too. Since this world was full of scums who would kidnap me and turn me into their slaves so that they could use my power for their own purpose. Which I certainly took a note at.

Around my farm I built a fence out of wood and barbed wire, who I asked Nor the smith to make. I also had helped constructing a water mill so that we could bring water closer to the village. Because of this they no longer had to wander into the dangerous woods were wild animals and dangerous creatures roamed. Because I was closest to the water mill, or rather it was right at the left corner of my farm, I could keep an eye on it so that no one destroyed it or anything.

On my farm I had put wood fence here also so that I could seperate certain areas. The area at the right corner was closest to water so I made a pond there which was used for rice, bamboo, cranberry etc. It had an area of about one-hundred square meters. The next area which was next to it were the trees’. For now I only had apple, lemon, orange, plum and pear trees but hoped in the future to have more other kind of trees. And because of my special ability I was able to grow them quickly. And this area took about the same square meters as the pond. If you walked downwards from the trees’ area you would get to grape plantantion which had area of about eighty-one square meters. Beside this area was the tomato, eggplant, potato, sweet potato, carrot, onion, cabbage, pumpkin, corn fields which each had an area of nine square meters. Then we have the sixteen square meter area which is my backyard. It’s the place for my flowers to grow. They take a little longer to grow than the others even with [Growth].

As for the amount of time it takes for everything to grow before I can harvest…

Apples/1 day/200 pcs

Lemon/3 days/50 pcs
Orange/2 days/100 pcs
Plum/1 day/100 pcs
Pear/1 day/200 pcs
Grapes/5 days/20 pcs per stem
Tomato/1day/6 pcs per stem
Eggplant/4 days/15 pcs
Potato/1 day/50 pcs
Sweet potato/2 days/45 pcs
Carrot/1 day/16 pcs
Onion/1 day/18 pcs
Cabbage/2 days/18 pcs
Pumpkin/10 days/7 pcs
Corn/5 days/8 pcs

This starts to look more and more like Farmville. Which made me sometimes wonder if I had ended up in the game somehow. But I also realized they it couldn’t be like that because of the peoples clothes which looked to be medieval. Because these people in the village were either farmers or smiths it was hard to tell. But sometimes carriages with noble people would pass by our village and I could see that they wore high medieval dresses and costumes.

But because of this fast growth rate the village didn’t have to worry about starving. Some children when they had free time came over and helped me harvest. Because they worked hard I always rewarded them with giving some of my goods to them. This also increased my friendly relationship with the villagers. But it wasn’t just giving them goods that increased it. I also helped them by giving them advices as to how get a more bountiful harvests like for example wheat. Because wheat was plant that consumed a lot of the earths nutrients it often led the next wheat crop to fail because it doesn’t get much nutrients. Therefore I told them a way for them to keep having a bountiful harvest. Which was to use a rotation system. They would divide their field into four areas. In two of the areas they would plant clover because clover was a plant that didn’t take up much of the earth’s nutrients and also could restore them a bit. Clover was also good food for their cows. And then on the other two empty areas they would plant wheat. And after the harvest they would rotate and use the areas were the clover previusly had been in to plant wheat and vice versa.

I also helped them construct a windmill that would help the villagers to mill their wheat or any other cereal into flour. This thing would be done in about a month from now because it was hard getting the materials for it.

Because my farm was very big I took the oppurtunity to build a storage, a barn for future animals and a roost. I also took the oppurtunity to build another house if someone ever needed a place to stay in. These buildings weren’t done yet but I expected them to be within another few months. Because I was building them myself it would take a few months to get them done.

Something that I’ve thought about lately is to hire people, and also buy animals, but grandpa thought it would be better to buy slaves that way I wouldn’t need to pay them. Which disgusted me a lot however now that I thought about it I might as well buy slaves and then hire them as normal people. That’s why I’m going to the royal capital since it was the biggest city. And I would have a higher chance to likely find the things that I’m looking for there. In the meantime I asked the children who had helped me with my farm to look after it while I was gone.

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FAW Chapter 1: Since I don't know a way back then let's make the best of the situation

HI!
I'm Storyworld and would just like to tell you dear reader that this is an original story that I've come up with. So please enjoy and don't steal it.

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I don't really know what just happened. But the universe like they say is full of mysteries and unexplainable things. Let me explain my situation…

I was walking home from the store around late in the evening while listening to Adele's new song "Hello". When all of a sudden I noticed my surroundings change as I walked past a streetlight. What used to have been a dark a dark sky with stars was now a clear blue sky. And what had been a scenario of houses had now become a scenario of trees surrounding me. The road had suddenly changed from street to a simple path. I looked behind only to see other trees.

(Oh, dear. Sabrina where on earth have you gone to?) I thought to myself.

So, the smartest thing I did was to start walking the path in front of me. As I did many thoughts had swirled around my head. Though I wasn't sure why and how I came here or if there even is a way back home, I knew that in this unfamiliar place that I had come to… I needed to do whatever I needed to do in order to survive. And if my guess is correct then I have probably ended up in another world, like in those fantasy novels I watch, which makes it only more important to stand on my guard.

As I walked along the path I came across a village. In my joy I ran towards it. At first when I entered it people looked at me suspiciously. Mothers hid their children behind their backs. And I noticed that when they whispered and talked I could not understand a singe thing of what they said. Among the people an old man stepped forward towards me and started to speak in a language I didn't know. I wasn't even sure there was this kind of language on earth. Which only proved even more that I had come to another world. Though I did not understand a thing of what the old man said I had a vague idea of what he was saying so I tried to do my best answering with body language. And it seemed to have worked because the old man who I think was the head of the village, or at least that was what it seemed like as the people in the village bowed respectfully towards him, smiled in relief and seemed to invite me over to his house. Now normally I wouldn't just simply follow a person to his home however I was in a pretty vulnerable situation and needed to gather more knowledge of this world. And since the old man didn't give off the feeling of having any ill intentions towards I thought:

(Why the hell not…)

Now I sat here, in his house, on a chair drinking tea while listening intently to what the old man was saying, though I totally didn't understand. However the mysterious thing that happened was that while he was talking I started to understand his words more and more. And from what the information I gathered from him was that this world was Ava. It was a world similar to earth however had yet come to the time where technology existed. Typical fantasy novel material, in my opinion. And for some reason there was a war between demons and humans due to something that happened in the past. Some sort of betrayal or something similar. But the humans hated the demons. But there were also humans that got along pretty well with them too. However there was still some issues between them since not many humans believed in co-existing with the demons. And they treated each other horribly. It was even legal to beat, murder or enslave a demon here in the human realm without being punished for that. And that was what made the whole situation even more suspicious. Cause if you looked back into my world Hitler pretty much made the german people and nazis look at the jews like they were not human. And I'm not saying the demons are human or anything. But in my opinion it just make a human much more worse to treat another being wrongly. Which all comes down to religion truly. And in my world there was one golden rule in every religion and that was to treat others like you yourself wanted to be treated like. However in this world the seemed to be a religion called the Immanity that pretty much was how the church of christianity were like back in the day in middle ages on earth. Now Immanity consisted of churches called Church of light. And they allowed to treat other beings as like trash as long as they weren't of their own kind. And in my opinion this church really seemed to have become corrupted. Because the village elder said that the church of light recruited young magicians (yeah, there's magic in this world too. Didn't surprise me that much) to fight for the church, I do have a feeling their doing some pretty shady things towards the kids. Like for example brainwashing them. That's what I would do if I wanted someone to be totally loyal to me. Which only proves that they're not really a church of light if they fight meaningless wars and sacrifice hundreds of young lives just to expand their power. Or that's how I saw it. But then again… I didn't really know much and had only heard this information from the village chief. So it wasn't right of me to just jump to conclusions.

Anyway Ava was a world that consisted of three great empires and smaller kingdoms. And they all were on the same continent. This world only consisted of one continent called Pangea. Which I knew I felt was a similar name to something I couldn't remember. And right now I was in the kingdom called, Clover which still hadn't submitted to the human empire who's ruler was simply controlled by the church of light like a puppet.

Later when the village chief had told me the information I wanted to know I curiously asked him if he had a place where I could stay in. I also explained to him that I had decided to stay in this village. And how could I suddenly speak his language? Well, that's a mystery too. But meh- whatever as long as it isn't something bad I will accept whatever may come. And he didn't exactly say there were a place I could stay at. Instead he decided to show it to me and let me decide wether I wanted to have my own place or share with someone else. And at this point it would be better if I got my own place. The people in this village didn't really seem so friendly towards me.

What he showed me was an abandoned farm which had decayed house and really, really high grass. And I thought the land was little at first and thought that it wouldn't take so long to fix the farm up. However it seemed like it wouldn't be so easy now that I had figured out that the land was about six hundred-twenty-five square-meters. Still even as I knew this would be hard I didn't want to give up. In my world I was an athlete. And athletes will always want to see the end of the race.

I inspected the house and knew that I had much to do. The house was decayed and the wood was moldy. I needed to tear this house apart and build it up from scratch. But I couldn't do it alone. I asked the village chief for some assistance and he told be he gladly would help me rebuild it. It was after all the duty of the village chief to make sure everyone in the village was happy.

So, with the help of other people we tore down the house and built up a new one. Because everyone was helping the house got done before dawn. And I could comfortably sleep even if I had to do it on the floor. To me who had come to this world and walked many kilometers before finding a civilization and learning their language I was completely tired.

The next morning I woke up early like the sun hadn't even gone up yet. Which means that time here must be slow. Something that I couldn't help noticing, when waking up, was the green screen popping up in my face. I had seen similar things in my world every time I played an mmorpg-game. However this one looked more like a status window I would see on Farmville 2.

(Don't tell me…)

Name: Lucinda Weed 
Age: 18 
Title on farm: ………
Money: 0 gold coins
Lvl: 1
Power: [Growth] Decrease the amount of time for the plants to grow, [Bountiful] whatever she plants and harvest will have good quality and rich, [Extraordinary strength] her body has ten times the strength of what she had in her world and it can endure much more pain than usual.
Titles: The one who ended up in another world, The Goddess of Harvest.
Quests: none

(The Goddess of Harvest? [Growth]? Does that mean what I think it means?)

Yay! Now I didn't have to worry about supporting myself that much. If I could make an harvest on ten seconds after I had planted the seeds then I could surely sell a lot of my crops and be able to buy things I needed. And not just that. I would be able to repay back the kindness that the village head and everyone had showed me!

I looked over the high grass with a smile.

(Now then… Let's get started)

Although it took me until lunch to just get rid of the weeds I felt pretty satisfied. What even satisfied me even more was that I found a well in the middle of the field while I was pulling up weeds. I picked up some water with a bucket that was tied to the well by a pretty steady rope. Seeing that it was completely clear I drank from it and felt refreshed.

(Yosh! Let’s continue…)

And then I continued to clear the rest of the field. Though it was hard work and felt like it would never end I’m so proud over myself for enduring the pain. The second I got done with it I heard the village chief, Santa yell out to me. He waved and made a gest for me to come to him which I did. It seems like he came to deliver food to me from his wife which I gratefully thanked him for. He also told me that if I needed something else I shouldn’t be shy and just ask him. Such a reliable old grandpa. And I asked for tools so that I could plow. He nodded and told me that I could go get it tomorrow. And he also told me with a blushing and smiling face to call him from now on ”grandpa”. Though it was weird for me I called him that only to make him happy which he very much appreciated.

So the next day after getting tools from him, and a surprise brekfast from his wife who I from now on called grandma, I started to plow the field. As I started to do it another farmer came to me and lent me his cown who could make the work go faster. I thanked him and didn’t really know how to repay for his kindness. So when I showed him that all I had was wild grass he smilingly said that he would gladly receive some of the grass from me. Though I didn’t know what he would use it for I was glad at least that I could repay him. And now with the help of the cow I plowed the field faster and got done with it before lunch.

When I was gonna eat my lunch grandma suddenly passed by with another old nice lady, Charlotte who came to give me some of her cookies in ex-change for some of my grass. I didn’t have anything against it and gave her as much as she could carry. Later I asked grandma why people wanted grass and she explained to me that in this world the grass was used for making healing potions. Though not a very high effective healing potion but it was still something to the village people. And you could sell the grass for a silver copper coins. But because I wasn’t a greedy person I would give people the grass in ex-change for something better than money. Which in my opinion was either food or seeds that I could cultivate.

And that was a good start of my farm business.

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That was quite a short chapter but I will try to write longer ones. 

XOXO