As quickly as I arrived within the unknown village, I used to be greeted by Edna, who wore a frail smile.

This village did not fare in addition to the earlier ones I handed. I estimated that it could solely be a matter of time earlier than the land succumbed to rot and decay. With the soil useless, nothing would develop right here.

“Have you ever met my daughter?” she requested. She regarded so weak that it appeared like she would fall over at any second.

I nodded and handed [Eunice’s Earrings] to her. “She desires me to let you know that she’s alive and faring nicely and that you do not have to search for her as a result of she’s completely happy wherever she is.”

“. . . I-is that so?” A tear escaped Edna’s eye, and it was instantly adopted by one other. In the long run, tears streamed down her cheeks as she hugged the one memento left by her daughter.

With a glad smile on her face, she muttered, “I am glad . . .”

[Congratulations on completing the side quest, FIND EUNICE!

REWARDS:

❶ Potato Seeds x4 ]

What crappy rewards. I sighed internally. However I assume it is higher than nothing.

“Thanks a lot . . . ,” Edna mentioned as she checked out me with glistening eyes. “Thanks so very a lot.”

She even tried to provide me a hug, however I used to be useless set on not receiving it. I evaded. Fortunately, I succeeded, however she nearly fell down when she moved.

“Outdated bones . . .” she laughed a little bit.

That is what occurs once you’re over eighty years previous! I believed to myself. She was unable to even stroll correctly with out stopping after each few steps.

“Effectively . . . I’ve to go now,” I mentioned earlier than she may consider one thing else to convey her gratitude.

“Wait . . .” she panted and held onto the wagon.

Nice.

“I am a little bit bit embarrassed that it is all I may provide you with,” she mentioned breathlessly. “I’ve nothing extra to supply, however . . . I’ve lived for a few years and know lots of issues. You may ask me something.”

Though that was what she mentioned . . . there was just one possibility that was flashing on my display screen.

Wow. I positive may ask something.

[What happened to this land?]

I used to be not to know the historical past, however there was neither an escape nor cancel button right here, so I used to be compelled to press that annoying field that would not cease blinking.

“It is a unhappy story,” she began.

Oh, aren’t all of them? I mused to myself.

“The land we’re in now was once known as Tristia. Fifty years in the past, it was thriving and considerable. The soil was wealthy and fertile, and the animals had been completely happy and well-fed. Though the village was poor, nobody was hungry. All households had sufficient meals to eat day by day, from kids to elders.

“There was loads of work, however nobody labored more durable than anybody else. Everybody revered one another and regarded out for each other. Nobody suffered from illness or illness as a result of the land offered the whole lot wanted to maintain life.

“Folks lived in peace and concord with nature, not towards it as we do immediately. With the assistance of the Gods, individuals had been capable of thrive with out having to destroy the lands . . . However that was then . . .” Crying tears of disappointment whereas smiling, Edna wiped her tears and shook her head in dismay.

“. . .” I felt nothing however boredom.

“It began with greed like in each story. When everybody waged battle to covet this considerable soil for themselves, not a day since then had there been no battle on this place. Corpses littered the grounds. Blood soaked the earth. Vultures, wild beasts, and all types of pests got here in numbers and ravaged the crops and corpses.

“The villagers had been both killed or moved away, and shortly, the place decayed. Some mentioned that the quantity of blood that soaked the earth cursed the soil. We tried our greatest to revive the fertility of the lands after the battle. From crop rotation and planting seeds that might return the soil’s vitamins to excessive ones, like providing useless animals to appease the spirits. However none lifted the curse . . .”

Edna took a deep breath. “And that was why we moved to cities and have become slaves to the Lords. There was nothing left for us right here.”

She then laughed with no mirth. “However nonetheless . . . right here I’m once more. Again to the place from the place it began.”

[New Information Acquired!]

“Effectively . . . that is informative,” I hurriedly mentioned. “However I have to go.”

“Wait.” Edna’s grip on my wagon tightened. “You are a participant, proper? Possibly you are able to do one thing about this land.”

My eyebrow raised.

“There’s a rumor,” she croaked, eyes shifting left and proper, “a few soil that may by no means lose its vitamins. Even in several seasons, any plant would thrive in abundance when planted on that soil.”

[New Information Acquired!]

I sighed via the heavens. She may have advised me that immediately as a substitute of losing 100 phrases on historical past.

“I see. What is the title of this soil, and the place can I get it?”

Edna was silent for a complete ten seconds, and I feared she had misplaced her breath from talking an excessive amount of and died on the spot.

“I do not know its true title, however the frequent of us known as it [Eternal Soil],” she lastly uttered. “Some mentioned that it’s present in coastlines.”

[New Information Acquired!]

After giving her my thanks, I did not waste any extra time and proceeded onward. Although the title was caught in my head as a result of I felt like I had seen it someplace earlier than. Utilizing [Evil Eyes], I checked my map.

On the Shoreline close to my territory, a peculiar foraging spot piqued my curiosity. Upon urgent it, the listing of the random gadgets I may get on that day if I foraged on that spot was listed. Naturally, that was relying on what my LCK permitted.

[Grass, Broken Glass, Driftwood, Seashells, Corals, Stone, Lumber, Asphodel, Banyan, Black Bryony, Boneset, Henbane, Oak, Ocotillo, Seaweed, Eternal Sand]

Everlasting Sand?

I’m wondering if it is the identical.

I pulled the reins of my horse and determined to make a detour to the Shoreline. It was close to the property anyway, so I would as nicely test it out.

I woke Florin to protect the wagon because the cart would not have the ability to journey on the slender banks of the fields.

“Huh?” Florin rubbed her eyes, nonetheless half-asleep.

“I mentioned, I’ll examine the Shoreline first. You keep right here and guard the wagon, and do not ever let even a single animal escape or get stolen.”

I then summoned Minion 0. “Keep right here, too, and ensure she does not slack off from her job, okay?”

Minion 0 nodded earlier than it launched a low growl in Florin’s approach.

Florin caught out her tongue and replied with a growl of her personal, with fingers taking the type of a tigress that was about to pounce.

She appeared to have realized that I used to be going away as I heard her shout.

“My Lord, I will include you!”

“Keep there, or I will depart you behind. I do not want somebody who cannot observe easy orders!”

The sound of Florin’s footsteps halted, and I knew that she heeded my command with out even having a look again.