Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 59: Reflections on the Head of the Household

In the early morning, the chill of late autumn could already be felt, though frost hadn't appeared yet.

After washing up, Li Wei grabbed his shovel and weeding hoe, heading straight for the wheat field. Today he needed to turn the soil for the winter wheat, covering the roots with dirt, then water them with freezing water.

Of course, he had to repair the irrigation channel first to bring water from the stream, then use the weeding hoe to turn the soil. Since the water flow from the stream wasn't strong, he could manage both tasks simultaneously in an orderly manner.

He worked continuously until the sun was high in the sky, then hurried back for a quick breakfast before returning to continue turning the soil. As for watering, the two acres of land would take a full day to irrigate completely.

After finishing these two tasks, Li Wei carried over large amounts of branches, carefully and tightly covering the winter wheat. Where there were larger gaps, he used dried grass to fill them.

Of course, all this dried grass had to be beaten first to remove any grass seeds, otherwise it would be like inviting thieves into the house - come next spring, the grass seeds would run rampant through the wheat field.

By the time he finished covering the two acres of wheat field, it was already around four in the afternoon.

But Li Wei didn't rest, picking up his axe and heading straight for the forest. He needed to seize the time to continue cutting trees.

Now, he wasn't just trying to complete the monthly main quest anymore, but working hard for the one-star stamina card.

Yesterday, he traded 200 points of mining experience with Penny, plus what he originally had, bringing his current total to 320 points.This meant that this month he only needed to earn another 180 points of mining experience to fuse the one-star stamina card.

So he planned to start mining tomorrow, because the quarry was too far from the camp - if it snowed even once, everything would be ruined.

As for logging, even if it snowed, as long as there weren't blizzards, he could continue logging, just working a bit harder since it was so close to the camp.

It was worth mentioning that the quarry Penny found for Thomas was only two or three miles from the camp, with a limestone deposit nearby. There were also over a dozen ash trees growing in that area, but Penny had already cut them all down in advance, claiming them as personal property.

One could easily guess what she was scheming.

Even Fila seemed to be brewing pine tar recently. This stuff wasn't edible, very pungent, very dangerous - who did she plan to sell it to?

In the evening, Li Wei led the ox back to camp, dragging the repaired log sections, just in time to meet Margaret returning with a bag of chestnuts. Damn, he'd been so busy these past two days he'd almost forgotten about this big sister.

She seemed quite calm, not panicked at all. She had been helping Fila gather chestnuts for two days already.

Because she currently had no main quest, her treatment was the same as newcomers, only getting small amounts of gathering experience, but in reality she was contributing to Fila's main quest.

He didn't know why she was being so kind - did she want to trade with Fila?

Li Wei couldn't figure it out, but he felt this woman was equally difficult to deal with.

Veteran players who had survived the chaotic slaughter battlefield were on a completely different level than newcomers like them.

"George!"

Margaret took the initiative to greet him, exchanged a few pleasantries, then quickly walked away. Her agile figure moved effortlessly even through the mountain forest.

Her agility attribute must be very high.

Returning to camp, he let the old ox graze nearby. Li Wei took advantage of the remaining daylight, axe in hand, swinging his arms to chop wood for a while, until Fila's call for dinner sounded.

At that moment, under the sapphire blue sky, a wisp of cooking smoke rose gently. The breeze was light, mixing the smell of burning firewood with the aroma of food, like the scent of home. Even the sound of the old ox chewing grass nearby sounded so pleasant.

Li Wei smiled self-deprecatingly - he was getting a bit sentimental.

Penny walked over quickly, standing shoulder to shoulder with him, casually tossing twenty repaired cone-headed arrows into his arms. Neither spoke; perhaps only in such quiet and fleeting moments could they forget their respective identities and competitive relationship.

Dinner was abundant, and the room was warm. The fireplace blazed fiercely, with an iron pot hanging above it containing a large pot of wild vegetable mushroom meat soup. Beside it were baked gray bread, six palm-sized fish dried to golden perfection, and six small portions of dried meat that could be used to make sandwiches.

Li Wei and Penny each took a piece of bread, a fish dried, a portion of dried meat, and filled a large bowl with vegetable meat soup. This was everyone's share - no more, no less. After all, Fila wouldn't and didn't dare to skimp on food.

Thomas and Leon were the last to return - the former covered in dust, the latter excited, with a fish trap on his back so heavy that a large fish tail protruded from it.

The next moment, information appeared before everyone's eyes.

[Professional Fisherman *** caught a one-star quality large fish weighing thirty-five jin total, priced at 7 units. He additionally gained 7 points of family contribution.]

Damn, it was only the second day of the month, and Leon already had results.

If he could catch ten such large fish in a month, that would be 70 contribution points directly.

"Good son, you're truly an outstanding fisherman." Fila smiled so hard her eyes nearly closed. She was getting such a good deal - whenever someone brought back one-star quality food ingredients, it was like practice grinding monsters to level up for her.

So the chef profession should be quite popular in the Lord of the Myriad Worlds Alliance, right?

At this moment, even Li Wei felt somewhat unbalanced.

However, he also felt things probably weren't that simple.

In this kind of orderly, peaceful world scenario designed to train newcomers, there shouldn't be situations where one profession was clearly superior. After all, according to Thomas, once you upgraded your first profession card to three stars, you could activate a third profession.

But was three stars really the upper limit?

There would definitely be four stars, even five stars. By then, each player could actually have three to five professions, capable of handling any aspect independently.

"This is training all players to become all-around lords!"

"So are there lords focused on logistics and support, and lords focused on combat? Maybe it's not that simple. Not everyone can become a lord - there will definitely be more eliminated players."

Thinking of this, Li Wei immediately thought of the family head rule setting. So only those capable of serving as family head, who could build the family into a powerful clan despite various hindrances, would qualify to become lords?

"So Thomas definitely still has more important information he hasn't revealed, perhaps restricted by rules. But undoubtedly, players who don't compete for family head position would receive low evaluations, even if they survived and cleared the scenario."

"But similarly, players who become family head but lack the skills, managing family affairs poorly, unable to handle conflicts between family members, constantly facing obstacles, sabotage, and traps - they would also receive low evaluations."

"This task seems like survival, seems like just needing to survive three years and gather five units of standard supplies. But this might just be the passing mark for this exam..."