Chapter 4: Are you sure about that kind of intensity?

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Unique Skill Village Lv1 (0/5)

“Village Chief Authority”

Authority to allow entry/residence and expulsion from the village. *Allows to set any loyalty value and automatically invade and expel villagers.

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First of all, the name of the skill is “Village Lv1”. The skill level is supposed to increase according to some condition or skill level.

I get the feeling that the number next to it represents the skill’s proficiency level. As the skill level rises, new abilities and effects are released or something.

Next is the “village head’s authority” ability, which states that he has the authority to grant permission for invasion and expulsion, so there is a strong possibility that there is “something” that separates the inside of the village from the outside. I’m not sure about permission to reside in the village.

As for loyalty, I can’t check because there are no villagers in the first place, but I would like to know how to check the loyalty level and how to increase it as soon as possible.

I guess that’s about all we can anticipate at this point.

Phew, now I just need to get out of the house.

Taking a breath, I remembered that I was hungry. I am honestly impressed that even in this situation, I still have a normal appetite.

I thought to myself, “Well, for now, I’ll just save, and eat something that’s likely to go bad soon.”

I also want to check the situation outside before nightfall. I quickly filled my stomach with bread and milk, which seemed to be close to their expiration dates.

The current time is 4:00 p.m. I don’t know how much daylight we have here, but it is still bright outside through the glass door.

(Okay, it’s a little …… scary, but let’s check what’s going on outside.)

I decided to head for the shed in the yard. I was afraid of not having anything, so I took a crowbar about 1m long out of the shed.

I took my time.

After spending about 20 minutes circling the area that I thought used to be the house site, I found three things.

1. the boundary with the road and the house next door. The block wall that should have been there was gone.

2. The entire perimeter of the site was surrounded by forest, and the vegetation looked similar to that of the earth.

3. There was a hemispherical, translucent membrane with a radius of 10 meters from the center of the house to the perimeter and about the same height, although it was appropriate since it was measured on foot. This translucent membrane seemed to be slightly bluish-white when I strained my eyes.

For the sake of convenience, I will call this membrane a “boundary. Since it is set up with the house as the starting point, the inside of this boundary must be treated as a “village”.

(It is a very small village, though. ……)

Perhaps the space between inside and outside of this boundary is the boundary between invasion and expulsion. The question is the strength and durability of the barriers. And whether they are always in effect, or whether they are effective underground as well.

When I tried to cut the ground, I found that the warding extends directly into the ground. I didn’t dig too deep, but it is a spherical shape centered on the house, including …… underground. It might be.

Also, I had no idea about the strength or durability. I tried poking at the warding with a crowbar, but it passed through easily and without any resistance. I leaned out a little bit outside of the warding and threw a pebble at it from the outside, but the result was the same: it slipped through into the site.

(Yeah, …… I’m extremely worried.)

I wonder if this kind of thing will prevent the invasion of outside enemies. I would like to have some kind of proof as soon as possible, even if I put other things aside.

After a while, while I was examining everything I could think of, it gradually became darker and darker. I concluded that it was better than nothing and started walking back to my house.

I was just about to walk back to my house when I heard a voice from the forest behind me saying,      “…… Excuse me, sir.”

 It was a female voice coming from the forest behind me.

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