Chapter 18
"May the gods in the starry sky...the dice that controls destiny...to the compassionate Goddess of Earth...as my heart is exhausted..."
"Neither weary nor neglect, to serve this body... as long as you pray to God sincerely... great, lasting, magnanimous, and strong love will come... This is also on the earth..."
Honda knelt on one knee on the edge of the field and prayed to the Goddess of Earth.
"The day is over again." Honda stood up and looked at the setting sun slowly falling in the sky.
"Brother Honda, the sun is setting, let's continue telling the story!"
More than a dozen children of all sizes ran over, some were still running noses, and some were already half-aged, all of them came to look for Honda.
"Do you still remember the words I taught you yesterday? I will take the exam before telling a story..." Honda said.
This world is similar to the Middle Ages, with a very low literacy rate. In the village, only four or five people, including the village chief, knew the words, and the others were all illiterate and could not understand the words.
Honda taught the children in the village to recognize words in order to repay the village's care for their care, and indeed he had nothing to do at night.
People in the village live a life of farming at sunrise and resting at sunset. After dark, they go home to bed early.
Although there is no clock, what time it is, it can be roughly calculated. Basically, at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun sets and the sky starts to dark.
Honda, who lives in modern society, couldn't sleep at all at such an early age.
But this is a small village, not a modern society with bright lights and wine, and there is no nightlife. If you want to go out, if the moonlight is not bright enough, you have to raise a torch, and you can hear the howling of wolves in the wild from time to time.
So, Honda taught these children to read and pass the hard time at night.
Honda is not just teaching children to read, no one likes to learn cramming, and Honda is a student, and has a great say in this. It is said that these children who grew up, have fun in the wild and have never been to school before.
Therefore, Honda uses storytelling to teach children to learn words and learn.
These children have lived in the village since childhood and have heard fairy tales wherever they heard about fairy tales. A tadpole looking for a mother can make these children excited and unable to sleep all night.
So, after finishing the farm work during the day, it was almost dark, so these naughty kids rushed to Honda. It was not important to study, they liked to listen to stories.
Of course, the stories told by Honda are all stories with warning meanings, similar to short stories like pulling seedlings to encourage growth.
Everyone in the village was very welcome, and even took the initiative to send firewood, candles, etc. Sometimes, some adults would come to listen to Honda's stories.
The village chief commented that if Honda mastered a musical instrument, he could become a minstrel and would definitely become a very famous minstrel.
It is worth mentioning that Honda did not know the words and languages of this other world, but with the help of the system, listening, speaking, reading and writing are not a problem. The languages and characters of the two worlds can be converted into each other.
But Honda lived in this other world for more than a month.
Now, I have become familiar with the language and text of this other world. Even if I don’t need to convert each other, I can still understand and write the local text of the other world.
Honda is very self-aware. He does not have such strong language talent, otherwise learning English would not be so painful.
This should also be a hidden benefit of the system, which can adapt to the language and writing system of another world more quickly, making it a native language.
After all, there are some contextual polyphonic words that cannot be fully expressed through translation.
"Last night, two sheep seemed to be missing in the village..." Honda left his wooden house early in the morning and heard the villagers talking to each other.
"What's wrong?" Honda asked.
"This morning, Old John went to check the shed and found two lambs lost," the villagers said.
"Did you lose two lambs?" Honda was a little surprised when he heard this.
The village is not big, there are only dozens of people living there. Everyone bows their heads and doesn’t look up. They know each other, who would steal sheep?
After a while, Honda learned about the latest developments.
The two lambs that were stolen were not stolen by people in the village, but by monsters!
This is a world of swords and magic, and of course there are monsters.
Not only monsters, but also the existence of the demon king.
It is said that the Demon King was defeated by a team called the Six Heroes ten years ago, and there were still many remnants of the Demon King's army in chaos everywhere.
When Honda heard that it was a monster stole the sheep.
Monsters are more brutal and terrifying than beasts. On the first day of Honda traveling to this world, he was attacked by wild beasts. If he hadn't been lucky enough to be rescued by hunters in the village, he might have died, leaving a huge psychological shadow.
There are many monsters in this world, such as lions, scorpions, mountain monsters, trolls, etc. Any monster can destroy such a small village.
But what kind of monster would steal two lambs?
The stolen lamb is a big deal for such a small village. Everyone stopped working and watched and discussed it. Honda also went to join in the fun.
The village chief came forward and suppressed everyone. The village chief and the hunter checked the traces outside the beast pen, and then checked the fields and fences, and finally came to a conclusion.
"If I guess correctly, the monster that steals sheep should be a little ghost." The village chief judged.
"Little devil!" Everyone exclaimed.
When Honda heard the term "小生" and his pupils shrank slightly because "小生" is also called "goblin"!
Honda came to this other world and the mission goal was to kill a hundred goblins.
After settling in the village, Honda specifically inquired about the Goblin situation.
Goblins are the weakest monsters among all humanoid monsters. They are cannon fodder among monsters. They embarrass monsters and no one looks down on them.
If it is in the game, it is the kind of fish monster that will appear when players first enter the game and guide the game.
But the weakness of Goblins is only a great threat to monsters and adventurers, and to the villagers, Goblins are still a great threat.
In other words, the goblin is the monster that poses the greatest threat to the village among all monsters.
Because, the village can't encounter monsters like trolls, lions and scorpions. Those monsters are basically in the mountains or ruins and mazes. The monsters that villagers can contact with and the most are goblins.
Goblins are very disgusting monsters. They will plunder the food in the village and take away the women in the village, which will often cause great losses.
If there are too many goblins, they will even take the initiative to attack the village, burn, kill, loot, razify the village to the ground, and cause disaster to the living beings.
Chapter completed!