'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

Pamphlets

"Hey dear, I'm done over at the Fusion Chamber. How are you doing over at your side?" I greeted Heather who was staring at her screen and moving it here and there and wondering what she needs to do with it.

She had nearly completed the insertion of the images, captions and other catchy phrases including our town's name, availability of work vacancies as well as other developments and all were in bold and caps.

From her screen it looked rather bright, vivid, eye-catching, enticing and full of flavour to make someone literally want those items that would be available soon in our town's production areas.

"I had dragged an image here and then the image dropped off and I can't find it anywhere else. Help me out dear, I think the image had dropped on the floor or somewhere off-screen." Heather was exasperated as she looked at her clothes and found nothing to be stuck on it.

She even looked behind and around the screen, the table and underneath her seat but she couldn't find the particular image.

Sensing Heather was in a bit of a fix, Ceres came to the rescue and advise her to click on the page and move the slider towards the minute sign to shrink the page and page on the screen.

"The image that you had dragged went offscreen, but it's still on the screen but not on the page, you need to....."

Ceres words were stopped halfway as Heather seemed to mumbled and complained that she had already done so but actually she was doing it right there and then now.

Seems Heather and Ceres were going to end up in a women's squabble pretty soon if I don't intervene.

"Dear, look at these trinkets and let me know what you think. I can only insert a single piece of gold blue sapphire here, unlike mine, and would use it to test out on Eagle."

"If he puts on these trinkets, he may have a larger mana pool and therefore enabled him to learn his normal type of skills from the range of skills book that I would bring up from the realm."

"If this proves as a success, he and the rest would be using these trinkets filled with blue sapphires but I will also need to see if other stones would help improve his class as an Assassin."

"It seemed that he preferred to be at close range combat rather than be a long-range offensive combatant."

Heather held her hand out and I passed her the trinkets and she wondered if I had those on me all the time and I showed it to her as well. It was all filled with blue sapphires and told me blue is good looking for a boy like me.  Hahaha...!!

I then remembered that the pieces of armours that I had improved for the Shadow units had new sockets when they were reinforced with steel mesh thereafter.

This means that it would be used to socket any other gemstones to enhance their attack, defence, agility and strength too.

There were 4 pieces of armours that I had duplicated and reinforced before and it was left as spares for me to work on. "Hang on dear, I would be right back again. I need to go and check the sockets for the pieces of armour that I had improved for Eagle and the Shadow unit members before."

Heather made a sound with her throat to indicate that she acknowledge me as she had managed to find the image that had dropped offscreen away from the intended printed area.

She played with the slider and was able to zoom in and out easily and she experimented with the grouping of all images with a single click, hold and drag to enlarge or decrease its size as a while and hit individually.

She was mumbling to herself and giggling at the same time as she worked alone at the screen.

I myself had already gone into the Fusion Chamber and was picking the 4 pieces of armour as I counted the number of sockets. I do not wish to find the locations but merely counting on the sockets available.

As Ceres had mentioned before that the Stanspar gemstones are in the Fusion Chamber and lying in the crates somewhere, I climbed over some of the crates but found none of it.

As Ceres mentioned, if the things are for me it would be visible and if not, then it would be invisible to me no matter how hard I try to look for it.

Feeling a bit dispirited, I held a few sets of skills book meant for all the warrior classes as well as hex and spells, chants, shouts, physical attacks and other masteries.

"These skills books could be duplicated like what Robin the Hood had done before for his whole army, right Ceres?"

"That's right, Audemars. Your former self was a bit afraid to lose out. So he bought a set of these skills book and duplicates hundreds of them for his army before."

"I believed there are still more skill books left in the crates since I could still detect a few hundred left in total."

I thanked Ceres for the additional information as I swiped the current room back to the White Room where Heather was waiting for me to do a test print before she churned out the rest of the intended amount.

"Wow... This looked even more perfect and eye-catching than before...! This should do it, dear. I'm pretty sure anyone who sees this Informational pamphlet would want to own a piece of these fine products."

"You even include in bread, a set of Spreads here with sliced bread, grains and also a couple holding farming tools too...! It seems you knew what to do and squeeze all the information inside this single piece of paper...!"

I praised Heather for her tenacity at work and she was pretty delighted as I explained every single thing I saw and highlighted that this Informational pamphlet would be a great boost to create the necessary awareness.

One look would show what this Informational pamphlet would like to tell and people would soon be clamouring for these products or clamouring over here to work.

Now it's up to the 64 Adventurers that would disseminate the information to the proper audiences.

There are 5 towns for each 4 of then and there would be an estimated coverage of at least 80 of those.

The towns would be for creating sales and gathering the contact information while the villages would be to migrate those settlers over to our town.

I had a strange idea and I shared it with Heather straight away. "Dear, if our Adventurers were to plant a series of corn every 2 paces or so, it would leave a kind of marker for the new inhabitants to follow right?"

"At the same time, the inhabitants they travel from each of the villages would be able to harvest the planted crop as they trekked along  towards our town."

"This is already mid-autumn and food would be scarce in their own villages at this moment. If the Adventurers were to plant at least 5 seeds every few strides, it would mean that there would be food for the few feet ahead."

"What do you think of this crazy idea since villagers might not even know which is southwest or even simple navigation since they are not Irish Travellers that depends on the stars for navigation...!"

Heather listened to me and exclaimed loudly that it was a perfectly thought out plan and it would work indefinitely.

Besides carrying an extra 5 pounder of 'bumper crops' corn grains with them, there won't be a problem for the villagers to fund their way.

Furthermore, Priestess Penelope could further enhance these grains to sprout out after a few hours of planting so it would be great for the Adventurers to leave such a trail behind.

After confirming with the sample printout, I informed Heather to open the File menu, choose print and adjust the counter to 500 copies before hitting the print icon.

The printer machine that was beside the machines immediately whirred to life and soon the colourful Informational pamphlets began to emerge into the out tray and Heather was delighted to find the images that came out had already dried up.

"You want to stay here until we complete the prints or we come back later again?" I asked Heather but she seemed to want to stay instead and wait for the completion of the prints before she brings it back to the real world.

"Let's stay here for a while. Sorry my dear, that I nearly made us have a slight issue earlier when we were about to enter this realm. I would never try to do it again."

" Hmm, I'm going to sit here and read the encyclopedia since the books here are complete rather than the one that you brought back to the realm the other time."

Heather spoke as she raised herself from the seat, walked over to grab a cup of hot tea and settled down in the sofa after she had picked up the reference B encyclopedia.

"Ceres, could you bring up the system information panel that my former self had before? Would there be an option for me to activate one of two of those skills that I had so that I could further improve myself?"

Ceres paused for a while before answering. "I'm sorry, Audemars. The old system had been overridden by the new current system that I had cleaned up."

"There is no trace that I could show you but I could tell you that the previous system was more complex and comprehensive that even your former self was finding it hard to comprehend at most times."

"There were main menus as well as sub-menus for each and every category that was listed on your old system."

"However, no matter how much I liked the new system that is more straight forward, I would still prefer to have some of the features that might be of your interest."

"Do you want me to give you some examples since I can't show it up on the screen?"

I was interested to know more about the past system and I almost sat up immediately as I agreed to Ceres and soon it was telling me about the previously detailed personal biodata that I had.

"The following attributes make up the most of your past and they are divided into Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom, Intelligence and Charisma."

"Strength brings about Athletics which is also part of your health. Dexterity brings about acrobatics, stealth and thievery skills. These would be great for those warrior class like an assassin or a thief."

"Constitution brings about your endurance, which also part of your strength. Wisdom brings about the skills such as nature, perception, and dungeoneering, insight and heals where it would fit for a Ranger, assassin, as well as other classes."

"Intelligence brings about the mana pool and this would be enhanced if the class was a mage, wizard or necromancer. It revolves around religion, magical realm, arcana as well as history."

"Last but not least, its Charisma where it brings about one to have the intimidation skills, streetwise, bluff as well as performing diplomacy."

"I won't be able to explain to you further on these since the data based on these attributes had been wiped off. That's the best to my knowledge and records, Audemars."

I listened to Ceres as its voice boomed across the room and was surprised that the previous system was indeed more complex than the current one.

It's much more beneficial but I discovered that these attributes need to be unlocked through a series of tasks.

It would also be graded accordingly as the grading would be at a range of 1000 and the improvement rate was really abysmal. In short, the improvements would only be ticking away slowly with every use...!

"It's unlike your current system, Audemars. You have your health points and mana points on top of your Strength and other simpler attributes. It's better this way and much less confusing."

I agreed with Ceres since I won't want to be swamped with lots of information they would clutter my concentration for the task at hand. Even I heard there were the main and secondary professions like the Shadow units and that traits would also be graded from Novice right down to Grandmaster.

When Ceres explained to me that after I plant and tend to a vegetable farm, I could even be a grandmaster farmer. I laughed out loud along with Heather since it's ridiculous to have such a skill presently as we have the support of the Priest and Priestess.

Once the printouts had been completed, we picked up the stacks of printouts as we got ready to leave the realm and enter the real world.