CHAPTER 3
ABSORBING KNOWLEDGE
Lino’s life had quickly become composed of two things: running and doing chores during the day and reading before falling asleep like a dying stone. The latter he somehow even handled as he had some interest in the theory behind blacksmithing, but the former sucked the soul out of his little, shriveled up body. It wouldn’t be bad if the chores were, well, chores. However, his understanding of the word and Ella’s and Eggor’s differed greatly. Throughout the past week, he was forced to carry over two tons of stone bricks from one end of the village to the other, carry shields three times his size to the army’s deposit, dig a hole nearly ten meters deep using a nearly broken shovel, and he was clearly barely hanging on. However, one positive out of everything
