Chapter 656: Siege once again
The next morning when Sam came back to the tavern, he was stunned.
He didn't expect that there would be such a long line waiting for him. There are more than fifty dwarves and even some humans waiting outside the tavern.
He opened the door in a daze and went back to arrange the barrels.
He came forward and placed a large wooden board on the wall with all the rules.
"Each wine will have only one barrel for the day. Otherwise, my stock will be over easily and one person can only have one serving for the day. As for side dishes, I will only be cooking for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening.
You can bring your own side dishes. Those are the rules that you need to follow. If you break the rules, there is no wine. And the price is non-negotiable. I will also take the spirit stones.
As for why these rules are here, that is for your sake. If one person buys too much, the other people will miss out on this wine.
Last but not least, you cannot buy a wine that is beyond your cultivation level."
Sam already prepared these rules, but he didn't expect that the reaction would be this strong and the dwarves would queue up like this.
The dwarves are after all famous for their own brewing techniques, Sam also tried some wines and they can be considered not bad after all, the ape's techniques are superior by a great level. That is why the wine tasted so different.
Currently, the ape is working on two things, the first one is the wine with local specialties and the second one is making of beer.
The wheat in this place is of great quality and it would be a pity to not make a bear out of it.
Sam sold out the wine by afternoon and he was free for the rest of the day.
He must say that there is a large harvest on the first day. The income is more than he thought. He got around a hundred thousand spirit stones for a barrel. Each jar of wine costs hundreds of spirit stones and they don't even care.
After all, the dwarves have little to no use for their spirit stones, but for the wine, not only will they get more energy than those spirit stones, it is also a hundred percent absorption rate along with the taste.
He can rest assured that he could earn big bucks. On the first day total income reached a couple of million and he is confident that he would be able to get his travel charges back with just his tavern alone by six months.
But he didn't aim for that.
Anyway currently Sam is free and he decided to find a way to improve the defense of the town.
He made rounds till night and came to some conclusions. The number of fighters in the town is small. The first victory is the only thing they could be sure of. But that was only a skirmish from Minotaur.
Currently, there are no problems with the food supplies and all, as the low-grade wheat harvest was recently done and they have supplies for the next month. But with the war ahead, the consumption will increase. The soil here cannot be used to grow low-grade wheat as it has too much vitality for low-grade and too much of anything is not a good thing.
He met with the commander and asked if the town is going to take back the villages, but the answer he received disappointed him.
The head-quarters only ordered for them to defend the town for now, but not to take the villages back.
Sam shook his head and went to the forging street. This place is the weapon forge for the town's supplies and even the weapons from the surrounding villages will come from here.
But now that the villages are gone, there is not much work here.
After examining everything, Sam went back. For the next few days, he ran the business till afternoon and went to check the situation of the town and a week passed just like that.
The harvest is finally over and people are preparing the lands for the next plantation.
Sam also decided to prepare Veer's field for that. He decided to use his own livestock for the purpose. He has too many cattle-type beasts and many of them can work in these fields.
Sam gave a dozen pairs to the workers so that they can till the land. He even modified the plows and inscribed some earth elemental inscriptions so that the tilling would go up.
He decided to open up all the fields completely as he decided to solve the food problem when it arises. That is also the reason, he ordered chatur to rear fish in the lake.
In the week he stayed in the town, Sam noticed several problems.
The pests are too many.
The food crisis will hit the town the very next month.
The defense of the town is weak.
Scarcity of the soldiers.
The lack of all resources due to the supply lines is an added bonus to them.
When he thought of the deal with Veer, he felt like he got the short end of the stick.
This place doesn't have any metal mines. There are at most two-spirit stone mines nearby, which couldn't be much use for now.
Him opening the new fields would help solve the food problem a bit, and he also took out some grasses that he got from Nagin Planet and made them plant these grasses around the fields.
These grasses are somewhat poisonous, but the poison content is extremely small and their spiritual energy content is much more active than the wheat itself, this could help them with pest problems as the pests wouldn't survive this.
Apart from that, Sam also transplanted some of the fruit saplings of his own grove in the divine dimension to this place. These tries might not produce in the near future, but they would be better in the long term as they grow.
Sam tried to discuss the solution to the problems with the town head, but he is being constantly shooed off with some lousy excuses.
He couldn't even get the proper information from the town head and others. The commander is the only one who is giving him some genuine info. But that guy is clearly not fully trusting Sam, so he is not giving everything.
Sam felt a headache. Veer did ask him to preserve the town and Sam felt that it wouldn't be a difficult task as the dwarves are known for their hardworking nature, but they do have a drawback, they only follow orders. They will always be content with their position and wouldn't think past their bounds which leads to a soldier always thinking of only obeying not improvising.
On the first day of his tavern business, Sam felt like he would be having the easiest time of all, but the situation showed otherwise. His teammates are having better days. They are training and due to the environmental issues and their recovery rate of their energy being low as a factor, they are learning how to preserve the energy and they focused on efficiency, their control over their energy also improved.
That is one of the good news they had in the past.
Currently, their cultivation levels unlocked and they are back to their peak and everyone is busy with their own tasks.
But Sam is the only one pulling his hair on thinking how to complete his own task.
Another three days passed with him brooding over and the next attack of the Minotaurs happened.
And this time, there are not just Nascent stage MInotaurs, there are many pre-transcendent stage cultivators too and they just didn't come from the front.
They are attacking from three directions. They infiltrated through the forest. Since they have all the villages as their bases, they can pick the sides now.
They are not just focusing on the front gate, they are trying their best to knock down the walls around and destroy them. But their main purpose might as well be a distraction.
One thing that surprised Sam is that the Minotaurs are coming in battle formations.
This shook him to the core. Because, apart from all the disadvantages that are caused by the superiors and the situations, there is one more disadvantage that is inherent.
That is the dwarves' lack of aptitude regarding the formations and the inscriptions.
Dwarves cannot do them at all. At least for the formations, they can place the formation flags. But for the inscriptions, they can't do anything. The minimal inscription presence on this planet is caused by humans. As for battle formations, they can forget about it.
If dwarves are like that, one must not even bother with the Minotaur. But the current situation is different than what he expected.
Not only did the Minotaurs attacked with battle formations, but they are also well equipped and Sam could even the inscriptions that are inscribed on them.
There are many inscriptions that are complicated and clearly not from this planet. Along with the well-forged equipment, Sam could clearly see the disadvantage of dwarves in the upcoming siege.