<21 September 2024, GRAND MESA OF SUMMER, A+> [Theo and Julia] Theo and Julia woke to the sounds of Sarah babbling away with her father and Skully. They quickly rose and went to eat with everyone. After their meal, Kreldar led them to the surface, "I'm ready to start building whenever ye' want."

Theo nodded and opened his Dimensional Storage, and they began ferrying out the supplies that had been purchased. It took them several hours to complete the job, and when they had finished, a hundred and twenty-five gold worth of tools and materials lay before them.

Kreldar nodded as he surveyed the goods arrayed in front of him. Tools, Materials, some prefabbed parts, and rough timbers. The largest pile was a pile of bags that held the finest mortar they could buy in bulk. Theo and Julia shared a knowing look with each other, remembering when they had first tried to get sand for mortar and all the things that resulted from that.

"Alright, ye' both go an' do what ye' like, this'll be enough to lay in a rough foundation and build stairs to the basement, or at least a ladder. I have ideas fer a lift." Kreldar said, excitement creeping into his voice. "But if ye' can get more of the bricks, I'll be needin' them eventually."

Theo and Julia nodded and left Kreldar to his own devices. As they walked to the plinth that held Hestia's Core, Sylvi approached. "Theo, Julia, I will be heading back to my home."

Julia hugged the young woman, "Thank you so much!"

Sylvi smiled, "Of course. Let me know if you need anything else."

"And you do the same." Theo said, "And please let Patriarch Karzun know that I would like to discuss a run in the Crypts when it is convenient for him."

Sylvi nodded and pulled out a small bell. She shook it, and no sound issued forth; however, a familiar blue door appeared, and Sylvi smiled at them both one final time, before opening the door, stepping through, and the door vanishing.

Theo and Julia spent the rest of the day checking in on the others and seeing what needed to be done.

<22 September 2024, GRAND MESA OF SUMMER, A+>

The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. [Theo and Julia] Theo and Julia ate with everyone and then sat at the fire, deciding what to do. Theo was torn, "We still need to complete the construction or assembly of the lower mana density zone so that Joshua and the others can work on increasing their Mana Density. But we also need to worry about food."

"True," Julia said, with a shrug. "Both of them are important, but I think we should work on the mana density zone, or we should see how long until we can have the basement sealed off, and build it down there."

Theo nodded. "Alright, if you would, please check with Kreldar, and I'll work on the fields today."

Julia nodded, they finished eating, and then they went their separate ways.

<23 September 2024, GRAND MESA OF SUMMER, A+> [Theo and Julia] The next morning came after a hard day of labor, where they both flopped down and passed out with as little as a goodnight to each other. As they ate, they enjoyed each other's company in silence. Finally, when everyone else had left to complete a task, Theo spoke. "The perpetual summer, in combination with whatever the System did to those seeds we got from the System Cache, and the Seeds from the Verdant Seed Crate, we should be able to harvest everything but the carrots and the berries in the next couple of days, at least that seems to be what my skills are telling me."

He sounded unsure of this. So Julia probed him, "What do you mean by that?"

"Well," Theo said, trying to vocalize what he was feeling, "I am like ninety percent sure that the source of this feeling is my skills, but I am not sure which one. It could be Farming, Process, Bounty of the Earth, or Measure of the Land. Or maybe a combination of all of them. I can also tell that I will know what to do, again, not sure which skill will provide the most for that, but..."

Theo trailed off with a shrug. Julia smiled, "We should try to figure it out. I have a suggestion, we have been forgetting to ask a question of the ring, so let's start keeping a list of questions we need asked, and every week we will make sure that we ask one."

"That's good, I feel like we brought this up before, but we didn't have anything to write with." Theo agreed, doing some math, "I think we talked with... Nerysith? Yeah, Nerysith, about three weeks ago."

"That sounds about right," Julia said, "So we have a question we should ask. I think that we know what we need to ask before your question about skills, though."

"What is that?" Theo wondered.

"If I remember right, we have about two weeks before the Mana Overpressure Resistance Bands run out for Velna, Renno, Frank, and Joshua. We absolutely need to complete the area for them to be safe." Julia said this in a tone that Theo understood to mean that she was very worried.

"So you want to ask for someone who can help us?" Theo said, wondering how to phrase the question.

"We need someone who can help us understand what is actually needed to level up an individual's Mana Density, and how to best create an area for them to work towards a minimum of C-plus mana density," Julia said.

Theo nodded, and they began discussing how to phrase their question.

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