Mythran's Master Of All

Ren ran back to the Main House he had built, and saw that the work crews already had 12 houses built and were starting on the next.

“You're doing great!” Ren said to Jen as he came up to her.

“It was your idea.” Jen said. “Having 2 extra work crews to gather supplies and build the parts beforehand, then to help put them together? It has definitely increased production.” She smiled. “We'd be barely starting the fifth house right now without them.”

Ren nodded. “Why build at the normal rate when you can spend 3 times the normal cost and have them built 4 times as fast?”

Jen laughed. “It's your money.” She said. “You wanted it fast.”

“I do... and I assume it'll take a couple of days to make the next batch of prefabricated parts?”

“About that long.” Jen said. “We can have another caravan ready after 2 days of prep.”

“Nice.” Ren said. “I'll make the rest of the places for the houses right now.”

“You're not coming back with each caravan?” Jen asked. “With you along, we got here pretty fast this time.”

“I want to come along, but...” Ren smiled. “...you know how things can get.”

Jen nodded. “I'll hope you're available, but I won't plan on it.”

“That would be smart, even though I should be available since I don't have any urgent plans then.” Ren said and took out the Staff of Earth. “I'm going out to the edge of the county to make a retaining wall after this, so I'll see you in a few hours.”

“You'll be here for lunch, right?”

“Hopefully.” Ren said. “I should have enough for everyone, too.” He took out the large icebox and looked inside. “Yeah, there's plenty left.” He said, then closed and stored it. “I have to remember to refill it after this, though.”

“Good god, is there anything you can't do?” Jen asked.

Ren wiggled his eyebrows suggestively at her, and she laughed. He left her there and ran over to a clear spot on the other side of the main house and formed a road to attach to the main road, then made another 5 sections of 10 houses and small roads, with 5 houses on each side of them. He left the grass between the houses and in the yards, and made more subdivisions behind the two he had made. Since it was only a minor movement of the land to get the spots for the houses raised slightly and levelled, Ren was done of all 6 sections in just under half an hour.

Ren left there and ran towards the edge of his county across the wilderness. Since an average runner could run a mile in about 7 to 10 minutes, 25 miles would take well over 3 hours. Ren was not a normal runner, though. He could normally run a mile in 3 minutes; but with his Boots of Striding and Leaping, it doubled his speed and he could do a mile in only 90 seconds.

When Ren cast Haste on himself, it doubled his speed again and reduced a mile to only 45 seconds. With everything combined, he made the 25 mile trek across his land in only 18 minutes; well within the 20 minute time limit of the Master level Haste spell.

Once at the border of his county, Ren asked the system to show him where it was and highlight it. A bright yellow dotted line appeared on the ground in front of him and it went off into the distance to either side of him. He used the Staff of Earth to make a 20 foot wide trench along that line, made it 20 feet deep, and shifted all that displaced dirt a foot away from the edge of the trench so it wouldn't collapse under the weight. He made a 40 foot high and 10 foot wide dirt and stone wall to discourage anyone from trying to attack his land.

“You don't think that's going a little overboard?” Teepo asked. “40 feet is pretty high.”

“Yeah.” Ren said. “But, all I can remember is those tall giants that could see over the 30 foot iron barriers I'd made when they jumped a little.”

Teepo chittered in laugher. “Okay, I have to agree. If you giant-proof the land, nothing smaller than that should be able to get in.”

“That's what I'm thinking.” Ren said. Now that he had the plan in his head of how to do what he wanted, he used the staff to full effect and did 550 feet of trench in just under a minute. If he was just making the trench, it would go a lot faster; but because he was making the wall so high rather than just making a hill out of it, it took longer. He looked at one of his raised platform rings and absorbed the enchantment from it, then replaced it with 5 glyphs of 10 runes each. It had 35 Water runes and 15 Wind runes for a total of 50 runes, and he examined it.