King's Rule: Creating the Strongest Kingdom With My Broken Talent-Chapter 15: Vesh Lost in Zest

"The sun is about to set, but he is still in meditation," Kayan muttered as he watched Vesh and the forest from the watch tower.

Everyone had eaten twice, but Vesh had yet to even move a muscle since dawn.

The sun finally set.

Everyone was happy and content. They worked, stacked a lot of materials, made clothes for everyone, and ate to their full three times.

The night feast was especially cheery, but everyone couldn’t help but be curious about Vesh.

Alas, nobody had answers as to what he was doing.

Everyone fell asleep.

Night ruled the skies for several hours.

And then the sun rose again.

Kayan sat in front of Vesh, looking at him curiously. "How can one sit this long without doing anything?"

"Don’t disturb him. Come back here and talk," Rovina said.

"He’s not going to wake up even if a meteor falls here." Kayan snorted. "I think he is gone."

"What do you mean by that, brat?" Arga arrived next to Kayan and looked at Vesh.

Rubbing his beard, he inspected Vesh carefully and blinked a few times. "Everything is normal."

Rovina appeared next to him silently by drifting on her shadow and looked at Vesh.

"Interesting." She raised her eyebrows. "I think...I have seen something like this before, from my place’s Night King, who had elevated his life above the rest of the night elves after meditating for a hundred days."

"This is indeed different from how he looks when his consciousness is drifted away by his King’s Rule talent," Arga nodded. "His consciousness is here. I can somehow sense it when I run a certain frequency of Arcane Cultivation."

Arga showed it to the others.

Kayan and Rovina tried it and were surprised.

When they spread mana in that frequency towards Vesh, it returned with the modified frequency of his body, and there was a subtle part in it that had a passive intent. A passive intent representing Vesh’s consciousness.

"So did you just create a way to sense if one’s consciousness is present within one’s body or not?" Rovina blinked.

"Did I?" Arga caressed his beard.

"You did. But this only works on people who don’t defend themselves and are basically sleeping," Kayan rolled his eyes.

"True." Rovina nodded.

Arga laughed. "Well, it’s mainly thanks to Lord Vesh, who taught us this Arcane Cultivation. We might be able to derive some other uses ourselves."

"Shh. Don’t speak loudly. He may be in an enlightened trance and won’t notice us, but this is enough. Let’s go and keep our watch. He is defenseless right now."

Viana waved at them from the gate. "Ingredients are ready."

"Let’s go, it’s time to cook breakfast."

And so, a new day began with peace, freshness, and honest work in the small territory.

Same routine as yesterday with minor differences.

Rovina and Kayan explored different areas and made short trips with Viana to use her talent as transport to send various plants, kill monsters, and other random stuff if they found something back to the territory.

Viana didn’t have any elemental talent, nor did she have any powerful, high-ranking talent, which was one of the main reasons she wasn’t favoured in the royal family.

The second reason was that she was the daughter of one of many concubines, and in a kingdom, the status of concubines was determined by the talents of their children.

In the first triggered awakening, where everyone gets at least one talent, Viana awakened a C-rank talent called Ant Burrow.

Basically, she could designate a spot on the ground as an Ant Burrow by using Mana and spawn ants from there, and command them.

Naturally, the ants were not as weak as normal ants, but they were also not super strong.

Each ant had close to and up to 100 Seed Force, so they were at least stronger than Vesh in his previous life in terms of physical strength.

So a few thousand of them could transport heavy stuff from one place to another via underground tunnels or by simply carrying it.

Small size, big power, easy transport, unless some animals decided to dine on the moving food, but to prevent that, Viana simply moved stuff through underground, since ants could easily and quickly do that by working together.

...

More stock of materials and resources was gathered in the cavern, while there was no sign of Vesh waking up.

The sun was straight up now as it was already noon.

While everything was peaceful here, trouble was approaching, not slowly, but rapidly.

Approximately thirteen kilometres away, where Vesh had found Viana, the hooded man with grey hair had arrived.

But he wasn’t alone.

With him were two peak D-rank people. Younger and quirky.

One was a man looking in his mid-twenties with a military cut hairstyle, but a potato body.

He had green eyes and green hair and wore rather fancy pants, leather boots, a brown T-shirt, and a black sleeveless jacket.

The other was a woman with long, wavy green hair and eyes, the same as the man, but unlike him, she was a beauty with an hourglass figure, wearing an emerald robe with white-gold patterns and a witch’s hat.

Both of them were Seed Lifeforms.

Both of them had 10,000 Seed Force, the peak of Seed Lifeform.

"Elder Forguin, we’ll bring back that bitch right away. You can start preparing our reward," the fatty spoke with a cheeky grin.

The woman had a glassy stone with a magical compass showing the eight directions with a pin in the middle that blinked slowly.

"Look at the pin’s blinking and its ’T’ carefully when you are travelling. The pin will point in the direction of the tracker, which is in her body. And the closer you are to her, the faster it will blink."

Forguin looked at both of them as his eyes narrowed. "Temu, your fat ass must not harm her when you find her. And don’t you dare think of doing anything. We need a virgin sacrifice for the ritual."

"Roger." Temu nodded.

"And Quenila." Forguin looked at the girl. "If she is not alone and there’s a foe you two can’t handle, immediately notify me using the comm crystal. I can track you, so I will be there at my quickest."

"Understood."

Taking out a chair out of nowhere, Forguin sat down as he looked to the south, facing the forest and the faraway mountains as the new young members of the cult went to complete their mission.