Believer

Chapter Two

"Hello..."

Athea softly greet, but none of the NPCs said anything... They were just...Staring at her. She tapped on her comms gently, making a screen appeared right in front of her. She summoned the NPCs info onto her screen. 

"Garrot, Head Guard of Phoenix Drop and Zenix, the Guard Apprentice... Nice to meet you, I guess." 

Athea was pretty sure Zenix is glaring at her while Garroth was taking her in but she shook her head.

 "So... Uh... Just gonna stay here for a bit... I hope you don't mind?" Not expecting or hoping for an answer, the brunette rushed into the village, hurrying into a random, unoccupied house. 

         Sighing, Athea dropped her bag and pulled out a bed from her inventory, placing it before laying, sighing tiredly. 

I'm gonna have to build my own house. Since I need to work on the NPCs and take care of them, I better stay here. I gonna have to build my own house then expanse this village the best I could... Now that I think about it, since Aphmau grant me the title of an Admin, I could have creative mods... That make things a lot easier.'

Slowly, darkness claim her.

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          Brightness fill the house, waking the slumbering brunette instantly. Stretching her body, she yawned loudly. 

"Well... I got a lot of things to do. First thing first, let meet all the NPC's in this village...What is this village name?" 

Murmuring to herself, Athea summoned her screen again, lifting an eyebrow at the map functions.

 "So that is how Admin knows where everyone is... This place is... Phoenix Drop? Nice name." 

She lifted herself from the bed before changing into clean clothes.

          Tying her shoes, she looks out and hums slightly at herself at the sunny day before slipping on her cap. She pulls out an apple from her bag, taking a small bite of it and slung her bag pack over one shoulder as she walks out. Athea wanders around chatting and getting to know the NPCs, despite the one-sided talk. 

"They literally sleeping standing up...Some even doesn't seem to have a house..."

      The brunette thought out loud to herself as she pulls out her journal. It was simple brown leather book with her to-do list and information she knows about the village, which mostly are the NPCs name, the population and so on. So far, she had met Donna, Emmalyn, Emma, Corey, Dale, Brian (who is another Guard like his dad, Dale), Molly, Brendan, Kiki (Brendan's little sister) and Vischer (who were only there for trades) 

"I not only need to extend the village, but also redesign some of the house. Since Emmalyn is a librarian, I will have to build a library for her, a barn for Kiki, a farmhouse/carpenter house for Brendan, a tavern, an inn...Oh, hi Garroth!" 

     Athea greeted when saw the Head Guard, waving at him with smiles pull on her lips. "Are you patrolling? Have you had breakfast?" She talked, the Head Guard staring at her with no emotions shown. 

"Nice talking to you, got to go." Athea immediately walks away.

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       Athea had built a simple house on top of a hill, that she planned to renovate or redesign after she was done with the village. Athea had crafted herself 2 diamond pickaxe and put Mending on both pickaxe, but Silk Touch, Unbreaking 3 and Efficiency 5 while the other pickaxe has Unbreaking 3, Efficiency 5 and Fortune 3. She had been grinding 3 days for non-stop and manage to get enough clay to build an Semi-Auto Clay Farm. She had built the farm a little bit faraway from the village and build the farm underground. She also manage to obtain a lot of leaves for her idea for the village pathway. 

       In her journal, Athea had sketch out the plan for the path. She decided to use red bricks, granite, smooth granite and mossy stone bricks. She had also planned to use red bricks fences, spruce fences, spruce trapdoors, lanterns, roses and bushes to spice the pathway. On the fourth day of her stay, she begin to work on the path, stopping sometimes to talks to the NPCs or to rest. 

"I need more granite... I think I mined pretty much all the granite in the mines... And I'm not really feels like mining... Oh well..." 

Pulling out her screen again, she summon the command consoles and gives her the blocks she was running out of. 

"I have to finish this path today, at least. It's getting late."

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          The path Athea had been painstakingly worked on looks better than she had originally thought it will. The village looks a little bit nicer, with paved path and lights. (Third Picture, credit belongs to Zaypixel)

          "Well done, me. I need to shower, eat and sleep. I have to work on the Guards' Barracks tomorrow...Oh, hello again, Garroth, Zenix." 

The brunette said as she stands up from where she was sitting on the ground. Dirt, dust and clay caked her hands and splotches on her clothes and face. She felt glad that she wearing her most used clothes during the build. Garroth stared at the path and to her surprise, a talk bubble appear on his head. 

"The path looks nicer...Did you do this?" 

Blinking in surprise, she nodded. 'So the NPCs can talk and react to things. I wonder if it only to certain things or...' 

Brushing off her thoughts, she flashed a smile at the guards. 

"Pretty cool, huh? I better head home now. The path is pretty much done. Goodnight, guys." 

         Without waiting for an answer, Athea walks to her home. Her house is pretty much a beginner house. It has flat roof, working bathroom, working kitchen(which also serves as her smelter for the time being) and her bedroom. Yawning, the brunette immediately walks into her bathroom and stripped down of her dirty clothes before showering. After she was done with that, she put on soft cotton black shorts and an oversize yellow shirt before heading to the kitchen. Feeling too exhausted to cook, she simply pulls out a bread from a chest and heated a glass of milk for herself. After she was done with dinner, she washes her dishes and immediately falls asleep the moment her head meet the pillow of her bed.