God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Chapter 63: Preparations Complete

Keith met up with Clara and Amelia back at the church. Originally, he didn't have much of an expectation when it came to Amelia but surprisingly, she had teamed up with Clara, pooled their money together and had bought something that Keith had absolutely forgotten about.

Two axes, Two machetes, 6 knives and lastly, two big buckets of animal fat tallow.

"Clara pitched in some extra month as we ran out. Fat tallow will be very useful right? We could use it for cooking, lighting and lastly, it's easy to carry since it's mostly solid when it isn't exposed to heat. Anyways, what did you get?" she asked as she skipped over to him and grabbed the goat skin leather.

Keith pointed at it and explained, "We need to make something that can help with filtering water. I had an idea so I bought this. Also," he said as he took out two magnifying glasses from his pockets, "We can use these to start a fire. I still have some money left so I'll go back and buy two more things."

He gave the magnifying glasses to Amelia before running off to spend the rest of the money as there still was one thing missing.

'If we need a fire during the night, we're cooked. Same thing if it get's cloudy... just why in the hell are we supposed to do all the preparations ourselves? Can't they just give us the essentials and start the damn thing?' he cursed inwardly even though he was having fun doing the shopping.

Strangely it felt relaxing, but this feeling only applied when he was alone. Having any of his other team mates didn't trigger this mysterious peacefulness.

The first thing he did, was to go to a shop that sold matches. He had spotted it earlier, but didn't bother buying any as he had expected the girls to get these. But since they didn't, he decided to do it himself.

For just 8 Baroms, he managed to buy multiple boxes of matches along with three striking surfaces.

Unlike his old planet, the matchboxes here didn't have striking surfaces on the side. Instead, they came separately. Each striking surface was slightly smaller than the size of his palm and each box of matches contained exactly thousand match sticks.

In total, Keith bought 5 boxes of matches and 3 striking surfaces.

'I only have 4 baroms remaining in my budget, but I guess I'll pitch in my own money like Clara did.' he thought as he headed over to the next stop and bought a medium sized tin can filled with wax.

Wax was pretty pricey as they only sold natural wax, which was the bees wax. Due to this, Keith had to pay 10 Baroms just for a medium sized can of wax.

Once he had everything ready, he rushed back to the church, only to see Amelia waiting for him at the gate.

"Let's go behind the church. That's where we'll be camping until the training program officially starts and funnily enough, we also spotted people from the other churches doing the same." she said as he got close enough.

Keith nodded and walked to the back of the church with her. All the churches were built side by side and they shared the 100 acres worth of free land behind them. It was mostly used for training their knights and paladins, but now a part of it was given to their official members from other branches.

Even though there were multiple tents pitched on the ground, there was still a lot of free area for the knights to train.

"Brandon went out to get some food for us, but we're supposed to get things going while he's doing his part." Amelia said as she sat down with Clara and began stitching two large pieces of cloth together.

Keith had picked some really dense and thick fabric as he wanted the tents to stay strong even when facing strong winds. As for the problem of weight, Brandon's existence solved it.

"I'll coat some matches then... is there some firewood here?" he asked as he looked at the two of them.

Surprisingly, Clara was the one who responded instead of Amelia, "You should ask someone at the church. Usually, they have a lot stocked up in their store rooms as they have to regularly cook meals for the knights."

"Thanks." Keith responded politely before he rushed back into the church and asked around until he was given a large bundle of firewood, which he was unable to carry thanks to being physically weak.

'If not for the journey, I would have managed to eat enough to reach the physique of that soldier guy.' he thought inwardly as he sighed.

With no other choice left, he went ahead and asked one of the knights to help him out which they readily did.

Back in the training ground, Keith started a fire and used some stones to form a U shape around the fire. He then placed the tin can of wax directly on the stones and watched it melt.

It took a few minutes, but once all the wax had turned to liquid, Keith began to dip the head of the match sticks into the wax and placed them on a cloth to dry. It was to protect them from water as he didn't know what kind of environment he might have to face in the forest.

There were too many matches, so it did take him a long time to finish his job but by the time he was done, the other three were done eating their dinner. The sun had already gone down, but luckily Clara and Amelia were done with their stitching too since the job wasn't too hard.

They simply had to stitch two large pieces of fabric together and that was it. Of course, it wasn't perfect at the moment, but it would do for the night as they were forced to sleep here thanks to Edward's orders.

Once Keith was done with his dinner, he joined the others to pitch the tent. It took them a few minutes, but they managed to succeed.

"Oy Keith, come with me for a bit. You and Clara need to sort things out."