The next few weeks of that month in Goldenveil passed peacefully.
As more houses went up, the barracks slowly emptied, though a great deal of work still lay ahead.
The population of the other two villages, now well-rested, also began to work.
Soon, the once-massive stockpiles of wood Goldenveil had amassed, numbering in the thousands of tons, started to run dry.
Even so, Ethan didn't mind, focusing solely on what he did best: money.
With Alice's help, he used up about twenty-five percent of Goldenveil's spiritual herb seeds.
She hadn't yet begun training Veronica, focusing all her efforts on improving her own mana control.
In total, they yielded just over four hundred thousand herbs.
Of those four hundred thousand, only about five thousand were priced above five gold coins, with another hundred exceeding one hundred coins each.
Together, they should be worth somewhere between ninety and one hundred thousand gold coins.
