Cal scratched his chin as he left the house when the sun was barely peeking over the horizon. He could hear arrows striking the hardened barriers in the distance. Seris had woken earlier than him by some miracle and was putting the extra time to good use.He glanced at his field, a smile appearing on his lips at the neatly covered rows where he had planted the Sunfire Grain seeds yesterday. It felt wrong to have his farm be unproductive, even though it wasn’t long.He walked over to the hole he had dug yesterday, where he had instructed the golem to cast [Rainfall] the entire night.Cal expected the water to be dirty from the loose soil underneath. He had already seen signs of it yesterday when the golem started its task, the soil muddying the water, but surprisingly, he saw a similar situation to the first pond.The water slowly filled the hole with surprising clarity, and the compacted soil below held everything in place. He hopped into the hole and stuck to the side so he wouldn’t soak the bottom of his pants and pulled his Rare-ranked Rake out of the storage pouch. He poked at the soil below the water before he nodded to himself.This second pond might work out after all. I still need to see how it’ll settle after a week.Cal stored the rake, hopped back to the surface, and glanced at the golem. “Good job! You did exactly what I ordered.”He thought he saw the golem perk up from his praise, but that couldn’t be true. After all, the golem was incapable of anything that complex.Cal looked away, feeling a little silly for praising the unemotional golem, but he hoped that reinforcing good behavior would stop the walking pile of rocks from finding loopholes in the future. It would be a miracle, and a direct contradiction to what he thought the golem was capable of, but a few words of praise wouldn’t (...)