Book 3. Chapter 5
“ Before leveling up Tsuki and Katia “
Kalysto’s phone rang, and she answered immediately, not wanting to wake Katia.
“Hello?” a female voice greeted her from the other side of the line.
“Hello, Kalysto! I’m calling to inform you that the doctor said they will keep my mom under surveillance for a couple more days because they are afraid she might suffer a relapse. Do you think that will happen to her?” Without giving her time to answer, Natasha continued speaking. “Otherwise, they said that she was in perfect condition and that they didn’t understand how she could recover so fast, but since there were other patients who also recovered miraculously, they are trying to look for the cause of such miracles, so I think you should stay away from here for a few days.”
“Thanks for the heads up, Nat. You don’t have to worry about your mother suffering a relapse if you are referring to her broken bones. But I have my doubts about the other disease. If you’re afraid there will be after-effects about the accident, I can give you a powerful remedy for that. But for the other, you will have to wait. I have to study the situation a little more, okay?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Now, can you meet me at the third entrance of Yerast Park? There’s something I’d like you to participate in and it would give me more peace of mind if you did.”
“Uh... I think the road is closed from here. And I don’t think some cab took me there right now, not when a portal opened up two neighborhoods from there about an hour and a half ago. It was on the news didn’t you see it?”
“No, but let me see if I can work something out. It’s important to me that you participate. I think I could teach you how to protect yourself from those creatures. Would you be interested?” Kalysto insisted.
“But they’re indestructible unless...! Oh! Is that what I’m thinking?” Natasha got excited. “Because if so, count me in! I could use the money to help pay for my mom’s hospital! Did you know that my brother became a hunter too? But since he hasn’t been able to level up, it’s very difficult for him to get a job.”
“Do you remember my friend? The teacher I introduced you to before?”
“Yes, I do!”
“I’ll ask her to help me pick you up. Wait for my message!”
“I’ll be waiting” Kalysto closed her eyes for a moment after finishing the call and at that moment the sound of the door opening alerted her.
Sakura and one bodyguard entered the apartment with several shopping bags and found Katia fast asleep in Kalysto’s arms, sitting on the saintess’ thighs.
“I brought clothes for you to change” whispered Sakura, but in that instant Katia woke up, so Kalysto took the opportunity to take a bath and use the new towel that Sakura had bought her. And while Katia bathed, she examined the clothes that Sakura had bought.
Since she had raised to level ten in the profession of enchantments, she always wanted to try to enchant her underwear. And although Sakura hadn’t bought her new underwear, she did buy her a white T-shirt, a cap, and black sweatpants.
“Duplication!” She conjured ten times on each item of clothing, ensuring she had enough material in case the spell failed and disintegrated them. Then she did the same with Katia’s clothes. “Health enchantment!” she conjured. As expected, only three garments of each type survived the first round of incantations. “Duplication!” She continued, satisfied with her progress. “Strength enchantment!” Again, only thirty percent of the enchanted garments survived. “Duplication!” She conjured, duplicating one of the surviving garments of each type ten times, repeating the same process with the mana, stamina, and agility enchantments. Increasing each stat by ten points. ”Inspection!”
[T-shirt. Class: N/A. White cotton T-shirt.
HP +10
MP +10
Strength +10
Endurance +10
Agility +10]
Kalysto, happy with the results of her experiment, put on the new clothes along with the cap, braided her hair and waited for Katia to come out of the shower.
But the slim fourteen-year-old girl, who appeared to be only eleven, took much longer than expected to bathe and when she finally came out, her eyes were red from crying, but neither of them said anything about it.
“Katia, could you check your status window before getting dressed, and after you finish, tell me what has changed?” The girl looked at her without understanding but did not hesitate to answer.
“Of course, Mrs. Kalysto!” She answered, and the saintess was glad to see that she was slowly returning to her normal behavior, although it still felt strange to be called Mrs. at her age. “I have 20 more points in HP and MP!” she exclaimed with surprise when she finished dressing about five minutes later.
“What about your strength, stamina, and agility?” Asked the saintess from outside the room, where she was waiting for the girl to finish.
“There’s a +20 next to each of them! How is that possible?” Katia came out of the room to show her status window, which Sakura took the opportunity to look at.
“It is a small gift for you,” said Kalysto, approaching her to hug her. “This way, you will be safer and you will be able to protect yourself. From now on, every time you wear these clothes, your stats will go up to 20 points. Keep this secret between us, okay?” Kalysto smiled tenderly and the young girl’s eyes filled with unshed tears.
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“Thank you," whispered Katia, as a tear rolled down her cheek.
“With pleasure. Then we’ll take you up a couple more levels before your father contacts us and you can go with him, so we can make sure that no other idiot can ever kidnap you again, okay?” The little girl nodded hopefully, sure that she would be safe, and excited about her future meeting with her father.
“Hey, what about me? I want one of those too!” Sakura complained and Kalysto rolled her eyes at her childish attitude.
“If you just take twenty percent of the profit of every item you sell or auction for me, I’ll enchant your shirt, your jacket and the sword I give you! Do you accept the deal?”
“I accept!” Sakura replied, handing her the sword and her jacket at once.
“Inspection!” said the saintess immediately upon receiving the sword.
[Sword. Class: common.
Strength +10
Penetration +10]
After making the magical contract, Kalysto first duplicated the two items of clothing and then the sword before beginning to enchant them.
“Inspection!” she muttered as soon as she was done with the sword.
[Sword. Class: common.
Strength +20
Penetration +10
HP +10
MP +10
Endurance +10
Agility +10]
“Duplication!” She immediately conjured up when she saw how good the sword was, creating two for herself, one for Natasha, one for Katia and one to give to Alice in the future. In addition to four copies of the jacket, one for her, which she put on immediately, one for Alice, which she kept inside her backpack, one for Natasha and one for Katia, who put it on immediately.
“Is it normal that I feel stronger?”
“You are stronger and more agile now. Use it whenever you are going to fight monsters, okay?” Said Kalysto while she helped Katia to roll up the sleeves of the jacket, which was too big for her. “Ready to go?”
Almost half an hour later, the same bodyguard who had accompanied Sakura on her shopping trip drove a black van that took them to the third entrance of Yerast Park after they passed by an open supermarket. Kalysto got out to buy five plastic jars that had five marks that indicated when they reached the first to the fifth liter. Plus two one-liter bottles of water and they had to take a couple of detours due to a couple of streets that were closed and were being guarded by police or military.
“Very well! I will go to pick up the other member of your kindergarten, you two wait for us here!” Sakura indicated as soon as Kalysto got off near the third entrance of the cleared park, followed by Tsuki. Katia immediately followed her while hugging her new sword, not wanting to be separated from her savior.
“Shall we go?” Asked Kalysto as soon as Sakura and her bodyguard left. Katia nodded her head while she looked carefully at the destroyed walls of the entrance of the park. “Drink this is a revitalizing potion, it will help you to get rid of the tiredness!” She said, handing her a small vial which the girl did not hesitate to drink and then sent an e-mail message to Natasha, letting her know that Sakura was on her way. “Sit there!” ordered the saintess, pointing to a group of rubble near a stone with an almost flat surface. “There are two other things I want to give you. Remember when Milo taught us how to inject mana into those crystals that looked like the crystal balls of a circus fortune teller?” Katia nodded her head. “Well, I want you to do the same with this. Duplication!” she said, after taking out the quiver the elves had given her, duplicating it and giving the duplicate to Katia. “When you do it, an arrow will come out. I want you to do that while the others arrive and let me know if someone comes, okay?”
Yes, ma’am! -That caught Katia’s attention immediately, making the little girl amuse herself trying to create arrows after thanking her for her gift.
Kalysto, for her part, took out the two bottles with water and the two juice jugs she bought on the way. First, she duplicated the jars until she had twenty. Then, she poured the water from each bottle into a different jar and doubled the water bottles along with their lids.
“Blessing!” She blessed herself first. “Creation of water!” She invoked, filling each jar. “Ezhil purification! Blessing! Blessing! Ezhil purification!” She conjured several times, brushing the water with her fingertips, making sure it was blessed. As soon as she finished, she checked that the job was well done and then opened her map, which showed Hanna’s, Natasha’s, Sakura’s and Katia’s points. She looked at Hanna’s, who had stayed with the butterflies after they arrived in this world, too excited to explore this new world and believing that Kalysto would go home to sleep for a couple of hours.
After opening the tab where the two contracts with Hanna were, she put the first jar with five liters in it, then the next one. She took three liters out and put them in three duplicate bottles. Then she put the jar with only two liters inside the window of the first contract, the window released a small glow indicating the fulfillment of the contract and immediately the remaining eleven thousand nine hundred stones of mana that had been agreed upon appeared inside her inventory.
[Warning! The inventory is full, the contract cannot be finalized until the necessary boxes are emptied for the shipment of all the agreed materials.]
Darn! She thought, annoyed. And she had to take out three of the enchanted bags from the violet inventory in which she had kept part of the books stolen from the library and put in there several weapons that were in the blue inventory and then put the three bags in the blue inventory, thus leaving several empty lockers in both inventories.
A minute later, a hundred sealed potion vials appeared in one locker, along with a hundred half-liter ones in the other and a five-liter pot of earthenware in the third.
Then she added the two liters of holy water they had agreed upon as payment for giving her in advance one hundred mana stones spent fighting the orc, his gang and the portal.
But unlike the previous deal, this one wasn’t complete, so it didn’t sparkle.
“I just have to wait for her to ask me for a blessing,” but considering it was nothing serious, and they had not set a time limit to deliver the reward, Kalysto decided to wait until they were back in Elinor, surely Hanna would ask for the ‘final reward’ during one of the continuous sneak attacks that the goddess Mhiralla launched to weaken the defenses of the fairy kingdom’s protective spell or spread the plague.
Then she opened her map, noticing that Natasha’s and Sakura’s dots were close together and approaching towards where she was, while Hanna’s was moving farther and farther south, shining over the sea.
She touched her dot and sent her a message.
“Excited to meet a sea that is not plagued by monsters?” She asked her.
[Good day, champion! I thought I’d sleep a little longer.]
“I haven’t been able to sleep, but I did get something to eat. I want to send you something to eat, as we agreed, but I’m not sure how we can do it.”
[The champion can use the contract we haven’t finalized to send as an additional reward. You can use the clay pot I sent you for the finalized contract and make a note attached specifying that I should send the pot back to you.]
If I can make modifications to an active contract, does that mean the queen can do the same with mine? She was concerned.
“Can you also make modifications to the contract while it is active?” she asked, trying not to let her sudden concern show.
[Of course not! Only the one who establishes the contract can do such a thing! In most cases, you need the consent of the other party to make any modification, unless they have failed or defaulted on some clause in the contract. ]