They slept late that night because of Anton’s father, Lucas, and Devon’s antics with the Dire Wolves, and even the other groups in the camp who were a little afraid because of how terrifying the wolves looked calmed down since the monsters were very obedient.
Anna kept laughing because Devon kept asking his wolf to do silly things and the dire wolf obeyed without complaint. Anton saw that Anders was grateful to Devon for making his daughter forget the sadness, at least for a while.
Lucas and Anders also tested the running speed of the wolves and when they returned, they looked astonished.
“Your wolves can run silently even amidst a ground full of dried branches. They can run smoothly as well and that meant that riding them was not going to be difficult and they’re astonishingly fast, and they can see in the dark!” Lucas said to Anton.
“You can use them then but remember that ultimately, they’re my summons. That meant that they couldn’t be too far away from me or else they would disappear to return by my side. I don’t know how far they can be far away from me though. If you want you can test it out tomorrow.”
“Can you summon another one for me?” Frederick asked.
“I’m sorry. Three Dire Wolves is the limit. I can summon a Grizzly Bear for you and it’s my most powerful summon right now.”
“Can we see it?” Anna asked.
Anton then cast Summon Grizzly Bear and an even more terrifying monster than the dire wolves appeared.
The huge grizzly bear was truly monstrous and this time, the all horses in the campground began to panic causing Anton to dismiss the bear at once.
“That was a terrifying monster!” Lunelle exclaimed.
After that interlude, they all slept that night. Even though the ground wasn’t that comfortable compared to a bed, at least they all felt safe knowing they were being guarded by three powerful Dire Wolves.
The next day after breakfast and after they were done their private business, they continued their journey.
Anton was startled to see that Lucas and Devon’s horses had been added to the horses that were pulling their carriages and the saddle that their horses were wearing was now being worn by the dire wolves. He could even hear the men discussing that once they reached a place where there was a leather smith or blacksmith, they would order a customed saddle for the wolves. Even Anders didn’t join Anton and Anna inside the carriage but was traveling on top of one of the dire wolves.
“Brother, I want an animal companion too! Do you have any other types of animals?” Anna asked.
“You’ve seen my Grizzly Bear. I can summon five Spirit Wolves and 5 Ravens. You know what, what you’ve said is a good idea. I can assign a raven summon to each one of you. I’ll do it later once we stop.”
“Sir, we’re about to arrive at Norad Town but it looked like the town was besieged by the undead.”
“Why is it always undead? I hate the undead! I wish all the undead are dead!” Anna shouted, frustrated at what they had been encountering ever since they ran from their home village to where they were right now.
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Even though Ramona and Belinda looked highly worried, the two maids couldn’t help but laugh at what Anna had said.
Anton could understand his sister’s frustration though. The undead had been plaguing them from the start and they also destroyed the lives they were planning to build in Zalnothel. Their carriages stopped and Lucas, Devon, and Anton’s father approached Anton.
“What do you plan to do?” Anders asked his son.
“I want to kill all the undead. At least by the look of things, the town was still holding on.”
Anton then asked the three men to get off the dire wolves then he summoned his five Spirit Wolves and five Ravens as well as the Grizzly Bear and the Oak Sage and commanded all of his summons to kill the undead besieging the town.
They all watched the animals that Anton summoned decimate all of the undead in the vicinity and based on what they could see they didn’t have to do anything.
Anton could see that everyone was shocked at how powerful the druid’s animals were. Even the five ravens could kill a ghoul without any issue.
He thought that he would summon more animals once any of them died but so far, Anton was surprised that there was no need to do so since all of his summons were able to contend with the undead attacking the town without any issue.
“Father, I’m thinking of assigning a Raven summon to each of the ladies since I can summon a maximum of five of them, and as you can see, the ravens are very powerful,” Anton told Anders while they were watching the animals kill the undead.
The Grizzly Bear was particularly horrendous since it had a powerful area of attack skill that could decimate a multitude of undead in one hit.
Anders just nodded at what his son had said regarding assigning the Ravens to each of the women since he was still staring at the animals that were attacking the undead monsters.
Anton could see Devon staring at one of the Dire Wolves proudly as if he were looking at his son performing something that he could be proud of. He didn’t even know how the man could differentiate his wolf from the two others then he noticed one of the wolves was wearing some sort of colorful neck ribbon or rope.
“Anton, can I have the bear?! It’s so powerful! I can ride it right?” Frederick asked which made Anton roll his eyes.
“Once we reach a huge city, do I need to unsummon them?” Anton asked Lucas and the man said that he should since it would avoid problems and would allow them to enter cities more easily.
After a few minutes, all of the undead that were besieging the town were destroyed but Anton commanded all the summons to roam the nearby vicinity and hunt the remaining undead that they could find so all of the summons ran towards the forest to begin their hunt.
When the defenders of the town saw that all of the undead were destroyed and the fearsome animals who annihilated the undead were gone, they noticed the two carriages that were coming.
The gate opened slightly and five warriors appeared.
“Who are you, folks?” The huge man in the lead asked.
It was Frederick who moved forward.
“We’re the mages who summoned those animals that destroyed the undead. We also commanded those animals to hunt all the undead remaining in the vicinity. We came from Zalnothel and we’re on our way to the city of Greton. We want to enter your town to purchase supplies.”
The man simply nodded and allowed the town gate to open wide enough for the two carriages to enter. More than likely, the reason why they were amenable to allowing them to enter was they saw the women inside the carriages and one of them was a young girl.
They were led to the only inn in the town but on the way there, every one of them could see the worried faces of the town folks.
When they arrived at the inn, the innkeeper who was a fat man welcomed them. Anders and Nemina talked to the man and told the innkeeper that they were not planning to stay for the night but needed assistance in purchasing a huge amount of food from the town folks. Anton also overheard his father informing the innkeeper that they were interested in purchasing all the broken swords and armor that the people could spare.
That meant they would be staying in this town for a few hours so Anton headed to the common room to rest together with the others then Anna brought out her butterfly sculpture from his storage pouch that contained the air-conditioner enchantment and activated it. Soon the common room was cool and comfortable to the amazement of the people townspeople who were in the room.