Alexia

As it turns out, the undead were more than happy to tell me about their King. Although I’ll ignore the terror I could practically feel radiating out of them while they did so.

Turns out none of them wanted to be undead. They were forcefully turned into undead by the lich king after they were defeated by his army of undead. Meanwhile the very few that did want to be turned got higher positions in other cities and a stronger undead transformation than they got.

In fact, most of the regular people who didn’t want to become undead were simply turned into mindless undead, with the few people remaining in this city being the ones that managed to retain their intelligence.

So long story short, the denizens of this Dimensional Block aren’t exactly a fan of their Block’s leader.

Not like that was hard to guess though.

After finishing with my information gathering, I return to the dragons where I find them talking about games.

Okay then. Guess dragons like games.

I purse my lips at the thought.

Then again, pretty sure most dragons are recluses who only ever go into dungeons to fight or stay at their lair. So maybe some of them being gamers makes sense.

Makes me wonder if I’ve ever played a game online with a dragon before without even realizing it.

Anyways, as the two are talking, I reach out to Luna using the latest skill she got that created a stronger bond between the two of us. And immediately after reaching out, I find several images entering my head that has me blinking in surprise.

Uh… huh?

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Back at The Retreat

Not long ago

Luna lets out a short squeak as she feels her eyes slowly opening to the morning sun. Then she stretches her wings a little and unclasps her claws from the bottom of the man-building’s roof. But before she can leave to go train her skills, she hears annoying shouting coming from the bridge connecting to the island. So she flies over there while still in her miniature form.

When she arrives she finds her weak aunt standing on the bridge holding a knife and sword while fighting with several people all stronger than the weak aunt is. But the weak aunt isn’t fighting alone but instead with dozens of people from the strange group Luna’s all-powerful mother is protecting.

Luna will never understand why her all-powerful mother would lower herself to protect the weak group, but she will fulfill her duty as the weakling’s bodyguard no matter what.

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So she flies down and lands on the weak aunt’s shoulder, startling her for a second before the weak aunt asks, “You going to help us Luna?”

Luna lets out a squeak as she nods her head and flaps her wings again, bringing the attention of the weak group of people attacking the even weaker group of people led by the weak aunt straight towards her. And while they all show an expression of mocking on their face that has Luna squeaking in anger the moment they see her, their expressions quickly turn frightened the moment Luna feels them identifying her.

Luna feels a sense of smugness come over her at those frightened looks and she raises her head with pride. Before she returns to her full size of three quarters of a meter in height with a wingspan of over a meter and lets out a screech that has the weak attackers covering their ears.

The quantum vampire bat lets out a light squeak of happiness after that before bursting through the air and tearing into each and every one of the weak attackers who don’t know their place. And as Luna tears apart the attackers, occasionally using a Quantum Bolt to blow one of them up, she finds herself wondering how there could be people stupid enough to attack a place protected by her all-powerful mother.

Out of nowhere, as Luna is killing the people and once in a while licking up the quantum energy pouring out of their blood, she feels her skill activate, making her suddenly shoot into the air with a happy squeak. Then she immediately starts sharing the fruits of her labor to her all-powerful mother through her skill, showing everything currently happening around her, including the images of the dead and slaughtered weak attackers. And more importantly, the images of her weak aunt still alive and safe.

Luna lets out a light squeak, hoping for praise from her all-powerful mother. And after a brief pause filled with confusion coming from her all-powerful mother that has Luna feeling slightly confused too, making the bat tilt her head, her all-powerful mother sends warm feelings across their bond.

The bat lets out a happy squeak, proud and happy to have been praised by her all-powerful mother.

Then Luna returns to slaughtering the weak attackers, filled with enthusiasm given to her by her all-powerful mother.

All while ignoring the slightly frightened looks being sent her way by her weak aunt’s subordinates.

And when the weak attackers begin to run away, Luna just chases after them, using them as training dummies for her skills. Because that’s all weaklings like them can do.

Finally, after finishing off all of the weak attackers, Luna flies over to her weak aunt and reassures her with a squeak, making sure her weak aunt knows she is safe now. Then, after seeing her weak aunt smile, most likely in adoration and praise of Luna, Luna flies back into the large man-built structures and reattaches her claws to the bottom of the roof, shrinking back down to her smallest size for comfort again.

And now that she’s got her skills training done for the day and even gotten praise from her all-powerful mother, Luna closes her eyes and goes back to sleep.

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Alexia

I stare straight ahead in silence after seeing all of the images and feeling Luna go to sleep.

What… did I just watch?

The two dragons continue talking about games as I attempt to piece together what I just witnessed.

And what I end up with… is most likely some idiot decided to attack the Retreat without knowing I’m the one protecting it.

That or they’re just idiots.

But I doubt someone could be that stupid… probably.

Anyways, looks like the Retreat is safe, so staying in this Block for a while to clear the other requirements while the lich king levels up should be fine.

I nod my head at that, deciding not to question what I just saw any further.