"Where's young master Ron?" Sherry asked after Pio used his key to lock the basement gates.

Aeona and Rhinne were also quite confused because the kid, his 3 guests of Whispering Sisters, and the new group of Personal-Guards are nowhere to be seen.

Lucas smirked once he saw his friend carefully store the key while sighing like someone who got abandoned by their partner for no reason at all, "Young master Ron took his guards and flew Northwest more than an hour ago."

The maid gawked before asking in worry : "In these conditions?"

Pio nodded while answering : "Young master Ron was the one who caused this rain to begin with."

The Bow-woman rolled her eyes at this group leader of the Blade and Knife-users while saying : "How did the boy do that? We're talking about a force of nature here! Not something which a human like you and me can control." Clearly not believing anything Pio just said.

"That's where you're wrong. Young master Ron isn't a simple human like you and me! And I never said that Lucas and me were the only witnesses, you can ask Tylus and his team of workers, or ask the soldiers who stayed in the house while you guys were gone, and the people who were in the Village to confirm whether or not what I said was true." Then shrugged helplessly as if to say : "I'm not in the mood to argue, you can dig up the truth with a little bit of effort if you guys want."

Rhinne looked at the faces of the soldiers who witnessed the Flame Orbs explode in the sky and all of them nodded, the workers who were building the roof under Tylus's instructions according to Cassandra's design gave detailed report of what happened before following their boss towards the Western-Walls to continue their work on tearing the old ones then using parts of the Centipedes shells to build them anew.

Aeona, Rhinne, and their followers were shocked speechless after the rumors about their young master Ron being able to conjure fire was confirmed.

But his flames being able to affect nature itself was a bit too amazing for them to comprehend.

The group leaders dismissed their soldiers since there's no need for them to complete any missions while the ones on duty or scheduled for any shifts were informed beforehand.

Sherry, Manji, Aeona, Rhinne, Pio, Lucas, and Roger sat in silence around the bonfire at the roof.

None of them seemed bothered by the cold wind which felt a lot more intense at such a high altitude.

But the scene was perfect because despite the relentless rain they could see the whole Village in its entirety and vaguely see parts of the surrounding territory.

Time fleeted by and the group of seven were able to immediately notice whenever the Portals were activated because the streets around the boy's house would be stackfull with people waiting in lines, thankfully the soldiers were doing a great job keeping things in order or chaos would have ensued among the crowds for sure!

*Sigh*

"I can even see familiar faces of people who live outside the Village who work in the surrounding farms!" Pio shook his head because this means that his workload is going to get bigger.

"Word also spread around Rotten-Swamp, Blue-Flower, and Black-Fog Villages." Rhinne said and Pio felt like she's rubbing salt on his wound.

"I bet we'd start seeing a lot of merchants in the days to come." Aeona added more vinegar and Pio felt like his back is going to snap under the weight of this heavy responsibility.

"Maybe little Ron should change the transportation fees for merchants." Manji muttered and Pio face turned pale white.

"Indeed. One Silver Coin is too little, we can't have anyone taking advantage of young master Ron, especially not these wealthy merchants!" Sherry agreed with her sisters and started to think of an appropriate price.

Lucas also nodded in approval before saying : "One Gold Coin for merchants and one Gold Coin per merchandize carriages, that way we can make some profit from every carriage in their convoys."

Even Roger was nodding in agreement despite being famous for not using his brain unless he's facing an enemy in battle.

The maid looked at the sky Eastwards which was starting to darken and muttered softly : "It's getting dark already, young master Ron isn't planning to spend the night in the Dark Forest is he?" Everyone could sense the deep worry in the teenager girl's words.

The Bow-woman shook her head because clearly this silly girl is blinded by her emotions, "I'd say the boy is more than fine since he's still opening the doors for these people every hour."

"Rhinne is correct," The Guardian-Knight patted the young girl on her shoulder, "I'm sure someone smart like him wouldn't put himself and his Personal-Guards in danger."

The Stealthy-Scout lazily sank in the muscular embrace of the big guy while muttering : "No need to worry about him at all, he's not only strong, fast, and smart but also has his Doom-Queen mount, its Royal-Guards, and his Personal-Guards plus 3 Whispering Sisters!"

"En." Roger nodded before adding : "I bet they can walk sideways everywhere in the inner-belt without care for anyth-"

Every pair of eyes shifted towards the Northwest because there's a gigantic black mushroom-like cloud which suddenly appeared then kept growing in size and pushing towards the clouds in the sky at a frightening pace!

*Ka-Boom*

As if the sound of thunder was magnified a thousand of times, everyone's ear was ringing from the deafening sound which left them dizzy.

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Through their blurry vision all of them could see the trees flying in the air while a layer of earth was peeled of the ground and pushed away before dust covered everything in sight.

"W-what's going on? Ugh! My head feels like it's going to burst from the inside!" Pio who was on his way down to do his job came running up to take a look while holding his head.

Lucas shook his head to scatter the dizziness away while gesturing at the mushroom cloud Northwest which is starting to fade after getting battered by rain.

The sight of burning trees falling from the sky and house-sized rocks hitting the ground like meteors made the seven group leaders stare in shock at the amount of destruction which none of them could even comprehend how could it even exist.

*Buzz*

It was right then when all of them could hear a familiar sound but it was coming from behind them from the location where the mysterious door of their young master Ron created is located.

"Did you have to go that far?" Lucy's voice preceded the appearance of the kid and the rest of the missing group.

Lucas, Pio, Roger, Manji, Rhinne, Aeona, and Sherry twisted their necks to look and saw the boy's 10 Personal-Guards nodding their heads in agreement with what this spicy-tempered Honorable Sister just said while looking at their young master Ron with fear as if they're not looking at a kid but some monster istead.

Aaron shrugged while getting down from Nephrite's back with Paws hugged in his chest before giving the 3 Honorable Sisters, which hovered on the air on their own after advancing their Soul-Powers, a side-glance before saying : "How else do you expect me to exterminate these nasty and noisy creatures?

"Just be grateful that I had to waste a lot of my precious time guarding you from these Bald-Faced Hornets while you were too busy powering up.

"I had to exterminate the whole Nest of Pharaoh Cicadas before they target Nephrite's Hive or wait until the Beast-Wave arrive and take advantage of the situation while we're busy pushing the ones who walk the earth and come give us trouble from the sky.

"Yes we do have the assistance of Nephrite's Hive to resist the flying threat but we don't even know what to expect, that's why I was taking the necessary precaution against that threat.

"Not to mention that if they targeted the farms instead of us directly it'd give everyone a much bigger trouble to handle when the food shortage happen.

"Even if we have access to the surrounding markets of the other Villages, it doesn't mean that the prices of food and materials would spike up.

"Say less if their farmlands were also targeted in the same time which means we all get to suffer starvation together." The kid patted Nephrite and ordered her to go back to her Hive and start transporting her subjects here.

*Humph*

Lucy pouted her lips before retorting : "What Bald-Faced Hornets? What Pharaoh Cicadas? You're making these names up!

"Heena, Nina, and I were handling ourselves just fine against these Giant-Vespas with the help of our Poisonous Stone-Centipedes.

"You're the the one who choose to play our guardian and we never asked you to do it because our defense was tight!

"Also you're the one who choose to go bully these Lyric-Valvatas because they're a natural enemy of your Doom-Queen and a threat to her Hive.

"Don't go making noble excuses for your unreasonably destructive and overboard actions when you're bullying others because you're stronger, alright!"

Aaron laughed before shaking his head then went downstairs to take a bath while thinking : 'You can call me whatever you want, I got what I needed from this situation and that's what's most important to me.'

*****

Going back in time a few hours earlier.

"Where are you taking us young master Ron?" Gilmore shouted this question while shielding his face with a hand to block wind and rain.

"To pick a fight." Aaron answered lazily while squinting his eyes.

"Great!" Gri shouted before adding : "I hope these fuckers are thieves! God I hate thieves deep to my guts." While tightening her grip on the handle of her Heavy Steel-Studded Polearm.

Aria rolled her eyes at this crazy woman before shouting : "I think we should've waited to do this in better weather conditions!"

"I don't mind getting wet for young master Ron," Ilfia said before blushing deeply once she realized that what she just voiced out of her mouth makes her sound very perverted, "That's not what I meant!" The young woman shouted once she saw the others looking at her with various expressions on their faces.

"You don't need to be shy about it sister Ilfia, I bet any woman would fancy such an opportunity. Imagine any of us getting to warm ourselves into young master Ron's heart! If there's ever such a possibility I wouldn't hesitate to jump at it even if I'm this high up in the sky." Rusty shouted before looking at the kid on top of the Jade-Green Doom-Vespa's back.

Baroq, Beryl, Elwin, Gilmore, and Aran nodded in agreement.

Meanwhile Jerome laughed uproariously before shouting : "It's good to be young, it's good to be young indeed. I would've thrown my daughters under young master Ron's feet if I had any of my own! You girls better thank lady luck for getting the opportunity to be close to such a fine youngster."

"Not my Aria! Please show mercy young master Ron!" Aran shouted while pulling at the antennas of his mount to position himself in front of his partner protectively!

The others laughed and Aria blushed deeply while wishing if she could get her hands on her foolish partner who's being silly.

Aaron looked back and intentionally acted like he's interested in Aria while asking : "What? Are you not confident in the bond between yourself and her?"

Aran noticed that he's in trouble once he looked back and saw Aria glaring at him as if she's wishing to eat him alive!

Gilmore rolled his eyes before saying : "You lot better stay focused, there seems to be Giant-Vespas up ahead.

"Work in a group and protect each other's backs, Baroq you partner with Beryl and flank young master Ron.

"Aran and Aria you both go ahead and kill whatever Giant-Vespas that dares to approach us.

"Ilfia and Rusty you both stay a behind our group while you Gri and old man Jerome stay higher up.

"Me and Elwin would support you."

The kid let his new Military Advisor do whatever he wants even though he deemed it all unnecessary and looked ahead at the 3 Poisonous Stone-Centipedes which coiled their bodies around Lucy, Heena, and Nina which sat cross-legged next to a creek in the forest below.

These so-called Giant-Vespas were harassing the Centipedes but their sharp, long, and dangerous-looking stingers were useless against their sturdy and thick shells.

The sneaky ones among the Giant-Vespas attempted to bypass the Centipedes defensive blockade and reach the 3 women but the 3 Gold-Guards joined together to attack these enemies and acted instinctively because these black and white Hornets are one of their natural enemies.

"Get ready to push through them." Aaron shouted while activating Emphatic Resonance, Iron Will, and Self Recovery to increase the Stats of his allies and decrease the Stats of his enemies.

Minutes later all the Bald-Faced Hornets were lying dead on the ground while his 9 Personal-Guards and his Military Advisor were standing nearby their young master Ron and staring at the destruction and devastation everywhere around them.

'All of us are useless! Young master Ron practically did everything on his own.' The 10 soldiers had this same thought while shaking their heads.

System : Level-UP

Meanwhile Aaron was standing there looking at the notification window which just appeared once he reached Level 20.

System : Requirements met for First-Class Advancement

The kid almost jumped up and down from excitement but had an image to preserve in front of his soldiers.