« We should begin right now, the quicker the better » Said Grandpa, i cast (High heal) and (Dispel) on the corpse to put it in its best condition.
« Wait i call Lucia » The fox was nearby and ran to us quickly. Once it arrived, i gave it instruction, mom and i began to gather light elements. Lucia will be the medium of the whole spell, the mana and element of the spell will be gathered in her body. It trained its soul and mind like i taught it. It increased the pressure that the fox body could endure, the rank up helped too. We had to cast the spell with the same rhythm and to infuse the same amount of mana, we had to be in a perfect synchronization.
Seconds seemed to pass like minutes, Lucia began to whine, the pressure began to be painful for it to endure. We were at the end of the spell. The light in the room was blinding us, the temperature was the same, but all this light element gave a warm feeling, it felt safe here, it gave a holy vibe to Lucia. Both mom and i said ( Resurrection) in the same time, all the light element and mana in Lucia shot to the Cheetah body, grandpa soul was next to it, he had already bind his soul to the corpse.
We couldn’t look directly to the body, at least not without me using my ability. With my power i could see, light element transforming itself in vital force stimulating the body to function once more. I saw grandpa soul being syphoned above the head of the corpse, in the process he lost a lot of soul power and gradually became weaker. His soul began to change its shape to conform its body.
The spell took 3 minutes to do his job. Grandpa body was living, we could see it breath. But grandpa soul and body took a shock, i don’t believe he will wake up today. I told what i saw to my parents, and we left the room. Dad was stressed, he said he would wait for grandpa to wake up.
«Lucia did a really good job, you should reward it. » said mom, while petting the tired fox.
« What do you think Lucia, food, mana crystal, element? » it yelp in agreement for the 3
« Don’t be greedy choose one » i said while poking it. It yelp in protest and yelp to said mana crystal. Druid magic is really handsome, i could understand the vaguely the meaning of the animals, in addition of the soul link ithe meanings of the yelps became clearer.
« Good, i will give you one after you rested ». it happily nudged its head against mom.
Grandpa woke up the fourth day after the experiment. He was weak, he ate and directly slept, his new body was really messed up. I don’t know the name of the poison but its slow and powerful.
The fifth day after, the experiment, grandpa woke up. It was a short moment of lucidity. He just ate and went back to sleep, this happened every day until two weeks passed.
He was really weak, it was not only because of the resurrection, the new body of grandpa is a mess, healing magic doesn’t help ip at all. He will have to slowly rebuilt it, for now he can only take short walk, he eatd five times a day. He said, his soul power was for most of it use to shape his soul to synchronize it with the body. Grandpa success in obtaining a new body put all the family in a joyful mood.
I took the slave deep in the backyard of the mansion to build their barrack, i told them that over the years new companion would join them. Earth magic didn’t help the construction of durable walls.
We all trained by looking for stones, carrying them to the house spot, and to stack them while Buro would use (Earth fusion) to make the stone fuse in one block. It will make the barrack as one big stone. We made a building with 2 floors, the ground floor, will be for, cuisine, diner hall and pub from what i saw. I let them designs their own house.
It changed from the architecture of other houses of the baronet. This building was taller than my mansion, would dad be angry? It had carving of famous half beast legends on it, some were heroes, others were rank 10 magic beasts.
I really like this building, first because i participated to the construction, it was my work, secondly the carvingd gave it a ferocious vibe, it gave the impression that war was around the corner. We built a small work shop for Dario. He informed me with names of the tools needed to craft iron armors and weapons. He said that his work was appreciated by the higher ups of the Tiger Tribe, but he didn’t smith with other metal than iron.
I told him that his training would involve to process iron to create iron bar. Our mine provide us with iron, but we sell it without processing it which make us lose a lot of money.
I went to the city with a wagon to buy blankets and sheets, Eva followed me. I told them to use wood from the grove to build their own furnitures.
Years went by without being noticed. Ashley who should have gone back after learning for 2 years, received a letter from her father to stay here, he said there were problems within his territory, he asked her to do her military service. He send a letter to father to ask him to prepare Ashley to her military service.
Mom said to Ashley that if she wanted more strength, more power, she would have to learn our family secret practices but to learn our arts she had to make a Soul contract. Mom established a equals contract with Ashley, with that Ashely day changed, mom would train her in the morning in magic and i would train her to be a knight in the afternoon.
I would send the slaves to the mines every 2 months for 2 days to help the the village of Nero, the village chief came to ask for a slave so we decided that mining could be hard enough to be considered training, it was less effectives that other exercises, but it would avoid us to lessen the productivity of the mine.
During those two years, grandpa condition went back to normal, his body could do anything, he integrated my guards as a « slave » and kept his name James it took him two years to become Copper Knight.
In two years, Marlin came back 4 times, he sold us 40 ill slaves of all age and 15 hydras. We healed them, and let them chose the mine or the guards, all of them chose the guards, I’m allowed to go to the front line with a maximum of 100 soldiers under me.
Its a privilege to be sent to the border because if one is good enough and their lords write down their credits, they can earn their knighthood. I can’t go there only with slave, i selected Jules, Bernard, Oliver and Martis to come. They were all honored, and happy, i said i will train them with the secrets arts of the family if they accepted a contract, they all agreed without hesitation.
Now my guards troops had 55 people, the first batch of slave is now bronze ranked, the second and third are Copper guards, the new batch and the local soldiers didn’t improve their rank. I believe that every one will be copper for the service and that’s enough.
Grandpa integrated well in this new troop, he became a team leader, like Turo and Luna. Each of these teams had its own fighting style, Turo would lead the heavy infantry, Luna scoots and bow men, James will lead shielded guards, once Sako have enough people under him training, i will make him a team leader.
For now most guards are under Luna, Ashley train under her too. A lot of ill slave came from squirrels, raccoon, rabbit, sheep and fox tribes, their bodies aren’t made for heavy infantry or sustained fights. The dynamic fighting style of grandpa or the fast and polyvalent role of a scout was more adapted.
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The Hydra tribesmen, went to the beach between the Nero village and Lira village. To access to this place, we needed to walk a long a dangerous cliff path. Mom, Ashley, Buro and me went there with them, we explained them how to train as knight. We used earth magic to sculpt their home within the cliff, it gave a certain charm to their living quarters.
We sculpted two Big Hydra armored Hydra in each of the side of the entry. Next we didn’t dig straight, to cut the wind, we took two turns before digging straight. We made a corridor with a big hall at the end of it.
Each side of the corridor were entries to homes for hydras, we created air opening for them to get fresh air and sewers. We gave them tool for cooking, told them that villagers would come to barter legumes with fish. They were informed of their two duties fish and train for now, and in the future it would be to fight in the water for us.
The hydra tribes men had three heads, a long tail and were more than 2 meters tall in size, if we had not made slave contracts dad would not let them alone to increase their strenght. In the way back we created a new cliff path since villagers would use it. We did this before Ashley established a contract with mom, she was so shocked to see Buro and me use magic. I believe this convinced her to join our rank.
I made a lot of soul contract and felt that my soul power regressed. I told it to grandpa, he said that soul power was not like mana, once gone it didn’t came back. It had to be trained again. I decided to let the slave train soul power too, since it can be used to attack, it would be their hidden cards.
Mom, decided to become a knight too after a episode of complete mayhem. Dad finished to transform his blood in bronze blood, making the rest of his body catching up to is silver skin. However once he did it, his skin without knight energy was smoother than it was before, so dad decided it was his chance to bully mother. I believe he said something like « hey Alana, touch my hand, do you feel it? Its how the skin of young people like me feel », mom had purified her mana, her fury was not influenced by external factors.
Mom said with a smile « Young people like you old man? you are 28 and i’m 20 this year i don’t see were your are going, you should stop wine for some time ». And that’s where dad unleashed hell in the mansion « Hum old had we know that you are 27, you skin is not even smooth as a knight like me »
Ashley was there, she told that mom froze for 2 minutes , she saw dad leaving the room happily like he did something great, like this was his day. Mom just said « i’m coming back in Ten minutes stay here and close the door » after that she heard explosions and she smelled charred meat.
I saw dad running in the backyard avoiding (thunderbolts) and (earth spikes) until grandpa choose to lie and sleep in the middle of his escape path, which earned both to be hit by a fireball, i directly went with Buro to heal them. Grandpa said tragically « John it was worth it. » before fainting.
Mom didn’t let me heal dad burns completely, she said she would take care of it, she used (Levitation) spell on his body and carried him to the mansion. Fom that day, mom decided to do knight training, i told Buro to do it too.
I grew over those two years closer to Ashley, she integrated our home very well, i told her about my power and sometimes we would share my vision to observe otherworlds or races in our world. I found thank to mom calendar that i would find the same world at the same place each year.
I was able to see Earth for two weeks, all the family came to see it, even Eva who is now a cute small lass of 4 years old. Aunt Elise did a equal contract with dad under mom supervision, dad is in charge of her knight training, she observed earth with us.
We focalized our attention on the metal boat, they were driven by explosion caused by a special oil. Mom drew a schema of each piece of a medium sized boat and a small boat. She wanted us to build one, she said since bandit attacks us on earth, they would not do it on the water.
The problems was the magic beast of the sea which were a lot more aggressive and stronger than the ones present on lands. The hydra would need to be stronger, and we would need water and ice magic on the boat.
Dad said we would stop buying hydra and keep the money to pay for my wedding which is planned to be for my fifteen birthday. One year before our military service.
During those two years, the sell of butter, cheese and cream exploded, all the exploitable lands of the baronet are being use for agricultural purpose. We tamed bees, to produce honey, we introduced the glass ware production and the paper production in the Cesi village. Both of those goods are expensive. It took a lot of investment and time, it didn’t pay back the initial investment for now. In Bladebreaker city, base on earth and two otherworld technology, we built the first print house of the world.
Dad made a partnership with a merchant, and began to publish book that the merchant would sold each book cost 3 gold coins.
The print house take 60 % of the profit, the paper are now produced in the baronet so the cost is cut by a lot, increasing our profit, the merchant think we buy the paper, 1 gold by book is considered as charge, while 1,2 gold goes in our pockets. We can produce 50 books a month with only 3 workers in the print house, which is great in my world but if we compare to earth its a joke.
I’m glad, we have windows with glass, it make the mansion less gloomy and more bright, we equipped a lot of building with glass, the inn where merchants sleep is equipped with it.
We also began to produce our own beers and liquor, we stole the process from the darwes, from Earth, from Desolateand from Estos. We learned a lot of techniques that we tested, we kept the best.
When i was hunting with the guards and the foxes, which are the best scoot assistants. I found that the foxes would always go to certain herbs that have a lot of mana.
In this hunt we followed them and gathered herbs and fruits. I gave them to mom who decided to plant them in the garden, she said she would slowly research their effect. That night i decided to look for alchemist with the humans kingdoms. I found that only one of the herbs were present in their labs.
I decided i would spy on them trying to find recipe, i would write everything about their experiments, now that the calendar is done i know which world is interesting to peek on which one is not.
Today is Ashley birthday, we will have a big diner together, through those two years Ashley became friend with the slave guards, especially the women so she wanted to eat with them this lunch, so we made food and different desserts. I went in a hunt the guards, we hunted magical beast to find puppies for her.
We found the egg of a bird, alone of a branch, the parents were absent, and i found a wolf puppy, i saw with my ability that the parents were fighting with other wolves somewhere else so we stole the wolf cub and ran. We decided that the egg would be the slave present for Ashley and the puppy from me. I offer the cutest present that the lord privilege!
The lunch was good, Shiro is a very good cook he made a cake of crêpes for dessert, i took the great decision to let him observe otherworld which had a great cuisine culture.
She was very happy when she saw the egg, i knew she was jealous of my 3 handsome kids. When they gave her the egg, i gave her a box. She opened it, and saw the puppy.
« Haaa, its so cuteeeeeeee, hehe … » she began to laugh, with the cub in her arm.
« Did you purify all you mana? » i asked her
« Yes, i had less than Aunt Alana, it took less time, why? » she asked, i began to explain her, how the foxes ranked up, the use of the soul link and druidic magic.
« In clear, my wolf puppy will be able to beat your foxes » she said proudly.
« I don’t believe its a smart move even with a soul contract to have the magic beast surpass their master strength, i don’t think dad would allow it. So hehe… no they wouldn’t since you will not be allowed to rank them more than rank 1 ».
She began to pout, « you are lucky, if your wolf evolve 3 times, he will become your mount, its parents were rank 2 and were my nearly as tall as me. You will be more handsome than even the Queen, if you rode on a wolf. »
She smile again, i could see a light in her eyes, she imagined herself on her wolf. She put the egg in the box with a piece of napkin, and kept it by her side, the wolf was in her arm.
Mom, dad, Elise and Eva gave their present after the diner. Mom gifted a red dress which she had enchanted, the enchantment were hidden within the dress, it gave Ashley a buff (damage absorption) and (self-repair) was added. Dad gave her two books, the first was about magic theory written by the current court mage, while the second was a glossary of magic birds, it was one of the book that the print house would produce.
Elise and Eva combined their effort to make a Hat with grass and birds feathers and a coat made from magical beast hide. Ashley was happy, she said she would cherish every gift.