Omen: 9, 20

  “Damn,” Adam said, staring at the numbers. “My rolls have been so good the past couple of days.”

  “Rolls?” Jurot asked.

  “I would be two third away to the perfect on,” Adam said. “I could have made such a great on before we left.”

  Lucy whistled as she looked away.

  “ I summon my familiars, or should I wait until after we leave the Iyr?” Adam asked.

  “You should do so once we are out of the Iyr,” Jurot said.

  “Alright,” Adam replied.

  They went through the motions that m. Adam was gd he could have another bathe that m, especially sihey warmed up the water for him.

  ‘Damn, they’re so nice.’

  Soorio left, saying their goodbyes to the Elders, and making their way to the vilge.

  “Are you sure you do not want to say goodbye to your nephew?” Lykan asked.

  “Who is my nephew?” Tonagek’s nostrils fred angrily.

  “Jurot is not your nephew?”

  “Oh,” Tonagek said. “I spoke with him st night.”

  Elder Lykan smiled. “What of the other?”

  “I have heard what he has done, but I will not accept him so easily,” Tonagek said.

  “Not even for your sister’s sake?”

  His nostrils fred once more.

  Soon the evening sun tickled the trio’s backs as they arrived at the vilge, which seemed to be awaiting their arrival.

  The Chief, Merl, came to meet them quickly. “My, my, what handsome guests we have.” Her eyes fell to the Devilkin woman, or what she assumed to be a Devilkin. “A Devilkin who isn’t an Iyrman?”

  “She’s our friend,” Adam said, patting Lucy’s back.

  “I’m a Dem-“

  Adam spped her back harder. “She demao e along with us to have some fun.” Adam chuckled. ‘Oi! What the hell are you doing?’

  Lucy rubbed her back. ‘What was that for?’

  Adam raised his brows and gred at her.

  “Anyway, it’s a pleasure to see you again. Have you been well, Chief?”

  “I’ve been well, but my old bones have be chattering due to the cold,” she replied, sighing.

  “Old? You don’t look a day over forty, Chief,” Adam said, fshing a charming smile her way.

  “Oh, you! If only I was forty years younger.” She jabbed him with her finger.

  “You’re travelling out during Nightval?” Merl, the young aiful granddaughter, asked.

  “Yeah.” Adam shrugged his shoulders. “What better time to train than in the most dangerous ditions?”

  “As long as we train safely, we will survive,” Jurot said.

  She gnced between the pair of them. “Yes, dangerously safe.”

  “Anyway,” Adam said, clearing his throat. “I o summon a few things. Do you mind?”

  “Summon?” Merl asked.

  “I want to summon an Elk and am Owl,” Adam said. “Friends of mine.”

  “ you trol them?”

  “ we truly trol anyone?” Adam philosophised.

  Merl raised her brows.

  “Yes,” Adam said. “I .”

  “As long as you trol them. If they act up, we may be forced to put them down.”

  “If you leave them be, they should leave you be. I’m their master, so they should obey me. That Owl, though, he’s a troublemaker, just like Jaygak.” Adam smiled ily.

  Merl squinted her eyes at him. “Please make sure they do not bother us.”

  Adam nodded, before heading aside to cast his spell.

  Mana: 16 -> 14Spell: Find Steed

  Adam drew something on the floor using a stick he had found, a set of runes, ting quietly over the course of a few minutes. He tossed the stick aside.

  “Arise, my trusted panion!” Adam decred.

  The runes glowed for a moment, before fshing white repeatedly, and within a few seds, there came a rge Elk, formed of light at first, before it seemingly formed flesh.

  The Elk stared at Adam.

  “Yo,” Adam said.

  The Elk bowed its head.

  “Wait a sed and I’ll go summon your older sibling,” Adam said, befoing off to find a brazier.

  “Wait…” Adam snapped his finger and the Oeared. “Sorry, Hades. I fot.”

  Hades stared at Adam.

  Adam cleared his throat. “Now, what should I call you?” He pet the Elk. “Athena maybe? No, that doesn’t make sense. I should have called you Athena,” Adam said, looking to Hades. “Plus it’d be weird if the one I’m riding is a girl.” Adam rubbed his in thought. “Zeus? Because you are as fast as lightning?” Adam smiled.

  “Since when could you summon an Elk?” Lucy asked.

  “A while ago,” Adam said. “Well, I learnt it retly, but I could have lear before.”

  Luarrowed her eyes. ‘If I only I could summon my baby.’

  “Though, I do need more Mana…” Adam said. He checked to see how much Experie cost to increase his Mana.

  ‘Oh, that’s pretty cheap.’

  XP: 3825 -> 2325

  “If only it was so easy to increase your Mana,” Lucy said. She smirked. “That’s why I don’t use magic.”

  Adam stared at her. “Yeah. If only it was so easy.”

  Mana: 16 -> 18

  “If only,” he repeated.

  The feassed by ufully as Jurot led the way through the vilges. Brittany’s vilge asked about her and checked up with Jurot, but otherwise left the group be. Adam made sure to drop three gold to each vilge for looking after them, which they eagerly accepted.

  Omen: 13, 17

  The group retty close to Red Oak when they heard screaming off in the distance.

  “We should probably check that out,” Adam said, before Jurot and Lucy darted away, Adam following behind, though the distaween them began to widen. ‘I should get some more movement somehow.’

  Zeus bounded beside him, slowing down to keep beside his master. Hades circled around, still quicker than the Half Elf.

  As they charged forward, heading towards the area where they were going to sleep at, they found four people, each attag one another.

  “What the hell?” Adam called out as Jurot and Lucy waited, w what they should do.

  “We should not get involved,” Jurot said. “If it is a fight between a group.”

  Adam’s eyes snapped around, seeing the utter rage on some of their faces, half drooling as they strue another.

  “No,” Adam said, grabbing his axe. “Something’s wrong. We o stop them.” Adam leapt into the fray.

  Battle OrderD20 + 1 = 9 (8)

  AttackD20 + 8 = 9 (1)Miss!1D6 + 1D6 + 6 = 9 (1)(2)9 damage!

  AttackD20 + 8 = 26 (18)Hit!1D6 + 1D6 + 6 = 12 (5)(1)12 damage!

  Adam swung his axe towards the young woman in the robes and staff, but he slipped in the earth, before swinging the back of his axe to strike across her back, catg her as she fell.

  Jurot strue down, and Lucy beat the third.

  Adam watched as the man in the reached out for Lucy’s face, his hand pletely bck, filled with deathly magic.

  Mana: 18 -> 15Spell: terspell

  “Do you really think you do that in front of me?” Adam ted, causing the man’s hand to turn back to its fleshy colour.

  Adam was gd that he had taken it ba the Iyr. ‘Damn, sometimes I’m just so smart.’ Although he had Fireball, his other Third Gate spells were defensive or held great utility.

  Lucy head butt the guy, causing him to stumble back. “What did you try to do to my face, you bastard?” She head butt him again until his body fell still, and she let him drop to the floor.

  “Rex,” Adam said. “They didn’t seem like themselves.” Adam was about to heal the girl in his arms, when he saw the glowing symbol on the ground.

  “Hey, look after them,” he said, before dropping down and creating runes around the symbol, trying to cast his spell.

  After a few mihe symbol on the floor disappeared, before he could mao cast his spell in time.

  “Damn,” Adam said, staring down at the ground. ‘How did I know I o prepare that spell? Seriously…’ He gowards the group of Advehat Jurot and Lucy had moved to the side.

  “What do we do with them?” Lucy asked.

  “Well… they might still be uhe magic, so it’s probably best to tie them up,” Adam said, looking around to the camp nearby. “Take away their ons and magical stuffs, and tie ‘em up. We’ll interrogate them when they wake up.”

  Adam moved their packs to the side, and pced their ons beside them, and tasked Zeus and Hades to watch over them.

  “Should I heal one of them, or should we wait?” Adam asked.

  “I’m a little hungry,” Lucy admitted.

  “I will hunt,” Jurot said.

  “Take Lucy with you,” Adam said. “I’ll send Hades too, and if you get into trouble, Hades will e bae.”

  Jurot aking the Demon with him.

  Adam stared at the Adventurers.

  ‘Should I mess with them?’

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