‘We’ve got a few guards, but we’re going to need more than a handful of orphans,’ Adam thought, letting out a soft sigh.

  “Boosh!” Jirot shouted, holding out her fist to her father. “I beat you up, daddy!”

  Adam fell down, watg as the giggling girl darted away, while Karot squatted before him, holding out his hands.

  “I heal you, daddy,” Karot said, waiting for his father to stand.

  “Hoo! What a lovely son I have!” Adam pulled him in for a tight hug, kissing his son’s cheek repeatedly, the amplifying the noises. “I feel so much stronger now that you’ve healed me!”

  “Yes!” Karot flushed before he embraced his father until the half elf eventually surrehe boy to his siblings, allowing them to go py.

  “We’re going to need more people,” Adam said, gng around the rest of the fort. ‘There’s too many Iyrmen about.’

  “You buy sves,” Jurot offered.

  Adam bliurning his head slowly towards his brother, his brows raised in arm. “What?”

  “You offer them freedom within the fort.”

  “Yeah, but… buying sves is…”

  “Sves have terrible lives. You will treat them better.”

  “I ’t buy sves,” Adam replied. “It’s…” Adam could already feel the guilt fill him. ‘I mean… we did use it to bee a super power. Thankfully there’s little isation in this world, but who knows how long that will st for. Although, if I end up plundering trillions, I’d probably do much better with that than how it was squandered.’

  “The wars have harmed many across the nds. They may wish to join the busio find stability.”

  “That’s probably a good idea,” Adam replied, thinking about hoeople he could support. ‘Each Basic on means about a hundred or so full time employees? No, it’s slightly less than that, isn’t it? About half or so?’

  Jurot was also doing the calcutions in his head, though he was finding it difficult. ‘Adam create many magical ons within a week.’

  “We need more high earners, at least four or five to make us a ton of money monthly,” Adam said in the Iyr’s tongue before switg back. “I’d like enough guards and warriors to protect the fort and the people around us. We’ll need different types of guards and warriors, and more importantly, trusted guards for my kids. One for each of them at least. I need really trustworthy people I gift magical items to all the while proteg my greatest treasures.”

  Jurot remained silent. ‘We will protect them?’

  Lanarot tackled her half elf brother. “Papa!”

  “Lanababy,” Adam said, lifting the girl up to exge kisses with her.

  “You will fight?”

  “I will fight when I have to.”

  Lanarot pointed off to the side, with Dunes approag the pair, while whistles pierced the air.

  “What’s up?”

  “There are quite a few beasts in the distance,” Dunes informed. “There’s a red bear too.”

  “A red bear.” Jurot narrowed his eyes in thought.

  Adam spotted the other children who had arrived at the fort in order to prepare for the wedding, as well as the mass of Iyrmen, at least an Expert for each child, but many of the randmasters from each family had arrived too.

  An Iyrman Adam barely reised stepped towards the pair. “There is a red bear.”

  Jurot nodded.

  “You have the first rite to cim it, your wedding is soon.”

  Adam gowards his brother, brows raised. “You want it.”

  “Yes.”

  “Then we will clear a path,” the Iyrman said.

  “No. Adam will clear the path.”

  “Alone?”

  “Jaygak and Kitool will support us.”

  The Iyrman gowards Adam, eyeing him up. Adam was a few years youhan the Iyrman, but he had heard of Adam’s great abilities. However, many of the great abilities were rooted within magid during the Twilight Month, Adam’s abilities were not quite so grand.

  “It looks like I get to show off to my kids again,” Adam said, stretg his neck from side to side. “Do I have enough time to slip on my armour?”

  “We will deal with the first wave of the beasts,” the Iyrman said to Jurot, who o the Iyrman who stepped away.

  “You put on your armour,” Jurot said, already ready to face the beasts.

  “Manager Dunes, would you mind?” Adam asked, quickly stepping away to put on his armour. “Do you want to e too?”

  “I am fine,” Dune said, assisting with putting on Adam’s armour. “It is awkward for me to fight this month.”

  “What about Amira?”

  “I will ask.”

  The screeg of a particur Iyrman filled the air while the children watched from the walls.

  ‘My sister is so cute,’ Adam thought, hearing the screeg from the distarapping his shield. “It’s been a while since we fought together. I almost missed it.”

  “It’s been too cold to fight,” Jaygak pined, rubbing the side of Sky’s neck gently.

  Kitool stretched with her staff, feeling the staff’s sturdiness against her back as she twisted in ways which shouldn’t be humanly possible, but were Iyrmanly possible.

  “Sky, make sure you watch over the kids, okay?” Adam asked.

  “Yes, Executive.”

  “You must watch,” Jurot said to Pam, who stared at the four as they prepared themselves.

  “I will.”

  “Okay.”

  “I think what Jurot is trying to say is that he’s h this kill to you,” Adam said, poking his brother with his elbow.

  “Yes,” Jurot said, his ears turning red.

  The Iyrmen had thihe beast wave, allowing Adam, Jaygak and Kitool to charge forward. Sonarot watched from the walls with the other children, from the screaming Lanarot, to the near silent Katool, whose eyes blihrough her gsses towards the four cousins who formed an arrow to cut their way towards the red bear. Battle OrderD20 + 1 = 2 (1)

  Health: 91 -> 79

  Fighting Spirit: 3 -> 2Health: 79 -> 84

  Attack - Wraith (Advantage)(Fnking)D20 + 11 = 23 (12)D20 + 11 = 25 (14)Hit!Mana: 25 -> 21Ability: Divine Smite2D6 + 5D6 + 9 = 34 (1, 6)(1, 2, 4, 5, 6)34 damage!

  Attack - Wraith (Advantage)(Fnking)D20 + 11 = 12 (1)D20 + 11 = 27 (16)Hit!Mana: 21 -> 17Ability: Divine Smite2D6 + 5D6 + 9 = 29 (1, 1)(1, 1, 4, 6, 6)29 damage!

  Onward Soar: 1 -> 0

  Attack - Wraith (Advantage)(Fnking)D20 + 11 = 17 (6)D20 + 11 = 27 (16)Hit!Wraith: 3 -> 2Mana: 17 -> 16Ability: Divine Smite2D6 + 2D6 + 2D6 + 9 = 40 (6, 6)(6, 6)(1, 6)40 damage!

  Attack - Wraith (Advantage)(Fnking)D20 + 11 = 12 (1)D20 + 11 = 21 (10)Hit!Wraith: 2 -> 1Mana: 16 -> 15Ability: Divine Smite2D6 + 2D6 + 2D6 + 9 = 34 (2, 3)(5, 6)(3, 6)34 damage!

  Adam charged forward with Kitool and Jaygak beside him, his brother following behind. He had taken the lead, his purple armour allowing the others to keep track of him with ease. He crashed against the first beast, a giant bck bear, not like the bck bears he had faced previously. This bck bear seemed to be a bear that may have eaten a bck bear before arriving, as it was easily taller than even any brown bear he had seen, and its paws were rger than Adam’s helmeted head. The red bear behind, however, was even rger.

  The mighty paw crashed against Adam’s shield, causing him to stomp into the earth, leaving an imprint into the earth below. His arms throbbed heavily as the might blow almost khe wind out of him.

  ‘Holy!’

  He swung Wraith towards the bck bear in front of him, noting arying to climb over it to crash against him. He swung with enough force he could have cut another bear in half, using the greatest smite he could muster.

  ‘It’s still fine?’ Adam thought, his axe cutting a deep gash into the bear, a tio swipe at him. Adam ducked uhe blow, sshing across its front, managing to fell the bear.

  Upon realising how hearty these bears were, Adam charged fainst the sed, his axe fshing cold and hot simultaneously, tearing into the beast savagely. He dropped the sed bear with his fourth ssh, inhaling deeply.

  ‘What are they feeding these bears?’

  Jaygak’s voice cut through the air, bing the group with light as her bde tore through one of the bears, barely cutting through another. It was as though she was cutting through t with her bde, the young woman thinking about how gd she was she wielded a great bde in hand.

  Kitool’s staff cttered against the bear in front of her, noting the handful of other beasts around. “Jaygak,” Kitool called, her staff stabbing deep within a bear, causing it to freeze in pce, before she struck the other beasts in a simir manner, freezing them in pce for her panion, while the monster before them cut doith near ease.

  Jaygak replied with a grunt, uanding what Kitool was thinking. Jurot remained behind his panions, his fiwitg as he readied himself, the red bear snarling wildly, waiting for its turn to charge forward.

  It's bee normal to see Adam deal 30+ damage but let's be clear, dealing even 20 damage per hit is crazy.