Vasera stood awkwardly, remaining at bay, as though she had been fotten. She gowards Adam, who had thrown out a Fme Bolt towards one of the creatures from afar. Her thoughts wandering towards a particur question, before the question fell away. She had been paid to follow ands, and if Adam didn’t wao step forward, that was fine by her. Her eyes fell back towards the children, who watched excitedly as the Iyrmen and the demons fought the elementals of earth.

  Rook let out a soft, bored sigh, his wrist led between his sword and thigh. He exged a look with Vasera, the pair shrugging their shoulders, waiting to be anded forward. It wouldn’t be long before the Iyrmen would heir assistance if they didn’t wish to die.

  Indeed, it was only a matter of time before they would be defeated.

  Kitool’s body was almost a blur as she struck the urtas, her tiger staff cttering against each of them, two of the mounds of vaguely humanoid earth freezing i was Jurot’s axe which denoted which of the urtas they should strike, carving through an urta as his shield blocked the mighty blow of another, while Kitool spuween the rocky fists of another, rolling off of its back as she readied herself. While the pair were engaged with the urtas which could still move, the red skirio struck violently against the frozen urta.

  ‘What?’ Jasmihought.

  The rge axes wielded by the twe Dancers struck violently, bursting into fmes, while the st bde, which glowed in the air, finished carving through the urta to sile forever. Within moments, the five had mao kill oa, and while Jurot and Kitool ehe two moving urtas, the sed frozen urta fell into the earth while uhe focus of all five, axes, staff, and bde making short work of the elemental.

  Morkarai stared at the fighting. He had been ready to throw a stoo assist, but watg the five tear through the urtas like this, he uood why the fire giants had long stopped trying to fight with the Iyrmen.

  ‘Bell, I’m married now…’

  Victory!XP Gained: +1 000XP: 9 500 -> 10 500

  ‘Didn’t I tell you I’m married?’

  [It lit seven ways.]

  ‘Eh?’

  Adam blinked. ‘They’re worth more than even a Cuard?’

  Vasera blinked. She closed her eyes and though back to the previous years. ‘It wasn’t surprising they mao kill seven hydras since we outnumbered them by so much, and we had the assistance of the wolves, the Rays, and the Hope. Yet…’

  “Good job,” Adam said, patting the returning group on their shoulders.

  “Livih,” Jurot said, holding up the small bits of earth which seemed to melt almost like sand within his hands.

  “Why does it look different?”

  “Livih does not have one appearance.”

  “Oh.”

  Kitool took the Livih and the cores of the creatures, slipping them into her pouch, to be split between the business.

  “Hold on.” Adam motioned a hand to the pouch, before taking the cores. He tossed oo Karza. “I appreciate you stepping back to allow them to have their fun.”

  Karza csped her fingers around the core. “Do you know how much they’re worth?”

  “About a thousand or so.”

  “A thousand, sometimes more,” Karza firmed, smiling slightly wider. “I didn’t expect you to be so smart.”

  “Good,” Adam replied, befng towards Vasera. “Are you going to be annoyed if I offer you one?”

  “Yes.”

  “Will you accept it anyway?”

  “No.”

  “Alright, alright. We’ll say one go to the Iyr, and the business keep the other two.” Adam hahe pouch back to Kitool. “No, we’ll say two go to the Iyr, the business keep one, and we’ll keep all the Livih.”

  “It is fine for the busio cim it all,” Jurot informed.

  “We should pay our dues,” Adam replied, not even wanting to think he was shirking the Iyr. “Even if the King makes that new army of his, I’ll still be more afraid of the Iyr.”

  “Are you pnning to cause a mess?” Jaygak asked, a small smile encroag across her lips.

  “I might have to.”

  Jaygak rolled her eyes, the group tinuing along their way for a short while, before setting up camp. It had been a while since Adam had cast the particur spell, but Karza watched him with great i, noting how he created two towers from magic.

  Mana: 25 -> 22Spell: Tower of Adam

  Mana: 22 -> 19Spell: Tower of Adam

  Karza’s eyes fell to Morkarai. ‘He’s not a Priest?’

  Morkarai’s eyes replied with a particur look, a look which embodied the new phrase the Iyr had ed.

  Adam is Adam.

  Adam was about to step towards one of the particur towers first, before he gnced back towards the childre out a small sigh. “Bil, you and the children go bathe first.”

  Bil remaiill. ‘What?’

  The Aswadian boys gnced all around the ground floor of the tower, noting the rge bath within.

  ‘He is not a Priest?’ Bil thought, w how Adam had cast the spell without an item.

  Ohe Aswadian boys were bathed, Bil bathed the younger children, helping the girls with drying their hair, before they all stepped out to find Vonda beginning to cook, and the others staking wood into the earth, while Adam used his magic to shift the earth around.

  Trick: Mould Earth

  “Thank you,” Bil said, deg against asking Adam how he mao cast such spells and tricks.

  “Any time,” Adam replied, before making his way towards the baths. He paused for a moment. ‘Should I ask…’ He gnced back towards the rest of the camp, noting how everyone was finishing up the preparations to make camp. ‘No I ’t do that.’

  Adam jolted slightly when he heard someoer the baths. “Occupied!” Adam’s hands quickly snapped down towards his crotch to hide himself, before noting who had arrived. “Oh.” ‘Thank the Divine.’

  Adam and Vonda bathed together, Adam washing his wife’s back, his wife washing his own back.

  ‘Don’t.’ Adam anded himself. ‘It’s not the time, you damn punk.’ Adam’s eyes fell across towards Vonda, who let out a tired sigh, rexing within the back. ‘Damn it! Why did my wife have to be so beautiful?’

  “You okay?” Adam asked. “Are we travelling too much?”

  “It’s fine,” Vonda reassured, cuddling up beside her husband.

  Adam ed his arms around her side, allowing her head to rest up against his chest, their soft skin rubbing against one another withih. “If it’s too much, just tell me, and we take a few days withiowns again.”

  “I want to see what Karot has drawn,” Vonda replied, half as a joke.

  “I wonder how much of a mess Jirot’s caused…” Adam smiled.

  “You should not stress yourself so much.”

  Adam burst out into ughter, swaying with his wife in his arms. “She should bully her babo for me since I asked.”

  “I am sure she has bullied him well.”

  “Yeah…” Adam brushed his hand along Vonda’s arm, feeling how much thicker it had bee over the past few months. Adam reached down and rubbed down along his wife’s side, before rubbing aloomach. “With how much trouble she’s causing, I bet she’s a girl.”

  Vonda’s breath struck Adam’s chest as she tried to stifle her ugh, causing Adam to smile and chuckle too, the pair embrag one another. Long moments passed as the pair fell silent, embrag one another.

  “I’m sorry, Adam.”

  “For what?”

  “I should have known.”

  Adam kissed her cheek, and pulled her closer, rubbing his cheek against hers. “It’s not your fault. It’s no one’s fault. It’s not anyone’s fault, cause nothing’s going to happen.”

  Vonda tio hold Adam close, feeling his warmth against her, greater than the warmth of the bath. She rested her head against his chest, feeling his heart beat thumping against her cheek.

  It was night when Jaygak approached Adam, who gently brushed his finger along his seatit’s beak. “You ’t sleep?”

  “No,” Adam admitted. “You?”

  Jaygak sat down beside the half elf, staring out across the wooden walls of the camp. “Urtas are difficult to kill.”

  “Yeah?”

  Jaygak raised her hand in front of her, staring at it for a long while. She he callouses against her fingers and her palm, those which she had gained from her upbringing. “It was easier than I expected.”

  “Well, yeah, you’re strong.”

  “I’m more than an Expert, but less than a Master,” Jaygak replied. “I am strong, for an Aldishman. I am almost there, to the point that I wished to reach. With this bde, I have surpassed it.”

  “Just wait until you’re a Paragon,” Adam joked again, w how many times they’d have this versation.

  Jaygak remained silent for a long while. “Your child will be fine, Adam.”

  “Yeah.”

  “Do you know why?”

  “Baktu won’t dare to take my child from me.”

  Jaygak smiled. It wasn’t quite where she was going, but she bowed her head. “Yes.”

  “You know, I’m gd that we’re friends, Jaygak.”

  “I know. Me too.”

  Adam slowly nodded his head. “Jaygak?”

  “Yes?”

  “Should I make another on for you?” Adam asked.

  “This sword the Enter has made is good enough,” Jaygak replied, thinking on Adam’s behalf.

  “I suppose it is,” Adam said, having not realised how much he had let slip in front of a dragon.

  Meanwhile, Jasmiared up towards the night sky, the stars sparkling. The expanse, so massive, so freeing, apanied her. ‘Four urtas?’

  The beating sun of noonval seared the group as they tiowards Hill Grave. Adam sighed, cooling his armour repeatedly, making sure to cool the water for the group too. As they rode forward, Adam noted a small critter to the side, which anting off to the side in the shade. Adam stopped his carriage, before dropping down.

  Mana: 25 -> 24Spell: Goodberry

  He formed magical berries within his hand and pced a few beside the squirrel, before pg down a bowl beside the squirrel, which tio pant, having not realised there was a giant man beside it. Adam filled the bowl, before dropping a few drops onto the squirrel’s body, causing it to twitch. He picked up the squirrel and guided it towards the bowl, dipping his face within it, allowing the squirrel to slurp up the water, before finally letting it down.

  “I hate the heat too,” Adam said, gently brushing along the creature, before leaving the squirrel be.

  ‘By all the Divine! What a gentlefellow! I shall remember your st always, kind giant!’

  Adam, having no idea he had met a squirrelkin, tinuing to be oblivious to the of events he had set forth. Unfortunately for him, such a thought would disappear a couple of days ter.

  Looming atop the hill, the fort stood tall and strong. The thick forest provided some cover, but it was the heavily armoured warriors which were its greatest strength. Each adorned in bronze breastptes, wielding long spears also tipped with brohey stood like statues as they gred down upon the group as they approached along the road, shaded by the rge hills oher side. The road had been cut into the hill, allowing the order to create small forts where the road had been cut into the hills, atop the cliffs whivited them coldly towards the order.

  “They’re no walls of the Iyr, but…” Adam gnced around, noting how the area had bee up almost like the Valley of Death in the Iyr, the walls easily three Adam’s tall. The order itself, was half set through the hills, with the gates blog the entryway into the hills themselves.

  However, it was one particur figure Adam was more ied in, the long figure alking towards the gates. He was tall, pencil thin, adorned in long cloths. It was the cro his hat which caused the group to pause.

  Adam inhaled deeply a out a long sigh. ‘Damn it.’

  The amount of times I've remade my enter table to make this guy appear less is far too many aILL shows up?