An assistant will be useful for you Sam said half heartedly mulling over the news The stat total increasing the quality was good but the general skills making classes more difficult was not great news to hear After all all of his production skills were spread out quite a lot In addition he had a fair amount of combat related moves If he took a class now what would he get
Not really Daniel’s said with a smug grin on his face Ever since my class granted me the Memorize skill Wait you were being sarcastic weren’t you Well I’ll be leaving then No need to stay around and be mocked
Daniel affronted face as he turned and stalked away was so comical that Sam had to laugh They were embracing this world quickly Sam thought Perhaps too quickly Becoming too used to their positions of power Hopefully this strange pseudo peace didn’t last too long
Oh one more thing Daniel said still hurrying away I’ll leave the pleasure of speaking with the Ghosthound about this piece of news to you Good luck
Now it was Sam’s turn to scowl Randidly was never in a good mood these days He was taking the tribulation absence harder than anyone else Sam knew that he wanted to go out and hunt it down but didn’t know where to start So Randidly could only wait All the while his gaze turned towards the south
In one of their evening strolls through the area Regina had confided in Sam that the strange wistful gaze had started when she mentioned Rawlands Perhaps there was a connection there the past of the man who would become The Ghosthound hidden there Some connection or relationship that could draw him even now
What exacerbated that wistful mood was that apparently the mana lessons with Lyra weren’t going well
Sam walked passed several farmers who were tending their fields their eyes studiously on the ground the raised voices already audible
What do you mean you just do it Randidly growled
I just do it so why can’t you What do you want me to say Lyra answered and Sam could picture her furious face her mouth pressed into a thin line Sam hurried closer
Some instruction would be a welcome change of pace
Okay I have a skill that lets me see mana After that I just reached out and played with it shaping I figured you could skip the seeing step and just control it but I didn’t realize you had a giant dick for a brain
I can feel it’s there sure But I haven’t been able to touch it I just want you to tell me how to touch it
If you can feel it aren’t you touching it already Just do it want it feel it What the fuck are you waiting for
The farmers were beginning to blush Sam arrived at the small gate that surrounded Randidly’s house granting him some privacy and let himself in making as much noise as possible He was met with two hostile glares
Luckily or unluckily those glares quickly switched and settled on each other
Lyra tapped her foot on the ground lightly This is where the teacher has to spank the naughty student right Good thing I’m into role play
Try it Randidly’s voice dropped dangerously and suddenly Sam felt like he wasn’t actually very impressive physically If it came to blows between them
How could you even stop it YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE MANA That’s the whole reason this is so annoying Just
You know what’s annoying Your attitude How am I supposed to just do it’ If you just behaved like a reasonable person just once
Would you even listen Aren’t you too busy treating me like a little girl to take me seriously Oh there’s Lyra again just joking around she’s so snarky and unapproachable I’d rather pat her on the head and then leave her alone so she just
But then Lyra stopped speaking and spun on her heel and walked towards one of the walls With a wave of her hand she conjured a bear made of mana that smashed its paws against the wall and ripped a hole through it like it was made of gauze Lyra calmly stepped over the broken wall without altering her gait and proceeded away passed the area now completely vacated of farmers
Inwardly Sam sighed He hadn’t known Lyra well before the system arrived but he had spent a good amount of time with her since then and Randidly too
Lyra was always raised to be an actress and the best actress She grew up under constant pressure and observation She felt seen constantly and judged and only a stubborn disposition and her natural talent and intellect had helped her through it
Now facing Randidly a person who she was obviously attracted to she was infuriated that he wasn’t behaving how she expected by viewing her as a woman To him she was just a teenager 17 might be old enough for some people but to a 23 year old Randidly that 6 year age difference was more than enough to balk at
Honestly Sam respected that about him And he had some fatherly instincts towards Lyra still so he wanted her to end up with someone her own age But even Sam couldn’t deny that their interpersonal issues were beginning to color their other interactions
These lessons for instance would likely go much more smoothly if one wasn’t clearly broadcasting her sexual frustrations and the other dismissing her outright
So Randidly said turning his furious gaze to Sam What did you come here for
Chapter 61
Randidly sat in his cabin meditating Slowly his eyes opened his piercing green eyes burning a hole through the wall looking towards the South
It had been three weeks since the Safe Zones around theirs and the neighboring village had expired During that time they had scouts combing the surrounding area They had found the two dungeon locations the one near them being Lvl 20 the one West past the other town was only Lvl 14
They had also encountered a few Tier I Raid Boss the most troublesome of which ended up being a Lvl 25 Rhinoceros Pack Leader surrounded by a few dozen of its Rhinoceros children
Almost the entirety of their force had mobilized the 2nd Unit of tanks and both Decklan’s and Dozer’s personal units moving to kill it with support from Clarissa Ultimately it was overkill but Dozer did earn a belt that gave him a huge boost in health regen and they had brought several powerful Rhinoceros bodies back with them
Then next time they found a raid boss as long as it hadn’t established itself they could probably handle it with only one elite unit and mage support
What they hadn’t yet encountered was their Tribulation So Donnyton’s leaders waited Randidly waited his patience dwindling away leaving a bubbling cauldron of frustration
Most people weren’t informed about the details of the Tribulation just the new dangers that might appear anytime so the village continued to grow unabated The greatest change in the past week was the completion of housing for almost everyone involved
Sam’s builders were really starting to click and they could throw up enough rooms to house an extended family in an hour Some of the more enterprising and fed up individuals among them had worked out a pretty sophisticated plumbing system which finally eliminated the need for latrines
They had even figured out how to get a pretty sustainable and working power plant out of mages but they didn’t really have any infrastructure here to make use of it nothing required power
The one change that Randidly did appreciate was that budding mages were forced to repeatedly heat water with the fireballs resulting in a functioning bathhouse It really made a world of difference to wash with hot water
Due to that rising demand an NCC woman gathered herbs planted a garden and began selling soap For the first time in a long time the people of Donnyton were clean