The moment I woke up that morning, I pulled up a chat window. I had to know what the hell had just happened, what we agreed to, and why Karlinovo had been so quick to capitulate suddenly.
I closed out the window, not really sure what else to say after the last two messages. I didn’t like the fact that we had another strange situation, but it was entirely possible that it was just the ramification of the previous series of strange coincidences. It was hard to really say either way, and ultimately, real life was always stranger than fiction. It didn’t have to make logical sense after all.
In truth, this might actually be the answer to the soul chat we had going that we didn’t fully understand, and at this point, I welcomed more answers. Instead of spending the morning lost in thought, worried about the soul realm and Otis, I instead made my way back to where we had had dinner the night before. I wanted to get a head start on clearing out the buildings.
I found Alex and Pryte already talking to several Reltleons when I arrived, the mayor included. “So have I missed anything yet?” I asked, wondering where everyone else was. I couldn’t be that late, could I?
“No, John is outside setting up a giant cooking station near the city center. Mel is off with Grant, working on some last-minute training. Everyone else is grabbing food before we start,” Alex answered as she shuffled through several pieces of paper in front of her.
“And what about you? Have you eaten?” I asked, concern for my daughter filling my voice.
“Morning sickness, I’ll get some later, I promise,” she replied. I chose not to push.
“So what’s the plan then? Pryte, I assume you’ve got even more organization for this than what you said last night?” I asked, looking toward the gnome.
“Kind of. So each transport now has a number. They can easily fit twenty-five people a piece. If we have to, we can go as high as forty, but that would be double the population numbers we currently have, so that seems unlikely. What I want to do is for every person we check off as having found, we assign a vehicle and a seat. We will try to keep families together as best we can,” Pryte answered, gesturing to a list of one to one hundred on various whiteboards in the room.
“And what are we doing with pets, assuming they have pets?” I asked. I knew that typically pets were often abandoned in situations like this, but considering we had the space, it wasn’t something I wanted to do.
“Not really an issue, the only animal they commonly keep are a small lizard-like animal from their homeworld. They shouldn’t have any issue keeping them with them for transport. What I’m really worried about are the livestock, but I’ve already got the brothers on that,” he replied.
“Good,” I said before releasing Alpha from my System storage. “Gamma, can you manifest, please? You’re going to stay here with Pryte and Alex.”
“Understood. I wish to see the list of people. We will get them all accounted for,” Gamma said as they appeared.
“Just do what Pryte and Alex say, okay? And Alpha, your job is to stick with Elody’s group today. That way we can be in constant communication,” I explained.
“Okay. Elody nice,” Alpha replied.
“Perfect, alright, I’ll grab some food, and take Connie with me as my team. I figure we will start at the outskirts,” I said, and received a nod back from Pryte. I smiled at Alex as I left the room.
After a quick meal of something similar to oatmeal, I left Alpha with Elody, grabbed Connie, and headed to the far side of the city. The sooner we started getting these buildings emptied, the sooner I’d feel the stress start to come down. While the trip back was still looming, this would at least be one more thing off my mind, letting me focus on what we will need to do there.
Maud was debating what to do. She had a problem that she wished she had settled before she had come here. The last floor of the Arena had maxed out her level, and while Rabyn had explained to her how to fortify her core, she had been nervous to do so. She was hoping to wait until John was ready as well, but she had realized that had been a mistake.
She needed the increase to her powers that it would give her now. She needed to be able to fight better on the trip back. That meant as much as she wanted to be out there helping today, she would instead need to spend it doing her first fortification. That was why she was back in the small room she had spent the night in with John. She looked over the current status again and debated a final time.
So far, the Animal Empathy hadn’t seemed to have done anything as far as she could tell, but Glorp and Rabyn both had thought she would need to unlock skills that went along with it to see some real advances there. What she really hoped for as she looked over her Elemental mana orb was to combine it with the Bond skill once she unlocked it.
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The idea of a cute animal buddy, or even better, one of her cats being her familiar, was what finally pushed her over the edge of debating. She again pulled up the fortification window and triggered it. It was time for her to reach grade E.
“Affinity evolution underway. All attributes and skill ranks have been ingested by your core. Your new core grade is now E. Your core affinity has gained the ability Empathetic Bond,” the System’s voice said in her head, just causing her to smile all the more.
I will make sure you are all remembered. No matter how cruel and unforgiving this existence may be, I promise you all, my friends, that I will engrave your existences onto my soul. Your truths will not be lost, as long as I live. And furthermore, I swear to you I will find an heir.
Inheritor Clorsh’s Dedication in his Personal Memoires
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