Chapter 25: Chapter 25.

I felt refreshed after a bath and a shave. Everyone had taken their turn, and then used the hot water to wash our undergarments. I slept really well afterward too. It seemed that some people went to sleep after the solar eclipse, and revolved their working hours around it.

The bells tolled once again, signaling two moons until the setting of the sun. The constant daytime light was disorienting for me. I had always considered myself a night owl.

A new spell, [Haste] came online, but it took up two spells slots. Probably because it was a tier2? I had high hopes for it.

Dandee and I carved out a couple of bamboo swords. We sparred for an hour and it didn’t take long for Dandee to convince me to use a two-handed sword over a gladius. His convincing came in the form of many bruises and welts on my skin. The two-handed sword had longer reach, better control, speed and power.

The only way I could beat him was to use Burst of Clarity in combination with Haste. At that point his superb technique didn’t help him. I’d lay on a feint after feint and find flesh every time.

Dandee looked disgusted. “You’re cheating mate. I don’t know how, but it ain’t fair what you’d done.”

I laughed. “Y’know what they say. All’s fair in love and war.”

“Nah mate, don’t give me that crap.”

It’s too bad the duration was in minutes rather than hours. As soon as the buffs wore off, he schooled me with a vengeance, and I deserved every bruise of it. Now he was laughing instead.

He had a great deal to teach me about the basics I never knew. From the fighting stance, to strike control, correct grip and footwork coordination. I practiced overhead strikes until my arms were sore. I never could have imagined, even in my wildest dreams, that I would be taking sword fighting lessons from a frog.

Arina watched our sparring with a genuine interest. The hangover made her look miserable.

“Maybe you oughta pick up a sword instead?” I asked her. “Dandee here is a master of the blade. He could teach you too.”

Arina laughed. “Pfft. I see the way you are going about it. I think I’ll pass.”

I shrugged. “I’ll make you a shinny sword, but suit yourself.”

After sword practice Dandee went off to fish in the river. Whereas I reshaped the barrel back into the tower shield, and salvaged the rest of the steel. I added a leather strap to the left side of the shield to match the handle on the right. This way I could pretend I was carrying it.

Lugging the star around was an awkward business. It had sharp edges, and I didn’t want to show that it could float when walking in public. While I didn’t think I could keep it a secret for very long, the fewer people knew what I could do the better.

A curious thing that I discovered was that I could hide animated minions inside my new backpack. The only issue was the opening of the backpack. It was only a foot across, but the star was three feet wide.

So, I re-shaped it into a meaty foot-wide disk to give it plenty of mass for stability and momentum. Then I added two triangular blades on opposite sides. The blades were as wide as the disk at the base and extended out a whole foot to a point. Double-edged. The entire thing could fly out of the backpack, and then spin up to a three foot wide disk of death.

I loved the newly shaped star so much that I upgraded the minion control limit from three to four. Then I made two more for a total of three. It left me with 5k in Essence, and short on steel.

The cooldown on [Backtrack] was down to three hours. I had time to spare, yet I could never sit still even for a minute without doing something productive.

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“We ought eat a good meal,” I told everyone. “And then head over to see what the progress is like at them crypts. They might be starting soon.”

The steaks were gone, and so were the pastries. I helped Summer to peel, slice and fry the potatoes with bits of dried meats. Nobody was as hungry as before, but at least the coffee was great. We donned our armor, tightened the straps, grabbed out weapons and left for Arcby.

On the way to the city portals, we stopped by and I exchanged the two gladius sized scabbards to fit the newly re-shaped katanas. I had to pay a few silvers on top of it, but their quality was better too. It still left me with nearly sixteen crowns.

“Is there any effort to get the city of Trery back?” I asked.

“I’m pretty sure that the Silvers are trying,” Arina said. “But it’s not that simple. Both portals were destroyed inside Trery.”

“Hrm. I don’t remember that,” I said. “Who would do that?”

“You don’t remember? Really? The Saken did it, of course.”

“And there’s no other way to get to the city to liberate it?”

“I don’t know. You’d have to ask the Silvers themselves what the hold up is all about. There’s plenty of ways to get there, but right now it’s under ice. Normally, it would have come up after Drupford.”

“Drupford?”

Arina sighed. “That’s the sun-rise city. In two moons."

“Oh, that’s right.”

The portal area was even busier than before. A line had formed not just for the wagons and carriages, but people walking through.

*** Stefan ***

Stefan devoured flesh, but stayed hungry. He raised their skeletons, added them to his grisly horde. All that he ate granted him Essence. He used it to upgrade his Death Lord class again and again. Soon after, all the fresh meat had stopped arriving. The entrances were blocked off.

He started hearing a voice in his head. The voice instructed and directed him. It warned of the coming attack, and how soon. It told him to get ready. They’d come looking, and they’d scour every corner and nook. It told him of their intent to burn them to ash.

Stefan’s five companions heard the same voice, and it made them anxious. It brought fear, but it also gave hope. They prepared, but they had little time. They were trapped. Their plan wasn’t to win, but to survive. To somehow make it through the eighty moons, and then salvation would arrive. The sun would set, and they’d be freed.

As Dark Hunters, Behemoths, Shades, and an Aberration, his friends had grown in size, and moved with unspeakable speed. One could even control the very darkness itself.

While the other five reveled in their new found powers, Stefan didn’t waste a single moment. He knew what the other five hadn’t realized just yet. The enemy wouldn’t leave them unless they were satisfied. Unless they killed most of them. Some had to be sacrificed, and it wasn’t going to be him.

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