Chapter 114: Chapter 185 – Security Concerns and Resolutions

“Before that, let me first take care of your injuries,” Bryn interjected and glanced between Asterios and Silvia. “You may continue to discuss this matter while my magic does its work.”

“Sure. Thank you, Bryn,” Asterios replied with an appreciative nod.

“Think nothing of it, Master. It’s just part of my duties.” The winged woman smiled beautifully.

Everyone watched how she took a deep breath and brought both palms to the front. With her eyes closed, Bryn began tracing small sigils in the air, using the fingers of both hands simultaneously. It was a fascinating sight to see the Valkyrie create multiple symbols with each of her hands moving individually.

After a bunch of golden sigils hovered in the air in front of her, Bryn gently clapped her hands together and the glowing symbols rearranged themselves into an octahedron. She withdrew her palms and pressed them into the empty middle of the created formation and they soon began to glow with warm and pleasant light too.

Opening her eyes, she drew her hands back and stepped closer to Asterios and Silvia while the sigils faded away.

“Could you please turn around?” she asked softly.

The fiery duo obliged and showed their backs to the angelic woman, standing side by side. They felt Bryn press her palms into them and a comfortable sensation of relaxation washed over them, making both Asterios and Silvia sigh in bliss.

They glanced at each other with gentle smiles and Asterios returned his attention to Ted.

“Alright. What’s the issue with the monster?”

“Monsters to be exact,” the man corrected him. “As I mentioned earlier, it’s nothing major, really, and we think it’s only natural for a few of them to stumble on our town which is located in the middle of a dense forest. There has been a small tribe of Goblins nearby in the past but we dealt with them appropriately. This is not the most dangerous place but certainly not without any dangers.”

“Why haven’t you raised any additional walls around the town, then? The watchtowers are good but they can only do so much,” Miria asked.

“That’s a huge investment and I’m afraid it would suck out almost all the funds we currently have due to how much Glimmervale has grown over the years. You’d have to ask the others about the details, though. That part isn’t exactly my field of expertise.”

“You could have requested help from the kingdom,” Silvia added.

“We are already receiving so much from the royal family, with the most notable aspect being our freedom. I don’t think there’s another town or city which has as much governing autonomy as ours. We don’t want to trouble the king more than necessary,” Ted explained.

“I have a feeling it’s somewhat related to pride too,” Selene commented. “You want to prove that allowing you to govern yourselves wasn’t a mistake on the king’s part. You want to do things on your own to show that you are capable and have the resolve to develop this settlement as you promised instead of running back to him with your tail between your legs the moment you hit a bump in the road.”

“There might be something to that.” The man chuckled. “But, the absence of any palisades or walls is also because the region has always been relatively quiet and calm. Our scouts do a great job and our knights pull their weight properly too. We have many systems to warn people about danger and quickly take care of it. You might be aware of at least one of them.”

“The bell,” Asterios replied and Ted nodded. “So, leaving that matter aside for now, let’s get back to those monsters you mentioned.”

“As I said, it’s only natural that some beast makes its way into the town's vicinity. Some time ago, the frequency of appearances increased. I keep saying monsters but it’s mostly beast-like entities like boars, wolves, giant eagles, sometimes a wyvern. We started searching the area to figure out the cause, thinking that maybe some strong predator showed up and disturbed the ecosystem, but we found no traces of anything like such.”

“And that frequency is now...?” Asterios raised his brow at the man.

“Higher than before but completely irregular. In the past, it was maybe once or two a month or so, but now it varies. Sometimes a week passes, sometimes a few days. There’s no real pattern here.”

“I’m afraid that there is,” Asterios said, rubbing his chin.

“I agree,” Silvia joined in with a nod.

“What do you mean?” Ted looked between them in confusion.

“You said it’s beasts. And it is true that spontaneous appearances are normal. But, you are dealing with constant attacks even if they are irregular. Beasts might not be that intelligent but they aren’t stupid. They would realize the danger after a few times. Territory is a simple concept ingrained in most wild beings. Repeated assault regardless of failure is a pattern which isn’t common amongst undomesticated animals,” she continued.

The man furrowed his brows and assumed a thoughtful expression. “Then what is happening?”

“I can’t know that but I’m sure you are right about something being wrong here,” the princess added.

“Should we help?” Tina glanced at Asterios.

“That’s obvious.” He smiled at his worried girlfriend. “Glimmervale is now not just under our jurisdiction but also protection. But, we won’t be here all the time. I think we should take steps to increase the safety of the town. Raising walls might take long but… perhaps there’s something only we can do…”

Seeing his focused gaze, Tina couldn’t help but grow curious. “Only we can do? What could we—oh. You can’t seriously be thinking about that, can you?” Her eyes suddenly turned wide after she sensed some of his thoughts.

Asterios only grinned more and stared back at Tina. “Can’t I? I’m pretty sure you can confirm that yourself even now, can’t you?”

Miria almost pounced at them, bouncing up and down between the duo. “What are you talking about?! I want to know too! You can’t make me so curious and speak in riddles all the time! What’s so surprising in Master thinking about summoning again?!”

“The fact that he is considering Domicile Summoning right now!” Tina answered the excited panthergirl. “Good gods… I was a student like a week ago…”

“Domicile Summoning?” Silvia turned to Asterios with a curious expression too.

“Sometimes also called Resident Guardian Summoning, it’s a ritual that binds an entity to a place rather than a person,” he explained. “It’s usually conducted by a group of Summoners to contract a strong being which is tasked with protecting someone’s home. One person still has to enter the contract with the warden but the others play a mostly supporting role.”

“Is it that big of a deal?” Miria tilted her head.

“Of course it is!” Tina shouted. “He isn’t planning to pick a house or even a castle to protect but an entire town! That would need like thirty Summoners working in tandem and a summoning circle as wide as… as… Oh no.”

“Glimmervale’s main plaza?” Asterios smirked at her and Tina paled a little.

Selene chuckled quietly. “I think you are forgetting who our master is.” She winked at her sister-mate.

“And the fact that we have three summoning experts right where we need them, with an unrivaled genius amongst their ranks,” he added.

“Who? You?” Tina glanced at him.

Asterios snorted. “Grea, of course.”

“Ah.”

He chuckled and waved at Tina to come closer since he still couldn’t leave the vicinity of Bryn’s spell. She blushed a little but trotted to his spot and Asterios hugged the shorter girl from the front.

“With just the two of you working together, you’d be able to cover half of Rosewind. She might be a genius but you are one of the most talented women I’ve ever met. Wouldn’t you love to conduct this ritual with our help?”

They gazed into each other’s eyes and Tina raised herself up on her tiptoes to place a gentle kiss on Ast’s lips with a tinge of rosiness covering her pretty cheeks.

“I think I would rather help you do it. We both know who has a much better record of attracting incredible familiars.” She smiled at him dearly. “But, thank you for the offer. It’s very lovely to know that you would give me the chance just because.”

“So, you are not worried about it anymore?” He raised a brow at her with a caring smile.

Tina giggled adorably and sighed. “Considering everything I know about you, I really shouldn’t be surprised that we could be able to pull this off with just the three of us. To be honest… I’m getting really excited about it now…”

Asterios chuckled and pulled her into one more brief kiss. “You’d go down in history as the youngest Summoner to ever conduct Domicile Summoning, over the biggest area ever, in the smallest group ever. That’s one step above getting your name engraved in the Obelisk of Wisdom, isn’t it?”

Tina’s cheeks flushed even more and she hugged Asterios tighter. She couldn’t help a wide smile from taking over her lips. Thanks to the fact that she was a tad younger than him, he wanted her to take most of the credit for the achievement instead of hoarding all of it for himself. 

And she didn’t feel bad for it. She knew well how difficult the process was and even Asterios would at least have lots of issues trying to manage every part on his own. He might be able to succeed with how awesome in her eyes he was, but she was happy being a big part of it. He could have tried tackling it alone, or even asking for just a bit of assistance, but his first thought was to give the lead role to someone else.

Taking a deep breath, Tina opened her eyes and noticed that her face was directed right at the princess. Silvia observed her with a very faint, gentle smile, and Tina almost immediately turned red as a tomato. Slowly, she pulled herself off Asterios and left one last peck on his cheek before moving to his side to hide from the scarlet-haired girl. But, she then met the warm gazes of all of Ast’s women and a grin from Ted, making her squirm a little.

“Alright. We better go let Grea know. We should also talk about it with Ulyssen and Keenu since there’s a lot of preparations to be held if we really want to conduct this ritual,” Asterios said to capture everyone’s attention and then nodded at Ted. “We’ll investigate the attacks too, of course. As wrong as it sounds, I guess it would be good to experience it ourselves first.”

“I’m sure there will be another.” The man chuckled. “We will try not to kill the beast or beasts before you arrive, My Lord. Maybe you and your friends will be able to figure out some hints from them.”

“Good thinking,” Silvia praised him and glanced at Asterios. “What about the materials for this ritual? It sounds like something of a quite big scale. Should I ask Father for some support?”

Asterios shook his head. “We have lots of things in Miria’s world, with some of them being very rare and unique. For the more common ingredients and such, I’ll just buy what we can here and then jump around the kingdom to get whatever else remains on the list. Thanks for the offer, Silvia.”

“Okay. Let me know if you would have any problems finding something. We can sell you things too.”

Then, Bryn sighed heavily and withdrew her hands. “It is done.”

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“That took a moment,” Selene commented. “I thought it was some powerful magic at first.”

The winged woman smiled beautifully with a very faint blush. “It was. But it was also a very precise one. I had to manually lead my mana through every muscle and vein in their bodies. Since we had the chance, I wanted to fully heal even the oldest wounds and imperfections. Things like unnoticeable aftereffects of broken bones, sprained ankles, pulled muscles, internal ruptures, and such. Sometimes, basic Healing Magic skips small things like that.”

“Woaaaaaaaah…” Miria’s eyes sparkled with awe. “I didn’t even know about those…”

Bryn chuckled. “While Master’s body seems to possess an incredible self-regeneration, most likely thanks to his recent advances, I was still able to get rid of some slight contamination in his chest. He must have been exposed to a highly-condensed cluster of vicious mana to suffer such a wound.”

Asterios and Miria exchanged glances, having an idea about what that cluster could have been. There would never come a day when she would forget about that moment in the cave during their first quest together.

“But, in Silvia’s case, I had a lot of little things to fix so you should clearly feel the effects of my magic even right now, Princess,” the Valkyrie continued.

Silvia stepped forward and moved her arms and legs around. “Unbelievable… I feel like all the tension left my body… I didn’t even think it existed in the first place… I appreciate it so much, Bryn. This feels incredible.”

“Think nothing of it, please. I’m happy to aid my master’s close friends. You and your father do a lot for us too. Thank you, Silvia.”

The two women exchanged smiles and turned to the rest of the group. 

Ted excused himself and the knights and returned to their training. After seeing their new lord make such a show for them, they got fired up even more and doubled their efforts, filling the practice field with their enthusiastic shouts.

Asterios and his crew headed back to the castle and entered the dungeons again. They quickly found Grea and her father still in the chambers they had received. The rooms were in the middle of heavy customization and it seemed like Keenu had brought even people who could use magic to assist in shaping stone counters and flat blocks to turn them into proper labs and workshops.

Trying not to inconvenience any of the workers, they reached the demon woman at the far end.

“Grea. Do you have a moment?” Asterios called out to their ex-professor since she had her back to them.

“What are you doing here? I clearly remember telling you guys to fuck off to do your own stuff. I’m not accepting any more help from you and nothing can change that. You’ve done way too much for us already,” she replied without turning around to face them.

Even though Grea’s words could seem harsh, they made Asterios and Tina smile as they knew well that it was just her way of being a little embarrassed about receiving so much. He shook his head with a quiet chuckle.

“I’d like to request your help with something,” he said.

“And that is?”

Tina giggled adorably. “Asterios wants to hold Domicile Summoning for Glimmervale.”

“HE FUCKING WHAT NOW?!”

Grea spun around at lightning speed and her wide, bright red eyes locked onto them.

“Do you have any idea how many people you would need for that?!” she shouted while throwing her arms into the air and then crossing them under her chest. “Duh. Of course, you do. I taught you that myself.”

“All the people I might need for it are already here,” Asterios replied with a smile. “Who could do better than Rosewind’s Academy Ace and Best Teacher?”

“Flattery won’t get you anywhere, punk.” She snorted at him but everyone could see the corners of Grea’s mouth rise from the compliment.

“Does that mean you are out?” He raised a brow at her.

“Are you fucking sane?!” she shouted again. “Of course, I’m in! When do we start?”

Everyone chuckled and Asterios explained that he had to talk with a few other people first. Grea shooed them away again and jumped right into her impressive library and own notes to work on the summoning circle in the meanwhile. She had a few designs ready but none of them took a True Dragon as the main caster into consideration since they were quite old projects from her past.

They returned to the Town Hall and met up with Ulyssen, who was the only person currently staying behind in the building. They talked briefly about their plans and the duo of Summoners explained in simple words what Domicile Summoning was about.

Ulyssen promised to pass the information on to every member of the Committee who wasn’t yet aware of their initiative so that they could assist them to their utmost capabilities. Asterios tasked them with finding a lot of people with good artistic sense and talents to create the giant formation in the plaza, and perhaps a bunch of people from the farms who could help spread the ingredients around since they would surely be experienced in such actions.

Since it was a project related to Glimmervale’s security, Ulyssen promised to bring him a complete list of all the materials they had in the entire town and its warehouses, including the castle, so that Asterios could use as much of them as it was possible before spending his own money.

Since the elf man rushed outside to immediately spread the news and divide the work between the Committee members most fitting each task, they returned to the streets of Glimmervale too and walked towards the main market to take a more in-depth look at what they would be working with.

After about half an hour of their examination, a guard jogged to Asterios and everyone turned to face the man.

“My Lord! I bear news!” he shouted from a distance.

“Is something the matter?” Asterios approached him as the man moved closer.

“The caravans are here. The Hestizo and Nobelle families have arrived.”

Everyone exchanged smiling glances and quickly followed the guard back to one of the towers guarding the main entrances to the town. Seeing that the knight was slightly winded from running to them as fast as he could, Tina called for Esil and asked him to help them out. The giant winged lion agreed and took her, Asterios, Silvia, and the guard onto his back before launching himself into the air while the other girls jumped into their portals.

They reached the long line of carriages in a flash and dropped from the sky to the accompaniment of the powerful thudding of Esil’s wings as he landed, spooking a lot of men and women in the vicinity. The party slid off his back and walked towards the front of the convoy while the man’s colleagues took care of their guard guide who was suffering from a meltdown over the insane thing he had just experienced.

Asterios and his group stopped in front of Ted and a few figures sitting on horses.

“My Lord, My Lady, the Hestizo and Nobelle family representatives.” The head of knights bowed and stepped aside.

A chuckle reached his ears. “I would have never thought I would hear my son called by such a title.”

He rolled his eyes and shook his head. “I’m glad to know that you haven’t lost your charm during this journey, Mom. Welcome to Glimmervale, Viscount Thomas, Viscountess Luna, Grandfather, and… Is Grandmother not with you?”

“Someone had to stay behind and watch over everything. And I have to admit that Anna is just that much better at handling it than I am,” James answered with a deep fit of laughter. “Also, I’m just visiting. I won’t stay for long. I haven’t traveled much in recent years and visiting my grandson’s town while accompanying my daughter certainly seemed like a fine excuse.”

While Asterios talked with his family, Tina approached her own parents with a warm smile and a tinge of rosiness on her cheeks. The pair got off their horses with the assistance of their entourage and entered a group hug with their daughter.

“I can’t believe you really did it… I hope you at least told Gwen so she doesn’t come back to an empty home…” Tina whispered.

Her mother chuckled gently. “Of course we did, sweetie. I’m sure she is dying to see this beautiful town right now. But, enough about that. Have you been well?”

Tina giggled and drew herself back. “It’s been like one night we have spent here, Mom. And just a few days since we’ve seen each other.”

“It must have been a very memorable first night, for sure.” Lady Luna smiled at her daughter knowingly.

Tina’s face turned red almost in an instant and caused her mother to chuckle again. No more teases followed and they started chatting about their respective experiences on the journey and in the town.

Asterios returned his attention to his own family after observing the Nobelles for a moment and smiled. “Let’s get moving, then. We’ve picked a mansion for you. There are a few options but I’m sure you’d want that one no matter what. But before that… What do you think about Glimmervale in comparison to Tyrienheim, Mom?”

“I can’t wait.” Kindra giggled sweetly. “As for the town, I haven’t seen much yet. The buildings certainly look charming and beautiful from afar when compared to—oh.”

She paused after something clicked in her head as she looked back at Ast’s sly expression.

“Oh, you.” A wide smile soon rose on her face. “If I hadn’t known any better, I could swear on my life that you are my own blood and body.”

“Whatever could you mean, Mom?” Asterios shrugged and spread his arms. “I’m your son, am I not?”

Kindra giggled again and winked at him before turning around. “Come on, Thomas, Luna! Let’s not stand here pointlessly and move to our new home! Our families have a very, very important investment venture to discuss right this instant!”

Asterios chuckled as she jogged to Tina’s family and the girls standing behind him walked closer. Miria slid her head under his palm to receive some pleasant rubs while Selene wrapped his other arm around her waist as they watched the small, energetic woman try to pull the other two into the town.

Now, things were really set in motion.

 

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