Chapter 107: Chapter 106 – First Evolution

‘An orphanage huh?’

Roland awkwardly went into his house while thinking about the conversation that he had with Bernir. With nothing much to talk about, the conversation shifted to Elodia. Bernir had seen her going around the city with some young children not more than five years old.

At first, Bernir thought that maybe the woman was the mother but soon he discovered the truth. Some of the shopkeepers spoke up about how she was a hard worker. How she tends to an orphanage with some other young adults.

‘Did I make a mistake?’

It also came out during the conversation that Armand was apparently also from the said orphanage. Bernir had heard this fact during Armand’s drunken stupor. He had complained that it would be hard to feed the kids while also paying off the house mortgage.

Roland was now second-guessing his decision of kicking the man to the curb. Though he wasn’t sure about the costs of that house, he felt that if Armand managed his money right he should be able to pay for something like that. He didn’t know how many mouths they were feeding or if they were duped into paying too much for the large building. It was apparently somewhere in the city in a more costly part.

‘Well… that woman didn’t seem that mad though…’

He recalled Elodia’s reaction, she even apologized for her older brother.

‘If they work through it, they should be fine…’

“Woof!”

“Ah, I’m coming, wait a moment.”

His thought process was interrupted by a muffled bark. He headed downstairs into his workshop where Agni was sitting in. The small wolf puppy was left here as he couldn’t bring him over to the guild. This was the only place he could leave him while being sure that he wouldn't destroy it.

The inside of the house was not a possibility as he felt that Agni would trash it. Then escape and track him to the adventurer’s guild. The possibility of the little puppy being then slain was high, people could take him for a regular monster. Some others could also try to capture him instead, then sell him on the black market as he was a rare breed.

“I see that I’ll have to air this place out…”

Roland opened the slab of metal that was his door and was hit in the face by a strong smell. It was clear that his puppy had relieved himself here, luckily for him he had placed Agni in a large cage which he could just carry outside and wash.

“Woof!”

Agni ran about three circles around his master before bolting through the opening outside. The small guy was smart to understand Roland’s facial expression as he looked at Agni’s ‘present’ that he left behind inside of his cage.

“Ugh…”

While holding his breath he carried the metal cage outside. Thanks to his enhanced strength this wasn’t anything difficult.

“Hah, maybe we should have taken him with us boss.”

Bernir laughed from the side while Roland doused the cage with one of his water pressure wands.

“Ever since he started eating mana stones the smell has been…”

Roland commented while using some flames on the metal cage to disinfect it.

“Does the mana make it extra fragrant?”

Bernir asked while peeking out of his log workshop. He was busy grinding away at some tools, soon it would be time to get that tier 2 class. Roland had already given him a class change stone which would be coming out of his paycheck later.

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“Now that you mention it...“

Roland brought up Agni’s status screen while his wolf pup was running around the backyard. He zoomed in on the page with the skills and was pleasantly surprised.

‘Mana Stone Eater did reach level 9.’

After seeing the skill finally reach the cap he quickly went for the evolution options. After using the costly mana stones on his pet he hoped that he would get another evolution that was even rarer than the Gemstone Wolf.

 

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