403 Strategy Meeting
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The strategy meeting began quickly after we arrived. For some reason Ellergest respected me a lot now, and recognized both my talents and intelligence, allowing me to join the strategy meeting with various other priests, hunters, and even Musk, the Adventurer Guild Master, who didn’t recognized me thanks to the magic I used to conceal my original appearance, he didn’t recognized Eleanora either, as she was in her small form, and her clothes were different too. Although her red as blood hair and eyes were hard to not recognize, she was also hiding in my shadows, if that helped.
“So you’re Blake, that Summoner brat!” Musk said while looking at me with a smile. “I can tell by merely sensing your Aura, you’ve got an awful lot of Mana for your age.”
“I’ve been training my Mana flow and also receiving the blessings of Holy Spirits.” I said.
“I can tell that! All the other kids with you are also awfully strong… Amazing, so you kids are really the stars of the demon war after all. We are sorry for not being able to help back then due to several constraints, but I’ve made sure to make it different this time.”
Apparently, Musk put up a special request he had prepared for these times into the adventurer guild, offering a small gold coin for each undead slain by an adventurer. Naturally, all Adventurers got pumped up and immediately decided to join, although they had, apparently, originally thought about escaping. Damn bastards.
Most of the Adventurers in this village’s Adventurer Guild come from other nearby villages or the capital, so they don’t even have much attachment to our small village. Instead of helping the people it is more convenient for them to escape. Some more cowardly ones had already escaped even when such a juicy reward was being offered, but others stayed here.
“Thanks for your cooperation, Musk.” Ellergest said.
“Yeah, much appreciated.” Said my father.
“Now…” Ellergest touched the map, pointing at the forest. “According to what Blake just told us, some of his bird familiars are inspecting this area, and the army is right here.”
“Yeah, they might reach the place in less than twenty minutes.” I said.
“We are now going to erect a Holy Light Barrier around the village to protect it from dark magic attacks.” Said Ellergest. “And attacks in general. We can hold it on for roughly half an hour at most… the rest depends on you.”
“Wait, the priests are not going to fight?” Asked one of the hunters here.
“We are, I will fight alongside my three disciples.” Ellergest said. “The rest must remain in the safety of the village; do you want me to send all my people to their deaths? Our holy magic might be effective against Undead, but it doesn’t instantly defeat them. We can’t simply resolve this all on our own, especially when they’re five hundred undead and five powerful high ranked undead, and even a necromancer with them, which might even be that old man that has been causing chaos around our Kingdom all these years!” Ellergest angrily roared, reprimanding the hunter.
There wasn’t really any time to waste so I had already told them, although limitedly, everything we did and we knew about. I told them the truth about going to the Miasmic Swamp, and about fighting Undead and reaching the hideout of the necromancer. Although we didn’t told them we fought over a hundred undead as it would be too much for them to take. But we told them we fought a sizable group and then a chimera undead, without going into details.
It was already speculated that the Necromancer was someone that belonged to this village in the past, the same necromancer that must have been causing chaos around the entire Kingdom’s territory over many years. Some years ago he even wiped out an entire large village with an undead army, and now he had finally set his sight on us.
“Blake, is this right? Are there really two Wyvern Undead with him?!” Asked my father.
“Yeah, they’re stronger than normal wyverns too.” I said.
“Ah…!”
“This can’t be…”
“How can we even win then?!”
“Not only they can fire powerful fire, they can even fly and attack with claws…”
“The barrier will protect us even from aerial attacks.” Said Ellergest. “But we can’t keep it up for too long, we lack Mana Potions, we only have around twenty of them and-“
“I can help in that regard; I’ve prepared a lot of things.” I said, quickly taking all items and putting them into the table, alongside many others around the floor.
Everyone’s faces quickly warped into astonishment, as they were left utterly flabbergasted by all the items I brought out.
“I have around sixty Lesser Mana Potions, there is also a hundred and twenty Magic Juice that triples natural mana regeneration, alongside that, there are sixty Lesser Health Potions and three hundred Apples that can heal 500 HP a pop. I’ve made forty Antidote Potions and I’ve made eighty Holy Waters, alongside some bombs.”
“EEEH?!”
Everyone reacted in the same manner, some people fell off their seats, Ellergest, the one that thought he had already seen everything I was capable of doing once more was so shocked he pulled out his beard and even took some hair with it.
“Wh-What is this, Blake?!” Asked Ellergest. “Y-You…! Where did you hid all these things?!”
“I made them with Alchemy… I can offer them all to you.” I said. “We are in a dire situation, if this can protect my village, I am willing to give it to your priests and the rest of the fighters.”
“Blake…”
“This kid is really a saint…”
“Amazing…”
“Thank you!”
“…Of course, with a price.” I said, everyone quickly changed their face expressions.
“You greedy brat!”
“Oi! Isn’t this a dire situation?!”
“How come you think about money now?!”
My father began to laugh at what I said.
“My son’s like that.”
Ellergest sighed.
“I knew you would say that… Sure, we’ll pay collectively later, don’t worry.” He sighed.
“Hm, I agree. You’ve done a splendid job making all of this in advance.” Musk added.
It seemed that I’ve made an excellent business deal here.
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