Jake took a second to process what the hell the elemental had just said, and before he could even do that, he felt bloodlust radiate from behind him. This shook Jake back to reality as his own aura also unconsciously leaked, joining that of three others.
Carmen had been the first to stare daggers at the elemental, seemingly ready to pounce, but, to Jake’s slight surprise, the Fallen King and Sword Saint also showed their clear displeasure as they looked ready to assist Carmen should she attack.
However, before any of them could do or say anything, Sylphie proved that she didn’t need anyone to stand up for her, as she made a no-nonsense reply.
”Ree.”
The elemental was taken aback, partly by Sylphie’s screech and partly by the four C-grades seemingly ready to turn him into slushed ice. Still, he managed to keep his head cool as he focused on Sylphie.
”Please do not take offense. It would be an honor for you to join hands with me. We are both holders of autho-”
”Ree.”
”Such a reply is shortsighted and-”
”Ree.”
”… what?”
”Ree, ree, ree. Ree,” Sylphie explained as the bird stood perched on nothing in mid-air.
Surprisingly, Wintermaul looked deep in thought for a moment before he tried one last time. ”I… I can change, or we can maybe find a solution…”
”Ree,” Sylphie shook her head, making the poor ice elemental look dejected.
”Alas, it seems we are not meant to conjoin our Paths. I apologize if I overstepped… I did not mean to make anyone uncomfortable or make any enemies.”
Turning to Jake, who was still looking at Wintermaul with narrowed eyes, the elemental bowed. ”I congratulate you on your brilliant accomplishment and shall take my leave before I make a further fool of myself.”
With that, the elemental backed away, as Jake, the Fallen King, Sword Saint, and Carmen didn’t let him leave their sight before he was far enough away.
”I swear, if not for those rules,” Carmen muttered as she unclenched her fists.
the Sword Saint also said
Fallen King also chimed in, clearly not
possibilities of marking Wintermaul and tracking him down in the ninety-third universe to have a ”conversation” around boundaries and social etiquette, but that didn’t appear to
understood what the elemental had asked. Her response had also genuinely sounded like she considered
yet learned to speak Sylphian Hawk, something perfectly understandable, as it took a bit to get used to the
the ice elemental why they could
”And that explanation was?”
too cold, hard, and spiky to make a proper nest, and Sylphie only likes to sit in cozy and warm places, making them incompatible,” Jake explained to his little brother. ”Plus, he didn’t
with
at Sylphie and then back at
that icy bastard he decides to try again somewhere without a Primordial keeping watch. Then
four people who had been
elemental, but it soon calmed down again as Jake gave Sylphie
committed relationships quite yet. Then again, to
more internally, as Jake finally got to catch up with Casper his old buddy. And it turned out his friend had a favor
the Prima Guardian is descending
got a system notification hidden
kind of the reason I’m asking. There is good reason to believe there will be some unique rewards from the event, and not participating would kind of suck, so could you maybe hook me and some others up with a way back to Earth? Just for the event,” Casper asked, seemingly a bit nervous about
if you want to stay afterward, that would also be fine. It’s ruled by a council of sorts now, and there are already plenty of immigrants there, so one would notice a bunch of Risen also
narrative has been taken
but we’re quite happy with what we got going on,” Casper answered. ”We have quite a nice hidden world set up by now on our floating piece of rock. New Yalsten, we call it. It will take some time, but with the root you gave me, I think we can regrow the tree again and turn it
enough,” Jake nodded. ”Guess I’ll have to
to outsiders. I could still get you in, but honestly, there isn’t
I think I’m good,”
also be returning for the event,” Eron suddenly said as he had overheard their conversation. ”For the
return,” Maria added further. ”Wouldn’t be surprised if
of felt bad for this poor Prima Guardian. Imagine arriving on a planet only to be met with Jake and all the others standing there, ready
”I believe I have a few people I should seek out. I sense two others who also carry the Blessing of my Patron,
he wanted to speak to you directly, but he didn’t seem keen on the idea,” Casper said as he shook his head. ”He did something very dumb to try and get
he remembered what Nevermore had said about Azal. He had been the one to gain the most levels out of everyone,
asked, knowing full well there
absorb spirits and souls to increase its power and use them as resources for certain skills. However, at the end of Nevermore, he chose to do a pre-prepared ritual to absorb and destroy all of the spirits he had gathered not just throughout Nevermore but since he made the sword right after he evolved. Repairing the sword will be expensive as hell and take a long time, and his Records took quite the hit, but I think he can recover, though it won’t be easy. He isn’t a bad guy, and it does suck, but he cares way too much about the honor of the Risen and all that. At least he can take
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