Celebration?

Jason walked through the forest bobbing his head up and down as he hummed a small song to himself. Every movement of his was lighter and felt more distinct. He stopped to squint up at the sun which was still high in the sky.

"hmmm, I guess I should hurry up a bit"

Saying that to himself Jason took a deep breath as he turned in the general direction of the silver wings guild.

His left foot dug into the ground and with a sudden lunge Jason set out at a fast pace. The wind blew past him as he leaped through the forest floor jumping over boulders swinging over fallen trunks and occasionally leaping through the tree branches,

He was in a great mood, one of Perseus's subordinates had become an executive. Boops was almost finished with the information hub process, with the calculation subsystem that he had gotten his work speed had increased by more than 3 times and now Boops could easily scour the internet and web for any information.

Of course, the information hub that Perseus was planning was also going to be based on information discovered in the game itself, Jason was planning to negotiate a bit with Luna and the tall cats guild to see if they could share some information.

As Jason thought about the recent movements of players and of the various guilds.

He burst through a random thicket of trees and into an open field. The field had been widened from what Jason had remembered most likely from Paul and a few other freed slaves widening and clearing the area up.

The open field sloped up a bit, and sitting at the very top of the mini hill was of course the familiar white house. By itself, it was just a plain large building, but the festive activities underneath and in it made it anything but that.

Groups of wolves laid on the grass lazily rolling around under the warm sunshine. Jason watched as a group of young guild members joined with a few of the young slaves sneak behind a few of the wolves.

With what Jason could only describe as a loud warcry, the young boy in frount let out a cry and charged towards the wolves.

The kids behind the young boy joined in and charged against the wolves leaping upon the resting wolves falling face-first into their fluffy fur coats and climbing their backs.

The wolves slowly stood up yawning as the kids kept on attempting to leap upon their backs.

One of them stood up, still a bit drowsy with a group of three kids hanging onto its fur coat desperately trying to hold on.

The wolf looked back to see the 3 boys clinging for dear life. The boys looked at the wolf with pleading eyes. The wolf let out a sigh and reached with its mouth to gently pick up one of the boys by the collar with its teeth.

The boy struggled laughing a bit as the fur of the wolf started to tickle him. Finally, the wolf gently placed the boy onto its back.

The boy's jaw dropped as he looked down at his 2 other companions with an expression of pure shock.

The majestic mission that they had given themselves, to get on the back of the wolves. It was accomplished!

The 2 other boys ran over to the wolf lifting up their arms in hopes that they could also get lifted up.

The wolf who was one of the older ones. Seemed to let out an almost human-like sigh and lifted the other two onto its back.

Usually, a regular wolf couldn't stand the combined weight of three growing young guild members. But the wolves in the silver wings guild were very different. Most of the wolves were already around level 70 passing their first breakthrough at level 50. Now to most of the wolves carrying the young kids felt like they were carrying tiny weightless squirming animals.

With a small trot, the wolf started to walk with the boys on its back let out excited yells. The same scene was happening everywhere, young boys and girls either resting in the soft fur coat of the wolves resting with them as they lazed around in the grass together or getting mini rides around the guild house.

A group of wolves and young boys on the left side of the house could be seen playing a game of tag and from what Jason could assume when one was caught, they would be playfully tackled and subsequently get covered in dirt and mud.

Jason could see most of the boys covered in mud, but he also saw a few wolves completely drenched in mud as they all scampered around chasing each other.

On the garden placed right next to the guild house right before one of the barracks. Natalie and a group of freed slaves tended to the garden, the sound of their chatter reached Jason's ears even from the distance he was at. Young children boys and girls carefully watered the various vegetables under the careful tutelage of Natalie and some other female free slaves who were experienced in these sort of things.

Jason couldn't see it, but he could hear the synchronized yells in the training field behind the guild house.

Jason put a bit of strength into his legs and moved a bit so that he could see the training field and the two barracks on the left and right of the guild house.

There a large group of guild members stood in the training field letting out loud yells as they punched into the air.

A middle-aged couple walked between them changing some postures correcting a stance.

Jason smiled as he recognized who that couple was. It was the Mr. and Mrs. Stark from the time Perseus had helped recover their daughter. In fact, Jason was pretty sure that he saw their daughter lazing around with one of the wolves.

The guild members at the training field had buckets of sweat pouring down their faces as they punched out again and again.

Jason could also spot a new building behind one of the barracks. It was a warehouse that Paul and some other freed slaves had made to store materials and such.

On the right of the guild house, there was a group of guild workers who were busy constructing the foundation of a blacksmith.

Jason let out a light laugh and walked over to the guild house, he had watched everything from afar, which seemed to be a habit of his, but he had to remember that he was also part of that.

One of the wolves who was chasing Adaran, Natalies son while he let out a terrified scream at his fate of being subjected to the scoldings of his mother. Stopped and sniffed the air.

The wolf's head quickly turned to Jason's direction and a happy grin covered his face.

Jeffery let out a loud yell as he charged towards Jason.

"BOSS IS BACK!"

Jeffery cleared the distance between Jason and him, in a few seconds and with a powerful bound of its hind feet it jumped on Jason.

Jason let out a small laugh and spread out his arms knowing that there was no point in fighting against it.

In a few seconds, he was on the ground with his face getting licked.

And then in another few seconds, a large group of wolves arrived with their tails wagging as they joined in licking and welcoming Jason.

Jason attempted to get out, but the dogpile of wolves that was continuously growing was just too much for him. Well, he probably could have gotten out, but what was the fun of that?

After a few minutes of Jason placating the wolf pack with the promise of snakes under their constant asking of "snakoes?"

Jason started to walk towards the guild house with the wolves walking behind him.

The door to the guild house opened before Jason could reach it and a white-haired beauty who gave off an aura of elegance opened it.

Jason gave a nod of greeting to Juno, who returned with a smile as she lifted her arms and turned to the side in a welcoming gesture.

Jason laughed and walked into the guild house.

The guild house had changed completely from when it was just a plain grey room. Round dining tables with food the smell of food wafting from the kitchen and people wandering around talking and chatting at the tables.

Some younger guild members were looking at the request board, and some older freed slaves were talking over some fried fish.

Jason was about to explore the guild house a bit, but then he heard a loud voice from outside that caught his attention.

It was the excited scream of a certain fire mage who was part of the Parthenon party.

Jason walked over and opened the door to see Peppers yelling out

"GUESS WHAT WE FOUND"

Uranius the tough-looking guy with two bloody axes on his shoulders emerged from the thicket next to Peppers excitedly waving his arms around ruining the image of the tough fighter Jason had in his head.

And then a large group of grey dots started to emerge on Jason's map and a grin covered Jason's face as he realized what they were.