An ally for Lilia
The morning of Saturday was relatively uneventful, I ate a few bars of chocolate and played with my Hurus.
°Bang° °Crash° "Ouch!" Ilza
Currently, I´m teaching Ilza how to control her new gained 200 points in strength and agility.
It´s funny beyond believe.
"Hahahahaha." Me
Ilza just tries to normally walk, which did not work. She either crashes in a wall or the furniture.
It would be fairly expensive if I couldn´t conjure new things.
"Stop laughing," Ilza said while pouting.
"Hahaha, but it´s funny." I said and tried to undo my grin.
"Mistress Clair, would it be too much to ask of you to practise outside?" René said with a lost expression.
"Why?" I said and looked at her.
"Your face really shows ignorance? Miss Ilza is demolishing the mansion." René
"And? It´s not like I can´t rebuild or buy it anew." Me
"But I have to clean." René said in resignation.
"Okay~, Ilza we´re going out." Me
"Yes," Ilza said and tried to push herself up. It failed and she hit her back at the 3-meter high ceiling.
"Ouch," Ilza
"It seems like you aren´t able to walk by yourself." I said and picked her up in a princess carry.
"Oh, you´ve noticed?" Said Lilia who came inside and looked around, the whole living room was a mess, a broken desk, the chairs were partially destroyed and the inner wooden walls had some holes.
"I didn´t expect that a push of 200 points has such consequences." She continued.
"Funny isn´t it?" I said smiling.
"Depends on the viewer." She said and looked at a limp Ilza, who currently tries to not move because it would end badly.
"Well, then we´re out." I said and run with Ilza out of the house, through the city to the gates and further away into a forest.
We used the whole day for training and shortly before sunset,
"I got it!" Ilza shouted to me from on top of a tree.
"Good, how does it feel?" Me
"Good, I think I´ll be able to do normal things again." Ilza said and jumped down.
"And more filigree things?" I asked and we began to walk back.
"I don´t think that I´m able to do them, yet." Ilza
"It´ll come with time, I´ll train you every day and you should get to LV 2 in a week or shorter." Me
"You think so?" Ilza
"Yes, the time you need to learn is only a quarter of the norm and it gets further amplified with my teaching skill." Me
"Lilia is right, this is unfair," Ilza mumbled.
"What do you mean?" Me
Ilza who realised her slip of words quickly said, " nothing, nothing at all." And looked in the other way.
"You´re a terrible liar. " Me
She got red and said, "and you´re better?"
"Sure, the skill is on LV 10." Me
"I did not mean that, it´s obvious that it´s on LV 10. The people believe whatever you say. It´s almost frightening." Ilza
" You´re right but I seldom lie, I don´t like it. You have to remember what you said to whom. It´s easier to say the truth." Me
"You said you´re not going to harm the duke." Ilza retorted.
"Oh, I will not harm him, physically. I´m going to harm his family." Me
"That´s cruel." Ilza
"It is how I´m." Me
"I know, and it´s good that you only do it with people who mean harm to us." Ilza
"And everyone who stands in my way." Me
"As long as you have a reason and don´t do it as fun...." Ilza said and gave up.
We reached our home and ate with Lilia, they wanted a salad, so I made one for them. I ate chicken legs with French fries.
French fries are annoying to make, you have to cook the potatoes, peel, cut into small slices, fry them In oil, put them on a piece of paper and let them drip the remaining oil off and then fry them again.
They won´t get crunchy if you just fry them once.
Lilia and Ilza tried them and were delighted.
Ilza had to sleep alone, the protested, but I said that I have specific "needs" and she has to either do them with me or sleep alone.
It took her a few moments to realize what I meant with needs but then got beet red, turned around and tried to run away. But her control slipped and she crashed through the door.
Well, I laughed and then went to sleep, after taking care of the urge of a man in the body of a woman....
This night I slept peaceful and alone, the first three hours. Ilza came back and crawled next to me.
Sunday:
We woke up like normal and went down to the kitchen, where I made fresh bread and Ilza set the table.
I also made pancakes and bacon.
Lilia came shortly after and we began to eat.
We ate not longer than 10 minutes as Kim came.
"Mistress, there is a guest, he says that he´s the instructor for miss Ilza." Kim
"Lead him inside." I said and she brought him.
Gerd wore a light armour and had a sword at his waist.
"Good morning, my name is Gerd Wahatin in, please call me Gerd. I´ll be the instructor for the person named Ilza" He said and bowed.
"Morning Gerd, did you already eaten?" Me
"No miss, " Gerd
"You can drop the formalities, sit down and eat." I said and Kim brought a new set of tableware for him.
"Thank you." He said and sat down. And began to eat hesitantly.
"Is something wrong?" I asked.
"You see, it´s uncommon for an employee as me to eat with his employer." Gerd
"You´ll notice that many things are uncommon in this mansion," Lilia said with a grin.
"Is that so?" Gerd
"Clair is not normal." Ilza
"Hey, I´m me." Me
"And that´s the problem, you defy any logic." Lilia
"What does she mean?" Gerd asked.
"You´ll have to earn the right to know," I said, trying to sound mysterious.
"O..okay. "Gerd said and we continued our breakfast.
"So which one of you am I going to train?" Gerd asked while Kim put the dishes away.
"Me," Ilza
"Hm...hm okay, may I know your stats in agility and strength?" Gerd asked and Ilza looked worried.
Gerd noticed it and added, " they don´t have to be high."
"That´s not the problem...." Ilza said and looked at me, seeking for help.
"She has a rune on her that gives her 200 strength and agility each week until she can handle the whole boost." I said and Gerd looked at me with disbelieve.
"A...and how much would this whole boost be?" Gerd
"40.000 in both." I said and he looked at me stunned.
"You´re kidding." Gerd
"She is not," Lilia said with a wry smile.
"Did you mean that with uncommon?" He asked her, but Lilia just smiled wryly.
"Dam this is crazy, but how are you going to handle such an increase in power?" Gerd
"The skill sensitivity will help her." Me
"This skill is hard to get." Gerd
"I´m already on LV 1." Ilza
"Really?!" Gerd said in disbelieve.
"FINALLY and ally!," Lilia shouted, "it was hard to be the only one."
"What do you mean?" Me
"Oh come on, you know what I mean, the maids do not know you enough to noticed it, yet. And Ilza worships you almost like a god. I finally have an ally who know how utterly unbelievable you are." Lilia said happily.
Gerd did not know what happens and looked at us.
"I don´t worship Clair, I only think that it´s natural for her to do these things," Ilza said with red cheeks.
"What´s going on?" Gerd
"Nothing, Lilia is just stressed." Me
"Yes stressed from you, do you know how hard it is to remain sane with you?" Lilia
"Sane?" Gerd asked, questioning himself in what he got himself into.
"Gerd, do you know what she did as she said she´ll buy me books?" Lilia asked him and got really near.
"N..no," Gerd said, not knowing where he had to look, her rack or her eyes.
"She bought 7.000 books." Lilia said and Gerd looked at me, I smiled at him and a waved with my hand.
"Yeah, uncommon...." Gerd muttered.
He needed 5 minutes to come back and finally said.
"Okay, I think I have processed the information."
"Trust me, you have not." Lilia
"A..anyway, so Ilzas stats will rise with each week but she´ll be able to handle them, am I right?" Gerd
"Yup." Ilza
"Then what kind of sword do you want to learn?" Gerd
"I don´t know." Ilza
"Okay, I think a short sword with a buckler or two short swords would be good with your stature. We´ll try both." Gerd
"Okay," Ilza said enthusiastically.
"Do you have a weapon?" Gerd asked.
"No," Ilza said now downhearted.
"I have an iron short sword but have to forge the other one and the buckler." I said and gave him a short sword.
I made a wide range of weapons, back at the village. I have any kind of swords, from katanas to khukuris and broadswords. Axes, Hammers, spears and even fantasy like weapons.
Gerd inspected the sword and said, " the quality of this sword is formidable, who made it?"
"It´s one of my first weapons," I said nonchalantly.
Gerd looked at Lilia and said, " you were right...."
"Can I use it?" Ilza asked and Gerd snapped out of his °This is unbelievable° posture.
"Yes, you can. It´s one of the best short swords I´ve ever seen." Gerd
"Good, then Gerd, you wanted to fight against one of my guards?" Me
"Yes I´d love to, they seem strong." Gerd
"You´ll regret it," Lilia whispered under her breath.
"Good, then let´s go to the second basement." Me
"Second basement?" Gerd
"Yes, I don´t want to demolish the garden, so I´ve built a second basement for training." I said and began to walk to the entrance, to fetch a guard.
We went down to the second basement and Gerd looked around.
(AuthorNote: I didn´t describe it before, so here it is now.)
The ceiling is 10 meters high and the room is in a cubic form, each wall is 30 meters long and has a 30-meter distance to the opposite wall. Small slots in the ceiling are for the air-conditioning. And runes on the ceiling copy the sun.
The bottom right corner has a ring for fights, the top right corner has training tools, the top left corner has recovery utensils, like a sauna and small pool and the bottom left corner has a large cage for the Hurus, with toys.
They looked around, Gerd´s mouth was open, Lilia and Ilza had a look that said" You get used to it".
"How did you built this? " Gerd
"Magic" Me
"Magic? So you mean the Tier 9 earth spell [Konstruktionsbau] ?" Gerd
"Something like that...." I answered vaguely.
"There are your Hurus," Lilia said and walked to them," I wondered where they were, but isn´t this environment bad for them, one even lost its fur."
"It lost its fur because it has three layers of runes." I said and Ilza touched her own hair.
"You don´t have to worry Ilza, Humans and I also think elves, can have three layers without problems, the fourth layer is problematic. And you only have two layers." I said and she looked relieved.
"What do you mean with layers?" Gerd
"I tested the runes, which Ilza has, on Hurus and some bandits." Me
"And? " Gerd asked warily.
"Humans lose their hair with the third or fourth layer and mostly die with the sixth or seventh." Me
"Do I want to know how they die?" He asked, still looking at the Huru.
"No...." Lilia said with a pale face and Ilza furiously nodded.
"O..okay." Gerd
"Good, then how do you want to fight him?" I changed the topic and pointed at the guard.
"How do they fight?" Gerd
"Bare handed, they mostly rip their opponents apart." Me
Gerd gulped, nodded and then said, " Good, then a barehanded fight against me with my sword?"
"Sounds good, he´ll hold back, what´s your highest stat?" Me
"Prais me, I have 15 thousand in strength and 14 thousand in agility," Gerd said proudly.
"So he has to use a quarter of his strength...." I mumbled.
"What did you say?" Gerd asked.
"Nothing, please go in the ring, I have to give him his orders." I said and turned to the guard.
"You´ll only use a quarter of your strength and don´t kill him." I whispered to the guard and he bowed, and then moved to his corner in the ring.
"I´ll be the revere, Gerd you´re allowed to use whatever you deem necessary, even killing him.
The fight will end when one of you is unable to continue the fight. Any questions?" Me
"Yes, why am I allowed to kill him?" Gerd
"Because he is just a moving stone figure, I can reproduce him as often as I want." I said and he grunted in understanding.
Gerd got in a fighting position, his left foot in front and his waist slightly dropped, while the guard not moved at all.
" BEGIN" I shouted and Gerd propelled himself forward, holding his sword at his waist.
"HIA!!" He shouted and cut at the guard in a diagonal movement.
But his cut did not connect, the guard bends his upper body backward and evaded the sword.
Gerd had a short look of surprise but continued with his strike and did a spin with his sword.
He now tried to cut down in the same direction. The guard was in a position from which it could not move away and raised its arms in defence.
It made a loud °paching° sound and the arm was cut in half, Gerd jumped back and evaded a kick from the guard.
They now are again in their starting position, but the guard had his arms up.
"WHAT?!" Gerd screamed and looked disbelieving at the arm, which started to close itself.
"Did I forget to say that they have a regenerative power?" I said half laughing.
"Clair you´re evil. " Ilza said from the side, not really meaning what she said.
I just smirked and asked, "do you want to continue?"
"Yes, this is awesome, there are not many opponents who can face me in this part of the world," Gerd said, he had a happy expression and began to smile like a child.
"Good, I can heal your wounds up to the tenth Tier," I said.
Yeah, Arthur already thought me all his spells, I´m only behind in the 9th and 10th Tier of the earth, darkness and water and I don´t know a single void spell.
"That...." Gerd muttered but quickly switched his gaze back to the guard.
"Then here I come!" He shouted and rushed again to the guard, who chopped his hand down at him.
Gerd stepped to the left side and evaded the attack, but he did not stop, he turned his waist around and cut in a horizontal movement at the guard. Who in return, let himself fall down, and evaded the sword.
The guard pushed itself up and tried to kick Gerd, while still being in the air.
Gerd tried to evade but was not fast enough and was hit, he was pushed back and groaned in pain.
"This thing has power." He muttered and rushed back. He used a piercing trust this time and managed to pierce the guard through the heart.
The guard stopped for a brief moment but then clutched the sword of Gerd, who in return tried to pull it out, which failed.
He then was hit at the neck and slumbered down, he´s unconscious.
"I did expect that no one is able to kill something that regenerates itself with a sword and to top that the guard used the same power as him," I said while healing him.
He woke up and looked at me, who is bent forward and only a few centimeters away from his face.
"Morning," I said and smiled.
"What?" He said stunned.
I stood up and said, " He hit your neck and you fell unconscious. And as such lost."
"Really? Well, your guards are frightening. How did I made myself? " Gerd
"Good, but it was a lost case from the start." I said and his shoulders dropped.
"Why?" Gerd
"Wrong weapon, He can regenerate, so you have to either burn him to dust or smash him into many tiny pieces, a sword would only work with an extreme difference in stats, but his stats were around 12.500 and a difference from 2.500 is not enough. " Finished and he stood up.
"Well there is much to learn, but..." He said and looked at his sword.
It had a few clips.
"This is an A-Ranked sword. " Gerd
Swords are also ranked in different categories, but there are only five: S, A, B, C, D.
And not every A-Rank sword is as good as the other, a B-Ranked sword can be better than an A-Ranked. It depends on the used material, the knowledge of the smith, the enchantments and the reputation of the sword. A B-Ranked sword on material and forged class can become an A or even S-Ranked sword if it´s known enough.
"You can have my sword for the time. It´s not like you´ll not get a new one, That reminds me, what kind of sword do you want?" Me
"A normal longsword would be good," He said, still looking at his sword.
I identified his sword.
The Slicer:
This sword was forged by an unknown smith but he used High-quality materials and had
skill. Durability: 3.000/40.000
I looked through my inventory and gave him a new sword with the same durability.
"So this will be my new sword?" He said while inspecting it.
"It´s good, a little better than my old one." He continued.
"Nope it´s just temporary, it´s a sword I´ve found, I´ll make you one, but you can choose between this one and my sword when I finished it." Me
"Thanks, then from here on, I hope we´ll get along." Gerd said and bowed.
Ilza also bowed and said shyly," I´ll be in your care."
And Lilia said, " You´re not allowed to leave, I need a companion in this house."
I just laughed and said, "good, as of now you´ll get a gold coin per month and I´ll make a weapon for you. The contract is for four years and please inform me on any bigger enrolments or inconveniences."
"Yes" Gerd
"And is it possible to take part in some lessons? I´m not good with stances and only use brute strength and agility." I further said.
"Brute strength?" Gerd
"You´ll see." Lilia said and Gerd looked worried.
We continued to chatter a little until they began their training, simple stances and muscle training.
Lilia and I went upstairs and spent the day with reading....