First contact

The group camps in a wood, in a position not too far from the path that connects the cities. They light a fire and cook a bit of meat with controno vegetables, it is to accompany a bit of hot soup.

"It's close to Marinburg, if we hadn't spent all night doing obscene acts, we could have traveled a little longer and reached the city in the morning" Betty moans as she eats from the bowl of soup.

"Oh come on, whoever you want to give it to drink, you had a great time last night. Your whole body and your face expressed it with their movements" teases Allatu.

"I-it's your fault, it's definitely this brand's fault." Betty tries to make excuses.

"Yes, yes of course not" Allatu rolls his eyes in resignation.

In that speech Asteri did not utter a word, he sat in silence eating his flesh, while the two companions argued. It looked like he was sleeping with his eyes open but he was actually talking to his partner.

'New skill? is when can I unlock it? ' Asteri asks.

'Actually it is already unlocked but wait for you to master it' Aurelion stops for a moment 'but I warn you it is not an easy skill to summon'

'Evoke? What?' Asteri was increasingly confused.

'Now let me explain, with this ability you can apparently summon ten soldiers made of pure magical power, in this case yours or cosmic power, do you like how I renamed it?' Aurelion seemed proud of the name he gave to Asteri's unique power.

'Yes, really nice name, but now explain to me how I can summon them' Asteri was too excited to waste time.

'In reality, you just need to concentrate your cosmic power in your shadow and choose the amount of soldiers to summon, so you don't have to summon ten, but also other numbers that obviously are no more than ten.' Asteri listened carefully to what Aurelion explained to him.

'Ok understood I just have to insert my power ... cosmic in my shadow, it seems easy' Asteri was very confident, while Aurelion could only snort.

'It seems like a boy, but it is not like that ... anyway it is useless to explain it to you, you will worry about it directly so you will understand. Ah is a last detail, it seems that this ability is not only here, that is, the more you become strong the more powerful it will become, I do not know what will change, but it is only a matter of time 'this revelation made Asteri rejoice even more.

'Understood partner, then see you later, ah thank you' Asteri comes out of his conscience, is in front of him if he sees a bizarre scene. Allatu and Betty kneeling in front of him ready to unbutton her pants, obviously to do only one thing.

"What's going on here?" Asteri asks with a smirk.

"Oh, you woke up, we were trying to talk to you but you were staring at them with your eyes open ..." Allatu says "and we didn't know what to do so we decided ..." continues Betty with a blush on her face "to give you a double blowjob "concludes the succubus.

"Oh thank you very much for your kindness, but I'm fine ... I was immersed in a deep contemplation if we want to say" Asteri finds an excuse "but anyway please continue I'm sorry I stopped you" I certainly do not disdain their help.

"Yeeeee, then let's start Bett-" while Allatu is talking, all three of them fell silent, they went on alert.

"They're coming here" says Asteri "not who he is but from their murderous intent, they are certainly not friends" Asteri gets up and fastens the belt of his trousers, closing them "I'm very sorry girls, but as soon as we're finished we will continue later" he reassures them .

"Ugh who is interrupting our sweet intimate moment? I won't forgive them" Allatu was clearly dissatisfied with the interruption of their fun.

"I can feel four ... no it's five," Betty says.

Asteri and Allatu nodded and she made her purple whip materialize.

'I feel their power, four to the seventh degree of the green core is the last to the ninth degree.' Asteri hears Aurelion's voice warning him about their power 'ok, thanks partner' he replies.

The five figures approach them, they could easily merge with the darkness given their vestiaro colored entirely in black, the only thing of different color were the scarves that covered from the middle of the nose to the lower part of the neck, using it as masks . And on top they had a hood, always black. All four were equipped with two knives on either side of their belts. They were divided into: three humans, two males and one female, a male tabaxi you could see the two cat ears that came out of the hood and what according to Asteri was a goblin, he had never seen one but they were also quite famous in video games of the Earth, two pointed ears could be seen coming out of the hood, and his stature was very short.

"I won't ask you who you are or what you want, but I warn you that you can leave unharmed if you don't attack us," Asteri says, taking a step forward.

"Of course not, it is better for you to tell us who you are and who is sending you, and also you have to give us all your equipment, money and supplies, and maybe we can let you go alive ..." the one speaking was the only woman in the group, apparently she was the one in the ninth grade.

"So it is useless to find a compromise, but I have warned you ..." finishing talking, the two groups begin the clash.

. . .

The battle lasted fifteen minutes, seeing Asteri's group victorious.

"You can see that you have risen to the fourth grade Allatu" exclaims Betty re-pondering the sword "thank you, but it is also thanks to Asteri who with his nourishing juice makes us stronger than normal" answers Allatu.

"I actually felt stronger than normal," Betty murmurs looking at Asteri who was bowing to the ground to settle on the dead body of what was probably their captain.

"Here's something that could give us information" Asteri took a kind of medallion from the woman's body and on it there was a dark coat of arms, a skull tied to a glass cruet and three daggers on the sides. From what was written on the mission sheet ... that was the symbol of the faction they were to hunt down The Shadow of Kalos.