Day 22
Isabel sat next to the bedside, and felt the wave of energy from Bloodstone. He opened his eyes and looked at her. “I understand what you meant now, do me a favor and have everyone meet me in an hour here.”
“I, I don’t think you should do what you just did, how far back have you come?”
“Far enough to know what I need to do, we can talk later.”
She wrung her hands, “I think your somehow blocking me from seeing the future, how?”
He brushed a stray hair behind her ear, “I am, you don’t need to see what’s coming.”
“Please do this, what are you going to do?” she said looking up into his eyes. They looked different, the devil slit eye he had before had changed back to the deep icy blue. “Your eye’s how?”
“It’s part of the [EMPTY] class I have, you’re just noticing now, he.” said laughing
“You were gone all day yesterday, and avoided me the day before.” She stood and went to leave.
“Wait, before I leave this room, has the rock dragon attacked again?”
“Rock dragon? You mean the big lizard that was outside yesterday?”
“Good this is the right time. I am going to have to try and make the changes if it works I won’t remember this conversation.”
She nodded, “And don’t tell your son as he hates time things”
“Now I must speak with the commander, I have about an hour.”
He got up and dressed as she left the room. Azalar jumped onto the chair she had been sitting on. “You are attempting to make a change, is this a first attempt?”
Bloodstone froze and looked at Azalar, “You know it’s not.”
“Then I must remind you that there is the possibility it cannot be altered, and you may want to try a different approach. What is the sequence?”
Bloodstone sighed, “This is the fourteenth time, I figured out what I was missing, the demon woman, she is killed in the attack, I need to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
“Is there anything you wish to impart?”
“I, I don’t know if you’re ready for this information, go ahead.” He said and leaned over and put his forehead onto Azalars head. There was a soft glow and then Azalar stopped, “Remarkable, I will have to sort this”
“Remember you can’t interfere, if you remember the information in an hour.”
The cat grinned a feline smile, “My discretion is above reproach”
Bloodstone scratched him behind the ears, and walked out of the room.
Bloodstone stood across from the commander, “I want to talk to that demon.”
“I said No, and I mean No, she’s already injured you and some of my men, one may not make it.”
“Yet you have my daughter trying to listen to what she is saying.” He countered
“She not in the room, fine you seem to be up and around maybe you can get her talking.”
“Good now that we have come to an agreement, let get this over with”
The two of them went to a larger room one level down. Guardsmen stood outside the door, facing it.
“Any change?”
“No just screams and ranting the lord’s daughter said that she was just cursing.”
“Ok open it”
The guardsman opened it and handed a lantern to him, he held it why Bloodstone looked into the room. She was chained with heavy manacles and one around her neck. Struggling she would choke if she moved to much.
She said a few choice words, “DIE HUMAN” and Bloodstone replied, “YOU FIRST”
“What did you say?”
“That if she attacked anyone I would spill her blood”
She raged at the chains spewing words that were obviously derogatory and curses.
Bloodstone stepped forward and struck her across the face. The demon woman laughed as her face was split open from the blow. Where he had struck her, it healed fairy quickly leaving a bloody trail down her face.
“I know you know common, so we will come to an agreement or you will die here.”
She spit at him, and he blocked it with his hand, and punched her on the other side of the face, stunning her for a moment.
“I can do this all day.”
“I WILL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS HUMAN” She said
“Maybe after, we take a walk.” He looked back to the commander, “Keys, and clear a path to the door outside”
“I can’t let you just leave with her, she’s dangerous”
“That’s the reason you will want to get rid of her.”
“MY FATHER WILL DESTRO YOU FILTHY CREATURES“,The Demon woman said.
“I don’t think that’s possible,” Bloodstone looked at her. “Get me the keys and I have some other instructions.”
“I really don’t think this is a good idea.”
Bloodstone stepped out of the room, turned towards the commander, “It’s better than the alternative, I want that woman’s sword.”
“You’re not making any sense.”
“I know, I don’t have the time to explain at the moment. I am running out of time.”
“Give him what he wants, ” he said and left him.
It took a good twenty minutes to drag the woman, if she really was a woman, not that he checked, her lower feet and legs looked more like goat legs with split hooves than feet.
She screamed and tried to scratch and gore him as he dragged her back up the steps, and into the section where the door to the outside blight was.
He took the blade one of the men offered him that was wrapped in a thick leather hide.
Bloodstone grabbed the hilt of the blade, and a purple energy flowed from it across his hands. The demon woman laughed. “FEEL THE STING OF MY BLADE”
Bloodstone looked over at her, “You mean the power it’s supposed to kill anything that’s you. Nice try, doesn’t work on me”
The energy rippled across his hand and across his body and seemed to form a thin glowing skin of purple energy.
The door was ordered opened, and he started dragging her out into the blight, “I need the key for these” He said shaking the chains.
Seeing the door open she pulled him off his feet and dragged him for a foot before she was restrained again.
“Stronger than you look,”
“DIE HUMAN” She said
“You first” he said and pulled the chains closer. “Keep fighting me and your dead.” He grinned and dragged her out the door, the keys were tossed through as the door closed.
Two soldiers stood next to the door as it closed, “uh what was that about?”
“No idea, lets head up to the wall and see whats going on!”
A half dozen guardsmen and soldiers nodded and headed to the wall.
They could see Bloodstone still dragging the demon woman out into the blight away from the wall. He then threw the woman’s sword farther out and started unlocking her chains.
She pushed him away and ran towards her sword.
There was a soft rumble in the distance. The demon woman picked up her sword and looked west. The gray beast than had hit the wall the day before was lumbering towards them. Saying it was large was an understatement, it was monstrous, its head was bigger than two horses and its maw was filled with long sharp interlocking teeth more like a shark than a reptile.
Its long tongue was a deep black, and looked like it was using it as a lot of snakes do, to smell. It wasn’t going very fast and the guardsmen on the wall ducked behind the walls as it got closer to them.
The beast seemed to sense prey, and started to move towards them and away from the wall. Bloodstone drew one blade and faced the beast.
It was large enough that its long body moved quickly and it seemed to use its vision and tongue to verify the direction it wanted to go. The only indication that it was there was the slight shake of the ground as it walked.
The demon woman turned and started sprinting away, sensing motion the beast sped up. And started to track the demon woman.
Bloodstone, sheathed the blade as the beast didn’t even seem to notice him or was more intent on the live pray that was in motion. Holding both hands one over the other close to his body, he began a silent spell. There was a rippling at first between his hands and then a spark of intense lighting began to arc from both his hands to swirl between his hands and outstretched fingers.
The beast slowed and turned to eye the disturbance, its tongue, flicked towards Bloodstone direction and its eyes seemed to focus on the bright energy beginning to swirl between his hands. The energy continued to build, and a bolt of lightning from a clear sky struck the ground. Then another closer to him.
“C’mon dumb monster, I am making this for you!” Bloodstone shouted.
The beast stared at him for a few seconds and turned back towards the woman who was still fleeing into the blight.
There was a loud deafening clap of thunder as a larger bolt struck off in the distance, near to where the demon woman was running, the force of it spun her around, and she turned to see the beast still following her.
More loud blasts of electricity and thunder began to explode around Bloodstone, lightning began to arc towards his hands, as if being called to it. The glow in his hands began to blaze with white light.
The Demon woman ran and then turned towards Bloodstone, the beast followed the motion and slowly lumber closer to him.
She smiled as she got closer and leveled the sword in his direction. “NOW YOU DIE”
The right hand on the top of the orb moved and drew a blade, the orb in his left hand blazed with white energy. He didn’t attempt to block with his right hand, the horizontal slash aimed at his midsection. The left hand holding the glowing orb took the bladed strike, a loud crackle of power being released, was struck by her blade. It glowed a bright purple and cracks began running down the blade.
She drew her blade back to strike again, and he dodged the blade, taking two steps back.
“I SEE YOU WANT TO DANCE, LETS SEE IF YOU CAN KEEP UP.” He said in the language.
“I WILL CUT YOU APART HUMAN!” She hissed obviously taking a step forward.
She tried to strike him again and he parried the blow with his blade. Sparks from the blades colliding, were red and it appeared that her blade was the one being damaged. She struck again and again, the beast still moved closer and stopped.
It roared, as if to say it would not be ignored. The demon woman glanced in its direction and tried to disengage, every step she took he mirrored it, the beast came closer, and it opened it mouth to try and eat the two combatants. Bloodstone moved and kicked demon woman, enough to stagger her and she ran past him. “leave my circle you die!” He said more of a statement than an insult.
The mouth descended and Bloodstone threw the glowing orb up, it impacted the inside of the beast’s mouth and exploded, it a white searing light. The energy washed over a bubble of energy surrounding him. The beast recoiled, snapped its mouth closed and backed away.
The demon woman’s blade had been partially outside the energy bubble when the explosion went off. There were visible marks on the sword, as if it had been corroded. He stepped over to her and pointed his sword at her, keeping an eye on the beast as staggered to one side.
The beast roared, and took a step forward to attempt to bite again. The jaws closed on the bubble, and it backed up, confused.
The demon woman released her blade, closed her eyes and said, “I yield”
“I thought you had more fight in you, do you want to take this beast down or are you a coward?”
Her eyes snapped open in fury, she grabbed her blade and swung it at him in a fluid motion. The two swords contacted and there was a shattering sound as her blade snapped. The look of disbelief crossed her face as she tried to swing the broken blade at him again. He deflected it, and the beast took a breath and a wave of liquid washed over the area, the bubble surrounding them started to have white cracks that began to spiderweb from the point of impact.
Bloodstone stepped into the demon woman and wrapped his left arm around her waist and said a single word. “TELEPORT!” And the two of them vanished as the shield shattered into thousands of pieces.
They appeared halfway between the beast and the wall. The Demon woman pushed him away and look at the beast. It was looking around where it thought its meal was supposed to be. Bloodstone took off his ruby sword and tossed it to the dirt in front of her.
“I can take this beast down or I can take you down choose.” He said.
She snarled at him and picked up the blade. “You humans are dishonorable why should I believe you.”
Bloodstone deliberately turned his back to her and faced the beast. It had pawed at the ground where they had been standing and was licking up the wet sand and rock.
Bloodstone started chanting and pointed at the beast a green line shot from his finger and struck the beast on the side. There was a crackle and the beast turned towards him.
“Not enough time Dammit!” He blinked a few times, “Uh what the hell!?”
He turned and saw the demon woman with his other sword. She snarled again at him.
“Look lady, I don’t know what your game is.”
The beast began to lumber in their direction picking up speed as it came. Bloodstone turned and started to run leaving the demon woman standing there.
This time the beast followed him, picked up speed and its maw got closer it lunged and tried to eat Bloodstone. He ducked under the monster and ran the other direction. The beast slowed and turned back to follow its quarry. Its tail lashed out and struck Bloodstone, knocking him off his feet. He had blocked most of the impact with his sword, however the wind had been knocked out of him.
He stood up gasping for breath, and used the sword to help himself stand. The big lizard, stalked towards him wary, it’s tongue flickered in and out as it approached.
A boulder from the wall landed nearby and rolled under the beast as it stalked Bloodstone. He backed away, slowly towards the wall. The demon woman turned and ran the opposite direction. The beast paused trying to decide which target was more interesting. It turned towards the demon woman as another boulder hit it on the back, it turned and attacked the rock shattering it into fragments.
A group of horses and riders came through the large door in the wall, they headed directly towards Bloodstone. There were nine riders, another boulder flew from the wall and missed the beast flying to far.
As the riders closed with Bloodstone, the leader of the group was Lady Amethyst, with her was, Marcus, Rana, Xyrdiane, Xach, Kuya, Violet, Ke’lara, and Hellen.
Xach began casting and two ice lances hit the beast on each foot, creating a coating of ice around them. Lady Amethyst had cast a spell at the same time as they approached, and the beast looked like it had been hit with glowing embers that seemed to coat its body.
“Marcus, get that things attention, we will back you up”
Marcus nodded and road his horse a little closer and dismounted. The horse spooked and ran back the way it had come. The beast seeing and smelling the horses turned and moved closer to Marcus.
Another boulder flew from the wall and struck the beast on the back; it turned and attacked the boulder swallowing it.
The other horses started to spook being so close to the creature as it approached. Marcus stood it its path, ”I have no idea if I can even hurt it much less get its attention” Marcus said loudly.
The beast stopped and went to eat Marcus, Marcus dodged by dashing under the beast’s jaws as they came down. There was a sound of metal hitting something solid, “Yeah it’s like hitting a rock!”
The beast advanced on the horses everyone but Hellen dismounted. Hellen grabbed the reins of the horses and turned and rode towards the walls.
Kuya, Lady Amethyst and Xyrdiane began casting. Another boulder flew over the beast landing near the demon woman.
Lady amethyst finished casting first, the spell washed over the beast, and tinted it in a green glow. The beast started gasping for air as if it couldn’t get air into its lungs.
The second spell landed from kuya and its shadow moved and started to strange the beast. Xyrdiane finished her spell and stone erupted out and bent around the beasts tail and body and plunge back into the ground immobilizing it.
The stone began to crack as the beast struggled. Bloodstone rushed the beast and laid a hand on its skin. It was rock hard. The Stone cracked and began to flake off as the beast struggled with the stone holding it. He activated his skill, and staggered back.
[sub class Monster level 72]
[skill acquired discriminating scent]
[skill enhanced endurance à superior endurance ]
[skill improved speed]
[skill greater heat resistance à superior heat resistance]
[skill improved cold resistance]
[skill iron skin à skill skin of steel]
[skill regenerative blood]
The creature roared, as if it had been stabbed, and broke the restraining rock. It turned on Bloodstone and roared at him again.
Marcus struck it with his weapon and sparks flew from the impact and barely cut into the beast’s flesh.
Rana danced down the side of the beast with a distinct metallic sound each time she struck the beast in the side. Tink, tink tink tink tink tink. She turned and ran perpendicular away from the beast.
Xach began casting, and the temperature began to drop.
Bloodstone stabbed at the creature with his blade and it just deflected off.
Violet, stepped next to Xach, and touched him on the shoulder. A wave of blue light washed over Xach and the cold intensified.
Xach spoke a single word, “FREEZE!“ and a cold wave erupted from his hand and struck the beast in the side of the head. Ice began to form around the lizard’s head and it stopped and tried to claw it off only getting its front claws stuck in the ice as it formed. The beast roared and the ice slowed and stopped. A large amount of ice was formed on the beast, then shattered from the skin littering the ground in chunks of ice.
The beast roared again this time in anger and frustration at its quarry.
“Ice and fire will not work on it” Bloodstone shouted, as other stone sailed over the beast into the blight lands.
Xach shrugged off violet and drew an axe off his back and stalked towards the beast. He took two practice swings and charged.
Bloodstone backed up and began casting. Violet began to sing, a lullaby, it was hauntingly beautiful, and the song seemed to be directed at the beast who took two steps and blinked, then closed it eyes and opened them as if in a fog.
Xach hit the beast with his axe and it just bounced and rang like a bell. “Holy crap this thing is tough” He said making a second swing with the same result.
The beast opened its eyes and focused on Xach and then closed its eyes. The beast’s eyes snapped open moment later, and started to get back up. The second swing had the same result as the first, it just skipped off as if hitting stone or steel.
The beast took a single step towards Xach and sank back down to sleep, as Violet continued to sing.
It was at that point that Amethyst, Kuya and Xyrdiane also began casting.
“summon stone!“ Xyrdian said, a block of stone the size of a house shifted out of the ground.
“Summon guardian. “ Amethyst said, and a warping haze materialized next to her.
“Summon shadow!” Kuya said, and her shadows began to crawl towards the beast as if long snakes or creatures were blocking the light.
Bloodstone continued to cast, there was a darkness that began to gather in his left hand, it swirled with darker energies, there were sparks of electricity that gave off a sickly white and purple glow. It mass began to spin faster, and he stop chanting, a deep black ball of energy floated in his hand. “Everyone take cover, I have no idea if this is a smart thing or something really bad.”
Everyone moved behind the large stone block. Without hesitation he threw the orb at the beast and ran.
They watched as it glittered sparks of pure white light, that seems to fall and fade as it traveled. Bloodstone dove behind the stone dragging others with him, “Don’t look it’s going to be very bright!”
“What is it?” Kuya asked.
“You don’t want to know. The wall needs to be warned!” He closed his eyes and thought at the wall.
There was a flash, it lit up the sky in a bright light, everything was washed out in white. Even with stone between them it was bright. There was a rush of wind towards the beast as the flash faded. Everyone looked around a large chunk of the beast’s neck and head were just gone. The beast relaxed in death, they looked at the wound, it appeared as if it had been cooked.
“What the hell was that?”
“Seriously, you don’t want to know. I didn’t think it would work, and it’s a very easy weapon and deadly. The only issue I have is I am not sure if I just irradiated this whole area.”
Amethyst, Xack and Kuya stared at him. “What did you do?” Kuya finally asked.
“I reversed the charge of the air molecules.”
“Huh?”
“I made anti-matter, it can happen sometimes with lightning, I just sped up the process, and kept a buffer between the changed air and the regular air.”
“Um, yeah daddy don’t do that anymore”
“No promises, is it dead?”
Xach looked over at the wound, “If it’s not we need to get out of here”
The demon woman ran around the other side of the beast, and began climbing it. A few minutes she jumped down holding an ornate dagger in one hand and Bloodstones sword in the other. She tossed the sword to his feet. She smiled showing rows of sharp teeth, “Not bad for a human”
Bloodstone picked up the blade and tossed it back to her feet, “It’s dangerous to go alone take that sword.”
The woman hesitated then picked it up and ran off into the blight.
Bloodstone walked over to where the fragments of her sword were and picked them up. Several guardsmen came out with the horses and Hellen was with them. The commander, said “check the body, any artifacts magic items are to be returned to the keep for analysis. I want to know what you just did, I don’t think I have ever heard of anyone ever taking down a stone beast.”
Bloodstone grinned, “Sure can someone have this broken blade brought to your mage, she may find it interesting.” He turned to walk back to the corpse paused and turned again to the commander, “I can track the woman now she took this blades twin.” He took his sword off his belt and handed it to the commander. “Might be better if you kept it, it’s a sharp blade and I need to make something new.”
The commander took it and tied it to his saddle. “We shouldn’t linger out here, unless you’re ready to fight more. “
“No I think I have some broken ribs,” Bloodstone said walking back towards the door.
Bloodstone sat listening to the two mages, they had been arguing for an hour about what to do with the corpse. It was too large to move, and the body itself acted like stone and was uncuttable and heavy.
“We want to claim any organs from the beast, they could be valuable in magical research” The taller blond mage said, it was hard to tell if the mage was a he or a she. Bloodstone looked over at the second mage, she was a woman, her black hair was tied up and there were hair clips holding it in place.
“Stop stop stop….” Bloodstone said. “You already said you can’t cut it and can’t move it how are you going to harvest any organs?”
The two mages looked at each other then back at Bloodstone. “We were hoping you could teach us that spell you used to kill it.”
“Absolutely NOT, last thing I need is a bunch of mages burning holes in reality.” He said glaring at them.
“Then could …” The taller mage started.
“Look you two figure it out, the [commander] has been waiting patiently for the past twenty minutes.” He nodded to the commander, who had been waiting most of the hour.
The two mages realized the audience was over and left, arguing about how to move the carcass.
“Commander” Bloodstone said.
“I am surprised, usually the Lady would have thrown them out earlier.”
“It’s good to let them talk, figure things out, I can’t do everything for them. What can I help you with?”
“Goblins.”
“Goblins?”
“There are a couple of bands just out of range of the walls, they seem to be watching for now.”
“Oh, that can’t be what you wanted to talk about.”
“Can you do something about your wives?”
Bloodstone laughed, and then winced, “Don’t make me laugh my ribs are still sore, what is the problem?”
“Where do I start? The merchant woman has at least thirty carts filled with junk, there are servants running around here I don’t recognize. The butler, she’s everywhere. Your first wife has taken over the kitchen, and is baking. I can’t talk to most of my mages, as they are holed up with the half-elf woman, and the half-gazer is guarding the door. The worst is that he seems to follow me everywhere.” He said pointing to Xach.
“What?” Xach said.
“Why are you following him?”
“I wanted to have a sparring match,” he said grinning.
“Right, go spar with some of the soldiers.”
Xach shrugged and walked out of the room.
The commander sighed, “You really have no problem with me keeping this?” He said tapping the sword on his hip.
“No, I will make a new blade for myself tomorrow or the day after, as soon as my ribs are not so sore.”
“I do have to say you do make things livelier”
Bloodstone laughed again, and then groaned; “Now you’re just doing it on purpose.”
The commander laughed and then left .
Day 23
Somehow the corpse had disappeared in the middle of the night, it was dragged off, no one was sure by what or if it had walked or actually been dragged away. There had been some items recovered from the beast’s stomach, as well as from its body.
Bloodstone looked over the table of the items that they had recovered, included was the demon womans blade and fragments.
“You said you recovered more than just these magic items?” He asked the head mage.
“Yes mostly mundane things like gold and jewels, and rocks, we found some corpses, and buried them. These were the only things we found that were magical. I am still cataloging them, and then you can decide what you want to do with them.”
“Me? Why do I get to decide?” He asked.
“Well usually the lord or lady takes a percentage of monster kills, the thing is that you’re like a gold adventurer, and you can claim what you want, since you’re both the lord here and the one who killed it.”
“Well I am claiming the demon sword, for research, what about the jewels and coin?”
She shrugged, “There are some interesting items, like this” She said pointing to a sword that looked like it was made of stone and resembled a scimitar. ”It was embedded in the creatures hide it slid right out when it was pulled on.”
Bloodstone picked it up, “Seems light, not heavy like stone at all.”
“Careful its very sharp.”
Bloodstone looked at the edge, “I’m not into scimitars, by be an interesting research piece, just to see how it was made. What else?” He set the blade gently down on the table.
“Mostly just broken weapons, a halberd blade without the shaft, it’s a really old design, over five hundred years old.”
“What non weapons did you find?”
“I was hoping you didn’t ask, there is a magic ring that seems very plain, though the enchantment is strange, a weird looking stone, and the last non weapon item is this.” She flipped a bit of cloth away from something it was covering, a metallic blue key rested on the cloth; it was small enough to fit in a closed hand.
“The key, stone and the ring, figure out what they do, the scimitar I want to research, the rest, you can do with as you please. If you can’t figure them out let me know I know a few ways to look at them.”
“Seriously?” She said somewhat in shock.
“What?”
“This is a small fortune, just here on the table not to mention the jewels, gems and coin we recovered.”
“So?”
“I never had an adventurer just give me magic items to study.”
Bloodstone smiled, “Consider it a way of making you and the rest of the mages under your care more efficient, if you have items to study maybe you can fix some of them, or learn how they were made.”
“Thank you I really don’t know what else to say.”
“That’s good enough, I think we have some other magic we will want to find a place to store, is there a vault you store things of import?”
“No, not really, never had the need, or enough magic items to require a vault.”
“Humm, well can you go get the commander and I will check for my wives say meet up in the hall?”
“Sure, I suppose, what’s this all about?”
“Looks like we may need a place to store magic items, if there isn’t one we have to make one.”
“Make one?” she said looking perplexed.
“I am still working on a lexicon of magic, the book I have read have given me a basis, and some experiments have proven some of the theory, and disproven others. I may have enough of a basis to make simple shapes. A cube is pretty basic.”
“Lexicon of magic? You have your own magic books?”
“Oh, didn’t I mention that before?”
“No, you didn’t, would you let me borrow one?”
“I don’t see why not, though you may have to have a cat follow you around.”
“That familiar construct of yours?”
“That would be the one.”
She shrugged, “Sure, I will meet you in the hall.” then she left.
Bloodstone stood in a semi-circle with the full sextet of his wives, as well as kuya and Xach. There were also the original group from the other world.
They were looking at a map the commander had brought and there were nine metal pick axes stacked on the table.
“Wait so you’re saying that you made these picks magical.” the commander asked.
“Not these yet I just have the one prototype. It’s kind of a teleport, transmutation and shrinking spell. The pick can take out blocks and shrink them down so they can be carried.”
“I get it! you made steel mine craft picks” Kuya said.
“Well yes and no, cubes are a little harder than spheres, I just don’t want a bunch of stone marbles all over.”
Xach groaned, “You want us to go digging tunnels?”
“Well sure, you just have someone sweep up the blocks and we can use them for stacking and making a wall. A couple of boxes of them would be a huge help making a wall. I got the idea when I was looking at the programs on my laptop.”
“You are either crazy or genius,” Newton said picking up a pick axe.
“Both”, Bloodstone replied.
“Explain it to me again, I am not understanding” Sarah said
Bloodstone took a deep breath, “Ok so one issue we have is needing to build a wall, there nothing that says we can’t go deep underground and quarry out stone. the big issues are moving it and placing it. The pick axes help, we cut out blocks and they get shrunk and we then sweep them up and into a box where they all fit nice and neat, take them where we need them and use the back of the pick to break the enchantments on the stone.”
“Isn’t than dangerous underground?” Beth asked.
“Yeah I suppose, there are a lot of existing tunnels and as far as I can tell it won’t work on enchanted stone. I just made it as a proof of concept“
“Was this why you called us here?”
“No actually, I wanted to ask you if you would all mind if I had a house built here. There is actually a place we can use to build it, and I wanted some ideas.”
The room erupted as everyone began talking at once. The noise was loud and no one could really hear what was being said as the noise was got louder as they tried to talk over one another.
“SILENCE!” Bloodstone boomed. “One at a time, I only heard about half of what you were saying.” Everyone stared at him. “We have a bunch of carpenters and stone masons and other people coming to work on this, the only thing we don’t have is a design.”
Several hours later they were looking at drawing and sketches that Kuya had made as well as a architect who had been at the back of the room listening.
“Is it doable?” Bloodstone asked.
“Sure, I am just surprised that you wanted me to design this.” The small girl said.
“Katrina, I realize you don’t have the class, I really don’t care, you told my wife that is what you wanted to do.”
She was short, and barely five feet tall, her hair was a light brown and matched her eyes. She was still a little shocked about being picked up by a merchant and from what he had learned she was in her early twenties, and had been working, as a secretary, to raise money to get paper and other writing devices, to design buildings, as well as houses, walls and other stylish facades. The only thing is that she only had two levels in artist and hadn’t sold a single thing. Hellen and Coreen had found her trying to sell some of her artwork. He had also found out that her classes were [secretary] 14, [scribe] 8 and [artist] 2.
“Well I have a bunch of levels I can change you into an [architect].” He said grinning.
“Hey no fair, I found her first.” Hellen said hugging Bloodstone.
“Uh…”
“I’m just teasing you,” She said stepping back and straitening her dress, even though it was immaculate.
“When are we going to go eat,” Xach asked.
“Always thinking with your stomach” Lady Amethyst teased.
“Just saying” he said getting up.
“Does anyone have anything else they want to add?” Bloodstone asked.
Sarah entered the room with servants, and they put trays of sandwiches in front of the group. “I made some things from home, with what I could find around the town, let me know if something is off.”
Everyone grabbed a sandwich and began to eat. Water and ale was doled out to those who asked.
“This is pretty good” Bloodstone said licking his hands. There were others who agreed.
“You made buffalo sauce?” Kuya said eating the sandwich.
“You said that’s your favorite,” Sarah replied.
Bloodstone was snoring and they left him to sleep.