Chapter 99 Getting emotional. (1/2)

Roland stood alone in the wide-open area surrounded by old buildings So his fire whips around Thus he needed to douse the, he did have the wand he used for cleaning his house ater pressure

‘I need to report this to the guild… along with that guy…’

He thought back to what happened today Following Bernir’s beating, he went to the city to disperse some street justice There he met Armand who attacked hiuild

There were a couple of choices here He could just forget about it, return home with the backpack and that would be it With the lack of a police force fights like this mostly went unattended unless sos would probably do no such thing as they were the ones that started this whole predicament

This left hiuards to seek justice Though after he beat up the other party already they uards e to the city or perfor the case with those ruffians was probably the best choice considering that he did get back his ite to defend the perpetrators This was so that he couldn’t just look past any straight, just tossing his weight around like he owned the place

Arht hie Past tier 2 a person could change their classes every 25 levels just as with the tier 1 classes The tier 2 classes could be leveled up to the 50th level Which h as there was a certain bonus and special skills if you h For instance, the tier 3 Elee class required 4 classes of Fire, Wind, Earth, Ice e to be all leveled up to at least the 25th level There were other class combinations if a person chose to raise two of those elee, for instance, there was also supposedly a stronger ‘true’ version of the eleed to e It would take a lot longer but the bonuses a caster would get byout their levels with all the classes allowed for a prestige class Due to how hard soh with it

“Woof!”

“Yeah, I’e backpack and carried it over his right shoulder It was ti offHis trip back home was luckily not as eventful as his way into the city He evaded the pub where he fought the party of tier 2 adventurers While h quite a bit of spells in this fight

‘Everything seeeon, but the flame whips on the other hand…’

The experih the steel prototype that he made He had made it as a reusable part which he could replace later, the spell was on the stronger side as it pushed the capabilities of tier 2 spells to their liest weakness of this type of design, it was hard to replace during combat

It was fine in a one-on-one battle but not if it continued for a long tio back to his sword and shi+eld The whips would only function if he used his runethe rank down after activation It was a skill mostly suited for a worst-case scenario and not in day-to-day co ht prove fatal if I rely on it tooon his shoulder he left the city, the night had already coht vision rune Thanks to it he could co to carry a torch This had the boon of people not being able to spot hiht

When they were close to the house Agni was placed on the ground The little guy quickly ran out to the entry gate and started to scratch against it He then proh…Gahhh…”

After closing everything tight Roland heard Bernir’s screams Concerned with his wounds he rushed inside the house only to spot Agni sitting on his chest and licking his face The half-das trying to shove the puppy off hiue and sobr

“I see that you are awake”

Agni finally juht back the wooden bowl that was round and then started barking

“Sure sure, you’ve earned your reward”

Roland chuckled as he tossed Bernir’s backpack to the side His tracking wolf had done quite the good job The , with his pet around he would be able to counter one of his biggest weaknesses This was of course tracking and spotting hidden enemies

Bernir rubbed his face that was now covered in wolf sobr The first thing he did was to look around, after being beaten he was still surprised that he made it back to Roland’s house He then looked at his body, his broken leg was nuh for him to stand on it

“Boss what did you…”

“Oh, yeah I brought it back from your ‘friends’ I was sure to return the favor, they won’t be walking straight for a while You should probably rest for the night, you can sleep on the couch if you’re too tired”

Fro about Bernir it was clear that they knew him Roland round The half-dwarf started at his backpack with intent without saying a word

Roland on the other hand was placing soerator it was easy to store He even constructed an oven for cooking and baking that was powered by his runic engine After returning to the living roo the backpack and looking his way

“Is so potion?”

Before Roland could ask e ways It all started with a single tear that ran down his cheek The floodgates opened up soon after as Bernir started bawling his eyes out Snot was not far behind as his incoherent wails filled Roland’s roo his hands around in a randoet this kind of reaction Bernir was a young ni peeked out froe piece ofhalf-dhile

“Uhh… does it hurt that bad?”

“N-no it’s not about that… this is the first ti like this for me…”

“Ahh…”

Roland scratched the back of his neck while staring at his assistant crying his heart out He had heard some stories from Bernir’s youth, how his parents died, and how he ended up here with no money, job or friends

It was respectful that he was able to keep it together for so long while still having a smile on his face He was also not someone that would blame others for the dark turn his life took Still, he was a younghis twenties and alone in this world

Without no one to lean on, life was tough Notalone He was in the minority as people were social creatures, without others around they would find it hard to live

This was quite an aard situation for a socially inept person like Roland Without knohat to do he moved over and placed his hand on Bernir’s shoulder Soon an aard patting on the shoulder commenced as he tried to cheer his assistant up His lack of interaction with other people had caused him to not really knohat to do in such an ocasion