74 To Ryans Surprise (2/2)
\”What I need from you is simply your cooperation. For without you, helping yourselves, my help would become useless and a fool's errand\”
\”I extend my hands in equipping you with the weapons you will need for defeating the Grand Liches! Are you with me?!\” Father passionately gave the speech that I told him to give. Although, I never intended for that to be so full of passion and enthusiasm. Father is unexpectedly, a dramatist.
\”Yea!\” impassioned declarations were felt from the almost voiceless screams the \”people\” gave as a response to father's speech. Father and I could see that their responses were also calculated in favor to not alerting the undead above ground that are hunting for any lifeform. Their fear of them, did not blind them enough to forget that they are the last dredges of humanity in this god-forsaken planet. They had to survive. And father's speech gave them the reassurance that they'd at least be able to fight the good fight before dying from starvation and becoming undead themselves.
\”Alright son, they are on board. Should we teach them to make good weapons? Or teach them how to fight the undead?\” Father asked. If this were a normal coup, then the time needed for all those measures he mentioned would have been great, however, these people have not much time left in this world, unless we get them to their optimal state first.
\”Father, I think, we should feed them first. Are you still able to Teleport us back to Alleucanth with your remaining mana?\” I worry that father has already expended his mana pool and we are stranded here until such time that we are able to gather the necessary mana to go back home. That is why, I can't have father use more of his mana in this world where we might not be able to recharge if at all. After all, this is another world. The same rules may not apply within Alleucanth what applies here and vice versa. Just like how mana here is called magic energy there. It's like the magic systems of Alleucanth are still just blooming and even the naming sense of people have yet to develop.
\”Oh, don't worry son. I have enough to keep going every second.\” Said father, but I must take what he says with a grain of salt. I know how fathers would want to look strong in front of their children after all.
\”Then, please Teleport us back to Alleucanth to gather food to bring here and the necessary medicinal components to make restorative medicine as well. I know that you have an alchemy branch in Claiomh as mother always talks about it, maybe we can take some from there?\”
\”Oh, if that's all, then you don't need to worry. I think I still have some monster meat inside my Dimensional Storage so we can just give that to them. I can also cook it with my Craftsman Category Skills… oh, and the medicinal materials and ingredients are good. I have my own collection of Herbs here in my Dimensional Storage as well. So, no need to come back home.\” Father laid down all his cards to me as if they were superficial to them. But having a personal Dimension for storage is something that's highly sought after by mages of modern Evernight. Bless their souls, they are already extinct. I was the last modern mage of Evernight before I bit the dust as well.
\”Really? Then please tell them that they should all be on guard and keep their vigilance as we prepare.\” I asked father to relay my instructions to the people, especially to Herman. And as expected, they agreed to it without hesitation.
Then father started his menial labor on cooking up a storm of good food that even I, as a baby wanted to taste it. It was as if the gods were dining with us after father had cooked. However, just as we were enjoying the scent of the good food, the ground and the walls of the cave started to shake as if an earthquake had come.
\”Father, is it the undead?\” I asked worriedly to my utmost reliable father.
\”Nah, you can relax. It'll stop in a second.\” Father answered nonchalantly again. Really making me feel assured. Although, I know that he only acts that way because he wasn't to look cool and composed. I wonder what father really was thinking now. And true enough, the earthquake stopped, and things returned to being lively for the feast that father prepared for all the people here.
Father also prepared the medicine for them. I hope that through this, at least their health would get better and will motivate them some more to reclaim what's ours in this world of Evernight. To my surprise, having a doting father is such a blessing. Although, he tends to show off in front of me.