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While my party and I have been power-leveling Raphtalia and Filo they are making better progress than I imagined. Raphtalia is more of a quick-hitting swashbuckler I had some light armor enchanted to be as strong as steel but it keeps its mailability of leather. I have her training with some of my vampires to work on her speed.
For Filo, I made her some Valyrian steel-tipped boots that take the shape of her feet for when she is in her bird form or her human form with the same type of leather armor and short daggers I have her with the faceless men just teaching her stealth and an assassin type of combat with acrobatics, and it seems to be working for her she can already solo many monsters and she is getting good hell I have to focus on her speed. We have leveled Filo to level 65 and Raphtalia to level 89 in the short few weeks we have tor... trained them they are now combat-effective with several days without sleep. They now have endurance and they can last in drawn-out combat which in my opinion what one of their glaring faults.
This doesn't mean I have been idle I have been looking through my shields and found two that I don't mind using and have been leveling up The first one I got from the bones of hundreds of dragons from Game of Thrones. The Shield looks like a Valyrian steel dragon skull with glowing red eyes. The other I have gotten is from a Bunch of white walkers I made just to kill and see if I can feed them to my shield it worked. It has two ice spears in the shape of an X with a Crown made out of Ice above them glowing in a light blue.
[Valyrian Dragon Bone Shield] (SR)
-45% damage reduction in physical
-75% damage boost in Fire magic
- Cold damage Nullification
[Cold One Shield] (SR)
-75% damage boost in Ice magic
-Breaks any Non-Valyrian steel upon contact
-All deaths within 300 meters are automatically Raised as A Undead
They will work for later waves at least I hope. I head back to the Compound the Silvelt kingdom has made for me which is cool I have Fifty marines on rotation in the compound at all times. It is still I decided to send a few faceless men after the pope not wanting to deal with that crazy fuck. They came back after a few days with his dead and me a few million golds lighter but it is worth it. I paid them to spy on the surrounding kingdoms. It seems the queen is almost here wonder what she will offer me to get in my good graces I ponder just denying her outright. I will think about it when she makes her way here.
As I ponder what to do some marines, Filo, and Raphtalia show up from their daily grind. Filo just draggers herself into the room. "How was your day?" I get several hateful glares. "Well if you want to blame me don't if I remember I was asked to get you two strong enough to take care of yourselves." I get some muttering "But we need a break we go out for days on end and your men are slave drivers..." they both pout "well I guess if a little training is too hard I will leave both of you for the next wave of 'too hard I guess.." I didn't get past that as objects just get thrown at me. "Ok ok, you guys and rest for a day but then back to training you can rest the few days before the wave" I get cheers and they both just cuddle up and pass out. I wonder if they realize they can go toe to toe with the heroes after the hellish training I put them through. They will thank me later. I carry them to their room to get some rest.
After I take them to be I go into my study to enjoy some tea and look over some magic that I don't know very well I want to go for water magic and lightning next. It turns out the magic here sucks ass they only know two types of magic Ritual, and Ceremonial magic, and talk about a third unknown which Filo seems to use unconsciously so I guess it is a beast type of magic? I will look into that later. Ritual magic is broken down into classes the lowest are First, Zweite, and Drifa, and even higher than Drifa is Liberation which is a combination of Ritual magic and another magic that is not described But they call Dragon Vein. Ceremonial magic is the other and it is pretty much just group spells I think this is what the pope used in the fight with the shield hero it can be both Ritual and Dragon Vein magic. What little is written in Dragon Vein magic which you need a blessing from a dragon emperor.. guess I need to 'convince' a dragon emperor by any means.
As I ponder I get a knock on the door "Open" the door opens slowly and the old turtle walks in slowly "Hello my old friend how are you doing today can I get you anything?" He nods his head "Yes I would like the snacks you call Cheetos and Mountain Dew, I keep hearing about their Rarity and Delicacy of them." I chuckle and bring them out. "Yes, they are the hardest to Procure in this world." He looks over "This world?" "Yes I have been to a few before here." he hums "Will you tell me later about them?" I smile "Sure I will tell you on a later date." he takes a drink with an *ahh* "well this brings me to why I am here the Queen of Melromarc is here to talk to you, at first she tried to go directly into your compound, this was when you where in the middle of training your companions." I nod "When did she arrive?" He cracked a smile "A few days ago, I introduced her to the party Leaders, she is not having a good time, and she brought the king and her daughter with her both wearing slave marks" I nod "You do not seem surprised to hear this." I smile "Well when they messed up her kingdom as badly as she did and doesn't want to kill her family, and also placate the other kingdoms, and a Hero who was scorned. What would you do?" He thinks hard "I cannot think of much else but death or slavery for the rest of their life." I nod "There you have it she was backed into a corner now she is here to ask me for help, to help her kingdom, the same king who was so happy to attack me not so many weeks ago..." "Yes when you put it like that, why the hell should you care about them, they cannot even protect their citizens." "I'll meet them later."
A/N: To help or to not hmm which shall happen?
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