Ch. 99 Strange Home
Having calmed down the two began to talk first Addie shares about what happened to her where she was over the years. Annabell seemed confused for awhile then shocked and awe seemed to present in other parts of the story but towards the end. Addie finally had to ask. Why Annabell wouldn't let her go home? Why would Annabell bring her to the Roseline household? Seeing the strange look on Annabell's face Addie got somewhat frightened before Annabell finally shared her story. More accurately the story of the chancellor. How much her grandfather loved this kingdom and Addie's father of how he did everything to ensure that the royal family still stood upon the throne even when they ceased to exist. About his faith, his love and his loyalty. Towards the end Annabell began to tell of how the royal palace has recently begun to change as the people grew weird rules changed and the chancellor went silent. He still watches over the capital but he's covered his own face not a single inch of his skin is visible nor has it been for years. He's even begun to form his own legion that bares no name under the name of protecting the throne. Each soldier seems to come out of no where and never shows their skin just like him.
Rumors spread again and again of the chancellor having already died and been replaced with an imposter. The whole kingdom seemed to have changed twisted things gather and dark clouds gather over head. Many fear what is to come but the nobles and everyone else is to afraid to intervene as even if the chancellor is truly dead no one else can do a thing about it simply because he was the strongest if something killed him silently what could they do?
Addie sat in silence during the long description of the kingdoms current state before looking out the window...
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Ellie looked around the large room before curling up onto the big bed and staring at her backpack before she hugged it and fell asleep for the first time... completely alone.
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The next morning Ellie came out of her room to find the hulking woman standing there silently. Despite being super tall and buff her figure was clearly still a woman... As... Well her chest is just a bit big even on her physique... Silently staring forward at the giant mounds of flesh Ellie couldn't help but wonder... Would they be hard like all the muscles?
Startled from her thoughts when a fist rose and pounded onto the chest causing it to ripple like waves in the ocean and a ruff voice that sounds a bit like a woman whose throat has been ripped to shreds before sounds out.
"Jay." Looking at the jiggling and wiggling of the rippling mounds Ellie almost doesn't hear the hulking woman introduce herself. So they are soft too...
Jay turns and begins to walk off after introducing herself whilest calling out in her rough voice.
"Come." Despite her huge frame and rough appearance every step she takes on the old creaky floors is entirely silent as if Ellie was following the lead of a ghost. Lowering her gaze Ellie couldn't help but wonder if the large butt would jiggle as well... Probably not... But it doesn't look like it's all muscle... Eventually the pair reach the training hall from the night before and Jay walks over to the corner and begins to lift her weights again. Jay is officially a "teaching assistant" but in reality... she's not exactly assisting she sits in the corner working out most the time entirely silent unless Scarlett asks her to get a new dummy. Scarlett is like her older sister... especially since the hulking woman with huge breasts is supposedly not asocial but a shy 17 year old that simply doesn't know how to act around anyone she can't kill or isn't part of their team. By the end of the day of torture Scarlett handed me a few books each seemed hand written. Scarlett just shrugged when I was about to ask.
"A poor classless girl who doesn't even wanna get a class is gonna need to figure skills out herself if she wants to smile." Scarlett turned her back and left. Looking down at the books Ellie couldn't help but be a little stunned... These were the description of class skills. Choosing a class let's you get the skills of that class and evolve them over time. However it's possible to form the skills yourself if you understand the skills properly. Skills are just like a plant in the soil of the soul, mind and body. They grow based on the quality of the soil but can also pull nutrients out of the air and aid in growing the soil if they become strong enough. So much like my body tempering skill being able to form class skills would aid in the growth of my body and mind before I finally get a class. Most people don't need to understand a skill because the understanding can be different for everyone and your class gives you the start or the seed for your class skills and they grow along with you. So some people have different skills despite having the same class. For instance one of these books is the rogue skill shade. It's a low class stealth ability that lets you blend in with darker areas. For some people they grow shade into a perfect stealth skill that lets them hide even in the bright light without any darkness, others into a body tempering skill fusing the darkness with their body, others a sprint style skill to be faster in the dark, some even turn it into a magical skill where they attack with shadows... Then there's the dagger and archery mastery skills. Unlike the shade skill they have a bit less versatility due to being around daggers and bows so they can't totally be turned into none attack skills but some have found ways to heal others by shooting the ground near them and even combine magic or other skills with arrows and it's quite common to see someone who thought it wasn't good enough to just use the sword but choose to imbue magic into their swordsmanship. So fusing your dagger skill with your understanding of shade is a common choice leaving some levels of versality based on the nature of your shade. Based on the book... Scarlett's shade is a healing type... Well not entirely it's bloodletting. She somehow turned darkness into a channel for blood creating healing for herself through damage. It's super complicated and requires some kind of destruction on the enemies blood to prevent from causing issues with her own body by having a ton of other people's blood in her...
The archery book is surprisingly not written by Scarlett... But a woman named Mallory. It goes into the nature of her archery which she made on her own despite not being a Archer class... No Mallory is a druid. The archery she formed is based around nature magic and the profundness of plants... Using the wood of the arrows to imbue different effects by changing it into different plants. So she can copy any plant she understands and then use that plants effects with her arrow... Basically she is capable of doing anything a plant can do with her arrows which is quite a lot but she needs to understand those plants so... The author is obviously obsessive when it comes to herbalism... she veers off topic numerous times throughout her description of archery to discuss the nature of plants and how changing tons of different plants into one can make her arrows do fundamentally everything... She then discusses her thorn quiver skill for way to long... Despite it having to do with learning archery not that arrows are needed in archery so Ellie reads it none the less it's an interesting skill that she created by having a plant in a box on her back that she constantly feeds with mana then grows arrows from with sharp thorns for tips and leafy fletching... Honestly the archery book is the thickest at around 30 pages detailing some alchemy herbalism and even anatomy knowledge as this Mallory lady is simply crazy into her Nature Archery as she's called it but I'd call it Alchemic Archery... Serious she details how to design medicine with her arrows and forcibly make people eat it by turning that medicine into none lethal arrows... Or making pills or potions inside of arrows and using the tensile strength of wood to send the potions or pills to her teammates from far off distances... then she goes into something called a flower mark that's a part of her archery skill for once that's supposedly a way to mark a target with the scent of flowers and mana to make it possible to shoot an arrow anywhere from any distance given that it's not blocked or entirely out of range given the strength of her bow and mana... Looking at the symbol of a rosebud in the book then the rosebud on the wall in the courtyard Ellie shudders a little... I sat there yesterday... Luckily the two didn't get any "mail" at the time...
Whilst she's reading a woman with glasses like bulletproof glass and a robe that covers almost her entire body except the glasses walks in carrying a staff way bigger then her... It's only about 6 feet long but she's barely 5 feet... She walks over to Jay and Scarlett, Scarlett seems to treat her normally but Jay becomes super fidgety and noticably nervous when she address the little lady as big sister Sea... After the three talk for awhile the small lady with thick glasses and her crimson robe walks toward the door but stops to look at Ellie for awhile before approaching her.
"Can you perhaps let me inspect the mist?" Looking up from her book Ellie looks at the little lady then cocks her head in confusion before looking to Scarlett for help. Only to just be waved off as Jay seems to give a reassuring nod as if to say to go along with it... Looking back to the strange little lady Ellie goes along with the flow.
"Sorry I can't take it out as I have no control over it... But if you'd like to see it we can take a bath together if I submerge myself in water it hangs on the surface." Seeing that the little lady squinted visibly upset at first and Jay shrinked down almost visibly shaking in fear or nervousness Ellie suggested something else... Her second suggest got the weirdest response as Scarlett looked over with interest while Jay let out a breath of relief and glasses just nodded before pulling Ellie out of the courtyard as the duo follows closely behind...
After being tugged along for a short while the girls reach a large hotel like building next to the guild hall and after entering a strange girl playing with a flower is sitting behind the desk behind the door giggling when ever the flower twitches about as they play a game involving slapping hands together and the flower uses enlarged petals... The lady didn't even look at them as Ellie got dragged past eventually winding up going down a long hallway followed by going down two sets of stairs and winding up in front of a large doorway that finally made the little lady let go of Ellie's hand and pulled out a strange key. It looks like glass but it's glowing yellow... Opening the door Sea then turns to Ellie after pulling the key away and drags her in. Inside the room that's clear there's a gently glowing giant pool of water that's only a few feet deep at its center like a perfect work of art the most beautiful and perfect woman Ellie has ever seen sits completely naked with her eyes closed seemingly asleep. The lady with the staff walks to edge of the pool where her and the other two both bow to the lady at the center and say as one.
"Mother." The lady doesn't even move still silent as every one walks over to the corner and starts stripping as if expecting no response. Ellie shrugs and goes along with it... Looking at the little robed lady struggle to take of the thick robe that covered every inch of her body Ellie is slightly started cause her hair is a light shade of green her skin almost purple and her ears like sharp daggers pointing off the side of her head... Most noticably just above her butt is a little flower like mark that a tail is growing out of the tail is like a thick green vine. Ellie moves her eyes to the other two who don't have any noticable reactions to the strange appearance of the little lady... So she finishes up putting her stuff away before Ellie is pulled by the enthusiastic little lady who she can't help but notice is the exactly opposite of Jay in that she's pretty much flat everywhere... She's got the body of a 12 year old... Ellie giggles a bit internally thinking about the fact that she's the big sister to the lady who has a hulking physique extremely defined muscles and massive femanine curves...