Hunting

Getting to the area where the pack of giant wolves were last spotted, Alfred noticed the area had a massive amount of the herb he needed for the second mission and have everyone collect them. The herb was so plentiful that they over-collected the herb and sent a portion to be used for him to make his potions. Soon it would be dark when the wolves would go hunt, so Alfred told everyone to set camp up. "we will trap the wolves with the smell of cooked food. We have plenty at hand, so we might as well let our prey come to us. We will set camp here and set trap barriers that don't let the animals out. Ki-alla, try not to get into the barrier. This trap will work on the both of us as we are both part of the beast race." "yes master" I ignored the word master again because I knew she wouldn't stop. Camp was done by 6 so I told them "once we are done killing the giant wolves, id like to show you the reason I contracted your secrecy. The contract will stop you from saying the things that shouldn't be said automatically, so don't fear about being drunk and spouting words unknowingly." "really" -Safrina said. "oh, now I can't wait." Said jade. The demon Ciel just nodded not saying a word. Ki-alla was just as interested as Jade was but said nothing as her tail started to twitch behind her. Jade was closest to her and grabbed the tip of the tail, seeing something move then catching it was nearly second nature to most people, "hey! Jade…. Stop that, it tickles..." Ki-alla said to jade. Jade looked embarrassed. Looking away with a blush that cleared his ears all the way to the back of his bare neck. "jade, Be nice to the ladies. The tail is a sensitive place for beast-kin. The ears however, petting them feels nice. And will calm most soft beast-kin. Just a heads up for later." I let him know for his sake since it looked like he was interested in her ears to.

"aaaaaawwwwhhhhooooooooooooooo"

"looks like the wolves are coming out to play" "get ready" "here they come" "step to the center of the protective barrier. I will lock us in a barrier in the center." Everyone did as I instructed and soon the first wolf was starting its attack. As soon as it stepped into the first barrier, we started to attack it. Soon it was dead. The attack power of a singular wolf was insignificant to a pack of them. This was just a scout from the small slender size of it. Soon the whole pack was in my barrier. Killing them was made easy so an hour after we started the last wolf, the alpha of the pack and the largest wolf, was killed. "I'll use surprise I told you all about no. don't ask questions, I don't know if I want to answer them just yet." "Dragon Home" the other dimension that held the house was directly entered by the door that I let show to my companions. "Kiri, I'm back" I sent Kiri here the day before I went to the slave house. Kiri came out of the back yard in a new form. "Kiri, how do you have a humanoid form now?" "its related to how many followers you have. I gained this since you have 10. When you get to 20, you will take a change to." Kiri told him this silently through the pact link he had with Alfred. "guys, this is my contracted beast. He just went through a qualitative change to his form, but he is still a fox. And can change into one like me. Though I am from a more pure lineage. I will also allow you 4 to come in and go as needed, as this skill is meant for Adventure parties. As long as I don't die, you can use it. If I die and you are inside then you will be kicked out where you entered from." The surprise that a kid, even a vampire kid mixed with unknown races, was able to have these skills, it was surprising to them. The 4 of them had looks of shock and awe. As they looked around, I started to answer their questions about what items were. There were a few things that boggled their minds. The shower and toilet were 2 of the first ones I showed them. I taught them to flush and put the seat down and that the shower had two dials, one hot the other cold. "everyone, now that you know how to use the shower please take one before we go relax. I have the real surprise somewhere else." "Yes master"

While I had the others shower, I made sure to let the village and my new family there know we were coming to use the hot springs. I asked if they could begin airing the personal private room on the first floor that was mine. The reply was quick and they said they were ready. The food had been stored in the space storage to keep freshness. I had added a few other animals and kiri had been adding a few every day. The cook in the village that was appointed was a mother of 3 whose husband had passed in a hunting accident. She had a job with salary, and was able to feed the kids due to the extra food into her payment storage I had created for her. Mother Maybelle might have appointed her, but after I heard her story, I knew that this world had never used the earths system for workers. Workmen's comp and paid vacation was not heard of until I explained to Maybelle that every year at staggered times an employee had forced paid vacation. She soon complied since it meant that they didn't need to work. I knew getting her to approve sick time would be hard. Days scheduled off would be a pain until I had more workers. I put the pen and paper down after reading and replying to the message from her that all was well and taken care of, and promptly went to shower in the room for me. My house would have a room for every 2 same gendered follower or contract, but my room would always be closest to the kitchen. My attached bath was also big enough for all of us to bond, but I figured I would show them the village and where I come from.

After about 30 minutes all 5 of us were done with our showers. I decided to use the room to the left of mine for the guys and the room across the way from them as the girls' room. Across from my room was the kitchen, dining and living room with the tv monitor that had the areas I could teleport to monitored. If I used gate to go there to it and there were monsters, we would be surrounded. Wouldn't be good. I made the 4 of them use their mana to lock the door to only their selves and their roommate. Of course, I had the master key in a sense. After they were set. I decided to cook for them. I had kept quite a few of the wolves for our own use since only 5 were needed. I also kept the wolf lord. I decided to use my skill to take the pelt and non-edible part away and keep them to the storage to sell. I quartered the flank into 12 steaks and had Kiri grab potatoes to boil. I spiced the steak with red wine, garlic and sage. The potatoes, when done, would have milk, salt and butter added with garlic, chives and sour cream. The scent had them all watering at the mouth and staring at me with the, you'll share that right, look. It was a look that said feed me and ill be your obedient puppy. I made extra for the workers who would work today and the chief of the village. We ate our lunch the remainder of time we had and I had them gather at the entrance. "Gate" I shouted. They were all happy and quiet. They knew to not ask the questions they all wanted answers from. Who are you? What other races are you mixed with? Can I have extra steak please? All of those questions wouldn't be answered. They knew I was a silent type of person. My being mostly quiet up till now was also due to a skill that limited sounds I didn't want to be heard. "walk through everyone. Kiri knows where to go. Follow him to the room then change. We are having a group meeting"

As the last to go through I follow up the last person. All of a sudden, we were in the top most floor of the connected resort inn. My room was still tide from the preservation magic I used. The demon Ciel asked a question I could answer. "master. This room looks to be coated in magic. The mana signatures also fall in line of your mana. What is the magic you used in here?" "I used high level magic to keep out people I have no affiliation to, as well as those who have no permission. A trap is used if the make it in here, but fear not, it only knocks them out and alerts me to the fact I had an intruder. There is also preservation magic. I have no need to see the dust that would pile high in here when I am gone for an extended period of time" the silence the meet me made me look up at their face. The awe adorning their faces. Ne near obsessive look that Ciel gave me made me think I was glad he was our battle mage. "let's head to the hot springs now. We can rest up and ill 'gate' us to the city forest tomorrow before 3. We can turn in our quest and level up the guild rank." Our Guild party rank showed F, even though we all had personal ranks on the card as well. We were a new party so it was understandable. As long as we completed all the missions without screwing up, we would be set to split the larger profit reward with the new rank. A 5-way split in money was agreed to before, even if they made me compromise to taking a more of it. I made them finally agree to evenly split. We headed down stairs to go directly to my personal springs room. It already was large, but I could lend it out to anyone of I could make sure the priority was set on me before telling them to use it. I knew if I had the Lord and Lady Malacre use the room with their 15-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, they would enjoy the time. They would both be away to their Academy for another month. I would tell them to surprise the kids later. I got to see both Leora and Grant when they had 2 days off for break. They seemed to like me fine. Like their parents, they didn't care about status. Respect was earned. I decided long ago I would treat them to something for the help they have given to me.

The room we went in have 10 showers in each of the 2 shower rooms. It was meant to keep the genders separated. The partition in the personal springs out the sliding glass door was also able to be lifted. I told the girls that when we were shopping, I had some bathing suits made so that they could join the guys. They blushed but accepted the offered clothes. It went up the neck with a turtle like collar and was purple and black. They were both the same but both had a color change crystal and a size parameter. "once you put the suit on, the size will start adjusting on its own. If you want to change the color, put your hand over the crystal button on the collar and input a little mana. And thing of the color you want. You have to actually have seen the color personally or have a clear picture in your mind on the color. The style wont change, but you can color the separate sections differently." They looked excited, grabbed the suits and ran off to the room with a quick "thank you master, we will be in the room." As for myself, Kiri, Ciel and Jade, we went to the other room and changed to the shirt and shorts suits I got us. Since the suits were made as a set item the color crystal was able to work for the items even if the material as not stitched together. Alfred walked out first to see his mother figure fussing over the girls. "momma Maybelle. I'm glad you here. We will leave tonight, but I would like you and poppa George to join me and my party. They are technically my slaves, but they are also apart of my family too." "ill go gets George." After a long hug, she left to go get him. 'hey kiri, I'm really happy. They are not blood related but they are the closest I've had to a family since I was on earth with my wife.' Alfred let a few tears escape before wiping them and turning back to the door to tell everyone they would have guests. Alfred's guilty look was coming from the fact that the gem from the clothes he gave the party was the only think from this world. He had bought the entirety of the outfits from the online store back when they were all at the Dragon house. He didn't want to tell them yet.

As he looked on, he saw the happy faces of his friends coming out of the two rooms and smiled. He would tell them in a few weeks when the Young lord and lady came home from their school.