Chapter 6

"Well it's good that you have that as a skill because even the clan can only afford a couple of storage items. Are the memory crystals in there?" She asked smiling.

"That's the other reason why I was waiting to tell you. I consumed them whole." Her smile froze.

"Wow Tepp I knew you were a genius but this is unprecedented. You must never tell anyone about your mental consumption ability, but you must showcase your apothecary skills when we reach the clan so that we may be treated well in the future. We'll definitely need more resources in the future."

"Yes ma'am"

"Anyway I will only use 2 pills. It will take me longer because of how high my Tier is so I expect for y'all to be prepared to leave when I am ready, understand?"

"Yes ma'am"

"Yes ma'am"

When mom heads into the house I immediately learn my two skills.

[2 Skills Learned]

I Then proceed to repel the space in front of Amens face. Right before his body hit the ground he summoned a root spike to my shin which I had to teleport away from.

"Ha snitches get stitches." Waiting on him to wake up I begin trying to load everything in the house into my space and then I load the water from the well into my space.

By the time the well went dry mother came outside ready to go. For a second I could feel a feeling of natural warmth coming off from her. It must be the wood aura leaking out of her.

"Where is Amen?" She asked. I immediately go over there and pour water onto his face.

"Agghh that was a cheap shot Tepp. You got lucky. That won't happen again."

"Yeah aight. Anyway mother I have an Idea. Can you please use your wood essence to encase and then lift the farm up in small sections so we may take it with us?"

"Hmm sure, why not?" She said with a cheeky grin. "Casket!" As soon as she said that, a tidal wave of wood essence flooded out from her.

*Boom*

*Clap*

All we could see in front of us was a giant wooden box. That was awesome. I look over to Amen to see his reaction. He was sitting there with his eyes closed. He seemed to be materialising something.

It's skin was pale with a height of about 2 feet and 2 sets of wings on its back. Its… Its… Its a fairy. He actually summoned a wood fairy. When she forms she looks surprised she goes and touches his nose which causes him to be surrounded by a brown aura.

He must be advancing his wood affinity. Wow what luck. The fairy then spouts something in a weird language then goes and nestles in mothers hair.

She must be attracted to the strong wood aura leaking out of mother. "Wow Amen you actually summoned a wood fairy. What great luck you have. Some men go their whole lives without a successful summon and here you get one first try. Yes the wood god must really favor you."

"Good job Amen. How many can you get?" I asked genuinely surprised.

"Eh, my luck has always been extraordinary. And from the looks of it one can be summoned every month." Well you can expect a monk to be favored by the gods I guess.

I then set to work absorbing the box into my dimension which takes a while with its size. As I absorb it the fairy flies into the box into my space. What kinda situation is this? Shes gonna drain m--. Wait, why isn't it draining my magic?

How are the plants growing in my space. Do growth and time have nothing to do with each other? Well it's not the time to check. We need to go.

…..

"Hey David did you follow those kids?"

"Yeah, Liam, although I lost them in the forest I am 90% sure they are the kids of that herb girl." Liam and David work as Baron Whites soldiers, protecting the caravans. Seeing two little kids throwing around gold pieces as if it was sand sparked their interest while they were working earlier.

"Good, good we can't mess this one up this time. Captain already said last time was his last time covering for us so we have to be discreet." Liam said sternly.

"Yeah, I know, I know. But how hard can it be to take down some pre teens and an herb gatherer?"

"Still stay on alert."

…..

As we made our way to the meeting point, me and Amen began constantly casting our spells to level up. Inside of my personal space I went crazy compressing the space essence inside since it is purer than trying to gather space essence from the environment.

[Tier 0 Spatial Compression has leveled up]

[Tier 0 Spatial Compression has leveled up]

[Tier 0 Spatial Compression has leveled up]

Forming little compressed balls of space in my dimension, I practiced for hours on end. Then to practice with my Kamui every time it recharged I would teleport us whole kilometres at a time.

[Tier 0 Kamui Dimension has leveled up]

No matter how many times we did it, the level only went up once.

While I was struggling with space, Amen seemed to be making great strides with wood. So far, there is an army of different size treants in my space. Each time he leveled that skill up they would get bigger. From the looks of it he has leveled it up 12 times already. Also he has become more adept with the Root Spike skill. More so, due to him gaining insight from the treants.

We are making great progress, but I still have some questions. "Mother so we get stronger from killing stuff and from eating cores, correct?"

"Correct."

"And skills get stronger from continuous practice, right?"

"Right."

Before I can answer, Amen answers for me "Well then why do we have to go to school?" Frankly speaking, this is our second life and neither one of us can claim to be truly happy about a second round of schooling.

"While yes you can get strong on your own, your progress will be slow and you'll be ignorant of many things. What's the point of being strong and stupid. I am raising young men, not brigands." She said seriously.

Well I guess she does have a point. "Well can you at least tell us what will be expected of us?"

"I will more than likely be heading to the front lines upon arrival so you two will be expected to build a business for our family and a faction full of strong people. When I return from war, I expect a castle and an army waiting for me." She said smilingly.

"Woah isn't that a bit much?" I asked a little unsure. "And why would we need an army, when the clan already has one?"

"Where do you think that the clans army comes from? It is made up of men from each faction, and since I was a child and a direct descendant of the Patriarch I didn't have one. But now we will need one if we want any say in the clan." This time there was no smile. "Stop. We are being followed. Tepp, Amen, don't be here."

Hearing what she said I only hesitate for a moment before I drag Amen into my dimension. Unsure of what's going on we can only sit and watch.

From the distance, 23 soldiers dressed as bandits ride over on strange beasts. The disguises they wore would have been decent if only they could control their aura. There are no strong bandits in this area. So for 23 to show up out of the blue is almost comical.

Once they surround mother, the guy who looks like their leader looks around as if hes looking for something. "Alright we aren't here to harm you, this is only a simple robbery. Please kindly donate all of your stuff to the kind gentlemen to your left."

"Sorry to disappoint but I don't have any thing with me at the moment, but you can definitely have the womens undergarments in my bag, if you want."