Chapter 805: Rest, Rewards & Reconnaissance (part 2)
According to the short description of a "Falconry Master" that Fawn could read below its name, it was a profession that focused in birds of prey, teaching them, learning from them as well as training them and with them.
The word "master" in the name of the profession wasn’t used an the owner or superior sense, but as a sign of the greater potential the person in question had in the respective profession when compared to the other options, simply put if a profession with the word "master" appeared, it was because the blue flaming board judged one to be the most compatible with it.
Of course, at the end of the day, one’s own thoughts are what mattered the most, that’s why Aster told the girls to chose what they wanted and felt the closest to, which so far has shown good results.
From the moment Fawn read the description of the falconry master profession, her eyes had been wandering towards the giant eagle, well, others might have not noticed, but Aster saw her looking at the sky where the king of flying beasts and her subordinates were, since the moment the potential princess reached the battlefield.
But that’s not the reason as to why Aster asked Kana to bring the giant eagle with them, no, this decision was taken long before that, when he asked the blue flaming board for compensation for the farce in which their siege battle had become due to the interference of the supervisors, the message which only Aster could see by the way, was this.
[Due to outstanding leadership the unique one-time mission "Talent Poaching" has been triggered, by reaching an agreement with another leader, you can specially receive a member of their group, from the moment negotiations start and until they end, you’ll be allowed to vaguely see the subjects of interest and the respective potential they have on the possible options]
In other words, from the very beginning the animals being transferred to their side to become extra merits for Aster and the others, wasn’t their compensation, but the capacity to steal a talented member of another group.
Now, this compensation was also a test from the blue flaming board, because how much benefits could be obtained from it depended on the leader in question and Aster aced the test, because he made Wade believe he was aiming for the animals while taking Fawn from their group was just a whim.
Of course, what Aster saw from each of the members of Wade’s side, played a big part in this as well, it wasn’t specific but Fawn’s interest in the subject of "birds" showed more than ten times the potential than anyone else’s subjects of interest, it was a happy coincidence that she was also one if not the most acceptable option of people from Wade’s side who wouldn’t be outright hated by the girls of the sect.
’I had high expectations, but this is actually quite something else, she might even be a spirit tamer’, thought Aster while hiding his surprise from being noticeable by others.
If you wonder why so much ruckus, when let alone the super talented pair of storm rock mother and daughter but also some girls from the sect were now horse riders, that’s simple, that wasn’t thanks to their profession, but to the ones of the horses.
Ember and Selene have the "War Ride" profession while all the other horses which had officially joined the group, are "Mounts" which is a less fighting-related profession but with a higher flexibility as the horses that instead of directly carrying their respective partners, transported them by pulling on the war chariots, suggested.
Sarina though chosen by the mare, obviously has a culinary related profession so she can be discarded in this discussion, but in case you think "what about kana?", considering that the whole ordeal was triggered because of her closeness with the filly Ember, the little girl’s profession manual is "Natural Naturalist" which sounds amusing, but perfectly fits Kana.
Though in a mortal level place, Kana’s innate talents are the most notorious when it comes to animals, that’s because the lack of spirit energy causes a lack in terms of spirituality for anything that can’t directly interact with others, like plants for example, or a direct lack of existence for non-biological but still living beings like law lines and other spiritual entities such as Nim, but her affinity works with everything that is "alive" and especially if it’s related to nature.
Also, the professions took into account personality, because a naturalist can be an amateur who just enjoys being surrounded by nature while hiking or observing birds, but at the same time it can be someone with a serious job like a scientist or an explorer, and Kana is like that she can be driven by simple curiosity and joy of adventuring or due to serious reasons such as the life and death of animals.
Anyway, the point is that even Kana doesn’t have a profession that directly means she can "train" animals, sure she can achieve a similar result thanks to her unique talents, but her technique won’t focus in that, it’s similar to how though the little girl can do some of the things a spirit tamer can while she isn’t one, none among the people that conform Aster’s family and close group is, he has tested it using a method from the books that the Luan princesses left for him.
And based on the professions that all the present girls of the sect had, neither are they, it’s truly worthy to be called one of the rarest occupations when a place to gather carefully selected talented girls designed by Lilia and Aster’s godmothers, hasn’t produced a potential spirit tamer among the top both core and inner disciples, but there is a big chance Fawn is actually one, her manual reflects that, it’s a bit interesting that her focus is "birds of prey" but that’s fine, spirit tamers tend to have higher affinities with specific beast races or spirit beasts with specific traits in rarer cases.
’Did he know this would happen from the very beginning?’, wondered the brown haired potential princess, even she didn’t expect this situation, though she indeed found bird spirit beasts interesting before, those were just fleeting thoughts she had before she focused in training and surfing through the chaotic situations caused by being a part of a non-outstanding branch from the Mountain Amber family, not to mention she suddenly becoming the center of attention when she was judged to be a potential princess.
Still, her everything was prompting her to choose the falconry master profession, so this was a "trap" she had no option but to fall into.
"I choose "Falconry Master" as my profession...", mumbled Fawn to which Aster smiled to his insides.
[The conditions for a special mission have been met, the respective tasks will become available for those that meet the requirements from now and onwards]
The very second, she did so, a message from the blue flaming board appeared for Fawn and the giant eagle, Aster, Valentina and Agnes could see it but because they are the leader and designated figures of authority, respectively.
"I trust you did it with your attack type manual, but don’t be guided merely by the grade of the manual or the description, choose the one that you feel will fit you the most, ah right also choose a movement type manual...", Aster hadn’t finished his sentence when Fawn’s eyes sparkled as she gazed at the king of flying beasts, she had already chosen her profession type manual as the large book which appeared in front of her, suggested.
The potential princess looked rather cute as she obviously wanted to interact with the giant eagle, but didn’t know how to approach her which is understandable, the king of flying beasts is an eagle more than twice the size of the biggest adult mortal eagle one could imagine.
Of course, if it was just about size then she wouldn’t be this hesitative, Fawn had seen bird type spirit beasts the size of castles before, dead ones though because while she comes from a high ranked Stellar System, she was unable to leave the main area of influence of her family until recently, however the king of flying beasts had this majestic aura around her which Fawn has never seen on a bird before.
’She looks so regal and cool, not even the guardian beast of the Mountain Amber family radiated such a feeling’, thought Fawn.
"Mm?", Kana who noticed the shine in the potential princess’s eyes as she stole gazes at the giant eagle, softly smiled to then say.
"Miss eagle, it looks like this sister really wants to be friends with you~", as always, the little girl was really good at breaking the ice between people.
"Chirp", the giant eagle let out a soft sound as she descended from the air, to then land on Fawn’s right shoulder, now, the largest and heaviest mortal eagle should weight around nine kilograms, but the king of the flying beasts is way heavier than that, surpassing the twenty-kilogram mark.
Luckily Fawn has a similar build as Agnes, she is an energy/soul cultivator but has an innately strong physique, though she hasn’t developed in that aspect, because she lacks the sportsy sun diamond princess’s interest in physical training, as a mortal she is stronger than her female peers and was not far from how strong the male physically outstanding members of her previous group would be at her age, since most were older than her though.
"You can talk with her, does she understand others as well?", asked Fawn to Kana in a rush to which the little girl nodded.
"Mm, miss eagle is really smart, though she can’t directly communicate with us, she can mostly understand what we say".
"I see... my name is Fawn, it’s a pleasure to meet you miss eagle", said the potential princess as she looked upwards to the giant eagle who softly chirped and nodded in response.
"Miss eagle says that the pleasure is hers", Aster who was amused at those three’s interactions chuckled to then say.
"It’s fine that you are so enthusiastic about your profession manual, but don’t forget the movement one, I’ll leave you get used to them for today, tomorrow we’ll register your information, if you have doubts or need anything you can ask miss Valentina or any of the other authorities", said Aster as he turned around to leave.
Surprisingly, Kana and even the little wyrm stayed behind, so Aster left alone towards his room, while the others returned to the battlefield to continue with the cleaning up.
Aster hates hypocritical people who don’t believe in what they preach, therefore he is always both the one who works the hardest and the one to enjoy his free time as much as possible, leading by example is his principle.
Everyone knows this, which is why no one questioned why he didn’t join in cleaning and fixing the mess in the camp, when practically everyone else did, animals included, no one doubted that he must have a proper reason for his decisions after all.
"Phew", the moment Aster closed the door of his room, he let out a sigh of relief, took out his shoes and directly fell on his bed, absolute field was quite a taxing technique, he wasn’t in any danger, in fact his body was perfectly fine to continue operating, but he felt rather mentally tired.
Despite how it seemed, Aster put a lot of importance to Fawn’s arrival, he didn’t leave to rest until the matter regarding her mysterious potential related to birds was settled, no matter how sleepy he was.
Which is normal by the way, Aster watched over the whole battlefield at every second of the battle, then used absolute field twice and prepared to use it a third time, while he also brewed a way to screw over Wade’s group the most and benefit his side the most on the spot, he had long surpassed the limits of a mortal’s mind and remained in a normal state with the help of his monstrous body.
’I’ll just take a little nap until dinner’, thought Aster to then enter the land of dreams.
The siege started at 5 pm, it lasted around one hour, it took the members of the sect two hours cleaning the battlefield and fixing the damage to the camp as well as other minor issues that required immediate sorting, amusingly enough, it was more time consuming to get things back to normal than to fight against the animal army, luckily the members of the sect weren’t really tired after the fight so everything proceeded smoothly.
If anything, those cute gluttons had their appetite awakened after all the "exercise" they did during the day, so after taking a bath to clean themselves and relax their bodies, which took another hour or so, in which Sarina and the girls who were in kitchen duty today, finished preparing today’s dinner.
Seeing the bunch of eyes sparkling at the pots in front of her, Sarina softly laughed as she turned to see Kana and the others.
"Go bring your big brother before a certain group of little gluttons stare holes into the pots", said the motherly blond roc girl.
"Mm, I’ll be back in a... where is sister Alice?", the little girl who had been merrily playing with the little wyrm, Vivian and the children from the reptile races, suddenly realized that the wild dragon princess was nowhere to be seen.
’That damn shameless dragon princess!’, inwardly exclaimed Aria who was on kitchen duty today, meaning that she was helping Sarina with the cooking.
"We’ll be back in a moment!", both Kana and Aria said as they rushed towards the log cabin where an amusing scene was unveiling.
Alice who had successfully sneaked away from her three most active enemies, had entered the room and her red eyes shone as she saw Aster sleeping alone on the bed, but just as she was about to have a quick "snack" before dinner after tossing everything but her underwear away, the door of the bathroom opened and a girl with auburn copper hair who clearly had just finished bathing came out of it.
"Aster, the dinner should be ready, let’s go eat together", the merrily voice of Camila stopped in cold as she saw Alice standing half-naked next to the bed where Aster was laying down.
"Hoh and here I thought of you as a shy one, but to think you would try to pull a fast one on us, not bad Camila~", jokingly said the wild dragon princess.
"A-Alice, no, this is... wuuuh!", the poor treasure girl who could only bring herself to act like Aster’s girlfriend when not being watched by others, turned red like an apple.
’Ahhh, I didn’t want anyone to see me, so I even took a bath earlier than everyone and timed it to the approximate hour at which miss Sarina said the dinner would be ready, just to be caught red-handed and by Alice no less!!!’, inwardly screamed Camila.
The treasure girl took "advantage" of the fact that she was known by other Aster’s lovers as being too shy when it comes to intimate interactions, to try and wake up her boyfriend to eat dinner, it was an innocent but rather intimate moment since she planned to do so with a kiss.
Everything seemed to be working so far, Sarina didn’t question why she asked about the approximate time at which dinner will be ready and no one noticed her disappearance.
Who would have thought that Alice had similar plans, though her way to wake up Aster was going to be way less innocent than that, as her half-naked state, suggested and now the poor treasure girl was sure this was going to reach everyone’s ears, Eris and Mylene were especially so not going to let her hear the end of this.
Camila who seemed as if she was about to cry, pouted as she heard Aster’s soft laugh, Camila could pass unnoticed by him, but that wild dragon sister of his was "dangerous" so Aster woke up the moment she entered the room, he simply wanted to see how things will develop since once he woke up, he realized Camila was in the bathroom, she had long finished her bath and was rehearsing her next words and actions, she got so immersed into it that she didn’t notice Alice entering the room.
"Sorry, I couldn’t hold my laugh anymore, come let me make up for it", said Aster to the treasure girl who in a little moment of courage and because it couldn’t get more ashaming for her at this point, approached Aster and sat next to him on the bed.
"Oh well, I wanted to have you all for myself, but at least it wasn’t that little girl nor the ice princess~", said Alice as she threw herself into Aster’s arms, Aster dragged Camila into his embrace as well and now he was hugging those two.
"Thanks for coming to wake me up", he said as he pecked those two, and then time was out, the door opened as if it was kicked by someone and both Kana and Aria rushed into the room.
"Ah, I knew you would be here you shameless dragon princess!", exclaimed Aria.
"Even sister Camila is here, that’s not fair, I wanted to wake big brother for dinner!", added Kana, they both jumped onto the bed which made Aster laugh, he hugged them all together and then got up the bed.
"Let’s go eat and then we’ll take a bath all together", said Aster which caused two different reactions, Alice felt as if a bolt had hit her out of the blue, because this meant that there won’t be night activities tonight, Kana on the other hand was all smiles because she will get to bath with her mom and the others for a change, lately she had been bathing with Mylene and the other girls that live at the room on the opposite side to Aster’s, precisely because of the night activities which tended to extend to when Aster and those three bathed as well.
"Why the long face, don’t tell me you wanted Aster to also deal with your craziness after everything that happened today, have some shame and obediently wait until tomorrow", said Aria with an elegant and proper voice, only for the wild dragon princess to softly snort as she retorted.
"Humph, you say that but weren’t you hoping to roll on the bed with Aster tonight as well".
"I’m not as shameless as you, I only wanted to cuddle!", exclaimed Aria as she tossed Alice her discarded clothes, those two got up the bed and started walking while bickering, as Aster helped Kana and Camila get up the bed.
"You can accompany us in the bath too", jokingly said Aster to Camila who nearly tripped on the spot.
"N-No thanks, I already refreshened myself... I will stay here tonight instead", mumbled the treasure girl, no night activities also meant Camila could be in this room early and cuddle with Aster for a longer time, since she normally joined them in bed quite late into the night so she couldn’t remain awake for a long time, the same applied to Kana.
’How cute’, while enjoying the sight of Camila’s reddened face, Alice and Aria bickering like the good pair of sisters they were and Kana smiling, Aster reached the dining area and was met with a new dish prepared with the newest ingredient the sect has obtained, the desert snake’s meat.
Aster could see a lot of girls whose mouths were almost watering at the delicious smelling snake soup with ginger which was brought back from the forest just today and wild garlic, Sarina has been working in a "secret weapon" for a couple of days, she used some boar bones and herbs to prepare broth, the final product was used for today’s dinner, so the snake’s soup was the finest meal the group has had in a really long time.
"I welcome our newest friends to the team, everyone, enjoy your meal", said Aster giving the greenlight for everyone to start eating.
"This is so good~!", the girls of the sect loved the soup since the first spoon, it’s worth mentioning that the vast majority of animals couldn’t eat cooked food, but they were still eating a high-quality dinner, since thanks to the preservation capacity of the supply storage, their meal was as fresh as possible and it was cleansed of any dirt or negative extra element by the girls of the sect, a little bit of civilization could cause an important change in them, but let’s leave that aside for now.
...
While Aster’s group was having a heart-warming meal, far away high into the sky past the invisible barrier which stopped anything from flying too high, there was a tense and grim atmosphere at a different meeting of "people", there were at least a dozen of administrators here.
"Where is red cloud, even if his avatar was destroyed how dare he not attend the meeting to prepare for the next week when it’s been so long since we had this many participants!", said a voice coming out of a green boulder.
"I bet he is so ashamed after being driven away by a participant that he won’t show his face for the next hundreds of years, I would be like that if that was the case, what do you think black shadow?", said a yellow pond with a mocking voice.
"Shut up, once we regroup, dealing with a mere group of participants will be nothing, even if Blue Sky is watching over them!", shouted the black shadow to which a brown shield added.
"If you want to die that’s your problem, but don’t drag innocent people to hell with you in the process".
"Huh, do you think we fear that...", the black shadow’s words were interrupted as a loud shattering sound echoed through the sky.
"Crack!", the loud shattering sound accompanied by a familiar sky-blue tone, made quite a few supervisors, the black shadow included, to shiver due to fear, at least until they saw a purple flag coming out of it.
That being said, the purple flag’s words caused a reaction not that far from what the blue flaming board, which was apparently called "Blue Sky" by the other supervisors, appearing in a meeting like this for the first time, would have caused.
"I come here with a decree from Blue Sky "By the start of the next week, the whole eastern zone will be reclaimed, those of you who haven’t bothered to maintain the most basic decency among the group of participants under your watch, leave by the end of this day or die", that’s all", as soon as it delivered the message, the purple flag left and the crack on the space closed, leaving behind a sepulchral silence.
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