I was surprised that it took so long for the summons to reach me, even the mistress was of the opinion that this letter would arrive after nine or ten months after the last phase of the mortal test. But now the letter arrived in the seventh month after I returned home, this time reduction affected my situation in a bad way.
I have made great progress in evolving my elemental seed with my tiring method, altering the shape of my elemental seed has proved to be a greater burden on my mind than my body. My seed is almost reaching a third of its transformation, if I had a few more months, I'm sure I would be very close to completing this evolution.
But unfortunately, this is impossible, after receiving the letter my time available for training has decreased a lot. Only after asking Teacher Balder and Temporary Principal Kevin did I discover the reason for my call-up, the last month that I was completely isolated has been pretty stormy.
The month began when various groups of cultists and worshipers of evil gods made their move against every kingdom in the region, which was something quite unexpected for everyone. Most realm authorities felt that cultists would wait for war to be able to make an aggressive move of this magnitude, as a war is a great source of funds for this type of person.
But for some unknown reason the cultists go into a frenzy, and from what I understand something was stolen from them. Several random attacks in large, medium and small cities a wave of terrorist attacks that consisted of the death of many innocent people and public destruction dominated the cities for a period of several weeks.
The death toll was ridiculously high, many of the cultists leading these raids were able to use arts to 'poison' large numbers of citizens, many cities were basically taken over by a plague that can only be rid of the great efforts of the realms' healers, but still many people died, including many healers who were exposed to the element of death, poison, or a combination of both when trying to cure the cultists' victims.
The only thing that linked the attacks was that the crazy assassins shouted out lines of revenge and that they would regain the grace of the goddess, as far as the public knows no one has any idea what the grace of the goddess means, but obviously it is something important to the cultists and comes from an evil goddess.
With all this chaos the temples of several ungrateful ones who worship good gods did not remain silent, when they mobilized their troops to the countries of that area of the continent the cultists disappeared complete you leaving a message behind that they would return.
I was amazed at their skill, during the last week they've disappeared all rumors or information about them if it's proven to be wrong or outdated doesn't make much difference in the end. Everyone who was hunting the cultists couldn't find anything, not even a small clue was left behind by the cultists.
A lot of investigations are going on, but from Kevin's face he doesn't have a shred of faith that anyone is going to find any cultists. When I asked why, Kevin simply said that this was common, during history this is not the first time something like this has happened the great evil god Xetus the god of shadows and death has demonstrated his divine power through his few apostles hiding the forces of your colleagues who have just wreaked havoc.
When I asked how the temples of the gods still haven't figured out a way to track these apostles as they've done this move multiple times, Kevin simply told me that the fact that he's described as a great evil god isn't a decoration, he's actually one of the mighty gods. and as his domain revolves around the shadow element, he is famous for his abilities of concealment.
Most of the ancient myth gods tend to have great survival skills, but Xetus is famous for being one of the best and this affects his apostles who are a major irritating problem for anyone trying to track them down. But after catching up I asked why the summon came sooner than expected since the cultists have disappeared and by default they will be gone for a long period of time.
With an irritating smile Kevin pointed out that the countries' tension increased greatly after the cultists fled, many realms accused neighboring realms of being the cause of the wrath of the evil god worshipers as a convenient excuse to be aggressive towards their neighbor and demand something from them. want.
Our kingdom is taking advantage of this to improve the bait for the neighboring kingdom to start the war. Neither one of the temples seems to have any plans to interfere with this, probably they want a war to break out because that would be a great bait to attract necromancers.
As we know that a battlefield is a very good opportunity for any necromancer to pass up, despite not having confirmation from Kevin, a good part of the warriors and priests must not have retreated but hid to wait for the conflict to start and attack when your targets appear again.
This war is going to be really complicated, but then it normally would be. But on the bright side this means that the chances of me finding a necromancer are pretty low, so most of my quests will be to solve other realm problems or will have to do with neighboring realms.
I'm more comfortable with this type of enemy than the cultist freaks, during the arena fights I got a good idea of what to expect when fighting them, and given that I'm fighting the more 'normal' freaks. or more 'harmless' I'm really apprehensive about fighting in the open against this kind of enemy.
During the week after I received the letter, I not only packed my equipment but also said goodbye to all my acquaintances and friends, as I won't be back for a long time, to my surprise teacher Balder wouldn't be my babysitter on the trip to the capital.
I was 'invited' to travel with Hilda and Ingredi to the capital, that means that I will be part of the Menfis family caravan that goes to the capital and the person who will lead him is Hilda's mother and aunt, the whole family is going to the capital this time.
I think I'd rather go alone or maybe I can get a ride with Raziel's family or Torris who also have to go to the capital. Saying goodbye to Wulfgar was very different from what I expected, it was sad because I really miss him even considering that he wakes me up by biting me when he's hungry, destroyed my bed more than once and used the robe of my armor. level three as a chew toy.
I feel like I'm not spending as much time with him as I should, but when I thought I'd leave him behind again and this time for an even longer period of time, then I realized I had a new problem. Who can I leave Wulfgar with, Balder goes to war, I don't trust Kevin I thought about leaving him with the Memphis family, but before I could I was surprised by Calen.
She only offered to take care of him because she would not participate in the battlefield directly, she has already accepted a contract from the kingdom to provide her artisan skills to the kingdom during the war. She will stay in a safe place away from any fronts probably making a huge number of high-quality zips, after all this is one of her specializations.
When she saw my surprised face, she simply justified her offer of hers, with a simple reason she likes Wulfgar, her family has a good history as tamers and breeders of magical beasts to my surprise. It seems that Calen deviates from family traditions by becoming an artisan, with that explanation and Calen's penetrating gaze I could only accept is to thank Calen so much for that.
But she never told me who she knew I needed someone to take care of Wulfgar, when I looked at Balder, he just disappeared. After saying goodbye to Wulfgar I finally went to face my first challenge.
"Because you're so pale, we're going to the capital and not the kingdom's border to start a war. It still has a few months before the war starts."
Hilda is brimming with excitement, her will is so strong that I see a faint aura burning around her body. There's something wrong here, there's actually an aura around Hilda and it doesn't seem to be coming from her core but from the spear she has on her back.
She has actually completed her advance and the forge of her spear, unfortunately it is hidden with a cloth but I can clearly see the flow of aura and elemental energy from Hilda to the spear and in turn the spear releases an aura which is covering the Hilda's body. What a different effect.
"I avoided the sun for a long period of time training, just a few days in the sun I go back to my normal color."
"Are you really okay, Ulric?"
"I think it should be me asking you that question, Hilda. You were the one who underwent the biggest renovation here, did everything go well?"
"Yes, the frozen heart master was even shocked by how smooth the whole process was. I didn't hear a single problem and my synchronization with my spear is perfect, it exceeded what everyone expected, according to the master I should only get to this union with her after a few weeks of practicing with her and not the moment I held her by the first time."
It seems that Hilda has surpassed everyone's expectations, which is a very good thing.
"So, are you ready to serve the kingdom?"
"Yes, I'm very excited to test out my new partner, Crystal Thorn. She's really beautiful, but she ends up attracting a lot of attention so it's best to leave her covered."
"Does she shine a lot?"
"Of course not, normally, she's just really pretty and stands out easily."
"Now I am really curious."
"You'll have to wait, now there's someone else who wants to meet you."
I feel that I will face an even more difficult challenge than mortal combat inside a dungeon."
"Who?"
"This is a surprise."
Hilda grabs my arm and pulls me toward the carriages. I really don't want to face the person inside that ornate carriage, what if they say they don't like me?