I teleported back to where my girlfriend was waiting for me and put my pet's future pendant away where I had hidden it previously after which I took back my pendant from her. "Why'd you change her appearance?"
"She was an eyesore, and I was tired of having to look at her, so I changed her to a less repulsive appearance."
"Really? That's the only reason?"
"Yeah? What did you want to sit and stare at how she used to look like for extended periods of time? Cause she's kinda stuck with me and I don't want to get stuck with something as hideous as she used to be."
"Why are you always so harsh on her? You could stand to be kinder to her. She is going to be your undead summon for the rest of your life the least you can do is not give her a reason to find loopholes in the orders you give."
"Oh yeah, after I showed her the pendant worked, she pledged her unwavering loyalty to me of her own free will. It was honestly kinda strange considering I've been trying to keep her at arm's length this whole time."
She was stunned for a bit but didn't soon respond she pondered the meaning in my words for a second but soon figured out how she felt about it, "So, she's either lying to you to trick you into trusting her or she trusts you enough to do that."
"Apparently."
We continued discussing what this could mean for a bit before returning to her parents' house and spending the rest of the evening reading. And I was becoming increasingly worried about a certain spell in this book. I've learned the spell my pet lich wants me to cast, it's an anti-magic field. It essentially casts a barrier through which magical attacks cannot affect you, it only protects from the magic of others though so you can continue casting, but the effectiveness goes down.
She wants an anti-magic weapon. As I was reading with concern in my eyes book floated over to me and I saw something strange pop up that was going to happen in the near future. The twins are going to try to snoop around my house and fall into the labyrinth after which they'll meet my pet lich. 'Hey.'
'Yes, master?'
'I expect a couple of girls who look the same to enter the dungeon sometime this week.'
'What would you have me do with them?'
'Don't hurt them, just keep them busy until I have time to evict them from the labyrinth and let me know when they arrive.'
'As you will.'
"It's going to be hard getting used to that," I said out loud after cutting the call.
"Were you talking to your pet again?"
"Yeah, she's about to get some uninvited house guests and I told her to treat them with hospitality."
Our reading posture was pretty bad because when her mother entered the room to call us down for dinner she gasped. We were both lying down, but her legs were on my chest and her hand was leisurely stroking my hair. I was resting my ear against her abdomen listening to the sound of her heartbeat as I read though I can see how this might get misconstrued.
We were both still fully clothed, so nothing was happening, but she thought it was and it was evident from the look on her face when she arrived to collect us, though those worries were dispelled when we got up and closed the books, we were reading, she was still a bit red in the face from what she'd assumed.
After dinner, we planned on staying the night again and going back after the next morning. As we sat and discussed our plans for the next day on her bed, she got a call from her friend telling her that she went and made my pet some underwear so she at least wouldn't be naked when she was trying out the prototype of the dress she still hadn't finished making.
Essentially, she'd come over sometime tomorrow to make sure it fit her properly to make sure her base measurements were correct before she continued on with things that would cost more fabric. We agreed to be there and meet her at the door when she arrived. We slept fairly well that night considering we're on holiday and have a busy schedule regardless.
The next morning, I awoke to find her holding my pendant, the next thing I realized was that we weren't in her parents' house and the third thing I realized was that she wasn't dressed. I could already tell what was going on and gave her a knowing smile. She leaned down to kiss me and we heard a loud obnoxious knocking at our door. "I couldn't wait and came right over!"
I could see the makings of a tear in her eye. "Just a minute." She called back cursing her luck. I wasn't fully awake yet and though I appreciate this kind of wake up call it would have been terrifying if it wasn't her waking me up like this. She scrambled to get dressed and I just lay back in bed offhandedly waiving to summon my pet. "Wake me when breakfast is ready," I said after doing the bare minimum to prepare for her friend's arrival.
While I was asleep someone put pants on me and though I wasn't wearing a shirt perse my matching robe was nearby and I put it on after waking up. My pet was sent to wake me when breakfast was ready, and I joined up with everyone else in the living room.
The seamstress was making minor adjustments to the clothes before her making sure to account for the curvature of the body as she made her little edits and by the time breakfast was on the table she rushed over to my pet and gave her, her first set of clothes in a long while.
"I guess I have clothes now." She looked at me as though asking for her pendant without asking for it.
"Fine… on one condition."
"What's that?"
"You have to keep those on until your actual clothes are ready."
She clicked her tongue and turned away for a moment as if weighing her options. She soon gave in to greed and agreed to my terms, so I gave her the pendant she asked for. "Keep this on you, I'm not replacing it if you lose it right before I summon you."
"Of course."
After taking the pendant from my hand her cold dead skin brushing against mine, she teleported away. I knew where she was going. She was collecting her things from her old house and moving them into the labyrinth. I don't particularly mind except she's also stealing things from her neighbours as she does so… then again, her neighbours are also bandits a good few of them are probably dead already.
I simply shrugged and let her do as she pleases until I have need of her again. The seamstress took some notes and left for the day saying she'd be back later with at least part of the skirt end of the dress finished. We told her to take her time and went back to her parents' house after breakfast. We told them we'd be going back to the labyrinth tomorrow and learning the basics of combat from my parents. They told us it was a stupid idea to abuse the space-time spell we were using and with that warning out of the way we left them to their house.
When we got back to our house, I read a bit from book as I hadn't done that in a while and made a call to my parents. "Hey, there's a vampire hunting quest, today right?"
'Yeah?'
"Don't take it."
'Why not is it dangerous?'
"No, not really just there's a chance my troubles will sort themselves out if you leave this quest undone for a few days."
'Cryptic and ominous, alright we'll trust your judgement. Just tell us when we can take it this quest is good money unlike the rest of the jobs for today.'
"Wait an hour something else big is coming up."
'Thanks, sweetie.'
"No problem."
'Love you.'
"I love you too." And so, I ended the call and went about collecting the components to cast the spell my pet wanted me to cast. A ritual anti-magic field that protects the user from magical attacks. If an unskilled person casts it, it usually only protects a small part of them which is probably why none of them could guard against the recoil effect from my magical attacks and defences. However, since becoming a lich my pet has become more knowledgeable in the magics she didn't know well before. This spell is complete as opposed to the incomplete spell they knew and learned from my understanding.
I spent most of the day preparing to cast this spell and cast it by the end of the day. I received a magic circle on my chest to match hers. My pet may only have two circles but for me, this makes five. But mine looked different still. Four of the eight arrows on mine looked like a broken-off piece of the magic circles on the rest of my body matching in colour and perceived texture. The tails of the snakes sat opposite each other the ribbon and the orange fire sat beside each other on one side leaving four more arrows, four more domains of magic to complete the set.
I'm very curious to see what depths of power I'll unlock once I've learned every form of magic. I'm very excited. I soon after, cast my infernal self-defence spell. It produces flames around the body when I feel threatened or in danger. When I cast it, I noticed the arrows aren't all the same size but bigger or smaller depending on how many passive spells I have active from a domain. Interesting.
By the time dinner was on the table we heard a knock on the door again and her friend had come with the skirt part of the dress and wanted to make sure it fits comfortably on her waist so I summoned my pet, who I knew was done moving her things by now, and she looked a bit more sleazy than usual, a not unattractive girl in her underwear wearing a thin faded black robe hanging loosely off her shoulders, with a bottle of wine in one hand and a glass in the other, her hair a bit of a mess she stood fairly slackly and gave the look of a housewife who was tired of waiting for her negligent husband to come back after ten years.
She did the fitting and though the skirt part was the slightest bit loose, my pet said it was fine, but she was having none of it and immediately got to work trying to fix the millimetre she was off by. Eventually, she left vowing we can expect the upper part of the garment by the end of the week.
When checking book, I saw she wouldn't be back for a couple of days and realized now was as good a time as any to start our next day in a year, but my girlfriend was tired, I was tired, and my parents were working right now so we agreed to go tomorrow at the crack of dawn.
That night I had a vision, I saw my pet wandering the halls of the labyrinth drunkenly her clothes as dishevelled as we just saw when she stopped and witnessed the twins falling through the ceiling. The girls fell unceremoniously at her feet and asked who she is. "My master said to treat you with hospitality," she replied. "He will arrive as soon as he is able." I saw a smile similar to my own cross her lips as the twins began to tremble wondering what they stepped into.