After getting Damon upstairs into a bed the old man butcher walked back down and sat in Indian style on the floor with praying hands. in seconds a gold light surrounded his body as he whispered a few words. "light of my light"
Around a small camp fire sat a red and silver hair girl with slightly pink skin and red rose petal eyes wearing all white leather tights with blue trimmings along with a thin silver leather plated armor top.
Alice was sitting down leaning up against an icy and white colored wolf beast who was laying on the ground when sir hughes walked up and sat down across from her on the opposite side of the fire twisting his long orange beard.
"thank you once again miss blackheart for accompanying me and providing me with your power. you're welcome sir hughes it's not a big deal." Alice responded.
They both began to converse on many things particularly about what occurred and sir hughes began shedding some light on the new people who helped during the attack. Alice knew a few things but not entirely everything.
"so what's going to happen about the awakened soul recruiters they were supposed to arrive yesterday or today right. ah yes but once I contacted the high council about what occurred and the state of things that was put on the back burner, but don't worry miss blackheart you and the kids that are ready will still have your chances to pick an organization and create a new path for yourselves." sir hughes responded.
"in fact I have Mr. Drixx working on a few things, you see with all that has happened even though most of it can be considered bad, there was some good in it as well. one must learn to adapt and take advantage of certain situations and move hastily while doing so miss blackheart."
"oh come on spare me with your sly talk and spill it sir hughes." Alice says with a light chuckle thinking about how sir hughes loved to talk in parables.
sir Hughes made a light chuckle as well and began telling a little of what his parable speech meant. afterwards Alice was brimming with joy. turned out sir hughes had tasked jolly with picking out a building within the city that could be turned into their very own guild giving the people of obsidian city another guild option.
The thing was no one could just create a guild out the blue without the right backing and paperwork. sir hughes had many great connections in high places and so his plan was to use the truth serum viles and the footage from the Mongrels of a new threats in some way to get a few things done that would work in his favor. with his connections with people in high places he was sure he could make it happen.
"having our very own guild would be a total game changer. I wouldn't have to make new friends or anything. oh so you plan to join if it's successful." sir Hughes asked hearing what she had said.
"Well of course, I mean I was planning on trying to get into that new guild the purple puppets but not anymore." Alice said with a smile.
"that's great to hear miss blackheart and as I said as soon as we get to the capital I can get those bodies in preserving pods, you will no longer be needed and I'll arrange for your return back." sir hughes said.
A dark skin muscular man with thick sideburns and a wolf pelt around his shoulder walked up as well taking a seat around the fire.
"sir hughes the orc your people captured is secure as well, he won't be moving at all but I did tell a few of your people to keep an eye on him." Bison informs sir hughes.
"very good thank you bison, have you met miss blackheart." sir Hughes says nodding in Alice's direction.
"no sir I haven't,well she's one of the brightest students I've ever taught and has a lot of potential as well."
they both introduced themselves and had many more different conversations. by the time they were done Alice had been fully brought up to speed about who bison and his people truly were.
"so how is this hidden city Damon discovered and don't you find it odd sir hughes. why yes of course, it is odd a hidden city has been near village city this entire time and as far as the city itself I must say it's nothing I've ever seen before, it's truly remarkable and im sure it will be a great home."
"if it's so great why was it abandoned, I know I'm not the only one that has questions about it. I'm not sure Alice but I know one thing, it's in Damon's control. Now how he managed that feat is beyond me, but we can trust Damon. he's had a rough few years that you and our people are well aware of, i think it's good he has found a little light in the dark world he's been in don't you think miss blackheart." sir hughes says.
"let Damon have his secrets,it's not a crime to withhold information. I'm sure everyone here has just as many secrets if not more than him." he added.
with sir hughes words Alice understood what sir hughes meant after all she too had a few secrets herself. Bison just sat there and listened catching on here and there about what they were talking about. he definitely understood what sir hughes meant when it came to secrets.
"you two get some rest I'll check the area and then get some sleep myself. we leave two hours before daybreak so be up and ready to move forward then." sir Hughes said while getting up.
he walked around while many people had finished setting up small tents in places preparing to rest.
"sir hughes sir hughes, when I get older I wanna be as big as you." a young pale boy that looked to be around six years of age with orange short messy hair says running up to him.
"ahhhh, little one that's a great goal, but remember it's not about how big you are, just because a person has muscles doesn't mean they are strong. if you become stronger up here first, everything else will follow. sir Hughes says gently pointing to the little boy's head.
"Mason get your butt over here right now." an orange haired woman wearing bronze colored body armor shouted angrily walking up with flush red cheeks.
"what did I tell you about running off,get your little ass back over there and sit down. sorry sir hughes, was he bothering you. oh no not at all sir hughes says laughing at the boy called mason scurrying away.
"A speedy little fella I see. yes sir he is and thank you for traveling with us making sure we reach our destination safely." the woman says waving and walking away.
Sir Hughes gave the woman a nod and continued walking until he was out of sight from anyone. they were currently in the depths of a dark green forest with a lot of thickets and bushes scattering throughout the forest floor. they had made great progress in one day and had decided to rest when night fell.
sir hughes looked around as if he was looking for someone or something.
"make this easy on yourselves and just come out already" he said in an annoyed tone folding his arms to his chest standing still.
"hehehehehe, I told you all the big man noticed us earlier." A scrawny black man with a thick beard says coming from behind a tree. suddenly seven others came from behind other nearby trees. they all had on black leather armor with a sigil that looked like a rat.
"that's a nice armor set you got there big man, I'm sure we can get a ton of money for it so why don't you just hand it over, if you comply nobody gets hurt and heck we might even just go away." the scrawny dark skin man said.
sir Hughes face palmed himself while massaging his forehead with a really annoyed look. "unbelievable, how about this, if you all leave now then you won't die, sounds fair enough."
The man with the beard looked at one of his people and gave them a nod. it was big muscular man around 6 foot and 8 inches that carried an axe. the big man took one step in sir hughes direction and fell face first on the ground dead. his entire face was caved inwards as blood splatter went everywhere.
still standing in the same spot was sir hughes who was looking down shaking his head as if saying I told you so. all of them stepped back in fear but instead of running away like most sane people would.
"he killed smog, attaaaaaaack." the scrawny man yells. suddenly several lights could be seen generating from their chests as they were summoning their soul beasts.
the area lit up and turned back to darkness within seconds as all of them fell to the ground in pools of blood. all of their skulls were bashed in and brain matter could be seen splattered across the ground on trees and in bushes.
"I swear, bandits are the dumbest criminals ever." sir hughes says with a sigh as he walked away from the scene.
he arrived back at the campfire where Bison and Alice were. Alice was currently knocked out sleep curled up with a brown blanket on her as she used her soul beast verglas side as a pillow burying one side of her face in it's fur. while Bison was leaned up against a tree sitting down with his legs crossed and his hands behind his head with his eyes closed.
As sir hughes sat back down one of Bisons eyes opened. " so did you make them leave or did you kill them. unfortunately the latter." sir hughes says responding to Bisons question. "hmph, tough luck for them." he said closing his eye.