Me and Mika were both sitting on one side each of the same bed.
How did this happen?
We were given this room by Aika El Mayleen, a keeper of the fort, after we decided to get sponsorship from her family.
"Um... it's time..." Mika got suprisingly docile and meek.
Even though we were sleeping up until today in the same room, we've never slept together in one bed before.
"Y-yeah..."
I looked over my shoulder and saw Mika looking at me. We both became bright red.
I closed my eyes for a second and took a deep breath facing the other way. 'Why am I so nervous?!'
In that moment, something soft pushed against my back.
"M-Mika?"
"I love you."
Mika's words exited her mouth silently, but becouse her face is so close I could hear her as if she screamed it out.
'Why am I chickening out here?! I know her for so long!'
I slaped my cheeks with both of my hands and turned around.
"I love you too." I'm sure I was beet-red as I declared so, but there is no chance I'm chickening out of this!
I lightly touched her chin and lift it up. Her bright red face looked like it was about to burst with tears. I closed in.
Her soft and warm lips touched with mine and and right after that I felt her tongue inviting me in.
'Our first kiss... was awsome' Mika thought as she wraped her hands around Flake's neck.
I felt as our hearts started beating as one when we droped to the sheets.
"Right now... we are one..." Mika smiled at me through light pain as I entered her. Her fingers interwine with mine.
***
In adventurers guild of certain city.
"So you are officially pulling yourself out of the Lotus party, miss Willemina?"
"Yes, it took some time, but I'm already ready to leave," Willemina smiled and lightly tapped at her suitcase enchanted with space expanding spell.
Inside said suitcase were hidden Ruru and Roro, the twin sisters of the Lotus party.
After Willemina pulled off her membership, Baron got all furious and prohibit anyone else fromleaving the team mansion except for mission, but...
"What do you mean there are no jobs for Lotus?! We are A rank party!" Baron yelled at the receptionist on the other side of the room.
"Your party was put on hold, sir Baron. The power of your Red Lotus, on the other hand is weaker B rank, if not C ranked. Given the sudden death of your main frontliner and suspicious disappearence of sir Flake, there are no sane person who would ask you for a job."
"Those things are just rumors! Flake decided himself he wants to leave! There's no shred of legimacy in those claims!" Baron yelled even more loudly then before.
"You understand right?" Willemina gave a sad smile to the receptionist.
"I do. If sir Baron only understood that another problem is his personality, too... Well, it's not important now. By the way, I heard that the talks about sponsorship were on thin ice until recently."
"Yes, aparently, the next head of the household miss Aika El Mayleen doesn't like our... how was it in that letter again... ah, I remember, she doesn't like the image we set for ourselves here. By the way, what happened to that Death knight that appeared to the north?"
"It was taken down by Skylight knight. Their leader is apparently about to get sponsorship from Duke Razen," the receptionist reported to Willemina, while giving her a list of times when carriages leves for Caputa city.
"I see, well, I will be going now. My auntie is waiting in Caputa after all," Willemina smiled while remembering her aunt who, while owning the biggest trading company in the knigdom, still enjoyed the festivals in her birth town.
***
The morning came sooner then I expected. At the end, we did it so much we droped tired by lack of stamina.
'I need more training' is what both of us thought.
"The carriage will leave in two hours, but as we are leaving with miss Aika we will be going around lunch right?" Mika asked as she put on her clothes.
"Yeah... the wyverns should arrive around noon, take a two hour rest and start the journey back to the city they came from... what should we do in the meantime?"
"Could you show me your summoning? I don't have energy to move too much around..."
"Sorry..."
"No, don't be! I loved it! It's just... it was my first time and... you know..." Mika turned bright red which somehow revitalized me.
"Y-yeah..."
After that we ate our breakfast, which was just a simple vegetable soup with bread, and returned to our room.
There I opened the portal to [My world] and we ate our second breakfast (scrambled eggs with ork bacon) together with Ricca, Tama and Shiro. Ema was still sleeping and Aku and the rest had their own food here.
'By the way, what are summons eat when they are not summoned?'
'Oh, great.'
"Okay, so with what kind of monster shall we start?"
"We have Goblins, Kobolds, Blue lizards, Slimes, Tritwigs, Gnoll, Werebear, Kenku and exactly one Imp."
"Let's not use the goblins please!" Shiro's hand shot up instantly.
"Yeah, I'm not a fan of goblins too..." Ricca turned away a little.
'Is this something about goblins being natural enemies wo... Mika please don't stare so hard!'
"I see, let's start with Kobold and Blue lizard."
'I have to test out the monster fusion after all. What will I need for it though?'
'Well, I can use magic stones to evolve the monsters anyway right?'
'I see.'
As I had conversation with my skill, Mika and the rest were getting prepared for a fight.
"You guys know that when I summon a monster from body part it will pose no threat right?"
"But... wait really?" Ricca got surprised.
"Yeah, I mean, Mossy, Ruth and Void are summoned from body parts and even though they were stronger then me when I summoned them, they formed the contract wit me right away."
"Is that so?" Mika lowered her bow and returned the arrow into the quiver.
"Yes, so just relax and enjoy the show," I gave them a reassuring smile and activated the two summoning circles.
In the next moment, a two-legged wolf, a Kobold and four-legged bluish white lizard appeared from it.
"Now, skill [Monster fusion] activate!"
As I said the command, a semi-transparent board appeared before my eyes. There, two new monsters were depicted. A Scale Kobold and Blue Libolf.
I checked their evolution lines and found out that Scale Kobold could become a semi-dragon so I picked it right away.
When I did, the two monsters merged together in gray light and soon a little taller Kobold with scales on it's limbs and chest stood before us. Also, between his wolf ears, two small horns were protruding.
"Oh! A Scale Kobold! Those are D ranked by themselves right?" Shiro smiled.
"Mm. Strong deffence... needs magic to defeat... perfect vanguard," Tama added her piece of information.
"Well, I better give you a name. What about Valcha?"
"I would be honored master," the kobold, Valcha bowed in aknowledgement.
"IT SPOKE?!"
"Valcha, you can speak?"
"Yes, master. Alth...ough I have a troub...bling disposition of my jaw, I can com...unicate with human words," Valcha nodded with a satisfied smile, "It will get better... with time."
"I see, I'm looking forward to it," I nodded, trying to act composed.
After that, I introduced Aku and the rest to Valcha.
"So what are you going to summon next?"
"I was thinking that I would summon either Snow lizard or Aexel."
"You can summon a lot of D ranks it seems," Mika smiled.
"Well, I have to fuse my E and F ranks first though," I scrached my head and summoned Three Blue Lizards and one slime. Afterwards I mixed them together.
As I found out, when I mix two same kinds of monsters, I have more options to choose from. So when I decided to mix the two blue lizards, it gave me four options. Once again, the first two, Blue Big-jaw and Icicle tail, were not really interesting becouse they could not evolve further, but the remaining two were other story.
The first one is known as "Hail storm" the Deep blue Ice lizard. It's a C rank monster which is hard to control, but it can do a lot of damage to all enemies on the field.
The other one was the already mentioned Snow lizard. It's D ranked monster that can use Ice magic and is commonly known for it's power to freeze anything it touches. But, there is also a way to give it more power by evolving it into Blizzard lizard and Freezing Wyvern from there. The final stage is White dragon which is SS ranked monster also known as one of the true evil dragons.
If we look into history, we will find that highest summoned monster ever is A rank Grappler bear and B ranked Shadow wolf... 'I had one too... but...' A tear left corner of my eye as I recalled death of my strongest summon one year ago.
'What?'
'Is there some condition?'
I smiled happily, with new desicion to resummon my strongest monster. Kuro the Shadow wolf. My level 50 B rank summon.
"Where did I put it... ah, here!" I took out the ear I kept from Kuro. It was so dry that it rolled into a tube.
'So? What do I need?'
"Damn in..."
"What is it, Flake?" Mika look up from the place where she was playing with the Aexel I summoned a moments ago.
"I can resummon my monsters that have already perished if I use same ranked magic stone or fifty stones rank lower."
"That means... you can summon him again?" Mika smiled broadly.
"I can, but single B rank core costs ten thousand gold. That's still more then a an F rank can make in ten years."
"So we better rank up fast so we can summon him again!" Mika grabbed both my hands with sparkling light in her eyes.
"Yeah!" I returned the smile to her and continued with my summoning training.
When the time for lunch came, I had already summoned su many monsters that my mana run little dry.
The list of my new monsters is as follows:
Aku (Small salamander lizard), Mossy (Moss knight golem), Void (Redeye crow), Ruth (Big slime), Tana (Night hawk), Valcha (Scale Kobold), Tarou (Aexel), Riga (Snow lizard), Kabel (Kobold fighter), Vikith (Vine golem), Twinky (Wood golem), Haru (White gnoll) and finally Gonta (Imp).
In addition I could summon Ricca, Shiro and Tama. While Ema, the Half ghost was still sleeping, I checked if I could summon her too, and I found out that not just that I can, but when I do, she gets covered with white cloth which looks like veil on a wedding dress.
"Flake, we need to go. The wyverns are arriving," Mika informed me, so I said my good-byes to everyone and went out of the [My world].
"It's first time I will be flying... I'm looking forward to it," I smiled as I watched the wyvern land on the roof and gently putting down a gondola that was held in it's mouth.