[Koro, Parc, and Rouge asked to beco your apprentices]
Surprised, Eisen waved the notification away, before the old man crossed his arms with a frown. "You want to beco my apprentices? After only one day of knowing , and without truly knowing what I can do?" Eisen asked before the three young n looked at each other before nodding.
"Yes, we do. And we have a rough idea of what you can do. In less than an hour, you created that ’Walk-In’ thing with a complex enchantnt that fuels itself with mana. How...How do you even do that?" Koro pointed out, and Rouge and Parc quickly nodded.
"Exactly! And look at you, you’re a literal Demonic Craftsman! You are a Demon, right? Not the race, of course, but a true Demon..." Rouge then asked before Parc scratched the top of his head.
"Eh? There’s a difference?" The tall young man asked, confused before Eisen sighed loudly and nodded.
"Of course, there is. True Demons are unique beings. You’d have a hard ti finding one that looks anything like another. And they aren’t born that way either; they have to work toward it. Anyone from any race can beco one. Elf, Human, Dwarf, doesn’t matter. And just to let you know, I’m not a full true Demon yet. I’m just starting to work toward it, so you shouldn’t use that as a reference of how skilled I am." Eisen told them. He didn’t have anything against having apprentices per se, and he loved how these boys had such passion, but since he was leaving town soon, he needed to make sure that they were dedicated enough to keep after it, even in his absence.
Eisen and his companions would leave for a pretty dangerous place in a few weeks, and he didn’t want to force anyone to co along by making them his apprentices. And even then, he was told that his training course for apprentices was rather tough, although it was nowhere near what Eisen’s father had him do when he was a child.
But either way, Eisen never accepted apprentices just like that, and it wouldn’t be the case this ti either. With a loud sigh, Eisen ended up nodding to the three young n. At first, they thought that ant he accepted them as his apprentices, but they were greatly surprised at what Eisen said next.
"Fine. But you won’t be my apprentices just like that. First I’ll have you show what you can do. All three of you are good at multiple different things, right?" Eisen asked before the three of them nodded in unison, and Koro spoke up.
"Yes, we are. We’re like Jacks of All Trades or sothing like that." He explained, and Eisen slowly nodded.
"I see. Then I’m going to test you in five skills, the crafting skills that I learned first: Blacksmithing, Tailoring, Leatherworking, Alchemy, and Enchanting. I’ll be back in four days, so I’ll test you then, prepare accordingly" Eisen told them before the four of them nodded and smiled brightly as their eyes seed to focus on sothing else. And at the sa ti, sothing popped up in front of Eisen as well.
[Quest "Demonic Craftsman’s Approval" given to Koro, Parc and Rouge]
Confused, Eisen looked through the notification again and again, before another one popped up. This announcent was of a different kind, of a ’System’ notification. These notifications had a different feel to them as if they were ’layered’ on top of Eisen’s sight. Those were the notifications that were player-exclusive, it seed, as they usually contained sothing that referred to everything as a ’Ga’ or as the one that saw the information as a ’Player.’
[Giving out quests as a player is a privilege given only to the Five Originals, as they can help guide those with less knowledge than them through the world]
With a sigh, Eisen waved these notifications away, surprised at this but at the sa ti sowhat curious at what the requirents for handing out quests were, but was happy that he learned that he could do this now.
"Whoa! We even got a quest? Aweso!" Parc exclaid as Eisen chuckled softly.
"Well, now it’s official, isn’t it? Now, co help clean everything up, and then I’ll get going back to my Inn." Eisen told them as he drank another mana potion to supply his body with the mana he needed to keep up his transformation, and grabbed the nearly empty pot with the rest of the stew in it to bring it inside.
It took a little while, as they brought everything back to the Kitchen and then cleaned up the used bowls and cutlery, which didn’t take too long since the majority of it was being washed off with a little water. It was quite convenient, really.
And then, Eisen walked back to the dining area, where Kiron, Sky, Caria, and lissa were waiting for Eisen, and Noa also, as she stood directly next to them and brightly smiled as she laid eyes on the Demon walking toward them.
"Again, thank you so much for your help. I don’t know how we could repay you for this, really." Noa the nun told Eisen as she held her hands in front of her heart, and the old man laughed softly.
"Don’t worry about it. I said it before, but I do have so selfish reasons for doing this as well." Eisen told her, before she slowly nodded, simply feeling incredibly happy and gleeful right now.
And it seems like she wasn’t the only one that wanted to thank the old man. One after another, everyone, Holess and Orphans alike, ca up to him and thanked him. So of the younger kids even gave him a few flowers that they picked, and so of the nuns told him that the patients in the hospital also wanted to thank him even more, now that they got to have such a great al after being treated by Eisen beforehand.
With a smile, the now surrounded Eisen continued to talk to everyone for a short while, answering a few questions they had and simply conversing with others about the situation in the church.
And after that was over, Eisen and his companions made their way back toward the Inn they were staying at, and the old man imdiately went to bed after taking a look at the ti in real life, because he was once more planning on making breakfast for his family.
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However, it seed like Benjamin’s plans wouldn’t work out as he wanted them to, as when he woke up, he already noticed the sound of soone going through different pans and pots in the kitchen. And after standing up from the capsule, getting dressed and stepped toward the source of the noise, he saw lody standing in front of a pot in the kitchen, stirring sothing around.
"Good morning. I thought I said I’d make breakfast, didn’t I?" Benjamin asked as he walked up to his daughter, who swiftly turned around with a frown as she looked at the old man.
"You did, but you need to rest, and I’m sure you wouldn’t make anything overly healthy, right?" lody pointed out, as Benjamin looked into the pot and saw a gray goop inside of it.
"Porridge?" Benjamin asked as he grabbed a small spoon and had a little taste of it before he looked at his daughter with confusion. "Didn’t you season this with anything? It tastes great with so Vanilla, Cocoa powder, or Cinnamon, or anything you can put in there. But This tastes like nothing..." The old man pointed out, opening his seasoning cabinet and quickly grabbing the three things he just ntioned before lody imdiately closed the cabinet doors again as she shook her head.
"Oats and Milk are enough, aren’t they? I always make this at ho, and Sophia and Michael love it." lody told her father, who stared down at her in obvious disbelief.
"Mhm, sure. If you say so..." The old man loudly sighed as he walked over to another cabinet and grabbed the bag with his coffee beans and his coffer grinder as well as his Chex. He was told by his grandson Benji that making coffee this way was incredibly showy and unnecessary, but quickly shut his mouth when he drank so of it over the past few days.
And as he began grinding down the coffee beans for a nice pot of this godly brown liquid, he noticed that lody was giving him another one of her patented ’You better don’t’ looks. But this ti around, he ignored her, he won’t have his daughter tell him not to do what he wants.
Luckily enough for lody, she didn’t even have to!
"Hmm, Benjamin, I don’t think you should do that. Coffee isn’t good for the body or belly, after all." Michael exclaid as he stepped out from the hallway with an already perfect look as if he didn’t sleep at all and just spent all night getting ready.
"Good morning to you too, Michael. And I’m of a different opinion, so I’ll drink my coffee in peace, thank you very much." Benjamin told him with a bright, genuine smile before Michael nodded slowly and sat down by the counter, albeit slightly annoyed.
"That is fine. ’Live and let live’ as you always say, isn’t that right?" Michael said afterward, while Benjamin slowly nodded and continued grinding down his coffee as he began boiling up so water.
A few minutes later, it seed like the porridge was ready, as well as the hot water, so Benjamin began slowly making the coffee while lody and Michael started to eat the porridge. With a sigh, the old man looked at the porridge in the pot, while at the sa ti Benji, Kyle, and Sophia ca toward the Kitchen after waking up just now, sitting down by the counter, before lody quickly gave them a bowl of porridge imdiately afterward.
Confused, Benji looked at the grey, unsightly food in this bowl and looked at his grandfather. "You didn’t make this, did you?"
Slowly, Benjamin shook his head before Benji looked over at lody and slightly smiled so that he didn’t offend her. The three teenagers each ate a little bit of the porridge, and now Benjamin could confirm that not even Sophia liked it, different to what lody exclaid before.
With a sigh, Benjamin took the bowls of Benji and Kyle to change the porridge up a little bit, while saying sorry to Sophia with his facial expression, since he knew that neither lody nor Michael would let him feed anything they didn’t approve of to their daughter.
Now, quite quickly, Benjamin poured the bowls making up the porridge for himself, his two sons, his daughter in law, the four youngest children here, and these two teenagers together into a bigger mixing bowl and quickly changed it up a little bit. First, he added so vanilla extract, sugar and cinnamon, to give it so flavor and at least not make it as bland and swiftly mixed it in, and then set aside bowls for Lola, Lyla, Sean and Katy, since he knew they wouldn’t like the ground-down coffee that Benjamin put into the porridge next.
He was using pretty strong coffee beans as well, so he didn’t put in all that much, but it was still enough to change the taste up quite a bit. And after putting the new porridge in a few different bowls, the old man quickly put so berries on top of it that should go pretty well with the taste.
"Here, you two go. Not everyone has to eat like this." Benjamin said with a wink, while his daughter shot him a dirty look.
"Dad, I just said it’s not good for you to put in all that stuff, why don’t you ever listen to ?" lody protested as she tried taking away the bowl Benjamin mixed for himself, but her father quickly held his hand up higher into the air, which made him confident she couldn’t reach it.
"lody, I think I know best what’s good for and what’s not, right?" Benjamin exclaid as he brought the bowl over to sit next to Benji and Kyle, the latter of which was awkwardly looking at these two tall hunks now sitting next to him, together with a cup of coffee for himself and these two teenagers.
"Now, let’s enjoy our breakfast, shall we?"
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