Ryan forgot to ask Haruna a few things about Yomotsu Shiko, but in the end, he decided that he already knew plenty about her abilities. She was a necromancer that could use illusion magic. That was all that he needed to know. In any case, now Ryan had to attack the weakened black tortoises. However, he decided to rest for the night, but he just used so spells on himself to level up his resistance after a while.
"Self-harm, huh," Femradiel said. "You are crossing a dangerous road."
"It is not like I have any other choice," Ryan said. "I can't let myself get wounded in the middle of real fights."
"It looks like you have a hard ti against that undead creature, you could have easily solved the problem by using Draconic Transformation," Femradiel said.
"I solved the situation without relying on it and that is all that matters," Ryan said.
That had been a pretty unpleasant night, considering that Ryan had decided to just rest. Regardless, while it was only natural that Ryan would be good at dodging, even that has its derits. It doesn't happen often, but it happens. Even weak attacks cause a lot of damage since Ryan, pretty much on a daily basis, faced monsters much more powerful than him.
"I have to take a few hours every day to train my resistances," Ryan got up when the sun began to rise. "Otherwise, it will co a day where just the blast of wind caused by the movents of so monsters will make fly dozens of ters."
After resuming his journey, Ryan found a few dungeons here and there, and much to his surprise, they weren't being guarded. However, he found that those places have spawned thousands of monsters.
"It looks like the humans working with the black tortoises caused so dungeon breaks before they left this area," Ryan said, slightly annoyed. "They don't want to make things easier for us."
"This is a good opportunity for ," Femradiel said. "Let Furball, the eagle and fight against so of those to gain so mana. We are not the only ones fighting here, so we don't have to rush ahead without making so preparations, right?"
Ryan considered the proposal. The monsters were only so salamanders, so Femradiel had the elental advantage, and Furball was strong enough to sweep the ground with those monsters. Ryan also needed more essences to make the special potions, so that really was an excellent opportunity for everyone.
"Go on," Ryan said after using so potions on Femradiel, Furball, and the Steel Eagle.
While his pets were playing with the salamanders, Ryan used that chance to sell so of the crossbows he lent to Haruna and the others. He also used Mana-Eater on others to give a hand to Femradiel. Even though she was weaker than before, she still had been pivotal in the last fight.
"I guess I need more of them," Ryan said while looking at his three pets. "The Steal Eagle eventually won't be able to keep up with Furball and Femradiel, so it looks like that I reached a point where so summoned creatures and tad monsters aren't that useful in small numbers."
Relying too much on monsters wasn't sothing Ryan wanted to do since his best skills could only shine against hordes of them, but in the end, he couldn't deny how useful Furball and Femradiel were he needed more creatures like them. Still, finding those that had a lot of potential would be difficult. After all, Ryan only found a single creature that decided to make a pact with him in six months.
While Ryan was thinking about that, his Awareness alerted him of a presence behind him. Ryan summoned his shield and turned around, only to see three n wearing traditional Japanese red armor and carrying two katanas on their waist. He imdiately recognized those that was what Femradiel ntioned as appearing out of nowhere.
"What do you want?" Ryan asked.
" Haruna and the others already reached the capital," One of the guard-looking n said. "Our master wants to know why you didn't co with them."
"I am not interested in working with you guys," Ryan said.
"We will pass the ssage to our master," The guard said. "If you don't want to work with us, that is fine. However, our master would like to ask you not to kill any more survivors."
"That will depend if they will point their weapons at or not," Ryan said.
The guards' gaze on Ryan grew more severe, but they didn't do anything. After a few monts, they just vanished in the air, and Ryan couldn't feel their presence with Awareness anymore.
"Are you fine with that?" Femradiel asked. "Maybe you should take a look at the guy."
"I am not interested," Ryan said.
"That is fine, but you should at least try to play nice with your friends in their backyard," Femradiel said. "As far as I can see, you already beca enemies of too many monsters, you don't need to beco enemies of humans as well."
"You sure seem like a pacifist, even though you tried to devour the first ti we t," Ryan said.
Despite saying that, Ryan considered Femradiel's advice. While he claid that he put his anger on check, it looked like it wasn't that simple. He was naturally predisposed to distrust and be rude toward others that he couldn't understand.
"While fighting with my group alone, things will probably proceed well," Ryan nodded to himself. "Unless the so-called guardian of Tokyo isn't an idiot, he will probably attack the monsters' base at the sa mont I decide to attack. However, I need to prepare so counterasures in case Seiryu and Suzaku decide to join the fight."
That would be hard since Ryan didn't take a proper look at those monsters yet, but based on what he heard from Haruna, Seiryu was a dragon that used wind and water, and Suzaku is essentially a firebird. It wasn't a lot of intel, but it was a start
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