Chapter 368
House Guests
The group sat and joked for most of the afternoon as the three clerics finished repairing everyone's armour, including the mangled remains of Karl's original suit. It had better buffs on it than the new gear did, but it didn't have the advantage of comfort or being able to be worn under normal clothing. Eventually, the Clerics moved from fixing gear to cooking dinner. This was their horribly overworked day, and Karl hoped that they could at least get a day off afterwards.
It was the great downfall of being indispensable. Everyone needed you for sothing, and on days like today, soone needed you for everything.
But on the bright side, nobody ca to bother them as they ate and relaxed after dinner, until it started to get dark, and Morgana sighed while looking out the door.
"If you would like to stay the night, we can hang extra hammocks for you. We have plenty, so you can stay here the night." Karl offered.
They also had extra blankets from their ti on the Frost Giant front, so they weren't short on sleeping gear.
Doug nodded happily and Bob shrugged.
"We might as well, since we're already here. I can make a cute fuzzy blanket for our resident princess if she needs." Doug teased.
Morgana's hand glowed with black magic, and the Nature Cleric just laughed harder.
"Alright, we need to hear this story. What is it between you three?" Karl insisted.
Bob patted Doug on the shoulder, and gestured to Morgana. "She can tell the story, and we will fill in the gaps."
Morgana sighed. "I can see that letting them tell it would be a mistake. It was my second mission, after a single day resource gathering trip. I got paired with these three idiots and two horny morons from my magic combat class.
I grew up in governnt employee housing in the Capital, I had never been in the wilderness before. I just loved plants and potions. But from the first hour, they were making fun of ."
Doug cut in as she paused. "You should have seen her. She was smaller than Lotus, and she kept getting lost as she went to look at flowers."
Morgana glared at him, and Doug made a zipping motion over his lips to let her continue.
"We were out for three days, and all four of them teased
relentlessly. I didn't know how cold it was going to get in the forest, so I had packed my lucky blanket from my room, a black fuzzy blanket. That's what Doug was referring to.
He called
Princess for the entire trip."
She paused, likely intending to finish it there, but Doug wasn't done.
"Tell them about the next ti as well."
"Why do they need to know that?" She replied suspiciously.
"Because if you don't tell them, I'm going to."
Morgana sighed. "Fine. The second ti we went out, we deployed by train, and the train was attacked. It wasn't major, but I lost my pack. In fact, all of the students did. We had put our packs in the baggage car while we went for lunch.
Hey, I see that judging look. We didn't know any better, and nobody warned us. Well, the baggage car took a direct hit from a Gryphon, and all of our gear was lost. So, the only ones who had any gear were Bob and Doug, while the rest of us had nothing.
My class basically relies on potions, especially in the early stages. I didn't have a single attack spell that didn't require a reagent of so sort, and now I didn't have a tent or a ride ho to the Academy.
It sucked, and I didn't want to be there.
But we had to walk back to the Academy, as the tracks were damaged, and we were under a hundred kilotres away. But that part was alright, we even managed to find so of the resources we ca for on our way back the first day.
At dark, Doug made two tents with his magic. We drew lots to see who had watch, and I got first shift. At that point I didn't have any of these tattoos, it was the catalyst that made
decide to do sothing permanent to improve my abilities as an Elite. I was exhausted by the ti the shift ended, and we had been instructed to keep the fire low, but burning, so it didn't go out before morning.
At the ti I wore thick glasses, and I couldn't see much of anything in the dark, but the ones on watch were all sleeping by the fire, so I woke my replacent for his shift and then went to the girls' tent to sleep."
Dana facepald, and Ophelia laughed, knowing exactly where this was going.
"That's right. She got the wrong tent, and because she was exhausted, she just climbed into the bed closest to the door and went to sleep." Doug interjected.
"Which one of you?" Dana asked while Lotus turned away from the conversation.
It couldn't hide the shaking shoulders or faint sound of her stifled laughter, though.
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