Chapter 174
Refi smiled as she watched Philly leave .
“We should let them talk for a while . ”
“Yes, that would be best . ”
“She can stay in the palace tonight and Eric will take her back tomorrow . ”
“Isn’t Eric busy?”
“He is busy . But, isn’t he going to visit you anyway?”
“…He might . ”
Eric visited me quite often .
So if he was just taking Philly back as a part of that, I guess it was alright .
“I feel bad for taking him away so much . ”
“I don’t mind that, but…”
“What?”
“Eric . I think he is eating too much recently . ”
“Ohh…”
This was about eating two meals in a row .
“Locke, could you warn him as well?”
“Alright . I’ll tell him . ”
“Thank you . ”
I said goodbye to the princesses and returned to the mansion .
Grulf and Lord Gerberga came with me .
“Cluck-cluck . ”
As we walked down the passage, Lord Gerberga hopped onto my shoulder and clucked happily .
“Lord Gerberga, did you have a good time then?”
“Cluck!”
He flapped his wings .
“I see . That’s great . ”
He had fun playing with the princesses .
“Groof-groof!”
Grulf was running excitedly in the passage .
“And you, Grulf?”
“Groof!”
He barked and then jumped on me to lick my face .
“I’m happy to hear it . ”
I said as I petted him .
When we arrived at the mansion, Milka was waiting for us .
Luchila was there too . Perhaps she had really missed Lord Gerberga .
“Mister Locke, welcome back! Will you be having dinner?”
“Yes, thank you . ”
“It’s my job!”
Lord Gerberga jumped from my shoulder over to Luchila .
“Cluck-cluck . ”
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“How was it, Lord Gerberga?”
“Cluck-cluck!”
“That’s great!”
Milka looked behind me and asked .
“Huh? Where is Master Philly?”
“She’s talking with her parents . She’ll be staying at the palace tonight . ”
“I see . So is Tama with her too?”
“He is . ”
And then Milka and Luchila went to the kitchen to prepare the food .
On the other hand, Grulf and I went to the drawing-room .
Kathe and Dorgo were there .
“Ah . You’re back, Locke!”
“Good evening . Any news about the enemy base?”
“Nothing I can say for certain . ”
“Oh?”
So it wasn’t that they had no information at all .
In other words, they had some information they were unsure of .
As I wondered about this, Dorgo continued .
“The enemy has cleverly erased their tracks…but we are narrowing down the possible locations by looking at the shifting monster population . ”
“You can tell by looking at that?”
“The dark ones are mortal enemies of many monsters . With High Lords and the forces of the Most High King there, the monster population is bound to change greatly . ”
“The monsters become food for the dark ones . ”
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They believed the population would go down because monsters would run away or be hunted down .
“We also want to find out about the human population…”
“But it’s difficult for us to find out . ”
I wasn’t sure about Dorgo, but Kathe couldn’t even tell the difference between humans and goblins .
Besides, they would just scare everyone if they tried flying over a human settlement .
“You should leave that to Eric . ”
As we talked about this, Grulf started to play with Kathe .
He put his paws on her shoulders and licked her face .
Kathe petted him happily .
Then Serulis and Shia arrived .
They were both covered in sweat . They had probably been training .
“Shia, Serulis . Welcome back . ”
“Good evening!”
“We’re back . ”
“Where is Nia?”
“Nia was training with us too . But she went directly to go and help Milka . ”
“I hope she’s not too tired . ”
Even though she was an apprentice, surely she should be allowed to rest after practice .
Nia was very serious about her training .
And so I headed to the kitchen to take her place .
It was just as I stood up that Serulis said hesitantly,
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“Um, Mister Locke . How did it go?”
“The magic tool, you mean?”
“Yes . ”
“We did a lot of research . But it will take a little more time… But don’t worry, we’ll try to finish it soon . ”
“Thank you, Mister Locke . ”
Kathe tilted her head to the side .
“Oh, yes . I heard from Milka that you went to the library today . Were you doing research on magic tools?”
“We were . Philly and I went to the palace library . ”
Dorgo reacted to this .
“Magic tools, eh? What kind?”
“I wanted to make an accessory to raise mental resistance…”
I explained to them that I wanted to make it for Serulis .
“I see…”
“Yes, Charm is very dangerous . ”
Dorgo thought for a while and then said,
“A tool to raise mental resistance . Hmm . I may be able to help you with that . ”
“Really?”
“We wind dragons are very good with alchemy . So we have books on it . Though, I am not sure if they will help you . ”
“Thank you!”
And so it was decided that when Philly returned the next day, we would go to the wind dragon palace .