Chapter 778
Sitting in the guild that morning, ignoring the eyes of the few others around who recognized who he was while he did his best to pass the time, it wasn’t long until the three he was waiting on arrived, with Jake, Amy, and Yuzu joining him.
“Good to see you guys, hope one of you is ready for what I have in store.”
“Ah, Vasta gave me the rundown,” Jake laughed. “Hope you’ll take it easy on me buddy.”
“...”
“Buddy?”
“Anyway, let’s get back to Stonewall and get started,” Ben said with gusto, ignoring Jake’s request in a way that wasn’t lost on the others. “Just come this way for a shortcut and we can get started.”
“Why do you have a gate in here?” Amy asked as they were led into the guild master’s office, seeing it connect to his shop and getting a shrug as they walked through.
“Long story. First things first, I’ve got dark resistance amulets for all of you so put them on because this isn’t our last stop.”
He was handing them out as he said it before taking them through a different one he had set up to his personal workshop in Anailia, with his young apprentice waiting and hard at work practicing her art, as one of the few disciplines he was comfortable getting her to practice completely unsupervised. Even if Delair had been working on her own in her home village, now that she was his responsibility he was insisting on being more careful as a result and only interrupted her for introductions.