Chapter 590: Cleanup
The Guardian vanished moments after I let the harpy die, and I shuddered at the thought of the Vorler running around loose. His title of ‘The Merciful’ didn’t exactly inspire pretty images either - I could only imagine what a vorler considered to be ‘mercy’.
I paced back and forth, considering my next moves, envying Raccoon’s ability to sleep through anything. Which was a bit of a surprise to me, I would’ve expected goblins to sleep with one eye open. Some of her ‘casual dinner side stories’ were downright harrowing, and I half expected to end up with a few more grey hairs. They looked great on Iona! A few thin strands of silver nestled among the gold.
“Brrrpt?” Auri asked.
“I mean, Iona should know… but sure, I’m feeling a little stuck here.” I said.
Auri threw me a one-winged salute, and buzzed off at high speed. A pair of goggles some [Couriers] used snapped onto her face before she left a burning afterimage.
I shook my head and went deep into [Astral Archives], trying to work out exactly where my healing radius overlapped with the map of the place. Being able to fly was a boon, I had a good mental map of the area, and thanks to my travels, I had a solid idea of my range.
It had just increased with all the levels I’d gotten, of course, but that was going to be my safety margin. I mentally overlayed my range with where we were and the map of the place. A lack of proper measuring tools was a hindrance on one end, but thanks to the careful work of Surveyor and the other Potentials, we had a strong grid I could work off of.
I mentally bit my tongue as I worked through it all, groaning a little at the end.
Everyone was inside my radius, with a solid amount of padding included. I wasn’t trapped on the farm for the foreseeable future while we diagnosed the plague and worked out countermeasures, or worst-case, waited eight years to let it all decay. At the same time, the furthest farms, the ones not designed by Skye and outside of Orthus Town’s mandate, were just barely inside. The farmers wouldn’t drop dead stepping outside their fields, but if they were patrolling the edges while I went the opposite direction, into the laid-out Orthus Town, they would be outside my protection.