Letting the Commander deal with Lotus instead was a brilliant move, Karl decided.
The Nature Priestess was asleep on top of Leo, who was sunning his shell as he floated above the walls. But the mont that the Commander cleared his throat to get her attention, and Leo wobbled to wake her up, Lotus was right on top of the battle report.
Her retelling involved dramatic hand gestures, props, and even a musical interlude.
The Commander of the relief force was so stunned by the nature priestess's way of describing the battle that it took him half a minute to process it and co up with a suitable response.
"Are you perhaps trying to progress onto a bard class path?" He finally asked. "Bard? Oh, no. That's not for . I just like story ti.
It really was an incredible battle to observe. I didn't have much to do in my position as healer once the local guards were all patched up, so I just waited and watched.
Now, if you're going to take over the positions on the walls, there are snacks calling my na, and I need my trusty turtle to help access them."
Leo laughed as he moved Lotus back to the Tiny World. There had to be an easier way than having the beasts move her in and out, but Lotus couldn't teleport, so unless they opened a full sized access at her location, he couldn't think of one.
"Where did she go?" The Commander asked, realizing that he hadn't gotten to ask any real questions.
"Into a separate space. You can ask Karl." Dana suggested.
The Commander nodded. "Avatar, sorry to bother you. Do you have an estimate on the remaining monster count, or any other information on future attack patterns?"
"The attackers spread over the entire swamp. I don't have the original attack size data, or a proper count of casualties since, but given what we removed in this battle, I suspect that the remaining number is less than a hundred, spread over the whole swamp.
The longer we give it, the more likely they are to cluster and spread into territories, like any other Mythic Beast.
They only remain hyper aggressive as long as there is a greater being controlling them, and their controller has left the mortal realms entirely. Returning won't be easy with our Immortals watching for intrusions, so the chances are that he won't try at all.
And not just because he's likely terrified of being eaten."
The Commander gave his subordinates a relieved smile. That made this deploynt sound much better. If they just needed to hold the city while the locals recovered, and didn't need to fend off a full-scale attack, it was close to a vacation compared to what they had expected.
Rae returned, having found as many Crocolisks as were going to be easily hunted, and Karl knew that it was nearly ti to call their mission here finished.
"If you want to take over the guard duties, please send everyone else back to the front gate. We need to decide if we're spending the night here, or if we are going to move on to another city." He added.
"Of course. Though, I have heard that you are from the crafting branch of the Darklight Host. Did your Guild perhaps still have rchandise for sale?" The Commander asked hopefully.
Karl patted him on the shoulder. "Naturally. I should have thought of that. We can set up a small stall in the market sowhere. The number of items might be a bit low with all the recent events, but we've got so good stuff left."
A young man rushed over and eagerly grabbed Karl's hands with a reverent look that made Dana giggle.
"No giving my husband the puppy eyes." She chided, which made the young man blush.
"Not like that, not like that. I'm the curator of the Library, and I am told that the Darklight Host sells skill books. Do you have any? Our Library is a small one, and we don't get copies of all the new stuff that the big central Libraries run by Totems and Myths do." The young blue dragon pleaded.
"Of course, we have skill books. We've got Inscriptionists in our team. If they're for a Blue Dragon Library, we could even loan you a few to copy and return, instead of blowing your budget buying them." Karl offered.
The dragon made. most undignified happy squeal, and Dana sighed.
"Co with , I have copies of the books that you want. Karl, you can take care of the booth along with Rae and Remi."
Karl let her carefully peel the Librarian off him. "Of course. I will make sure that everyone gets what they need before they head to the walls to relieve our
team.
And the locals, of course.
We've got much more for Overlords than we do for Totems and Myths. That high-end gear has seen overwhelming demand, and we have limited numbers of craftsn that powerful."
The Commander laughed. "Having more than one is already more than most crafting Guilds can claim. But I get what you're saying. Most of what we need is not combat gear, it is support, function and healing.
We have dungeons to gear our Mythic mbers from, even if it's not as well optimized as what you can likely create."
"If that's the case, we've got a wonderful stock. We've also got a fine selection of ladies' fashion, in case you want to send a gift ho."
The Commander sighed. "I can already feel my account balance beginning to cry. You just had to ntion fashion, didn't you?"
Karl shrugged. "We have an entire team devoted to it. What can I say, it sells very well, and we've got everything from casual wear to fancy gowns, bags, shoes, even stylish armour for the ladies.
We started our crafting Guild house in Drodh, and the Obsession demons are incredibly fashionable, less likely to spend their whole day in simple robes than
the dragons are."
The Commander laughed, and looked around the area, where half the locals were wearing simple robes and pants in their patron deity's colours.
It was their usual casual wear.
"Don't worry, we have a full selection of colours, so you can keep honouring
your patron, but with more flair." Rac inford them.
Today would be another good sales day.
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