—–
I have the Summon Skill, with it, I can summon any ally, either raised undead or someone “below” my protection to my side, it pretty much allows them to be teleported to my side even if they are in the other side of the world, of course, I cannot unsummon them and throw them back or something, so if I ever summon them to my side, they’ll have to go back on their own or just stick with me, so unless I am in a big pickle where I really need support, I won’t summon them, as I want the ghosts and Catarina to protect our town from anything dangerous that might happen.
“So you’re going out, huh? We’ll get you done the greenhouse before you come back.” Said Darfu.
“Yeah, go ahead, we’ll get it done by then.” Said Baldur.
“We’ll make some more houses after we get that done, probably we’ll build some more security.” Said Balladur. “I had been thinking on repairing the walls and making a new door for them.”
“What? Isn’t that a lot of work though?” I asked.
“Well you got the personnel for it, look at all these skeleton and zombies walking around, I am sure they can help us out.” Said Baldur.
“So go ahead, missy, we’ll get it done when you come back.” Said Balladur.
“To think that the only thing you two lazy twins needed to get moving was some booze… Well, good thing I went to buy again to replenish the reserves… Thought its taking a big hit into my finances, you two cost a lot to maintain!” I sighed.
“Hahahahahaha!”
The two dwarves began to laugh without answering anything else, and Darfu gave me an apologetic smile. These two guys are really quite something… But they’re competent, so I cannot really say they don’t deserve their booze.
“Now that we are done we should get going… Before it’s too late.” Said Lucifer.
“Yeah, you’re right… But too late for what?” I wondered.
“Mister Dragon!”
“Papa dragon!”
“Dragoooon!”
“Lizard!”
“Big lizard!”
“Agh…” Sighed Lucifer, covering his face in embarrassment, as a dozen of children ran to his side and began playing around his giant body, climbing his tail and arms, as they seemed to be sad that he was going away.
“Oooh! So it was the kids you didn’t wanted to see… Hey, isn’t that super cruel? Have a heart and tell them that you’re coming back soon!” I said angrily.
“I-It’s… Okay…” He sighed. Lucifer looked at the children as he seemed to act gentle and compassionate.
“Children, I am going out now, for an important mission, so please don’t climb on me…” He sighed.
“Luci, where are you going?”
“I… I am going to a far away kingdom to defeat some evil guys, so you all better behave while I am not here!” Said Lucifer.
“Okaaay!”
“I’ll miss you!”
“BUAAAAH! Don’t go!”
Some children were okay with it, while a few began to cry out loud, Lucifer had to pet them all gently with his giant dragon claws and his tail, until they calmed down when we offered them some caramel-covered fruits.
“You would make a good dad, don’t you?” I laughed while sitting on his lap.
“D-Don’t joke with something like that!” He said while seemingly embarrassed, but it was hard to tell when he was a giant dragon.
Lucifer quickly spread out his wings as he began to flap them rapidly, quickly carrying us over the skies as we started to fly across the clouds. The town became smaller and smaller from the skies, as I noticed the floating island we saw some time ago, it was still in almost the same position as before, I think.
“That island is still there, isn’t it?” Said Lucifer.
“Yep, it seems that it doesn’t even move from there, what’s up with that place?” I wondered.
“Oh, I never saw that thing! Floating Island? Is that how it’s called? It’s just a big chunk of land floating in the sky…” Said Partner.
“Precisely dear, that’s what it is.” I said.
“Floating Island… They’re a rare occurrence, but it is said that in other continents they’re more common, perhaps in the continent of Niflheim, where we elves originate from.” Said Emeraldine.
“Oho? So they’re from that continent then? Do you know their origin?” I wondered.
“My mother used to tell me tales about floating islands before bed…” Said Emeraldine, as she seemed to smile tenderly by recalling those memories. “She said that this world was once dominated by titans, enormous people that walked amongst the land and said to be the parents of the giants. Their very steps flattened the land and made the world tremble… In those times, they sky and the earth were unstable, and as they marched across the world, they kicked mountains that got in their way, these mountains instead of falling began to float instead, becoming floating islands… In the past the world was filled with them, but after the titans were defeated by the gods, the floating islands were destroyed in such a war, and now they’re very rare.”
“Wow… That was more than just a simple tale, isn’t it?” I wondered.
“Well yes, it is part of the religion of the Elves, a small tale told to the children about the past. Religion always tries to explain the existence of things after all.” Said Emeraldine. “My mother told me that tale when we saw a floating island once, it was different than this one, it was a floating island covered on ice, with a big mountain on top… I still recall it quite clearly, every time that island passed across the skies, it would snow and get very cold. Some said that it was the palace of the Goddess of Snow, Skadi. And that she brought Winter by traveling across the world and spreading the unforgiving coldness of ice and snow… I think they were partially right, after we saw that island, it began to snow for months until winter ended.”
—–