Both of us pulled apart a bit embarrassed with everyone around, but now the people I wanted to see were here and it was time to get down to business. I looked over to the door and found a circular tube sitting on a pole that had a glowing orb about four handspans wide. It was on the opposite of the revival tree.
The blue centerpiece had something inside of it shining and moving, giving off a sapphire candescence similar to Lesha's eyes. I looked around, but Healia must have known what I was looking for because she spoke up.
"The repair shop is on the second floor, and on the third is the Guild members quarters."
"Thank you, Father and Leana, would you follow me? Girls, can you wait for the others to get back, and then tell them where their rooms are if I'm not back down? Gobby will stay with you."
"But K! You just got down here! Can't I come with you? The girls don't want to talk to me!" Gobby complained while wiggling his arms.
"Girls, don't be like that! He is all clean now, and isn't he cute?"
"Don't call him cute, you called me cute, and I am cute. He is a walking bloody eyeball, not cute!" Mie complained, also waving her arms to the side.
"I will try to entertain him, but once he gets started…" Lesha let her words trail off, but I understood what she meant.
"Gobby, please just stay with the girls, Mei, don't be rude, and Lesha...I'll be back soon," I said, but I wanted to say more.
I left the girls and my bloody eyeball to wait for the others, and took my parents upstairs, and entered a door that was previously a wall. Inside was a brick hall that led to the back of the area where there was a brand new forge set up with fresh never been used tools. There was everything my father would need to do all the same things he could at his old job and so much more.
I looked over at my father who was already walking around, touching the anvils, picking up hammers, and testing clamps. I let him walk around and do his inspection in silence, instead of turning to Leana.
"Leana, would you mind coming to work at the Guild helping with running the place? I have Gram helping me right now, but we will need more staff with the more people that we have joined the Guild to help with cleaning and cooking, but I can't be here all the time. I know that you have been at your job," but I was cut off by Leana.
"Of course I will, and it will make it easier for me to teach Miss Mei! Oh, this is wonderful! We will have the whole family working here! James! Come here, you can play with your toys after!" Leana called over to my father.
Dad looked over, finally showing emotion with his face splitting smile, but I looked like there was something more than just tools and a new forge in that smile. He walked over and stood behind Leana and wrapped his arms around her, and then put his hands on her stomach, pressing her upon back to reveal a slightly swollen stomach.
"You're pregnant! Congratulations! When did this happen? Wait, I don't want to know, but that's great!"
"We wanted to tell you, but we wanted you to get your own place, but your father wouldn't bring it up to you. Still, all things happen for a reason, and now you have a beautiful home of your own, and the start of your own family!" Leana said with a smile, leaning back into dad.
"What are you going to do now though? Are you going to move in with dad? Or you could come live here. I have extra rooms, the girls won't be using theirs anytime soon."
"No, I think I'm going to move in with Leana, K. Plus it's time you spread your wings, and you will see more of me than ever now, so maybe its best this way, plus, me and Leana want to spend some alone time, if you know what I mean, hehe," my father said with a smile, but that got him and elbow to the gut.
"Sure, stay and look around if you want or come down, Gram will give you a rundown on things better than I can Leana, so talk to him about things. Father, people will bring you things and order and you know what to do with them. I don't need to tell you how to do your job, but I need to go see how things are going, and I'm getting a bit hungry."
It was almost lunch, so I would have to wait for the others to get back before I can swear in more Guild Members. I left the two, and head back downstairs to see what the girls were up to, but as I got closer to the get, I could hear Mei start to scream bloody murder like she was being chased. I ran out and down the stairs to find Gobby chasing Mei around, both were yelling, and screaming bloody murder, literally.
Lesha had her head down and fingers jammed in her ears, not controlling the situation at all.
"ENOUGH!"
The two froze mid-run, and Lesha looked up with wide eyes.
"You two, go play outside and make all the noise you want, and you!"
Lesha was trying to sneak away, but I glared at her, and she froze, turning her head ever so slowly towards me with a weak smile.
"You were supposed to be watching them, not your feet! Get in the kitchen and help me make some food!"
"Yes Ma'am! You can teach me a lesson later!" Lesha said, racing to the kitchen.
She was around the bar and into the kitchen before I could retort. I was going to teach her a lesson later! That is after she does that thing with her tongue she promised me earlier!
I was about to follow her, but Healia stopped me.
"So, you messed up. Pretty big…" Healia let that trail off while giving me a knowing look.
"What are you talking about? What did I mess up?"
"Did you put points into your guild members?"
I froze and turned to her, and she was giving me a raised eyebrow as I slapped my face. How could I had been so stupid? I had just given Healia shit for trying to help me and look what I do, just to prove her point for her.
"What am I supposed to do?" I asked, hating every word of it.
This was going to make me owe her something in the future. I knew it and so did she. Nothing for it, this would have to be my lesson in bullheadedness.
"You will have to force a level out of the guild. Meaning that you will have to rely on the shared experience that you will get from the Guild Members grinding the dungeon. The best way will be for you to take a party in and then you can take one hundred percent of the total experience as Guild experience," Healia explained.
"Won't the other not be happy if I take the experience, I mean if it's for the Guild it has to be that way but…"
"No, they will get all their experience, but the guild will get the same amount. So it's like a double experience bonus. Don' worry, you're not the first person to need to use this feature. I know what you got, what you did and it was a good buy, but you have to remember about the growth. After you get a potions shop you should focus on your skills," Healia finished explaining.
"Thank you, that is a lot of help."
"You and I both know what I will ask something of you in the future that will make you take back that thank you, so don't bother. Plus, your success is in both our best interests. Go get food and then get a group together and go grind!"
Healia left me and went back to her seat at the single table. Maybe I would get my brothers to bring out more tables and chairs, spruce the palace up a bit. Healia was right, the others would be coming back from the dungeon soon so I should get going to try and get some more done, and maybe push another guild level.
I headed into the back to see what Lesha was doing, and she was cooking some steaks in a frying pan. Ugh, it smelled so good! I was excited to eat, but I went over and told Lesha about my mistake. She smiled at me and rolled my eyes when I told her that I owed Healia a favor.
"Who are we going to take?" Lesha asked me as she tossed in some mushroom with the steak.
"Mei, Gram, and Corbit. Five should get us some good experience."
"What? You want to take the old Guild Master? The Human Hairball?" Lesha asked in confusion.
"Human? Questionable at best, but yes. Gram is a very good Rouge and he would be a good addition with Corbit."
"And Me!" Gobby walking into the kitchen with Mei, and a very wary-looking Corbit.
"Ask as you shall receive. I am glad you are out of bed. Sorry about Healia, she can be a little much."
Corbit gave me a big smile, and then a thumbs up.
"No, thank you! Having my first kiss being from a goddess and being bedridden for a day will for sure boost me to earn my fame and fortune. How many men have lived to tell the tale? Plus, I just heard that we are going into the dungeon and I get to go with the two Guild Masters and your trusted team! I will be the most talked about person in this guild for years to come!" Corbit announced throwing his hand in the air.
"That is good spirit! I would also like while you are with us to know where you learned how to use words to use your mana?"
"To tell you the truth, and this will sound weird, but, you need to look inside yourself. I learned mine from doing some thinking after I had just received a sound beating from so many men that wanted to do the same as that other guy, just using me for bait in a dungeon, but I refused. Anyways, after that happened, I took a look at myself and wanted to try to dig deep to try to see if I was missing something. I guess I already knew something was different deep down, so when I dug for it, it came to me like nothing I have ever felt before."
I would have to look deep inside? Could I do that? How hard would it be? Food wasn't done, so I went and took a chair at the small table, and Mei came and sat on my lap, but I closed my eyes.
Deep, I just had to look inside, that's what Corbit and said, but what did that actually mean? Was I just trying to see into my mind or where did I start looking? I was starting to get frustrated and tried closing my eyes, but still, nothing, but then Mei spoke up.
"Try to look for her voice, that's how I found my word," Mei said leaning back into me.
"Who, Drania? I forget that she can talk to you, but I am supposed to look for her voice?" I asked Mei, pulling her closer to my chest.
"Where you think she comes from, that place deep inside. It's really hard to explain."
"No, I get what you mean, I think I can...hm, I guess that isn't bad?"
The sound that was spoken forwards and backward in my soul was, Bless{Sselb}!
Lesha was almost done with the food, and now I had a spell. all that was left was to convince Gram to join us.
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