Chapter 135: New Allies

After the fight, I went to the defeated Tartarus monsters and tried to get their skills. But it seems that by being undead I can't use it on them.

It's the same when I fought the vampire and the others back at Burliande.

It's a shame because that Lich had some great powers. Infinite Mana, great healing capabilities, increased mana regeneration, stringer defense spells perfect for healing.

We all went back to Izgoy and I'm looking at the reports Velyn made for me. She's diligent and there's reports for everything going on in the kingdom. Farm, training grounds, hunters and so on.

And looking back on the Lich, it was an incredible foe that kept the monsters alive for so long. The fight that would've taken at least five minutes against Herold took much longer and more difficult than expected. I mean the Lich's healing and defense, were pretty insane. The monsters are weak at their defensive points and they're all focused on offense. But the Lich completely negated that weakness those monsters have by keeping them alive and we don't have anyone like that.

Maybe it's time to find another comrade?

Zeta is a mage and yes he does have the skill barrier and some heals. But most of his skill need casting and another skill to defend himself using his dual casting skill.

He has already a lot on his plate for covering us at the back and healing. He's a pure offensive mage so it's difficult for him to act as a support for our team.

And the Lich is an incredible example of a great support that held the team despite being defeated over and over.

I took these thoughts over to Zeta to try and ask for a second opinion.

"I can completely agree with all the points you just listed." Zeta agreed with me.

"That's great." I replied.

"Yeah I can finally be lifted with the support role. I don't have many defensive spells. But if you're going to find a support mage, an enchanter should be the best fit for our group."

"Enchanter?"

"Basically people who gives buffs to a group. Damage boost, defense, mana regeneration, health regeneration, barrier, durability buffs, health increase and so on and so forth. They can give us a large advantage in battle. But as for the healing part... Not so much. They usually dedicate their lives to learn skills that'll be focused on combat situations."

"I see... That is important. How about just a plain old healer?"

"It's decent... I guess? I mean, healers only gives barrier and of course, heals the party. But healers are incredibly powerful that they can save you in near death situations. Their healing capabilities can heal you from a sliver of health to full in an instant. Broken bones? Repaired. Dislocates body parts? Repaired. Impaired vision, hearing, missing body parts? That can be easily recovered with their skills. Illnesses, curses and such? Healers are the way to go."

"Those are incredibly interesting. But I'm going to be dwelling on what to choose... Zeta, what do you think?"

"If you want my honest opinion, I think we should go for the enchanter. Most of us have healing that can recover us from any situation. Like you, you don't feel pain and just as I saw your battle with Zeraph you continued to use the arm that Zeraph broke. Greta is a werewolf so she has a passive natural increased regeneration. Healing wounds with ease. I don't know about the others but I'm sure enchanters are better."

"Hmm... How about we just get the both of them?"

"Well that's a problem in itself too. If we're going to be fighting a large scale war, the three of us mages will be the main targets and I'm the only offense mage."

"Now that you talk about it... We... We don't have a tank right...?"

"Ah-" It seems that Zeta also realized it. "It seems so..."

"Without a tank we can't charge in without getting damaged."

"Yeah... As of now we only relied on Precia with her skill 'Taunt' to lure the attention of the monsters to her. But her defensive capabilities aren't that strong. We need something to protect the mages we'll bring in. But there's also an alternative to this dilemma."

"What is it?"

"An assassin."

"Hoo... Interesting. Continue."

"Well if people got near the mages the tank can use the skill 'Taunt' and then the offensive mages the tank is defending will blast all of its skills at the taunted enemies. Tanks has a skill that can make them invulnerable for a few seconds so friendly fire isn't really a problem. It's the bread and butter combination of a tank protecting the backline. But!"

"But?"

"An assassin will simply kill the enemies in a large radius around the mages preventing the enemies from entering their range of attack."

"I guess that's an interesting take on it. A tank will be more helpful for utility and such and we'll be able to take more risky operations using a tank since there's nothing that will stop it."

"And if we get an assassin we will upgrade our damage output and we can send this assassin to somewhere to of course, assassinate someone."

"Hmm... I see, I see. Then we'll have to act quickly. We'll get the two mages and an assassin. Just pick out someone here at Izgoy. Find at least 10 of each, send them to Afal and he'll know what to do since I'll tell him later."

Afal nd Zeta followed my orders accordingly and held a small competition. I didn't took a look at it that much because for the two weeks the competition ran on, I was traversing and scouting the whole continent figuring out the behavior of the monsters Precia brought here. But it seems that my worries weren't needed.

I set aside my worries for now and focused on these two new allies before me. Zeta gave me some small information like how they're just around level 20 and their names.

"Greetings. I'm Zieglind. I know that the selection came out of nowhere and I'm glad to have you all here today. Introduce yourselves."

The male that looked like around his twenties first spoke. "I'm Feran Durtha. I'm an enchanter. I'm hoping get along with you my lord. And my beautiful twin sist-"

"EHEM!" The person Feran pointed at suddenly cleared her throat in an obviously loud sound to gather attention. Feran suddenly flinched and this woman spoke. "I'm Helga Durtha and I'm a healer. For now I can only cleanse low level poisons and such but most of my healing capabilities are pretty great. I hope that I can be of use to you my lord."

"I see." I nodded at them signalling them that I accept them here. "And you there? What's your name?" I pointed at my back.

Feran spoke, "My lord there's nothing ther-" He was suddenly cut off when the invisible person behind me turned visible and tried to attack my nape by piercing their dagger into it.

I simply blocked their dagger with one hand and their face suddenly turned pale. I finally saw their face. He tried to leap back but my grip on the dagger prevented that so he abandoned his weapon and leaped back.

I called out to Zeta and he understood what I wanted to hear. "Poison, Paralyze, Dark Magic and Bleed on the dagger."

"So... Am I worthy?" I asked the mysterious man.

He was still cautious but he lowered his guard and put his dagger on his sheathe on his side. "Yes. Apologies for suddenly attacking you. I was doubting if any master can handle my skills. First I swore to lord Afal since I admired his strength. But it seems that you're stronger than him since he's under you."

"I see. What's your name?"

"My name is Neco Ryrian. An assassin."

"Great. Everyone's here. To join the Crimson Knights you all have only one thing to do. Change your last names to Reysh. It's a proof that you're simply not in a group. But a family."

The twins looked at each other.

Helga was the first to speak, "I... I mean I don't mind it. Hmph!"

Feran's face suddenly lighted up, "Well if my beloved tsundere sister doesn't mind it then I also don't mind it."

Helga then punched Feran straight to the head. "Who are you calling a tsundere!?"

I ignored their playful banter and took a glance at Neco. "You?"

He looked at me and said, "No objections."

I stood up from where I sat and signed a command to silence them all and they followed. "Good. Since you are all just around level 20, we need to raise that up to at least level 200 or so in the next few months. Tomorrow we'll set off and do a nonstop hunt to fight monsters."

It seems that my family will be much louder with the addition of these three.