Chapter 47 - Long Term Command

Luis peeked from behind a large tree to see that the guard which he had knocked out earlier was up and back to his duty, he only hoped that the guard wouldn't be able to explain what happened earlier to himself.

"How do we get past him now?" Ella asked.

"I'm trying to think of something," Luis said and then sat down with his back against the tree.

The sun was about to start setting and they needed to get back to the school before it got dark.

"Maybe if you had those wolves of yours, you would have used them to create a distraction."

"No, that's too dangerous, what happens if they stumble into an innocent person and I'm not close to control them?"

"Oh," Ella said and then kept quiet to allow Luis to think.

After discovering that their school was located on a mountain all the unnecessary cold was explained, the school must be doing something to keep its surroundings warm for the students.

Luis looked down carefully to see if he could recognize anyplace from up there but since he hadn't been in Crockel for long he couldn't recognize any of the places he was seeing.

"Do you know this place?" He asked Ella.

"Of course not."

"I'm talking about those places," Luis said pointing down.

Ella was quiet for a while as she tried to recall if she had been anywhere near here.

"That place," Ella said pointing at a particular spot.

"Which place?"

"That one there."

Luis followed her hand to see that she was pointing at a green field surrounded by large trees from their side.

"I don't know if that's the particular one, but my dad always brought us to a greenfield like this for a picnic." As she said those last words Luis detected a little bit of pain in her voice.

"Please don't read my mind." She said turning away from Luis.

[ Mind read deactivated ]

"Sorry."

Luis had already activated it but he didn't get any useful information before Ella predicted that he was going to use it.

"It's not your fault," Ella said and began climbing down.

"Where are you going?"

"We have already gotten the information we came here for. Haven't we? So we should return now before it gets dark." Ella said and continued climbing down.

Luis looked down for a little while before deciding to join her.

"What are you going to do with them?" Ella asked, looking at the wolves which were still minding their business doing what Luis told them to do.

"I don't know…."Luis said, scratching his head.

Luis opened up his system and started to check if there was anything that could help him know what to do because it was certain that once he started going back to school, they would follow him.

[ Tamed Creatures ]

Luis came across a tab which he hadn't seen before and decided to open it.

[ Tamed Creatures ]

[ Wolves: 3 ]

[ Skills ]

[ Long term command ]

[ Duration: 30 days ]

[ Forces the creature to do its master's bidding for 30 days without any form of disobedience even when the master is far away ]

Luis didn't even bother to look at the other skills because this was all he needed.

[ Long term command: Activated ]

[ State your bidding ]

"Stay here and do not go anywhere near there till I return," Luis said pointing at the tallest building in the school which they could see from there.

"Are you sure they won't follow you?"

[ 1/1 bidding in progress ]

[ -10 HP ]

[ Bidding cannot be reversed once in progress until the duration is complete ]

'What? Why did I get that much deducted from my HP, while nothing happened to me?' Luis thought, looking around to see if something had attacked him.

His only guess was that it had to do with this creature's skill but he didn't understand why it had to make use of that much hp.

He asked his system but got no reply concerning what just happened.

'Whatever, I'll just have to eat to refill it.'

Luis left with Ella to return to school and the wolves didn't even make any attempt to follow him.

"Any idea yet, it's getting late," Ella said.

Luis would have gone to use his attraction again but he didn't want what happened this morning to repeat, it wasn't nice to force people to develop fake feelings for you, especially someone like Ella.

"I will create a distraction, once he goes to check it out, we make the run for it."

"Ok," Ella said.

The guard was doing his duty of keeping people from going into the woods, that was when he heard a loud explosion in that same woods, he quickly turned and the next thing he saw was a fire.

"Demons!" The man screamed in panic and then ran off.

Luis and Ella used the opportunity to get out of the woods and then made their way straight into the school without saying anything.

The duo walked quietly until they got within the first year's dormitory area.

"When you said to create a distraction, I didn't think you would set the place on fire." Ella was the first to speak.

"That was the best I could come up with."

'And it took all I had to do that.' He added in his thoughts.

[ Firepoints: 2/60 ]

Luis checked his firepoints which were slowly recovering. Setting the place ablaze wasn't what used up his firepoints; his firepoints got used up in his effort of trying to make a very loud sound.

"I just hope they get it under control before the whole place gets burnt down," Ella said.

"They will."

Luis was so lost in his thoughts while walking with Ella that he didn't know when he followed her to the front of her room which she shared with Silvia.

"Oh, I shouldn't be here," Luis said and then looked around to see if there was anybody around.

"Don't worry about that, don't you need a drink after all that walking?"

"No," Luis said, shaking his head.

"Fine, see you later then," Ella said, opening the door.

"Ok."

Luis had only taken three feet forward when he heard Ella come out from the room.

"Any problem?"

"No, it's just Silvia, she left a note telling me to meet her at the training room."

"Silvia?"

"Yes," Ella answered.

"Can I come with you?" Luis asked.

'Why does he suddenly want to come with me? Does he have something for Silvia, what am I even saying? Of course, he does.' Ella thought not knowing that Luis had other intentions far from what she was thinking.

"You didn't read my mind, did you?"

"No," Luis replied.

"Ok." She said and started walking to the training room while Luis followed her.

"Ouch!" Was the first scream they heard when they entered the room and that came from Dylan who just got kneed in the stomach by Silvia and was lying on the floor.

Ace himself was sitting on the floor with his back against the wall and he wasn't looking any better than Dylan.

"What's going on here?" Ella asked.

Dylan turned to the door to see Luis standing close to Ella.

"Help me, Luis." He grunted before passing out.

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