Chapter 91

Chapter 91

Ajax woke up the next morning to find that Tom had stayed up the entire night with Fluffy still the shadow cat was curled up in a ball with shallow breathing all but radiating mana.Looking out the tent flap he noticed the sun was already out for a while so he approached his brother.

“You need to report for duty, the ceasefire just ended.” he said but didn’t let Tom respond before he continued. “ I’ll take care of her, If I feel anything change in her mana I’ll get her to the healers and send somebody to grab you.”

This seemed to be enough to reassure him as he softly petted his bond before getting up to leave. “Thanks” he said as he squeezed one of Ajax’s shoulders before walking out of the tent and picking up his speed to a jog.

About an hour later Kate had woken up, it seems she finally recovered from fatigue and drained and was now finally in tip-top shape. She carefully examined Ajax before applying all of her healing. The gash on his leg had now healed a thick crust still marked the top of the wound but it would all be gone by nightfall, not only that but the bruise also dropped to the side of a golf ball and would soon be gone as well.

Now that he was more alert and rested he paid more attention to the process. Unlike regular casting, healing seemed to work differently, not only did the healer have to gather mana outside of her but also infuse it into the patient slowly before chanting the spell. This is why high level healers were so hard to come by, it took a lot of skill and practice to be able to infuse enough mana for some of the stronger spells in both a reasonable time frame and without hurting the patient.

Without the pressure of time Kate spent half an hour redressing his wounds, after all her efficiency would be higher this way so why rush. A few minutes after they were done Fluffy had also finally woken up and started to move.

The cat quickly got its bearings before jumping into Ajax’s lap and purring contently. With a small smirk on his face Ajax petted her to find that her fur was now even softer than it was before, not only that it seemed like her even her eyes started glowing slightly stronger than before. Whatever had happened it clearly helped the young pup.

With Fluffy finally being fine the three all went out to breakfast, though both Kate and Ajax were kitted out in their full gear. With the ceasefire over everybody had to be ready to move at a moment's notice.

It was highly surprising for most of the camp when their afternoon consisted of training drills with very little to suggest the war hungry state they had been in a few days earlier. Tom joined Ajax halfway through but was quickly mobbed by everyone on the field, they all wanted to know what was going on.

“Woah, woah. Calm down everyone and shut up. I don’t want to repeat myself for every person so just listen.” he tried to wrangle the crowd. “The reason why we aren’t moving yet is because both sides have had their spies culled and are only now sending out more with the ceasefire finished. We would likely have a good idea on the situation by tonight and tomorrow we expect to be on the move again. As it is, everybody with some experience in stealth and infiltration has already been sent out.”

After Tom said that Ajax noticed that he hadn’t seen the hunter squad leader or the veteran all day, only the rookie was with him at training. If even the hunters were pulled for spy duty it means that they are looking to end this war quickly.

Everybody was surprisingly happy at the news, Ajax supposed that this was because a lot of them were quite a bit older than he was and had families they wanted to get back to, after spending the last three months away from them.

The rest of the day moved on without any excitement up until the end of training. As everyone was finally released for the day a small crowd had formed a circle, after trying and failing to squeeze his way through, Ajax quickly climbed up a post to try and get a look from above.

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Increased Perception by 10.

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Excessive stamina usage repeated over short time causes fatigue.(Has been discovered by others before you)

He didn’t have time to waste, at the speed it was moving the comet would be out of sight in a few minutes so he sprung into action.

“Tom, Kate wake up!” He spoke loudly, almost yelling in his excitement as he dragged the two out of bed and outside the tent before they even had a chance to get their bearings.

“What is it?” Tom yawned.

“Look there, see that little white spot moving across the sky?” Ajax excitedly said, showing his teenager demeanor for the first time in years.

“This is why you dragged us out of bed at this h-” his tirade stopped abruptly as Ajax noticed both his and Kate’s eyes gloss over, in the distinct way that symbolizes someone reading a message from the system or their status.

“I’ll go tell the commander.” Tom quickly broke out of his shock and dashed away leaving Ajax standing out there with Kate in her nightwear.

“This does seem like a good enough reason to literally drag us out of bed.” she said with mock annoyance before leaning in to give him a warm hug and whisper “Thanks.”

As Tom was running around informing the commander and Kate sluggishly returned to bed Ajax was left thinking more and more about what achievements did and how they worked.

He came to the conclusion that achievements are actually the main reason why humanoids are so low on the food chain in this world. The presence of magic that makes scientific innovations less important for comfort, the presence of much stronger beings in the forms of Dragons but the way achievements worked must have been the biggest hurdle.

It actively stopped the way humans reached the top of the food chain on Earth. Because discoveries had to be made by the person and not taught, it discouraged sharing information and education.