Chapter 385: Unexpected guest

Chapter 385: Unexpected guest

After his bath Nick got dressed in his pajamas before heading for the manors dining room to eat dinner. It was a simple meal of vegetable beef stew but in such a large quantity that it could be mistaken as a party sized portion. Sadly it was not as Nick and Steve were the ones eating it entirely. Nazguls dinner on the other hand involved a large portion of Colo-colo souls and all. Much like the acromantulas though there were so many on the island that she barely dented their numbers.-

Dusk meanwhile was eating off of a platter stacked high with barbequed meat while in his tiny fuzzball form since he finally underwent rebirth to regrow his tail feather. The one he had lost because of Peeves had been in Nicks possession since that day but he was saving it for a special purpose. To be specific Nick was planning to create a very powerful wand out of it but hadn't had the time to devote to veritology until now to really improve his mastery of the subject. At best his wood and rune carving skills had improved greatly but the subject was more than just those two facets.-

Sadly there was a very large problem with wands in general that anyone paying attention to history could spot. After they were introduced it suddenly became much harder to grow very powerful and the average level of power amongst the magical community dropped sharply. The reason for this was that the wielders of the wands stopped remembering that the wands were tools to help them cast magic not the source of the magic. A wizard stripped of their wand suddenly found themselves at the mercy of their enemy and thus little better than a muggle.-

Slowly the mastery of magic itself that the ancient wizards had faded until mere wisps of it remained in the ancient tombs scattered around the world. 'But none of that is my business at the moment.' Nick thought after finishing his meal and heading up to his room to sleep. As a vampire Lucas didn't actually need to sleep so a single light in the manor remained on for the rest of the night. Nick was alerted by the ward to the island that someone had entered the island without permission slightly before dawn which woke him up. 'Was it dumb luck or did someone actually manage to track me down somehow?' he thought as he got dressed and rushed out of the room in a rush.-

"We have an unexpected visitor , prepare for combat!" Nick said seriously before Lucas could even say good morning. Lucas immediately pulled out his own wand from before he became a vampire with a serious expression before following Nick. They quickly made their way out of the manor and Nick commanded the atronachs patrolling the outskirts of the manor to follow them closely. "RAAAAAAAWW!" A loud roar came from the northern part of the island that Nick recognized as belonging to Seram and they hurried over that way.