"Haa... Ha..." Flora panted heavily, staring at the mutant before her. There were a lot of cut wounds on her body, while the mutant finally fell down to the ground, unable to move anymore. Half of his head had been destroyed from the lightning attack.
But Flora released one more lightning strike to completely destroy its head, ensuring the death of the mutant.
"Finally..." Flora fell to her knees. "This is hard. If not for Nathan's new familiar, I might not be able to defeat the mutant."
Flora tried to thank Jinwu, but when she raised her head, Jinwu was nowhere to be seen. "Where is that guy?"
Jinwu, on the other hand, let out a small cry to alert Nathan.
"!!!" Nathan was startled, but fortunately, he was just monitoring the situation instead of doing anything else. As a result, Jinwu perched on his shoulder.
"Jinwu. Can I call you that?" Nathan asked, taking the initiative in their first conversation. He wanted to see Jinwu's stance about the summoning as well.
"Yes." Jinwu's voice sounded like a teenager instead of a mature guy like his other familiars.
"Alright. Sorry for summoning you out of nowhere. Is anything bothering you? Maybe you've lost something during the summoning or something?" Nathan asked.
"No." Jinwu shook his head. His eyes soon shifted to Fenrir and the others. "It doesn't seem that others are aware of the magnitude of what you have."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm talking about your blood."
"My blood?" Nathan raised his eyebrows. "I know that my blood is special..."
"But you don't know how special it is, right?"
Nathan thought for a moment before confirming it.
'But if Jinwu is telling the truth, this is the only explanation why Risa is able to evolve so quickly after taking my blood. If I offer my blood, it shouldn't be hard for Selena to summon Lilith.
'As for the truth about my body, I will take my time to learn it. It's not that urgent anyway.' Nathan sighed.
"Thank you for telling me this information, Jinwu. You must be exhausted. You can conserve your energy for the time being. I might need you to fight more mature class aliens."
"It's fine. I will be staying on your shoulders for the time being, making sure you're well protected. Unlike those guys, I am the smallest."
"Now that I think about it, your body has shrunk to the size of a normal crow. Other than the fact you have three legs, I can't differentiate you from any other crows."
"That's my battle form. That body allows me to utilize the power of the sun to a certain extent. This is my relaxed form, which allows me to recover my Ena at a similar pace as getting recalled into that space."
"I see." Nathan nodded in understanding. "Still, I will bring Anubis to heal your physical wounds. Everyone has worked hard, so I just need to make sure the rest. Thank you for your hard work."
"You too. You need to take a rest. Your head is releasing some heat."
"Hahaha. I will." Nathan chuckled.
It didn't take too long for Fenrir, Anubis, and Nidhogg to regroup with him. Although it wasn't that far, they had confirmed that there was no sight of mature class aliens. The lower level aliens had also been wiped out, so there was no risk of sudden reinforcement in the next half an hour.
Nidhogg was recalled back while Fenrir returned to his smaller size and accompanied Nathan with Anubis.
Of course, Anubis immediately healed both Fenrir and Jinwu, since their wounds were quite severe.
With the people from the Blacksmith Guild taking over the scouting, Nathan headed back to Flora, who was struggling to walk.
Anubis immediately healed her, while Flora was staring at him for a few seconds, as though she were thinking about something.
All of a sudden, she dropped a bomb. "Nathan. Protecting the princess of the kingdom is a huge achievement, especially in this situation. How about becoming a baron?"