After spending half the day with Leonardo discussing the city’s designs and seeing the drawings he had done I said he can start construction as soon as he has the materials.
Leonardo told me that we already had almost all the materials he needed, the ones that were missing are materials that he can get here, what he said we would really need was the techniques that the Elves use during the construction of these houses inside the trees or the houses up in the trees.
I said I would talk to the Elves to see if there were any builders who could teach the Nymphs to do the same.
During the night I had been drugged again, I don’t remember much about what happened next, but I’m sure the one who drugged me was Kira.
I’ve had very few opportunities to see Kira since we got here, but this time she’s been training alone, as part of her training she was probably chasing me all day in hiding, to help her in her training I always smiled looking exactly at the place where she was, so she would have the opportunity to try different things to hide.
This time I had noticed her presence, but I hadn’t noticed the poison in the food until it was too late, this was a very strong poison.
After a long night, all I know is that this room is a mess with clothes strewn everywhere, I get up and cover the four girls, then leave my room and go to the bathroom to take a shower.
As soon as I ate something I went to meet with Ivan and Sapphire, it was no surprise to see everyone in the place where the Dungeon people are staying, besides Sakura was with Jade talking to Sapphire.
I walk over to them, I don’t see Ivan around here, but he must be training at the training ground if I’m not wrong.
“Good morning. (I)
“Good morning, master” (Jade)
“Good morning, master Zenos.” (Sakura)
“Good morning you big heartless bastard.” (Sapphire)
“What an aggressive way to treat someone, what did I do?” (I)
“You left Ivan and me in charge inside the Dungeon for weeks, then yesterday you disappear playing Ivan and me to sort things out.” (Sapphire)
“I have a lot to think about and a lot to do, I didn’t have time to do everything so I left some things I knew you two would have done well.” (I)
“But now I need to talk to you and Ivan one thing, where is he?” (I)
“From what I hear he went to the training grounds to practice his sword swing.” (Sapphire)
“Are you busy right now, Sapphire?” (I)
“Not at the moment, I had a lot to do yesterday, but today more than half of the people are sleeping, so it’s all quiet for now.” (Sapphire)
“So come along with me, let’s find Ivan, I need to talk to the two of them, the others can come if they want.” (I)
“I will go together.” (Sakura)
“I have to train, but this time it will be alone as I will use my poisons.” (Jade)
“Instead of training alone you can call Lilith to train with you, she has resistance to poisons and abnormal status.” (I)
“That’s a great idea, thank you master.” (Jade)
“I’ll look for her now.” (Jade)
After Jade left to find Lilith, I went with Sapphire and Sakura to the training ground where we found Ivan fighting Ramon.
It seems that Ivan has really reached the Lower Catastrophe Grade, he is only losing to Ramon due to a slight difference in strength, but in a matter of combat technique, the two are evenly matched.
After a while of waiting for their battle to end, I call Ivan to go to a restaurant for the four of us to talk about something, we found a restaurant where all dishes use fruit, I was interested in tasting so I went in with the others.
“What are you wanting to talk about, master?” (Ivan)
“What’s the problem we’re going to face this time?” (Sapphire)
“Why do you think you’re going to have any problems? Maybe I just want to talk to you guys normally.” (I)
“You don’t fool anyone.” (Sakura)
“But this time I’m telling the truth, I just wanted to know more about the Annual Monster Wave.” (I)
“Now that you say it, it’s close to that time of year.” (Sapphire)
“To be honest I had forgotten about it, after 20 years trapped in a secret underground room I didn’t even remember it.” (Ivan)
“Why do you want to know about this?” (Sapphire)
“Do you know when this should happen?” (I)
“Should be a little over a month from now.” (Sapphire)
“If we stayed inside the dungeon it wouldn’t be a problem, but if we stayed in this village then we would have a few months of battles, the first week is the worst part.” (Sapphire)
“For you to be talking about this, I imagine you want to fight in this village, right?” (Ivan)
“Yes, but I wanted to ask how do people defend themselves from this Annual Monster Wave?” (I)
“Realms always empty villages that could not defend themselves to walled cities, all Adventurers usually return to their hometown to help defend or stay in the nearest city.” (Ivan)
“The Kingdoms prepare all year for this, the Guilds also help in the defense, the defenses are always very strong, but even so the number of deaths should be between 20% to 60% depending on the number of people helping in the defense and the level of preparation.” (Ivan)
“If there aren’t enough soldiers or Adventurers, if there aren’t enough potions or healers, if the walls aren’t well-tended, or if the number and strength of monsters are greater than expected, then a city can be destroyed or in rare cases, a Entire kingdom can be destroyed.” (Ivan)
“…” (I)
“But these are extreme cases, as this is something that we face every year, it always has defense plans and credible withdrawal plans that can come in handy.” (Ivan)
“People can take refuge in fortresses or castles as a last line of defense, I’ve also heard of cases of cities spreading poison throughout the city to kill or ward off monsters while the population stays safely inside a fortress.” (Ivan)
“This is more serious than I thought, does this happen every year all over the world?” (I) 𝗼𝐯𝐞𝐥．𝐜𝐨𝗺
“Yes.” (Ivan)
“(That’s why there are so many strong people in this world, they face apocalyptic events every year, this world is crazy.)” (I)