“Kid, you’ve been gone only a week and you already got a brat! I must say you're quite quick? So which lass is the lucky one?” The dwarf blacksmith said as he saw Valery.

“Shut it Fatnose! This is a monster in human form. She is the daughter of a minion I recently acquired.” I said.

“Oi! Who you calling fatnose! Mine is reasonable!” He shouted back.

“Calm down Brock, he is just teasing. So what did you need?” Johnson, the head carpenter, said.

“I need a carriage, or maybe a stagecoach. We are planning to go to the elves nation and walking all the way won’t be fun and let's not forget that this child was just born a few minutes ago.” I said.

“It’s better a stagecoach then, they bounce around much less since they are wider and more well built. That said it will take at least 3 days to build one. Unlike those rooms of yours this is a more complex work and not to mention the cushions and all that must be ordered from the tailor.” Johnson said.

“Mr. Brock, do you mind making the axis and wheels out of iron or steel. This is more so that we don’t have to worry about them breaking?” Charlotte said.

“I don’t mind miss, boy got any improvements we can make for it, since yer a hero you must have stuff we don’t know about.” Brock asked.

Thinking a moment I think of a seriously important thing. I explain what I know about suspension system and how to use the spring to suppress the impacts. Obviously it won’t be as good as modern day suspension but it’s a start and just this is enough to cause a stagecoach’s price to skyrocket since the jumping and bad roads will affect the passengers much less.

“Alright, I’ll get onto trying ta make these with the boys. Johnson, get building the body.” Brock said.

The two men soon left but before that Johnson turned to me and said something important.

“You should visit the tailor and make some clothes for the girl, it would be bad to leave her just wrapped in a blanket.”

We do as advised and visit the tailor who was an old grandmother type and when we showed her the sleeping girl her eyes sparkled seeing how cute the silver wolf girl was. She was still asleep but with me holding her sitting up she could at least get the more important measurements of the shoulder length, waist length and such. I asked for her to make just a few one piece white dresses and a few fur blankets, I used wolf and rabbit pelts as payment and material for the blanket and paid in coin for the dress. I also asked for a few coats for her to us.

“Heh, Ace you do realize you're acting like an expecting father.” Hermes said chuckling.

“Am I? I did promise I would take care of her so I don’t think I am excessive or doting.” I said.

“Yeah but you’re a crude blockhead yet you are caring for the girl with so much care and even taking care to not remove the blanket from the waist down when she was measuring.” Misaki said with a mischievous grin.

“Stop teasing him Shinigumi-san and Hermes. He is the diligent father type even if he tries to make himself seem really cold.” Charlotte said joining in the teasing.

“Hey, I just don’t feel right leaving her without clothes.” I said.

“You should know Ace, a spirit remains in human form until their level rises to around 20 before they have enough power to change into their real form. In her case, similar to her mother, they use moonlight essence to make their clothing but she can only do that after she gathers enough power as well. If I had told you that she can make her own clothes would you have been angry?” Charlotte said.

“I would have said, warn me first. Still at least it was the right choice, until she wakes up I can’t really just leave her in the book since she won’t understand anything but I think it’s best to plant Veria’s blossom quickly.” I say and open my book.

I look at Veria’s image and press it with my pen making the adjacent page turn from blank to showing her main information. At the bottom was a ‘plant bound soul seed.’ button. I found that soul seed thing strange but as I press it the blossom seed came out again. I turn the page to the wolf dungeon and press at the boss room and put it on the rock.

It enters and plants itself and I see the huge drop in mana regeneration once more.

The gathered mana in the book handled it well enough though and I send the guardian and farmers to tend to it. I also press on Valery’s and try to do the same but couldn’t which meant she had to plant them herself.

Grrrr

A sudden growl caught us by surprise as it sounded like a beast's growl.

“Wha!”

GRRRRR!

Sounding almost like a roar I look down as I pinpoint the source coming from the small wolf girl’s stomach. Her face was frowning and her eyes were opening but rapidly forming tears.

“Muuu WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” She suddenly started to cry and it goes without saying that her cry was extremely loud!

The tailor came rushing out from the back as she saw the girl crying.

“What in blazes!” She shouted.

“She is hungry! Do you have any meat or food?!” I quickly asked.

The tailor quickly nods and calls her assistants to get some of the salted and dried meat.

Soon they arrived with some cut slices.

The crying girl stops crying and sniffs the air with tears in her eyes and looks around and soons spots the meat and looks curiously and stands on my lap letting the blanket drop before in a single bound crossed the room and landed right at the foot of the assistant before strangely trying to grab at the plate. What was strange was that her jump crossed 5 meters but now she was hopping up like a normal little child wanting to take back her toys.

“Give it to her.” the tailor said.

The assistant lowers the plate and she looks at the meat and puts her face near it and sniffs and makes a frown and takes a piece and begins to chew it but her eyes go wide and she spits it back out with a resounding ‘patui!’ right before she started to cry.

She ran back to me and looked at me crying.

“What do we do?” Misaki asked.

“What type of beastman doesn’t like meat?” the tailor asked.

“She is a silver spirit queen wolf. She isn’t a common beastman.” I said.

“Oh why didn’t you say so, spirits live off mana or magic beasts with their attribute!” The tailor said.

“Mana? Wait the rune!” I said and took my pen and opened my book and found the glowing ‘Moon’ rune which was releasing the profound feeling I was able to comprehend. I drew the ‘Moon’ rune and as soon as it took shape and released its mana the girl’s eyes instantly shot up to it with a vicious glint. She did a small jump onto my lap lunged at the rune and in one felled swoop caught it in her mouth mid air and as she landed she kept chewing with her hands on her cheeks and a look of bliss.

Everyone was caught off guard before the old tailor started to laugh.

“Boy, this child is quite interesting. Since her race is known to survive off moonlight you should regularly feed her a number of those runes things and make a place for her to slowly draw in that energy.” The tailor said.

“I have a place, I was just waiting for her to wake up.” I said.

“Papa! Papa! Food! Food!” the little wolf girl said.

She was pulling my hand looking at me with pleading eyes.

The words she said once more took me by surprise but my party were shocked before they started to giggle.

“Why did you call me papa?” I asked.

She looks at me with her big silver eyes and tilted her head confused then made a big bright smile.

“Papa is papa, mama made Valery and papa named Valery so papa is papa!” She said and asked for food again.

I make a few more moon runes before she jumped up and fell asleep in my arms. I wrap the blanket around her again so that she wouldn’t be seen naked again.

“Well, she is spirited.” I say.

“A child must be. Now let us get back to work, you, boy, should start to learn how to take care of her.” the tailor said.

“Yeah ‘Papa’ you need to take good care of your little girl.” Misaki says grinning.

“Come on Shinigumi-sama, ‘Papa’ has it hard since he is the only one that can feed her.” Hermes joined in.

“Can you idiots stop this already!” I shouted.

“Shh! You're going to wake up Valery… ‘Papa’.” Charlotte saying blushing but with a smile since she couldn’t resist herself.

I sigh and the three laugh together.

We go out and walk to the same house we stayed before. I let them go in while I open the magic hole. I told them I need to have her plant her blossoms to get the most benefit since it's still early. The longer they are planted the better the result.

In the boss room I find the puppets bent over with their roots out tending to the flower. The area was pulsing green.

As we arrive Valery opened her eyes and it shines.

“MOON!” She shouted and jumped out of my arms and began to look around and saw the big moon stone and looked mesmerized by it.

After a long time she looked at the blossom and walked over.

“Mama…” She said.

A small flash of moonlight from the flower made her startled but she took a step back and closed her eyes.

A moment later three seeds came out of her forehead and planted itself form a square formation of four blossoms.

At once I felt a rush of mana when they were planted as my book rapidly released a torrent of mana to supplement the flowers.

“Puppets, tend to all the flowers.” I say and instantly the flow dropped by 20% but I walk over and watch as the flowers readily suck up my gathered mana and the crystals on the book vanish until all four are planted causing the flow to stop and slowly begin to trickle out mana from within.

“Okay it’s planted.” I said and pat Valery’s head.

“Mn! Mama told me to plant them…” She said.

“That’s good, once a month when these pretty flowers die you need to replant them okay?” I say and she nods with a smile and hugs me and I lift her up.

“Now, do you want to stay in the little house or here?” I asked.

She looked at me and looked around and up.

“Can papa stay with Valery? It’s feels nice here but I will miss papa?” She said teary eyed.

I smile wryly and thought of how I could remain here and could only think of making a bedroom through upgrade but all my crystals were used up to make the flowers.

“I can’t stay for now because I need to make a room for myself if I want to stay in here.” I say.

“Boo! I will stay with papa then!” She said and hugged me tightly around the neck then fastened her legs around my chest and tried her best to lock them behind my back but her legs didn’t reach that far.

“Alright alright, not hugging so much, I won’t leave you but for now you can play in here, the big wolves will listen to you but don’t hurt them or do ridiculous things or leave this place with any of them. I will be in the little house just outside okay?” I said.

“Mn!” She said and jumped down and ran off but instantly stopped to watch the moonlight flames curiously.

“No wonder the other children were caught by the demon lord. They are too innocent early on and have no sense of danger.” I thought as I walked past her but after I was out of earshot I called several older wolves and ordered them to watch over her and if needed softly discipline them on my order or if she does something drastic, to bring her to me.

With that I leave and enter the house where the others were just talking.

“Ah! Papa returned, did you leave your little sweetie in the doggy daycare?” Misaki asked with a serious expression.

“Shut up glutton! Now what are you guys doing?” I asked annoyed.

“Nothing much, I had just asked Hermes how he makes the health potions he brought us.” Charlotte said.

“Oh, speaking of which, have you been able to train any puppets into alchemists? I haven’t checked the minion page recently besides when planting the seed for Veria.” I asked.

“You should look yourself.” He replied with a grin.

I did just that and opened up the page showing all puppet minions class and level.

Current Puppet Minion Overview

Guardian

Warrior

Acolyte

Archer

Guardian Level 75

Warrior (Halberd) Level 13

Warrior (Spear) Level 10

Warrior (Spear) Level 9

Acolyte (Leader) Level 7

Acolyte Level 5

Acolyte Level 5

Archer (unevolved) Level 2

Archer (unevolved)

Level 2

Archer (unevolved)

Level 1

Swordsman

Farmer

Craftsman

Beast

Swordsman Level 12

Farmer Level 18

Farmer Level 17

Farmer Level 17

Craftsmen Level x4

Armored Canine Beast Level 14

Armored Feline Beast Level 15

Armored Rodent Beast Level 10

Alchemist

Alchemist Level 3

Alchemist Level 2

“Oh, so you got two of them to evolve, nice. That said, I can’t evolve any more since I already have 12 minion types. And here I wanted to make carpenters and blacksmiths.” I said.

“I think you can still make them. I did notice that one of the puppets you sent me learned alchemy but didn’t evolve I am not sure but there may be something else beyond it. I am sure he learned the alchemy skill because he now works automatically which isn’t the case before.” Hermes said.

“Maybe the puppets can learn skills without evolving.” Charlotte said.

“That is a possibility, but since we don’t have the time for it now we can only wait for when we reach the elves nation. They shouldn’t be any shabier in blacksmithing then the dwarves considering in our fantasy stories they are the only ones that know how to work with mithril.” I said.

“That is true in our world as well. That said, I have heard the elves have a somewhat eccentric personality as a whole no matter what type of elf they are eccentric in one way or another.” Charlotte said.

“I heard that too. Though I heard from master that wood elves are some of the stranger ones. By that I mean they seem to love hoarding flowers and plants of high magic content that can cause effects to the body when brewed into potions differently. It’s said they have even discovered how to make a true love potion which makes someone fall into a trance and makes them fall for the first person they see.” Hermes said.

“For me, I heard of high elves, they possess a supreme hearty personality and it's said that towards criminals, they take pleasure in whipping them in public to humiliate them.” Charlotte said.

My brows rose and Misaki’s lips were parted from the surprise of hearing how elves acted. Still what they said seemed strange.

“For us, elves should normally be modest but wear really skimpy clothes due to their free nature loving ways. They are also virtuous even though they don’t fear showing off a lot of skin.” I said.

We talked a bit before deciding to go do our own things.

For me, I went to my room to finally finish organizing the new runes. As a result this is the full list I have formed by category of Runes.

Elements

Shapes

Unique

Directions

Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Light, Dark, Ice, Lightning, Sand, Metal, Mana, Wood, Lava, Space, Storm, Steam, Blood, Life

Ball, Spike, Shards, Pillar, Chain, Blade

Enchant, Curse, Harden, Accelerate, Shrink, Explode, Trapping, Lengthen, Shorten, Widen, Rise, Fall, Vein, Pocket, Seal, Void

Forward, Upwards, Curving Left, Curving Right, Backwards, North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West and Northwest

Weak effects

Action

Trigger

Beast

Slow Healing, Heal, Slow Poison, Poison, Weak Antidote, Antidote, Weak Fear, Fear, Weak Paralysis, Paralysis

Lunge, Spin, Revolve, Guard, Slice, Slash

Delay Activation, Slow Charge

Spawn, Wolf, Tiger, Rabbit, Lizard, Snake, Cat, Dog, Bird, Fish, Bear

Locations

Objects

Measurement

Number

Hell, Heaven

Moon, Star, Rock

Centimeter, Meter, Kilometer, Inch, Feet, Mile

Zero, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine

Color

Stats

Weapons

Vegetation

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet

Strength, Agility, Intelligence, Wisdom, Endurance, Vitality, Health, Mana

Sword, Spear, Lance, Wall, Bow, Axe, Dagger, Club, Mace, Staff, Bo-staff, Javelin

Vine, Tree, Flower

Minerals

Insects

Iron, Copper, Tin, Coal

Spider, Fly, Wasp, Bee, Worm, Ant

I seriously wish I could erase the Insect section. It makes my skin itch and feel uncomfortable for some reason.

That said the rest are all interesting though not many are useable in combat but in dungeons they will bring me lots of benefits. Like the minerals plus the ‘Vein’ rune can make a mineral vein of those types and maybe I can even make a mana vein with the element rune plus the ‘Mana’ and ‘Vein’ rune.

I wonder though what the beast runes are for. If summoning things weren’t so mana costly I would make a summoning magic formation with ‘Moon’ ‘Rabbit’ runes and see if there is any success but I would need to add the slow charge so that I wouldn’t suffer the backlash of having mana sucked out of me.

The rabbits I have though are spreading rapidly in the dungeon with already some 100 or so each forming dens in the rooms but the floors and walls are undiggable so they can’t make dens there. If I had Exp crystals I could probably upgrade a wooden room to large room and have it be filled with dirt which would allow the rabbits to make their den inside that dirt filled room.

Doing nothing else important for the rest of the day I pick up Valery as it gets late and bring her inside and close the dungeon. She got tired quickly and fell asleep.

Like this we spent the next three days with very little to do besides talk. I did have two puppets each help the construction since I wanted blacksmithing and carpentry skilled puppets but neither were of much help without someone commanding them constantly.

Eventually everything was done and a large stagecoach was built within the small town. The little wolf girl was running around it excited in a pure white dress that made her tan skin stand out even more.

We pay them for the stagecoach and as the other three enter Misaki looks at me.

“So where are the horses?”

Behind me, a huge puppet with large metal armor skin rose from the magic circle and slowly walked to the front and grabbing the wooden beam sticking out the front. I jump into the Driver’s box.

“Don’t need one, I just need to control the guardian properly so he doesn’t go overboard in his speed.” I said.

We all waved the people goodbye and headed out the east gate heading towards the path that the goblins came through on the largest road where the stagecoach fit. Soon I had him going at a good pace similar to around 30 km/h and so we just maintained that with me at the front being careful about the speed we ran at and any possible obstacles.