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Chapter 117: Not Good at Flying

Note: I couldn't leave you on a cliffhanger. It wouldn't be nice. Here's the second chapter today.

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A single glance was enough to know Karra wasn’t up to the fight. The collision had affected the monster, but not nearly as much as it had hurt the infernal. She staggered to her feet, clearly broken by the crash but putting on a brave face as much as she could.

“Run, Arthur,” she shouted out the words unsteadily, like a drunk person might. “Get Lily somewhere else.�...

Chapter 116: Jeremy

For at least a day, everything was stable.

The entire town came out and worked on the wall, getting much less done than Arthur had hoped they would. The mouth was wider than it looked, for one, but the process of laying down brick was much, much slower than that of stacking Slapstone. The mortar dried slowly, and the frequent breaks they had to take left them far behind the pace Arthur had hoped for when the dark of night made working impractical.

And it was very cold the next day...

Chapter 115: Good Looking

Note: There was a small retcon to the end of Chapter 114 for Corbin.

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“So you think you can do it?” Arthur asked. “The wall for the town?”

He was walking a plate of food through the forest with Karra. It would be mostly cold by the time they got it to Lith, but it was better than nothing. The town’s hunter had to eat, and it was time for his first pepped tea. Arthur had all of the stuff in his pack, ready to be brewed.

“I can. The problem is coordinatin...

Chapter 114: Stealth and Help

Arthur followed Karra as fast as his legs could carry him. From the way she glanced behind herself at him from time to time, he could tell she was seriously considering picking him up and carrying him to their destination. To her enormous credit, she resisted this impulse, holding down her speed to what Arthur could handle. By the time they got there, he was wobbling on his feet, trying his best to interpret what his eyes were showing him.

One breath bled into the next until finally, hi...

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Chapter 113: Progress

Arthur heard laughter all around him as he looked to Mizu for support and found her sitting on the ground as she tried to get enough air in her lungs for a real laugh.

“Oh, no,” Mizu said, finally getting a bit of oxygen in. “’What a nice wall,’ he said. His face. He’s so polite…”

She tipped over into the dirt.

“Okay, okay,” Arthur said. “It’s a good joke. Or whatever this is.” He looked at the wall quizzically, then upwards where both Milo and Karr...

Chapter 112: Mystery Building

The town continued developing.

On an academic level, Arthur knew that he was looking at the most visible parts of progress. There was still plenty of work to do. Stone buildings gave a sense of safety, but that was nothing compared to a truly thick wall that would keep the outside dangers away. And a roofed building was comfortable, but they could be improved with heating elements, real furniture, and an honest-to-gods functional bathroom.

More important, they needed to start plan...

Chapter 111: Tea of the Wall-Builder

Karra watched nervously as Arthur and the others examined her status sheet until she couldn’t take the silence anymore.

“I hid my skill levels. But you get the idea,” Karra said.

“He might not, actually,” Milo said. “Arthur, Heavy Laborers are strength classes that basically don’t have… hm. How do I say this politely?”

Karra waved her hand. “Don’t worry about it.”

“Their skills aren’t really skill-based, I guess. The skills help Heavy Labore...

Chapter 110: Heavy Laborer

Arthur forced himself awake early the next morning, beating everyone else to the meal area and beginning the day’s cooking. The others would have probably waited if he slept in a bit, especially in consideration of the day Arthur had yesterday. But he couldn’t take the chance that someone would take over the cooking. One barely edible meal a week was enough for Arthur. Eventually, there would be other cooks in this town, or enough time for him to give lessons on how to properly apply heat...

Chapter 109: Children's Story

Don’t come over here. Don’t come over here. Arthur willed with his entire being for the cub to just stay with its mother. Maybe, he thought, it could just curl up for a nice cuddle and nap. It could lay so still and warm that its mother would fall asleep too, leaving Arthur the opportunity to recover his strength before slinking off back to the safety of his human friends.

It was not meant to be. The baby made a pleased little mewl as it toddled chubbily towards Arthur...

Chapter 108: Retrospect

The sheer anger of the Prata was so intense that it was almost solid and touchable in the air. It snarled, paced, and looked as angry as Arthur could imagine any animal being.

“Sorry. I’m sorry,” Arthur said. “This isn’t what it looks like. He brought me here. To help, I think?”

Whatever persuasive power his soothing tones might have had were fully lost on the mother. That was at least partially because the little bear was now more or less in full wail mode, and the mo...

Chapter 107: Prata

“Rocks, rocks. So many rocks. It’s rock day, and on rock day, we carry rocks,” Lily chanted.

Arthur and Lily were on about their fifth lap between the makeshift quarry and home. Since the morning, everyone had been invigorated by new tea, new tasks, and the general excitement of building new homes.

“Yes. Are you bored, Lily?” Arthur asked. “I can’t help but notice you’ve written a rock song.”

“I’m not bored. I’m excited. We get to build our own ho...