It's been a little over a month since the ruined city incident, and I, Cillian Watson... Has officially been working my ass off as a dad.
Or something I don't fucking know anymore..
The ritual was a success, and Eleanor has recovered without a hitch physically at least, she became a regular member of the gathering with the moniker 'Little Lady Oberon'.
Oberon also known as the King of the Faes from the bedtime story Cillian tells her every night before they go to sleep.
Though to be honest, Cillian doesn't know shit about midsummer night's dream, he just got the name from a famous gacha game in his past life.
Continuing, this has been the usual nightly routine for Cillian and Eleanor as she can't sleep at night and keeps having nightmare about that horrid day.
It's reached the point where Cillian had to make a prayer to his honorific name for her to pray, using the influence of my domain along with some runic engravings and the fact that they have the same authority.
Poor kid...
In any case, after the emergency gathering, Cillian and the little lady here had continued traveling to the south, and after a less than a week, they have arrived at Aurich.
At the same time, The Knights of the Round guild has started their siege on the ruined settlement.
The other players catching wind of the unusual movements of the guild decided to follow them and eventually joined in to grind levels too.
Yeah fuck those infernal order bastards. My goal was only to stall them but with hordes of players after them now, I doubt they'd get a single human npc life.
They're not the only one leveling up of course, I'll tell you what since they were not following the main road to avoid the orthodox churches, they encountered quite a bit of abominations too.
After a few days of grueling travel, having to eat unseasoned abomination meat, and sleeping on the domain, the originally planned ten hour stagecoach travel to Aurich has concluded.
The things after that went by like a blur, Cillian got into the city which is at least three times bigger than Lennitz. He went to the government office to register as Eleanor's guardian and he rented an apartment near the port.
Its a small apartment with one room two beds, a small kitchen and a communal bath downstairs, Cillian's been paying seven zen notes for it.
Its not quite the slums but definitely lower middleclass, bordering poor. In any case there's a church of abyss nearby too, Cillian asked if she would like to attend sunday school but she doesnt seem very keen on it.
In fact she doesnt even want to be near any orthodox church for some reason, though she doesn't miss any prayers to Sir Null.
Getting back, Cillian has no choice but to hire a tutor for Eleanor, he could enroll her to a public school but Cillian wont stay in Aurich for long, at most he would probably only stay here for another month until the patch for version 1.1 comes out.
He could also teach Eleanor himself but life is tough, Cillian currently works on a bunch of odd jobs and bounties set by the merchant guild.
In addition, Eleanor is not dumb. In fact she's very smart and mature for her age, her intellect is further boosted by her ascension, which is very helpful for Cillian as he can leave all the household chores for her instead.
After all, no ordinary person can ascend into sainthood at such a young age.
kururin also contributes to the finances of the company somewhat by sending donations to the none existent Church of Null whatever that means.
She probably just want to get more relationship points with me... Oh well, cash is cash, being a single dad is tough!! Though, rather than a parent daughter, its more like a master apprentice relationship.
Which brings us to the current situation, Its currently half past six and right now Cillian is on the way home from the sea, today he killed 3 lowtier seabornes by himself.
It wasn't that hard for him as he's fighting in the land the real horror comes from fighting these abominations from the sea more so now as its currently late spring and from spring to summer is the time where seabornes are more active.
The Hunter Guilds all around the coastlines would issue a bounty for it giving as much as five zen coins or half a note for a single low tier or infected level seaborne.
It's a joint effort among the abyssal church and the hunter's guild, with a tacit understanding, the church will take care of the big fish in the sea while the small fries that slips through will be handled by the guild on the land.
For the past few weeks this has been Cillian's go to quest, good monetary reward with tons of exp is too good for him to pass up.
Come to think of it, Eleanor said she's sick of the fish... I dont get it seaborne meat is not that bad, the ones i bought is just a little bit spoiled... anyways she has been doing well according to the tutor, I should get us some meat for dinner tonight.
With that in mind, he went to the downtown area where most commerce happen between the common people.
Before long, Cillian started hearing hawkers as he got closer to the public market.
"Oi! Oi! Last of the ripe plums! Sweet as sugar, they are! Only a penny a handful now, good folks! Penny a handful! Gotta clear 'em out before the light's gone! One Zen Cent a handful, that's the price!
"Fresh fish! Fresh fish! Closing time bargains here! Mackerel, kippers, all going cheap! Two for a penny! Two for a penny! Won't be fresh tomorrow, so clear the stall I must! Two Zen Cents for two fine fish!"
"Last of the fresh herrings! Going for next to nothing! Two a coin! Come on, they won't last 'til morning!"
After a while of looking around, Cillian found the stall that sells non spoiled slices of meat for some coins.
"Hello Mr. Wagner, how much for the pork?"
Cillian inquired, ever since the spoilt fish incident, Cillian switched shops to Mr. Wagner and never looked back.
"Ah good timing, young lad! I'm just about to close up for the day! I'll tell you what, I'll cut you a deal and give you a mix of pork belly, pork shoulder and other cuts for three coins"
Damn that's cheap, a pound of pork would be at least three coins, more over none of this wont go to waste because I have a domain!!
"Deal!"
Cillian paid three zen coins and moved on to buy some potatoes and milk.
Tonight's meal will be stew.