Mantle of the Gods [LitRPG / Slow Burn / FTB Harem]

The rooms were HUGE.

There were six rooms on the front side of the second floor, and twelve rooms on the third floor. Six on each side with a locked room at the end of the hall that I assumed was the records room that Vee had talked about.

Each room had two floor length windows as well as a door that went out on the balcony. There was a walk-in closet that I could have fit my bed in as well as a personal bathroom that had a tub that was too big to merely call a tub. And by the way that Ether looked at the biggest bed I'd ever seen, I had a feeling that an upgrade was going to be happening to my bed back at the Cathedral.

"We all get one of these?" Fray had come back into the south east corner room that Ether had claimed as ours.

"Twelve of us and two teachers." I sat down on the bed. "Each of us takes a room up here, even Trent and Gesai will probably claim one."

Fray looked over at Ether, who was admiring the view on the balcony. " Ether's not staying by herself and Aelin won't use one…" Her voice drifted off as she came up with how we would fill twelve rooms.

"Rix has already claimed the room across the hall." I scooted back further on the bed, "Are you going to pick one before Aelin starts telling everyone where they're sleeping?"

Fray was just staring blankly out the window. I leaned forwards and touched her shoulder. She flinched, then realized who had touched her.

"Sorry…" Fray began fidgeting with her fingers.

"It's okay." I laid down so that I could see her, but still be at arm's length. "Are you okay?"

"It's just a lot of new stuff that I'm not used to." She took a deep breath, "I never thought I'd ever leave Harror, and now I've been all over the northern half of the Ward."

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I was about to correct her, then remembered that she hadn't been with us when we'd been kidnapped.

"And you're probably going to see even more of it." For some reason the thought excited me. "We can't go to the Adventurer Games this year, but next year, I'll bet we go. I'm not sure which Ward they're going to be in, but I don't think it'll be Cathedral."

There was an unease that spread over her. "You really want me to go with you? You're not going to take Oz again?"

"You're my teammate, why wouldn't..?" I remembered the mock fight we'd had a few weeks ago. "Hey, that fight was about giving Oz a chance to punch Gileon." I started to touch her leg, but diverted to her hand. "While we're doing Dungeons we may swap things up, but when it comes to team events…" I looked up into her brown eyes. "You're our Hitter." I tapped on my chest where the seal that changed how other people would see my stats was.

Fray touched the similar one that she'd gotten above her heart. I wasn't sure if she realized just how much she was promising when she'd gotten it, but for better or worse, she was linked to me now.

Ether walked back in and sat down behind me on the bed. I laid back so that I could put my head in her lap.

"Enjoy the view?" I closed my eyes as she ran her fingers through my hair.

"It's more than I could have imagined." The ivory woman shook her head. "They're really trying to impress us."

"Well, I'm impressed." I opened my eyes so I could look into her glowing red ones, "How about you?" I looked over at the green woman in front of me, "Fray?"

"I'm definitely impressed." Ether looked around the room.

"Yeah." Fray gave a little smile.

"So how long are we going to wait here until Aelin comes to get us?" I hadn't heard the blonde yet, so either she was awestruck or she hadn't made it upstairs yet.

"I don't know, do you think we should check on her?" Ether looked towards the door.

"I'm good with waiting." I stretched a little. "This is nice."

I heard noises from the hallway and recognized Aelin's voice. It wouldn't be long until we got dragged out of our rooms to talk about what we were doing tomorrow. But until that happened, I was going to enjoy the comfort.