NOVEL NEXT Mantle of the Gods - Book 7 - The Six - Chapter 13
Trent was in the hallway.
"Atlas! Ether! Fray! Let's come on!" His voice seemed to shake the house.
"Coming!" I rolled off of the bed and started walking towards the door with Ether right behind me and Fray trailing a little behind her. Once I walked into the hallway, I realized that we weren't going to meet downstairs, because chairs had already been placed outside our rooms. Rix must have got booted from her choice across the hall, because she was leaning against the doorframe of the room four doors down. Aelin and Justia were the ones across the hall from us and I assumed Aelin must have assigned Fray the room beside mine because that was where the other empty seat was.
Gesai and Trent were standing at the front of the stairs. Zel and Ren were the other two on our side of the hall, while the other side went Astrid, Shelly, Jen, Aelin, and Justia.
Trent cleared his throat. "I've looked over your strategies for the Dungeons and we're going to go over them and the schedule for the next two days." He nodded at the two sides. "You've been split up into your teams based on which side of the Hall your room is on." He pointed at the front rooms, "I'm taking this side and Gesai is taking that one." He motioned towards the back of the house. "We will run all of you through the bosses of the Dispatcher and the Temple Dungeons. My team will do the Temple Dungeon in the morning, while Gesai's will do the Dispatcher Dungeon. After lunch, we'll switch. Any extra time will be spent on the event."
Aelin raised her hand.
"Yes, Aelin?" Trent let out an exasperated sigh.
"Since we're heading out in the morning does that mean that we're going shopping tonight to get what we need?" Aelin and Jen exchanged a smile.
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"If you want to go out…" Trent looked over at Gesai. Her shoulders sagged as she nodded. "Gesai will take you once we finish."
"YEAH!" Aelin pumped her fight in the air, then brought it down slowly before she bumped it with Jen's.
"Is there anything else that anyone would like to ask?" Trent's glare dared us to interrupt him again.
Aelin raised her hand again. Honestly, the look on Zel's face made me think about raising my hand. She was in utter shock.
"Do you know how awesome we think you are?" The blonde started spreading her hands apart to indicate the amount.
"Aelin," Trent eyed her. "What do you want?"
"Well, you remember how you gave us some All for new gear when we hit level three?" She batted her eyes. "I was wondering if there was going to be the same rewards for hitting level four."
Trent rubbed his temple with his thumb. "Aelin…"
"We do have to buy all new gear since what we bought for the zombie place won't work here." The blonde smiled sweetly. "So it's like the stuff we bought doesn't exist. Which is why I think a reward could be justified."
Jen joined in with the puppy dog eyes.
I thought about adding a please daddy in, but just the thought of it made me chuckle. I covered my mouth as fast as I could, but it was still audible.
Zel looked like she was about to die. Mitchel had close to the same expression, while Astrid seemed to be able to read from the rest of our reactions that this was a normal occurrence.
"How about this: you convince me after you buy it that it was an absolutely necessary upgrade, then I'll reimburse you." Trent didn't bother with the staring contest Aelin tried to bait him into. "Now if there's nothing else, then I'd like to get into evaluating your strategies."
I had a feeling that I had missed a few things, but I still felt pretty good about the strategies that we came up with. I just hoped he went easy on us.