Desolate World

Dino's explanation disappointed Ace. It's not because of the dragonlings' inability to help the night guards, but because they couldn't get jobs like other races. If it was true, the job transfer scroll that he had prepared for Gon was useless. He felt it was a pity.

Next was Torin who represented the dwarves, and then Kira who represented the goblins. The two races didn't have many fighters among them, because of that, they chose to focus on the production sector that was overseen by the town hall. 

As for the elves, they had two elites among them. One was Avril herself, and the other one was her daughter, Ave. The two of them were druids. Avril said she could help the night guards if the battlefield was in the forest, but she apologized because she couldn't help them if the battlefield was in the prairie. As her skills and traits were related to plant manipulation. 

While she could also manipulate grass, what could the grass do to the undead besides tackling them? As for the druid's healing skills, all of them used parts of plants like seed and pollen as the medium. So, fighting in other places except for forests would weaken their effectiveness tremendously.

So, the elves could only actively participate as part of the town hall and town guards. She said that the elven rangers were perfect guerrilla units in the forest. They had camouflage skill, bow mastery, and sword mastery. They were also experts in making traps and tracing enemies in the forests. 

And then, they also had some monster tamers and a forest shepherd. In fact, she had twin young daughters that were monster tamers. As for the forest shepherd, she was just awakened a month ago. She was still level 2 and very young. Avril didn't want her to enter a battle in a few years, as her job was really rare. She wanted to cultivate her to be an elite for the time being.

Ace agreed. He would only ask them to fight if the night guards had to fight in an area with rich vegetation. It didn't make Ace disappointed, as specialists were restricted in many circumstances, they usually were really strong if several conditions were met.

What really surprised him was Avril's age. At a glance, she looked to be in her 20th, but she had already had children. It made him realize that they were really long-life creatures. Maybe her age had reached 100 or even 200 years. Of course, Ace wouldn't ask her, as he knew that women hated to be asked about her age.

And about the monster tamers and the forest shepherd. He was really interested in them. He then asked to introduce his son to the monster tamers of the elves. Who knew he could learn something. 

Avril gladly agreed. She said maybe her twin daughters could become Geo's friends.

After that, it was Phil's turn and then Noah's turn. The two basically represented the human townsmen. No, in fact, Ace could be said to also represent humans, if they only looked at his race, without mentioning him as a guardian.

Well, their circumstances were unique. First was Phil. He and the people who had inhabited the crystal garden were the first refugees that joined the town. Because of that, Mars appointed Phil as the first elder. As for Noah, he had led almost 700 human refugees to the town. 

Other than that, he was also an elite. It was impossible to ignore him and didn't give him a position in the town government. Even if he didn't mind not getting an elder position, his diehards surely would mind. Because of that, he was also appointed to be an elder. 

Actually, even without looking at their circumstances, the two of them were capable men. While Phil was rich in wisdom and had experience in governing a town, Noah had received a formal education and was a brilliant soldier of a human kingdom.

As for Ace, although he was a guardian, he had made many contributions to the town. Even Mars admitted that besides Aria, Ace also did a lot for the development of Laketown. 

Besides that, he had many capable and influential people around him. They were Sofia who helped Aria in the town hall from the start, Geo a child that could summon a powerful group of monsters and undead, Phil, Noah, Kira, and Andrea as elders. There were also Jordan and Peter, the two elites from the shadow race and Gon, whose position started to rise. 

That was just his interpersonal relationships with several individuals. There were also many humans, goblins, and shadows that thought that he was their savior. As he was the one that found and saved them.

It could be said that the most influential person in Laketown after Mars was Ace. Even Aria fell short at this point and was just a little bit more influential than Dino who just came, as Dino had 1,000 dragonlings behind him.

Phil and Noah basically said the same thing. The humans would help Aria and Noah himself in town hall and town guards.

Next was Aria. She said the angels would help the three divisions, as they actually had 3 elites on the floating island. One of them was her brother, Uriel, who used to act as the leader of the angels, which in fact was not. As Aria was the real owner of the floating island and of course, the leader of the angels. 

Besides Aria and Uriel, there were two other elites that had been ordered by Gabriel to assist Aria. They only obey Aria's order. So, when Uriel in his initiative attacked the shadows, the two refused to help him. So, besides Uriel, the two angels could help the Night guards.

After that, it was Ali's turn. Based on him, the gnomes had 10 elites including himself. 7 of them were earth mages and three of them were golem masters. It shocked Ace and several elders that had just known him. 

Ali then explained that because of their race's constitution, they were born with high magic ability. But, they could only use earth-based magic and manipulate earth elements. The golem masters in their group also could only call earth type golems from the elemental realm.

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