Ikem's face was filled with a smile as he saw people walking out from their new home greeting him. It seems his children had everything in control while he was away.
Making his way up to the mountain Ikem sensed most of his family members gathered in the palace, it seems they were having a serious discussion.
Walking into the palace, the animated voices of his family members engaged in a lively discussion. As he entered, the chatter quieted, and all eyes turned towards Ikem.
Seeing it was there father who came, everyone stood up before bowing " welcome back your highness"
Ikem nodded with a smile on his face as he walked towards his throne to sit down.
" Were you able to find the food, father?" Zephyr asked out loud after he saw his father sitting down.
" I did, the are coming up the mountain right now as we speak" Ikem nodded as he answered.
" Eriri, you and your people should go outside and organize the food brought back, make sure every apeling household receives a bountiful amount of food, and you know what to do with the remaining food"
" That reminds me what were the procedures on building the new storage house" Ikem asked out loud as he looked at everyone.
" We all decide that building it underground is the better choice after seeing what happened this time" Eriri spoke as he looked around at everyone before looking back at his father.
" Well done, now get going. Remember to come back for Family dinner" Ikem said as he watched Eriri walk out from the place.
The whole palace was quite for a while before Ikem asked " What was it that got everyone riled up"
Hearing his questions, the clan leader's available all looked at each other before Ember sat up from his place and walked to the Center.
" It all started on our journey back to the mountain" Ember said before pausing to find the right word.
" We noticed an increase activity on the human settlement we passed along the way, at first we heard the sound of people screaming so we all went to check it out to see what was happening, on your way we noticed a lot dead human corpses lying around showing signs of being cut by a sharp weapon"
" The closer we got, the more body we found until we came across two humans each wielding weapons clearly above them and us, one of the humans had a sword covered in flames while the other human held a sword covered in golden light that enchanted it sharpness"
" Me and the clan leader never intervened and watched as the two humans battled until they both fell dead, obviously they body never managed to kill each other instead it was the weapons that caused there death"
" Upon closer observation, we noticed the swords was using the minuscule amount of mana left in their body and life force to exert their full effects"
Ember stopped talking for a while as he took a deep breath " This led us to back track and start picking up whatever fell on the crash site of our previous settlement, a lot of them and much more is now stored in the palace storage"
" As for how this led to our argument, the humans fighting wasn't the only one the only ones we came across, a lot other humans are now on a rampage, we were even attacked by some, we are now discussing on whether we should launch an attack on their humans and take away whatever weapons they have since they are showing that they can't handle it" Ember said as he went silent before walking back to his seat.
Ikem sat in silence with his hand on his chin, before asking " Which of you agreed on launching an attack on the humans?"
Red and Zephyr raised their hands as Ikem nodded " And you Ripple was against it?" Ripple nodded as she said " Both I and Terra was against it, but since Terra went out they now both have the stronger voice"
" We are not going to do anything to the humans, I was even planning on extending them a hand" Ikem said a rubbed his chin.
" It is impossible to control what all the humans who live in this continent do, we don't have the people and resources for it, also as it stand they humans in number are a lot more than us"
" We need time to grow and strengthen ourselves, also as it stands the humans aren't the only one we should be worried about" Ikem said as he rubbed his brows.
" What do you mean by that father" Ripple spoke out hearing what her father said.
Ikem looked at their serious expression before laughing and said " Nothing you should wore yourself about"
Not wanting to continue on the topic, Ikem asked " I am sure you have gone through the treasures picked up, What do guys think about it"
Zephyr with excited voiced stood up " It's amazing father, things we have never thought of possible just fell on our front door from the sky, who would have thought that weapons can be inscribed with an elemental effect the most amazing one was a box that turned out to be a storage space filled with gold, pearls and diamonds"
" Then there are some weird weapons that boast the physical stats and this one for example" Saying that Zephyr brought out a hand fan inflated with feathers.
Ikem watched intently as he instilled man into the Fan, which he swiped towards thin air causing a small gust of wind to appear.
" It can me a much stronger wind if I added more mana, but I don't want to mess up the Palace" Ikem gestured for Zephyr to hand him the fan, which Zephyr stood up and did, Ikem looked serious at the small hand fan, with his naked yea he saw nothing outstanding from the fan.
But when he explored with his mana sense, Ikem felt small wind current from the feathers the fan was made with, Ikem tried instilling mana as he closely observe as the mana web toward a small writing where the feathers were extended from, the mana from the small writing diffuses across the feathers causing the wind current to react.
" It seems this small writing is what should be studied and then the usage of magical creatures parts" Ikem threw the fan back to zephyr who happily took his new beloved weapon back.
" Father, you now see what I said we should move against the humans, these weapons anybody with access to mana can use them, it pays no mind on whether you are compatible with it or not" Ember said with a serious expression.
" Trust me I understand son but until the humans shows any aggression towards us, we have no right to act against them" Ikem sad in a distressed tone as he was also worried.
" Son we only worry about the humans, what about our own people, do you think they won't be tempted like the humans or that many apelings now each bear untold treasure and weapons in their home, yet no one is saying anything" Ikem asked as he looked at his son seriously.
From the expression on his children's face, it seems the thought hasn't crossed their mind. " We need to focus on our people now before paying any attention to the humans"
Ember stood up from his seat as he bowed to Ikem before turning to his sister Ripple " I apologize for my blunder sister"
Ripple seeing her brother apologize smiled " It's okay brother, I agree with everything you said but there must a good reason before we show aggression towards other race"
Ember nodded hearing his sister word as he looked back at Ikem " Father, you brought up an interesting topic on how our people supposedly are hiding treasure or weapons they found, what are we to do about it"
" That is a good question son" Ikem nodded at Ember question before asking his children a question of his own " What do you all think we should be worried about, the weapon or the person wielding the weapon"
Zephyr being the first to answer said " Obviously the weapon"
Ikem showed no expression as he continued asking " Why the weapon son" " Because the weapon is the one with the ability to deal a lot of damage depending on how much power the weapon can drain from its user" Zephyr said as a matter of fact.
Ikem looked at his other children " Do you all agree with him"
Ember and Ripple shook their heads to show they disagreed, " You both agree it's the wielder of the weapon, why is that?"
Ripple spoke out this time " A weapon can be wielded without the wielder, depending on the person it can either be used in a good or bad way, so the wielder should be the one that should be worried about, as the question now stems on why you want to wield the weapon"
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