The Monsters have stop attacking the kingdom, Helpers arrives and starts securing the injured ones.
Helpers carries the injured peoples to the Healers, they cure them with healing magic.
Healing potions are given, broken buildings are being cleaned the rubbles are shifted to a designated place.
The people share the houses until the broken ones are rebuild again.
Alric and Stella have lodged out from the inn, so they can't return to it.
People who lost their house also occupied the inn.
Alric and Stella decides to return as they have acquired essential resources,
Helga suggest them to stay at her house.
They follow her she lead them to a mansion, gaurded by soldiers.
After entering the house Helga introduce herself as The Ex-commander....
She was interrupted by her maid, the maid calls her mother.
Mistress Helga has returned, her mother was worried due to monsters attack on the kingdom.
She is happy to see Helga is fine, her mother's gaze shifted to Alric.
She implies if Helga has bought her boyfriend.
Helga stutters "bbooyyfrrnnd" , she tells her mom she joined the Adventureres guild. And this is Alric , Stella her party members.
Alric is not her boyfriend ! Helga says to her mother.
Helga's mother introduce herself as Serra, she is the former commander of the knights of Kingsfall.
When Helga refers to herself as Ex-commander, Alric and Stella totally believed that Helga is the Ex-commander
who retired recently.
Now they understood she was saying Ex-commander's daughter.
Helga's mother was protecting people near her house/mansion.
She was about to go search for Helga since monsters stopped the attacks,
But Helga already returned.
It's evening now sun goes down the horizon, stars shows up on the sky.
A bright moon is set lighting up the planes.
Helga's mother talk about Stella and Alric, Are they a couple.
Stella says they are not engaged yet !
They talk about the quests, adventures.
Helga's mother tells her stories of how she fought great Calamities monsters.
Angelic Gladiators, Demonic Warriors
She even faced beastkins, during her time of being an early soldier then as commander.
To maintain the safety of her kingdom, from such foes. who constantly trying to rule the humans.
As an Experience Veteran she suggests Helga to join the knights of Kingsfall.
During her time she was betrayed by her fellow Adventurers.
They left her to die in a dungeon, they ran away leaving her behind.
she managed to survive the dungeon but got caught by a group of bandits.
They were about to sell her in the slave market, but knights were there to assault the bandits and secured her.
From that point she gave every effort she can to become a great knight.
And help others through their life threatening/changing scenerio, just like her's.
The maid have prepared the dinner All of them eats the dinners, and went to sleep.
Helga's mother talks to Helga, she doesn't want her to go through such experience.
© Erah