Rae stepped through onto the balcony of her old room and found that her hammock was still hanging there. Recently used, but empty. The plants were all in great shape, showing that someone was taking proper care of them, and there were schoolbooks on the table in the Gazebo. frёewebηovel.cѳm
It all smelled like her baby Rogue, so Rae activated [Night Haunter] and stepped through the wall of the room to see who was in the bed.
Sure enough, the little one was sleeping soundly, splayed out across the bed on a diagonal, and laying on top of her blankets.
Rae switched to humanoid form and deactivated [Night Haunter], then carefully laid out the armour she had made for Sybil on the bed. That clueless little Rogue was still sleeping, and Rae sighed.
She really had been slacking. There was no sense of danger at all.
In a moment of brilliance, Rae decided that she would teach her baby Rogue a lesson in practical jokes.
Piece by piece, she fit the armour on the sleeping Rogue, careful not to wake her up. When only the boots were left to go on, Rae stopped and took out some silk string. A quick slip knot tied the Rogue to the bed, and Hawk helpfully donated a feather to her cause.
The moment that the feather touched her foot, Sybil was awake and going for her daggers. But she was already tied, and unable to escape the tickling.
"Gah, no! Please not the feet!" She pleaded, as Rae laughed quietly.
"Didn't I tell you that I would be checking up on you? Look at this, so deeply asleep that you didn't even notice that I got you dressed." Rae scolded Sybil, trying not to let her get used to the sensation.
[Shadow Step] briefly got Sybil free of her restraints, but Rae caught her in midair and fit the boots to her feet.
"Alright. Now, here are a pair of daggers, keep them safe. Your progress looks pretty good, not quite as fast as I had hoped, but not terrible. So, we're going to do an exercise, and then we're going to play a game." Rae instructed.
Sybil didn't quite understand what she meant until Rae put a hand on both of Sybil's shoulders and flooded her with mana at Commander Rank quality. The Rogue squealed in pain as the mana in her body was forced out, and she tried to attack, but nothing a low Ascended Rank Rogue could do would injure Rae in the slightest.
The process went on for what felt like an eternity, but was actually only about five minutes, then Rae nodded in satisfaction.
"There, now your body knows what it feels like to be a Commander. Even if it doesn't stick with that when you burn this batch off, you shouldn't have any bottleneck to advancement.
Now for the fun part. Run away. I will give you a treat for every minute you can keep me from catching you."
Sybil leapt through the bathroom door and [Shadow Stepped] into the gymnasium, while Rae activated [Night Haunter] and followed along.
She created a Golem to let Sybil know that she was there, and the Rogue vanished again, with the spider in hot pursuit.
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