After that, many elementalists talked with Edward and accepted working for the town. They didn ’t have the human resources to take over the country, and they couldn ’t leave, so their only option was to follow his lead or become slaves. Not to mention, many of the elementalists were missing some real beds. While their lives weren ’t exactly comfortable in that arid region, it wasn ’t as bad as sleeping on the ground without a ceiling above their heads.

One week after all that day started, the remaining elementalists decided to bow their heads and accept Edward ’s terms. Speaking of terms, there was the matter of the reward, but Billy didn ’t give him the chance to give him anything because he had a bad feeling about it. He told him that he didn ’t do much, so rewards were unnecessary. For some reason, Edward didn ’t press the matter either…

During that week, Lily and Camilla also managed to learn Earth Manipulation. While he wasn ’t looking, even Anna managed to learn that… Billy never used Appraisal on her, but she was at level twenty-five, and her HP, MP, and SP were two hundred… weirdly high for a non-combatant. Billy investigated more and realized that it was probably because of her level eighty in alchemy… it was the highest level he had seen in any skill.

”This is interesting, but it will take a while to become useful, ” Anna said. ”I suppose learning how to manipulate water will be more useful to clean wounds and such. ”

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Offensively speaking, that wasn ’t the case, but since Anna was a healer, it was obvious. While most of his friends were trying to learn Water Manipulation, Billy was stuck in learning Wind Manipulation… for some reason. He was failing again and again. However, since there was no need to guard the walls with so many soldiers, he had a lot of extra time, but not much. Billy knew that Edward would want to build the bridge as soon as the elementalists got used to their lifestyle.

”Maybe I should see them using wind… even if they don ’t like it, we are allies now, ” Billy thought.