![]() ![]() She has a healing skill that can heal her as well as the summoned wolves. ![]() ![]() She is capable of summoning up to ten wolves to fight with her, as well as taking the form of a larger wolf herself. As of the Meadow Accords tournament she was level 168. The last confirmed class was Canine Tamer and Shadow Summoner. This ends up resulting in an unexpected monster arriving that Roland is barely able to keep from killing him and Lily is able to intervene, resulting in her receiving a system notification. Some time after Ilea leaves them at another city, we see Roland training Lily by having her kill some monsters he captures. Ilea assisted them along with the remaining citizens of Salia to help them so they could flee to somewhere safer. During the attack, Lily's siblings and parents, sans Roland, were all killed. Later, Ilea finds Lily hiding from an Elvin attack on Salia along with Roland and several citizens of Salia. Ilea shows some fondness for Lily and leaves her some money and a knife that Lily had eyed on their trip through the city. She guides Ilea through the city and even shows her the collection of local hounds that she feeds and cares for. Lily is the quiet daughter of Roland, that Ilea meets while visiting Salia. ![]()
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He starts calling pens, “frindles,” and gets everyone he can to do the same. When Nick’s distraction technic earns him an extra assignment, an oral report on the dictionary, he decides to experiment by creating a new word. His worst classroom behavior–and how everything gets started–is that he tries to distract the teacher at the end of class before she can assign homework. 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