Chapter 16 (2/2)

Mages were fearful existences to people

He acted carefully

“Can you really… can you really cure my father?”

“I promise”

“Really?”

“Really”

“Then… You are my captain now!”

“Huh?”

Captain

What a cute hich suits a young kid

In his forer and hate

“Alright Call me like that then”

“Yes! Captain!”

The conversation between young son and Ian who acted like a mature man

While Ledio listened to this weird conversation, he pulled so

It was a flask with a long lid

“This is ift”

Ledio handed it to Ian

Ian gently shook the flask

“So is in here”

It was a flask filled with an unidentified liquid

Would it be the elixir he had brewed?

But normally, elixir wouldn’t be contained in such a flask

“It’s an alcohol”

“Alcohol?”

“I drank it with the other ht, and that’s the last one…”

Although Ian acted like ive alcohol to a kid?

“Well, I’ it’s real alcohol Actually, it is alcohol, but …… What should I say”

“Alcohol that’s good for your body?”

Douglas tried to help his father

However, It wasn’t a description that Ledio wanted

“It is sort of… a half elixir”

“Hmm, half elixir”

“What do you mean ‘half’?”

“It is good for your body but it tastes like alcohol”

“Then it won’t make me drunk?”

“It makes you drunk”

Then isn’t it alcohol?

“But its effect I guarantee Unlike standard elixir that increases your power in the long terives immediate effect……”

Ledio added a long description

It was the new side of Ledio which he hadn’t shown to Ian before

Maybe this was his real character

It also proved that he decided firmly

“Mr Mage!”

Suddenly,

A soldier came to Ian

“A ”

A soldier pointed to the hill outside of the village

Indeed, aa horse

With the Mogrian flag on his back

Clip-clop! Clip-clop! Clip-clop!

The sound of hoofbeats was closing in

Ian walked to the entrance of the village

Other people also followed Ian

“Woah! woah!”

The rider calmed his horse as he saw Ian

By his appearance, He was a province soldier

“Mr Mage”

“You may speak”

“You better hurry to go back to the province castle”

An urgent voice came from the rider

“Is there any problem?”

“The er informed us that the crown prince has passed Garmath river”

“Garmath river? Already?”

“The ”

Not only Ian, but Eric and other soldiers started to make noise

Gar of the north side

It would take only around two days to the province castle

‘Why were they informed so late…’

In common sense, they should inform the castle ten days beforehand, via coh time to prepare to welcome the crown prince

‘I’d better move quickly’

There was not enough tiether

Unless every one of the convoys and Ledio family rode horses

“Please lend me a horse”

After Ian decided, he said to the rider

“Do you kno to ride?”

“I don’t know riding technique, and s are too short”

Ian’s body was too small so he needed a custom saddle

Due to that, the rider asked in confusion

“Then how do you…”

“I will befriend it shortly”

Ian approached the horse while saying that

While petting the horse, Ian cast a spell on it

The ic that made him able to control a peaceful animal

“Ta”

Then, the horse waved its tongue to Ian

Taic started to work

“I will see you there later”

Ian rode the horse immediately

Being honest, he was hanging onto it as strongly as he can

“Sir Eric, please co with the alchemist over there”

“Yeah? Who is he…”

“I thank you See you there”

After Ian asked Eric to escort Ledio and Douglas, he whispered to the horse

“Let’s go to the province castle Will you?”

Prrrrrgghh!

As a reply, the horse whined

It started to run straight to the province castle

There was no need to pull its bridle, nor kick its stomach

“……”

Eric suddenly received Ian’s favor

He gazed at Ledio

Ledio didn’t avoid his eyes

It was a totally aard situation

“My name is Ledio I am an alchemist”

Ledio tried first to get rid of this weird situation

“My naht order”

However, after the greeting, the aardness started again(E/N: cue the tumbleweed)

Eventually, they just looked at Ian’s backside which was getting far

For a long time