Episode 33 – Ca in Style (1/2)

Elaru scratched her head sheepishly “Do you have any friends living in Ashar that would let us crash at their place for a night?”

“Me? I don’t have any friends in Beyd let alone Ashar! What about you? Aren’t you supposed to be an adventurer? Surely you know a lot of people who’d be willing to help out”

Elaru chuckled aardly “I guess we have no choice but to sleep in the forest?”

Kiel’s face turned sour He looked back towards Hot Pot “You kno that I think about it…those guys o and have a little chat with the? Come back!”

Elaru didn’t even wait for him to finish before she flew back in the same direction they came fro on the hard ground wasn’t that bad…round into soft sand? However, the trip back was a pain…

He wouldn’t have complained had he known the disaster he had just avoided

If Elaru had been less observant that night, Kiel’s path as the student of the Ashar University of Magic would have ended then and there

No Actually, there were no ‘ifs’ involved

Elaru was never “less observant” For 18 years she had lived on the edge, one step away froence, a single slow reaction, a single misstep, for her to end up at the bottom of the cliff

It wasn’t that she searched for irregularities and suspicious behavior It wasn’t that she was paranoid and edgy No The closer she was to the edge, the calmer she becas had stopped being a conscious decision long ago It had seeped deep into her bones beco she didn’t think about, so that happened on its own

It was the edge that pushed her to ie she cae, to constantly improve in every way To not make mistakes

Yet, no e, she was unable to reach the summit of the cliff, to reach the top and look down at all creation

What chained her back was time

Time The most valuable co effort and talent couldn’t surpass

Ti down

Time already passed was forever lost

(Meanwhile in the Rroda Mainhouse, Ashar)

Venric Rroda looked at the large clock hanging on the wall of his office, a slight frownits way to his face

“Lawrence Did you send someone to pick Kiel Rroda up?” The iciness of his voice was enough to cause people to shudder

His h the estate two ti out of the ordinary To anyone else, that would be good news However, Venric Rroda didn’t view it in the same way

If hisout of the ordinary, the pechuh would be out of the bag He would have found out the erous a person was, once their goal became clear, it would be easy to deal with them

However, right now, he still knew absolutely nothing That irked hierous existences are those who cannot be seen through

The reat swords or axes No; the erous weapons were hidden weapons

The erous foes weren’t his most powerful enemies, but the ones that he didn’t even know he had

Lawrence remained as calm as ever as if he couldn’t feel the icy ated so master

Venric eyes narrowed “Why isn’t he here then?” Venric’s Mind always remained stretched to cover the whole estate He could feel everyone co in and out of the estate And Kiel Rroda clearly was not a them

Lawrence ondering the sa How hard of a job could it be? He even sent two battleot carried out without a hitch “Your grace, perhaps Kiel Rroda is no longer staying at the same inn? Or perhaps the men ran into some difficulty? I’ll send someone to inquire about the current situation”

Lawrence observed his Lord closely, as Venric showed no signs of disagreement, he bowed and left the premises

Having no place to go, Kiel and Elaru returned to the sa as before

Elaru, once again, proved to be quite prepared She found a nice spot, hidden from view, and with a slam of her foot, turned the earth in the radius of two meters into soft sand

After that, she took out two rolls of green silk froile

She spread one of the rolls over the sand Since the sheet was thin, the sround – h for both of them to lie comfortably on it

She pulled out 4 small mana crystals from one of her pouches She flicked thely, the crystals made the silk dip down into the sand, as if it was hit by a hammer

Kiel’s eyes glittered in recognition Those crystals were enchanted with a weight altering spell so they could becoe

Elaru had altered their weight to become heavy so no ould be able to bloay their blanket