Chapter 634 - Confusing (2/2)

Leonel's gaze traveled up from the well paved roads, up a pair of slender, long legs, only to land on a familiar face.

This woman. He had seen this beauty at the Ore Market. In fact, he had given her a large amount of ores as well.

He distinctly remembered that unlike everyone else who was cautious with accepting their piece of the pie, she wholeheartedly swallowed up everything, leaving nothing behind. Leonel remembered feeling curious about it, but he had more important things on his mind back then, and most definitely did now as well.

”Yes? I don't have any more Ores to give you if that's what you want.”

Hearing the light teasing tone in Leonel's words, Kaela found herself rolling her eyes to avoid her feeling of embarrassment. She really had looked like a bit of a beggar back then, but her Faction really needed those Ores!

At the same time, though, she sighed a breath of relief.

After seeing Leonel battle, she had thought that he was some hardened brute. At least he was easy to talk to. She didn't even know why, but she felt relaxed in his presence as though there was no expectations.

That was quite an odd thing to find in the men she spoke to. Usually, more often than not, they all wanted to crawl into her bed.

Truthfully, with all the stress she was always under, sometimes she wanted to accept such an offer just to blow some steam. But with how this world treated women who weren't picky enough… Well, let's just say she didn't want to add any more stress to her plate so she avoided such things as well.

Kaela was the type of woman who would curse the unfairness of it all, but secretly also couldn't be bothered to deal with the backlash that came from stepping outside the status quo.

”I'm not here for Ores, but your help would be nice.”

”My help?”

Leonel raised his brows.

”Mhm. My faction happens to need a bodyguard like you. Word of me accepting all of those Ores will definitely reach Sarrieth's ears and I just need you to help us bide some time.”

”Oh? How much time? And why are you so certain that you only need a small amount of it?”

Leonel was intrigued by this. He quite liked Kaela's boldness.

”The Valiant Heart Zone is opening up soon so there's going to be a lot of preparations for it. I'm confident that with these Ores, we'll be able to complete a project we've been working on for years now. With it, we'll be in the good graces of a lot of Peaks, including Hero Peak which Sarrieth is from.

”As long as we succeed, Sarrieth won't dare to target us so blatantly.”

'The Valiant Heart Zone?'

Leonel blinked in confusion. Was it a Sub-Dimensional Zone? But why did it have a name? It made sense to be able to predict the opening up of a Zone, but this name seemed fairly… permanent?

Wouldn't a Zone that had been opened so often been cleared by now?

There were too many confusing things about this single line.