47 Chapter 47 - Death March (1/2)

Gren was surprised when he heard that his mother might still be alive.Gabriella told him about the story that his mother--Hildr--had lost an arm in the past but grew it back after three weeks.Even if she was chopped into two it was possible that she could recover.Gren wasn't entirely convinced that she was alive but he had to have hope.

The knights would travel quickly and try to overtake the Duke's soldiers so that they could prevent them from recapturing her.It was the previous Duke that had captured her when she lost her magic abilities but his death nearly thirteen years ago allowed the Church's spies within the Duke's household to free her.

The Church's spies involved with the rescue were all killed so even the Church lost her position.It turned out that she had been hiding under all of their noses.

The current Duke disliked his father's actions and stopped the search for the goddess. However, right now he's attending an important conference in the capital regarding the possible war with the kingdom to the west.The current Regent, one of the Duke's twin sons, had decided that he would capture the goddess and control her using her own child when she gave birth.

Gren knew what to tell the knights now and what he would have to do.Words were nice but Gren had to go with them and prove that he was the goddess's child, even if he had to use the system to do so.The knights were his only way of saving his mother right now.

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Gren hated being thought of as a girl but perhaps it would make it more difficult to figure out his real identity.He returned to Gabriella and told her to prepare enough food and water for the trip and that he would deal with transporting it.She didn't know what he meant but she already thought of him as a god so she followed his order.

Jessica and the rest of the women couldn't come with him since it would risk exposing his identity.Gren found it hard to tell Jessica to go home without him and that he might not see her for a while but in the end she understood.”Make sure to come back to us in one piece.”

Gren was nervous to use his ability in front of outsiders but Gabriella had finished preparing three carriages full of supplies like he had asked for.This was enough food and water for their group's round trip to and from Newton.There were only thirty or so knights but it would be fine since their goal wasn't to annihilate the enemy; just to get the body of Gren's mother before the Duke's soldiers did.

Gren realized that he didn't have enough room to store everything so he decided to remove some of the stuff he had in his pocket dimension.”Can you make space for me?”After a small area was cleared, Gren placed down a few of the statues that he had stored in the treasure chamber.The knights were surprised by the sudden appearance of the statues--one knight even drew his sword when he saw them.

ince the carriages would take up too much space, Gren decided to just take the supplies off of them.”The food disappeared.”Gren didn't feel like explaining it to the knights that were making comments until all three carriages had been emptied.