36 Three Evolutions Three Days (1/2)
Outside Calico city Yu was rushing toward White Woodland as fast as he could, with the time it took him to transport all the barrels to the hotel and convince the baron to buy it, not much was left before the waters purity starts to dissipate
”If I had actually filled the whole barrel with purified water it would have already been reverted by the time the fish started on the third one”
Yu hadn't actually filled them with Elixir Water, only the top, while the barrels he had costume ordered were fitted with a glass divider close to the top so he had filled the rest with elemental water, that's how he was able to pull this nasty trick off, now the baron would definitely be out for his blood once he finds out the truth, which would be within a few minutes if he was carful enough or a whole day if he stored the barrels now instead
”Anyway they can't trace me, I left no evidence”
The reason he had dressed up in many ways and even went through the trouble of carrying the barrels in bags was to leave no witnesses of him bringing them from the farm, and with no one knowing about the underground lake which he closed the entrance to there was no way to link the proud noble to a measly mercenary
Still Yu had to make it to the White Woodlands as fast as he could, who knew if someone would stick his hand inside the barrel? Very unlikely as they wouldn't want to dirty the pure water but after seeing the guard's stupidity he really didn't trust people to be smart nowadays
Three hours later Yu finely spotted dense white trees that gave the place its name, no one knew why but the only vegetation that grew in this land were these tough white trees, they were very hard to burn, needed the full blown power of a Silver Ranked beast to be chopped off and provided no substance to the dwellers of these woods, how beasts even lived in this dead land baffled the travelers
All this proved quite useful to Yu though as he could make use of the endless woods to lose any would be pursuers, so he walked into it without hesitation, zig zagging his way toward Begaria
”I'm beat” he said between short breaths as he stopped his rush with the suns decent, it was dangerous running in the dark, even in these scarcely populated woods, he would make camp here till morning
”Guess I can make use of this time to put my new treasures to work”
He first took out the Runes book and flipped through it, unlike those ignorant people from the Mund family he had some basic knowledge on Runes and could tell that the book wasn't really all that
”Probably explains some of the beginner Runes is all, though I can't tell which ones these are they certainly don't belong to the elemental sets, since they belong to the other five sets they must be pretty hard to learn”
He flipped through it a bit before chucking it back into his ring, speaking of the ring he found it to be the third best item out of all his new treasures, this ring would make his life much easier from now on
As for the first and second they were naturally the ”Crystal” and the plant that helps absorb the fire elements, those two not only harmoniously worked together to give him the boost he needed, one of them was even the most valuable Vermilion Royal Ruby, a natural crystal born from two different pure flames resonating together, this particular stone had not shown itself on these lands for god knows how many centuries, for it to pop up in a remote and barren land baffled Yu to no end
”Since it lost so much of its flame someone must have used it for over extended periods of time, otherwise if they used it to the extent it dropped to such low levels in one go it would have broken ”
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He felt saddened that the stone had lost much of its grandeur but that was also why he could use it now, along with the plant he could give his loveable companion the final push she needed
He summoned Lyra and put the stone inside the plant next he presented it to her with both hands, he didn't know how much pain she would go through but he would be sure to share it with her this time
”It might hurt a lot, but if you tide through this you might just have control over two elements, plus you can push through your bottleneck, still if you want to go another method we can try that”
While he wanted power he didn't want to hurt Lyra at the same time so he gave her the option of looking for a less painful alternative
Lyra didn't dally like Yu thought though, it just swallowed the plant and its continent with one bite, what followed was a jolt of skin scorching pain that ran through Yu's whole body his lanky figure bent down as he clenched his teeth as hard as he could to not scream, all while the wolf merely scrunched its face and stood there silently enduring
”Wha..t. th… fu…”
Yu couldn't even make a full sentence with the heat coursing through his body, he only shared a part of the sensation that Lyra had to go through but he was already paralyzed, how could she who had to take on the full brunt of the pain just stand there while scrunching up her face