Chapter 51 the barons hospitality 1 (2/2)
”well because it matches with what we have heard of our son before... also I don't think a apostle would lie about something like this”
”oh right...”
Mars looked down and saw the necklace of the apostle he was wearing and mentally thanked Info for making his life way more simple while Irene spoke up
”so Mars, you have been living in the Mother forest, what was it like?”
”well... it was nice, I had my very own cave and all... for a time it was just me, Victoria and whatever thing we decided to hunt, well I had some problems with some stealth acid spiders, but then i wiped out their nest”
”...you wiped out... a nest of stealth acid spiders?”
”yeah? they were annoying... the queen even destroyed my vest... it was such a nice vest, I spent a whole 5 days on that vest... wait why are you looking at me like that?”
not only Reimund and his wife Irene looked at him funny also the poker faced maid Elsa looked at him funny, and they did so for a whole minute until Reimund broke the silence
”you... killed a stealth acid spider queen...?”
”yeah? it cost me a reaaalllly nice vest... 5 whole days of work and the finest pieces of wind deer hide”
”...do you have the core?”
Mars looked over at Elsa and saw the disbelief in her eyes, but was pleasantly surprised when he saw her brown eyes was pure with no sign of disdain and gave a slight smile
”yeah I should have it here somewhere...”
Mars reached into his backpack and pulled out a small leather pouch witch he opened and pulled out a blue magic core the size of a tennis ball and laid it on the table and picked up his cup and took a sip
”oh, this is some good tea”
”Irene... is it... real?”
”I don't know for sure unless I get a [appraiser] to look at it but... it certainly is the biggest magic core I have ever seen”
Reimund looked at Mars in disbelief and asked
”who... are you?”
Mars gave a slight smile and closed his eyes
”that's the wrong question...'what are you' would be better here I think”
Mars opened his eyes again only now they were transformed from his usual deep blue eyes into a eerie pair of blood red vertical slits eyes that quickly turned back to normal again when he blinked leaving Reimund, Irene and Elsa with truly funny faces while Mars calmly sipped his tea
”I have a question if you don't mind”
Reimund snapped out of his daze and gave a slight smile
”...sure Mars ask away”
Mars reached into his pack again and pulled out a small wooden plate with 2 small symbols etched into it, on of them was a sword and the other was a bow
”can you tell me what these symbols mean?”
Mars had made a couple of these wooden plates over the time he was living with the elvers and had used this one to copy the symbols on the necklaces that the 5 goons wore
”oh that's simple, the bow symbol is for the hunters guild and the sword is for the mercenaries guild”
”then what does the material the symbols are on mean?”
Reimund looked over at Irene that answered after she took a sip of tea
”the material of the tag represents the rank of the person wearing it, for example if it's a wooden hunter tag and a iron mercenary tag then the person wearing it is a rank 0 hunter and a rank 2 mercenary”
”...okay, then how many ranks are there?”
”there are 9 ranks in total form lowest to highest is wood, stone, iron, steel, silver, gold, platinum, mythril and then adamantite”
”...I see, then what rank of hunter would one need to be to kill a stealth acid spider queen?”
Irene looked at Reimund that gave a shrug in return before she answered
”probably a squad of gold's? I have no idea honestly I was only silver rank hunter when I retired”
”okay... now for my last question, you don't have to answer this if you don't want to”
Reimund gave a slight frown before he gave a nod, Irene also narrowed her eyes slightly while they both waited on Mars to continue, but he just closed his eyes and took a deep breath through his nose
”this smell... it's medicine, pure alcohol and brunt flesh right?”
”that's...right, but how can you smell that form here?”
Irene looked a little dazed as she asked Mars, but before he answer the maid Elsa spoke
”Mars has very good senses... he also found out about my daggers though his hearing”
Irene and Reimund's expressions dimed slightly and after a little while Irene spoke in a sorrowful tone
”it's our daughter... she had an accident at school and now she's in... a coma”
”I see... well that should be good enough payment for the tea and information I have received, would you mind showing me the way to her?”
”...why?”
Mars emptied his cup of tea and stood up before he gave a pure smile
”well so I can heal her of cause”