Chapter 63 daily life and the hunt in Malrton 6 (1/2)
Mars's eyes sparkled like the inside of the safe, there where 2 red gemstones and a fat sack of coins along with what looked like a raw piece off blue colored glass that was somewhat transparent
”...well finders keepers”
Mars quickly emptied the safe but when he picked up the piece of raw glass he felt a jolt coming form it and let it go
”...wait a minute”
Mars poked the raw glass piece again and felt the same jolt only this time a smile spread on his face
”this seems like pure mana... but how is that possible?”
Mars's understanding of mana came from the elvers of the Mother forest, that had told him mana was the aura of the soul, but this piece off raw glass seemed to be made of pure mana
”well whatever”
Mars cut up more of the carpet and made another sack which he used to pick up the piece of raw glass
”well then... let's get back to the mansion”
”okay...”
Mars and Victoria left the underground area and when they passed the trap in the storage building Mars set it off and sure enough the net filled with junk metal fell down on the path with a loud clang
”just for safety's sake...”
On the way out off the storage building Mars picked up a empty crate and placed it in the middle off the road before he lit it on fire and sat down and waited and within a few minutes a few guards showed up, one of them gave Mars a questioning look while the other began to put out the fire
”what happened here? and who are you?”
”my name is Mars, I'm a guest of the barons and I have just wiped out a outpost belonging to the 8 heads by orders of the baron”
The guard widened his eye slightly before he asked
”...and how do I know you are telling the truth?”
”well you could ask Reimund yourself, but this will be faster...”
Mars pulled out his necklace of the apostle and showed it to the guard
”s-s-sorry for doubting you sir apostle!”
The guard clearly panicked and gave a deep bow
”I don't mind, you are just doing your job... the outpost is through that door, take the middle path and after the net with metal junk is a fake crate where the underground entrance is located... how are you with blood?”
”blood sir?”
Mars gave a sigh
”let's just say they didn't surrender...”
The guard took a glance at Mars's sword before he gave a nod
”understood, we will take it from here... hey you call after reinforcements, I will stand guard here”
”yes sir”
Mars stood up and gave a wave too the guard before he and Victoria began walking back to the Mansion when Mars gave a sigh as he looked up at the stars
”what's...wrong?”
”hmm? oh I'm just a little tired that's all...”
”okay...”
Mars and Victoria both remained silent until both off them returned back to the mansion where Mars left the bloody sack outside on the training field and went up to his room with Victoria where he put the sack with coins, the 2 red gemstones and the sack with the raw piece off glass on the table and sat down on the chair
”okay first off the coins...”
First he began to take out the coins one by one and stacked them on the table to count but quickly ran into a problem as most off the coins in the sack was small gold coins which he had no idea how much was worth
”well there's 4.000 cell just in silver coins so that's something... as for the gems and the piece of raw mana glass I have no idea... let's just go to sleep”
Mars took off his clothes and laid down on the bed and quickly fell asleep while he used the [Demon sleep magic]
”Mars... Mars wake up we're almost there”
Mars opened his eyes and looked out the window and saw high rise building zooming past along with a constant stream off flying cars like the one he was riding with his dad and asked while rubbing his eyes
”why do we have to live so far away form grandpa anyway?”
His dad remained silent clearly in a sour mood form having to visit his dad whom he was in a bad relationship with since he had married his current wife that was Mars's mom
”what does grandpa even want anyway dad?”
Mars's dad gave a sigh
”he wants the contract fulfilled”
”what contract?”
”the one i sighed when I married your mom and left the family”
Mars became even more confused, but seeing his dad's sour mood he refrained from asking as the flying car flew into a parking loot halfway up a building where both off them stepped out and saw a man in a military uniform waiting on them that gave a salute to Mars's dad
”this way please, the general is waiting”
”lead the way”