Chapter 71 The first contract 6 (1/2)
*CLANG*
the bandit leader flew once again, but this time he hardly hit the ground before Mars appeared behind him and sent him off with another kick
*CLANG*
”fucking break already!”
Mars's attention was completely caught up with playing his one man ball game as he kicked the bandit leader around in circles, meanwhile the mercenary's was hunting down the rest of the bandits that had started fleeing after Mars sent their leader flying the second time
*CLANG*
”you know what, fuck this”
Mars, now really annoyed loaded his left arm with 20 energy units and walked over to what was left off the bandit leader and sat his left hand down on his chest before he unleashed the energy
*BOOM*
”...are you fucking kidding me?”
the shield still held, despite Mars's best attempts at breaking it
”maybe if...”
Mars activated his drain touch and put his hands on the shield and sure enough after a few seconds the shield broke and Mars grabbed the battle axe with a excited look on his face, completely disregarding the dead bandit leader
”now how does it work..?”
Mars tried putting his mana into the battle axe and sure enough the magic beast core on the blade lit up with a soft glow and soon a soft looking red membrane covered Mars
”...neat”
Mars became a little excited and tried putting more mana into the handle of the battle axe but unfortunately the battle axe was a cheaply made AMW so the core exploded into dust and the shield around Mars disappeared
”...shit”
Mars threw the battle axe aside and looked around and found Jack and Lina covering their mouths, trying not to laugh a little away from him
”....really guys?”
”sorry... hehe---”
”yeah we're really sorry Mars... hihi---”
Mars became depressed and walked back to the convoy were Frank greeted him with a smile on his face
”hey Mars, good work with the bandit leader I'll be sure to add a bonus”
”...okay”
Mars felt a little better and found Victoria to pat until the convoy started moving again
”just because we beat the bandit doesn't mean you can slack off the rest of the way, be sure to keep alert!”
after Frank yelled the convoy started moving again and Mars took his usual spot in the back of the convoy with Jack and Lina until the convoy stopped as the sun was going down were Mars ate and then vent to bed in his bedroll...
opening his eyes Mars saw the familiar room, or rather the familiar prison cell with the clock on the wall that was displaying 104 days, 15 hours and 52 minutes
”...fuck not again, is the demon dreaming magic not working anymore or what?”
Mars tried to use his mana and surprisingly a small reaction happened, like the fabric of the dreamed twisted slightly, but didn't fully break
”interesting...”
Mars tried again and this time a small hole was thorn in the dream but it quickly reformed and repaired it self
”so I need more mana... I can do that”
Mars loaded the spell with 4 times as much mana and used it again, tearing a hole in his dream were he quickly jumped though
”well this is... weird”
around Mars was flashes of images, fragments of his memories that passed by in a otherwise pure white space, as he tired to focus on one of the images it stopped flashing and showed a picture of a old computer along with his dad that held it up, he was standing on a pile of rubble and was covered in dirt
”that's right... dad was a information archaeologist”
as soon as Mars saw the image memories came flooding back about how him and his dad had spent weeks working on a old pc only to find the only complete data was a pictures of a weird green frog that looked kind of sad, Mars was disappointed by this until his dad explained how this picture often was found on information era pc's but this was a new version of the picture and it was therefore a unique find
”I remember how mom yelled at us afterwards... that's right mom, how did she look?”
Mars once again tried to focus on the flashing images but suddenly a headache struck him and the images became blurred...
”Mars... Mars wake up”
Mars opened his eyes and saw Lina in her casual clothes shaking his slightly
”hmm...?”
”good, your awake”
”yeah just give me a second”
Mars sat up and saw the other mercenary's was packing their stuff
”wait what happened to my night guard shift?”
”Frank decide to let you off since you beat the bandit leader alone”
”...okay”
Mars stared off into empty air until Lina poked him on the cheek
”you sure your awake?”
”...yeah I just had a nostalgic dream that's all”
”was it a good dream?”
”yeah that's why I'm a little tired still”
”I see”