Chapter 118 Leaving the empire 8 (1/2)

days passed and soon a two months had passed, 2 figures was walking on a dirt road in the southern desert of the empire namely Mars and Varvei, Mars looked over at Varvei she had almost completely recovered by now and although she had a slim figure she still had one, with curves in all the right places, this proved quite some trouble for Mars as she would often unexpectedly jump into his arms with a dumb grin on her face and rub her face against his while saying his name with a fiery hot voice while her tail swung back and forth like she was some kind of dog

'well it's good she recovered... same can't be said for this place...'

they had not seen another person since they entered the desert, the villages and town they came across was empty devoid of people it was like the whole southern desert had been abandoned by the empire, what Mars and Varvei didn't know was the emperor had take the change to redressing the layout of the whole southern desert now that it was devoid of people anyway

”Mars~”

”what is it?”

”nothing I just wanted to say your name~”

Mars looked over at Varvei and saw she had her usual dumb grin on her face and gave a sigh, he was pretty sure she had fallen for him, but due to his inexperience with the whole subject of love he wasn't sure how to proceed plus there was Chloe and Elsa to think about too

'...looks like I have become a lady killer in this life'

Mars didn't know how to feel about the whole thing so he tried not to think too much about it... well one thing's for sure, his dragon side was awfully happy about having so many admirers

'well let's wait until we reach Destra's magic academy...'

Mars shuddered a little when he thought about what would happen when the 3 of them finally meet for real

'...let's not think about it'

as the saying went; out of sight out of mind

”let's make camp a little further ahead”

”okay Mars~”

”Victoria you there?”

Victoria jumped out of a shadow when Mars called and walked over with her horns glowing while lightly purring

”what... is it?”

”can I have the backpack?”

”sure...”

a tar like shadow appeared on the ground in front of Victoria that suddenly shot out the backpack before it disappeared again Mars caught the backpack with his newly healed right hand and put it on his back as they walked another few kilometers before they stopped and made camp for the night, as the sun was slowly setting over the horizon Mars gave another sigh as he looked over at Varvei that had latched on to his arm and was rubbing her face against his shoulder with a dumb grin on her face

”...are you going to do that all night?”

”yes~”

Mars gave yet another sigh before his eyes turned serious and he turned his head and looked into Varvei's crimson eyes and asked

”why don't we do something else?”

”eh, something else?”

Varvei gradually got more and more red in the face before she suddenly took some distance from Mars with a full flush on her face and looked down

”...pervert”

'diversion complete'

Mars had found that while Varvei was very good at 'offence' she had very little 'defense' and was thus easy to get to 'retreat', basically she was like a pure maiden with a very lively fantasy

”well then go to bed, I'll take first watch”

”...meanie”

”what was that?”

”...nothing”

Varvei pouted a little but still got into her sleeping bag and soon she fell asleep, as soon as she begun lightly snoring did Victoria appear, the first thing she did after walking out of the darkness was watching Varvei for a bit before she walked over to Mars and laid down in his lap and begun purring loudly

”what's wrong Victoria?”

”...nothing...”

”okay?”

Mars decided to leave it alone and looked into the campfire while the night gradually grew longer...

The next morning after packing up camp the group once again begun moving south, as the time neared mid day did something unexpected happen

”what's that sound?”

Mars stopped and strained his ears and so did Varvei, the sound Mars was hearing gradually got louder and louder until Varvei also heard it and yelled

”military sky carriage! Mars move!”

Varvei grabbed Mars' hand and begun running for cover, Mars looked back and saw... it, while it was called a military sky carriage that's were the similarities to a normal sky carriage ended it was huge, more than 50 meters across with more than 20 mana armors on the outside of the hull and two mana powered cannons in the front on either side of the cockpit

”looks like a heavy landing craft”

”now isn't the time to be in awe, run Mars!”

”yes yes”

Mars picked up Varvei and increased his speed but how could they outrun a military sky carriage? soon it overtook them and landed in front of them, Mars stopped running and narrowed his eyes as the mana armors separated from from the hull of the military sky carriage and begun walking towards the two of them, one of the mana armors was painted pure white and lead the others towards Mars and Varvei

”looks like we can't avoid a fight”

as Mars drew his sword Varvei stepped forwards as the horns in her forehead grew longer and claws grew out form her fingers, her tail also grew out bone barbs as it slowly swung from side to side before she screamed at the mana armors with tears streaming down her face

”WHY ARE YOU HERE!?”