Chapter 140 To kill an emperor 2 (2/2)
Mars waved his hand in front of his face
”I'm fine, just a little tired...”
Mars closed his eyes to drive the point home, as for why he acted tired it was simple he wanted to seem more human if he simply healed everyone with tired the merc's might start to avoid him or treat him like some kind of monster or god...
Later that evening Mars sat in front of a campfire along with some of the merc's he had fought with earlier that same day
”so why is it that you cover your face mister Shady?”
Mars gave a sigh
”I'm disfigured”
”oh... sorry”
”I don't mind Mat”
Mars gave the mercenary named Mat a pat on the shoulder before he stood up and stretched
”I think I'll retire for the night”
Mat gave a nod
”please sleep well mister Shady”
”I will...”
Mars walked away from the convoy and found a tree which he quickly climbed and sat down on a branch and closed his eyes.
Meanwhile the mercenaries gathered around the campfire and talked with hushed voices
”you ever seen anything like that old Tom?”
old Tom was a old gold ranked mercenary clad in iron armor with a long white beard, he closed his eyes and stroked his long beard for a moment before he slowly shook his head and spoke
”no, the healing spell mister Shady uses is far beyond what I have ever seen... Not only the quality of the healing but the times he was able to use it is beyond what I have ever seen, it's most likely a bestowed skill”
the other mercenaries nodded, right it had to be a bestowed skill anything else was simply impossible, after a long silence a other mercenary raised his hand, she looked like a teenage girl and carried twin swords, her sharp ear revealed she was a half elf, she was also one of the ones Mars had healed during the day and unlike her fragile looks she was one of the most bloodthirsty mercenaries of the lot and had only been injured because she chased to far, no one knew her real name so they just called her blood Mary
”when mister Shady healed me I saw something...”
the other mercenaries leaned in and listened as she continued
”...I saw a glint of a silver star in his robe he, mister Shady might be a apostle”
old Tom gave a nod and spoke
”that would make sense given the power of his bestowed skill”
the other mercenaries nodded along again only Mat gave a frown and spoke
”but if he's a apostle then why have he not gone to the holy union to the west? I heard they treat apostles like royalty there”
old Tom gave a frown and spoke
”it might be because he's disfigured all you hear from the holy union isn't true and I figure a disfigured apostle would revive more scron than anything else”
”I see.... poor mister Shady, if he wasn't disfigured he would live a great life in the holy union...”
nods all around again as another part of Mars' alter ego backstory got added without his permission