Chapter 141 To kill an emperor 3 (1/2)
The next morning Mars climbed down from the tree he had spent the night in and went to do his morning stretches but found a pair of eyes on him and looked over
'that's Mary right..?'
Mars remembered the half elf he had healed yesterday and gave a small wave, Mary gave a smile and walked over and greeted him
”good morning mister Shady”
”morning Mary, how is your arm?”
Mary blushed lightly when she remembered how Mars had tenderly held her arm as he healed it yesterday
”I-it's fine!”
Mars tilted his head slightly but decided to ignore Mary's strange behavior and instead shifted the topic
”have you eaten yet Mary?”
”yeah I just finished eating”
”I see that's good, you need to eat to replenish the lost blood, even though my skill healed you yesterday it didn't replace the lost blood”
Mary gave a nod and asked Mars
”you have not eaten yet right?”
Mars shook his head slightly
”I'll go get some food now”
Mars walked past Mary and over to the carriage were food was being disturbed to the mercenaries and got his rations that consisted of dried meat and a cold wheat porridge, after Mars inhaled his food he slipped a few pieces of dried meat into his shadow for Victoria to eat, then he walked over to his spot in the formation around the convoy and sat down and waited for the convoy to start moving...
At a camp in the middle of a forest a rough looking man hurriedly ran between the tents that was not-so-neatly lined up, his goal was a large tent in the middle of the camp, were there current leader was resting, as soon as he reached the tent he suddenly stopped and kneeled down outside of the tent
”big sis, I have important news!”
the man waited patiently and soon a voice sounded out form inside the tent
”enter”
as soon as he heard the response a smile formed on the face of the rough looking man
”yes big sis!”
then he rose from the ground and entered the tent and kneeled down again, the inside of the tent was luxuriously decorated and in the middle of the tent stood a bathtub that was made of pure silver in the tub lay a breathtaking beauty and bathed, she had long red hair and pure white skin without a single scar
”what is the important news?”
the woman seemed more interested in cleaning her already spotless body and lazily asked, the rough looking man lowered his head and spoke
”the last raid on the convoy was nearly wiped out”
the beauty suddenly stopped cleaning her body and let out an icy tone
”...what did you just say”
cold sweat formed on the rough looking man's forehead, he knew the beauty in the tub had never heard of the saying 'don't kill the messenger' and if he spoke wrongly he was dead
”a-as I said; the last raid on the convoy was nearly wiped out”
the beauty's body shock slightly before she let out an even colder tone
”tell me the details, NOW!”
”y-yes big sis! It seemed like a skilled shadow mage appeared in the last round of reinforcements, this mercenary was the cause of our loss”
”....you're telling me ONE. SINGLE. MERCENARY. caused our forces to almost get wiped out!?”
the words hit the rough looking man like a hammer and with every single one he lowered his head even more, his entire body was now covered with cold sweat but he quickly answered the beauty in the bathtub
”y-yes that's what the survivors told”
”damned imperial army if only they weren't so alert we could just bring all our men and attack the convoy... never mind that, double the number of men in each attack and tell them to go after the mage first, however brings me his head will be rewarded!”
”y-yes at once big sis!”
”and for the sake of your own skin free my man from that convoy soon!”
Mars suddenly felt a chill and looked around, bloody Mary that had been walking next to him noticed and asked
”what's wrong mister Shady?”
”...it's nothing I just felt a chill”
”I sure hope so...”
Mars heighten his alertness and scanned the surrounding forest once more, but alas he didn't find anything other then some local wildlife in the distance which caused him to let out a sigh, meanwhile Mary peered into his face from the side with a light blush on her face, Mars of course noticed this and asked her
”what is it?”
”...are you really disfigured mister Shady?”