Chapter 158 Power leveling 2 (1/2)
After Mars was finished at the temple he didn't walk home, he instead walked towards the river and onto the giant bridge that spanned the so call green river and walked into the hollowed out giant tree that stood in the middle of the river and walked up to the counter and spoke with the receptionist
”my name is Mars, I would like to meet with the elders”
”yes sir Mars, I'll send word to the elder right away please have a seat while you wait”
”okay”
Mars sat down and waited and soon an ancient looking elf walked over to him and spoke
”please follow after me sir Mars, the elders is waiting”
Mars gave a nod and followed after the ancient looking elf further into the giant hollow tree, after going through complex hallways for close to an hour Mars finally arrived in front of a big door which the ancient looking elf gestured to
”the elders are waiting”
”thanks”
Mars walked up and opened the door and was imitatively greeted by the elders voices
”see he didn't kick open the door this time”
”ha! I knew it”
”tch...”
”this doesn't mean anything”
”yeah he maybe will kick it open next time”
Mars paused and eventually decided to ignore the elders bickering and asked them
”I wonder if I could ask for you wisdom?”
”oh he's so polite this time”
”we are really shocked”
”very well since you asked so nicely what is it you need our wisdom for?”
Mars walked up and sat down on a chair and thought for a moment before he spoke
”is there a place nearby where you guys would not mind the local population of magic beasts to go... extinct?”
”extinct you say..?”
”can you elaborate?”
”we are a little confused”
Mars gave a sigh and explained
”I use magic beast cores to get stronger and I need to get much stronger in a short amount of time...”
”so you want to hunt?”
”you could use the barrier forest for that... unless..?”
Mars gave a nod and spoke
”I'm afraid if I hunted in the barrier forest it would become less of a barrier and more of a forest...”
one of the elders gave a nod with an understanding look on his face
”so you wish to hunt another in place...”
Mars gave another nod
”yes exactly”
”we understand... give us a moment...”
Mars waited while the elders thought to themselves until suddenly one of them spoke up
”there this one place.... an island off the west coast of our peninsular... only we forget why it was sealed off in the first place...”
Mars gave a smile
”then that will do fine, can you arrange a boat for me or do I have to swim?”
”we will naturally arrange a boat for you”
”thanks”
Mars finished his talk with the elders and it was decided that the boat that would take him to the unknown Island would leave tomorrow, Mars didn't follow the ancient elver back though the long hallways he instead opened a portal and stepped though...
”Mars what happened to you, you look awful!”
”yeah, yeah I know tell me about it”
Mars waved off Mary that had waited for him on the roof since breakfast but decided it was too cruel and sat her down and told her what had happened, after he was done Mary looked at him with worry in her eyes and asked
”so basically you got wrecked?”
”yup”
Mars agreed, it was the biggest defeat he had since he was reborn, but in his past life if he was known for one thing then it wasn't giving up, if he met a 'wall' he could not pass he would smash his head against it until it broke
”so that's why I'm going to be training starting tomorrow”
”training?”
”yep I meet with the elders earlier and found a good training ground”
”can... I come... too?”
Mars looked behind him and saw Victoria had sneaked up on them and gave a smile
”sure, as long as you listen to me”