Chapter 193 Envoy 1 (1/2)
The negotiations went much better than the day before, without the rude interruption from the now dead mercenaries and soldiers, Mars spent most of the day with Victoria on his lap as he sat guard besides the door to the cabin and enjoyed the sunshine while he kept a watchful eye on the remaining mercenaries and hunters
'yup sure is peaceful today...'
at least it was until around noon where the hunters on the perimeter sounded an alarm as he watched his friend get hit by something that quickly melted his body into paste, one of the more experienced hunters that happened to see it quickly yelled
”stealth spiders! watch out for the acid spit!”
Mars woke up from his sunshine induced daze and looked over
”that's slightly nostalgic... do you remember Victoria? when we had just met and killed stealth spiders together?”
”yeah... that was a... long... time ago”
while Mars and Victoria was talking about the good ol' days the casualties steadily increased among the hunters, their screams caused the people inside the cabin to steep out, Vanessa asked Mars
”what's happening?”
”stealth spiders' happening, please go back inside for your own safety”
Alvin gave a frown as a former leader of a barrier forest patrol team he knew how annoying a group of stealth spiders could be and gave a sigh before he asked Mars
”can you take care of them?”
”sure... one moment please”
Mars stood up and stretched before he put a hand on the hilt of his sword and took a deep breath before he activated [Instant movement] on his sword arm and sent out a flurry of sword lights that flew past the hunters and into the forest, then he gave a yawn and sat down again, Alvin gave a nod and walked back into the cabin but Vanessa did not instead she asked Mars
”could you not have done that from the beginning?”
”sure I could, I could also have annihilated the stealth spiders when they picked up our scent about an hour ago, but I didn't... and you know why?”
”...why?”
”because I was not ordered, you see my top priority is not to keep your escorts alive it's to keep the elvers alive until they are done with their work, then I have to return safely them to Green river”
”...you turned into a real asshole you know that Mars?”
”yeah I know, it comes with not being mortal now go back in there and negotiate”
Vanessa gave Mars one last cold look before she walked back into the cabin, Mars gave a sigh just as Victoria's horns flashed
”why... are you being... mean?”
”...well I guess it's because the girls left?”
”are you... lonely Mars?”
”a bit, but not as much as I could be”
”why..?”
”because I got you Victoria”
”...I see”
Mars felt like Victoria purred a little louder than usual but put it out of his mind as he leaned back and enjoyed the sunshine
About 700 Kilometers away from Mars' current position laid his mother's island, she was currently in her human from looking at the 4 girls in front of her with a bored look on her face, they had arrived yesterday and asked her to make them stronger so she did what she had done to Mars, she gave them dragon blood. While dragon blood a surefire way to increase one's strength in a short amount of time the method was also extremely painful and was also likely to kill the person taking the blood if their willpower was low, she had half expected at least one of the girls to kneel over dead by now but surprisingly they were all still alive which was the cause of her boredom she heard a low growl from her side and looked over and saw her child, a big red dragon that was lying with its head down on the ground while wagging it's tail from side to side like a big dog and gave a sigh before she spoke
”no you can't eat them, they are Mars' mates... of course if you do Mars is likely to kill you and eat your magic beast core”
the red dragon let out another low growl which caused her to give yet another sigh before she spoke in an irritated tone
”yes I'm sure he will notice if they are missing a limb so you can't taste them either”
the red dragon let out another low growl and stood up and walked past the girls and out of the cave, Mars' mother gave a sigh and sat down on the ground before she looked them over again half expecting one of them to have died while she was not looking, but alas they were all still alive, although how close they were to fall over dead differed a lot
'best I soupse is the half dragon... then comes the two elvers and finely the one that is closest to dying is the beastwoman...'
Varvei had some dragon blood in her already so she was naturally doing best with enduring the side effects, Marry and Chloe was both extremely physically fit and had both lived long lives so their mental and physical toughness was pretty good and then there was Elsa.... Elsa was by far the youngest of the 4 and her physical fitness was not as good as the elvers therefore she had the most trouble, Mars' mother looked over at Elsa that was covered in sweat and seemed to have trouble breathing and gave a yet another sigh