Chapter 238 - The road to civilization (4) (2/2)

”No I am a living god, not an angel”

”I see...”

Jasmine gave a nod and walked off still a little dazed, Mars gave a sigh and sat down on the deck and looked up at the sun before he stretched out his hand and attempted to grasp the sun, only grasping air

'My hands hold nothing... But that won't continue...'

Days passed and soon the ship had spent five days at sea, Mars had spent his time sunbathing along with 78 and had developed a slight tan on his skin also during the trip he had hunted some more sea magic beast and gotten a class 11 core and a class 14 core which he kept without absorbing them as he would sell them when the ship reached Heden to finance travels over the three continents he had to cross to reach Slaen. He had a lot of time to think during his idle time and often thought of his loved ones as an urge to drink slowly crept up on him, another thing that changed over the trip was he grew a little closer to Jasmine as the two of them would have some light conversations now and then, from those he learned that the school she would be attending were a combined knight and mage academy, he also learned that a railway network lay across the whole of Heden so as long as he could afford it he could travel from one end of the continent to the other along with 78

'but for that I need cel... and a lot of it, maybe I should teach a bit at the academy...'

The price of two tickets to the end of the continent was a staggering 500.000 cel and the train trip would take about 2 months in total so Mars opted to take the train rather than fly all the way, he was sure he would grow tired of flying before they reached Salen anyways as a railway network was not guaranteed on the other two continents

'Might as well make use of it when it's there...'

Mars sat up from his spot and looked around, 78 lay beside him and was lightly snoring

'guess I'll go hunt for a bit...'

Mars walked down to his cabin and picked up his boardsword before he walked above deck again and slowly lifted off the deck before he flew into the distance while scanning for targets as the tip of the boardsword cut open the surface of the calm sea while Mars flew just above the surface while looking around with his [Energy: sense], Mars reached down with his free hand and touched the surface of the water drawing a long line on the surface of the sea. Soon Mars returned to the ship, his harvest this time was nothing but Mars didn't mind as he was just using hunting to pass time anyways

”Oh Mars you're back”

”Hey Damon”

”So you got anything interesting?”

”Nah, some fresh air that's all”

”I see, you better go look for 78 she was raging that you were gone when she woke up”

”I see... Where is she now?”

”She went under deck”

”Got it”

Mars walked under deck and soon stood in front of his and 78's cabin and knocked on the door

”78 it's me, can I come in?”

”...”

”Come on now I know you're in there I can literally see you covering your ears with your hands”

Mars of course used his [Energy: sense] to peek through the door, not that he had a hobby to peek at young women mind you, his intention was pure

”... I am mad”

”I know, I am sorry”

”Do you know why I am mad?”

”Because I left while you were asleep?”

”... Yeah”

”Sorry”

”... Are you?”

”Yeah, can you forgive me?”

Mars 'saw' that 78 got up from the bed and walked over to the door before she opened it and looked down at the floor before she spread out her arms before she said

”Hug...”

”You really are spoiled... Geez”

Mars hugged 78 close and patted her head for sometime until she let go and looked up at his face with a wide smile on her face

”Let's go sunbathe”

”Sure”

Another two days passed and soon the port city of Larton was within view, Larton was one of the bigger port cities of the country Checa. Overall Heden was mostly what Mars would call a 1800's continent with technology that was mostly powered through steam and mana, like the ironclad they were currently sailing on which steam engines were powered by a mana stone boiler, Mars looked at the approaching port and asked Jasmine that stood beside him

”How far is the academy form Larton?”

”it's a few cities away but we can take the railway there, don't worry I'll pay for your tickets”

”I see”

Mars gave a nod. Soon the group got off the ironclad and entered the port city of Larton and after Mars said goodbye to the group of hunters Mars and the two young (at least 78 acted like she was young) ladies walked to the train station, Mars looked at the train station, the station itself was rather big with 25 tracks for passenger trains and countless tracks for cargo trains, Mars got some looks as he was still dressed in furs and hides but he ignored them as usual