Chapter 173 - 168: Insurance! (1/2)

Outer walls of western warlords palace

Eastern gate!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two silhouettes could be seen on top eastern wall above the gate, one man and the other being a woman!

Damn! This position... it's entirely wrong... it's... it's...

The man was laid down over his back, present below the woman who had seated on top in an embarrassing position!

Naturally it was Mark and Xena to begin with!

” Let's start! ”

Pushing her back a little, Mark stood fast and took a disk shaped array piece from his storage space which caused her to blush red.

” Right here? Isn't it a bit too open? ”

Xena started panicking, and couldn't help but wonder weather Mark had a fetish to do in open.

This girl!?

Just what's with her? Had something gone wrong with her brain... Why does she want to hook up that bad?

Mark was naturally ignorant about the fact that Xena was aware of his conduit in beast men base, and was also aware that he almost had lost his life there!

She believes that Mark had risked his life for her sake, and apparently loves her dearly!

After all future was uncertain, and who knows what variables might pop, which might separate Xena from her cherished ones... or even end her life to begin with?

Mark was not privy to her thoughts, as such he could only return her words with a smile, as he couldn't read her completely!

” Princess I know what your thinking... but is this the time for that? Enemies are present over at our doors and we need to make preparations quick! ”

Make preparations?

” l need your blood... your fresh blood to install my array! I have already strengthened it with mine... it's just that adding yours will reinforce it! ”

” The more powerful a bloodline is the more stronger the array would be! And you should probably know, your lineage is one of the strongest known blood in humanity, so princess serves the ideal candidate for it! ”

In a single breath Mark exclaimed out and made his words clear which brought embarrassment to Xena, who initially had lost in wild thoughts which were about to happen between them.

Is this what Mark mean by that... ... back in hall? Damn girl, I thought he was about to make love...

You require my blood... why wouldn't I?

” Yes, right now we should focus on dealing with the enemies! What my Mark says makes sense! ”

She took a deep breath in and resolved

We should focus on fortifying our defenses! That stuff... it can be done later! He.. he..

Xena then smiled graciously, before extending her slender hand to ask him to pick her up.

” This girl! ”

Mark paused at there, controlled his temper before helped her get up only to get teased by her.

” My Mark... once everything settles down for good, we can do... that! ”

Do that? Like hell we would!

After all, once the defensive array is built... i wonder ill see your face again any time sooner!

Mark merely smiled in response as the thing which Xena was imaging was just her blind fantasy, which she merely made up with!

As such he had to tolerate her for now and complete the array fast, after all it was for her own good right?

Drip!

Xena then took the array piece from his hands, dripped few ounces of blood over it to enhance it with her blood.

Whoosh!

The array piece resonated with her after suċkɨnġ in blood, as it had registered the memory of person at hand!

Good!

Mark appeared surprising enough as Xena resonated with array piece without a resistance!

After all system did warned him about high rate of backslash, had he failed to instill. Still looking at the current situation where it wasn't, he felt ȧssured!

Mark then put the array piece down, which slowly mended into it wall and completely disappeared from their sight as if it wasn't present before to begin with.

”Good with this, she's as good as trapped for good!”

”Fuck yeah! I'm free of a major problem which earlier troubled me!”

Mark sneered internally as the array was special! After all... it was brought directly from system right?

Looking at the array piece which mended into the eastern wall, Xena became flabbergasted!

At the same time she couldn't help but ask curiously weather her interpretation was correct or wrong.

” Mending into surface! Isn't that the characteristics of array pieces which are grade 5 and above! ”

Mark gave a nod of confirming and exclaimed

” Princess, we have enemies of peak order aura emperors and probably above! If not for it being a grade six array piece made by me, would this Mark be brazen enough to let princess bleed? ”

No matter what, she was a princess, and even his mission and future was dependent on it, so he atmost expect of her to not make troubles...

After all she was notorious in rumors about her bad conduit right?

If condition were right she could become a potential ally who could lend him thousands of experts to wipe half mutants at later times.

So Mark needs to be courteous around her, and considering that his identity as a young master of Milton house hold, he atleast needs to act in regards to hierarchy, so as to not let the others gets suspicion about him.

And since he could not divulge about him getting the array pieces by purchasing it from system, he could only bluff it by taking the credit of its creation over his head.

After all explaining about the existence of system was a taboo right?

A grade six array?

And also made personally for me?

Marky... why do you treat me so dearly?

Hearing that it was a grade six array and the one to make was Mark, she felt moved!

Grade five corresponds to arrays used against low rank aura emperor and below, while the grade six array was usually made to deal against high ranked emperors that were very hard to deal with.

Even mid ranked transcendent dare not take that array lightly! No wonder the princess got the confidence to survive if she were to go to Royal palace for protection.

But inscribing arrays were no joke and the array master would constantly receive backlashes, which could ċumulatively threaten ones life or even decrease vitality, if underestimated.

So when Mark brought a complex grade six array just for her sake, she felt moved to tears.

”This girl... she even know to shed tears? But why at this occasion?”

Unless Mark explains the real reason behind array's existence, he's likely not going to receive an explanation for this!

” One over... seven more to go! ”

After completing their work at eastern gate, Mark quickly traversed to north-east gate with Xena and installed the array pieces as before!