Chapter 515: Asking For Some Seeds (1/2)
”Pressed for time? What do you m—” Princess Thessalia was about to ask when her eyes quickly flickered in realization. ”Once the flames die out, there will be nothing left to stop the rat tide!”
”Exactly.”
Leon nodded.
”You understood quickly. That's right. That's the situation we are in now.” He said before picking Faelyn off his lap in order to get up from his seated position.
”Where are you planning to go?” Faelyn asked.
Leon gazed towards the rat tide in the distance before he said, ”I'm going to go thin out the herd.”
Of course, with such a large rat tide, his so-called thinning out the herd would make no difference whatsoever.
However, it was better than doing nothing.
”I have a bad feeling that not everything will go according to plan if I just sitting around doing nothing,” Leon said with a worried frown.
Faelyn gasped with startlement before admonishing him, ”Don't say something like that. What if you jinx it and something terrible really does happen?”
”A wise man once said anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. There's also a famous proverb that goes; man proposes, but God disposes. As such, we should do everything in our power to prepare for the worse.” Leon stated.
”When did you suddenly become a scholar?” Faelyn asked with a short giggle before she stared at Leon with solemnity, ”This is my tribe, and these are my people. I don't want to wait here idly and do nothing. Please let me come and help too.”
”Maybe not. It might be a bit dangerous for you…” Leon denied her request out of concern.
”Huh?” Faelyn furrowed her brows before pouting with a puffed chest, ”Are you looking down on me? Despite how I look, I am still a 9-Star Ranked Awakener.”
”Do you have a lot of combat experience? Can you fly?” Leon asked.
His questions immediately made Faelyn deflate like a balloon. Her head was bobbed down before she answered softly, ”Not a lot… and I can't fly… yet.”
”Let me come and help. I have a lot of combat experience. Like my baby sister said, this is our tribe and our people. We cannot let Prince Leon do all the work.” Princess Thessalia requested while patting her chest with valiance.
”Oh?” Leon turned towards the elder sibling before he asked, ”And can you fly?”
”Uh…” Princess Thessalia immediately froze, unable to answer Leon's question.
He shortly shook his head and helplessly said, ”Even if you can fight well, you will just become rat food if you don't have a single means of escape from the rat tide.”
The two princesses' heads were hung down in low spirits.
”Practice how to fly with your elder sister first, then you can come and join me,” Leon said while caressing Faelyn's head with a smile.
Shortly after, he suddenly thought of an idea and quickly added, ”Ahh, but there's another way you can help your tribesmen.”
”How…?” Faelyn asked with uncertainty.
What else can she do except kill rats with her high cultivation?
”You'll find out soon enough. Come, we'll pay the tribesmen a visit together first.”
”Alright.”
Faelyn nodded.
”I'm coming too,” Duna suddenly stated.
”Oh? You also want to help me that much?” Leon turned to Duna before he said concernedly, ”But you might aggravate the cracks on your hand. Maybe you shouldn't do anything until it recovers.”