30 Difficult Journey (1/2)
Lucien convinced Jeanne to travel to Portgreen together. The adventurers did not want to be close to that devil, but they also did not want to offend him, so they all followed in silence along the road.
Most adventurers walked ahead. Jeanne was in the middle, talking to Marie and Anne. Lucien followed with Mia and the tigresses behind the group.
Mia adorably held Lucien's arm, and despite the smile on her face, she was a little worried. ”You shouldn't have killed the archer. Now, you may have problems with the guild because of me...”
Lucien knew he exaggerated, but that was the intention. He couldn't deal well with his anger when someone tried to hurt Mia. So, he wanted to make the adventurers spread this story to avoid a situation like that again.
He hugged Mia more tightly. ”Problems can be solved. But if something bad happens to you, I can only regret it. I prefer that they hate me, and you stay safe.”
Lucien loved his mother very much, and the loss of her added to his father's horrible treatment made him very passionate.
He was discovering new ways to love, and Mia caught him off guard. She's so good and lovely that he couldn't cope well when she was in danger. But even he knew he went too far. Now, he would have to deal with the consequences.
Lucien asked a lot of questions about Mia and her mother. She said that her mother was sick and she needed a lot of money to buy a special medicine. She worked for the mercenaries as she cannot join the guild for some reason.
He tried to ask more about how her mother got sick and why no one helped them, but Mia didn't want to answer much yet. He also asked why she couldn't join the guild, but Mia didn't want him to get into any more trouble so quickly, so she promised to tell him at another time.
”Now that you have the chest plus the money you already had, where are you going to buy the medicine?”
Mia said it was in another country and that they would have to travel for a month. Lucien said that they could go now, making Mia thrilled that he didn't even think twice before he wanted the best for her.
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She held his hand tighter. ”It's not that simple, idiot. I will only be able to buy that medicine at an auction, which happens once a year. There are still three months to start.”
Lucien and Mia agreed that he would join the guild, but she would stop working with the mercenaries. With the addition of the bronze chest, Mia already had enough money to buy the rare medicine for her mother, so she would wait until they could travel to the auction.
But then Lust said something in his mind, which almost made him scream.
”You should be able to heal anything with a certain amount of your essence as the life mana, which you got from Sophia, runs throughout your body.”
Lucien understood Lust's explanation. He couldn't use that mana to cast spells, but it was still in his body, and probably other people could absorb it from his essence.
But the issue was very complicated. And he can't help asking Lust. ”How do you want me to tell my woman that I can heal her mother with my dick? Wouldn't that make her think I'm a crazy pervert?”
Lust claimed that the situation would be more natural to understand when Mia felt more and more the improvements that Lucien's body caused in her body. So, they agreed that Lucien would speak to Mia about it at another time.
As the group walked down the road, Lucien realized that the landscape was changing around them. The road no longer passed through a forest but open fields.
His eyes could see long distances where there were small hills, fields full of plants and colorful trees, some farms close to large plantations.
He could also see great walls, which looked very old but still quite firm, around what should be Portgreen city. Behind the walls, there were large towers and castles, some of which were made of stones with an architecture similar to that of the wall.
But others were totally different, made only of wood in a very different style of architecture, with roofs slightly curved upwards. Some were made of what Lucien thought was bamboo, as they were still far away; he could not see precisely.
Mia told Lucien a lot about Portgreen. It's a city which had a wide variety of different people. Many small villages and towns lived under the protection of adventurers and mercenaries, who came from all over the world to live in Portgreen.
When closer to the city, more streets connected to the main one. Lucien started to see many people coming from different paths. Some looked like adventurers with colorful and varied armor, small or large groups with several members of different races and equipment.
There were also groups of people who wore dark clothes and capes, just like Mia. Those were the mercenaries who gave Lucien's group strange looks but confused looks at Mia and Lucien.
There were also several peasants and travelers. Ordinary people were carrying boxes of vegetables and herbs, others in large and small caravans with carts full of different kinds of stuff.
People talked and laughed as they animatedly walked towards the city on the street, which was now quite wide and made of cobblestones.
The adventurers who had witnessed Lucien's bloody show began to forget that unfortunate episode and talk about other things. They were away from Portgreen for a long time and wanted to rest and relax when they arrived at the guild.
But Jeanne couldn't stop thinking about Lucien. She couldn't forget the calm expression on his face as he commanded the tigress to maim adventurers from the same side as her... Her people...