The teenager didn't look like he heard him or he even could understand how the man didn't look like he got hurt from the dagger. But the leader heard what Leon was saying and got angry. If Leon got successfully recruited Ronald, him superiority in the slums would lost.
"Ronald, don't you want to cure your sister. This man has a lot of gold on him with that you could easily cure your sister."
Hearing the leader Ronald tried to run from Leon but he couldn't even move. Leon also heard what the leader said, Thus he simply looked at Roland's eyes and said
"Ronald huh, if you want to cure your sister I can help you with that, how is that sound. You should work for me, you would not lose anything from it." Leon said to the black haired young man in front of him.
Hearing what Leon said, Ronald paused and looking like he was in deep thought. Seeing Roland considering the proposal, The leader's eyes gave cold glint with a cold voice;
"Roland, do you think, your sister will live after you accepted."
Leon turned his sight to the thugs and released his aura to lock them in place. The thugs couldn't even move anymore and they couldn't even make a noise. Furthermore they didn't understand what was happening and this made them more scared. Leon didn't looked at them anymore but looked at Roland. Seeing he was still conflicted;
"I can easily kill them."
Ronald looked at Leon's eyes which was like a deep pool. After a bit of moment he talked;
"If you can cure my sister, I will be your slave."
Leon nodded in response and released Roland's shoulders, then he stretch his arm towards the thugs, instantly the thugs caught in fire, without even screaming they turned to ashes. Roland shuddered when he saw this, but also he figured out the young man in front of him could cure his sister. If a magus couldn't cure, who can cure.
After burning them Leon looked at Roland said to lead the way. Roland walked in the front and Leon followed him. After about half an hour, they came in front of a worn down wooden house. It was standing barely, if a strong person were to push the door with a bit of power, it would collapse.
Ronald opened the door and entered the house, and Leon followed him. When he was inside he could see the houses interior was clean but aged because of that, no matter how many times it was cleaned it would always look like it was dirty.
Ronald quickly went to the side of one of the two bed side by side and knelt, there was a girl who has wrinkled skin and lost luster of her eyes. If Leon didn't know that she was Roland's sister, he would say she was her grandmother. She was looking like aged too much but her hair was black like Roland's.
"Sister, There is someone who could cure you, he is a magus."
The girl in bed made a grunt, Roland turned his sight to Leon with hopeful eyes. Leon sat on the bed and took her wrist, after examination, he could tell that her disease wasn't that much bother to heal for him. But if Roland were to cure with his own, he would needed to own five slums.
Leon opened his spatial bag and took a pill and put it in her mouth. After the pill dissolved and she swallowed the pill. After she swallowed, her dry skin started to gain its life rapidly and her eyes gain its luster. She was looking like gaining her youth. After a couple breath of time, She turned from a old woman to a young girl. She sat up and looked her hands, after confirming that her skin looking more tender and full of vitality, her eyes started to moisten.
Roland was shocked to see his sister was cured that quickly. His eyes and mouth was open, after a bit of time he gain his composure back but, his eyes moisten too and quickly he hugged his sister. His sobbing voice overlapped with his sisters. Seeing this Leon walked outside of house to give them a bit of space. After fifteen minutes waiting Roland got out of the house with his sister. Both of them had red eyes from crying. Ronald came before in Leon and knelt
"Thank you Sir Leon for curing my sister, This Roland's unworthy life now belongs to you."
"Rise, there is no need for kneeling, right I didn't know your sister name yet." smilingly said Leon
Hearing that his sister came before of Leon and bowed
"My name is Rose, sir Leon. I can't thank you enough for saving my life."
After that Leon looked at Roland and asked
"You would not need this house anymore, if there is anything you want to take away with you take them I'll wait for you."
The siblings nodded, Roland said to Rose that he would serve Leon from now on, he didn't know where they were going to live but even poorest magus would have a mansion. But he didn't know that Leon didn't have any house.
After the siblings gathered all important things, Leon took them in a spatial bag and they left the slums.
…
Josh was sitting in house and reading book, today he made a deal with Leon for a body tempering technique. He was thrilled so much that he couldn't sleep so he was reading a book to get sleepy.
*Knock knock
When he heard the knocking, he was confused who could've come this late. He opened the door and he was shocked to see Leon and two teenager on his door.
"My Lord!?"
"We should talk inside and they need to use your bathroom."
…
After the siblings took bath and slept, Leon and Josh was in the study room which was filled with books on bookshelves sitting opposed to each other and drinking tea. After a bit of silence Josh asked.
"My lord, what happened?"
"That was an unexpected harvest." Smilingly said Leon. And continued
"Roland have innate stealth ability, he can be a good shadow. That's why I recruited him."
"My lord you plan to have him as a spy?" asked Josh,
"Yes and no, I don't make him to do anything in empire, at least not spying to nobles or such, but to collect information in the streets when I found my city." Answered Leon. But his real objective was to send Roland to the other worlds with portal and gain knowledge from here.
After a bit of conversation, Leon got a room and started to mediate. After he opened his mana pool, he didn't stabilize his cultivation. His body tempering in its first stage, Elemental Stage and it was consisted 5 sub-stages; low, middle, high, peak and perfection. Leon was in peak of Elemental Stage, as for his mana cultivation, he didn't need to bother with it anymore. It wasn't that his body tempering driving his mana cultivation forward but making it more profound and augmenting its quality.
Right now Leon could "see" in his mana pool there was four seed of elements. Besides the element seeds he could also see the poison pearl which was inhaling the mana and exhaling more purer mana. He couldn't push his cultivation further. Because when his body tempering breakthrough to perfection, He needed to pass Lightning Calamity and condense his titan heart.