The next day Ryle woke up he noticed that the villagers seemed to be stressed but he did not pay much attention to it as they were hurt. After washing up and having breakfast, he realized that he only had 4 more days left until the Auction. Considering the two-day travel distance, that leaves him with only 2 days of mining.
'I need to mine at least 5 thousand a day... I can't afford to rest for now.' As Ryle came up with a plan, he first needed to deceive his parents. Although it hurt him to do so, he had to.
"Mom, I'll be going to Sun City, I forgot to pick up something from there. I'll be back in a few days."
"What did you forget? Let Ter go pick it up, it is dangerous outside." Lily said while looking him in the eyes.
"I need to go, don't worry, I am strong." Ryle tried to smile but was stopped when Ter patted him on the head.
"You know that we can help right?" Ter looked at him with a smile, which made Ryle feel guilty. He had forgotten that he could ask Ter and the other higher-ups but he did not.... trust the others?
While Ryle was confused about his lack of trust, Ter and Lily kept quiet while staring at him. They are naturally aware of Ryle's lack of trust in those outside the family, they do not know why that happened or when it happened but Ryle would always keep the other children in the village at a certain distance and never proceed further. So many times they tried to fix that flaw of his but whenever the did something Ryle would be depressed for days.
Once they had a small party organized for his birthday for all the kids in the village, when Ryle found out, he did not even attend it. One could say that the only person Ryle truly trusts is Lyn and Lisa, even they as his parents don't have his blind trust, although he cares for them, unconsciously Ryle hides many of his secrets from them. If not for Lyn, he might not even give them the Pure Mana Absorption Skill, but just the downgraded version.
This is also the main reason they have not told him about being adopted, unlike Ryle, they are aware that once they do tell him, he might feel betrayed and not trust them at all.
"I know, but I have to pick something in Sun City, It is very important," Ryle said, technically he did not lie, since he wants to buy the ownership of the village, he would be picking something up.
Sighing, both Lily and Ter just let him be. When Ryle left the village, he quickly located the unwelcome quests nearby and hid from them as he went towards the basement.
In the basement he did not even stop, he went straight digging, right now the cave had a diameter of 5 meters, which went into a spiral form downwards, every spiral would be supported by a big tree trunk to make sure it does not fall on top of him. Lucky that he was in a forest. when it was past mid-day, he had dug to 400m´deep, the rate of Mana Stones were increasing and by now he had around 2 thousand in total. After a break, he went back to digging, at the end of the day, he had managed to reach 764m and right now everywhere was full of Mana Stones, he had already dug around 5.000 and at this rate, he should exceed 10.000 tomorrow.
The next day when Ryle was happy digging, Sun City got some frightening news.
The City Lords mansion, a middle-aged woman was at this moment laying naked in bed while a man was beside her. The women had purple hair with red eyes, well-developed curves in the right places, Unlike what one would expect, the man was dead, he looked like a mummy as if every fluid of his body was sucked out.
"Tsch, only this much? If I had a rank 6 mage as a meal, I might breakthrough. Guards!" The woman spoke as she stood up, the door opened and a man and a woman in knight armor came inside. The scene in the room did not faze them at all. It was like they were used to seeing this.
"Take this one out, bring me two new ones for tonight, oh and try to get some high-quality ones, this one did not even satisfy my urges once." The naked woman spoke as she nicked the dried-up man at his lower parts.
"Yes!" Both of the spoke. The man took the body inside a separate dimension in his ring and went out of the room. The woman stayed there, she was very beautiful with short blond hair and deep silver hair that made her look majestic her curves were not any worse than the naked woman. Seeing her staying, the naked woman sat down on the bed crosslegged, showing all of her privates.
"What is the matter, Seli, anything happened?" The naked woman spoke as she took some kind of fruit out of her ring as well and started eating it.
"Miss. Amisa, there were even more who were interested in buying Fors Village for 10.000 Low-grade mana stones, at your order we had some of our scouts check the village out and we found the reason why."
"oh?" The naked woman, Amisa, was now curious, what would require these rich people so interested as to buy such a remote village, villagers, for such a high price?
"There is a family of 5, the children have beauty that is rarely found even in the capital, especially the oldest son and oldest daughter. But somehow it feels like the younger one might eclipse them later."
"Just for beauty? hahaha, but if what you said is true, many nobles in the capital will buy them for sky-high prices. especially the females. As for the boy, I want him~"
"Miss, this is but one of the reasons, the oldest daughter, Lyn Lest, has unimaginable potential as a mage, she is already a peak rank 2 mage but is wielding advancing to let her body mature, same with the eldest son Ryle. Although he was not seen using power, our reports said that he also is waiting to mature his body before advancing to rank 3. Even their youngest daughter is close to rank 1 mage, with their mother practicing as well for the last few months, getting close to rank 1 mage and their father who was a long rank 1 mage, magically advanced by leaps and bounds in the last few months, Now he is very close to becoming a rank 2 mage. He might achieve it in a few weeks tops." As Seli spoke more and more, Amisa was trembling in ecstasy, no one knows when but the bed had a dark spot underneath her. Seli who saw that smiled beautifully.
"Who Seli, you keep getting more daring, to give me such news at this moment." Amisa stood up and slowly walked towards Seli.
"Miss. there was also some bad news, a few nights back, thick bloodlust and killing intent was detected through the vill-" While Seli was speaking Amisa reached her and sealed her mouth shut with hers. Parting only a few minutes later.
"Enough of that, tell me tomorrow, close the door and let's have some fun." As Amisa said, she went towards the bed, while Seli closed the door.
In one of the most lavish buildings in the City, a man was sharpening a blade in his hand. The man was bald with one of his eyes closed with a scar running from the right side of his head to the corner of his lips. Passing through the closed eye. Burly built body, wearing just some pants with his scar filled chest bare.
"Knock Knock"
"Come" The man spoke as he kept his actions the same. The door opened and a woman in maid clothes came inside.
"Master, we have some news from Fors Village." The maid said after she made a quick bow.
"Good or bad," The man asked, still fully focusing on his blade.
"Both." The maid said as she gave him an Engraved Mana Stone. Seeing a stone in front of him, the man put his blade aside and picked up the stone, after channeling his energy inside a picture screen came into existence, like a hologram television of the ancient humans. As he watched everything he finally showed some interest.
"Make sure our guild buys this Village, afterward I want to meet that family personally, our guild needs talent more than anything. Don't register them as slaves just register them as part of the Adventurers Guild." The man then picked up his blade once more ignoring the beautiful maid in front of him.
"Yes, Master." The maid then bowed once more and went out of the room.
Such conversations were happening all over Sun City and even some of the nearby Cities were interested in it. One this was sure, the price of 10.000 was taken out and all the focus was put on the auction.
While all this was going on, Ryle was happy digging. by now the 2-day time limit he had set was almost finished. he also dug a total of 14.000 Low-grade Mana Stones. Satisfied with what he had, Ryle decided to take a quick break before leaving for Sun City early tomorrow.
The scouts that were watching the village multiplied, With now there being more than just scouts there. As all that was going on, a man was walking in the forest nearby, when he reached close to the village he got interested in what was going on. So many scouts for just a village? Curious by what was going on, he decided to stay near the village for the time being. He saw in the remote parts of the forest and saw a lush part with trees bigger than its surroundings. Walking closer, he saw a small hole in the ground, not thinking much of it he passed by it. He went to one of the tallest trees there were and leaned his back against it as he closed his eyes and cultivated.