back in the mercenary town I prepare for my trip mostly by getting some sunscreen.
the only ones following my real body would be harribel and Yun Yun. Ulquiorra will be staying behind to watch over everything for me. Along with my shadows one of which will be substituting as a doctor for me.
"So what are we going to the desert for?" Yun Yun asks flying next to me.
"Well I have brothers there and I'm going to nab a heavenly flame." I tell her.
"I recall hearing something about that a while back but no one could find the location of the flame." She replies.
"That's because it's either underground or being held somewhere else if I recall the desert has a tyrant by the name of Medusa." I chuckle.
"However before that let's head over to rock desert city. my brothers run a mercenary group there." I tell her.
Harribel is just quiet the whole time as she doesn't really talk much.
"What's the name of the group?" She asks curious if they are famous or not.
"if I recall it's desert metal mercenary company. How unimaginative." I say.
in the distance we see something odd though apparently a fight is happening.
we make a small detour and plop down in the middle of the battlefield startling both sides.
on one side is a group of half snake people releasing poisons in the air and on the other side is humans.
"So what's all this then?" I ask.
one of the humans pipe up "We were out looking for herbs when these snake men attacked us.
No denial from the snake people.
"Really Medusa just let's her people run free because she's strong. Boy is she going to be in for a rude awakening later." I smile at the snake men making them hiss at me in anger.
"How dare you mention the queen puny human." one hisses at me.
before I can say a comeback, a waterblade sliced all the snakemen in half.
I look over at harribel. "It's pointless to chatter with them if they are going to die anyway I just sped it up a bit." she says.
"I hope you aren't learning bad habits from ulquiorra he's no fun." I say patting her head.
The wounded people all look at her in shock. Before one approaches us. "Hello we would like to thank you for helping us. if you have time you can visit our group in rock desert city." she says.
"what a coincidence we where heading over there to find a mercenary group." I say with a smile.
"Oh which group are you looking for?" the woman asks.
"Desert metal mercenary company." I tell her.
"may I ask why your looking for that group?" She says suspiciously.
"Well its my brothers group so..." I wave my hand around.
"I see well then feel free to tag along with us." She said yelling to the others who were looking over the carts they had which where being pulled by tier one beasts that kind of looked like camels.
it took about half an hour to get to the city. It was actually a very large city compared to most desert cities. It was also a lot better built as I expected like mud adobe and such. This was true but they where all neat and designed with woods and stones aswell.
people wore mostly shorts and no shirt or cloth wraps for women.
We made our way to a rather large compound. On the top of the compound, there was a flag that was swaying with the wind where the words 'Desert Metal Mercenary Company' were written in a big font. The drawing on the flag also faintly emitted the firm atmosphere of blood and guts.
At the entrance, a few fierce large men were carrying weapons in their hands and stood as still and straight as a pen. Their sharp gazes swept back and forth on the people walking past the compound. From the faint scent of blood that they emitted, it appeared that they were men of iron will that had really survived at the edge of a blade. Those novices who simply carried a weapon by their waist and thought they were mercenaries could not be compared to them.
This was the group belonging to the older brothers Xiao li and Xiao Ding. Who where both geniuses and worked quite well together. They were also good people often defending this body previously from the mocking of the family and having to endure punishments in turn. They may seem kind to family but against enemies they were vicious and brutal. Combine geniuses, kindness to those who are kind to them and brutality to enemies and you get effective leaders.
I knock on a door I'm led to by the woman i saved earlier apparently her and her group where part of this mercenary group.
The door is opened by a tall lazy looking man but under his lazy demeanor hides a vicious cunning.
the other person in the room looked kind of sly and had a wise look to him.
"Little brother what a pleasant surprise. We have been hearing news about you even from all the way out here." the tall one named Xiao li said with a smile.
I just laughed. "What kind of rumors have been spreading about me in this lovely desert."
"There's all sorts of rumors like you finding heavenly treasures and robbing the Xiao family and even trying to anger that girl yanran to death. Every time she hears your name mentioned she apparently smashes everything around her. Serves her right for her rude behavior." he says with a laugh.
I just give a cough as Yun Yun hides her face. Xiao li looks at me curiously before looking at the two women.
"Who might your guests be little brother?" he asks.
"Well one happens to be Yun Yun the current sect leader of the misty cloud sect and master of yanran. The other is my close companion harribel." I say with a laugh as he give me a bitter smile.
"You've shown up with quite the guest. You haven't been captured have you?" he asks with a laugh.
"As if I could even catch him." Yun Yun muttered but they clearly caught it.
They both look at me in shock. "Aren't you a dou huang how can you not catch him?" the older brother asks with a curious glint in his eyes.
"Even I don't know what level he's at all I know is he can easily defeat me and I can't even touch him if he doesn't want to be touched." She said bitterly.
They both looked at me for confirmation and I just vanished from sight appearing behind them silently.
"You guys must have been slacking on your cultivation for me to have passed you so fast how shameful." I laugh making them jump.