Chapter 178 - Chapter 178 Preparing To Fight A Roc

As they arrived in the next town Rose poked Thomas who was sleeping on top of the cart and said "You've been sleeping for a while now, it's time to wake up." As Thomas opened his still grey eye he said "Alright, just give me a minute." As Thomas stood up and hopped off the top of the cart Rose stared at Thomas and said "I hav to ask." Thomas glanced at her and said "Ask what?" She stared at him for a moment and asked "When we were fighting those guys were you using every ounce of strength you had?" Thomas yawned and said "No if I would've done that they would've died." As Thomas turned around and seen the others he waved and said "What's up." Lily stared at him and said "You mean you have even more power then that." Thomas stared at them and said "Actually the five I took out didn't have any mana so they couldn't defend themselves." Ceil stared at Thomas and asked "But you do have more magical power then what you used back then didn't you?" Thomas nodded and said "Yeah I had some spare power I wasn't using but not much more." Mira walked towards Thomas and stared at his eye as she asked "Does this eye color give you more power then you normally do?" Thomas covered his eye and said "The color sacrifices my live but greatly increase my mana or I suppose you could call it my damage." As Mira got closer Thomas took a step back and asked "Why are you so curious about this one specific color." After Thomas said this Scarlett walked towards him and said "When you nearly die to an apple many people would like to know if it can get any worse." Thomas uncovered his eye and said "First off I wasn't aware that Mira told you about that and second I don't think you need to know about it." Scarlett turned around and said "If you don't want to tell us that's fine, but just know that we're all worried about you." Thomas stared at her and said "If you'd like to know it should be gone pretty soon, the closer to death I am the more mana I take in, recently I've been taking in less and less." Thomas turned around and began to walk into the town as he said "That should be last bit of information you don't have." Lily stared at Thomas and asked "Who's gonna go with him?" Scarlett glanced at her and said "I could accompany him." Scarlett stared at Ocis for a few moments as she asked "Aren't you going to come with us to?" Ocis shook her head and said "Nope, I promised to help Peri with her training." Ceil walked towards Scarlett and handed her a talisman as she said "This should be about eight hundred pounds, please put this on him when he's feeling better or at the very least give it to him." Scarlett grabbed the talisman and began to run after Thomas as she said "I should go before anything happens to him." Once Scarlett caught you with Thomas he turned around and said "I'm pretty sure I already told, you don't have to worry about me." Scarlett held out the talisman and said "Ceil wanted me to give this to you, and I wanted to thank you for answering my question." Thomas grabbed the talisman and put it on as he said "You don't need to thank me, giving you that little piece of information is the least I can do for you." Scarlett stared at Thomas and asked "What are you going to do?" Thomas stared at her for a moment and said "This is a secret but Toby said that he'd meet us here." Scarlett stared at Thomas and said "Your not fighting him in your current condition." Thomas shrugged and said "I never said anything about fighting, well at least not each other." As Thomas turned around and began to walk towards the towns inn he said "Besides with me and him there the quest should be easy." Scarlett grabbed him by the jacket and said "Allow me to accompany you." Thomas glanced at her and said "Alright but I already told you, me and him agreed to do a simple quest, nothing big." As they entered the inn Thomas glanced around and seen Toby sitting close to the quest board. As Thomas and Scarlett walked towards him Toby turned around and seen them. As he seen them he asked "What happened to your harem?" Thomas stared at him confused and said "You keep saying that word but I still have no idea what it means." Scarlett stared at Toby and said "The others are doing something right now." Toby stared at Thomas and asked "And what's with the eye." Thomas looked away and said "Ignore the eye, just tell me what we're doing." Toby smiled and said "Right I had this quest reserved." Thomas turned and stared at the piece of paper as he mumbled "I see so we're gonna search for a roc." Scarlett stared at Thomas and asked "Do you know what that is?" Thomas shook his head and said "Not even a slight clue." Toby lowered the paper and said "Its basically a giant bird that can carry away an elephant." Thomas stared at him for a moment and asked "What's an elephant?" Toby stared at him and said "Never mind all you need to know is that it's a huge bird!" Thomas nodded and said "Alright seems easy enough." Scarlett stared at him and said "Your just saying that, you are aware that if you got hit with a strong gust of wind it might kill you." Thomas glanced at her and said "Wind shouldn't be enough to kill me so it's fine." Scarlett stared at him and said "The gusts of wind from a roc's wings can cut trees." Thomas shrugged and said "See this quest would be just as deadly even if I wasn't in this condition." Scarlett glared at him and asked "So you were aware it was a difficult quest." Thomas flinched and said "No I wasn't aware of it until just now but it doesn't make a difference." Toby stared at Thomas and asked "What's this about your current condition?" Scarlett pointed to Thomas's eye and said "The only reason he doesn't want to explain it is because it means he's close to death." Thomas turned away and said "It'll be fine." Toby tapped Thomas on his back and said "If you'd like I could give you a health potion." Thomas glanced at him and said "I should honestly figure out where to buy those." Toby handed him a potion and said "Don't sweat it, just drink it and prepare for a fight." Thomas grabbed the potion and said "I'd rather not accept help from people." Scarlett stared at him and said "Stop your complaining and just drink it." Toby stared intently at Thomas and asked "Could the secret to your strength be the lack of medical attention?" Thomas stared at him and said "I don't think that's it." As Thomas drank the potion Toby asked "Do you have some sort of other secret?" Scarlett stared at Toby and said "He doesn't have a secret he's just using talismans and getting used to weights." As Thomas set the potion bottle down he said "Now that you mention it I do feel really light when I take the talisman off." Scarlett stared at Thomas and said "Honestly if you ask me you should take longer to get used to it." As Thomas's eye color changed back to orange Toby pointed at it and said "You really weren't kidding, it's back to normal." Scarlett glanced at Thomas and said "It really is finally back to normal." Thomas covered his eye and said "Yeah it's back to normal." Thomas took his hand off of his eye and stared at Toby as he asked "Aren't hero's supposed to be well known?" Toby nodded and said "Of course hero's are well known." Thomas got closer to Toby and asked "Then why aren't you well known?" Toby sighed and said "Well unfortunately most of the adventures are way above my level, so I have to get stronger so when the demon lord appears I'll be able to kill it and become well known throughout the land!" Thomas looked away and said "So your just hoping that no one else defeats him?" Toby shook his head and said "Of course not, even if I'm not the one to kill him I at least want to be there to support the one who does." Thomas took a step back and said "I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure relying on someone else to do it is useless." Toby stared at Thomas and said "What makes you say that?" Thomas shrugged and said "Honestly I just don't see it working out, think about it if you want something done right then you have to do it yourself." Scarlett stared at Thomas and said "That's not always true." Thomas glanced at her and said "I want to do something I'm not gonna count on someone else to do it for me, I'll just simply get stronger and do it myself." As Toby stood up he said "Well this conversation is hopeless so why don't we move along."