As the axe about to hit Arlan, he uses the [Telekinesis] to store the axe right away to his storage make the axe gone from Garo's hand.
"Wha-What the hell did you do?"
"Hmm? You mean this?"
"You! Give it back!"
Arlan took out the axe and put it on his right hand as he lifted the axe making Garo quite angry.
"I took it from you, why you want it back? Get from me if you can then"
"As you wish! Aaaahh!!"
With the shouting from Garo, he uses the [Body Strengthening Magic] to enhance his body. Looking at him with appraisal skill, the magic only increases his strength by 8. Not even reach 45 STR, Arlan still has higher strength.
"Even with that magic, you still weaker than me"
"What did you say!? I'm already using this magic, now you can't beat me!"
"Huft... People can't understand the difference unless they got beaten down. Alright, let me beat you then"
Put the axe back to his storage, now Arlan only use his bare hand. Both of them, Garo and Arlan, charge at each other, but because of the difference between speed and strength, Arlan hit Garo first. Yes, just one hit and Garo already knocked unconscious.
"Told you. Better train your body rather than making trouble"
Arlan took all the swords and some healing potion from the mercenary without taking their money. With the fighting earlier, the [Martial Art] advance to level 30 just with a bunch of fight with bare hand. For him, that quite good and make his body lighter as the martial art leveled up.
For status level, Arlan needs to kill to gain EXP, so he only going to level up by killing monster, but with skill, he only needs to keep using the skill to level it up.
He reaches Saya's store and found out more mercenaries gather outside the store. Behind the mercenaries, there's stood a noble that he scared of before.
"Yo, what are you guys doing in front of the store?"
"Hmm? Ah, it's that guy! Surround him!"
"Huft, you're not even learned from your mistake eh?"
"Hahaha, you can't go anywhere now! If you willing... ly... to... What the hell!!!"
Without minding the noble's words, Arlan starts to beat every single mercenary that surrounding him. Within seconds, he beats more mercenaries and straight away toward the noble.
"So, your family is quite influenced in this town, eh?"
"R-r-right! Y-you can't hu-hurt me!"
"Oh? Still talk big, are you? Think before you talk!"
With just a slap from Arlan, the noble already knocked unconscious. It's a pity for people always act big with their family name while he himself can't take care of himself. Wherever Arlan goes, there is always someone like this noble.
"Arlan, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, how about you guys?"
"We just a bit shocked with the people gathered in front of my store"
Saya quickly greet Arlan after the fight.
"I think we should leave now. Prepare your stuff, I will put all the store's items into my storage and will give it back later. Right now, let's prepare to leave the town"
"A-alright. Musha, Misha, we're leaving"
"Y-yes aunt Saya"
"Travelling with big brother Arlan! Yay!"
As usual, Misha doesn't show any fear or even shock. What a brave kid.
As soon as they ready, they left the town and toward Musha's tribe.
"Say, is your tribe allow human to get inside the tribe?"
"Normally, tribe chief won't allow it, but we can explain it to them. Besides, we still need to cure them"
"Alright, I will let the talk to Musha and aunt Saya"
"Just call me Saya from now on, besides, I'm only 22 years old"
Arlan knew, he just being respectful, although most women dislike the 'aunt' part.
"Alright, once again, nice to meet you Saya"
"Yes, nice to meet you too. By the way, can you use magic, Arlan?"
"I can use it, but I don't have any magic at the moment. I was planning to make magic scroll"
"You can make learning scroll? I thought only scholar and high tier magician can make it"
"Yes, as long as there is material, I can make it. But, for high tier magic, I need better material than a mere papyrus"
"What kind of material?"
"There are some, like dragon's skin, wyvern's skin, or heaven deer's skin"
"Eh? The rarest deer said to be only appeared every few decades?"
"Um... Sort of"
"Amazing. Ah, here, I have some intermediate learning scroll, it's a thank for you, you can use it"
"Is it fine?"
"Yes, you already help my kin and me so much. This much is nothing for me"
"Thank you. Let me learn the scroll right away"
Arlan took the scroll and opened it. Inside the scroll, there is a magic structure about fire. As it is an intermediate scroll, the magic is called [Fire Bird]. Magic that can summon multiple bird and charge at the enemy like an arrow and giving a little explosion on impact. With a great control over fire magic, if the magic miss, it can be controlled and seek the target.
*You Acquired New Magic: [Fire Bird (Active, Level 1{0%})]
[Fire Bird (Level 1{0%})]
Fire Bird requires 1 MP per bird. Current Max Bird: 20 (The Mark of Dragon Gods). Magic Element: Fire.
"This is a great magic. Let me test it first"
By imagining the magic structure in his head, he saw the little bird cover in fire. As he's able to grasp the form of the bird, 10, 20 birds appear around Arlan.
"Wha? How can you make this many?"
Without minding Saya's words, he controlled the bird to fly in the sky. Without losing any control over 20 birds, the birds circling above their head.
"Beautiful..."
"Big brother is amazing! There are so many birds! Hahaha!"
"D-do you have the mark of Fire Dragon Gods?"
Arlan only smiled toward Saya. A moment later, he canceled the skill and the birds just disappeared in the thin air.
"Not exploding?"
"As long as we can cancel the form of the magic, the magic won't explode"
"How far is your understanding over magic?"
"Not much, I still need to learn more"
With a gapping mouth, Saya amazed with the person in front of her. Not just martial art, he even able to use magic until such extend. Travelling with that kind of person, not just Saya, Musha and Misha feel safe around him. After a little magic show, they make a camp outside a jungle before pass through that jungle tomorrow morning.
After using the magic, [Fire Bird] advance to level 6 after activated it for a few seconds. Before Arlan and the other take some rest, he summoned the Dryad, Dya. With the skill from the Dragon Gods, he can summon Dya all the time.
"Dya, if there is monster, wake me up right away"
"Yes Master!"
After that, Arlan and the other have a dinner, he was about to offer some food to Dya, but Dya refused it, saying "Dya only consume magic, Master!", so Arlan stop offering the food. For some time, Misha talks with the Dryad until she digested the food inside her stomach and getting tired.
Although the Dryad said she only consume magic, but Arlan literally doesn't use MP at all.
~In the cat-kin tribe~
"Chief, we need more herbs over here!"
"How is his condition?"
"He's getting worse. We have to tend him first"
"Alright, you, bring the medicine over here"
"Yes chief!"
Far south from the Kukiri Town, there is a tribe from cat-kin. With the jungle and river between the town and the tribe, it only took 20 hours the longest and 10 hours the fastest for them to reach each other. While it's quite far to walk to town, that is the risk they took for the tribe to be able to trade with the nearest town. With the danger of monster in the jungle, and discrimination from human, they still had to trade with them, but right now, with an unknown illness spread around the tribe, no one could leave the tribe.
Tribe chief already sent 2 people to go to the town to get some help, but he doesn't have any faith that they will back to the tribe safely, forget about the help.
"Chief, we need more water here"
"Okay, I will get someone to fetch some water"
"More medicines!"
"This is bad. Almost all the people getting sick"
"We can't do anything except slowing the ill"
The tribe people already tending the sick from day to night to day again, and now, a few days after the sisters send to the Kukiri Town, they still tending the sick without any sign of recovery. As the chief about to lose hope, 4 people arrived in the tribe.
"Chief. We spot some people toward the tribe"
"What? Who? At time like this"
"It-it's Musha and her sister chief, and there is also Saya and a human with them"
"Musha? Thank god that kid still alive. What about the human?"
"Seems like a nice guy. He's with Musha after all"
"Alright, invite them in, maybe he could help us"
"Yes chief"
Musha, her sister, Misha, her relative, Saya, and a human arrived at the cat-kin tribe. While waving her hand, Musha lead the rest toward the tribe as soon as she saw the tribe.
"Welcome back Musha, who is he?"
"Ah, yes, he's been helping us before and he knows how to treat the illness?"
"Really!? Then let's hurry. Some kids already suffered enough. I'm sorry, but what is your name, sir?"
"I'm Arlan. Where is the chief?"
"He's over there, let me take you to him"
As soon as Arlan tell his name, he demanded to meet with the chief. With the current position, he could not move freely if he doesn't recognize by the tribe people.