I looked at them with surprise.
They both came to me and wrapped their arms around me and tilted their heads onto my shoulders.
They must feel safe being so close to me.
They looked like sisters if you ask me.
I put my arms around them and we sat on a couch. I was rubbing their backs and thinking about the plan.
"Should we leave tonight?"
"You can stay here for today. I will go around and get some information. We can proceed with that. Right now, leaving seems to the safest but we can't always run and it is not like they will stop chasing us. I will go around the town and see the situation and we decide after I come back. Stay in the magic circle. I have added a repelling formation inside it. Anyone trying to reach this room which have a slight psychological hint of going to the next room."
They nodded and I went out.
I took out a hooded robe , wore it and went out.
The guard at the gate, "Don't do anything stupid or you won't see those two again "
I nodded and went.
I decided to go the port district across the road. It was filled with carriages. There were even flying ships riding slowly.
I heard a ding sound when I saw a fat old landing coming out a flying ship. It was like a blink in shape of an airplane. When he was coming down, I heard a ding sound.
The ship reminded me of the dirigible from Earth.
I walked around stores. There were lots of shops ranging from magic tools, brothels, hotels, bars. I even saw the familiar Soft family store and Herald store. I bought a copy of the Herald tabloid to check the news about Svetlana.
I read it while walking. It had news or should I say fake news about Madam. It was said that Earl Dunts brother's wife which was madam had relationships with multiple men when he was alive.
Even, her daughter was a love child with some man from the east. They had commentated that Madam might be a spy of the raiders. They used her foreign origins to disgrace her. Even Arshaya's long legs with Madam's charm magic were mentioned as a sign of raider heritage.
I was pretty pissed after reading this stuff.
There were mad dogs everywhere. I read the rest of the tabloid. There was hardly any integrity in their reporting. The current king was praised as the most noble man who married into the Napoli family to strengthen the alliance between two kingdoms. He was described as a monagamous man while the Herald family was described as a family with long history of giving. There high taxes paid to the royal family along with free books initiative was told as a ground breaking step.
All this smelled like propaganda to me. I could only imagine what kind of brainwashing those books would do for the in the children. Only the commoners would read such books I believed since the nobles were wary of each other.
I walked in to back alley and wore a mask around my face and slowly casted body magic to grow a beard and change face bones and muscles to a different face. I even tanned my skin to look like a foreign mage.
I went to the Blu Inn. Wasn't it the same one that I had gone into at Brown town.
I knew this one should not be a normal power.
I went to the bar and ordered a drink. It was a neat rum like shot in foggy and heavy glasses. No one would the clean glasses of Dunt family here on the first floor of the inn.
This Inn was close to the port and many sailors came here to cool off.
I went to the counter and passed him a gold coin.
His eyes lit. He was just a level 2 ice mage with 1600 mana. I could kill him ways he wouldn't even know what happened.
I asked him in a heavy tone."Do you know anyone who sells information about the precious products. I want to buy a life battery."
He frowned hearing it.
"Go up the stairs and enter the first room and follow the rules. even the king would not try anything funny here." He threatened me.
Not even afraid of the king, which organisation was this. I contemplated.
I walked up the stairs and knocked.
The security guard brought out a crystal ball and pointed.
I put my hand on it and decided to pass only earth mana since other ones would make me a dangerous guy.
I was a level 3 Earth Mage, 2 rings lighted up in Dense brown colour.
He frowned on seeing the Color but relaxed after seeing on two rings.
I could always pass in as a low level mage to these balls.
He brought in the old familiar handcuff and I wore it without any hesitation.
With increase in alchemy, I could break these handcuffs faster than Houdini could break his.
With this in mind, I showed a fearful expression on seeing the handcuffs and wore them with hesitation.
I could of the flow of mana to my hands.
Now the handcuffs had stopped working.
My rest of the body still release mana. I did not want to break the handcuffs to cause unnecessary trouble.
I sat on the couch waiting for their boss to arrive.