"Grandpa!" Zelie screamed in shock at the turn of events. Fortunately no one was standing behind Elder Yel, so he was the only one who suffered from misfortune.
Zelie dashed towards the old man and called him again and again—his ribs had been caved in his stomach and he coughed blood continuously as he struggled and moaned and rolled on the ground like a fish out of the water.
"I won't forgive you for this?!" seeing the old man's condition, Zelie yelled at Elora and Hicka. "You dared to set a trap!"
Hicka and Elora stood not far away with frozen expressions. They had no idea what happened. Furthermore what kind of power someone would need to injure the Spell Caster to this degree.
Elora eyed the grunting figure on the ground, and her heart turned cold. She was afraid that this matter won't settle easily.
Before Elora could reply, the door of the room opened, and Kadyn walked out from inside with his ragged clothes and wounded body and charred hair and black face.
He eyed around him and saw the old man on the ground, lying in the puddle of blood and rolling in excruciating pain, and said. "Hey, what kind of dance is that, Snake-dance?"
Zelie glared at him, but seeing Grandpa Yel's condition. She remained silent and supported him.
Kadyn sneered at her reaction. Actually when he arrived, the system sent him the warning that someone was attacking the shop. He was shocked and terrified at the same time.
Elora was still in the shop. How would he face his parents if something had happened to her? However at that time, another notification sounds in his head:
[Do you want to activate the offensive formation? Y/N]
Of course, Kadyn chose to activate the formation. He was worried about his sister. Though he had no idea how powerful the so-called offensive formation really was, as he had never seen or used. He presumed that it could at least halt the enemy for some time.
However seeing the situation outside, he was left stunned, and his lips curled on their own. But his expression turned weird when Elora told him that the old man on the ground was a Spell Caster.
"What are you standing for?" Zelie said. "Give me the highest grade Soothing Drop!"
"Miss, I think you are pretty aware that I have sold all of my potions," Kadyn said nonchalantly. "Furthermore this Elder is already at the Spell Caster. Do you think the Elementary Rank potion could heal him?"
Zelie clenched her fist and wanted to refute him when four to five men in black bolted in their direction. "What happened, Lady Zelie?" one of the men asked. These were the people that they had stationed out of the shop when the duo came to meet Kadyn.
"Can't you see the situation?!" she yelled. "Help me take Grandpa Yel to the Association!"
"Yes, Lady Zelie!" all of them said, and helped her to carry the wounded old man, not daring to ask for the details.
Zelie turned towards Kadyn's group of three and said in her icy tone. "This matter isn't over, yet. Just you wait, humph!" saying that she rushed out of the shop with her people. Afraid that the old man would die, his wounds looked really terrible.
"This is bad!" Hicka said with a pale face. A simple name of Magic Association was enough to terrify the two greatest families in the city. But they had done something so severe. He was unsure that he would even see the next dawn.
"Don't worry, if the situation becomes bad, just hide inside the building of the shop." Kadyn said casually, as if it was no big deal.
After all, now, he knew that no one could touch him or anyone inside the buildings of the shop—whenever someone would attack the shop, the offensive formation would activate.
However he wasn't aware how powerful enemies the system could hold against. But it was enough to injure someone like that old man, so not many could threaten them in the Avibria City.
"What do you mean?" Elora asked in confusion. Hicka also looked at him with a blank face.
"I don't have time to explain. Don't you see my condition?" Kadyn said and struggled towards the counter and took out two vials of potion from inside.
"There are still Vials of Soothing Drop?!" Elora said, and remembered that he refused to give it to Zelie—if that bitch knew about this, she would definitely go berserk, thinking that a smile appeared on her silky lips.
"By the way, how did you turn into this?" she asked, glancing at him weirdly. Even a beggar outside the temple would look better than him.
"Ah," Kadyn scratched his head and said. "It's a long story that you can not comprehend." After taunting her, he walked away, leaving furious Elora and chuckling Hicka behind.
"What are you smirking for?!" she glared at Hicka, ready to beat him white and blue.
"Ah, nothing."
Elora ignored him and looked at her brother's back and shook her head; then remembered something and slapped her forehead. "I forgot to ask him."
"What?" Hicka asked from behind.
"Of course I'm talking about those people who came out of nowhere, saying that they are going to Upgrade the shop," Elora rolled her eyes at him. Then said, "and that attack..." but she fell silent after speaking half the sentence.
"Ahh, yes…" Hicka said.
Kadyn entered the bathroom and poured the water inside the tub before mixing the two vials of Soothing Drop. Then he sat inside and moaned in pleasure as that cool sensation coursed through his body. Though Soothing Drop couldn't heal burned places on his body, it could still soothe them.
"The Soothing Drop isn't enough," Kadyn murmured. "I need to brew other potions—to deal with poison and burns and other kinds of wounds. After taking some rest, I would brew a lot more potions. I already have enough money to buy the herbs."
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After an hour-long bath, Kadyn walked out and looked around him. Only now did he realise that many people were working like crazy in the shop. Two more buildings were under construction. He didn't know what the purpose of those two buildings was.
"I would know after the shop upgrades." He shook his head, not thinking much about it. He was still weak and tired and drowsy. He wanted to sleep, so after telling Elora, he went into a deep slumber.