Chapter 6: new reward.
Sunrise the next day Leinad's mother's eyes twitched before slowly opening.
"Leinad? Huh, where am I? I'm alive?" she muttered with a weak voice seeing the familiar ceiling
She could vaguely recall that she spent all day going all around the village trying to lay her hands on medicine for curing poison, when she did find the Ganoderma, the toxins had long spread deep into her internal organs making the possibility of her getting cured close to zero but she didn't despair regardless and she hurried back to get the medicine to her son, unfortunately, her body got the better of her and she collapsed.
She had expected that she would wake up in the afterlife surprising she woke up on her bed.
As she was in her thoughts a familiar voice drifted into her ears causing her to be filled with joy, "what nonsense are you spouting mother?, how can you die when I am here"
She weakly turned her head in the direction of the voice and she saw leinad, standing on his own looking at her with a warm smile on his handsome little face...
She smiled in return "Son are you okay? , how are you feeling does anywhere hurt? cough.." She started coughing as she tried to get up and check him.
Leinad quickly reached to stop her "mother don't move, your body is still weak you still need time to recover, please stay on the bed don't worry about me, I'm okay as you can see"
Hearing that leinad mother took another look at him and was pleasantly surprised, she noticed he seemed better than he was before he got, his skin was bursting with more vigor than that of an average 7 year 'how could this be, what happened when I was asleep?'
"Leonard you seem different" she finally said
Leinad crack a smile, " of course I do, watch this" saying that he moved to the side and lifted the couch above his head.
Leinad's mother's eyes widen in surprise by what she what witnessing how could a 7-year-old boy lift a couch that would have taken at least two grown men to carry unless...
She trailed off in her thoughts when she realized something, excitement began to well up in her heart.
"Leonard, you were able to cul-ti-vate?" She shakily asked
Leinad confirmed her guess, "That's right your son can now cultivate!"
"Ah, The gods have not forgotten me, finally things can get better for you" leinad mother's eyes teared up in excitement, she didn't even bother to ask how he could cultivate shattered meridians and she didn't care she was happy for her son, he would now be able to join the Agoge and no more suffer humiliation and bullying from the village"
Gawrrrr
As she was thinking of a better future for her son leinad mother's stomach roared startling both of them, it was at this moment they remembered they didn't eat since yesterday
Leinad smiled " wait here a moment while I prepare your favorite soup" then he went into the kitchen, it was mostly empty but leinad made do with what they had.
Several minutes later the scene of a seven-year-old spoon-feeding a sickly woman on her bed could be seen, Leonard's mother was filled with laughter this morning it didn't take long before she fell asleep with a smile on her face.
By noon
Leinad sat down crossed-legged once more by the couch and began to examine the new Reward.
(Record a target location, preferably a private space where host safety is guaranteed, when activated, host can return to the targeted location from anywhere in the world )
(Can be used once daily)
Leinad smiled a bitter smile after combing through the information, 'seems like the system is really worried about my safety sigh let me just continue cultiva....'
Bang Bang Bang
Leinads thoughts were abruptly cut off by loud knocks on the door.
Leinad was puzzled, he was sure his predecessor and his mom didn't have any friends and never had visitors, then who could it be? He had a feeling someone must have come to create trouble for them.
He opened his eyes then he turned to look at his mom, when he saw she her eyes were wide open and she looked worried at the door, leinad frowned and quickly said, "don't worry mom I'm sure it's nothing, they must be at the wrong place and would leave soon."
Bang Bang Bang
But the furious banging of the door didn't stop and it looked like the visitor might break the door down if they didn't open it up
"Hold on I'm coming" With a frown leinad jumped off the couch and went ahead to open the door, he didn't open it fully just enough for him to poke his head out and see the bastard pouncing on his door.
It was a chubby-looking man and leinad could tell he was one of those nobles in Sparta that didn't need to care about training but could reply on the power of his backing, the man wore expensive silk accessorized with all sorts of gold however he had a shocked look on his face as if he had seen a ghost.
As leinad was observing the man the chubby man finally regained his composure and look down at who opened the door, he frowned when he saw it was a child looking back at him coldly.
He felt insulted and shouted at leinad, "what the fuck took you so long to open the door? don't you people know your place? How dare you make me stand under the sun for long? and Where the fuck is that harlot mother of yours?, bring her to me at once!"
Leinad frowned as he thought of something seeing the man's behavior 'seems he's here to check if we are dead'
Hearing the man act so pompous in front of him to cover his slip up made leinad chuckle inwardly but his face remain expressionless as he glared at the chubby man's eyes.
"who are you and why do you want to see my mother" leinad coldly said after a moment of silence.
He might be nice to his mother that didn't mean he had to act all willy-nilly with a guy obviously her to find trouble.