My butt was appreciating the actual roads we were attacked once buy a small group of five bandits who were quickly dealt with and once by a dire wolf that we killed with a little more effort.
We stayed in a few small towns I made a few trade deals mostly promising that people could seek shelter in serothor if they get attacked but in exchange we would receive supplies.
Honestly they were pretty fair deals but the further we got from serothor the less desirable making certain deals became and before I knew it we were in the empire.
Well the empire is a big place so we still had a ways to go but it felt nice to know we are on the right track.
By the end of the day we would reach the last city before the capital it is the capital of the great white marche owned by marchioness Belladon her last name comes from the large belladonna plantations in the marche.
You might think that it is safer to be in the empire than the land lock of different kingdoms that serothor is surrounded by but in truth the empire has many strong outlaw groups and stronger monsters attack where there are higher populations.
We had almost reached the city but suddenly the carriage stopped and I heard Aaron speak.
"The wind blows north"
It was our code both Aaron and Eren were actually trained in serothor's army so they usually dealt with the minor threats but that phrase was for if they thought they wouldn't be able to handle it themselves.
I exited the carriage and Elise followed, infront of us was roughly a group of ten men in leather armour and weapons that were in bad shape.
One large man came forward and spoke he had a halberd and slightly better equipment than the others.
"Heyy we don't wanna have any bloodshed just leave all yer valuables and give the women to us for a few hours"
I smirked and spoke struggling to hold my laughter in.
"haha sure Elise go on ahead give em a nice time"
Elise smiled and walked towards the group I grabbed my staff and then the fight was on two guys were on the ground besides Elise with stab wounds from the short swords she had been concealing In her gown.
I rushed over to the leader and activated my aura feeling a sharp pain in my chest when doing so then the leader of the outlaws spoke.
"holy fuck an aura user RUN!"
hahaha as if I would let that happen I caught up with in no time and stabbed him when my staff was in spear form right in the heart then I killed two more people and the rest were dealt with by Elise.
I checked that Aaron and Eren were okay then I decided we should take a little break so we stopped by the side of the road a little way away from the scene of violence.
I haven't gotten used to the feeling of killing people but I definitely have less guilt about killing those sorts of people.
After the break we commenced on our journey and after a long while Oz spoke to me.
"Mm probably not the best time to say this but you should not use aura unless you're in danger"
I spoke back.
"Huh why not?"
I heard Oz sigh then he started speaking.
"Well... to tell you the truth mortal bodies aren't exactly made for two souls, two bloodlines, magic usage and aura and since my body had no prior training before the influx of strength we are slowly falling apart"
I almost screamed out loud but I somehow kept it in my mind and spoke to Oz.
"What the actual fuck and you didn't think to tell me before?! what can we do?"
Oz spoke.
"Well we can lose something, you can resolve your trauma or we can advance a minimum of two aura colours in two months"
oh my fucking god! I spoke to Oz one last time
"you know what? I don't have time for this we will discuss this later!"
I actually didn't have time we had just arrived at the city as the sun was setting I had no business with the marchioness so we would just be renting a few rooms in an inn.
We entered the city with ease red brick houses filled the streets and we managed to get some rooms at an inn the city was pretty the red brick houses were all different shapes with golden magic street lamps illuminating the city.
It is places like this that I need to protect...twenty published books means 20 big events and it was an ongoing series if I can't obtain a way to see the future I'm fucked because I will be changing everything I can to save this world.
I crawled into the bed it had really bad sheets but I had grown accustomed to silk and pure cotton sheets of my chambers back in serothor.
I fell asleep slowly to the sound of the city and when it was time to wake up golden rays of sunlight peaked into my room but then I realised that it wasn't sunlight it was moonlight!
How could I forget? tonight it was the night of the dog a solar event that happens every one hundred years it wasn't actually a big thing in this world as there were many long lived people.
I walked into Elise's room and woke her up I looked out at the sky cut my hand with a cooking knife and screamed I heard Oz yell for me to stop but it was to late my voice had escaped my mouth.
"SHOW ME FATE"
It was only after I yelled I realised what a horrible mistake I had made.