After arriving there, Charles decided to practise his swordsmanship.
He did not practice mana breathing because Charles had to merge with the mana in his body to control it more effectively.
And after breaking through his swordsmanship skill increased from 5℅ to 6.1℅
He practised swordsmanship a little. After that, he tried to practice fire magic.
"Fireball."
*Swoosh*
Slowly Charles's hand started sucking air and soon then turned into fire and then a fireball.
The fireball was not your typical size it was far bigger than that, and launched at a tree in front of him, the first three trees were gone, and the fourth was half-burnt.
The fireball was that powerful because Charles had put too much mana into it, as it was the first time, he didn't know how much mana to put.
He could not appreciate his prowess, as all the mana in his body had been drained, and he was feeling light-headed, his vision was getting blurry, he didn't know if it was the effect of drained mana but he could see a beautiful girl calling him although blurry.
His vision went blank, and he fainted.
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(Charles Pov)
La..la..la..
I could hear a sweet voice humming, although faintly but I could tell it was a girl.
And when I tried to move my head. I felt my head on the softest pillow ever.
"~Nyaa!"
When I woke up, the first thing I felt was my eyes being dazzled.
Light filled my vision, and I narrowed my eyes in discomfort.
Once my eyes adjusted to the brightness, I found a young lady around my age gazing at me.
She was wearing a tight white t-shirt that showed off her breasts perfectly and a short skirt that only hid the lower parts of her ass cheeks. Her hair was tied up in a ponytail. She had an oval shape face, her lips were thick red and a tendered nose. Even celebrities would be ashamed of her.
(3rd person)
Charles was mesmerized by her beauty. Then he remembered, he was laying on her lap just a moment ago.
He flushed thinking about it.
The girl sitting there was also blushing. "Ahem, I am Charles," Charles introduced himself, extending his hand towards the lady sitting on the grass.
She accepted his help and introduced herself. "I am called Victoria," she replied while blushing.
After a moment, it became awkward.
Then Victoria suddenly asked, "How did you make your fireball that big and strong?."
Charles was confused for a second because he didn't know what she was talking about, as he didn't notice his fireball impact.
"Which fireball?" he asked her. Then he turned around when he saw Victoria pointing behind him.
When he saw the impact, he was so surprised that he forgot how to speak.
"I-i..I did that," he said pointing at the tree.
"Yes, I saw you from afar making a fireball. I was so surprised to see the big fireball. But then I saw you fainting so I quickly sprinted toward you and..." She stopped there, thinking about earlier
It became awkward again.
"Are you an adventurer?" Charles asked her as he saw her dagger.
"Hah?, yes, I am a D-rank adventurer," she said smiling charmingly.
After that, they talked for about two hours.
Victoria headed toward the adventurer guild, Charles was also thinking about becoming an adventurer.
He felt good talking to Victoria.
Anyways an idea struck him, he could sell weapons in the new shop as it was near the adventurer guild and he could gain 10× more profit. Because the quality of the weapon is top-notch. As he had tried it himself.
He then did some cultivation.
After seven hours, he was still stuck on the bottleneck.
He decided to head back as the sun was also setting.
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Today the street was oddly silent. Don't know why. Charles noticed it too.
'Why are the streets so silent today? Is today function or something?' he muttered to himself, but suddenly
"Someone! Please help!!!" Charles heard someone calling for help.
He instantly drew his sword out and dashed towards the alleyways.
"Please! Someone...help!" a girl could be seen screaming and in front of her were three burly men.
One of them stepped forward and grabbed her hair and smacked her. "Shut up! Bit*h! No one's gonna come and help you. Besides, even if anyone came we three are enough to take them down." he said as he smacked her again, and this time she dropped to the ground but she was still resisting, he did not wait for her to stand. Instead, he dragged her.
"Tim, how much do you think she's gonna sell for?" the man dragging asked Tim who seems to be their leader.
"She is quite a material. It's a pity we can't play with her," he said while touching the girl's chin. She was showing a hostile expression.
"Don't waste time, let's go fast," Tim said in a commanding tone.
Charles had arrived there and saw all the things happened. He was furious seeing their activities. He could not contain himself, he drew his sword and launched at them.
*Swoosh*
He was now in front of the guy holding the girl's hair.
In the eyes of the burly men, he seemed to have teleported there.
*Slash*
"Who ar-...ahhh" he could not continue as his hand which was holding the girl's hair fell.
He screamed "Ahh...m-my hand!" he was in a panic mode.
"YOU GUYS DO KNOW THAT SLAVERY IS ILLEGAL?" Charles said in a loud angry tone.
The moment they saw Charles, they knew that they were in front of someone they did not have a chance of winning.
"W-Who are you?" the third man who was silent till now spoke.
Charles didn't reply he simply cut the head of the first person.
"Wai...ahhh" he didn't know when his head was cut off.
Seeing that the other two didn't wait and dashed towards the darker alleyway.
'I knew I should not have agreed to this request.' Third man was regretting his decision.
And suddenly he fell not because he stumbled, but because his legs were cut off. And then Charles slashed him in the chest.
Then he dashed towards Tim.
"Pl-please don't come near me, I-i have a fam-." Charles didn't let him continue and stab him in the chest. "People like you should not be left alive" he whispered in Tim's ear, his words were ice chilly.
As he walked towards the girl, he then noticed her ear.
'A fox girl' he thought to himself.
He was surprised to see a demi-human in the human empire but at second thought it was not that difficult if it was a slave.