Third person POV
Not long after, the group stopped by at some wooden benches under a tree to take break from walking. There they sat down and took a nice break. John sat on one of them next to Russell, who took off his bus driver's cap to wipe the sweat off his forehead and hair, before putting his cap back.
After that, Russell now wanted to do some basic magic training for his lightning magic, thinking that would give him more defense for himself and his friends. But there was one little problem: he has no one to train with. Because of that, he was now deciding to find someone who was good in that field to train him. That someone must be someone who had that type of magic. And so, with that in mind, he turned to his group and asked them, "Hey, guys, do you know someone who has lightning magic?"
"Not really," Azalea answered back.
Adrian then shrugged. "Me neither."
Kelly was too hesitant to answer for unknown reasons.
Her two daughters don't know either.
Because of all that, Russell understood and began thinking about going out and finding a suitable person with lightning magic to train him.
Then, Kelly had forgotten to introduce herself to Russell and his party, so she did so.
Russell and his party realized that and responded back to her with nice introductions of themselves.
Rai and Ria then did the same thing to the May party.
Now, all of them are friends.
But then, shortly after that, a voice broke out, "Aha! Found you!" Upon hearing that, Russell and his group looked at their right, only to see 3 people, which consisted of 2 men and 1 woman, staring at them in seemingly normal clothes. Those three are the royal spies that had been following Russell the whole time.
"Uh, what is it?" Russell asked them with confusion.
"Are you the one who killed the bandits back in Snowyfield Village?" one of them, a man named Cassius Maddox, approached him in response.
He had white hair, blue eyes, and a slightly tall height than his two friends.
"Yes?" replied Russell with the same confusion as before.
The dragon family was stunned to hear that question from Cassius.
Hearing Russell's response caused Cassius at his two fellow spies and said to them, "Guys, it's him alright."
His two fellow spies, Alder Ashford and Taryn Whitlock, were stunned that their hard work of following Russell's tracks had paid off.
Cassius was S-rank and was at Level 67.
Taryn was at AAA-rank and was at Level 45.
Alder was at AA-rank and was at Level 39.
"Okay, are you guys following us the whole time?" Russell asked the three royal spies.
"Seriously?" Adrian added.
Cassius then looked at Russell. "Yes, because Your Highness wants to find out who killed a bunch of bandits that raided Snowyfield Village less than a week ago."
Azalea then stepped in. "Yes, this young man saved that one, which is my home village."
"You're from that village?" Alder entered the conversation.
Taryn also entered in as well.
"Yes."
"This is Azalea Barwon," Russell said to the royal spies.
"Nice to meet you all," Azalea said to them.
The others in her group then did the same thing, but the dragon family hid the fact that they were dragons as humans.
Cassius and his friends were delighted to hear all that.
"And, my name is Russell May," Russell said to the spies, "and I am a bus driver."
The word 'bus' made the three royal spies from the capital confused and amazed.
"What is that word?"
"Is that a new thing?"
Russell then revealed to them what it was, albeit didn't mention how it worked in terms of mechanical machinery.
A few minutes later, the three spies got it, and Alder asked him if that was the one that killed the bandits at Snowyfield Village. "Uh, yes?" Russell responded back. This amazes them, and the dragon family is amazed to hear how Russell killed the bandits using his bus.
"That was quite sick, May-san," Alder responded back.
"We didn't know how skillful you are," Taryn added.
Cassius almost couldn't comprehend all of this new information in his head.
"Yeah…" Russell replied back while scratching the back of his head for a few seconds in a bit of nervous embarrassment.
Adrian, John, and Azalea remained calm for their party leader.