The next day after the group had a fulfilling sleep they started their journey.
"And that is how we signed up for the mission" amari recounted the reason for them joining the quest. Feeling sorry for the two as madoka herself had no family and the siblings going on such a dangerous expedition just to earn some incentive to hire an awakened healer help relieve their mother of her chronic illness with any help from family.
" Look on the bright side we've gotten some fortune out of this and you can trade some of it to hire a healer to attend to her pain"Madoka patted her on the back.
After a few days on the road and near death experiences they had gotten so close to each other, that they could be described as close friends and madoka now knew the sibling dynamic of the two, although they argue a lot they really cared for each other and always had each other's backs, while alonzo was the practical and analytical one amari was the lively headstrong one and traveling with them was never a bore .
Finally by the orange golden rays of the setting sun the trio finally saw the outskirts of the town and the anticipation they never knew they held on to finally left them.
Outside the stone walls of the town madoka took out a huge portion of the gold ignots and other precious ornaments and shared it for both of them and told them to keep it hidden, and to pawn some of them to find a healer to heal their mother, while alonzo kept his composure amari on the other hand with tearful eyes flung herself at madoka thanking her .
After that heartfelt moment they proceeded into the town. Inside the town as usual the street were filled with the coming and going of pedestrians going around their day and the screaming of hawkers attracting people into their shops.
"If you ever need me you can find me in that tavern down the road on the east by the baker shop" she held each siblings hand as they were about to depart.
"Thank you for everything" alonzo said trying to cover up the crack in his voice, she patted him on the shoulder along with amari and after exchanging pleasantries they parted ways.
Madoka turned and headed straight to the guild station trying to find the old man to buy the twin dragon daggers from him but as she reached his station she did not catch sight of him , asking the other guild members she learnt that he took time off to travel to see family in the ninth district and there wasn't any clue as to when he would he back , without anymore clues she turned and left the station and headed to town to look for a pawn shop to see if she could exchange some of the precious items in the space ring for some money.
After roaming the streets for a while she finally found a decent looking pawnshop and finally decided to check it out. Immediately she stepped into the shop, ephisyx appeared in front of her floating towards a bow being hanged up for sale.
"This bow has the same aura as the dragon daggers but they seem to have disappeared" Thinking of what happened at the temple she clearly remembered that God telling her that it created several weapons but the aura in them disappeared immediately once one of the weapons integrates successfully with someone with good qualifications so this must be one of them!
The sound of incoming footsteps sounds from the back of the shop making her avert her gaze to who seems to be the shop owner who had a professional smile pasted on his face to welcome the customer."Good evening how may I be of service".
Looking at the bow for another moment she pulled out some of the jem stones
Jewels and gold ignots she stored in the space ring , ephisyx who was floating around her seeing Soo much gold and shiny ornaments immediately begged madoka to give him some of the shiny ornaments.
Transferring some of it from the ring into the amulet using her abilities the dragon immediately disappeared into the amulet to play with him shiny treasures and she couldn't help but wonder if what they say about dragons being obsessed with shiny ornaments is true.
"How much for all this" seeing the things pulled the pawnshop owner's eyes popped out in shock,he hurriedly offered her a seat and a cup of fairy fruit tea before getting down to business. Taking each item and scanning them with a magnifying glass the expression on the shop owner's face changed every second which was rather amusing.
These gold ignots are worth thousands of gold coins!"the shop owner said looking at madoka, nodding her head she asked about the price of the stones and they were a hundred gold coins per piece with this amount of money she was set for life!
After exchanging words for a while and getting the money she finally asked about the bow.
"This bow came directly from the fourth district, it belonged to a young master from an aristocratic background who enjoyed archery but who knows he might have eventually gotten tired of this bow or gotten a new one."
Looking at the bow with a smooth dark glossy metallic surface,the moment the last sunset ray touched it ,it's dark metal gave off a purplish hue.
"I'll take it " this would be perfect for amari she thought, taking out two gold coins she took the bow and placed it in the space and left the pawnshop heading for the tavern to rest.
On the next day she decided to go to the siblings home and the silly dragon was nowhere to be seen as he was still busy admiring and guarding "his treasure" in the amulet. After asking for directions she finally reached the location of their home.
The siblings were anxiously waiting for the healer they paid for to arrive. Yesterday after they departed ways the siblings wasted no time to find a pawnshop to exchange part of the things madoka gave them and went to the healing center and asked for a powerful healing awakener to come heal their mother who was bedridden as the medicines she used to take were slowly starting to lose it's effect but the healing center said they needed to pay half of the wage upfront and pay the rest after the service but they had to wait till the next day as the healer they needed was busy attending to important matters but the siblings knew they were treated poorly because of their background and Becca they didn't possess any abilities.
They went home but couldn't sleep all night as they wished daybreak would come sooner for the healer to arrive.
The siblings saw their good friend walking towards them, after finally getting to the siblings home the and exchanging pleasantries they went inside. The inside of the of the house was small but it still had that homely feel , madoka saw a very thin pale woman with hollowed out cheeks,dull thin hair which clung to her pale forehead from sweat ,as a whole the woman looked like she would break under the slightest touch and there was also a little boy about seven years old attentively wiping the sweat from her forehead, this was probably their little brother.
Five minutes after they started having a conversation an obnoxiously loud voice came from outside and they headed outside.
"Are you the one who asked for my services" an arrogant woman probably middle-aged asked with her nostrils turned up to the sky looking at them with arrogance on her face.
"Yes " alonzo said ignoring the disgusted expression on her face."lead the way, I don't have all day to spend here"the healer said in irritation, balling his hands into fists he led her in.
Coming into the house she immediately looked around in disgust . The four moved to one side of the room to grant her access to the patient and held their breath unconsciously making the room silent.
The healer first started with chanting and praising the deity which granted her the ability and closed her eyes and laid her hand on the woman's forehead, slowly her palm started to glow with a blue light, after a few minutes the woman on the bed did not show signs of recovery and madoka using extra sensory abilities saw that the woman sick woman's soul was slowly being dissipated buy her illness and the healers power was being drained by the soul to replenish it's self but the results were miniscule.
And just as she said the woman started feeling her power draining and immediately removed her hand from woman's forehead with fright in her eyes and turned to the four of them." Are you deliberately trying to toy with my ability!" she yelled at them as her hand was still cupped close to her chest, the three siblings looked at her with confusion.
"The thing bothering your mother cannot be eradicated with healing and it nearly sucked me dry of my power ,I'm done here!" She said heading for the door.
" But we paid five gold coins for your services,you can't leave or are you saying you are not as powerful of a healer you claim to be !" amari said blocking the exit , hearing her ability being questioned struck a nerve and she raised her hand about to slap the girl but suddenly madoka appeared in front of amari and held the woman's hand almost crushing it had she not controlled her strength and unknown to her the pupils glowed like golden flames but it lasted for only a few seconds.
"Get out before I make you regret" the healer dashed out of the house cursing madoka for trying to hurt an official from the center.
"What about mom " the little boy named Calden asked hearing his question both amari and alonzo started sobbing, as the thought of them losing their mother made them sad.
Looking at the siblings and then the woman on the bed madoka sighed and finally decided to explore more of her powers and expose her secret.
"I can help but you must trust me and promise to keep what happens in this room a secret" the siblings looked at each other and looked at madoka and finally nodded.
Walking to the bedside she activated extrasensory again and peered at the women's soul that was unstable with web like cracks on the surface.She reached out her palm and placed it above the woman with the intention of healing her , slowly her palm glowed with faint white light as bursts of white golden light flowed from her palm forming strange symbols around the woman's bed , controlling the flow of energy with both her hands the symbols danced in the air and wrapped the woman like a butterfly's cacoon before disappearing into her body attaching to her soul mending it, and a magic pentagram circle appeared above her showering her in white light and the woman's skin gained a healthy glow her frame added on some flesh hiding the boney figure and her face which looked painful now became peaceful and the once sickly woman was replaced with a healthy woman who just looked asleep.
After a while madoka ended the healing and the woman's eyelids trembled for a while before opening exposing honey brown eyes and madoka heard ephisyx sound in her mind
" Congratulations new title achieved('Heavenly healer!").