The girl look up at him wish a small smile. A few strand or emerald green hair sticks our from her hoodie.
"Sir... May I ask you something?" She ask timidly and keep her gaze down at her feet.
"What could it be? I bet I can answer if I know the thing."
"Could you possibly... treat me for something to eat? I've been around this grassy land for at least 2 weeks and just found this village but... I don't have any currency." She look hopefully at him.
His face turns into somewhat a relieved and curious as he nod once.
"Please be considerate on what you're ordering since I'm broke as well."
"Uh.. Okay? I'll keep that in mind."
She then walks up to the counter and start to ordering something that Black Blade couldn't really hear. She then return to the table with slightly apologetic look on her face and she's again look down at the table this time. They sat in silence before Black Blade open a conversation.
"I am Black Blade Master. Spell Caster Class magician. Who are you might be, Miss?" he said as he crossed his arm and speak in casual tone.
"I uh... Don't know?" She said as her voice barely as whisper.
"Did you hit your head or something? where dio you come from?" He said as he actually quite shocked with the reponse he gets.
He look at the emerald haired girl with a thought about that she just didn't really trust him or maybe she is indeed forgot everything. The girl just look at him again with apologetic expression.
"I also don't know where I come from... Sorry, Mister Black Blade Master."
He let out a heavy sigh and gather his thought about this girl and something crossed his mind.
"You belonged to no one.. right?"
"Kinda? I know no one's name except yours since you tell me earlier. I have no past encounter yet..."
"So... If you don't mind.You can actually joined us."
The girl look at him and frowned.
"What do you mean by joined? Like a team? a cult?"
"It's a team. We actually lacking of teammates so maybe we could use some extra hands?"
The girl seems thoughtful for a moment before ask something with a hint of curiousity in her face.
"Can I get shelter and food by joining your team?"
"You can pretty much get that. and I'm sure Madam Silence didn't mind to have another member to join."
"I don't know who exactly you're talking about but I'm pretty much oblige to have that! Thanks, Mister Black Blade Master."
He chuckles before responding.
"Just call me Black Blade. No need for formality. As for you... how about I call you Emerald for the time being? It's complement with your hair colour.
The girl thinks for a moment before nodded.
"I don't know my hair is Emerald but yeah. I kinda like it."
"Okay. That's that. Nice to meet you, Emerald Wanderer."
"yeah, Nice to meet you too, Mister!" She smiles brightly as they shake hands.
Not long after, their order arrived and they enjoyed their meal. While eating, Emerald suddenly mention of something.
"Mister. I have something here. I don't know how to use it. Do you want it?" She ask as she rummaging a leather bag hanging to her robe belt.
"What is it?"
She put out a bone white stick, persumably a wand. She put it on the table that reachable enough for Black Blade. He than take the wand and examine it. There is many small writings in archaic writing. Black Blade never read archaic before so he just take the wand and keep it tucked to his belt.
A few hours later, at a rocky trail in Fallidom. the sun just completely falls there. The time there is a bit late by an hour to Black Blade's location due to the distance of it.
Ekiu was speeding through the trail with his horse. The ground is kinda shaky there since...
"We need more space!" He shouted to his horse as the horse keep running. Trying to top his own max speed.
A large rock golem was chasing them. The golem height was about a 12 foot tall and could match the speed of the horse. The golem keep throwing rubbles and stone to slow them down. Fortunately, The horse, Hallelu was nimble enough to keep running and evading the rubbles and debris.
This area were covered in stone and rock. It's called Fallidom Barren Valley.No trees and magical beast were active around this region.Mostly rock golem and crustle appear highly around this area. (crustle is hermitcrab like magical beast but covered in stone and debris and again the size is as big as an adult horse)
Ekiu know that they may lose the chase when the horse is running out of energy and he just get the idea to counter this situation.
"No blast type spell and I'm pretty much safe."
He then cast a rock pillar. A rock pillar grow from the ground in a blink of the eye and it hits the golem face. he cast some other as the pillar in high speed grow from the ground and heavily pierce the golems body before it's crumble into pieces.
As the golem down, the horse speeds up to get away from the area. it's not really dark there since there a lot of glowstone laying around the valley. As the name suggest, It's glowing in the night.
"at least we're at the end of the valley... I killed so many golems that it exhaust my mana..." He snorts before keep holding to the horse as they enter the slightly grassy area with small amount of tree but not much magical beast around.
He keep going and after a few more hours. They finally reached the said town..
"Or more like a village. This trip should actually take two days but we managed to shorten the time by one day. If we actually take the detour to avoid Fallidom Barren Valley. It should actually reach here tomorrow." He said to himself while pulling the horse to the village stable and keep him there.
He then take his leather water container and drink from it to quench his thirst. He walks up to an inn and settles in there. He talk to the inn keeper and she give him a key after he paid for the room.
"Excuse me. are you the famous magician mercenary,Equilibriums?" The inn keeper ask with a sparkly eyes.
"Well... I am. but My sister not here so, right now it just me and I'm here not as Equilibriums." He answers wearily.
"i see... You must be mister Ekiu then. It doesn't matter, have a nice sleep!" The young inn keeper seems happy to see him as she waving eagerly to him like a big fan or something.
He walks to the room that he rent. It was at the second floor of the inn. He then open the door that was supposed to be his room and a person was standing inside and also opening the door at the same time with him.
They both surprised to each other and they both almost fall to back. There is a lady in blue looking at him confusedly. So do him.
"What are you doing in front my room." the lady ask with slightly annoyed and anger.
...To be continued