Laston and Lynx could be seen miles away from the village,
"Aaah! you're such a pain in the ass, the one person you could have avoided, you ended up in her claw, even went ahead to curse at her, are your balls made of gold?
she's fucking royalty!!, but no! you just had to talk back at her, the sole aim of going to that village have been defeated now, we have to go to another village, that's if you are not already a wanted criminal.
Luckily, I bought a map and its just a distance of hundred miles, give or take we will get there in two days.
It was then Laston frowned, "if she wants to kill me for own carelessness, what is she going to do if I had stolen from her", these royals are all bad news.
"Yeah, yeah you sure do have a lot of luck, if her father was to be present, I doubt YOU! would have escaped, all those guard are probably knight at the first level hence why they were Having a hard time catching you.
Furthermore, she is royalty, her father at least will be on the level of a saint or even higher, if that were to be the case you would have been dead, for now you're too weak you shouldn't mess with royals you shouldn't show yourself to them or associate with them do you understand.
"I know that already" he said with a frown on his face.
"The next village we are heading to is a tier two village, so you can find an anchor to your thought by pass matrix, while I find out information on the military academy to know about their entrance requirement.
I might be gone for some days so don't go looking into people's windows, okay? He said with a smile.
"Take this" he then tossed some robes and two pouches, we are heading to a tier two village, now things are bound to get expensive, but that being said don't spend extravagantly and attract unwanted attention, your only assignment is to find an anchor to your thought bypass matrix.
After that one-sided conversation they proceeded to continue on their journey,
However, when it was noon Laston began looking around, "how long did you say it will take before we reach the village"
Lynx then smiled, "at this rate we will be there after night fall".
"Then why are we walking, why don't we just run"
Lynx then pointed at his legs, "you are in no condition to run, you just learnt about spiritual energy, not only that your body needs time to adjust to it, even if you're healed, your strained muscles are yet to relax, so don't push yourself.
If you could run, you wouldn't have needed my help to escape, lynx said with a malicious grin, by the way what's with the rush.
On hearing lynx his eyes brows twitched, he then said in a low voice, "am hungry, I have had nothing to eat since we entered that village and now, we are out here again".
"I thought as much" he then tossed one of the robes on the ground, "launch time"
He then proceeded to retrieve the meat and various fruits which he had acquired while roaming the village, just had the food came out it was cleared in a matter of seconds.
They both continued on their journey, after some time Laston asked, how do you manage to turn into those animals, what are the requirement or is it just an ability?
Lynx then explained, "well my clan is kind of special so we don't need to absorb the beast essence when it is killed, in-fact mortal animals don't have beast essence, the only requirement is to eat the flesh of the said beast and absorb it's characteristic.
So, for the younger generation the adult has already secured all the animals and some minor beast, the larger and stronger ones are not shared in order not to produce weaklings.
you must go out on your own, and grow stronger, which means you have to kill the beast yourself, or swiftly carve out a part of its skin or flesh, then lastly the most dishonoring way of getting flesh is through purchase.
They are highly looked down on, though my dad told me to never underestimate them, they might have decided to go the easy way but that doesn't make them any weaker.
As they both continued seconds turn to minutes, then to hours and before they knew it, the village was at sight.
"I don't think this should be called a village rather it should be called a city"
"It's a city you dummy, it's called the fortune gate"
They both chatted as they continued their journey.
meanwhile about 100Km from where the duo was, lady Barina had a frown on her face,
"So that bastards name is Laston, and they were two in the room, mnmm" she said as she strokes her jaw, at that moment she had flash back, oh that was so slick of him leaving his companion so casually, I bet that bastard saw everything, looking into her robes her face shuns with redness.
She then gripped her hands into a fist and muttered in a low voice "I am not a monster"
And why does he loath the royal family so much, she then shrugged, "that's none of my business"
Suddenly a man in a blue armor entered the room, "my lady, I came immediately my jade slip trembled.
When she heard this, she could only kiss her teeth in frustration, "well the commoner I wanted to punish escaped, but if our parts do cross again, I will make sure to give him a good beating,
"You can leave"
The guard was in a daze as he thought, lady Barina, although might sound rude sometimes happens to be the most caring and cheerful among the ladies of the royal house hold.
So, what would this person have done to make her want to punish him so badly.
"I said you can leave!" she said snapping the guard out of his dazed state.
"Sorry my lady the guard said as he proceeded to leave the living quarters of lady Barina who happen to be in the cabin her father had left behind.