Evan POV:
The duo finally ate..... Or in this case, licked the Mana balls completely.
I was reading another book about magic, though I did gain its skill (which was called shock) reading it sometimes can enhance all my magic spells, the shock spell gives minor lightning damage with a small chance to paralyze.
I looked at the bed and Helputt and Nezha are still playing with the babies...... Hard to believe that they were born like an hour ago.
.........
After a little while, The babies were tired and curled up into a ball on the bed, hid their face with their tail and started purring slowly.
Helputt and Nezha also nodded and stood up from the bed.
[Evan, Where did you find them? I don't even know what their kind is.] (Nezha)
I can see a small worry in her eyes.
[Don't worry, I didn't steal them. I found them buried in the ground. According to Jeff, faith and hope were cursed and because of it, they couldn't hatch. But for some reason, my presence broke the curse and they hatched.] (Me)
They both thought carefully.
[Do you think it's the work of the cultists?] (Helputt)
I shook my head.
[I don't think that the cultist group is ten thousand years old] (Me)
[What?] (Nezha)
[These guys have been trapped in the eggs for more than 10,000 years. I don't think the cultists have that much big of a history.] (Me)
Helputt clenched his fists.
[Alright, we don't want to wake them up so it's better if you go back to your room. I'll take care of Faith and Hope's needs.] (Me)
They both nodded reluctantly and left my room quietly.
The sun was on the horizon and it would become night time soon.
Yea, That's Right! I can see the sun because I finally installed windows.
I looked at Faith and Hope, They were using their tails as blankets and sleeping soundlessly.
.......cute.
I quietly left the room and went to find Emma.
Fortunately, she was in her room.
[Hey Emma, did you know that I have babies now?] (Me)
[Congratulations, Master Evan.] (Emma)
[Can you take care of my babies every time I go out?] (Me)
[Of course.] (Emma)
[Great cuz I'm about to go out right now.] (Me)
Just in case, I conjured up some weak Mana balls and gave them to her while instructing her seriously to not give them to Tania and only to the Babies.
After upgrading my Mana balls they can exist indefinitely now, so that's good in situations like these.
When I went outside, the sun had already set, there was still a red light coming from the sun, piercing the horizon. And I saw Liza coming here on a horse.
For some reason Liza really liked my house, so she stays here now. She always comes here the second it turns dark.
[Ah, Hello Evan. Going out again?] (Liza)
[Of course, Like always.] (Me)
Her mood has also made a U-turn after living here since she always smiles now instead of her old emotionless face.
[Alright, be sure to return by daytime or I will send a rescue team after you.] (Liza)
[Kay, Thanks. Go have some rest.] (Me)
What she's referring to is that I always visit the mine near the Human Kingdom at night.
I have been visiting the mine at night these past few days and I haven't found a lot of things besides materials like copper, iron, Tungsten and tons more stuff, though I did find some more life crystals and fallen stars during the night, so I made some Mana crystals. Now I have
Life: 240/240
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Mana: 220/220
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Now, this is weird since the maximum Mana anyone can achieve through the use of Mana crystals is 200. There are other means to get more Mana, With the use of accessories and armor's but with Mana crystals it's only 200.
I only wanted to test if I could increase my Mana beyond 200 since I started with 40 Mana instead of 20, and somehow it worked. Which is amazing by the way.
Now, I'm not gonna go to the cave yet. I want to visit the guild right now since I asked the guild master about a few things.
I've also learned that if I focus my Mana on a certain type of my body part then the function of that body part's effectiveness will increase.
For example, if I put my Mana on my legs then I get a movement speed increase buff (increase by 25%).
So I used my grappling hook and my shield charge with the speed increase buff and quite literally flew straight towards the Kingdom.
...... Just wait till I get Hermes boots which will increase my speed by 3 times.
.......
A few minutes later I reached and opened the door to the Adventurers Guild.
There seem to be few people here today which is rare since this place is either filled to the brim or empty.
There was lark behind the counter talking to 3 dudes. Seems like they're all friends of lark.
[Yo Wut Up! I'm back!] (Me)
[Evan? EVAN!] (Lark)
Lark rushes to me and grabs my Silver armor's collar.
[Looks like your excited to see me.] (Me)
[CUT THE CRAP! What Have You Done With Our Ice Princess!] (Lark)
His friends surrounded me and some are even cracking their knuckles, ready to fight me.
[Uhh What?] (Me)
[Don't Act like you don't know what's Going On! I'm talking about Liza!] (Lark)
[What about Liza?] (Me)
[She's Acting So Weirdly Now! She Smiles All The Time And Even LAUGHS!] (Lark)
Lark's friends even started nodded understandingly.
I raised an eyebrow.
[Are you mad because she leaves early now and you can't find enough time to drink?]
[.....................Maybe. Wait, No! You're Changing The Subject! ] (Lark)
[Dude. Listen, the only thing I did was let her rent one of my Mansion's room. That's it.] (Me)
[WHAT!?! That Can't be It! Our Ice Princess Who Would Barely Smile Is Now Laughing Because You Gave Her A Room!?!] (Lark)
[Pretty much, Yep.] (Me)
Lark seems to have calmed down now but was still grabbing my collars.
[Listen, Evan, we're buddies righ-] (Lark)
Before he could finish, the guild master was coming down from the second floor.
[Hey, lark where have you put the-] (Ruby)
She then saw lark holding my collars threateningly with people surrounding us.
She's mad now.
[15 silver coins will be deducted from your salary.] (Ruby)
Lark looks like he lost his world.
[W-W-Wait. No, W-We were just P-Playing right Evan?] (Lark)
[Yea something like that. Anyway, long time no sees. How are you Ruby.] (Me)
Lark's friends seem to be scared of ruby and quietly left the guild. Also ruby came up to me.
[In the best of my health I guess. I have to stay here a lot now since Liza started to leave early, so I have to catch up on a lot of things.] (Ruby)
[Oh, by the way, any news about cultists.] (Me)
[Thankfully, they haven't done anything yet. It's probably because you did a huge blow to them during the elf festival.] (Ruby)
[Did we get anything else out of uhhhh..... What was his name? Lenard I think?] (Me)
[No, we didn't get anything else, he's locked up in castle jail for further interrogation but I don't think he'll reveal anything else.] (Ruby)
[Okayyyy, did you get the books I asked you?] (Me)
I'm talking about the books related to the four Heroes. I asked Ruby about the four heroes before and said she remembers some books about them.
[I found a few of them. I was about to ask lark where he put them but I saw you here too.] (Ruby)
[They're in your room.] (Lark)
Lark is in a bad mood. He's sulking on the counter table.
[Alright, Evan please follow me.] (Ruby)
[Sure.] (Me)
I followed her downstairs from the arena to where her tiny room was.
The room doesn't look as bad as before, by that I mean the wooden bed is replaced with a real bed.
There were 3 books on the table.
[There they are.] (Ruby)
[Nice.] (Me)
I looked back at Ruby and she was fidgeting with her hands.
[U-Uh Evan, about the payment.] (Ruby)
I already know what she's talking about. I promised her some of Mana as payment.
I conjured up an 80mp Mana ball.
A literal waterfall started falling from her mouth.
I gave her the Mana ball and left with the books.
Well, I wanted to explore another cave now for more loot but my main mission is still to at the very least search if there even is a way back.
Because if there isn't, then I'm just stuck here forever. But, if there is one then I have to know.
I quickly went back to my home which just takes around 5 minutes now.
When I did reach my home, surprisingly Tifa and Sarah came to visit me.
Though Tifa does visit every now and then but I haven't seen Sarah for a while.
We were in the guest room talking about the things their queen had done. And what's even more surprising is that some of the elf's (mainly the army) will visit the human Kingdom tomorrow. As a sign of peace between Allies.
[Queen Elizabeth will also be there so I wanted to ask you if you would come with us. As much as I hate to say this but your ability is much better than mine and I want to request your cooperation.] (Sarah)
[Well, I can Help and protect your queen. But Am I Ganna? No. There's nothing in it for me and I have much more important things to do.] (Me)
Like, find a way back.
Sarah stood up and slammed the tables. I have never seen her this serious.
[Please! Since there hasn't been any notice of any cultists attack, people think they will attack during the peace treaty. We really need your Help!] (Sarah)
[Please?] (Tifa)
[Uhhhh, Fine, whatever.] (Me)
[Thank You.] (Tifa)
[Alright then come to our kingdom at 6 am sharp. Now then let's go Tifa?] (Sarah)
Tifa nodded and left with Sarah while I went back into my room to find some clues in these books.
Holy Shit That Rhymes! ........Kinda.