Venta Town
Bang! Bang!
The banging sounds echoed throughout the quiet courtyard, as the beautiful girl hit on the door.
"Ery, it has been 6 days already!" Klea shouted.
For the past six days, Ery spent his ti cultivating with [Nature Grasp]. Part of him wanted to pretend he was in a trance and thus forgot about the ti, but in truth, he was trying to buy more ti waiting for news from a certain girl.
He wished he could just [Spatial Gate] himself to Calot and ask for her decision, and, in truth he was worried. He couldn't shake the thought of what her answer will be. Will she reject him again?
Bang! Bang!
Klea once more banging the door and It was more insistent this ti.
"Hey, Ery! You know I can easily break this door apart, don't you? Open up!"
Ery stood up, stretched his body, and opened the door. At first, he was expecting Klea to unleash all her pent-up anger on him, but to his surprise, as soon as the door open he saw her expression was more or less neutral. She walked in, looked at him, and said with a caring tone.
"I am sorry Ery, I don't think she is coming"
Ery took a deep breath. No matter what he did, it appeared that there was nothing this girl didn't know about him.
She looked away for a mont, her gaze looking conflicted before she stared firmly towards his eyes. "Ery, I didn't say this before because I didn't want to push you to make a decision, but…"
"What is it, Klea?" Ery had known Klea for quite so ti, he could tell when the ti for jokes was over. Her gaze was nothing but serious.
"Actually…"
Klea talked about her trip from Egypt to Briton, a long voyage that took her more than three months. The reason was that she wanted to co and visit their dear friend Julian in Ro which was just across from Egypt.
It took her quite a while to find him as Julian was on duty with his Legion and at the sa ti, a huge slave rebellion was happening that complicated things further.
Of course, Ery was concerned for his friend, Julian, but he was confused about how any of this was relevant to their current situation.
Until Klea's last sentence sent a chill to his heart.
"The slave leader was none other than Thrax, our dear Thracian!. You see, while we're wasting ti here, our friends are probably killing each other right now.
This really was a concerning news
"I actually did manage to find Thrax, but he doesn't wish to listen to . later I found out that the? Romans did terrible things to him and... they killed his wife."
The information left him speechless and shook him to the heart. Here he was, delaying his quest for the sake of one girl, while his friend's wife was murdered.
Klea added "Ey, Thrax was in a lot of pain and anger. I was hoping maybe he would listen to you"
Ery gripped his hand until the tips of his fingers turned white as regret ca to him.
There was no need for more ti waiting for her. He nodded at Klea and said. "Yes, let us go."
Ery's decision only made Klea imnsely happy.
"Alright, my ship has docked in Lioness City harbor already, we can leave as soon as possible. Tomorrow at noon, maybe?"
Seeing no reason to neither argue nor delay, Ery agreed. "Yes, alright, tomorrow at noon, we will go."
"Okay, tomorrow it is."
Ery took a deep sigh. This journey would take months, possibly more than a year. There was also a probability that things go wrong that he can only be returned after the third year of the academy, which will be years. Hence, he needed a bit of preparation.
Klea suggested that she left first to go to the harbor to prepare the ship, as Lioness City was rely a few hours' ride from Venta Town, but Ery stopped her and asked her to wait a while for him first. There were only a few things he had to take care, after that, they could go together with his [Spatial Gate] spell.
In the end, she agreed with his plan and chose to wait in the estate's.
First things first, Ery opened the [Spatial Gate] and went to his hut in the fey village. He opened his [Spatial Storage] and placed all his important ingredients inside, as there was no way to know when he would ever need one of those. From what Klea had told him, being involved in Roman's war was a possibility.
Next, he went to the Quintins' estate to see Luna and tell her about his travel plans. Luna thought to give him the Egypt territory maps she had collected in her trading venture, but she hesitates, as she rembered Ery was going to travel with an Egyptian Queen. She must have a much better version.
She then told him the way she normally communicates with her network across the sea. With this just in case, he has trouble with his spell, Ery could send and receive ssages. With weeks of delay or maybe even months depending on how far it was.
Luna smiled and decided to ask. "rlin, you could make one ssage now and I will deliver it"
Ery rubbed the back of his head. Apparently, all these girls know too much about him. Ery nodded and Luna called for a servant to bring a piece of parchnt and a bottle of ink to the living room.
Ery quickly prepared a letter for Gwen, as the quill touch the parchnt his mind was troubled. Other than a ssage saying he has to leave to help a friend in need, it occurs to him that he might be writing a goodbye later for her.
It took him longer than he thought to finally write his letter.
Afterwards, he thanked Luna, before he walked out of the Quintins' estate courtyard. He opened a [Spatial Gate] back to his house to pick Klea up. Right after he appeared in front of the door, he went inside and realize the girl has been waiting.
"Alright Klea, I am ready, let's go-"
Only for him to see that it wasn't Klea that was waiting for him. A familiar golden-haired girl stood in front of him, with a serious expression etched on her otherwise beautiful face.
"Gwen… You are here."
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