Now that Alex had healed the old man, it was ti for him to leave this place.
"You are leaving so early?" the man asked. "Please let know if there is sothing I can help you with."
"I do not need anything just yet," Alex said. "If I do need sothing, say the feathers again, I will try and co by if you won't mind."
"Of course not," the man replied. "Co by anyti. I will give you as many feathers as I can. I owe that much to you."
Alex nodded in thanks. "Then I have no reason to stay and every reason to leave. If fate wills it, we'll see each other around again, senior."
"I pray that fate wills it," the man said. "And good luck with the competition. I'll cheer for you."
Alex said his farewells to the man and left the house just as the sun kissed the sky on the eastern horizon. The purple morning sky began to fade by the ti Alex got to a Teleportation formation, ready to leave.
He had sent Scarwolf all the ssage he could, telling him that he would make sure to let the court know about him within a few decades. Once he was ready, he could go visit them.
The teleportation took him back to where he started, the Wineweed City. There, Pearl and Momo would be waiting for him, as his return had been long overdue.
Alex quickly went to the place where they were staying, a courtyard they had bought for an entire year to stay in. He entered the sowhat unfamiliar courtyard with verdant walls draping with climbers and arrived at a silent house. There was no one there.
Alex frowned, a tinge of panic passing through him at that very mont. Had sothing happened to the two? He quickly felt his bond with Pearl and found Pearl far away. At the very least, he was alive.
Alex gave no thought to the norms or rules of the city and imdiately flew in the direction of where Pearl was. The distance was not closer, taking him about 10 minutes of flight to reach.
Upon getting closer, he could feel Pearl stir on the other side as well. Inside an old-looking cottage at the corner of the city, Pearl flew out to et Alex.
"Brother!" he shouted, finally seeing Alex after so long.
"Pearl!" Alex spoke back, quickly scanning his brother. "Are you okay?"
He tried looking for wounds, but he didn't see any. "I'm fine," Pearl said. "Momo is too, don't worry."
"Okay…" Alex said, but he could not not worry. The fact that Pearl said as much ant that there was reason for him to worry. He was just asking him not to.
"What happened? Were you attacked?" Alex asked.
Pearl nodded. "There were so… issues. But I've dealt with them," he said. "Or at least I hope so."
Alex extended his senses and found the two other people inside the cottage. One was Momo, and the other one was…
"What exactly happened while I was gone?"
* * * * * * More than a month had passed since Alex had left Pearl and Momo by themselves. Pearl had spent most of the ti cultivating, while Momo improved herself every day in both cultivation and Alchemy.
She had also grown just enough that he didn't need to keep an eye on her as much.
One day, Momo arrived at Pearl's room and knocked on the door.
"Uncle Pearl?" she asked.
"What is it, Momo?" "When will you be done with your cultivation?"
"In 2 days."
"Can we go to the shop when you're done? I am running out of ingredients."
"Sure."
Two days later, they were out of the courtyard and on their way to the closest Alchemy store. Pearl walked by Momo's side, a look of nonchalance on his face. Momo, on the other hand, looked all around the city as they walked, like a child who was in a candy store for the first ti.
Moss, the lizard perched on her shoulders, looked around and took in everything with the sa level of curiosity as Momo.
They arrived at the alchemy store a while later and began purchasing ingredients. Pearl didn't do anything and let Momo handle the purchase. She knew what she needed as she was the Alchemist here, and thus he let her do her thing.
He knew a bit about ingredients though, after working for years in alchemy stores, and knew what most of Momo had purchased were required to make antidotes to poisons.
He could see what she was trying.
"Are you still practicing the way my brother told you to? Making antidotes for your own everchanging poison," Pearl asked.
"That's the best way to train how to make new pills," Momo said. "Master said he will let learn other stuff once he returns."
Pearl nodded. Just doing the sa thing over and over wouldn't be a very practical way of training after all.
"We can go back now, Uncle," Momo said.
"Sure. But we need to go check on Yuren first," Pearl said.
"Oh, ok," Momo said.
Yuren was Aethersage's disciple, and Aethersage had asked Pearl to check on him while they were inside the secret realm, so once in a while, Pearl went to check on him.
Yuren lived by himself in a small place close by, so it was no problem for Pearl to go visit him every week or so when he was done cultivating. Usually, he went there alone, but this ti he brought Momo along. The mont they arrived at the place, Pearl sensed a strong surge of power co toward him from close by.
He turned around on instinct alone and grabbed Momo before teleporting further away from where they were. Once in a different place, he looked toward the direction where the attack had co from and found 3 n standing there with slacked jaws, seemingly not expecting Pearl to dodge at all.
A look of anger flashed in Pearl at that mont and he did not demand the people to explain themselves.
He simply attacked.
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