Chapter 130 (2/2)

“I can only beat you with my beast will activated,” I retorted

“Alas, our love is still not hed with longing

“Gross,” Caria and I said in unison

You are reading on ReadReadNovelFullonlineco on the mana-enhanced iron wall, a slit opened in the arded us for a moment

As the eyes landed on me, they widened “Princess Tessia!”

“Yes, now please open the door,” I replied, looking up at the flickering purple light inside the lantern bolted to the ceiling

The ed to red, indicating to clear the way

Just then, the dark wall split apart at the sea of metal on stone echoed off the walls of the narrow cavern until the doors opened enough to adh the doorway, the war fires in earthen pits and the sreeted us The narrow halle had just come from opened up to a h above us High up near the ceiling, large holes were dug into the walls where archers and conjurers lay inside, ready to fire at any intruders

Artificial light frohten the ies had set caled near the side of the cavern, providing fresh water for all of the soldiers stationed here

“Welco the door bowed I waved him off with a quick nod as my tea at the small space where my team and I had set up caathered a new set of clothes and a towel

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Opening the flap of the tent, I could see Darvus trying to light a fire while Caria watched Stannard disassemble and clean his crossbow-like weapon I couldn’t help but smile at how far the four of us had come in these past three months

I still distinctly reroup after gaining o out to battle Darvus, fourth son of the Clarell House, was a lazy, spoiled, arrogant ass But he was also an exceptionally talented prodigy in mana control and had the reflexes to uished family for centuries, known for their unique and secretive style of aug around and skipping out on training, from what Caria had told me, the wild-haired Darvus was still a far better axehter than any of his older brothers His father, tired of his son’s lackadaisical attitude toward everything, had sent him to battle after Darvus had reached the solid-yellow core stage

It was a night; Darvus looked down onone look Even after I had beat hi my beast will, he still saw me unfit as a leader and did as he wanted He only really cared about two things, and that was flirting with sleezy wo out for his childhood friend, Caria

“Tessia? You know, you look pretty silly with just your head sticking out of the tent,” Caria said with her head tilted

“Ah, no, I was about to get out I’ to take a shower,” I replied, so, Princess The longer you wash, theon his side by the fire

“Then I’ll ht with those old, pot-belliedmy clothes and towel over my shoulder

“Can you stop with those indecent taunts?” Caria snapped as she kicked the ar the axe wielder to sround

“Gah! O! Can we not always resort to violence, you vicious littlethe side of his head

“You were asking for it,” Stannard chuckled fro down his weapon “Darvus, where did you put the beast cores we collected?”

“They’re over there,” he gru by their separate tent

As I lanced overher childhood friend’s head, ather the courage to confess to Darvus

Caria Rede was just as headstrong as Darvus, if not ht and optimistic despite the harsh environment she was raised in The Rede Faenerations, but when Caria’s mother had failed to produce any hters, was raised as if she was a male, trained to protect a irl, who had the appearance of a thirteen-year-old and was actually only a few years older than ether Caria was bright, cheery and sensitive of her surroundings, which served as great traits to keep Darvus and I fro each other’s throats It was only after about a month or so that she confided in me that she had been helplessly in love with her perverted and lazy childhood friend Needless to say, I was shocked at first, but I couldn’t help but es for a boy that only saw her as a little girl that needed protecting

Apart froroup, she truly shi+ned in the battlefield Even after fighting in battles for over three ile, nimble and flexible as Caria Her weapon was an artifact that took the appearance of a pair of gloves However, when activated, they transfor all the way up to her shoulders

Going inside an open stall that had been conjured at the edge of the stream, I stripped my filthy clothes, careful not to irritate the scratches and bruises I’d gotten fro stream at the far end of the enclosed roo herb I had brought I had to constantly beht in, I driedthe torapped aroundback to erly defrosting myself from the torturous shower Darvus was nowhere to be found,with souard theout fro only Stannard and myself by the fire

“You should wash up as well You don’t want your wounds to get infected,” I advised, facing my back toward the fire so htinga bath in that near-frozen streah Let me finish up with this beast core first”

I nodded in reply I watched the blonde-haired boy, concentrating as he chanted a spell while clutching firnolls

Stannard Berwick, the last member of our team, had left a very distinct impression after his assessment Professor Gideon was actually the one that had introduced hi boy that appeared no older than Caria stepped down at the training field, all three of us had our concerns He was a dark-yellow stage conjurer at the tiood and all, but Stannard also had a deficiency in histhe usual ae norht that having Stannard in the backlines like the other “avers,” as Darvus called them, would’ve been better because his condition However, Gideon guaranteed that the boy would be useful to have as a teammate on the frontline As it turned out, Stannard was a very peculiar type of deviant His unique ability allowed him to somehow store actual spells into beast cores However, he was the only one who could activate this prepared spell, otherwise, we’d all be carrying bags of loaded beast cores

Seeing Darvus approaching our camp, I called out to him “The ever-so-sexy-and-suave Darvus froht?”

“Haha, the sheltered elf princess is getting better at sarcasm,” he snorted “And it’s not that I couldn’t but because there were no girls worthy ofthis,” I sighed, pointing to Caria, as still inside the tent

“Why would she care what I do omen?” Darvus asked, his brow raised in confusion

I shook my head “Never mind, you dolt”

Caria came out of the tent at that moment with dried fruit and meat in her arms “I finally found where I hid these!”

Darvus let out an eager gasp as he eyed the food “Why would you hide these?”

“So that our ever-so-sexy-and-suave tea down the beast core he had just finished

“Not you too,” Darvus groaned

As we all laughed, a familiar voice called out toaround I couldn’t help but smile at the unexpected surprise “Helen?”