Alister gazed down at the father and son duo below him, his mind recalling a dramatic mont involving Dragun, himself, and his younger brother, Xandros.
In his recollection, Dragun and a few other n were kneeling before Alister and Xandros.
Xandros was torturing the n with a parasitic magic insect that ate their flesh and drained their mana reserves.
He slowly killed off the other n after asking them the sa question, leaving only Dragun, who wore a traumatized expression as he gazed upon the corpses of his colleagues, the fear of death becoming more evident on his face.
"You're the only one alive now, Dragun, and according to our information, you're the one in possession of the item we're looking for!" Xandros said with a frown, staring intently at the kneeling Dragun.
"I swear, I know nothing about it! I'm innocent!" Dragun pleaded repeatedly, but the more he cried, the angrier Xandros beca.
Alister stood behind his younger brother with a calm expression.
"Let him be," Alister finally said after a few monts had passed.
"Why?" Xandros barked angrily, turning to look at Alister.
Alister gave him a sharp glare, warning him to watch his tone.
Dragun looked at the two of them with a slightly worried expression. Whatever the outco of their discussion would determine whether he lived or died.
"We've already slain half of the guards at the cult's hideout, and we still haven't found it. Do you think killing him will help?" Alister asked with a frown.
"But what are we going to report to the echelons? What if they find out we lost sothing so important to the cult?" Xandros retorted.
They engaged in a heated argunt with one another.
The crux of their dispute was whether to let Dragun go or kill him like the rest.
From their argunts, their intentions were clear and understandable—both belonged to a really powerful cult, the sa as Dragun. However, Dragun and his colleagues were low-ranking mbers, mostly used as guards or experintal specins by the cult.
According to Xandros, Dragun was the leader of the group guarding a particular item of great importance to the cult. But a few days ago, they discovered the item was missing, and none of the guards admitted knowing its whereabouts.
Xandros was ready to kill every one of the low-ranking mbers to learn about the item's whereabouts because they were the ones in charge of watching it. No high-ranking cult mbers could access the facility due to restrictions.
On the other hand, Alister believed it wasn't the guards' fault—that there might be a high-ranking mber trying to steal the item and place the bla on the low-ranking mbers.
The argunt between the two brothers grew intense and slowly developed into a fight.
Xandros controlled the wind around him to attack Alister, while Alister simply deflected the wind attacks with waves of his hands. He didn't attack his brother at all because he understood just how hot-blooded he was.
While they were fighting, Dragun struggled to free himself and eventually succeeded.
He pulled out a teleportation magic slip from his spatial pouch and used it without wasting ti.
Imdiately, he vanished from the area, unnoticed by the brothers.
Alister and Xandros only realized that Dragun was gone after a few minutes.
Xandros reacted angrily and blad Alister, while Alister simply walked away.
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Alister recalled all this and sighed—Xandros still believed Dragun was in possession of it and was ready to kill him for running away last ti.
Both of them watched Dragun and Rowan for a few minutes before disappearing.
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Unaware of the eyes watching them from the beginning, Rowan and Dragun continued discussing magic with one another.
Rowan learned a lot about magic from his father.
He learned that magic can be cultivated by anyone, talented or not. However, the more talented one is, the fewer resources and less ti they would need to grow stronger in the field of magic.
According to Dragun, there are several levels of magic—the apprentice mage realm, which is divided into low-stage, mid-stage, and peak-stage. Once one ascends through these three basic stages, they will have all it takes to beco a real mage.
There are also Tier-1 to Tier-7 in the ranking of mages, with Tier-1 being the weakest and lowest, and Tier-7 being the highest and strongest. Dragun is a Tier-3 mage!
Rowan learned so much from Dragun, which gave him hope that he would be able to cultivate magic on his own one day.
For soone originating from Earth whose greatest dream is to wield supernatural powers, the news naturally made him excited.
After they finished discussing, they ca to an agreent that Dragun would take Riela as his apprentice and help her awaken her magic potential. But Rowan said he would have to ask Riela, only if she agreed would he let Dragun take her as his apprentice.
Dragun had no objections and left.
After he departed, so of the young soldiers stopped working and strolled toward Rowan to ask questions.
Rowan gave them simple answers and continued with his task.
In the evening, they finally finished digging the foundation and all retired to their hos to rest. On their way ho, they t so of the farrs and chatted; their discussions were nothing but positive and heartwarming, clear evidence of the peace and harmony in the village.
Rowan got ho and found Riela holding one of his robes with a sweet smile on her face.
"Here, try it on!" she said, waving the robe in front of him.
Rowan imdiately checked the status of the robe before reaching to grab it from her.
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Enchanted Robe: A robe that has been enchanted with [Enchanted Embroidery]
Effect - Defense: When equipped, defense is boosted by 33%
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"A robe that boosts defense!" Rowan was pretty surprised when he saw the stats.
The effect of the robe was far better than a basic-grade item and almost as good as a common-grade one. Even common-grade leather armor only gave a 50% boost in defense!
"If she keeps evolving in her field, I won't need to waste evolution points on purchasing armors in the future!" Rowan exclaid inwardly as he began putting on the robe.
After donning the robe, he thanked her sincerely and encouraged her to do more.
Riela was already very excited, and his complints made her even more so.
She proceeded to inform Rowan about her work today. She told him how she had been working to create a robe that warms the body but kept failing to do so.
Rowan saw the sadness in her eyes as she discussed the topic and imdiately cheered her up.
To be honest, Riela was already working too hard with the enchanted embroidery skill.
Since she received the skill, she had been working non-stop, adding embroidery to robe after robe and trying new effects every day.
"Don't push yourself too much, Riela," Rowan concluded.
"I won't... thank you for believing in , Rowan," Riela smiled cheerfully and kissed him on the cheek.
Rowan smiled at her and nodded.
"Let go prepare sothing for us to eat," Riela said and began walking toward the kitchen.
"I'll join you," Rowan said, strolling beside her into the kitchen.
"Can you cook?" Riela asked; she hadn't seen Rowan prepare anything in his life before. She would even find it hard to believe he could boil water.
"Definitely. Who knows, I might even be a better cook than you," Rowan smirked.
"A challenge?" Riela grinned.
"Yes, we should prepare our own delicacies and see whose is more delicious."
"Okay then!"
The couple proceeded into the kitchen, which was a pretty small room with two fireplaces for cooking.
The ingredients were stored in wooden cupboards, and so of the food items were neatly arranged on the ground. The cooking utensils were nailed to the wall to prevent pests from getting near them.
There was a small wooden cabinet for storing plates and other items that needed proper handling.
Riela took one fireplace, and Rowan took the other.
Both of them grabbed the stuff they needed.
Nevertheless, Rowan quickly discovered he had no idea how to prepare sothing nice with the ingredients in his grasp. They were so different from the noodles he used to prepare on Earth.
Without wasting ti, he opened Riela's character status and accessed the full details where he could see all her skills. Luckily, there was [Cooking, E-rank].
He copied and rged with the skill without hesitation. Imdiately, he was filled with knowledge about the culinary world. Rowan didn't upgrade the skill in order not to cheat too much.
About an hour passed, and they finished preparing their als.
Riela was the first to finish; then she went to observe Rowan. She was pretty surprised to see him cooking as though he had been doing it for a long ti.
Sohow, they both prepared the sa delicacy.
Rowan didn't make any noticeable mistakes in the preparation of his, but it wasn't as good-looking compared to Riela's.
At the end, Riela won because hers was not only good looking but tasted far better than Rowan's.
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