"Scavenge run?" Mia repeated my words. "Scavenge I can understand… but why call it a run?" she asked while leaning her head over her shoulder to the side.
"Ah," I smiled, "don't mind it. It just ans a scavenging mission," I explained.
After all, if I were to explain the true aning of scavenging run, I would have to start with basic physics, and go all the way through the middle and high-school curriculum before starting on electrics, programming, gaming culture…
All the way to the point where I would explain just a single ga, all for the sake of properly explaining a single reference.
Yeah, there was no way I was doing all of that.
"Well, I can understand the idea…" Mia muttered with a look on her face that told she lacked coincidence in such a plan.
Mia then took a step closer before leaning over my ear and whispering, "what if they try to keep stuff to themselves?"
I took a mont to properly think about the answer. After all, it was sothing I didn't think about.
"I think I have…"
"The city!" soone shouted from all the way at front part of the entire group. "I can see it!"
I turned my eyes in the direction where the shout ca from. And as my eyes moved, I couldn't miss the sudden change that happened to all the cultivators around .
They were all down the rabbit hole of extre boredom. Even though we didn't travel for all that long, they still managed to get ntally tired of it.
On one hand, it was puzzling to no end. How people who had to often spend years cultivating in seclusion just to break through to the next rank of their cultivation would end up being bored after less than two days worth of travel?
Yet, once I looked at the picture from a wider perspective, I could sohow figure out where all their moodiness was coming from.
It wasn't all about the boredom of travel. The boredom was simply the drop that caused the water to spill over the cup.
Those people were all in a foreign world, with the knowledge that the spell they used to survive the disaster ended up bringing disaster and ruin to the people of the world they ended up with.
So of the cultivators could just gloss over ntal responsibility like this and I was quite sure people like that were a part of my group. Yet, even if they couldn't care less for all the lives they took while in their monstrous form of mana-beast, they had to be aware of how everyone else in this world would think about them.
Or, in simpler terms, how they would likely never be able to move past the notion of them being monstrous invaders in a world where quite a lot of people were far, far stronger than they could ever beco.
"We are finally here," one of the cultivators muttered to my side.
"I can't wait to look for a place to settle!" Soone else whispered.
"Will they even allow us in the city?" Yet another person put the very aning of reaching the city into doubt.
Yet…
"I'm sorry," Mia muttered, slumping down a little.
She brought her hands together and wrapped her arms around her own chest as if she was trying to warm herself up. She had her face lowered and eyes stuck to the ground, unable to raise them up to see the city ahead.
"Are you…" I attempted to ask Mia… but I ultimately decided not to, cutting my words short.
Instead, I simply took a step closed before wrapping my hands around her shoulders and bringing her closer into a hug.
In the end, I didn't waste my words trying to cheer her up.
No matter what kind of problem she had with this city, I could tell it didn't bring her good mories.
Still, Mia wasn't a man. She wasn't soone who wished to either grit through the problem or find its logical solution. For all I knew, she simply needed soone to support her while she was in her current, vulnerable state before she could handle her stress on her own.
"I'm okay," Mia whispered a mont later, sliding her hand up my chest only to reach for her face and wipe the tears that squeezed out of her eyes. "Thanks…" she added in a shaky voice, clearly not fully over whatever brought her down.
But it wasn't my place to pry. Not now, not out in the open, and not with all the ears curious about the situation and eager to potentially make use of it.
"Can you keep going?" I asked, not moving a single inch from where I grabbed Mia into a hug. "We can wait if you need so more ti," I quickly added just in case she misunderstood my words in an attempt at hurrying her up.
"No," Mia said before sniffling up. "I'm okay," she added, this ti in a stronger voice.
Mia took a step back, freeing herself from my embrace. She then quickly wiped the tears from her eyes before shaking her head and forcing a smile on her lips.
"Whatever happened there is all in the past now," she stated, raising her eyes and taking a first, proper look at the ruined city.
It was nowhere close to how it was when I first reached it. Even when standing on a hill and looking at it from a relatively huge distance, I could still see the marks of devastation all over the place.
Or rather, it would be more accurate to say that I could see so spots where the city still existed on the greater plain of nearly total destruction.
"Everything seems to be gone," Mia muttered as she stepped forward and joined by my side. "The arena, the auction house, even the sect grounds…" she muttered as he eyes jumped from location to location.
"We will rebuild them all," I said, trying to encourage the girl in the only way I could think of.
"Right, about what we were talking about before," Mia shook her head again before turning her face towards and speaking. "Could you repeat your answer?" she then asked.
The intensity behind her eyes… It was more than enough for to realize it was Mia's attempt at changing the topic and moving on.
"I think I know of a simple way to prevent it," I replied after taking a mont to stare at the girl.
Seeing her in her current, teary state that wasn't caused by a solid dicking of mine was making feel as if a thousand needles stabbed both my heart and my soul alike.
"And what is that?" Mia inquired, clearly pushing herself to stay on the topic.
"A formation capable of absorbing all the energy from the items placed within," I revealed. "I should be able to co up with one relatively quickly," I said, unable to stop myself from gloating a little. In the end, though, I was just a simple man.
And if I could flex before the love of my life, then everyone in the world could be damn sure I would!
"A formation," Mia muttered, turning her eyes away from my face and back towards the city. Then, a small smile erged on her lips. "That could work."
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