"Y-Yes, sir," I could only stutter as he walked away, deep into the white palace lined with sparkling jewels and towering pillars of quartz.
Once again, clearly, sothing was up with this reality I'm in… and slowly, I felt like I was piecing things together.
If nobody can see my skills and judge from his reaction… nobody can see his skills, then only people with a status can see this magic?
Or maybe they need a connection with a god? A connection with a higher power? Reaching so kind of enlightennt that lets them know the truth of this world?
The deeper the hole went, the more my mind began to spin.
…
An entire day had passed, and half of the army returned to our camp, only to find half of our dics slaughtered and the remaining soldiers left to defend themselves completely dead.
"EVERYONE SPREAD OUT!" A new captain in command shouted, who was also the only one riding on a horse as of now.
We all followed his orders, walking through our desolate camp, not even in flas now, but just the remains of charcoal and burnt flesh.
All of the dics ca running out of their tent, covered in blood, tears streaming down their faces, but as soon as they approached us, they collapsed from exhaustion.
They probably hadn't got any sleep the entire ti we were away, especially when the thought of sothing threatening was always lurking behind, above, or around you.
Suddenly, as I turned to look inside the dical tent, a pair of soft white hands grasped my cheeks, pulling closer to an inspecting face.
"Good. You're still alive. I didn't want the first person I saved to imdiately die upon going to war,"
It was the sa woman from before who had taken care of after I was completely knocked out by Lu Bu and also healed the sa wound from before.
"But… you're bleeding?" She muttered, letting go of my cheeks and spinning around to see blood slowly trickling from the sa shoulder wound, but instead of spreading to my chest, it had torn open on my back. "Why didn't you receive dical attention?"
"Everything was full of people who were near death. This isn't too bad, so I took care of it myself," I shrugged, but the dic wasn't having any of it, imdiately dragging into the tent and sitting down on the sa cot as before.
As she took off my shirt, she saw the sloppy bandage work and the wasted dicine spread across my upper back.
"Well, at least you applied for so dicine. That's all that really matters," She sighed, slowly unraveling the bandages and seeing the actual wound. "But it seems you need to take better care of yourself because now it will take double the ti it took for you to heal your previous wound,"
"It took only a few days, though,"
"Well, now you have to wait probably a week. Just be thankful the battle for the town is over otherwise, you would have been completely useless,"
"Yeah… I guess," I sighed before jolting upwards as she pressed sothing cold deep into the wound, and I felt her fingers literally wriggle inside my back.
It was a disgusting feeling, like maggots were slowly moving inside of , but as soon as she pulled her fingers out, the slight pain did feel much better than before.
"What the hell was that?" I shivered with disgust.
"Sothing to disinfect the wound inside. You applied a surface-level amount, and you've been walking around for a day or two. So it was either that, or I stuck a hot knife in there to disinfect it," She rolled her eyes.
She tightly bandaged my wound despite my little groans of pain, and she seed pretty angry with , yet didn't say much in response.
Once we had finished, we exited the tent, only to see the rest of our supplies being packaged up to be carried back to the town.
We no longer needed this base as we now had a probably infinite amount of supplies within the walls of that rich trading town.
Lu Bu clearly wanted to turn it into a city because it already had sothing of a rich capital. It honestly just needed a little boost of manpower.
With the help of the emperor that could definitely be done, but was this it? Was this the entire objective of this raid?
"Are we heading ho now?" The dic asked, following behind as we made our way back to the town not even a few miles away.
"I don't know yet. Was this objective of why we ca here?" I asked, and the woman didn't see as suspicious as before, allowing her to burst out laughing, slightly tearing up.
"Yes, that was the objective. We only wanted this place for its extre convenience on both sides, and a true expansion outward into the Mongolian territory,"
As her laugh trailed off, she slowly wiped the tears from her eyes and flicked them at .
"Then, where are you going? Back ho?"
"Yes. I'm from a small village on the outskirts of the Han Dynasty. We live a slow and peaceful life there, and if you would like to join back, then I wouldn't mind," She lightly smiled, but as she reached out her hand, I just looked at it.
"Unfortunately, I still have other things to do," I smiled back.
She was, fortunately, understanding, just smiling before reaching into her pocket and taking out sothing smooth and shiny.
"This is a charm my family gave . It will keep you safe, and by the ti we hopefully see each other again, I expect to treat you. Otherwise, do not co to , alright?"
"What if I'm dead?" I lightly chuckled, taking the smooth tiny beetle charm and stuffing it into my armor.
"Well, at least I'll have hope that you reach so kind of nirvana. I will pray for you everyday so please stay safe,"
[You have received the Charm of Madam Han]
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