Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3625

The desk sergeant knew his stuff. He was part of a group chat that on Earth would have been considered a proto-forum dedicated to Lith's fan club. The Tablets still didn't allow users to post on the Web, but there was no limit to the number of participants in a chat.

'On top of that, the boy has golden hair and blue eyes. He looks nothing like Lith.' Valeron's emerald hair and silver eyes had been shapeshifted to avoid recognition.

Falas waited for a few seconds, but when Lith gave no further explanation, he gave the boy a salute and a wide smile.

"Sergeant Xarm Falas at your service, young Lord Verhen."

Valeron looked at the man in confusion and turned to Lith, who just smiled and nodded. Valeron beamed with joy, returning the salute with the wrong hand.

"Have a nice day, little fellas." The desk sergeant waved his hand, and the kids waved back.

"Forgive me, Ranger Verhen. The flesh is weak." The moment the family stepped outside the army branch, Falas posted the news of Lith's arrival and his mysterious son, afraid that someone would claim the attention from the juicy gossip before him.

"Elysia, Valeron, this is the city where Mom and Dad dated." Lith said as he stepped onto the sidewalk. "I always tell you about our adventures in Belius, and now you can see it with your eyes."

The two kids nodded, but Valeron also kept smiling and giggling with happiness. Kamila, instead, stared at Lith like she had a grudge against him. Because she did.

"Age-appropriate adventures." Lith rushed to add. "You know, how we met and all the innocent stuff."

"I see." Kamila nodded, her nostrils dilating in annoyance.

'The stories where you are the valiant Ranger and I'm your annoying paper pusher handler who's a stickler for the rules.' She often eavesdropped on those stories with Solus and didn't like how he painted her.

"Do you want to go home or would you like to take a tour of the city first?" Lith couldn't understand the lingering tension and tried to ease it.

"Home can wait." Kamila exhaled sharply, trying to relax. "After all this time since our last visit, it's going to be dirty and I'm in no mood for chores. Let's go to Royal Park."

The city of Belius had been built as an army base that only later had developed beyond what military personnel alone could run. _{freeweɓnovel.cøm}

Since expanding the walls and recasting the arrays would have been a security nightmare due to the nearby border with the Empire, the city had grown vertically instead of horizontally.

All houses were several stories tall, similar to Earth's apartment buildings. Due to its military origin, Belius' city blocks were literal squares, and the streets so straight that they seemed to have been drawn with a ruler.

It made the city orderly and easy to navigate, but it also made it a gloomy grey mass of identical buildings that repeated themselves as far as the eye could see.

Small parks had been built between city blocks to give the city some color and life.

Royal Park was the biggest, allowing visitors to walk for more than five minutes before going back to square one and starting over. Belius' parks were so small that the residents referred to them with the not-so-endearing term of "hamster wheels".

Royal Park was located away from the military barracks and inside the nobles' residential district. It owed its name to the members of the Royal family and the one- to three-star generals residing there from time to time.