"I need a ride back home. Xedros, the Lord of the Kellar region, must have gone away for some important reason. He isn’t home and he doesn’t reply to his amulet. Can you help me, Scourge?" Ryman asked.
Xedros the Wyvern was actually laying on the side of a mountain with most of his bones broken. Tyris had decided to spare his life, but that didn’t mean she was willing to let his act of defiance go unpunished.
Not only did her fist crush Xedros’s body, but it also had tampered with his life force, making it impossible for him to heal with Invigoration. It would take him days to fix the damage his life force had suffered and months to get back to his peak condition.
"Yes, don’t worry. I was going to visit you and Selia anyway." Lith said.
The army didn’t need their help often, so the three of them spent most of their time relaxing and sharing pointers about magic. Friya had many things to teach them about dimensional magic, whereas Lith had a lot to teach them about everything.
"How the heck did you learn the basics of all the specializations?" Friya had shed blood and sweat to train her three specializations.
"You have your guild, whereas I have no life." Lith shrugged.
Three days later, Lith and Protector left Zantia. Friya was sad to see them go. Protector’s kindness reminded her of her father, Orion. It didn’t take her long to grow fond of the wise yet socially awkward Emperor Beast.
The two of them Warped until they reached the nearest mana geyser.
"Why are we here? I thought we would take a Warp Gate." Protector asked.
Lith didn’t reply as Solus changed to her tower form, allowing them to get inside.
"It’s bigger than I remembered it." Protector looked around the familiar yet unknown place.
"What do you mean? It’s your first time in here. I expected you to at least be surprised." Lith asked.
"Your memories, remember?" Protector tapped the side of his head with a forefinger.
"Well, I bet you don’t know this." Lith snapped his fingers and a slight tremor spread throughout the tower. The space around them stretched and deformed as they crossed thousands of kilometers in a heartbeat.
"By the Great Mother." Protector recognized the all too familiar Trawn woods.
"I can’t let the army clerks register all of my movements. If I had to vouch for you to let you use a Warp Gate, the Griffon Kingdom would easily guess your true identity. I don’t have many friends and most of them have free access to Gates." Lith said.
"Thank you, Solus." Protector gave her a deep bow, making her blush.
"I hope you get a body soon. Fire and stone are not enough to express who you truly are. Whoever did this to you either loved you so deeply that they couldn’t stand the idea of losing you or was a heartless monster."
"You’re welcome, Protector." Solus regretted not being able to show him her physical appearance. She considered Ryman as one of her oldest friends, just like Lith did.
’I only have one secret and I’m already sick of it. I don’t know how Lith manages to keep so many of them and honestly, I don’t care. I want to come clean with him’ She thought.
Ryman’s home was just a few hundred kilometers from Lutia. It took them just a few minutes to Warp to destination. When Lith saw Selia, her physical appearance shocked him.
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