Chapter 8: Truth

Master Feld, Glace, and I left Ribas; we walked for 5 hours before reaching the Noah Plains because Master Feld was too cheap to pay for a carriage ride.

~In Ino, fast cars are only used by important people. You may think that because the world they live in has advance technology that they already have cars; they do but their power supply is completely different than ours, they don’t have oil for gasoline.

The Noah Plains was refreshingly plain, there aren’t any trees or building or houses in the plains but there are lots of yellowish grass. The wind was as chilly as snow, I regret not having anything for a coat.

The wind reminded me of the Windy Arena where I saw such a one sided beat-down from an outnumbered warrior. I guess he’s just that good, I hope I could be like that someday.

Since I remembered the incredible fight I’ve witnessed, I was curious to why the dual-axe wielding warrior had two colored mana aura.

I asked Master Feld: “Hey Master Feld, Glace and I were spectating at a fight yesterday and I was wondering, how could a warrior have two colored aura?”

“Did he just have two favorite colors?” I added

“No, what you saw was ‘Zobendio’” Feld said

“What’s Zobendio” I asked again

“It’s the two colored mana aura thingy.” Feld replied

“That doesn’t explain it at all!” I replied with a semi-pissed tone

“Oh, this is what I hate about students, they ask a lot of questions.” Feld said as if he’s very tired

“Come on just tell us already.” Glace butted in because she too was curious

“Alright okay… I’ll tell you jeez, why is this hangover still here.” Feld

“Zobendio users are extremely powerful, if you’re against one you might not stand a chance unless you’re one as well.” Feld

“Can you beat Zobendio users?” Glace asked Feld

“I was saying that “YOU” don’t stand a chance but I can demolish those guys hahaha” Feld mockingly said with laughter

“How can we get Zobendio?” I asked

“Nobody really knows but rumor has it that it can be trained.” Feld replied

“Really? Do you know what training to do?” I continued with my questions

“Don’t ask me that kid, I said they were only rumors and such rumors aren’t to be trusted. Believe me, I too tried to have a Zobendio” Feld

“What does Zobendio mean, I mean the word itself?” Glace asked

“Well I think it’s a second something, I dunno just second something” Feld replied

“I see” Glace said

“You know Rei, your father was the only guy I’ve that could take me on one on one” Feld said

“Woah really? What was he like? How does he fight?” I bombarded him with questions

I couldn’t let this chance slip by, he was finally going to tell me details he know about my father.

“Well I told you that I’ll tell you about your father after your training is finished but I’ll give you one trivia, your dad was a Zobendio user.” Feld said

“Woah!! This makes my chances of being a Zobendio user higher right?” I asked

“Don’t push your luck kid, I don’t think it’s genetic” Feld ruined my parade of excitement

Glace became really quiet, I don’t understand why she hasn’t spoken at all after Master Feld said the second something thingy.

I was curious but I just let my curiosity pass as I saw the forest that was the exit of Noah Plains. I even forgot that Master Feld was in the mood of answering my question because of my relief to see some trees after 7 hours of walking since we left Ribas. Seeing that we can build a resting spot there I quickly ran towards the forest for some shade.

We left in the morning and just reached this forest just passed noon.

It was currently 1:30pm, we haven’t eaten lunch yet because we just got to the forest for some shade. Master Feld brought out some cooking equipment and ingredients he bought at Ribas while we we’re still in the Arena. Master Feld had this ring where he can store a lot of stuff, I heard that that ring is very expensive depending on the amount of stuff it can carry it can cost about ten thousand gold. (With 10k gold you can buy a decent amount of land)

Master Feld was surprisingly a good cook, Glace didn’t seem surprised at all so he was probably like this even in the past.

After the late lunch, Master Feld made me look for water to wash the dishes; I found a small waterfall nearby and started washing the dishes.

--Meanwhile—

“Hey Glace, I noticed you and the kid being a little close; what’s that about? Finally reached that age huh hehehehehehehehehe” Feld was teasing Glace but she wasn’t responding at all. In fact, she hasn’t spoken since the thing about the Zobendio conversation.

“Hey Glace hey Glace! Hello??? Since when did you become so “cold”, get it? HAHAHA” Feld was seemingly talking to himself because Glace ignored him too much.

“Don’t be like that Glace, I’m trying to talk to you here.” Feld’s tone suddenly became somewhat serious.

“Don’t act like there’s nothing wrong here, you left me without a word. You left a 16 year old girl at Ribas, did you know what happened to me after you just tossed me aside like trash? Did you even think that I was probably wishing for death because of what happened? I hate you, I hate you so much *sobs” Glace threw a fit at Feld.

“You know, if you hate me that much, then why did you come with us in the first place?” Feld asked with his tone full of guilt and regret

After her fit, Glace returned to being quiet.

Rei came back from washing the dishes wearing a proud face the screams “I’ve done a fantastic job can’t you see?”

He noticed the depressing ambience around Feld and Glace and just brushed it off and said: “Master Feld! Here are the dishware you wanted me to wash, aren’t they like super clean now? Even better than brand new right? *huge grin*”

“Yeah, yeah good job good job” Feld sarcastically said while clapping as if mocking Rei

All of a sudden, Feld heard noises in the woods.

“Rei, Glace pack up your stuff we’ll go to the Plains” Feld said with a serious expression

Rei and Glace did what Feld asked without asking questions.

Once they got the Plains again Rei asked: “Why did we go back here, aren’t we supposed to move forward?”

“Didn’t you feel the presence?” Glace said to Rei

“What presence?” Rei confusedly said

“Ugh…” was Glace’s reply

“Come on tell me!” Rei said as if begging

“Never mind that Rei, here they come” Feld said to Rei

People started the exit the forest onto the Plains where Rei and the others were waiting.

“These people don’t look like ordinary bandits.” Glace said

The “bandits” were carrying weapons.

“Hey how’d they have those weapons, aren’t weapons strictly banned?” Rei asked out-loud

“Well you see Rei, bandits are bad guys so they carry weapons to look more like the part right?” Feld was still mocking Rei’s innocence

“I knew that! But why would bandits be here?! Wouldn’t it be better for them to be on the roads and stuff?” Rei tries to defend his pride

“Here they come!” Feld shouted as he took 3 wooden swords from his magic ring and threw one to Rei and Glace.

Author's Notes: Hey guys, sorry to cut this short; as you can observe I haven't been the most active person in RRL, it's probably because I had too much on my plate that I can't write and also because I've been thinking of a lot of stuff to put in the fiction that I don't know where to start from. Anyways cheers and hopefully you don't lose interest. Thank you.

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