15 Allies?

Beep Beep Beep!

-Quest complete: Check your inventory for your rewards-

"Yes! I got a card from the monster and now I got two more for completing the quest? This just can't get any better!" Leo shouted out as he started to pick how he would use the three cards he now had.

No longer appearing to be such a heroic figure, Natalia quickly stood up with a frown on her face. While Natalia stood up, Martin and Jack also started to take the steps they needed to in order to recover from their wounds and exhaustion.

"Sweet! I now have the rage skill from the bear and two small red potions that will apparently recover my vitality."excited from his gains, Leo couldn't help but to jump up and down like a little kid.

"Um.... sir?" finally close to Leo, Natalia called out to him, trying to remain respectful to her savior.

"Huh?" turning around to face Natalia, Leo made eye contact with her and did not know how to react. The villagers from before showed him the true nature of humans, and he did not know what to expect from this group.

"I wanted to thank you for helping us slay that monster. Although, we are not in the position to accept anything from its corpse, I hope that you are willing to help give us something?" Natalia asked without holding anything back.

Though their group was saved by Leo jumping in, it was still their group that fought the monster and even sustained many wounds and exhaustion. Therefore, Natalia's request was not something that Leo felt was out of place or too overbearing.

"To be honest, I already took what I wanted from the corpse, so the rest is all yours." replied Leo as he tried to appear to be struggling with what Natalia had suggested to him. Leo felt that if he pretended to be making a difficult decision, that the group around him now, would respect him that much more.

"Oh?" caught off guard from Leo's response, Natalia bowed once more to Leo as she quickly began to store away different parts of value that the corpse had.

What shocked Natalia, was that nothing appeared to be missing from the corpse in front of her. Part of being able to go out into these parts with a group, requires a specific amount of requirements which includes some of the anatomy of monsters that appear more frequently.

"Sir, I hope that you could join us in eating some of the meat from the monster. Of course, you will not be required to help cook anything, you have already given us enough assistance earlier." Natalia told Leo as Martin slowly walked over to sit down on a log.

"Natalia, I am not sure if you know any recovery magic, but Jack over there is looking rather pale. If you do not, we will need to backtrack back to the city so that we can get his wounds properly treated." Martin told Natalia with Leo still listening closely.

"I have only learned some basic fire spells. You should know that an apprentice like myself, would find it difficult to afford those types of spell books concerning healing. It looks like after we eat, we are going to need to head back immediately." Natalia said while turning towards Leo.

"Sir, one of our friends is severely hurt from the earlier battle. Is it possible that we can just owe you a meal, so we can use the extra time to make sure our friend lives?" she asked Leo with a concerned look on her face.

"Just worry about cooking some of that juicy looking meat. I should be able to help that Jack fellow over there." replied Leo as he dashed towards Jack's location.

"How could someone so strong, know some healing magic as well? Could this person be a noble from the city that we do not recognize?" many of these thoughts began to form in Natalia and Martin's head.

Natalia began to cook some of the monster meat as Martin started to inspect his smaller wounds. Even if Leo was bluffing, he saved their lives, so they would not argue with his decision.

"Drink this, it should help you recover at least a little bit." Leo told Jack while handing him one of the red potions he earned from completing the quest.

"An alchemist? That does not explain your combat skills, but, to have an alchemist like yourself as a new ally,couldn't be happier!" taking the potion, Leo was surprised that Jack could recognize the type of potion it was.

Swallowing only a single sip, Jack gave the bottle back to Leo. Confused on why he would only take a single sip, Leo held the potion in his hand as he watched Jack.

After only a single breath of time, the wounds on Jack's body started to close up and he was completely back to his full power. However, Leo realized why this had happened with only a single sip of the potion.

After depositing the potion back into his inventory, the bottle showed that one twentieth of the total bottle was used. This told Leo that if someone was lower leveled like Jack, that they did not need any more than a single sip in order to fully recover their strength.

What was strange to Leo, was that Jack actually had a level above his head! Jack was level eight and was orange.

"Wait, he did mention that we were allies and I did not decline. Does this mean that when it comes to other humans, that I can see their levels if they are my ally?" pondered Leo as Jack stood back up on his feet.

"If that is the case, I wonder what it will take in order to see the levels of everyone around me, including enemies? Hopefully, that is a type of skill that I can obtain in the future." Leo was thinking as him and Jack made their way back to Martin and Natalia's location.