78 What Type of Proposal?!

"Leo, did you know that throughout my life, I had a total of five wives?" The Chieftain asked Leo as they stopped right before arriving to the training grounds where the rock and the wind element users were.

"Although I only had a single child, that you now know is Maria, I did in fact have a total of five wives. Maria's mother was my first love, but after realizing the power of building a foundation, my parents helped set me up with many other women as well to establish firm relationships between our families."

"You might already have someone in mind to be your first wife, especially since you are a very formidable young man with limitless potential. However, if you could, I would like to, when this is all finalized, to hand my daughter over to you."

Hearing the Chieftain's words, made Leo feel several drops of blood forming within his nose as his whole face began to blush excessively.

It was clear that if his plan worked, that the Chieftain would have almost nothing left to offer Leo for such high contributions to the future of the village. But, Leo was still thinking back when he first met Maria.

Though, Maria was indeed a woman that held just as much potential as he did, Leo was still unwilling to marry someone who's first love was not another human, rather, the battlefield.

Leo understood that it took someone with a particular personality to actually enjoy fighting and slaughtering enemies. When he entered into his berserk mode, he would feel a similar rush, but at the end of the day, he still did not feel as if he enjoyed killing his enemies.

"Chieftain, I hope that you can forgive me while I say this, but I hope that we could revisit this conversation once we finish this upcoming adventure." After pondering over this, Leo decided to respond in this way to buy him some more time, while still being respectful towards the Chieftain.

"If that is what you would like to do Leo, I have no problems with your answer. Children these days shouldn't rush into anything that could permanently impact the rest of their lives. Just forget that I brought this up for now, and let us continue onwards to the current situation at hand." the Chieftain laughingly replied.

In the back of his head, the Chieftain knew that Maria had initially taken Leo's potential pet that would be able to accompany him into battle. What he did not know, was that his daughter was the type of girl who loved the battlefield.

On the way back to the village after Leo had saved her quite a while ago, Maria was able to sneak back into the village without anyone actually realizing where she had gone, or even what she tried to do.

The Chieftain had always given his daughter some space due to her slowly becoming a woman. What the Chieftain wanted, was for Maria to not push him away if a problem were to arise in her life. By allowing her to live her life, the Chieftain realized that their bond may not turn for the worse.

Finally arriving to the training grounds, the advisors were the first to call out to the group of wind element users who were just finishing up their lunches. Today was a day where they were to continue training, but extremely lightly.

Leo had given these instructions, because he wanted the warriors to be able to execute the technique he had given to them to learn without any issues. At the same time, Leo understood that if it would take more than a single try for them to do this properly, that the warriors would need enough energy to continuously try again and again.

The real goal here was to be able to break open the rock before nightfall. This way, the Chieftain and Leo could finish their preparations before heading out the next morning. Time was something that was very valuable now, and the sooner that they could head out, the better the results they would yield.

"As you all know, the future of this village is riding on what we are able to come up with here and now. There is very little room for error, but I believe that you all were able to grow significantly this past week due to both the pressure and understanding of what we are doing right now."

"I want you all to concentrate and begin to build up your power, very slowly. In five breaths of time, I will be raising up my sword over my head. At that time, you will all pour all your energy into my body and I will channel it into my sword attack."

"Once I feel that in my body, I can control all of the power that you are all allowing me to borrow, I will strike the rock and the inscriptions on it. As this is happening, the Chieftain will watch the rock closely and if only a crack appears, he will unleash a strong attack to hopefully break it open. Let us show that we will not need him to do that by working hard together!" Leo called out as he started to take out his sword and getting in to position.