Chapter 63 - Conflict (5)

Asil and Medivh set out with a group of mercenaries to the Black Dragon Mountain Range for three hours and no dangerous events occurred during that time.

At the end of the three-hour walk to the border of the outer region of the Black Dragon Mountain Range, at that moment one of the mercenaries in the group, who was escorting the young lady of the Vesta family, shouted a direction with his hand toward the guards near Nyks who was wearing red robes:

"Hey. We're not going to a playground. Why are we carrying brats like these? They're just going to be a burden on us out there and maybe lead to the deaths of a lot of people. Who knows, they might even cause harm to the young lady Nyks. We have to send them back to prevent such things from happening."

After this conversation, another mercenary from close to the talking mercenary spoke: "Yes, he is telling the truth. I also think that they might cause harm to the Young Lady Nyks. But we shouldn't send them back. Because if we send them back, they can tell others the details of our destination. If that happens, we may be in grave danger because of those who want Young lady Nyks to be harmed. That's why we have to kill these two. This would be the best."

After the second mercenary's words, the first mercenary spoke again: "Brother, you're really right. For the sake of Young Lady Nyks and the smooth completion of the mission, I will kill them immediately."

After the mercenary spoke, he started to walk towards the two men at the back of the group after pulling out a heavy sword that was one and a half meters long and fifteen centimeters wide.

These two were exactly Asil and Medivh. They were looking towards the mercenary who was moving towards them because they could not understand this sudden event. After the mercenary walked a few feet, Medivh laughed slightly and took a step forward.

But as he stepped in, a young girl sounded behind the mercenary, who was carrying a heavy sword in his hand and advancing towards Asil and Medivh: "Everyone who comes here, they are fit for this task. If they weren't, my father wouldn't have let them join this mission. So what you do to them means you don't respect my father's decision, which I won't allow as his daughter."

After these words, the mercenary with the heavy sword turned around and saw the Young Lady of the Vesta Family with green eyes and a red dress who was looking at Asil and Medivh whom he wanted to kill.

After the words of the Young Lady Nyks, one of the guards near her shouted towards the mercenary using the heavy sword: "You heard our Young Lady! Back to where you were!"

After the guard's words, the mercenary with the heavy sword put his sword back to his back after breathing coldly from his nose, dismissively looked at Asil and Medivh, gone back to where he was.

As the mercenary went back to were he was, Medivh and Asil looked towards him for a while, and then Asil spoke quietly: "Big Brother Medivh, have you seen these mercenaries before, or have something happened between you and them?"

Medivh, looking coldly at the mercenary's estranged back, calmly replied: "It's the first time I've seen them today. And there's no reason why they suddenly act like this to us. Asil, what do you think of that?"

Asil thought about it and immediately replied: "Big Brother Medivh, even if you don't know them they know you from somewhere and they don't like you for a reason. At least I can tell by the way he looks at you. Otherwise, they wouldn't say that someone like you in the Nascent Profound Realm would slow down the group and cause the Young Lady Nyks harm. There is something wrong here."

Medivh remained silent for a short time and looked around with his eyes as he walked, and then spoke quietly.: "I feel that way too. This task may be more difficult for us than I thought. Be careful."

After speaking, Medivh stroked his ring and pulled out a crimson-colored orb the size of a marble, and then handed it to the Asil and spoke: "Asil, take this. This is a special profound item of my family. If you break it, the system inside it, built with profound energy seals, will give me the image and the locations of things that were around until five seconds before it was broke. If something unexpected happens and we have split, as a result, do not hesitate to use it. No matter how dangerous you are, I'll come to help you."

Asil looked at the little red sphere that Medivh had given him, tilting his head slightly, and then spoke after he politely picked it up and put it in his spatial ring: "Big Brother Medivh, you don't have to go to all that trouble for me. But now I know it won't help to talk about it. So there's no point in taking too long. Thank you."

After Asil spoke, Medivh approved with his slight nod and did not speak anymore.

Time progressed, and about ten minutes later the conversation between several mercenaries in the back of the group began to be heard in the vicinity:

"Do we really have to take these brats with us? They're definitely not going to be any use and we're going to have to babysit them. They should have gone on a level E mission instead of a mission like this."

"Brother, you overestimate them. Even the F level is too much for them, hahaha..."

"Don't say that. At least one of them is in the Nascent Profound Realm. There are not many people who are so young and have such high profound realm."

"Look what you've dramatized. That Brat is definitely the son of a rich man. To inflate his profound power, his father might have spent money and bought valuable medicine ."

"Yes, yes, it should be like that. Even though he is in the Nascent Profound Realm, he has no real battle experience. A man who has never seen death and whose hand has not been soaked with blood, no matter how powerful he is, is just a burden in the mercenary business."

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As the conversations continued, Medivh was doing his best to keep his nerve. Had he taken part in this task alone, he would have already replied to those who had uttered words. However, he had Asil with him on this mission, and if he made a scene, Asil could be dismissed before he had any experience. He didn't want that to happen, so he kept on holding his temper down and walking.

But the mercenaries who spoke did not shut up, and when Medivh did not react for a long time, they breathed dismissively from their noses and started talking about Asil as well.

"The other brat is definitely someone trying to curry favor with the rich brat. Look at him, he won't leave. I wonder if he thinks that someone in the second level of the Nascent Profound Realm is superior or something.?"

"Hahaha, of course, my brother, he will think so. Can't you see, he is only in the fourth level of the elementary profound realm."

"He certainly didn't come to that level by his own effort. He probably entertained the redhead at night, so the redhead rewarded him by giving him some medicine to boost his profound power."

After these conversations, Asil tried to control himself by clenching his right fist with all his power, although there was no change in his facial expression. If the Asil had been alone in the same way as Medivh, he would certainly not have endured so much and would have responded against so many people even if he knew that he would be beaten alone. That way at least he wouldn't have put his pride aside, but this time it was different. Asil felt indebted to Medivh and knew that if he made a scene here, Medivh would be involved. If that happened, Medivh would also be distressed, so he was trying to control himself by putting his pride aside.

However, this situation completely changed with the next sentence of the mercenaries.

"Hahaha, brother, do you really believe that someone like him can please this rich brat? I think both he and his father went to this brat's room at night and..."

"You take that back!"

The mercenary's word was interrupted by Asil's immediate sentence "You take that back!". When this sentence was heard, the mercenaries who spoke were suddenly silenced and turned towards Asil, with a vague smile forming on the faces of some of them.. Asil's reaction was something they had been waiting for for a long time, and in the end, what they had been waiting for had come true.