Chapter 655

Chapter 655: Airy Loves Cakes

“I am back! And you haven’t traveled that far! What happened?”

When I return back to the circus, they haven’t traveled far enough. The carriage should have at least get closer to the next city. Close enough for me to see it with my Divine Vision.

But from where we are, it looks as if there hasn’t been much progress during the travel. It’s as if they only traveled for two days.

“Surprisingly, there are many bandits and monsters in the border between Rygis and Tatrama. I guess it’s because no one is paying attention here. Once we arrive in the city, I’ll investigate the lord. He should be the one responsible in clearing the bandits and monsters nearby,” Burnes explained.

Too many bandits and monsters? Looking at everyone here doing fine, I guess those bandits and monsters are not a problem. But there were just so many of them.

“So, what happened to them?” I asked.

“We only captured the bandit leaders and some important-looking people. As for the rest of the bandits and the monsters, we killed them all. Can you take them to the prison? I want to know if they’re just bandits or related to the cult. Maybe we will encounter another cult member’s recruitment again on the way,” Burnes said.

.....

That could be the case. In that case, we will encounter another master level mage.

Just why do we suddenly have to meet more master level mages? And worse of all, none of them know where the leader of the cult is. Not even the location of that Archbishop of the cult.

“I guess it’s a good thing I came here then. I have reached expert level in my air element so I want to test it on master level mages,” I said.

“But you don’t need to do anything though,” Burnes said to me.

“Huh? Why?” I asked.

“Wendy is here with us. After that time you started cultivating and the wind mages are free to go wherever they want, we somehow met up with her again during our second encounter with bandits. And seeing that we are a good target for bandits, she thought that it’s easier to find opponent by coming along with us than looking for enemy by herself. That’s why she’s here. Though she’s away at the moment. Probably destroying another bandit’s hideout or something,” Burnes said.

Really? Well, if she’s here, I guess I don’t need to do anything. If it’s her, with the help of the others here, one or two master level mage won’t be a problem.

“Ah. She’s returning here now. If she’s staying here, I’ll go somewhere else then. Let’s ask her first,” I said after seeing that Wendy is flying back here.

Soon after, Wendy came and I asked her what she wants to do.

“I’ll stay here and be the guard of this troupe. For some reason, this group is targeted by bandits easily. And it’s easy for me to find opponent to test my strength,” Wendy said.

“Then I guess I’ll go somewhere else and gain more popularity as living armor,” I said.

“That’s a good idea. We don’t want the cult to connect the living armor’s relationship with the circus, right? And you don’t have to worry about the circus when I’m here. Though if we’re in a trouble that I can’t solve it on my own, I’ll get Sonia to contact you,” Wendy said.

“How is it, Airy? In the end, we will travel a lot,” I said.

“You’re going to save people, right? You have told me about what you do. I don’t expect that you will continue staying with the circus the whole time anyway. Knowing that you can use portal like that, you will surely move around more than Kron and my brother. It’s fine. Though during your time as living armor, I will turn myself invisible,” Airy said.

“Cool. Let’s do that. With that, we’ll be leaving now. Our destination now is... Let’s go to Consenza. We’re going to cause ruckus there.”

After telling Wendy and Burnes where I will be going, I opened a portal directly to where Lynn is. And I can see her in her bedroom taking a nap while hugging a stuffed toy.

I should have gone to someone else. Though I didn’t need to wait for long when Celestine entered Lynn’s bedroom and take me out with her.

“You can freely walk around in the castle now?” I asked.

“I’m still a princess after all. I’m the Empress’ sister. Well, it’s more like everyone here already know the truth. And I even have my own room here. Though the public doesn’t know about me yet,” Celestine said.

“Okay. Do you have any information for me? For my act as the living armor?” I asked her as she brought me into her room in the castle.

“Claudia should have them. But she should be resting right now, so I suggest you to come back here tomorrow morning,” Celestine said.

“You... renovate your room a lot. No, it’s not just your room. It’s the whole castle. Did you make the hidden tunnel in the whole castle?” I asked after seeing what’s inside her room.

Not only in her room, there are also many other places in the castle that is connected to hidden passage that I didn’t see before. It should be Celestine who did it. Only she can renovate the castle easily.

“Yes. And only Lynn, Claudia, and I knows all the hidden passage in this castle. Well, you should know it as well. And I used magic strong enough to not let any expert level earth mage to detect them. Unless they are at least as strong as Kayla, they won’t be able to detect those passages,” Celestine said.

Some of the passage lead to outside the castle. And most of them are connected to this passage here in Celestine’s room. I guess it’s for her so she can easily grab Lynn out of here in case of danger.

“Alright. Since there’s nothing we can do now, Airy and I will leave today and enjoy the city. Do you want to come?” I asked Celestine.

“...You enjoying city just you enjoying the culinary of the city. I think you have eaten everything that is sold here. I’ll pass. Airy, if you’re bored of going to eat the whole time, you can come to me. There are things that only us girls can enjoy,” Celestine said.

“I’ll go with Roy first. If I’m bored as you say, I’ll go to you,” Airy said.

With that, Celestine just took Airy away from me. Not now though. But probably soon.

“Oh, right. Roy, if you meet any earth spirit and befriend it, I want you to let it stay with me,” Celestine said.

“It’s not easy looking for spirits. And since you’re an earth mage, I think you will be able to find it sooner than I could find it. How about checking the underground arena that Timmy built? Since he’s an earth mage, maybe some earth spirits will come there,” I suggested.

“I’ll tell Kayla about it. I still can’t leave Consenza. I want to build more passage here,” Celestine said.

Just how much did she enjoy building a hidden passage? Well, if it was me, I think I would enjoy it as well. In fact, I would probably build an underground fortress if I’m an earth mage.

And I will become... The Mole King!

Let’s stop with that. I don’t know how far my imagination will take me.

“Well, let’s enjoy the city for today. Celestine, we’ll be back tomorrow. I’ll be using one of the hidden passage because it seems to be more fun going there,” I said.

“Just use your portal. You’re always childish in the weirdest way,” Celestine said.

Why should I use a portal when there’s an interesting passage that I want pass through?

Well, this is also for Airy. She didn’t show it but she seems excited about entering a hidden passage.

The passages were made by Celestine’s magic. And since she also capable in manipulating metal, the passage seems to be strong enough to not get destroyed in case of a big explosion above. Maybe she could be a great architect if it’s not a war time.

We left the passage from an unused well in an empty alley. And after that, I entered the closest cake shop there.

Airy can eat. And she’s a girl. So, there’s no way she doesn’t want cake, right?

...One thing I didn’t expect was that she ate more than me. And even though all those cakes should be much bigger than her, even one is already bigger than her, she ate them all and didn’t change her size at all.

“That was delicious! They’re cake? I like them!” Airy shouted.

“Then there are many other places I can introduce you to. But you can only go there when someone is accompanying you. Either me, Celestine, or someone I trust. And don’t steal the cake even if you’re invisible,” I warned Airy to not steal any cake.

“Why? I want to have them all and I don’t have money. It’s fine if they don’t notice, right?” Airy said.

“That’s fine only if the establishment is owned by bad guys. If you steal cake from the cake shop, the cake shop owner won’t have any money to make more cakes. It’s for the sake of cakes,” I said.

“For the sake of cakes. Then I’ll hold back,” Airy said.

“And since you can’t get full no matter how much you eat, if you become a bad girl, I will limit the amount of cake you eat. Do you understand?”

“For the sake of cake!” Airy shouted.

Good thing I used Air Barrier to block the sound. Even though we’re in a private room, we still need to make sure that no one can hear us. Even if we’re just talking about cakes.

Though I didn’t expect Airy to love cake so much. And there are many other sweets I haven’t introduce her yet.

What about Breezy? Well, he might enjoy traveling more than eating. I’ll leave him to Kron.