With the gaze of the other guards on him, Rus does not hesitate to respond quickly, as he may seem suspicious if he takes a long time thinking about his answer, in a somewhat low voice, he says "I don"t know anything about them, I just remember to give Fatri the bag of stones and go home quickly. That"s all"The guard who asked Rus about the whereabouts of Fatri and Nacus, approaches Rus looking at him with narrowed eyes, with less than 10 centimeters between them, he asks again "Are you sure you don"t know anything?" Rus nods slowly, he does not know what would have happened if he had not swallowed the pill, because he is sure that his heart at this moment would be beating very intensely.
"Hahahaha stop playing with that useless and come fight with me because I know you wanted a rematch duel since you lost the previous one very quickly!" One of the guards says with a smile, he seems to be very friendly with the guard who is questioning Rus.
"Oh! Are they really going to fight again? This time I"m going to bet 2 solyss on Rukbo!"
"Are you an idiot? Obviously, Shail is going to win, the last time he lost was because Rukbo took advantage that he was sick that day!"
Soon, almost all the guards began to talk hotly about the fight between Rukbo and Shail.
"...Well, take" Seeing that he can no longer escape from having a duel with Rukbo again, Shail gives the bag to collect the stones to Rus and says "If Fatri still does not appear for when you leave the mountain, give the bag to Jabbe" He points to a tall man with many muscles and a serious look. The man is standing with his eyes closed without showing the slightest intention of wanting to join the other guards to speak.
Rus, who feels that his body feels more and more exhausted, takes the bag and runs as fast as he can without looking a second time at the guards who are talking without worrying about his presence.
Running along the road that leads to the mountain, Rus already begins to see the petals of the Rushu flowers that fall from the top of the mountain. Breathing hard, he climbs the mountain, he looks closely at the surroundings to avoid being seen by someone, after verifying that there is no one, he throws himself on many flowers Rushu "Ufff, arrive just in time" Rus says as his hair turns red again
With a pale complexion, he was going to close his eyes and get some sleep. But suddenly his body begins to warm up again as if his skin, flesh, and organs were burning slowly! Rus grimaces in pain, he does not know if it is because of the pain that he is imagining things since he feels that his mind is telling him to look at an exact place under the soil, with effort he looks at the place that points his mind, slowly brings his hand to that place, as if he was putting his hand in icy water, he feels that his whole arm that is close to the place that points his mind cools, giving him a feeling of tranquility that he had never felt before.
Wanting to feel the same sensation throughout his body, Rus crawls as fast as possible to the place that gives him that feeling of tranquility and causes his body to stop feeling hot "Wooaa, it feels amazing..." His pale complexion disappears, regaining his normal state that he had a few minutes ago, his body that was previously very depleted, now feels as if it is full of energy.
Knowing that there is something under the soil that helps him recover his energy after having used the magic card"s ability, he quickly digs with his hands where that thing should be, after a few seconds, Rus sees something familiar, the red stone or the mana stone of blood.
"I should have known, it was more than clear that only this could be under the soil of this mountain" Rus grabs the stone, sees that the stone emits a red smoke that is barely visible, he looks more closely at the stone and he realizes that red smoke is being absorbed by his hand!
"I think this time I will choose to look around these sides..."
"Okay, I will climb the mountain a little more to see if there is more luck"
Rus suddenly hears the voices of some people, he knows that it is the slaves who have already reached him and are already here to look for stones.
"Problematic ..." Rus says quietly, then remembers that he no longer feels exhausted, so he quickly thinks about changing his hair to black.
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"Hmmm? Ugh" A thin man appears before Rus with completely white clothes that has lost any other color because he has washed too much and with some patches. As soon as that man sees Rus" face, he walks away with quick steps without giving him a second look. Rus sees that the slave almost falls out of the rush of wanting to get away from him.
Rus smiles bitterly, from the day he became a stone picker for the tribe, he thought that the tribe treats these slaves better than him, although they are easier to kill if they are wrong. Even so, they have better clothes than he has, another thing is that they only have to search for stones for 5 hours, then they have the rest of the day off, for those reasons he feels some envy, although very little envy, since he does not intend to have a magical seal on his body that totally deprives him of his freedom.
Apart from that, Rus is surprised that his body that was previously easily weakened by activating the card"s ability, still doesn"t feel fatigue. With the stone in his hand, he looks around the mountain, there are several places near him that his mind indicates that there are definitely buried stones.
Without deactivating the ability of the magic card in case another slave decides to approach, he spends 1-hour searching in the places that his mind indicates. Rus looks at his bag with joy, he already counted about 20 stones and he only needed 1 hour of searching! It usually takes 12 hours for him to search for those 20 stones.
Rus grabs one of those stones in his hand, he"s doubting if he should keep the stones in his secret pocket... From what happened with Fatri and Nacus, Rus doesn"t feel very safekeeping them there, but he has no other place to store the stones.
"...What?" Rus sees that the stone in his hand is covered in blood and in less than 1 second the stone gets into his palm! "No, no, now is not the time to absorb more things!" He did not expect that now the stones can also be absorbed by his body, thinking that he has another problem, he sees that the stone that he thought he would never see again, it comes out slowly from his hand, it almost seems as if he had a hole in his palm!
Surprised that he did not lose that stone, he quickly realizes the incredible ability he has! To verify his ideas, he thinks about putting that stone inside his hand, as Rus thought, the stone is slowly covered with blood and absorbed by his hand.
With an expression of surprise and happiness, Rus was going to say something to express his emotion, but an incredibly loud sound suddenly resonates on the mountain!
"Hoooonnnnkkk!"
Rus immediately recognizes that sound, it is the sound that the horn makes that warns when there is some kind of incident in the tribe, depending on the tone the horn makes are the different situations that are happening in the tribe, Rus tries to remember what the tone that has just sounded, after a moment, he remembers that it is the tone that occurs when there are many wounded or dead warriors of the tribe.
He only knows 2 reasons why there can be so many wounded or dead warriors, the first reason is when a pack of very strong beasts attacks the warriors who went out to hunt some beasts so that the people of the tribe can feed. The second reason is when the neighboring tribe decides to launch a surprise attack against the warriors of the Kellai tribe.
The neighboring tribe is the Clafall tribe, a tribe that is hundreds of meters from the Kellai tribe, they feel a deep hatred for the Kellai tribe because they are envious that the Kellai tribe owns the mountain of Rushu flowers. It is a story that goes back many years, where the 2 tribes have fought many times for the conquest of the mountain.
And the worst part is that the Clafall tribe is a tribe formed by one of the races of the dragon G.o.d of fire, who has always felt a lot of hatred for the races of the dragon G.o.d of darkness. It"s basically a very complex dispute that is impossible to resolve, Rus thinks, shaking his head at the thought of all those things.
Rus knows that he is not someone who should worry about those things, so keep looking for more stones, occasionally he keeps some stones in his body, leaving at least more than 15 stones in the bag so that the guards do not suspect anything.