Mars gradually recovered from his mana shortage and by the time the mercenaries was done cleaning the battlefield Mars stood up from his spot and walked over and used a fire spell to burn the bodies of the bandits to ashes, after he set the bodies alight someone poked him on the shoulder, so Mars turned around and saw Mary with fresh bandages around her arm and an awkward look on her face, Mars gave a sigh and asked her"what did I tell you not even 15 minutes ago?"
"...not to chase too far?"
Mars grabbed her head with a deathclaw of doom
"so you do remember"
"ouch, ouch! p-please forgive me mister Shady!"
"what do you mean forgive you, have you done anything wrong~?"
"ouch! y-yes I was wrong, I should not have chased so far!"
"oh I see, well in that case I forgive you"
Mars released Mary from his death claw of doom and quickly grabbed her arm and pulled the bandages off
"let"s see here..."
Mary turned quiet with a light blush on her face as Mars peered into her wound
"hold still..."
"okay"
Mars reached out and carefully removed a small piece of lose bandage that was stuck in her wound before he activated his [Energy: healing] skill, as the wound closed Mars held her hand as Mary"s face gradually got more and more flushed
"and there you are, good as new"
Mars gave Mary a pat on the arm which woke her from her daze
"t-thanks mister Shady"
Mary attempted to run off and find a place to cool her face but Mars held on to her arm
"before you leave why don"t you tell me what you have learned once more?"
"....not to chase too far?"
"good girl"
Mars gave Mary a pat on the head before he turned and walked back to his spot in the formation as the caravan slowly started moving again...
"WIPED OUT!?"
the man trembled as the hysterically voice hit him in the face like a truck before he lowered his head even more and spoke with a shaky voice
"y-yes b-big sis, t-they w-w-were w-w-w-wiped out"
if the man was a mage he would be able to feel the odd in the air tremble as the redheaded beauty with pure white skin in front of him almost formed a spell fuelled by pure rage instead of mana, her expression on her pretty face had contracted and she looked like a wraith out for blood as she trembled in rage for a few moments before she began raining causes at the poor man
"the 13 be d.a.m.ned, you bunch of ignorant, week, cowardly, poor excuses for men can"t even do something as simple as take one f.u.c.king carriage from a bunch of spineless sell swords! Your task is not even the hard one! do you understand that!?"
the man trembled as he lowered his head even more, by now his body had been covered by cold sweat and he half expected to be killed at any time
"y-yes big sis we understand"
"d.a.m.n it!"
after cursing once more the redheaded beauty suddenly seemed to calm down and asked the man
"you know what the problem is?"
the man trembled like a small dog, at this point his clothes was drenched in cold sweat, but he knew he could not remain silent so he answered the question
"no I don"t big---"
*SNAP*
"huh that"s weird... why can I see the ceiling?"
those were the last thought that went through the man"s head as his body and head had been twisted apart by a strong suddenly appearing vacuum, the redheaded beauty gave a sigh and spoke out in the tent
"the problem is that I let you useless people handle it... I have to get darling back myself"
Mars let out a yawn, the last few days had been calm with no sudden and b.l.o.o.d.y attacks from bandits, besides the bear that wandered within 200 meters of the caravan and was hunted down in secret by Victoria Mars had not detected anything that posed a threat to the caravan and was naturally starting to feel bored
"hey mister Shady that"s bad manners, you have to be alert during the job!"
b.l.o.o.d.y Mary that walked next to him reminded him to keep alert but Mars just waved his hand and dismissed her
"yeah, yeah.... I"m always alert anyways Mary"
"if you say so, but man it"s really been quiet the last couple of days..."
"yeah... almost to quiet, just kidding"
"hmmm I still get the feeling something is tracking the convoy some 400 meters out"
"that"s properly Victoria... man she really is strangely sharp..."
"really? I don"t feel anything within 700 meters... That"s not true, there"s a bunny rabbit 620 meters to the south-south-east"
Mary gave a sigh before she spoke enviously
"what is up with your senses? I"m the half elf here and I can only sense out to 400 some meters and that"s only if I concentrate..."
"well I never said I was human..."
Mars gave a nod and asked
"by the way, what"s up with the shaking?"
while they had been talking Mars noticed Mary"s arm was slightly shaking the whole time, Mary gave a wry smile and looked around, after she confirmed no one was paying attention to them she gave Mars a command
"lower your head a bit"
Mars did as she asked and lowered his head a bit, then Mary walked up to him and whispered into his ear
"I"m cursed"
Mars" eyes widened slightly and he looked over Mary again this time with his [Energy: sense] and noticed some sort of energy was reeving havork inside her body, no doubt causing no small amount of pain, Mars activated his [Energy: healing] and healed Mary causing the shaking to stop, but the energy was still causing damage inside her body, seeing this Mars gave a sigh and asked her
"is that why you always case too far?"
"....yeah the pain only stop if I kill people regularly"
Mars gave a nod
"I see..."
Mars went over ways to lift the curse in his head but ended up with nothing besides asking Info next time he would see her, while Mars was thinking Mary spoke
"thanks"
"for what?"
"for not pitying me"
Mars suddenly felt Mary was much older then she let on and was about to ask her how old she was when it happened
"s.h.i.+T---"
*KABOOM*
reacting with his quick reflexes Mars managed to push down Mary as a deafening explosion rang out
"what the f.u.c.k was that!?"
Mars felt no strength in his body only the feeling of his body rapidly cooling and the taste of iron in his mouth
"s.h.i.+t..."
Mary awoke after an unknown amount of time pa.s.sed, her ears were ringing and she felt like she just had been beaten silly, her whole body ached and cried out in pain, she also felt someone laying on top of her as she opened her eyes
"mister Shady!"
it was Shady that lay on top of her, she shock him a couple of times but he showed no signs of waking up, Mary bit her lip and took his pulse
"s.h.i.+t!"
he was dead. Mary felt tears welling up in her eyes but she bit her lip even more and carefully pushed him aside and looked around, it was pure h.e.l.l there was blood and served body parts all over moans of pain from the few maimed (un)lucky survivors along with a giant crater about 25 meters away from her
"what happened!?"
she scrammed and looked around with tears dripping down her face
"oh so there"s still someone alive?"
Mary heard a voice and looked up, she saw a redheaded beauty standing there mid air floating, she looked at Mary with wonder oozing out her cold unfeeling green eyes that shone like jewels in the sunlight, Mary trembled her instincts told her that this was an opponent she would not be able to beat, just the odd fluctuation in the air told her that the redheaded beauty was a master mage. Mary"s instincts told her to run but there was something else that told her to kill this b.i.t.c.h in the most brutal ways she knew
"she killed mister Shady!"
Mary gritted her teeth and drew her twins swords and stood ready as she glared up at the redheaded beauty and screamed at her
"I"ll kill you!"
the redheaded beauty put on an amused face as she responded with a mocking tone
"and how will you do that you dirty half breed?"
the redheaded beauty waved her arm and a blade made of wind was sent down after Mary" neck, Mary relying on her instincts pushed her aching body to the side just in time and avoided the wind blade Mary kept her eyes on the redheaded beauty that suddenly froze while looking at something that wasn"t Mary then a roar was heard
"YOU b.i.t.c.h, HOW DARE YOU KILL ME!?"