Chapter 61 - Conflict (3)

After going out, Asil went to the town square with Medivh and, after having breakfast at one of the dining restaurants there, made their way to their new boss's mansion.

Asil and Medivh arrived at the manor of the Vesta family about twenty minutes later. Around this manor was a large garden decorated with many fruit trees and flowers on the meticulously mown grass, a wall around the Manor Garden, a large gate used to enter the garden from the outside, which was also the only gap in the wall and was made with railings and protected by many security around it. It was a large manor that's exterior was painted using black and white colors, with diamond embroideries on its walls and it had four floors.

When Medivh and Asil approached the Great Gate used to enter the Manor Garden, one of the guards around the gate vigilantly approached them, and after coming in front of them, he stopped and spoke: "Stop! Who are you guys? This is the private property of the Vesta family. Where do you think you are going this freely?"

Medivh smiled and immediately replied: "Sir, we are two mercenaries who have come to this lofty place to accompany the precious daughter of the honorable leader of the glorious Vesta family on her journey. I know you can't let anyone in who says they're mercenaries, and you must have been instructed in advance to let only those above standard in. Your honorable leader wants people who are at least in the third level of the elementary profound realm to protect his precious daughter. But don't worry, we came here conscious of these requirements. We may be young, but my brother and I are people who are at higher levels than the third level of the elementary profound realm. Don't you doubt that."

After speaking, Medivh unleashed his aura in the Nascent Profound Realm, and a bewildered look occurred in the guard's eyes. It was not normal for someone at such a young age to be at such a level. Although there were more powerful young people in the kingdom than they faced, all of these young people were the inheritors of important families. But he was a young man, dressed in ordinary clothes and a mercenary. So the bodyguard was naturally surprised.

After this bewilderment, he returned to Asil in anticipation and, though somewhat distraught involuntarily when he saw the aura in the fourth level of the elementary profound realm that Asil had unleashed, he allowed them to enter.

Asil and Medivh passed through the gate without wasting time and walked to the front of the manor. When they entered the Manor Garden, there were many mercenaries in front of the door. Some of them were molded, others had a normal body. They had different weapons, and the sunlight reflected off them made them look stronger.

When Asil and Medivh approached, many of the mercenaries there looked at them with solemn expressions; but Asil and Medivh came to the place where everyone was waiting, as if they had never been bothered by these looks, and waited for the leader of the Vesta family to come out of the Manor and talk to them.

Time progressed, and several more mercenaries came in through the manor's door to the place where people had gathered. After a wait of about thirty minutes under the tense atmosphere, the manor door was finally opened and three people came out. Of those three, one was in the front and the other two were on his right and left rear cross. The person in front was a man in his fifties, green eyes, wearing a dress made of high-quality green fabric and some embroideries, about one meter and eighty centimeters tall, relatively molded, walking nobly and moving elegantly the stylish-looking cane with gold embroidered on his right hand as he walked.

From the two behind this man, the one on the left side was wearing a hooded red dress that was clearly made of quality materials even though it was too loose to show her body figure. Since this elegant dress is a lady's dress, those who were there immediately realized that the person wearing it was the famous stepdaughter of the Vesta family. The girl in the red dress, however, was wearing her dress hoodie so her hair or forehead could not be seen. Likewise, her face was not visible too since she had a red veil on her face. The only thing that could be noticed was her bright green eyes.

The person on the other side was likewise wearing a hooded dress and veil. So her physical appearance such as her facial features or hair color could not be understood, only her charmingly beautiful black eyes were visible. This girl was wearing a black dress, and her dress was also too plentiful to reveal her body lines, but she was pale beside the other girl.

As people pondered about who this girl was, the man in front of the three spoke after striking his cane three times to the ground to create a silence around him: "My name is Orion Vesta. I am the leader of the glorious Vesta family. You are here to accompany my daughter Nyks on her journey to the outer reaches of the Black Dragon Mountain Range. You will do your duty on this journey with my family's bodyguards, and therefore you will be a crowded group. But your destination is a dangerous area and you risk being attacked by bandits or enemies of my family. So those who are afraid to risk their lives should leave before they go on their journey. Because when the journey begins, if something happens to my daughter because of someone's fault, or if one of you escapes, I will make sure that that person and that person's family are dead!

Orion Vesta waited a while after he spoke, and no one left during that time. Then he looked at the mercenaries and spoke: "Good. The person wearing the red dress behind me is my daughter Nyks. The person in the black dress next to her is the maid who takes care of my daughter Nyks's needs. She will take care of all my daughter's needs and will travel with Nyks during the mission. When you come back here, if no harm has come to my daughter, there is no doubt that you will receive a good reward. Now you can go with our family guards."

Orion Vesta spoke to the girl in the red dress in a way that no one could hear then turn around after they spoke. He then signaled to one of the guards in the garden to begin the journey. In less than a minute after this sign, two elegant and powerful profound horses were brought to the front of the Manor, and the girls, whose facial features were unclear, slowly rode out of the manor. In their immediate vicinity, the guards of the Vesta family were advancing, and the guards were surrounded by a group of mercenaries.

Orion Vesta looked at them from where he was until they left the Manor and disappeared, and after they got out of the line of sight, he spoke quietly to himself, then opened the door of the Manor and entered it.

"I hope nothing happens to Nyks. Otherwise, I'll have to kill all the guards and mercenaries on this mission! "

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About two hours before Asil and Medivh left the inn...

Black Dragon City, one of the city's back alleys...

The street was quite quiet, but that silence broke suddenly when someone entered the street. Normally this street was the main center of criminal groups supported by several families with a certain status in the city. That's why most of the time nobody came to this street. But today, unexpectedly, someone walked into this street. This caused some people to look at the person entering the street through the windows of the buildings, which were so old and worn out that they were almost ruined.

The person who entered the street was wearing a hooded robe, where his facial lines were unclear, and had waited motionless where he had been for some time after entering the street. As he waited, the people in the old houses in the vicinity kept watching him, and before long a man had come out of one of the houses carrying a small dagger in his hand.

The man with the dagger slowly approached the man wearing the hooded robe and spoke as the distance between them descended to about five meters: "This is not a place where anyone can walk around as they please. Say your intentions if you do not want to get hurt."

After the dagger man's menacing words, the hooded robed man said of his reason for being here: "I have no business with you. Where's Leodex? I came to see him."

The voice of the robed person was like that of a middle-aged man, and his speech had caused the face of the dagger man to twitch and respond vociferously:

"Where's Leodex? I didn't hear wrong, did I? You say leodex, not Lord Leodex! You can't come here and see our leader the way you want. Who are you and what do you want?!"

As the man with the dagger spoke loudly, he turned his dagger in his hand to draw attention to the dagger and waited for the answer of the man in the robe with a serious facial expression.

The man in the robe didn't keep him waiting too long, so he put his hand inside his robe, and after a while, he pulled out an emblem from inside his robe with a black pile of bones on it, and showed it to the man with the dagger, and then he spoke.:

"I come from Kastor. I am here upon the order of our Young Master, and I need to speak to your leader, Leodex, immediately.. This is an urgent matter for you and for us."