Chapter 104 - Muay Thai Vs Capoeira (Part Two)

"Why did you attack my friends?", asked Lucas. He knew that masters would never involve in something petty, so he was sure there was a reason behind this. "Defeat me, and you can find it out", said Eddy in return.

Lucas knew finding it out was going to be hard, and in the heat of such a fight where both of their passions and fighting spirit was burning high, he was sure that would not get him the answer he wanted.

He did a roundhouse kick to Edyy's head, and Edyy just slipped away. But Lucas was prepared as he changed it into a whip kick and bent his leg to hit him with his heel. "You're flexible too. It's a bad thing you have not learned Capoeira", said Eddy as he looked at Lucas.

He retracted his leg and he jumped straight towards his hip and got a hold of him. He went behind, and he did a grapple move that Sam did to him. "The Master Lock sure is troublesome, but not to me", smiled Edyy as he used his leg and attacked at the back of the knee Lucas. 

Lucas's knee bent forwards, and he let go of the lock. The moment he let go, he saw Edyy's backhand strike to his face. he dodged it by moving his head out of the way, but the next second he felt a strike to his gut, pushing him backward.

"A troublesome one indeed", he thought as he looked back at Eddy. Lucas was ready to make his move. he had prepared up his timing, and the range of his attack. The same went with Eddy. 

He jumped and attacked Eddy. An uppercut to his chin, and he dodged. And brought down both of his fists to his head. Eddy began to lose his balance. Lucas quickly punched the left of his ear.

Eddy's world was now slightly distorted, as he was losing his balance. "Every Martial Art depends on their sense of balance", he said as he began to punch his gut.

Lucas made sure to give in some heavy blows, and once he saw Edyy regain his sense of Balance, he pushed him away with a front kick. Eddy was now in up against the wall, and Lucas was standing as the victor. 

He got up from the corner and shook his head. He winced as he felt pain in his gut, and he knew that Lucas had got him good. "That kid has got skills", he thought as he looked at Lucas. A smile was playing on his lips.

"Truth be told, I came here to stop my students from doing anything reckless. Seems like these punks got into some kind of gang, and are using Martial Arts to bring harm. I never meant for this to happen to your friends", he said with a smile. 

Lucas looked at him suspiciously. He was sure that this man was a master, and thus would not do something like this. But something was off, and his instinct was telling him there was something more to this.

"We were ordered by someone to mess up with a woman named Emilia. And since she was with you, we thought of messing up everyone and taking her with us", said one of the people who were on the floor. 

Lucas was enraged as soon as he heard that someone wanted to mess with Emilia. He looked at her, but she shrugged her shoulders, indicating that she didn't have any feud with anyone. She was sure that she didn't have any feud from outside, neither her family.

"Could it be that someone wants to make me vanish during the time I am away from the family? But who and what could they possibly benefit from this?", she thought as she looked around at the people that were lying on the ground.

Lucas just waved his hand, and everyone left. Just as they were leaving, Eddy turned his head and looked at Lucas. "Kid, who is your master?', he asked. Lucas smiled and looked him in the eye. He raised one of his eyebrows.

"I see", he mulled as he walked out of the alleyway. He took his students and disappeared quickly. Lucas then sat on the ground instantly, and he looked at the place he had got kicked.

There was blood trickling from the lower side of his chest, and one of his ribs was cracked. His bone was visible and it had pierced through the skin. "We need to go to the doctor now!", said Emilia. Lucas got up and placed a hand on the wall for support.

"Michelle, get a healer here from the Guild. Don't worry about the payment", she said. Her eyes were filled with worry. She placed his arm around her, and Lucas rest his head on her shoulder.

He closed his eyes and wanted to rest. So Emilia stroked his head, and he felt a warmth which he had felt back at home. A smile crept up his face, and he allowed himself to be carried away along with the flow at which things were happening now.

Robert turned back and saw him smiling. He too had a smile on his face and turned back to look forward. "Just make sure to stick to one woman, Lucas", he thought. He was feeling warm and fuzzy inside, but there was also the fact that Lucas was hurt.

Michelle arrived with a doctor by her side, and he was also a healer. He began to heal Lucas up and bandage him as he couldn't heal him completely. He instructed him not to do anything heavy for the next couple of days, and that was exactly what Lucas was about to do.

"Well, I could go around looking for a house to stay", he thought as he looked at Emilia. he didn't understand why he looked at her, but the thought of her staying alongside him was something that popped up at that moment.

"You're weird, Lucas", he muttered as he was still tired from the healing and everything. They stopped at the same cafe, and they began to order lunch. Lucas's body was craving, and he needed to eat to heal. 

"Kid, although you don't have Regeneration, you will heal yourself at a speed faster than normal people due to the HP regeneration option. So you will have to eat more than you used to, and not worry about the rest. You will be up and about tomorrow, at best", he assured him. 

Lucas ordered a sumptuous meal, and he began to eat. Everyone else was having a normal lunch, while he was having the servings for almost three people. "I have to recover soon so that I can make the weapons. Robert, you know any place that I can set up a blacksmith shop?", he asked as he was chewing on a sausage.

Robert nodded his head. "I know a place you can rent out. It even comes along with house lodgings", he said. He was the one that knew about him being prince, and he knew why he was looking for a place to stay.

After eating, Lucas rubbed his tummy and let out a loud burp. "Now that was a meal", he said in a satisfactory voice. The pain that he was feeling right at the place that had broken was now filled with a new kind of sensation.

It had begun to heal, and Lucas didn't want to move about right now. He was quite full, and he wanted to savor the feeling of healing himself. It was almost like he was enjoying being tortured.

He smiled and got up. After a few minutes, everyone left the place and went towards a building that was quite far away from the Adventurer's Guild. "Lucas, this is the place I was talking about", he said as he pointed to a shutter in front of him.

Lucas pulled it up and began to inspect every corner of the shop. It was perfect for him, and the blacksmith room was also comfortable for him. It wasn't too crampy, and neither too large making him wander around the room needlessly.

The blacksmith room was just like the one he had worked in the portal, only a bit more refined. The fireplace still had some Earth left in them, and the whole room needed to be reinforced with Earth magic again since it had begun to wear down. 

The shop was too dusty, and it needed to be cleaned up. Renovation works were in due, and Lucas estimated the price to reach at most around four thousand gold coins. He gulped as he thought about how to raise the money.

"Don't worry about getting orders. I have a few in my hand right now. As soon as Father saw the katana you made, he wants training blades made by you.. You will be able to build up a relationship with my family, and grab more potential clients", he said.