Summoning the Holy Sword

“Achoo!” Rhode rubbed his nose.

“Are you okay, leader? Are you sick?”

Although she was sitting in the chair, Anne wasn’t relaxed for even a second. She kept moving left and right while curiously looking at Rhode, who was sitting behind the desk.

“Do you need Anne’s help?”

“There’s no need; I think it’s because there’s someone who’s having me in their thoughts… It definitely wasn’t something good.”

Rhode shrugged his shoulder and easily brought up this topic.

Although everyone managed to escape from that damned mage, it didn’t mean that no one was injured. As a human, Marlene received a very heavy injury. Perhaps it was because the duel between the black-cloaked mage from before. Not long after the battle ended, she collapsed to the ground. According to Lize, she was hurt because of the shock caused by the magic power. Because of that, after they went back to the Deep Stone City, Marlene always stayed on her room to rest and rarely get up from her bed.

After they went back to the Deep Stone City, Lize, who’s half angel, and Anne, who’s half beast, were also injured. However, their mixed blood helped them to recover quickly. As expected, there was no end to comparisons, only misery… Fortunately, Marlene was still in a deep sleep, or else there was no way to tell what kind of reaction she might have made.

Shauna and the other mercenaries also received heavy injuries, but they were all flesh wounds and not considered serious, so Rhode didn’t really care about it. The only pleasant surprise he received after the battle with the Wind Serpent was noticing the improved skill of Randolf and the others. It seemed that that bunch of people needed to face danger first to be able to improve.

Knock knock knock!

The door sounded. Rhode turned around and saw Lapis pulling her cloak tightly and nervously entered the room. To her, this was already considered a courageous move. Before, she even had to go in together with her brother.

“Are-are you looking for me, leader?”

The girl said in low voice, both of her hands twisting the cloak hem uneasily. Anne curiously looked at her as though she was considering something.

“That’s right.”

Rhode nodded and gestured for her to sit down. The poor girl walked toward the chair with some hesitation. She was holding the chair and slowly sat down, as if she was going to be sold at the black market soon.

“It’s like this.”

Rhode decided to ignore Lapis’s nervousness in the name of her self-protection. He had tried to comfort her before, and told her to not be scared. In the end, she quickly jumped away like a rabbit whose tail had been stepped on and ran away as if she had seen a wolf. From that moment on, Rhode had given up on this stupid idea.

“I think that you know that you aren’t strong enough to take risks and fight.”

“…”

Facing Rhode’s words, Lapis lowered her head silently and kept holding onto her cloak tightly. After that, she loosened up, then tightly held onto it once again.

“That’s why I plan to give you a new job.”

Rhode opened his hand and handed a piece of paper to Lapis.

“This…”

The girl curiously look up to read the content, her expression showing a little doubt.

“As you can see, this is a recipe for lower level potion.”

Rhode shrugged.

“Your next job is to create a potion according to the content above it. What do you think of this job?”