Chapter 10 Three years
At the front of the village, several villagers were picking up their freshly caught prey. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
"Tom, my prey is good this time. β
"Cut, isn't it just a little bit better than mine? β
Two men in the prime of life were arguing with their prey.
"Oh, Tom, are you not convinced?"
"You guy, Jerry, are you trying to fight?"
"Hmph, I just want to fight?"
"You!"
"What are you, come as you want!"
The two quarreled fiercely, just when they were about to fight.
"Uncle Tom, Uncle Jerry, I've got my prey back. β
At this time, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy walked up to the two of them with an earth-type demon bear twice as tall as him on his back. After throwing its body to the ground, it ignored the two men, as if they were accustomed to their appearance, and began to pack up the parts that could not be preserved, and then took the remaining parts to the village warehouse where the food was stored.
"Alas...... Leo, this kid is really embarrassing for us adults. β
The two of them looked at Leo's departing figure, and suddenly felt that they were still arguing about such a small prey, which was really too naΓ―ve.
"Alas...... Are we getting old?"
The two glanced at each other, revealing a burst of vicissitudes.
"You two living treasures, what are the vicissitudes of life, work quickly!"
A housewife with a pot and spoon scolded the two uncles in front of her, and the scolding spread to all parts of the village, making the villagers laugh.
"Don't, don't, Hera, we'll do it. So, stop scolding, Leo is still there, don't let us lose face in front of Leo. β
"That's right. β
"You still want to save face? If you want to play tricks again, if you don't work, I'll tell Leo all the old things about you, and make you even more shameless. β
"Don't, don't, big sister, let's do it, don't you tell Leo, okay?"
"Hmph, I know I don't want to go to work soon!"
"Obey, eldest sister!"
Under the intimidation of the housewife, the two began to work extremely hard.
"Leo, you've come back from catching another big game, and if you go on like this, we won't be able to hold it in our warehouse. β
The housewife walked up to Leo and looked worriedly at the prey on the ground in front of her.
"Well, indeed, do you need me to expand it?"
"You can get it if you have time, but don't be in such a hurry, anyway, there are still some places in the warehouse that don't have anything. β
"So, I'll get it when I have time the day after tomorrow, how big is it?"
"Hmm...... , can we expand more than half of the warehouse?"
"If the material is sufficient, there is no problem. β
"Alright then, but, Leo, you don't seem to have come to our house for dinner in a long time, and if you can come today, I'll ask your fat uncle to cook you a big meal." Let you feast, his cooking skills are famous in our village. β
"Okay, I'll go over tonight. β
"Really, then I'll quickly inform your fat uncle, tell him to prepare more things, and let him make a good meal to comfort you." β
"Well, thank you, uncle, for helping. β
Leo agreed to the housewife's request and was going to collect the materials tomorrow. Because he was going to her house for dinner today, Leo just went back to his room and changed his clothes casually and went out.
Leo walked quietly down the village walkway, and the villagers around him saw him from time to time and greeted him, to which Leo responded in the same way.
"Three years?"
"I've been here for three years, ah, time is a good thing. No matter how painful things are, as long as a certain amount of time has passed, they will disappear. β
"In the past three years, I have gradually gotten used to this body, as well as ...... The color of this hair. β
Leo looked at the marks on his hands, and then at the long black hair on his shoulders.
"I really didn't expect that I would be able to live with the demons. β
"When I remembered that when I first lived here, I was really scared by these demons. β
"This group of demons is so enthusiastic, even I, who is not entirely a demon, can be happily received. He also let me stay, and I felt that my past was too bitter. β
"It's ...... It's like a bunch of rotten good guys. β
"I can't help but wonder if the demons mentioned by the Holy See are not so terrifying. β
"In the end, is the Holy See hiding something by doing this?"
Leo looked down and thought as he gradually walked to his destination, Hera and Uncle Fat's house.
There was a knock on the door...... Then the sound of someone moving in the room was heard, and the door was opened by a housewife.
"Oh, it's Leo, come in, your fat uncle is almost ready. β
"Well, excuse me. β
Leo walked into the house and watched in the kitchen as a burly man stir-fried and housewives cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks on the table.
"Oh, Leo, I'm almost ready, sit down and wait for me to show you my hand. β
While the man was stir-frying, he heard Leo's voice and told Leo to take it easy. Then, without looking back, he continued to fry the dishes in the pot.
After Leo waited for a while, the dishes were ready, and they sat around the table, ready to eat.
"Leo, you've been here for three years, how do you feel?"
"That's good, that's probably where I'm best fit. β
"What do you say, kid? You're still a kid, don't say things like, 'This is the best place to go,' that's what people like us say. If you are a child, you have to go out and break through, and our mountain village can't accommodate you. β
The housewife shook her head at Leo and told Leo not to say such things in the future.
"Well, I won't say that again, but I'm not going out. β
"Why? You don't belong here. You're going to go out sooner or later, and now that you can go out, why do you want to stay with us?"
"Because I love it here, I don't want to leave. So, I'm not going out. β
"Why don't you listen to you, kid?"
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"You...... Child...... After all, we are only demons, not humans, and you should go back to the human world. β
"No, I don't like them!"
"I know you have suffered a lot in the human world, but sooner or later you have to go back, you can't be with us, in case we are found here, you will become a demon together and die with us!"
"So what, anyway, I can choose how to die now, I can choose to die to protect this place, I don't regret it. β
"Smack. β
The housewife slapped Leo, who looked at her in disbelief as he covered his face.
"No matter what you say, you can still have a way to live, how can you accompany us to die? We have lived for a long time, and death is not terrible to us. However, you are just a child, and you have only lived a little bit of life, and you have not enjoyed love, so it is so unfair to you to die like this. β
"I ....... β
"Don't you want to enjoy love? Don't you want to belong?
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"Alright, Hera, don't get excited, and you, Leo. Don't your Aunt Hera off, go back. Think about what your Aunt Hera said today. β
The man intervened to stop the housewife's movements, telling Leo to hurry back.
"Get out? That's impossible. β
Leo walked quietly on the road, he had already made up his mind, no matter what the people in the village said, he would not leave here. Because, only here, is his only home. To do this, he has to become stronger.
At night, on the outskirts of the village. Leo was practicing his recently researched new move, and in a flash of dazzling brilliance, a sword made of a substance like water appeared in Leo's hand.
"Well, there's nothing wrong with the water element, let's look at the other elements. β
As soon as the words fell, the brilliance flickered again, turning into an earth-colored sword.
"It seems that all the elements are fine, so the next question is the combination. β
As soon as he exerted force in his hand, the sword in his hand shattered at once.
"Okay, then there's the combination. β
A sword continued to appear in his hand, except that this sword differed from the previous two in that it came in two colors. This sword is Leo's unique way of using magic developed by Leo after discussing with the demons in the village and combining his own situation. Because Leo's body has surpassed ordinary people after being transformed, but his affinity for the elements is only moderate. However, although his affinity for the elements is not high, he has the affinity of all the elements, which means that he can use any series of magic, but he can't use too high-level magic. And that sword was condensed by him with the elements.
He also discovered that a sword condensed with multiple elements would have greater strength than a sword condensed with a single element, and could carry some very interesting characteristics. Just like the composite magic on the continent, a sword condensed with two elements will have the same properties as the composite magic.
"However, with some of the power of the demons, I can actually use the magic of the light system, and Aunt Hera is not afraid of the magic of the light system at all. So, is the message I've been hearing that the demons are afraid of light magic fake? What is the Holy See hiding from us?"
Under the boring practice, Leo's condensed things in his hands were not only swords, but also axes, guns, double swords, bows, staffs, and knives...... He tried it and so on, and when he felt that the time was about the same, he went back to his room to rest. But at this moment, in the forest outside the village, a dark shadow watched from the depths.
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