Chapter 20 : 4 years, Ira's past

" My lord this, this ignorant child has some responsibilities, that has to be finished, when he completes those, he will follow lord along his journey till the ends. "

"Is this how you plan to refusing my decision, are you ready to face the consequences ".

That bony monarchs tone was so dominating that, Mark had nearly fainted from its pressure.

"Fuck... , let you savour my soul, hey....., this isn't some cheap Tofu's that can be bought from a street vendor, that's my soul dammit," he wants to say out loud but he can't.

"Maybe being a little kid you may had acted on your little impulses, this lord is not so forgiving all the times, this lord shall return back again after 4 years, and if you were still reluctant to let your being follow this lord, I hope you understand the consequence that you will have to face .

Before that bony monarch was about to leave, Mark had asked him a question which was quite surprising to him.

" I have a doubt, this phenomenon that had been casted by this lord.... , does lord governs over laws of time.'

Mark was really curious as he knows that the system had warned him to not choose laws of time, as he would be chased by god's, till the ends of the world to kill him.

" laws of time...., no ! this lord had used an advanced version of laws of space, it had taken few thousand of years for this lord to master this ability, this lord had a hunch that little boy can grasp all my abilities in a few hundreds of years, so think we'll before you answer, I would return back in 4 years.

Before that bony monarch was about to leave and had returned back to his own place, he had handed over a magical artifact, which upon breakage will summon him at once, and his summon would indicate that Mark was willing to go with him.

Just after the bony monarch had left, the surroundings had returned back to normal, the leaves which had been stilled up in air had fallen down, birds started to flap their wings to fly and move forward, the villagers which had bowed down has raised , Mark expression was as if he had regained his life back.

After asking few questions to villagers, he found that he was nearly unconscious for five days and the beautiful women that had nursed him, her name was "Ira", yes a short name, as only nobles were allowed to have a family name, in these chaotic dog eat dog world .

He went to the place where she was taking rest, her hands were fractured and unlike mark that had high cultivation and large reserves of mana that can heal himself fast, she was just an ordinary low level villager, other than her medical skills and her body that was beautiful she can be considered an ordinary villager.

He later asked her a question, why was the village suffering when there was a expert who had saved him, that mysterious expert's level might not be lower than that of the special Knights, the villagers would not had suffered much as his level was not any less than that of an overlord that governed on these regions much more than those guards that came to make a mess at their place.

She started to tell, how she had found him and what are the events that took place when he was unconscious.

"That day.... , when I was returning back to the village, after I had finished picking up the medicinal herbs, I had founded an hooded person who was wearing a mask carrying a small kid behind his back, he looked extremely tired and was nearly drenched of blood."

"Was that little kid he was carrying, me....," Mark was confused Why Was he, so protected by her and he can't help but exclaim out.

" Yes.....,and had I helped him to reach near the clinic, I was ready to treat his injuries first as his wounds were worse than that were sustained by you, but he was pleading to treat your injuries first, tough you were injured, you can still live out for few more days, but still I did not want to waste too much time arguing with him so I decided to heal your injuries first."

"Then what happened to that mysterious expert, how did he looked like, did he had any noticeable features on his body to be able to recognize him". Mark was curious to know about that mysterious expert that had saved him.

she started to say all that she could remember about, " well...., that petsonhad many stabbed wounds on his back and few burned marks, after healing you I was depleted of my mana, so i wanted to disinfect his wounds and to bandage him, so I can treat him after i had recovered of mana , but....., after removing his robes...., it seems that your mysterious expert was a young lady, beautiful and fair skin, she had weird green eyes and her hair was snow white in colour, she was using some magic artifact to change her voice, probably looked as a lady from a prestigious family."

" What...., a lady....., I'm not from a royal family or any prestigious family to deserve a protection from nobles."

"But, shorty after I had bandaged her wounds she regained her consciousness and started to run away, before she had left, she said to take good care of you.

She said she'll act as a bait and lure the enemies that can track you, by running away from the village, carrying away your robes. "

Mark was confused the more he listens to her explanation the more he started to get confused , who was that mysterious experts, why was that person a young lady, why did she protect me, and really who am I.

Ira started to say about her powers, " ever since I was a child , i was able to heal injuries at places that I had touched, villagers called it a blessing that very few would receive from God's, so I decided to utilise this blessing by helping my villagers by opening a clinic.

" Many people were interested in obtaining my powers for their use, there were many people who tried to court me until John Wade from Wade family started to get interested in me, he tried many times using his family background to pressure me, but I had always refused as I know that he was not trying to develop any love with me or interested in my body, but he had lusted over my blessing, which could help him in gaining more support from his family where he could become the head easily as he knew that blessings were not cabbages that could be obtained from market, easily .

Since his persuasion was not successful he tried to abduct me, he took our taxes but had not registered it over at his family, waited for few months when the extension time was over, he took his guards surrounded us and he started to ask for taxes from us again, like you know what happened after that right, young hero ".

"Unfortunately, he killed out our village Chief.....," by that time her eyes turned red, tears were started to dwell down from her eyes, even if she want to wipe away her tears, her hands were already fractured and she was not able to bring up enough energy to lift her hands to wipe her tears away, she was unable to control her emotions even in front of a little child, Mark hugged her and tried to console her, she cried like a kid under Mark's embrace.

Author's notes :

Characters introduced :

1. Ira = the beautiful women who nursed John.

2. Mysterious expert= a Lady with green eyes who saved Mark.