Chapter 27. The beginning of the journey.
It has been two months since Gildarts and Eros returned to the guild. During this time, Gildarts completely paid off the fine and now lives a quiet life, spending as much time as possible with his daughter. Eros was also not deprived of attention and in two months he learned even better to handle the magic of destruction and even created his own spell.
Eros called his spell the Sphere of Destruction and this is not an attacking magic, but a protective one. With the help of the power of destruction, he created a barrier around his body that did not pass a single spell through himself. Although Gildarts easily broke this barrier without making any effort, but if the titan concentrates all his magical power in defense, then even the older magician will need to at least try to break it. And magicians of the A-rank in general with this barrier will not be able to do anything, they simply will not have enough strength to break through it.
Now Eros has at least two protective spells, which could not but rejoice.
In the runes, Eros has not made much progress yet, but he still tried to advance to the level of the master as quickly as possible.
As for the items that Eros "took" from the demon, there was no progress. He never figured out how to remove the binding, and he could not turn to people doing this for one reason: because the only master in this matter worked for the council and if you turn to him with such a request, then the authorities will know about it, and they will immediately begin interrogation in order to find out where such a pretty boy got hold of not a weak artifact ... And the merry-go-rounds, which Eros did not want to experience, will begin. And if you remove the binding by force, then the artifact will lose at least 20% of its strength, so Eros decided to figure it out himself and remove the binding with minimal losses.
With the book, he never figured out, no matter what Eros did, she did not react in any way, but he still did not give up this business, since his sense of dignity was hurt and he wanted to cope with this problem himself.
During this time, Rick also managed to advance and officially become an A-rank mage. He was even offered a place among the Runic Knights with a promotion two years later to the officer corps, but he refused.
Lily, on the other hand, completed an internship with Polyushka. For almost a month Eros begged the old woman to take her as a student, but she flatly refused, so the titan came to her almost every day and got her with this request and could not stand it, she agreed. And in a month, the girl moved very far, although she returned a little nervous and constantly shuddered only when she heard about Polyushka.
Roni didn't gain strength, but his cooking skills were simply incredible. Everyone in the guild idolizes him and even the master did not stand aside.
***
And then the day has come, Eros and the company leave the guild. Almost the entire guild, headed by Makarov, went out to see them off. Still, it was sad to leave the place that had become like home this year.
- Eros, I will not try to stop you, because I know that it is useless, - Makarov said in a firm voice, - But know that you can come back at any moment, eh shpanyo, you make the old man sad.
- Thank you, - for this year, Eros became very attached to everyone, and the old man replaced him with his grandfather, whom he never had, so he was very moved by Makarov's words.
- Take care of yourself kids! And come back soon! - said Macao proudly looking at Rick and Roni.
- Eros, remember what we talked about last night, - Gildarts said, smiling, holding the sobbing Kana by the hand.
- I remember the teacher, I will use this "magic" only as a last resort.
- Okay.
- Brother, can you stay? - looking into the compassionate eyes of the girl, who will easily give odds to the cat from Shrek, it was hard for Eros to answer "no".
- Cana, - he sat down on one knee and stroked her head, - I'm leaving well for a maximum of 5-6 years, you won't have time to notice it, - the titan said with a soft smile, - So, stop being sad.
On the other hand, poor Roni was surrounded by a large crowd.
- Mr. Roni, please stay!
- How are we going to live without your food ?!
- Don't leave us!
Roni himself was very embarrassed by this absurd situation. Yet, he never thought that he, a former dark magician, would be seen off like that. But the magician was very happy, because everyone recognized his talent.
Rick stood a little to the right of Ronnie. Among those who accompanied him, most of them were female, which made Lily very angry, and her murderous look made the poor boy tremble.
When the crowd finally released them, they were able to breathe a sigh of relief.
- Master, then we went.
- Thank you for everything! The four of them answered in unison, bowing to Makarov.
- Eh, bastard! - Tearing, said the old man, - Go already.
Smiling, they walked towards the exit from Magnolia.
- GOOD LUCK TO YOU!
- WE'LL BE WAITING FOR YOU!
- COME BACK SOON!
***
After leaving the territory of the city of Magnolia, they headed north.
- You did not enlighten us in your plan.
- I forgot, - with a sly smile, stretched Eros, - Well, if so listen. I plan to devote 5-7 years to travel. Over the next two years, we are going to bypass the whole Kingdom of Fiore, at the same time becoming stronger and will look for future guild members - "And also earn money, not in a very honest way, robbing and destroying gangs ..." - but this titan decided to hide this he will study alone in two years, - And after these two years, we will disperse, you will stay in Fiore, continuing to look for potential guild members, and I am going to visit other countries.
- Hmm ... Maybe then we'd better go to other countries together? It will be much safer if we are together.
- I agree with Rick, - Ronnie nodded.
- No, I can protect myself, - realizing that I said stupidity, continued, - And I don't consider you weak, it's just that if I'm alone, I won't have to worry about anyone, and if I suddenly have to run away, it will be much easier to do alone. Still, I'm not the strongest magician.
- If you say so… Okay.
- What countries are you going to visit?
- Stella, Seven and Bosco, as well as Joy if there is time.
- I think I understood why you chose these countries, - Lily said thoughtfully, - I read somewhere that Bosco has the best masters of artifacts, in Seven there is a Purple Flame guild dealing with runes, but why go to Stella and Joya?
- Well done, apparently you have not only read the books that I advised, - Eros nodded rather, embarrassing the girl, - Yes, you are right, about those two, about Stella, this is only because on the way, but about Joy, I probably won't say anything, it is unlikely that you will be interested.
From one of the merchants, Eros learned that there is a civil war in Joya. No, the titanium is not going to participate in it, but you can profit from it a little, for example, by selling your services. Or maybe she will participate, it would be nice to get a good gratitude from the winner. But Eros has not yet decided what to do, which side to take. Therefore, if he has time to visit Joya, he will try to get to know the whole situation better.
- You will stay in Fiore, continuing to search for mages who want to join our guild.
- Okay, - Rick said listlessly.
- There is nothing to take offense at me, in the future you yourself will be able to visit other countries, for example, performing S-rank missions, because quite often they come from other countries.
- I'm not offended! - the boy answered pouting.
- If so, then let's go, our next stop is the city of Hargeon.
- Eros, why didn't we rent the manokat? - Roni asked in bewilderment, - After all, it would be faster to get to Hargeon on it.
- Eh ... you do not understand all the forest romance, because it is much more interesting to walk, see the beauty of nature, look at the sunset, sit by the fire telling horror stories, see animals close up ...
- I understood everything, understood! - Roni exclaimed, - Don't go on.
Rick and Lily laughed when they saw the chef's frown.
- If so, then let's go!
***
They reached the city only a week later. The pace with which they walked was very slow, and frequent stops slowed them down, but no one said anything against it, because where should they rush? During these days, they were also attacked twice, but mostly they were ordinary people, not magicians, who think that they are easy prey, and then the robbers very much regretted it.
During this week, they received almost half a million precious ones. By robbing the robbers and handing them over to the authorities. When the three Eros companions saw how much they earned, their eyes lit up. Eros himself was not very surprised, because they were just lucky, since one of the groups that attacked them had not yet spent all the stolen money, and this is almost two hundred and fifty thousand and having passed that group, they received another two hundred thousand. After all, there was an order for her from some nobleman. As Eros understood that it was this group who killed the brother of the customer, but he could not catch them, so he gave the task to catch them.
Arriving in the city of Hargeon, they immediately rented two rooms in the hotel for three days, as long as they planned to stay in the city. The four split up, going in different directions. Eros immediately set his sights on the city library and, for a fee, got access to it for three days. Rick and Lily went for a walk around the city. As soon as they arrived, Roni went to the pier to buy fresher fish and promised a delicious dinner.