Chapter 15: Nothing to do

Three days after that night. Everyone with Alamennia's side moved off from Letz.

It took full 13 days of travelling from there to their destination. Hiding the local knights who took over the available routes and checkpoints. They can't just complain more since this is the only their choice.

"This is Luinus cave mine. This is will be our new base. Alan..., Miltinna, I'd like you to stay here in this place from now on. You are still kids, I don't want you to go around in this place without us."

""Okay.""

The cave was used to be a mineral mine owned by previous 4 generations of Letz local government as one of the source of income of the town, but it was now an abandoned mine due to the mine itself rans out of minable materials.

Facing south of the mountain ridge and the view of the sea is visible in the horizon and several trees surrounded the cave, making it a natural fortress.

It is old and messy but it's wooden entrance and its foundation are still in pristine condition.

The maids begin to clean up the

All of them, except for the pair, unpack their things and set up their tents inside the cave as a temporary shelter for sleeping. The cooks setting up their kitchenwares, tools, and stuffs like installing a vent for an exhaust with the help of carpenters. Masons, Blacksmiths, Cloth makers, and various workers doing their work to make the base as a functional headquarters and a hideout.

Several of defected local knights that was serving Alamennia setting up their own barracks, barricading the front of the cave.

After many days later, their HQ is now functioning. The cave mine was renovated completely for their own use.

Since the two youngsters has nothing to do, all they can is to practice a stick art.

"Then, Miltinna. We continue our practice routine."

"Okay~"

They both went to a nearby tree to pick up a fallen branch beside it, three heavy sticks and a slim stick of the same length around a meter. Alan hand over a pair of heavy sticks to Miltinna and he hold the remaining sticks.

"Don't go easy on me okay?"

"Hum hum~"

The pair begin their training as usual.

Their sticks swings back and forth, the drill itself is similar to a martial art called Kali. Actually, they exchange their moves so fast but in the eyes of others, it was slow.

"Hey look at them. Why they are so slow?"

"Dunno."

"..."

Alamennia's young knights take their gaze on the two youngsters, spiting them for being so slow. Meanwhile, the old and veteran ones noticed the oddness of the two youngsters, their eyes are fixed at the pair sticks swinging back and forth, and feel the faint presence of magic from the two youngsters.

It wasn't slow, it was fast. So fast that normal people would see it as slow.

The old and veteran knights coldly sweats as they feel the heavy blows that the two youngsters inflict to themselves.

"..."

They still stare with silence as they want to focus more on the battle, though it's just training for Alan and Miltinna, and learn the stick art that they cannot shamelessly ask the kids to teach it for their own satisfaction.

A young knight approaches the two youngsters slowly swinging their sticks, but the moment he gets close to the youngsters, his feet collapsed without any signs of attacks.

"Wha!!"

After that happened, nobody approaches the youngsters.

The pair of youngsters continued their drills until night, which the veterans became more suspicious about their doing.

They didn't noticed the veterans being afraid to them since they are too immersed by their Kali-like drill.

•

8 days has passed, Everything was peaceful, or so they thought.

Letz has been in hell since they left that place. The local knights of Letz recklessly destroying properties of every people, whether it is a commoner or a noble, they are doing everything in their power to find the former lord and the daughter of the Juyatt prince.

Things becomes worse in the Principality Kingdoms of Hrathiae and Pitha. The divided country becomes more divided since the princes come up together to merge their nations but it severely backfired.

Their kings and queens are useless and just a mere figure of their own nations, having no power in the throne.

The real people who controls are the corrupted nobles who made their own nation to fall, making the rulers of themselves.

Since then, 3 years ago, their nation began to crumble in the dust.

•

"When?"

"When what?"

"When this hellish war will end? I wanna go home."

"..."

To hide the suspicions of what happened that night, Alan pretend himself to think like a kid, a "normal" one.

Being too obnoxious, Alamennia stares at him with a disgusting look, knowing he is playing around.

Miltinna on the other hand, was helping on the kitchen work inside of the cave where she can fully use her cooking potential since Alan help her to cook good meals.

"You don't had to pretend like that, Alan. Even though you are a kid, I admit that you do act more like an adult man."

(hmm? Is she hitting on me or that's just a compliment.)

"I'll take that as a compliment, Miss former lord."

Hearing that, Alamennia grunts at Alan.

"Then, I'm sorry for asking for this but can you tell Miltinna that I'll go for a while? I just wanna go around. Please?"

Alamennia doesn't want Alan to go around somewhere because of danger that local knights becoming more aggressive of their actions. But after clearing up her doubts in her mind, she reluctantly agreed to Alan but with a condition.

"I agree but... don't go too far away. You're still young. Why did I say that? Ahem! Anyways, take care of yourself and return immediately after you're done with your games."

"Thank you very much, Miss Alamennia."

Then he bows at Alamennia.

Sometime later, since Alan has nothing to do at all, he went somewhere around the mine surrounded by the rocky terrains that shrouded with the magic shield spell that was set up by the magicians who were hired by Alamennia.