PATH OF THE STAR HUNTER

Desmond, who had woken up early just like this prosperous border town, now found himself watching this scene from the window of his room on the fourth floor of the luxurious inn where he and Sasha were staying.

Desmond kept looking out the window as if he expected something in particular to happen, meanwhile with his right hand he repeated over and over the strange exercise that Sasha had seen him do with water mana, this didn′t seem to have changed a bit but if you take a closer look you will realize that every time Desmond caused ripples in the water stream; these seemed more controlled and frequent, almost. . . even.

At a certain point, the scenario occurred in which the surface of the water in his hand was in a constant state of controlled agitation where the waves were not only uniform in size but also came with an even and constant rhythm.

Desmond observed this phenomenon with a slight smile as the mana in his body began to stir slowly, little by little mimicking the phenomenon in his hand, but when Desmond was about to succeed something outside of the window caught his attention

Desmond was not upset with the future interruption coming his way as he was confident that with the realization he had a few moments ago he should be able to easily finish what he wanted to do, as well as observing the small group of well-adorned knights walking at the inn in his direction, Desmond knew it was time to move on to the next part of his plan.

The only problem right now was the girl sleeping on the bed placidly without a care in the world, so letting out a helpless sigh Desmond proceeded to wake up this sleepy alchemist while preparing some of the new clothes for Sasha to get dressed.

By the time Desmond managed to get Sasha to wake up, the knights had already arrived at the building, so Desmond only asked Sasha to dress in the clothes he had prepared, Sasha in her half-asleep state only obediently nodded as she watched Desmond leave the room.

As he left the room, Desmond stood in front of the door in a vigilant posture with both hands on the pommel of his daggers, giving a serious and stoic impression, Desmond at this moment completely gave the impression of being a knight guarding the door for his mistress.

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It was only a couple of minutes before the same small group consisting of three knights climbed the stairs and then walked in Desmond′s direction, seeing this, Desmond did not hesitate to change his posture slightly from being simply on guard to be in a position ready to draw his daggers and start the fight.

Seeing this two of the knights did not take it very well when they went for their swords, but were quickly stopped by their leader who stopped a couple of meters from Desmond with both hands away from his weapons.

′′ We do not come with bad intentions, as you will see we are knights of the city, we come in the name of the lord of the city to invite your young lady to have tea this afternoon and maybe talk about business; I’m sure your young lady will be interested. ′′ Exclaimed the leading knight with courtesy.

Hearing the knight’s words, Desmond seemed to relax just a little, but kept his posture on guard as he responded to the invitation with some caution:

′′ My young lady is getting ready at this time so I am afraid that you will have to wait until she is ready to leave, as for your invitation I will communicate it to my young lady, but I cannot promise to agree; I’m just her bodyguard after all. ′′

The two accompanying guards did not seem happy with Desmond′s answer, it seemed that they believed that it was already an honor for Desmond and Sasha to be invited to the mansion of the lord of the city, Desmond could only shake his head internally at their attitude; these idiots seemed to want Desmond to just drag Sasha out to greet them regardless of whether or not she was dressed appropriately.

But unlike the unreasonable attitude of the pair of idiots, the leader of their group seemed to be much more adept at handling these kinds of situations with a more appropriate social tact, at least with this kind of leader the pair of idiots would save themselves from offending someone they could not permit offense in the future.

In the end, Sasha left the room in a beautiful and somewhat ostentatious light green Victorian dress, it gave her a slightly flirty glamorous look, the dress despite the style was not too voluminous so it allowed Sasha to show off the natural curves of her body making her look great.

Desmond just looked at her with an appreciative look for a second before approaching her and passing her the message from the knight′s, Sasha who did not know how to handle the situation ended up letting Desmond handle all of it in her name; at the end of the day, this was Desmond’s plan, not hers.

So after agreeing calmly Desmond approached the soldiers to tell them that his mistress had agreed to see the lord of the city, it took only a few minutes to get from the inn to the mansion of the lord of the city; but it was enough for Sasha to feel uncomfortable with the inconsiderate look that knights gave her, she really wasn’t used to having many people around her.

Upon arriving at the mansion they were quickly greeted by the lord of the city who with great enthusiasm began his own monologue about how wonderful the city was and how blessed he felt with the presence of such a wonderfully beautiful woman like Sasha.

It was really annoying for both Desmond and Sasha, but they were forced to socialize a bit before the city lord revealed his intentions:

′′ Seeing how glamorous the young lady is, I can see that she comes from an illustrious family, I wonder if she has no interest in investing in a city as prosperous as Kalmerá is. ′′

Truly a hypocritical nobleman, he clearly knows that they have come laden with money since they were invited here after hearing the news of two new people in town spending mithril coins like there is no tomorrow.

′′ My young lady is still inexperienced in business matters, but as her assigned guardian I am authorized to communicate such matters to the main family, but I would not want to waste my master’s time without having heard at least a little about what it proposes. ′′

Taking a step forward Desmond intervened before Sasha brought out both, Desmond tried to appear as formal as possible and chose his words carefully before speaking; Not that he had much of a choice as he didn’t really know the proper manners of the nobility.

The lord of the city found Desmond’s intervention a bit strange, but seeing that Sasha did not say anything to correct him, he could only keep his mouth shut about it, in the end, the conversation took a rather uncomfortable turn when Desmond began to question the noble about the current situation in the city and rumors about the curse of the witch’s forest.

As much as he tries to avoid the subject, Desmond insisted saying that they would not invest hundreds of mithril coins in a city with unknown variables and although he said it calmly, the amount of money he spoke about made the lord of the city tremble enough that he ended up revealing enough information about the current situation in the city.

Having obtained what they came for, Desmond used the excuse of having to communicate the matter to the main family to leave the place, but as soon as they left the mansion of the lord of the city Desmond realized that someone was following them.

′′ They don′t even try to hide it, I don′t know if they′re newbies or they just don′t care. ′′