Divine Beast Tamer - Chapter 32：Assassins(1)

After Freya fought with the Earth Qilin, she returned to Ronald’s head and slept in there, not caring about her surroundings anymore.

But at this moment, a notification popped up in front of Ronald, greatly startling him.

– Congratulations, Freya entered an enlightenment state.

“Luna, what is an enlightenment state?”

Ronald asked Luna mentally, as he didn’t want to be branded by the word crazy by the two women in front of him.

“Enlightenment state is a state where a being enters a very deep meditation, in this state the being cannot be disturbed by the outside world, or should I say, all the senses of the being on an enlightened state will be blocked, and they wouldn’t be able to perceive the things that happened in the outside world. This may be sometimes detrimental to other situations, but entering an enlightenment state would cause the skill proficiency level of the one who entered it to increase at a very quick speed.”, Luna answered with a lazy tone.

“Then what should I do?”

“Just let Freya continue in that state and just wait for her to naturally wake up, as it is very hard to enter that state. If it wasn’t Freya, this may be their first or maybe their last time that they could enter the enlightenment state, but I doubt that this would be Freya’s last. Entering the enlightenment state may be a rare occurrence for most creatures in this world, but for those who have the blood of a dragon with a purity of above 25% would have a greater chance of entering the enlightenment state when they sleep.”

Luna paused a bit before she continued, “Many knew that Dragons love to sleep, but they didn’t know the reason why they love it. Dragons are sleeping most of the time not because they are always sleepy, it is because every time a dragon sleeps, the dragon would then enter an enlightenment state. That is also one of the reasons why dragons are very strong even if they are just in there infancy stage.”

“Then how can you determine the purity of a bloodline?”, Ronald asked in doubt as he didn’t hear anything about bloodline purity.

“Ronald, Thank you for saving us.”, Lily said with a sincere tone.

Hearing Lily’s voice, Ronald came out of his thoughts and finally noticed Lily in front of him.

“Ah, It’s nothing.”, Ronald humbly replied.

“Uhm, Ronald would you mind escorting us out of this forest? You see Arisa was heavily injured, and I’m a healer, not a fighter, therefore, if we encounter even just a spirit beast out there, our life would be in danger.”, Lily asked Ronald with a pleading expression.

But before Ronald could reply her, Arisa who could barely stand and was supporting herself by using her sword to stand said, “No, we don’t need his protection, I can still fight and even defeat a spirit beast, I just need some time to rest a …”

But Arisa didn’t have a chance to continue what she was about to say as Lily shouted at her with teary eyes, “Would you lower that pride of yours just this once? I know you are the genius sword princess, but for now, you are just a heavily wounded person, with no one whom you can call for support. Our messenger bird also died during the Earth Qilin’s rampage, so we can’t contact the kingdom to request for help, and this place is still far to the outskirt of the forest. We still need to travel for 4 days even if we run before we can reach the village.”

By the time Lily finished what she was saying, she was already crying, which cause Arisa to stay silent.

“I really wanted to go back home now.”

Lily and Arisa came from the same kingdom. While Arisa was the princess of the kingdom, Lily was the only daughter of a grand duke. Both of them have different likes and dislikes, but they still became close friends. Arisa looked cold on the outside, but she was a hot-blooded girl who liked to fight in the inside, this was also the cause of her fiery temper, but for some unknown reasons she tried to hide her real personality to the public, only Lily and those that are close to her knew of this.

Different from Arisa, Lily was a very gentle person and liked to live in peace. She doesn’t like battles or any other things that would cause destruction that was why she choose to be a healer and not a water magician despite her strong talent in water magic. She was also considered as a genius on par with Arisa as she was the first person in the empire to derive life magic from water magic in just 2 days after her coming of age ceremony which was unprecedented within the history of the kingdom, this also caused the color of her turning into green.

After crying for some time, Lily calmed down and looked at Ronald with a pleading look.

“Will you help us, please?”, Lily asked again and paused a second before she continued as she felt that Ronald would deny her request through his eyes. “Though I don’t know what happened between Arisa and You, and we aren’t that close at all for you to grant my request, please do consider helping us, don’t worry, after we reached the town we will give you a huge reward.”

Ronald was really planning to deny Lily’s request as he planned to find a suitable place for him to stay for a while.

When Luna said that Freya shouldn’t be disturbed while she was in an enlightenment state, Ronald thought of the cave where they stayed. But the cave was very far from this place so he thought that he could just find another one and hid there. Ronald also thought of putting Freya on the beast storage, but he knew that Freya didn’t like being inside the beast storage. So he had no other choice but to find a suitable place to stay for a while and wait for Freya to finish her enlightenment but seeing Lily’s crying face and pleading expression, Ronald felt conflicted.

Any man that would see Lily’s face would want to protect her, and Ronald was no exception.

Silence came upon them for a moment as Ronald thought of things before Ronald broke the silence by sighing and nodded his head.