"Wait."
The two boys immediately stopped with a confused expression on their faces.
"What's wrong? Why do we have to stop. We are almost at the town."
"Come out already. Don't think I haven't seen you there in the bushes on the left."
After a while, a man with a black mask on his face walked out of the bushes. You could only see his blue eyes.
"Not just you, the other two too."
Two other bulky men stepped before the trio besides the first man.
"Your money or your life!" the man with the blue eyes said arrogantly with his arms crossed.
"You three are only ordinary people so you can't defeat us. I am only 22 and already a tier 2 level 2 mage. And the two men besides me are both rank 2 level 9 peak brawlers."
"You sure like to brag. Kids, get behind me. I'll handle those three." and right after he said that, the mysterious young man casted a spell.
"Energy Wave"
An invisible energy spread out like a wave and moved towards the ambushers.
The brawlers crossed their arms after sensing danger. The blue eyed mage between them cast a barrier.
"Fire Defense"
However, the defensive barrier didn't even last a second and the wave of energy cut it like a hot knife cutting through butter.
The mage couldn't even scream before he desintegrated in particles of light while the brawlers could last not much longer before meeting the same end.
Tyler and John had to throw up seeing someone die. Even though there was no blood, they were only children.
After they were done, they continued their journey to the town of Oakheart. But Tyler and John still had a sickly expression and were pale.
After fifteen minutes, they reached the town.
'It isn't big, but I can see that the soil is quite fertile. And using my "Röntgen Vision", I can even see expensive and rare ore veins in the ground. After a couple of centuries, this town will be wealthy. Should I invest in this town or not?
I think giving them some seeds that could grow fruits with mana in it. That way, there will be more mages to protect them.'
"Bring this to your leader and say that Dazhar has given this. It is a seed that has a chance to make someone a tier 1 level 1 mage after consuming. I will be going away tomorrow, but I will come back someday." Dazhar, the mysterious young man, said after giving a bag of seeds to John.
John was in a daze hearing this, he had never heard of such a fruit. But then again, who exactly is he?
After coming back to his senses, Dazhar was already out of sight.
"He is gone already?"
"No, he just went into The Juicy Bat Inn to book a room to sleep for the night."
After paying 6 copper coins for a room for one night and breakfast the next day, Dazhar went into his room to think about his next plans.
'So first up is going to a big city and go to a library to find out more about the current era. I don't have more on my 'must do list'.
During my past life, I never had the chance to go to school or any magic academy, so I would like to go there. I look like a young man so that should be alright.
Well, that's it for now. I can always add more later.
It's getting late now. I am going to bed now and tomorrow after breakfast, I'll leave immediately.
I don't know where to go, but I'll just fly over the forest and I'll find something. That should be fun.'
Meanwhile in the residence of the mayor of Oakheart, Tyler and John stood in front of the mayor.
"So a young man called Dazhar gave you this? And he said that this could create mages?"
"Y- yes, that's what he told us." Tyler said while looking at his feet and twitching his fingers behind his back.
"Well, I don't believe he'll do us any harm. Considering how he killed those bandits, he must have a good heart. He could have left you two behind and ran, but he didn't."
"It's late. Are we allowed to leave my lord?"
"Ah yes, go ahead. A good sleep does wonders after all."