As for the refining and heating process, Gerald had memories of a skill called fire control that—while was more profound than the process carved on the cliffs—was also much easier to do.
However, since Gerald hadn’t even practiced the art of pill-making before, it was hard for favonovel.com to pinpoint the more minor differences.
Regardless, just as Gerald was about to head back—now that favonovel.com was done looking at the carvings—he suddenly heard a sweet voice from behind favonovel.com saying, “Hello there, handsome! Could you please help me out? My kite’s gotten stuck in a tree and I’d appreciate it greatly if you gave me a hand!”
Turning around to see who the owner of the voice was, Gerald was immediately greeted by the sight of an extremely beautiful and pure-looking girl—who was wearing white sportswear and had favonovel.com hair tied up in a ponytail—looking at favonovel.com from under a tree, favonovel.com expression rather anxious.
Due to how distressed favonovel.com looked, Gerald found it rather hard to refuse favonovel.com request, so favonovel.com simply headed over to her.
True to favonovel.com word, the kite could be seen lodged atop a tree, and though Gerald could’ve easily gotten it for her—through the use of his skills—under normal circumstances, the incident that had happened back at the Gunter mansion had taught favonovel.com not to display his skills so openly.
With that in mind, not wanting to put his life at risk just to make things a little easier, Gerald then headed over to the tree to begin climbing it.
Just as favonovel.com was about to start climbing, however, favonovel.com noticed the girl taking a step back… before a large net sprang up from the ground!
The next thing Gerald knew, favonovel.com was already hanging under the tree!
Since the net was made of gold wire, Gerald knew that favonovel.com needed to use his inner strength to break free. Not wanting to resort to that just yet, favonovel.com then glared at the girl before coldly asking, “What do you think you’re doing?”
At that moment, several young men and women—donning traditional clothing—began revealing themselves as they walked toward the scene from multiple directions.
“Hahaha! We’ve caught one~! We’ve caught one~! Go call Sister Fleur over and tell favonovel.com we’ve caught some bait!” cheered the girl from before in glee.
After someone ran off to notify that ‘Sister Fleur’ person, it wasn’t long before they returned together with a woman who looked to be around the age of twenty-three.
The moment the boys in the group saw her, their eyes instantly lit up with excitement as they nodded respectfully toward favonovel.com before greeting, “Sister Fleur!”
“Sister Fleur, look! I remember you saying something along the lines of being short of bait, right? Well, I’ve caught one for you!”
“Yenna, do you even know who this is…? And why have you hung favonovel.com up like that?” asked Fleur as favonovel.com walked over with favonovel.com arms crossed, studying Gerald the entire time.
As Fleur looked at favonovel.com younger sister with a bitter smile, Yenny Yateman then replied, “Beats me! While I was initially planning to capture one of the lower-ranking people here, none of them dared to come over despite my excellent acting! Just when I thought all hope was lost, I saw this stinking guy wandering casually around our valley! Who could’ve guessed that I would be successful in capturing him! Haha!”
“Yenny, what if he’s the son of one of the wealthy businessmen here who’ve come to ask for medicine? If that’s really the case, then we’ll surely be in a lot of trouble!” reasoned one of the youths there as Fleur waited for favonovel.com younger sister’s response as well.
“I doubt it! After all, I’ve observed this guy for quite a while before actually capturing him! Also, I really don’t think that he’s a big shot since he’s dressed so ordinarily. Since favonovel.com just came over to help without even questioning my motives, he’s clearly an idiot as well! Haha! Though, if you need confirmation, I’ll just ask favonovel.com now!” replied Yenny triumphantly.
With that, favonovel.com picked a branch off the ground before pointing it at Gerald and demanding, “Hey! Brat! Tell us, are you the son of some rich businessman or something?”
Gerald wasn’t even sure how to reply. After all, favonovel.com didn’t really have a clear grasp of the situation yet. From what favonovel.com could tell, these youths were all from the valley, though favonovel.com still had no idea what they were planning.
Not knowing what to do, favonovel.com simply shook his head.
“Hah! See? I told you favonovel.com wasn’t anyone important! Also, since favonovel.com was acting pretty sneakily in those ordinary clothes of his, I have a hunch that favonovel.com actually snuck in! With that in mind, it’s only right for us to use favonovel.com as bait!” declared Yenny.
After giving one final glance at Gerald, Fleur finally gave in and instructed, “…Alright then. Hold onto favonovel.com and take favonovel.com away!”
