CHAPTER 28: THE THREE CAN DISAPPEAR
Time continued to pass normally, Adrián had left the fog taking care of the house, so he would warn him of any abnormality that happened. He had complete confidence in the mist, so he could continue to practice full-time inside Apothecary Gu's tent.
Soon a full month passed, Adrian had practiced more than a thousand times trying to refine pills, although it seemed easy, it was very difficult.
The wrong ratio could provoke an immediate reaction.
It had been several times that he had asked Apothecary Gu for a new class, but his coins were running out faster than he thought.
However, he did not give up, little by little he began to decipher and make mistakes much less.
Adrián had to do everything possible to be able to learn.
At that time he could also see Bai Guoer's parents, and they also saw him, none of them said a word to each other.
Adrian was attentive to every move that the other could make, his dagger was prepared for any attack.
They just smiled bitterly as they left.
After they left, Adrian wanted to prepare for another routine day in his studies.
Suddenly, however, he received news of the fog.
When he felt this call, he immediately left the store.
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"Hahahahaha! Because they defy the lord of the city!"
"Today we will burn this ranch!"
"Everyone make sure you kill that old man and his family!"
Standing outside the ranch, a bunch of guards were gathered in total there were more than thirty, they all had different characteristics, but there were two who stood out, they showed a power of the seventh level of Qi condensation, and they were the leaders of that group of guards.
"Get out of my home! We have never been disrespectful to the lord of the city! We just want you to let our grandson go free!"
The voice of an angry old woman was shown, while behind her, the grandfather was on the floor being held by Grandson Ma.
Grandpa was supposing blood from his mouth, as he looked at the guards, he never thought that the city lord was so irrational.
"Kill that old lady for insulting our lord!" – The first leader shouted loudly, at that moment, two guards moved, both from the third level of Qi condensation.
The grandfather, seeing this, wanted to get up to stop them, but a sword was stuck in his body.
"Stay away, woman!" – Grandfather shouted in desperation.
"I won't move, this is my home!"
The woman shouted, as the two guards approached and with a quick movement, lowered their two swords towards her neck.
"No...!"
But at that moment, a shadow passed by at the speed of an arrow, two cuts in quick succession, slitting the throats of the two guards.
The two guards fell to the ground, when the figure of Adrián was shown in front of everyone.
"What...?" – A guard was able to save himself and quickly backed away, but the shadow chased after him, aiming at his neck. However, at that moment, he could feel how a punch was aimed at him, Adrian put his dagger in front of him, when they both collided.
Adrian was pushed several feet back.
A guard smiled, and prepared to launch another attack.
"A child just rebelled against the city lord!"
"He must be killed! For our dead friends!"
Fury ignited in this place, seeing how the two guards fell to the ground with their heads cut off.
At that moment many of them threw themselves against Adrian, many of them were only from the second or third level, Adrian quickly charged towards them, in quick succession like lightning.
While with his dagger, he passed from neck to neck.
But before he could kill the last one, a kick in quick succession appeared in his field of vision, he immediately protected himself, but was sent back again.
"I'll kill you!" – Adrian could feel how his organs moved, that blow was nothing ordinary.
And it belonged to a guard who pushed the others back because of his aura.
"You shouldn't fight with him, you have to flee grandson Adrian!" – Grandpa got up with his wound, while being supported by his Grandson Ma, he also reassured his wife.
However, the problem was now serious.
The two leaders wouldn't let Grandpa attack, that's why they were expectant, for any move the old man made.
"You have to take your grandmother, and your elder brother, and run away from this place, I will stay behind and protect them."
"Dear"
"Grandfather"
Hearing such words, many tears came out of grandma and grandson Ma.
However, when all the guards were preparing to prevent that escape.
Adrian took a step forward, suddenly a purple glow from his eyes imperceptible to the eye manifested itself.
"You told me to protect that home, I don't care if they are the city lord's guards, I won't let them hurt us" – Adrian said such words, which made the guards laugh.
Grandfather intended to move Adrian the other way and throw himself at the guards with everything.
But at that moment. Adrian pointed to all the guards.
"Kill them" - When he gave the order, it was as if something had awakened from heaven.
A large fog immediately descended on all the guards, they immediately started screaming.
"What is this!"
"My arm... my leg!"
"Help...!"
In a few moments pleading cries rang out, as all the guards began to be eaten by the strange power of the mist.
The two leaders were caught by surprise and were the first to be eaten before they could take out any object to protect themselves.
After about twenty minutes, all the guards disappeared.
After such an event, Grandpa voted a large amount of blood before passing out. The fog had managed to collect all the guards' items, and kept them in its shadow, it really was very practical.
But when he turned around.
Grandma and grandson Ma looked at him with a little fear. They knew that what he had summoned was a curse. But they didn't know how to feel right now.
Grandma quickly brought Grandpa into the house.
While Adrián stayed outside, he was watching, that was his habit, to be a watchman, he could not let anything escape him.
After nothing happened for an hour, Young Ma walked outside.
He calmly approached Adrian.
"We can no longer stay in this city, grandma has decided that we must move away from here, a hundred kilometers from this place there is another city, I plan to accompany them, after all I cannot leave them alone, not after all they have done for me" – Young Ma felt responsible for everything that had happened, Now the only thing I could do was to be able to repay that kindness.
Adrian thought about that possibility as well, but he wasn't ready to hear it, after all, he had barely spent two months with them, and most of the time he was focused on alchemy.
"I still can't leave, I still have things to resolve, but I promise I will visit them" – Adrian said, although he wanted to go with them, he still had many things in this place, and the forbidden city still had many secrets.
"Grandma told me that maybe you would say that, take this, it's a map for you to look for us when you want to visit us, Grandpa is in his worst condition, so we'll leave immediately" – Young Ma gave him a sheet of paper, Adrian put it away immediately.
He never thought he would say goodbye in this way.
After making all the preparations, Grandpa was slowly put on the carriage, his body was in the worst possible condition, but he was too stubborn to die.
"We will meet again" – Adrián said to his grandmother and his older brother Ma.
The grandmother was never sentimental, and always saw them as slaves, but this time, she said a proper goodbye to Adrian.
They left in less than two hours, Adrian could see their departure. But at the same time his heart ached. He clenched his fists and threw his punch into the ground.
"If I don't want it to happen again, I must become stronger" – Adrian was a boy with many purposes in this life, but he just wanted to be strong to protect himself, and those around him. Today was the day where he regretted the most.
He also left that place, returning where Apothecary Gu, this time, would not stop, he had to get and develop his way to make pills.
The next day, from the City Lord's Mansion, several search warrants were issued against Grandma, Grandpa, and Young Ma, Adrian was not included in that list, as he had just arrived in the city.
Besides, he was a child, all the blame for the guards' murders fell on Grandfather.
At that moment Adrian immersed himself with all his being in the study of alchemy. It was the only thing I could do.
Soon, two years passed.