“Are you crazy?” Leo felt like smacking his friend to help him wake up and after fishing out the amulet said, “Maybe in the Golden city I could carelessly walk around with this thing, but I bet I won’t last two days before the damned bi … I mean, the sect master, will find a reason to confiscate it. You have no idea how devious the woman is!”
“F*ck!” Jack actually felt like smacking himself as well. What Leo said was too obvious.
“And you shouldn't show anyone you have spirit stones as well otherwise both of us will wind up dead.” Leo said with a sigh.
“F*ck!” Jack repeated and emptied his glass, then poured it full and asked, “Aren’t you going to drink?”
“I haven’t had any Fire … alcohol in years.” Leo said, “I’m not sure …”
“You’re at the Core formation stage now – just expel the alcohol as if those were regular toxins.” Jack interrupted, “For your level it shouldn’t be too hard. Just don’t do it here – toxins are stinky and we’ll need to be in our best condition for the ladies!”
Leo stared at the glass for a few moments, took it and deeply inhaled, savoring the rich and fruity aroma. Then he put the glass to his lips and with small gulps emptied it. The taste was even better, but the alcohol was rather strong and pleasantly burned him from inside.
“Daaaaamnnn!” He said longingly “How I missed this!”
“Don’t tell me there was an alcohol of this quality in the Greenland realm.” Jack laughed in return, “From what I understand the whole place is a pot of poison. How in the world did you even survive?”
Leo didn’t answer, but unceremoniously filled another glass, drunk it and then repeated it one more time. The he sat back in the sofa more comfortably and with half closed eyes said, “Turns out the trick was to live high above the ground. The air was still toxic, but before I departed my best friend provided me with means to survive, remember? In addition, shortly before returning I did get cleansed with the Moonst… I mean – the poison pearl, thus I’m good.”
“So you did find it after all!” Jack clicked his tongue, “Quite a few people were betting on the chances of your expedition and I must say – the odds were against you. How the hell did you get it?”
“Well … my wife kind of helped me …” Leo dreamily said, enjoying the long forgotten buzz of alcohol, but hearing his words Jack choked – somehow he was unlucky enough to drink at the exact time Leo was speaking.
“You .. cough, cough … you got married?! Cough!” He said covering the whole table with spit.
“Ye, but only for a month or so.” Leo said. He did miss Izel, but they didn’t have anything in common so he was not upset they ‘split up’.
“What a dog!” Jack sighed, but then his eyes lit up, “We need to celebrate this! Let’s get more wine!”
“Just don’t pay in spirit stones!” Leo reminded despite already being half drunk. He took out a handful of rank three and four beast cores from the amulet, put them on the table and said, “Ask them if they’ll accept beast cores instead.”
“Hahaha! Francesca accepts anything that has value!” Jack laughed and got up. Then he opened the door and ordered alcohol and food that would’ve been enough for a large family.
“Let’s have some fun then.” He said after heavily dropping back in the sofa, “Eating and drinking first, girls afterwards!”
While the two friends leisurely chatted, lady Evelyn had her hands full. Several thousands of people, including hundreds of elites, joining the Sacred Order at the same time was not a matter that could be settled quickly. Of course, the male disciples of the sect would’ve loved to let the newcomers joined them in their dwellings, but instead every single person was employed as a regular worker and took part in building housing for the members of the new division.
Besides the matter of the Angelic Dawn joining, both lady Evelyn and Laura Cloud had to deal with the Golden gate, a mountain of administrative work and the question of several hundreds of deserters. In addition, during the past couple of days there were incidents of theft with the largest being an obviously pre-planned heist from one of the spirit stone mine storages. Both their daughters worked hard to assist their mothers and similarly didn’t have much time for anything else.
Of course, Leo came up in their brief conversations now and then, but thinking about dealing with him only gave lady Evelyn migraines. Not only this guy saved her best friend’s life and the sect – he also became some kind of a national hero. Because of that she simply didn’t have anything to reward him with, at least not anything suitable, thus postponing their meeting was the best she could think of, especially considering the Sacred Order was currently the poorest sect in the Aurora mortal realm, that is apart from the Angelic Dawn, of course.
The cheeky Carlos didn’t hold back one bit and, in addition to getting Angelic Dawn’s territories, for the Golden gate’s help shamelessly emptied the Sacred Order’s spirit stone reserves. Now, even though lady Evelyn and Laura Cloud were the strongest duo in the realm, they were poor as paupers.
Meanwhile the two friends got completely wasted in the ‘Heart and soul’.
When the formation stopped working they had already finished discussing all the sensitive matters and madame Francesca moved them to a larger room on the second floor. This one was a bit brighter lit, there were pictures on the walls and vases with colorful flowers in corners. The furniture was also larger and more comfortable, and after a couple of cheery girls joined their company, the atmosphere became much more pleasant.
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Jack did grumble a bit for Leo getting ‘all the good stuff’ when the girl called Bianca chose to sit at Leo’s side, but when a redhead called Rosa jumped on his lap, it all was immediately forgotten.
Leo was not sure what to make of everything that was going on, but since Jack advised to relax and not think too much, he simply enjoyed the buzz and Bianca’s sweet fragrance. According to Jack this was the prettiest girl in the ‘Heart and soul’ and was incredibly picky with which clients to serve. To Leo it didn’t make much sense since it would be only logical for waitresses to serve as many clients as possible to get more tips, but every place had their own traditions and rules thus he was not going to judge.
They fooled around the whole day while drinking, eating and listening to each other’s stories, but later in the afternoon Jack got up, took Rosa by her hand and said, “Ok, you two kids have fun! And, Leo, don’t forget to expel alcohol to have a more memorable experience! Hahaha!”
Then the two quickly left, leaving Leo and Bianca sitting in awkward silence. Leo was not sure what the older friend’s words meant, but followed his advice and sat up straight, closed his eyes and began revolving Qi through his body while expelling alcohol similarly how he had done it with toxins before. Unfortunately, besides the pleasant sensation of being drunk disappearing, there was another downside.
Bianca punched his shoulder and said in upset voice, “Why would you do that! The whole room now stinks!”
“I … I’m sorry!” Leo stuttered not knowing what to do. She was kind of right – his skin was covered in dirty perspiration that had slightly unpleasant odor, but it wasn’t that bad.
“It’s fine!” Bianca suddenly smiled and pinched his cheek, “Let’s go! I’ll help you to clean up!”
Then she pulled Leo out the room and under the envious eyes of the other waitresses pulled to the third floor. There, at the very end of the hallway, she entered a large room with almost as large bed inside.
“Is this where you live?” Leo asked after throwing a glance around. The place did look nice, although the bed was too big and impractical.
“Hahaha!” Bianca laughed, “You can say so. Come on, let me help you!”
Leo had washed different ladies for years, but this was the first time someone was taking care of him, apart from the old dryads on the mountain once, but those didn’t count, of course. Bianca expertly undressed him and then for a few moments gawked at the plethora of scars that were covering his body. Many of the wounds were clearly fresh and had barely scabbed.
The youth noticed that for some reason her breathing became shallower and more rapid, and already intended to console her since obviously the girl was scared. Fortunately she gathered the courage and showed him into a bathtub behind a hidden door and, after undressing herself, began to slowly and gently scrub him from head to toe.
Leo didn’t have to be genius to realize the blond, blue-eyed waitress had taking a liking in him. In fact, he quite enjoyed the company of the slender beauty himself and, even though she was not as athletic as Anna and had smaller breasts compared to Izel, to Leo her youthful appearance was akin to a peach he wanted to bite in.
“No rush, no rush!” She bashfully whispered seeing him getting hard and flickered his thing that immediately grew in size even more.
Leo barely held back and took a deep breath to calm himself down, but Bianca’s sweet fragrance made him almost as dizzy as the alcohol earlier. Fortunately it didn’t take too long for her to finish washing him and after drying Leo up with a soft towel, she took his hand and pulled him towards the huge bed.
Fortunately this sobered the youth up quite a bit. Up until now he had always done the ‘deed’ in the pond at the Izel’s place and the tub he was just washed in somewhat reminded him of those times. Now, obediently taking steps behind the naked beauty, he felt a bit like in Dreadlands and could calm down.
When they got to the bed, Bianca stood on her tiptoes and softly kissed his lips, but Leo already ‘knew’ what he was supposed to do. He put his hands on her hips, with a gentle motion turned her around and placed in a kneeling position on the bed. Then he entered her and … a couple of thrusts later was done.
Of course, he didn’t forget to discharge large amount of Qi alongside the ‘other stuff’ for her pleasure and judging by the amazed look on Bianca’s face he had done everything correctly. Spending a month with Izel clearly turned out to be a good practice and obviously he had grown to become an excellent lover. Maybe it was in his blood – his father had dozens of wives after all!
Needless to say Bianca had hard time believing what just transpired. The guy, the local legend who could stand alone against an enemy army for days turned out to be a quick shooter.
Just like every other girl who worked at the brothel, she had a tinge of hope to one day meet the fated man who would take her away from this place and they would live happily ever after. Unfortunately the person lying on her bed already deep asleep was not ‘the one’.
He was the perfect client though. What they just did was hard to consider ‘sex’ and if not for washing him earlier, she basically only lent him her bed – in this aspect he was basically every ‘Heart and soul’ girl’s dream!
With this thought Bianca’s eyes lit up and she went to wash up. Then she lie next to Leo to have a nap – after all she’ll be able to take another client later. What she now needed was for the Legendary Leo to become her ‘regular’.
Leo didn’t sleep for too long, but it was already dark when he woke up. Jack didn’t instruct what protocols he was supposed to follow, but fortunately Bianca woke up as well and helped him dress.
She did seem to be slightly upset and when Leo asked ‘what’s the matter?’ The girl explained her grandmother was sick and she was working hard to buy some good medicine for her, but he shouldn’t be worried since she would definitely find a way. When she realized the clueless bastard indeed didn’t intend to worry, she threw the pretense to the side and directly asked if she could have a beast core, and Leo managed to surprise her again.
Few years ago he had worked his ass off washing the ladies of Dreadlands and knew the job was not the easiest. Earlier Bianca, judging by her trembling hands, tense posture and dilated pupils, was obviously scared. Clearly someone before had physically abused her, thus Leo happily gave her a couple of rank four beast cores so that she would be relaxed if they had a chance to meet another time. Any person for a job well done deserved to be properly rewarded, right?
“Someone’s happy!” Jack greeted the two when Bianca brought Leo back to the room on the second floor, “Isn’t she the best?”
His expression immediately turned into one full of pain because of the Rosa’s iron-strong pinch, but Bianca pretended to not notice it and kissed Leo on the cheek.
“No, he’s the best!” She said and then whispered in his ear, “Will you come again tomorrow?”
“Of course, we’ll come!” Jack answered in his friend’s stead, “Do you think it’s easy for a man to fight for two days straight? You can’t even imagine how tired he must be!”
“My Leo is the strongest!” Bianca happily stated and Leo had no other choice, but to blush. No one had ever complimented him so openly.