Sacrifice: Time of Mine

Van breathed heavily, he didn't expect that he had to exert so much force just to stop the three's struggling. He is considered a genius, but at that moment, some may even call him an idiot for putting so much effort into making these three commoners stop.

Being in the middle of a silent crowd, Van tried to compose himself and thought, 'I didn't even use any elesp so it's fine, it's fine.' before hearing quiet but unceasing laughter.

Van glared at the source. He was sensitive at that moment. Once he heard laughter, he would think they were laughing at him.

But his face paled when he saw who was laughing. On the opposite part from where he came in, a part of the crowd's encirclement opened another path for a man who was as confident as Van earlier came in.

They looked exactly the same, except that this one had long hair. His gentle demeanor was slightly off since he had bulging cheeks, teary eyes, and vibrating shoulders.

It was Jhin, one of the Idiotic Rivals. When he entered the encirclement, Jhin finally burst out what he was suppressing, "HAHAHAHA!" his mouth wide opened as he looked at Van with mocking eyes.

"What?" with expression cold, Van asked.

"To think that you, who was taught by the Leaf Humming Blade would need to exert so much force into defeating these three Non-Elementalists!" Jhin pointed with a loud voice. Seeing Van reddened made his laughter come back.

"I... am just giving mercy" Van reasoned, desperate to come out of that situation. He never thought that Jhin would come there at that time. However, thinking about it again, why would Jhin not be there?

The two of them are the best candidates for marriage for the princess. If it's between commoners, the Guild Master would come out the top, however, why did the Guild Master not attend the princess' welcome party? That is to alleviate the misunderstanding that he will participate in the so-called courting the royal.

Guild Master Gon understood that he is already too old for the princess. He is not a pedophile. Secondly, although he is considered a noble due to his Rank Bih disposition, without joining any families, he is still a surnameless commoner through and through. Lastly, he is not fit for the princess. Even if he is the strongest bachelor, he is a Water Elementalist.

If he and the princess were to have a child and that child became a Water Elementalist, wouldn't that destroy the image of the Karan Kingdom who was built and progressed by the Karan family, a family of Plant Elementalists?

That is why, there are so few candidates and these two are the perfect ones because they are, in fact, Plant Elementalists.

If Van went out to the commoners' streets to find Avion Teller, why not Jhin too?

"Giving mercy?" Jhin mockingly repeated what Van said, "This is mercy?" he pointed at the three who were either unconscious or worse, dead.

"What? If I used any of my Rank Dih Elesps, I could've killed them without consuming any time." Van tried to calm down and finally used his trump card.

"What did you do?"

Before Jhin could open his mouth to retort, a woman's girl could be heard. Both Van and Jhin looked at the source of it to see a petite woman with short silver hair.

"And who are you?" Jhin snorted but observing the woman, his nose widened. Meanwhile, Van was silent.

Seeing the woman enter the circle, gulps could be heard. At that moment, the circle slowly enlarged. Even Streson went back to the crowd, wishing he doesn't have his conspicuous red hair.

"Hm?" Jhin raised his brow, noticing this strange phenomenon. Being a noble, he wasn't too familiar with the commoner's world. 

This woman was none other than Mettany who walked in silence towards the three. After looking at the three of them, she sighed in relief after she learned they were still breathing.

"Is there any Plant Elementalist here?" Mettany said, her voice was ringing into everyone's ears.

The Riskers had seen Miss Mettany's horny state and it was terrifying. But now, they understood. Miss Mettany when angry is more fearful.

'Who does she think she is? Do you not see us? How can she think that these commoners will follow her words? Hahaha, healing these beaten bums is the same as offending a noble. Nobody would even think of doing that.' Jhin was about to say something when numerous Riskers raised their hands and went to Mettany, ignoring either Jhin or Van.

Van had the same thoughts as Jhin and they just stared at each other when their thoughts were suddenly opposed.

Plant Elementalists specialized in healing either themselves or others. So when Mettany called them, it was very easy to understand what she wanted them to do.

However, after inspecting the three, none of them did a thing.

"Why are you not healing them?" Mettany domineeringly asked with a tint of anxiousness.

Even Van and Jhin felt a little pressure.

"I-it's because none of our elesp would be effective. We can only heal their outer injuries. Their internal organs and fractured bone need to be healed first." one Plant Elementalist explained.

"As expected of the commoners. How could they heal the injuries inflicted by a noble?" Van finally said something.

At first, he was embarrassed for the people to suddenly heal those who beat up. It's like saying what he did was wrong in front of the public. However, he couldn't do anything since it was a woman who was ordering them.

But hearing that they couldn't be healed gave him satisfaction instead. But he soon shut his mouth up when he felt Mettany's glare.

Seeing Van being oppressed by a woman again placed joy in Jhin's face.

"Who's responsible for this?"

'Who dares to point at me?' Van snorted, 'Hah, you will be just replied with silence.' he felt satisfied when he heard none said anything. He then tried to flaunt his intimidation as he glared at the Plant Elementalists who ignored him. However, as he looked, he just saw fingers.

"Huh?..." he was stunned as he looked around to see that almost everyone was pointing at him. His eyes rolled back to his front and saw that even Jhin was pointing at him.

'Asshole!'