Science/Magic

In a house in Calice city.

It was a beautiful house with three rooms, a kitchen, an underground hot spring, and a huge courtyard. Way above Bloed's expectations.

"You will not regret this choice." The clerk took out a contract and passed it to Bloed. Bloed checked it to make sure that nothing was wrong and signed.

Afterward, he paid thirty percent of the money in advance, as stipulated in the contract. The remaining amount would be paid when he leaves.

Once the clerk left the house, Liu Ying was the first to look at Bloed and ask. "So, what is happening?"

"It was probably Gerald. The clerk received orders from the city lord's family to get us to rent this place."

After the modifications his body received, Bloed senses were incredibly sharp, so he was able to hear the order the clerk received even although it was just a whisper.

"I think Gerald is trying to sell us a favor. Of course, his intentions are not completely genuine. If I'm not wrong, the city lord's people can easily keep surveillance on us here."

Liu Ying was stunned. "Why did you accept then?"

Bloed shrugged. "Why not? This place is rather good, cheap, and perfect for us. Besides, it has been a long time since the last time I took a hot bath. As for Gerald's intentions, why would I care about them?"

Bloed was Camilla's heir. He was someone that carried the knowledge of an entire civilization on his shoulders. Why would he show fear when the enemy had not even attacked yet?

Not only Bloed, but even Regina seemed indifferent about it. In fact, Regina cared even less for Gerald's purpose. As an SS-Grade Valkyrie, Regina could probably erase this city of the map if she wanted.

There was not demigod in Calice. In other words, there was nobody that could go against Regina if she decides to go crazy.

As such, even if they knew that Gerald's intentions were not genuine, they feigned ignorance and just accepted the gift.

Liu Ying was slightly stunned when she learned the truth, but she stopped caring about it after Bloed spoke. If Bloed did not mind it, why would she, a demon princess, mind?

So, the group of three simply decided to enjoy the comfy house.

The first thing they did was to choose a room for each one. Regina then took out Bloed's luggage from the storage ring and put it in his room while she took her luggage to her room.

At that moment, though, something awkward happened.

Liu Ying had nothing.

Until now, she had been using Regina's clothes, but now that they finally were in a city, she urgently wanted to buy her own things.

However, she felt too embarrassed to tell Bloed about it. She did not want to bother Bloed anymore after all the help he had given to her.

Fortunately, Bloed was pretty observant and quickly noticed her stiff expression.

With a smile, he gave her a bag with enough money to buy the things she need. "Take it, go, buy new clothes."

Liu Ying's face turned red. She felt her cheeks burning of the embarrassment.

"B-But-"

"Hurry up, or are you planning to continue using Regina's clothes forever?" Bloed hurried her. "You probably don't know, but Regina has asked me more than once if she can kill the demon that wants to steal her things."

Liu Ying turned stiff. She moved her gaze and saw Regina's cold expression that caused shivers on her spine. Finally, she accepted the money.

For the record, Regina was not speaking about clothes when she said Liu Ying wanted to steal her things.

"… Sorry, I'll repay you one day. I promise you." Liu Ying bowed at Bloed, but Bloed just smiled. "Just remember to buy something nice for me. Meanwhile, I'll start working in your weapon."

Liu Ying froze. The word weapon reminded her that her time with Bloed and Regina was coming to its end.

However, she forced herself to smile.

"Okay."

"Right, take Leto with you in case someone tries something funny."

"Mm."

When Liu Ying was gone, Regina snorted.

"Master, you are too nice to that demon. You have not taken a liking to her, right?"

Bloed smiled wryly. "Of course not. I simply want to help a friend. Actually, I don't understand why you dislike her so much."

"It's because she is dangerous and master trusts her too much. Besides, I don't like how she looks at you."

Bloed looked at the jealous Regina and did not know whether to laugh or to cry.

In the end, he just shook his head and sighed. "Just take my laboratory out. I'll start working on Liu Ying's weapon. Mmm, I already have a good idea."

"I understand. I'll prepare lunch while you work. What do you want to eat today, master?"

"Surprise me."

After saying that, he entered in his laboratory.

For Liu Ying's weapon, Bloed was planning to use part of the ores he got from Chorius. He had refined the ores long ago and they were ready to be used.

Firstly, though, Bloed had to complete the weapon's design.

Fortunately, Bloed had already a good idea of what he was going to make. He quickly took a paper and a pencil and started to sketch the weapon. He carefully illustrated every one of the weapon's features, down to the slightest details. Even the runes he was going to use were carefully measured to get the best effect.

In this world, building a magic weapon was not easy. It required precious materials and a skilled smith able to engrave the magic runes on the weapon. This process of engraving was very difficult, and the probabilities of failure were very high.

And even if the runes were engraved successfully, it was possible for the magic effects to be a failure, making the magic weapon downright useless.

In truth, most of the magic weapons in this world had rather simple effects, like increased sharpness or shooting a fireball. Powerful magic weapons were very rare.

However, this word's difficulties to manufacture magic weapons were easily done for Bloed. He could use a high-technology method to forge the weapon, and then use laser technology to engrave the runes. Moreover, the laser's precision allowed Bloed to be very willful with the runes he engraved. Bloed was confident he could engrave hundreds of different runes to create a very powerful effect.

Unfortunately, his current knowledge of magic runes was not enough to do it.

But for Liu Ying's weapons, he needed less than thirty runes.

In a few minutes, the weapons had been drawn in the paper.

It was a pair of very beautiful gloves.