Chapter 19: Chapter 19: We are not alone
Prometheus Brutus and Nicolas were walking through the ice plains, they were cold at their feet and their faces were starting to freeze. Yet they all had big smiles. They imagined all the benefits they could get if they found a divine water source. Nicolas started talking.
- You know, when I was a child I found a divine source of water.
Brutus and Prometheus turned to him with excited eyes.
- and what do you do with it.
- Where is it located?
Nicolas looked at them with an amused look.
- I drank the water and then I bathed in it. It was incredible, I had the water was warm and my body... My body has never felt so warm and powerful. It is thanks to this water that I managed to become so famous. My body has become as resistant as stone and I have gained in agility and skill. I was only 13 years old, yet I could kill bears as hard as the one in the cave.
Brutus who was drooling imagining the strength that he might have cut Nicolas off.
- Where it is, let's go now.
Nicolas looked at the ground with regret.
- It no longer exists... In fact, in my village there is a tradition. When a divine source is discovered, it must be destroyed. To prevent strangers from abusing the nature of the mountain. So when the village chief learned that I had discovered a spring, he drove me out of the village... and destroyed the spring. That old bastard...
Nicolas seemed full of regret, both for swimming in the spring, but also for being discovered. Brutus and Prometheus seemed rather disappointed. They continued their journey without speaking for half an hour. Then Brutus spoke again.
- But where are we actually going?
Prometheus and Nicholas seemed dismayed by Brutus' lack of memory. Nicolas began to scold him.
- But you don't listen to anything or remember anything. I already told you this morning when we left the cave.
- But I was tired and couldn't hear. Now I'm in great shape.
Brutus gave a big blow to his chest while smiling.
- I'll tell you again, but this is the last time. We are looking for a divine water source, but you see it is not easy in found, because they are rare and they often appear at random. For example, I heard that a spring appeared in the middle of my village once. But there is also a way to find them. This technique that comes from my village, normally we use it to find the springs and plugged them but this time we will use it. Listen carefully to what I'm about to say. To find sources it is enough just to follow the traces of divine mana, when the divine mana seems to move to a place it is because there is often a source at that place. Do you understand?
- Uh... yes, I think so. It's just that I have to activate my mana hearts and look for mana traces, that's it.
- Yes that's right, but for Prometheus it's simpler he has nothing to do because thanks to his mana brains he constantly feels the mana.
- All right. So I don't need to activate my mana heart.
- Yes, and then you might exhaust yourself if you did.
The mana brains of the magus were a form of passive power, it was always active and had no backlash, while the warrior's mana heart was a kind of active power. It was necessary to activate the mana heart which consumed a lot of energy and made its constant use impossible. In general, an experienced warrior was able to keep his mana heart active for at least 7 minutes. Which was usually enough for them to kill a magician in a frontal fight. But on the other hand, in a long-term battle the warriors had little chance of winning against a magician if he used their mana hearts for too long. There were also legends about men blessed by gods born with a mana heart and a mana brain, they were known for their powers and their altruism. Unfortunately these legends ended badly, the majority of these men had ended up murdered or locked up and used as laboratory subjects by men who envied their power. Prometheus had often heard of these men but he had always thought that these men were more cursed than loved by the gods. They had neither the endurance of a magician nor the explosive side of a warrior. He was too versatile.
Night was beginning to fall and no divine water sources seemed within reach. Nicolas decided that it was time for them to make their camp for the night. They used bearskins to make tents and lit a fire. It was getting dark and they fell asleep. Without knowing that not far from them people were watching them.
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- Are you sure it's him?
- Yes, I'm telling you, I've seen him once before. He is Nicolas the man who found a divine source.
- But why do you want to follow them.
- By following them we increase our chances of finding divine sources, it seems that those people know a way to find divine sources.
- I know that, but there's no evidence that they're looking for a divine source.
- Then why would he come here. For the love of the cold, out of nostalgia for the village that abandoned him, be not stupid he is here for the same reason as us. And when he found a source we'll steal from them there. What do you think of my plan.
- I don't know and if he didn't find it.
- it doesn't change anything. After all, we've been looking for one for three months and we haven't found anything. We might as well try our luck, Ragnar.
- Yes, why not Rolo.
The two men continued to talk, preparing a plan of attack in case Nicolas found a divine water source. The two men stayed in the cold all night looking at the camp with envy, as if they were looking at a hen laying golden eggs.
The next day Prometheus and the others left early. He had to get back on the road. However, Nicolas seemed strange as if he had had a bad dream, Brutus also had an abnormal attitude but for different reasons.
- I feel like eyes are watching me, yet I can't see anything. I think this place is driving me crazy.
Prometheus did not pay attention to Brutus' remark, he thought it was a kind of bad joke, since Nicolas had not made the same point.
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