Book 7: Chapter 32
“Your majesty, the rest station up ahead has been occupied……”
“We’ll take it from them then.”
I looked at the scout in front of me irritably. I pushed him aside and pulled my handgun out from my back. I looked at Philes behind me and commanded. “Philes, you take half the men to attack them from the left-wing. Shusia, you take a third of the men, circle around the right-wing and flank them from the rear. Everyone else, attack them head-on with me. Take over the rest-station as fast as possible, understood?”
“Roger!”
Philes and Shusia nodded. Lorana looked at the rest station, laughed and said. “They look like Socina City’s exploration group. Your majesty, are you seriously going to attack them? If you reveal your identity to them, you might be able to get their assistance.”
“I took a massive detour just to avoid letting Socina’s people know of my plans so it wouldn’t make sense for me to reveal my plans. Luna isn’t in a good condition. I don’t have time to talk about shaking hands or working together with them. Just kill all of them and take over the rest station. I won’t risk my Luna’s life.”
I clenched my teeth and looked at Luna inside the Earth Dragon carriage behind me taking weak breaths. Luna’s condition got worse and worse during the journey. I originally thought she got a heat stroke so I didn’t think too much of it, but she wasn’t suffering from a heat stroke. Elves require mana to live. I’m aware of that. I almost died before because of a mana dissolving agent. Luna’s body had been damaged already. If the royal capital wasn’t so close to the elven lands, she wouldn’t have survived in the royal capital.
Moreover, I was providing her with a large volume of mana monthly every full-night moon, but she hadn’t had her mana stores replenished for months. Now she’s come to the desert where mana is scarce so she’ll die if her mana isn’t replenished. I calculated so many things but forgot to factor that in. I brought Luna along so that I wouldn’t be tormented on the full-moon night. Luna must’ve been aware of her condition. She knew her condition yet still risked her life to come here while I was completely oblivious.
I can’t let Luna become a second Mera! Mera didn’t say anything to me at the time so I personally killed her in the end. If I lose Luna this time because she didn’t say anything to me, I won’t be able to forgive my obtuse self.