Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 183 – STRANDED TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY
[POV Theia]
Today, my days are going on happily. My son just woke up with the face I wiped before we finally had breakfast together with breakfast that I made myself. After breakfast, we both went to the same workplace.
I work as a drug dealer. As for Lios in charge of looking for herbs in the forest. It's a pretty dangerous job because in the forest there are a lot of dangerous wild animals, but Lios has asked me not to worry too much about her because she says her abilities are quite great.
I knew that my son was great, but as his mother, I still could not let go of that worry to him.
Thus, my days pass by today with delight. However, that was until when Lios expressed her wish after dinner.
“Bu, I have decided. Starting tomorrow, I will be joining Uncle Surya to become an adventurer. I heard, there are monsters popping up in the deeper forest areas. My strength is needed to defeat those monsters, especially I can also keep looking for herbs from there every time I come home from adventure, so it will not interfere with our main work.”
-puak.
Unknowingly, I bang on the table hard. How not. Lios could have thought of such a thing after what had happened to her all this time! Why is it that after we finally live in such a quiet place, Lios still wants to get involved in such matters?!
Nah! I don't want that to happen!
Ah, right too. For some reason, Lios' memory seems to have been replaced. Now he believes that he is just a regular resident of the village who recently migrated to this city to earn a more decent living.
I don't know what happened. But this is my chance to protect my son from putting himself in danger again.
As long as I can, I just want to stay with Lios in this place for good as an ordinary citizen.
“No! Until anytime, you can't be an adventurer!”
I was angry and immediately went into the room ignoring the grim look on my poor son's face.
Nah! I can't feel sorry for that expression. I have to stay strong. After all, this is all for the good of my beloved son Lios.
The next morning, I saw Helios still going to work with me as usual. He also continued to speak politely to me as if yesterday had never happened. I know this is because of the character of my son Lios who is basically a kind and polite child, but somehow this worries me more.
I would rather if he would yell at me and scold me for the sake of alleviating his heartache than he would have to soak it in a heart that would only hurt himself. I was also more worried about him.
Just in case he went to carry out his intentions without telling me, I asked my confidants who often went with Lios to the forest to report on Lios' activities while there. I knew I should have trusted my son, especially he was an honest and trustworthy son. It's just that my motherly instincts blinded me the moment I loved Lios.
According to my confidant's report, Lios was just doing her job well and not going anywhere. I was also relieved by it.
We both went home and ate our dinner together. I saw Lios keep smiling as if nothing had happened. However, as a mother who had known him for a long time, I knew that Lios was very depressed.
I again questioned my decision was it right for me to forbid Lios to do what she really likes?
It's a dangerous job, but with Lios' abilities, I'm actually sure she'll be fine. Although there was only a small chance that she would get hurt, but as a mother, how could I ignore that small possibility?
However, that happiness had once again been taken away from Lios regarding my selfishness.
I don't want my son to suffer anymore. Enough of the suffering he endured as a prince, as an emperor, and as a good friend. If adventure will make her happy, maybe I should allow her to fulfill her wish.
In the morning, without Lios saying anything, I was the one who ended up giving that permission to Lios myself. He looked so happy that he hugged me so tightly that it was accompanied by happy tears. However, was my decision to take my son to a place of danger the right decision?
There is nothing else I can do but pray for my son to be safe until he returns home on every adventure.
The day passed and kept passing. The neat and clean image of Lios began to be replaced by a smelly and dirty adventurous aura. However, whose son he used to be, however Lios looked, he was always the most handsome among the other youths in this city. Not infrequently I received requests from neighboring mothers to match their children with Lios.
I am not happy with Italiana, Luciana, and Vierra, but for Lios who is now in this place, their existence is only a memory of the past. It could not also be called a memory because Lios did not even remember their existence at all.
***
This was my first adventure since obtaining permission from Mother to become an adventurer. Nothing can describe the feeling of pleasure that I am feeling right now.
I really listened to Uncle Surya's instructions seriously for the safety of the team.
Facing wild animals with monsters was fundamentally different. Wild animals in fighting rely only on their instincts. But not so with monsters. They have developed a little bit of their wits through which they absorb, although imperfectly.
The higher the level of these monsters, the smarter they are in fighting. That's why we have to be extra careful when fighting very different monsters when dealing with wild animals.
According to eyewitness reports, there has been a dimensional crack under the water of the lake in the middle of the forest. Those dimensional cracks drained the miasma causing the surrounding animals to evolve into monsters.
And this is the first animal we're going to face this time.
Monster frog.
The monster is so tough. They were immune to ordinary sword weapons so we could only injure her thick skin with magic.
They are also disgusting. Each time we would attack them, they would spit out poisonous sticky saliva that would instantly melt our clothes. Surprisingly, it only melted our clothes including the armor worn by some adventurers, but not with our skin.
It was a good thing because their saliva was different from the acid that could instantly melt us to the remaining bone... No, what is good?! Who would want to come home from this place in a state of complete nudity?!
I also dodged every saliva attack of the frog monsters while continuing to attack the stomach with my sword. I'm a little special with other adventurers who are able to sharpen my sword with magic flow so that it works to cut every skin from the frog monster, he said, it was even much better than the usual magic of adventurers that were cast remotely.
In the end, my team managed to defeat the entirety of the frog monster in which I, as a newcomer, made the most contribution. Thanks to him, I obtained a compliment from Uncle Surya. However, since I was the one who contributed the most in the attack, I also received the most damage from the saliva attacks of the frog monsters.
Thanks to him, now the clothes I wear to tatters and holes everywhere. I really feel embarrassed, let alone having a female party member come with us.
But since we were in the middle of the forest, there was nothing I could do about my current situation. What is clear is that the vital part that is the source of my manhood is still well covered, I think it will still be safe for now, the gazes of those women who kept glancing towards my chest muscles made me very uncomfortable.
This reminds me of Nunu…
Uh, Nunu? Who is Nunu?
I don't know why my head suddenly hurt and I fell to the ground.
“Helios! Be alert! Behind you!”
One of my party members warned me.
Apparently there was a centipede monster that was planning to ambush me from behind. Fearing that they would also hit me, they could not attack the centipede monster with their long-range magic. I was forced to sacrifice my arm to be bitten and then I exterminated it with my sword slash reinforced by wind magic.
If it were Nunu here and not them, I'm sure he'd have cast his blast magic, no matter if he'd hit me or not as he used to do that to Albert…
I told you who is Nunu? Why didn't the girl get out of my mind? Is this some kind of pellet or something? Who was Albert…
But for some reason, as soon as I mentioned Albert's name, my tears came out on their own.
