Alice Rosewood
[Name: Alice Rosewood]
[Level: 15]
[Cultivation: Bone tempering realm (5th Stage)]
[Health: 160/160]
[Relationship: Childhood friend.]
'This is nice. Not only does it show their names, levels etc. it also shows relationship.' Arthur thought. He then looked at the other two.
[Name: Ron Smith]
[Level: 11]
[Cultivation: Bone tempering realm (1st Stage)]
[Health: 120/120]
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[Name: Dan Weldon]
[Level: 12]
[Cultivation: Bone tempering realm (2nd Stage)]
[Health: 120/120]
'Eh? These two are her senior brothers, but she is stronger than them.' Arthur thought, 'No wonder they are so afraid of her. Besides, it seems the system only shows relationship status for those with whom I have an actual relationship with.'
Ron, who had questioned Alice, frowned when he heard her, and the way he looked at Arthur changed. Now it had hints of hostility. The same was true for Dan, but he hid it well.
Arthur noticed this and couldn't help but curse in his mind. 'Damn it! I hope you won't try to harm me on the way.'
Sighing, he opened his status to see what effect the pill he just ate had on his health because he wasn't feeling lightheaded and weakness like before.
[Health: 5/10]
'Hm? It only increased 4 health points, but from their expressions just now, it seemed the pill was something very precious.' He thought after seeing his health bar.
Suddenly,
[Health: 4/10]
'What? Why is it decreasing?' Arthur almost shouted.
In response, a new panel opened in front of him.
< The healing pill's effects are being countered by the poison.>
'Poison? I'm poisoned?' Arthur finally understood why he had died.
Alice noticed Arthur's expression and worriedly asked, "Are you alright, big brother?"
Arthur snapped out of his thoughts and nodded, "I'm alright. Don't worry." He then asked, "Can you take me to my home? I don't remember where I live."
"Of course, big brother." Alice nodded, but the worry in her eyes never waned as she thought, 'What happened to big brother, which made him lose his memories? Is it his cousins' doing?'
She shook her head and stopped thinking about it and said, "Stay near me, big brother, so I can help you in case there is some danger."
"Yes." Arthur nodded and followed her closely.
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After an hour, the group walked out of the forest.
Arthur had fear in his eyes and thanked his lucky starts that he encountered Alice or he alone would've died countless time before he could walk out of the forest because on the way out, they encountered many ferocious beasts. Fortunately, Alice was strong enough to deal with them, so they didn't have any problem.
Another thing to note was that Arthur's health points had fallen back to 1, but fortunately, it didn't go lower than that, making him sigh in relief.
After coming out of the forest, they could see a big city in the distance.
Alice pointed at it said, "That's the Dragon abode city, big brother. Your family rules it."
"Hm? Junior sister, you mean he is someone from the Dragonheart family?" Dan asked when he heard her.
Alice sighed and nodded. "Yes."
"Then why was he in the forest with no guards? Wouldn't he have died if we didn't find him?" He asked, surprised. Every family noble family assigns a few guards to keep their younger generation safe. Especially if they were to venture into the dangerous forest. But Arthur didn't have anyone.
Alice glanced at Arthur and shook her head, not answering.
Arthur, who was also paying attention, wanting to glean some information out of her, was disappointed.
Dan glanced at Arthur and seemed to have understood something, as a mocking expression briefly flashed past his eyes.
Arthur frowned when he noticed this.
Then the group headed to the city. Two meters thick and over ten meters tall wall surrounded it.
'It must be to protect the city from the beasts.' Arthur thought.
As they arrived at the entrance, the guards stopped them.
They glanced at Alice and others and they noticed Arthur, a surprised expression appeared in their eyes.
One of the guards glanced at his fellow guard before hurrying inside the city, while the remaining one bowed toward Arthur. "Greetings young Lord. I apologize for not recognizing you just now."
Arthur could see that although he had bowed toward him, there was no respect in his eyes, only disdain and mockery.
[Guard of the Dragonheart family]
[Level 5]
[Cultivation: Skin tempering realm (5th stage)
[Health: 60/60]
"It's alright. Now can we enter?" Arthur asked, while thinking, 'Are they looking down on me just because I'm weak despite being a member of the Dragonheart family?'
From the cultivation novels he had read, even your servants wouldn't respect you if you were weak.
The guard didn't answer him and asked instead, "If you don't mind, young Lord, who are these three?"
Alice stepped forward and released her energy to show her cultivation base. "I'm from the Rosewood family and these two are my senior brother from sect. Now, move aside."
The guard sweated when he realized she was in a whole cultivation realm above him and when he heard she was someone from the Rosewood family, his demeanor became respectful.
"I apologize for the offense, young miss. Please enter." He said, while stepping to the side.
Although the Dragonheart family was the strongest and ruled over the city, the Rosewood family wasn't much weaker in comparison which was clear by the fact that it was still residing in the city despite having an enmity with the Dragonheart family while the most of the other families which used to have enmities with the Dragonheart family were either killed or driven out of the city.
"Hmph!" Alice snorted and glanced at Arthur. "Let's go, big brother."
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Meanwhile, the guard had arrived in front of the Dragonheart family's residence and then went to one of the biggest buildings and said to the guards,
"Please inform second Lord that the 'young Lord' Arthur had returned… alive."
"Hm? Is that true?" One of the guards asked him.
"Yes, he just entered the city." The city guard answered before walking away while the guard guarding the building opened the door and entered. Walking over to a large room, he kneeled on one knee at the entrance and said,
"My lord. I just received news that 'young Lord' Arthur has returned alive."