Run Away Villian

Wandering knight

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"What kind of sorcery is this?" Muttered Rosh to his self as he entered the forest where he and the boy usually hang out to practice his  magic and swordmanship in secret.

There are strings everywhere that was connected to to various stick stuck on the ground.

But what caught Rosh  attention was at the other  end of string was where the boy was sitting. Mumbling to his self while writing something on his notebook.

"So if i my calculations is right, my mana if converted will be at least 12 liters as a fuel for the phoenix to travel. And according to my experiment, 12 liters of mana makes me able to   makes the phoenix travel for less than 5 kilometers. If i divided 12 liters of mana to 5 kilometers that total consumption of mana per kilometer will be 2.4" muttered Knox to his self as he write it down on  his notebook

Rosh who doesn't understand what the boy was doing was left speechless by all the numbers he is joting down on the paper.

Have this kid gone senile form being unable to set foot outside?

"What kind of stuff have you been up to, you brat?" Question Rosh that caught the attention of the boy.

"What?" Ask Knox as he was unable to hear what Rosh just ask.

But instead of answering the boy's question, Rosh was once again speechless when he saw the boy's current state.

With big and dark eye bags on under his eyes, a face of a person who have been deprived of sleep and food. And the once lovely eyes who is now dull because of over working.

"When was the last time you sleep?" Rosh ask unintentionally.

The two was envelope in silence after what Rosh said.  It last for a few minutes before Knox decided to answer.

"I don't know" He muttered

"What do you mean you don't know?! And when was the last time you eat? You look like a stick!" Scold Rosh but Knox didn't answer but instead rummage through his pockets and show him a few jerkies wrap in a piece of cloth.

"Are you telling me this is all that you are eating this passed few days?!!. That's not even a good!!" Scolded Rosh but Knox was to tired to even understand what he was saying. All he can see was Rosh repeatedly barking at him without a word coming out of his mouth.

"You want some?" Offered Knox as he try to handed the jerkies to Rosh.

"This brat-" Unable to contain his frustration anymore Rosh teleported to the manor's kitchen.

He put an invisibility spell to passed by the busy people and sneakily take a basket full of bread and a pitcher of water.

He then cast a spell of teleportation again to go back to the forest.

He was gasping and panting as he use too much mana from casting three spell  consecutively.

That brat better be thankful to me. I use quite a lot of mana i manage to store just to get him some food.

Rosh then start to walk towards the boy who was still busy mumbling to his self.

"Eat" He muttered as he put down the basket of bread that he've been biting in order to bring to him.

Knox who's mind was somewhere else because of his deprivation of sleep and food just stare at the newly baked bread.

"I said eat" Muttered Rosh in a louder tone that woke up the wondering mind of Knox.