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fit. He had been able to alleviate this by taking four people with him instead of just two, but it quickly drained him of his MP so he hadn’t really be able to train the ability much in the past few days. When he was in the inn, he had used the ability to move himself across the room, but since most of his MP went into making poison he didn’t have much left to train with. Thankfully it didn’t take as long as Ash had thought it would and he figured that they would have the last of the glass bottles filled with a few more days and that would free up much more MP for his personal training.
    Having already read most of the books he had brought with him twice over, Ash passed the time talking to his wives. He had wanted to get to know them better, but it seemed rather forced when they were in the back of the carriage. Not that he was making them talk to him, but that he was only doing so to alleviate the boredom that was pressing down on him and most of their conversations seemed to lack intimacy.
    It was during one such talk that Seia nervously asked Ash something that had been at the forefront of her mind as of late. “My lord, why did you decide to visit the king within the borders of his own lands?” Seia asked while fidgeting one day. “Wouldn’t it have been better to send anyone else? I know you explained your reasons, but I can see many other options. At the very least, you could meet in a neutral place between the two lands?”
    “Those are really good questions,” Ash admitted. “There are a number of options, but we had limited time. The king’s declaration was nothing more than a statement that meant that he was preparing for a full scale war and while I am sure we could win, the damages on both side would be great.”
    “Then we should start bringing in more troops and preparing for war instead of spending the time to move slowly across the country to meet with a foolish old man,” Tolarea said in a slightly annoyed tone.
    “I don’t mind fighting if I have to, but there is too great of a chance that the other kingdoms would join in the war. They would see the demons as a common enemy if we show aggression too readily. With the short time we were given, the best choice was for me to go myself. As you said, we could have asked for a neutral meeting ground, but there really isn’t such a thing. There is no way the king would come to the Hawkwing duchy so the best we could manage would be meeting in one of the neighboring duchies near the border, but we would have to meet on his terms.
    I will not say that I am much of a political mind, but I have been studying as much as I can the past weeks about past wars and I believe that I made the best choice with the limited options given to me. I am sure there are a number of better ones, but I am just too inexperienced to know what they are.”
    “I understand my lord, but why go all the way to the capital? His forces are sure to be overwhelming and should he decide we could easily lose our lives.”
    “That could happen, but I doubt it,” Ash said with a pensive look on his face. In truth, that notion had been haunting his dreams since they left the duchy. He didn’t mind losing his own life to stop a war, but he wasn’t sure he could bare to lose anyone dear to him. It amazed him at what people were willing to die for and what people were willing to fight for. More often than not, it was to protect the same people who would fight to protect them. “That is the reason that we are traveling in a marked carriage rather than flying there in a few days. We are making a show of ourselves. If the king acts then there is not a noble alive that would ever trust his word again. That is the reason that the knights that attacked us earlier were disguised. They want to get rid of us, but in a way that cannot point back to the origin. If we can find proof that the king ordered our death while on our way for a peaceful negotiation then even if we are forced into a