There was literally no one in this world that wouldn't change his opinion of me if I presented him a weapon of such quality. Just from the fact that Eve casually cut through the treasured sword of the Natural's sect genius without any slightest intention to do so with it, showed how great of a weapon it was!

While initially, the city mayor was rather cold toward us, when he realised that we really intended to leave him with the sword, his attitude turned one hundred eighty degrees around. Complementing Eve which made her blush from pleasure, inquiring whether we required any sort of help with the auction… As long as it wasn't just a facade, if not counting for his help, I could at least stop being wary of his actions for a moment.

After all the pleasantries and formalities were fulfilled, we swiftly left the premises of this grand mansion, with Jelier even proposing to prepare a suitable room for us for the time that we would stay in the city.

Refusing with the reason that we were already used to our room in the hotel and hinting at some other, more ambiguous reasons that pointed his direction towards Lucia's relationship with us. Truth to be told, while the location of the hotel was the big point that pushed me to refuse his generous offer, I simply didn't want to owe him anything or let him have any control over our daily lives.

Leaving the mansion didn't mean that we were out of its premises. We had to travel for an entire five minutes while stretching our legs to match the tempo of the guards! While it wasn't their fault for simply being higher than either me or Eve, but they could at least try to pay any attention to us as they walked! I know they were our escorts, but were they angry at us for some reason making them eager to either make things hard or poke fun at us?

Just as I was about to get really annoyed by their small mishap, we finally approached the gate and left the vast garden area. While I expected them to turn their steps to the normal speed that they used while guiding us towards the mansion, they did so only after we took three diffrent turns!

"What the hell is wrong with you? Do we really need to hurry so much?"

Even if my words were kind of harsh, I made my voice to sound more jokingly than scornfully. Only when I saw their trembling faces did I realise that something was wrong.

"You really never was to the Natural's sect… While I can't say anything for certain, you should be advised that after visiting it just once, some things will be awakened in you, while you won't be able to look at other pleasures with happiness ever again!"

Their eyes looking like the ones belonging to the fish pulled from its natural habitat long ago, their faces as tense as if they were soldiers facing the charge of a legendary winged cavalry of the Polish Commonwealth…

"But why the hurry then? Shouldn't you try to postpone the meeting for as long as you can?"

While I could understand their point of view. If someone saw something utterly destructive for them, they wouldn't want to see it ever again. But just like I asked them, shouldn't they try to push this for later, or even change with some other people for this task?

"Mister, you don't understand. When we learned that you wanted to set out the first thing in the morning, we blessed your wisdom. But after all this time that we spent in the City Lord's mansion, if we won't hurry, we won't get there before they daily training activities will start!"

As if recalling something awful, the face of one of the guards turned colourful just as if he was about to vomit. Maybe this was just my impression or maybe this guys just showed some grit, but after swallowing a mouthful of saliva, his face seemed to settle up.

"I get it. Lead the way then."

Even if everything that they told was vague for some reason, I could imagine what were the things that disgusted them to the point of throwing up. While I hoped that the Natural's word connections that appeared in the head of someone from the earth were wrong and audacious, I had to take into consideration the option that my wild guess was sadly correct.

While some people might think that nude beaches are a god-sent gift for all humanity, that only means they never were to one. Same thing with the ultra-hot, mixed-gender saunas, where you were simply forbidden from wearing any clothing as to prevent you from getting injured. Only those who never approached such places were naive enough to believe them to be a place that one would even want to be in!

I was struck with the reality when I was once on a nude beach in the Balkans, in Europe. With the tickets to the other continent already costing us quite a lot, my family could afford the famous hotels of the Gulden Sands on the insanely popular coast, but out a way of vacationing was way diffrent than the others.

Instead of renting out the room in advance, we preferred to just arrive at the airport, rent the car from a predesignated company for two weeks, pack the tents and some basic survival kits to the back of the car and go with the flow! Staying wherever the night caught us, looking for the signs claiming there were free rooms available…

Compared to those who enjoyed the calm life in the luxury in the four and five-star hotels of the Gulden sands, we preferred the feeling of adventure! And it was this feeling that made my parents rent a camping spot nearby this famous beach. Just a three kilometres away by the road, or a single kilometre if one were to be brave enough to venture through the coast.

But what does walking on the sandy beach has to do with the bravery? Yep, just like you guessed, this entire kilometre of coast stretching between our campsite and the Gulden Sands was a single, big, nude beach!

While we made this trip when I was only twelve, some instincts were already awakening with me, not to speak about simple fact that with my body already bigger than it should be, making the four kilometre's walk on the road was a task at the same level as climbing the top of the Mount Everest.

It was on that day when I learned in the most painful way, who did frequent the nude beaches. It was also the day when I learned how ugly both male and female body could turn upon reaching the elderly age!

With my hopes of experiencing the youth shattered by the sight too gruesome to describe, I could say that I developed a specific resistance to this kind of view. No matter what one would like to say, this world inhabitants were far more beautiful and young looking than your average earthling!

Even if I was hopeful, I still prepared myself mentally for what was about to happen when we arrived at the enormous gate leading to the land of the Natural Edge Sect. It was time to verify how bad the situation inside would be!