The Return of the Mad Witch
The Eastern Calestine Region

Four days passed after Valencia last met Reibert. This morning, as usual Valencia had breakfast with Henzo before the father set out to go portal conquest. It's been a long time since Henzo's last time traveled far doing his job. His goal of conquering the portal was to test his strength.

"How many days are you going to do the conquest?" valencia asked, bribing bread.

"About one week, I'll be back sooner if the conquest can be completed without obstacles" Henzo replied.

"Then has everything been prepared? Don't forget to bring potions. I have made a special potion for the knights of the mansion."

"Yes, take it easy, it's been taken care of by Arian."

After breakfast, Valencia left to deliver Henzo's departure to the front gate of the mansion. Henzo refused to use the horse-drawn carriage. As a result, the horse carriage only serves as a carrier of goods only.

"I go first, if there's anything bad please let me know right away" Henzo said.

"Alright, be careful on the road, Dad."

Valencia waved his hand towards Henzo. While the mansion will be a little quieter as the knights who usually make a fuss are brought by Henzo to the field of conquest.

"What should I do today? I hope nothing big happens."

Valencia continues a number of jobs that are still piling up on his desk. He is assisted by Arian who happens to not participate in the portal conquest. He chose to stay in the mansion rather than be affected by Henzo's insanity.

"Miss, in one of the Archduke's territories there is a problem. There is a shortage of water supply and also a prolonged dry season occurs there. Is there a solution we can do?" ask Arian while explaining the situation from the related region.

"Where is that?"

"The eastern region of Calestine, there are several villages, because the Archduke is away, so I think you should handle this quickly before it takes a lot of casualties."

Valencia thought for a moment, he thought about the eastern region that Arian said. Indeed, the region for two months was exposed to uncertain weather constraints. However, the dry season that is currently being hit causes the water supply to be reduced.

"All right, let me handle it later. I have a solution to solve it."

After deciding it, Valencia immediately prepared to immediately leave for the eastern region. He would ride Black again today because the distance of the eastern region was not too far away. It's just that the road has to go through the wilderness.

"Valencia, I heard you're going to the east side of Calestine."

From a distance Xeros ran towards Valencia. Today I saw him visit the Archduke Calestine residence.

"Yes, why? Do you want to come with me? That's also if your schedule is empty today" Valencia said, offering Xeros to go with him.

Xeros face turned bright, he nodded enthusiastically.

"Yes, I want to come with you. Can I?"

"Of course we can, but we're out there riding horses. Take your horse first, I'll wait for you here."

"All right, wait a minute."

Xeros is very excited to go with Valencia. Moreover, there was no other man on the side of Valencia other than him at the moment. After Xeros returned to retrieve his horse, the two of them immediately set off together. In addition to them, Valencia also invited four female knights to go to the eastern region of Calestine.

The rush of Valencia's arrival to the eastern region of Calestine spread rapidly to the ears of every village in the region. They are preparing to welcome Valencia as they believe that Valencia can handle the problems they face at the time.

It did not take long, finally Valencia reached the eastern region. His condition is very concerning. As a result of the dry season, they cannot grow plants such as vegetables and fruit. They survived these two months with only the help of Henzo.

"Miss, meet me Tommy, a baron who helps the Archduke oversee the east."

A middle-aged man claimed to be a nobleman who was under Henzo's orders. Tommy interceded between Henzo and the east. He's the one reporting all kinds of problems going on there.

"Hello, Baron. Please briefly describe the current situation" Valencia said.

"Before that, I will show you the condition of the fields where the citizens usually work."

Tommy takes Valencia and Xeros to a very barren land. The land is usually used as a field to harvest various types of plants.

"No, Miss. This is very strange, whereas in other regions it does not fuse this. It is only in this region that the drought has made the livelihoods of the citizens cut off."

"Where is the source of the water in this region?"

"From the river, now the river is dry."

Valencia thought for a moment, indeed a phenomenon that is quite strange when thought.

"Then, please wait a minute, let me first check the situation around."

Valencia pulled Xeros' hand to get closer, it seemed like there was something Valencia wanted to talk about.

"Xeros, can you accompany me to the river? There seems to be something causing rainwater not to fall in the region" Valencia said.

"To the river? All right, let's go there."

They both went together to the river which became the main water source of the residents. As the people say, the river water is very clear. That is why residents can use their river water as their daily source of clean water.

They checked the river thoroughly. Then Xeros found a green-colored clam shell in the thickets that grew on the banks of the river.

"I found something" said Xeros.

"What did you find?"

"It." Xeros handed the shell to Valencia to be examined by the girl.

The shell shell was no ordinary shell, there was a flow of magic energy felt from the shell. It only took a few seconds until Valencia knew what kind of shell it was.

"Ah, it is appropriate that rain water does not fall and the river water becomes dry. This shell shell is one of the dangerous magic artifacts because it can absorb water and stop rain. This way the problem is solved."

"Now that the problem is over, should we go back?" xeros asked as he invited Valencia back to the village.

"All right, let's go back."

There Tommy had been waiting for Valencia, he immediately approached Valencia and asked for his continuation.

"How, Miss? Do you have a solution?" ask Tommy.

"Just calm down, Baron. Soon it will rain, look up at the sky."

Tommy raised his head up into the sky, a black cloud approaching the eastern sky.

"Right, the rain will fall. How do you do it?"

"There's nothing special that I do, it's just that there's something that seems to stop the rain from coming down."

A few seconds later, the rain fell so fast. The entire population rejoiced to see the water drenching the eastern region.

"Xeros, I'm gonna take a little nap. Later we return to the capital," Valencia said drowsiness began to attack him.

"Well, I'll wait for you to wake up."

Valencia slept on the sofa he was sitting on, right next to Xeros. The girl was exhausted from a lack of sleep last night to finish her job. Xeros was endlessly staring at Valencia in the face.

'Why does it feel different to Valencia? This girl gave off a warm feeling, but she was often unaware of it, Xeros inner self.

His hand slowly touched Valencia's cheek. A brief kiss landed on Valencia's lips.

'Maybe this is the reason why I like it.'