The lucario was was regaining consciousness. I gave the healer a story of him being a victim attack. I walked over to the cot and shook his shoulder.

"Hey, wake up. I don't have the time to just hang around here."

He finally woke up. "What? Where are my swords?"

I held them up. "I took them. Here's the deal, you can come with me, and I won't charge you. Then, you can keep your sword. It's almost like being paid."

Mercelo eyes opened wide. "You mean you actually accept me as your guard, even after I tried to rob you?"

"Your not my guard. I need someone who can sense hostile parties. I'm going into more dangerous places. If you defending me in a fight, then you failed at you job." With these words grab the blades and handed him the hilts of his swords.

"I can do more than just sense. I'm have many other skills," Mercelo offered standing up and sheathing his swords.

"Are you experienced with bartering," I asked.

"Very much so," he said.

I held out the bag. "Is this enough for a slave?"

"I suppose. Do you even know how to appraise the value of money. It won't be enough for top slave. What kind of slave are you talking about?" Mercelo asked.

"Well, he's nearly a head taller than me, strong, no elemental skills, and I want to buy him before he gets processed. I been trying to intercept the traders on their way to Geirdina."

The self-styled bard stood back. "Geirdinian slave trader? Do you know what they do to women? Who are you trying to buy, or rescue? A family member? A brother?"

"Yes, it's my brother. He was captured by slavers during a raid, and they do unspeakable things to the male slaves as well. Such an act would be a death sentence in my own land."

"And you trust a former bandit to help you with such a task?"

"You're a man of your word." I grabbed his hand and pulled him outside. "Do you know the best way to go."

"Yes, I will lead you to Geirdina," he said. "I will also do my best to protect you and save your brother. You have my swords."

"Well, I'm not impressed with your sword fighting. You do realized that I wasn't even using any of my abilities," I said. "I am the best sword master in my village as well as axe master. There is no shortage of warriors from where I'm from."

"Elements infusion?"

"Only three: Ice, fire, and lightning," I listed.

"You do know that those are that those are all the elements that conduct through metals?"

"Are you sure?"

"Well, there's psychic with telekinensis. Then there's dragon and aura with doesn't interact with non living things well. There's also grass, water, fighting, steel, ground, rock, bug, ghost, flying, fairy and poison. Of all seventeen types, only three of them are conductive," Mercelo said.

What, aura is different from fighting and typeless don't count?

"Well, not everything is agreed upon but it's well know that there are three conductive types? Usually, only a dragon type masters all the elements after many years, and you're a very young typeless."

My sword was one my waist on his side. I grabbed it and make lightning goes through it. Then I made the end burn. After that, I made it glowed blue and white vapors came from it.

He was no longer watching were he was going. "Well," the lucario said. "I guess I'm nowhere near your skill."

"It took you this long to realized this?" I said.