Chapter 1152: Tsara and Arte

Jason clicked his tongue in annoyance when he heard all this, and he waved towards the prisons in annoyance.

"Open this and take the bag off."

Malovena immediately nodded, and she put in the code to open the prison gate. The two children flinched and quickly began to shuffle away when they heard her entering, and the girl let out a scream of fear when Malovena knelt down to touch her shoulder. The girl started waving her hand around desperately, trying to get Malovena to leave them alone, but there was no way a little girl could stop someone as powerful as Malovena, and Malovena simply took the bag off the girl’s head and stepped away.

It hit Jason like a fucking truck. A beauty unlike anything he had ever seen in his life. The moment Jason laid eyes on the girl’s face, he was able to immediately understand why the men in these ships had all lost their minds. She was an ethereal figure of pure radiance that sent a jolt of shock right through Jason’s body like an arrow, and there was a sudden, undeniable desire to have this girl for himself that surged through Jason’s body. Jason immediately grit his teeth and let out a long, harsh breath as he slowly forced the feeling to move away from him. Jason knew that the feeling wasn’t real, so it was easy for him to separate it from his real thoughts.

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The system has noticed a magical sensory overload aimed at the user’s mental faculties.

This overload has been identified as a threat to system functionalities.

The sensory attack will be analysed.

Analysing...

Analysing...

Analysing...

Analysing...

Analysis complete.

The system has identified the overload as a powerful form of Vision-Based Mind Control.

The system will set up the necessary mental defences to safeguard the user’s mind against this Magical Attack.

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Jason let out a calm breath when he read these system messages, and Jason sent a silent word of gratitude to the system before he looked back at the girl. This time, Jason could still feel the urge to be with her coming from deep inside him, but it was barely there anymore since the system had blocked out most of it, and just ignoring it allowed Jason to get rid of the rest. Jason finally gave the girl a proper look, and he nodded. Although she was still beautiful, now that her power didn’t work on him anymore, Jason didn’t have the same thoughts of her being more beautiful than any woman he had ever seen. Jason knew that any of his girls would easily beat her when it came to looks.

’She’s just a kid.’

Although the girl was around Jason’s age, she looked so scared and tiny that Jason couldn’t help but think that she was just a child. Jason let out another calm breath, and he walked forward and faced the two terrified kids. The girl was still holding her brother tight, and Jason spoke to them with a small smile.

"Hello, my name is Jason. You don’t need to be afraid. You’re safe."

’They don’t understand the general language, master. They speak the Terras language.’

Malovena sent this to Jason, and Jason hummed as his system brought up the prompt for new languages.

[Would the user like to acquire the [Terras] tongue? Yes/No?]

Jason chose yes, and he felt a familiar sensation travelling over his tongue before he crouched and spoke to the kids again.

"Hello, my name is Jason."

This time, both kids were stunned by Jason’s words, and the girl’s eyes widened as she said:

"Y-You speak our language?"

Jason hummed with a small smile.

"Something like that. I’m the new captain of this ship, so you don’t need to worry about anything."

The girl nodded, and she hugged her brother closer while greeting Jason in a soft, pleasant voice.

"M-My name is Tsara, and this is Arte. We were taken from our world by the woman. Please don’t hurt us..."

Jason shook his head and waved Malovena away when he noticed that the two of them couldn’t relax while she was there. Malovena fell into the shadow and left, and Jason smiled when he saw Tsara and Arte visibly relax.

"I’m not going to hurt you. I’m going to help you get back home. So I need you to trust me."

The girl suddenly turned to her little brother, and he gave her a meaningful look while nodding. Once she saw this, Tsara immediately knew that Jason was telling the truth. Arte’s ability allowed him to see through lies and deception easily, so there was no one in the world who could lie to him. If Arte said Jason was telling the truth, then it was true. Tsara let out a breath, and she nodded to Jason. Jason smiled at both of them before he stood back up and walked out to speak to Stella.

"Take them up to the bathroom and help them wash up. They should be harmless, but don’t let down your guard for anything. When you’re done, give them some rooms to sleep, and you should try to get some rest as well. You look exhausted."

Jason patted Stella’s shoulder with a worried look when he said this, and Stella blushed slightly when she realised that her master had seen through her. Although Stella had been moving with Jason and Valeria for a while now, she hadn’t had a wink of sleep in more than two days, so she was already very tired. Stella nodded quickly, and Jason pat her softly on the head before he began making his way up to the cockpit once more. When Jason got up there, he saw Valeria sitting in the captain’s seat with a large map laid out on her lap, but her head had fallen back on the headrest, and she had somehow fallen asleep in the middle of plotting their route.

Jason scoffed in amusement as he walked up to Valeria and gently put his hands behind her shoulders and under her knees.

"!"

Valeria suddenly jolted awake once she felt someone touch her, and she reached for her sword. But then she realised who it was, and her body relaxed as Jason smiled at her.

"Just rest, you’re okay. I’ll take you to a room."

This was all Jason said as he continued to lift her up. Usually, Valeria wouldn’t allow anyone to touch her like this. As a mercenary, Valeria had been living a very dangerous lifestyle, and she was always watching out for danger at every turn. But at the moment, Valeria didn’t feel like she needed to keep her guard up. Valeria had a strange, unexplainable level of trust for Jason, something she had never experienced before. Valeria knew that this trust she felt wasn’t just because Jason was her half-brother. Valeria had known Harold for much longer, and she had never trusted him this much. But with Jason, everything just seemed easier, and that was the only reason why Valeria slowly closed her eyes and allowed Jason to take her into his arms.

Jason carried Valeria to one of the many bedrooms in the ship, and he put her down on the bed in there before he headed back to the cockpit and took the captain’s seat again. Jason picked up the map, and he began looking through it to try to understand what Valeria had been plotting. The map was an extensive graph of the entire Zeroth Domain with important sites and worlds highlighted with various colours. Valeria had circled and drawn lines across the map while writing notes beside some worlds.

There was one world where she wrote ’restock supplies’ beside it, and another world where she wrote ’avoid pirates’. Each of her marks was made in a way that would allow them to get to their destination as quickly as possible.