Chapter 273: 039 – Chained
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Name: Reyna Kurt
Status: Pseudo Second Grade/Adept – sixth stage
Affiliations: House Kurt
Current realm: The Mortal Realm
Body: 700 (locked)
Mana: 2632 (elementary energy cultivation technique)
Mind: 700 (locked)
---
No matter how long she looked at Lirian, that feeling of trepidation remained, wrapping itself all around her very being.
She brought her hand to Lirian's face and did several probes into his body to check if he had any cultivation at all, but there was nothing at all not even a slight trace of energy.
Yet she still couldn't shake the feeling that he was the cause of this disaster, the little bits of her logic that was working, was screaming danger and begging her to kill him then and there, but she couldn't bring herself to issue the command.
She was feeling a little overwhelmed and decided to retreat, besides she needed to take a breath, she had been holding her breath and speaking for a while, and the stench from dozens of barrels of ale was making her eyes water.
Reyna finally felt like her mind cleared up a little when she got a good distance away from Lirian, the soldiers could clearly see that she was slightly shaken but they didn't voice their thoughts, for fear of earning their captain's anger.
"My last question, you still haven't answered it, what happened here?" she asked.
"kekekeke," Lirian gave a heart jeering laugh, "I happened of courseeeee," he said with a crooked smile.
"Youuuu had to… be here to understand," Lirian said, "You should have…hic… seen how I cut all of them down, and rained fire upon their homes,"
"Heads rolled, and limbs flew, but nothing… hic… beat the blood that fell like rain, in the end… hic… this god turned them all turned into particles of white light," Lirian explained with a crazed laugh.
The soldiers let of hysterical laughs at what Lirian said, there wasn't even a single dead body or a drop of blood anywhere naturally they thought that he was just rambling like a mad man, meanwhile cold shudders passed through Reyna's body, unexplainably she believed his every word, but her common sense was saying that it was impossible.
Reyna swiped her hands through the air and Lirian was suddenly ejected from the ground, "Chain him up and lock him in the cage, toss him in a watering trough to get rid of the stench if you have too," Reyna ordered as she turned around.
Her mind was feeling far to clouded for some reason, there was just something about Lirian's presence in this ghost town that turned her mind into a swirling mess of chaos, she had no idea if she should take anything he said seriously or not.
A light smirk crossed Lirian's face as he was released from the earth and the pillory that restrained him was released.
Blood ran down his skin from where the pillory dug into his skin, but he didn't mind, by the look of things he was going to get what he wanted.
After reading through Cassy's memories and Reyna's Lirian learned some very interesting things about the noble's structure and how they kept control of the cultivators.
The viewpoints of Reyna a legitimate noble and Cassy a noble who had lost all his backing for being born as the seventh child and had to come up with his own means to become a cultivator was quite enlightening to say the least.
Due to the toxin in the worlds breath, the general populace was incapable of cultivating, however the nobles had a means to counter the toxin.
In all the important nobles territories they had special rooms, built with top quality materials and thousands of layered enchantments that allowed the toxin to be filtered from worlds energy.
Even as a spell caster Reyna didn't know the spells required to create the room or the necessary materials.
With the creation of these rooms the nobles found an opportunity to not only control and monitor the general populace of cultivators but it was also turned into an enormous money making scheme for the nobles.
The first obstacle to all cultivation was the need to attain 25 gold coins to obtain an elementary grade body cultivation technique or 200 gold coins to get an elementary grade spell caster cultivation techniques.
As for spiritist techniques Lirian found no price tag for them, but he did learn that they could only be found in the main cities and the capital, and that those with access to spiritist cultivation techniques were only major nobles and the royal family.
Gathering 25 gold was a life long goal that most people were unable to achieve if they lived ordinary lives, which inspired hundreds of thousands of people every year to become adventures, seeking out opportunities and riches.
Not only did it motivate people to train and become stronger, but the requirement of a letter of merit from an important individual also kept them on their best behaviour.
Most adventures would end up dying or becoming some soldier in the nobles army's when they gave up on the chance to collect 25 gold coins, which served the interests of the nobles.
And those few that managed to become a cultivator every year would be caught in the grand trap of the nobles.
Because ultimately every cultivator would have to return to the nobles in order to cultivate and they had to pay a fee of 30 coppers for a single days use of a room.
The time required to cultivate only grew with every level, so ultimately it would cost all cultivators thousands in gold just to build up a decent cultivation.
Meanwhile the nobles could freely use the rooms as they pleased, and should they ever discover a cultivator that caught their interest, they could rope them in or get rid of them with ease.
The common cultivators were basically slaves to the nobles without even realising it, it was a perfect system for noble supremacy.
But the interesting thing that Lirian found in Reyna's memories was that there was no actual restriction on releasing that information, in fact it was pretty common knowledge to adventures.
Had Lirian not seen Cassy's memories he would have been completely confused, because he remembered that caravan guard who was a cultivator exploding when he tried to speak about the method of cultivation.
As it turned out that caravan guard was likely someone associated with Unity in some way, in Cassy's memories after being abandoned by his family Cassy tried his luck at being an adventurer, but it was proving difficult for him to grow stronger.
That was when he sought out Unity a terror group that aimed to destabilise the system of the nobles.
Cassy only met one person from Unity his handler Sire, when he expressed his interest in joining Unity, she knocked him unconscious and dumped him in a cultivation chamber.
He didn't have any idea where he was taken but he accepted the cultivation technique and dutifully cultivated for two years before they released him and assigned him the task of taking Willcolly.
But before he left she presented him with an oath disc that prevented him from leaking any intel, and should he speak he would explode and become minced meat.
He was also granted a letter of merit from some blacksmith and a certification of him being a genuine cultivator.
From what Lirian saw this terror group Unity was no small matter, they had to have power over at least one local lord to forge a cultivators certification.
But Lirian highly doubted that they had only one, from the looks of things the reason they wanted Cassy to take over the village was to establish someone with a little authority over the area and someone who could create legitimate letters of merit.
This group called Unity definitely had big goals and a firm footing in the region, they were either trying to take over the region or fill the region with spies, either way they caught Lirian's attention in a big way.
But before Lirian made any contact with them he needed to establish his cultivation and the place he needed to get into was one of those rooms in the Kurt estate.
Lirian figured that if he went caravan raiding again it would be easy for him to gather the necessary gold coins, but obtaining a letter of merit was going to be a troublesome task, in the sense that it would take to much time.
These soldier from House Kurt arrived at the most opportune time, he needed to get in and get close to those cultivation chambers, if he could just analyse those rooms, he was certain to be able to find a way to replicate the rooms effects and use it to his advantage.
Lirian remained lost in thought as the soldiers brough the watering troughs used for the animals to drink water and splashed him, to wash away the horrendous smell he was emitting, when that was done they locked his hands in chains and dragged him to the huge steel cage they were dragging along.
As the steel gate of the cage clamped shut Lirian heard the system ring in his head.
[Ding]
[Threat detected on your fate string, Level: Extremely Fatal]
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Name: Reyna Kurt
Status: Pseudo Second Grade/Adept – sixth stage
Affiliations: House Kurt
Current realm: The Mortal Realm
Body: 700 (locked)
Mana: 2632 (elementary energy cultivation technique)
Mind: 700 (locked)
---
No matter how long she looked at Lirian, that feeling of trepidation remained, wrapping itself all around her very being.
She brought her hand to Lirian's face and did several probes into his body to check if he had any cultivation at all, but there was nothing at all not even a slight trace of energy.
Yet she still couldn't shake the feeling that he was the cause of this disaster, the little bits of her logic that was working, was screaming danger and begging her to kill him then and there, but she couldn't bring herself to issue the command.
She was feeling a little overwhelmed and decided to retreat, besides she needed to take a breath, she had been holding her breath and speaking for a while, and the stench from dozens of barrels of ale was making her eyes water.
Reyna finally felt like her mind cleared up a little when she got a good distance away from Lirian, the soldiers could clearly see that she was slightly shaken but they didn't voice their thoughts, for fear of earning their captain's anger.
"My last question, you still haven't answered it, what happened here?" she asked.
"kekekeke," Lirian gave a heart jeering laugh, "I happened of courseeeee," he said with a crooked smile.
"Youuuu had to… be here to understand," Lirian said, "You should have…hic… seen how I cut all of them down, and rained fire upon their homes,"
"Heads rolled, and limbs flew, but nothing… hic… beat the blood that fell like rain, in the end… hic… this god turned them all turned into particles of white light," Lirian explained with a crazed laugh.
The soldiers let of hysterical laughs at what Lirian said, there wasn't even a single dead body or a drop of blood anywhere naturally they thought that he was just rambling like a mad man, meanwhile cold shudders passed through Reyna's body, unexplainably she believed his every word, but her common sense was saying that it was impossible.
Reyna swiped her hands through the air and Lirian was suddenly ejected from the ground, "Chain him up and lock him in the cage, toss him in a watering trough to get rid of the stench if you have too," Reyna ordered as she turned around.
Her mind was feeling far to clouded for some reason, there was just something about Lirian's presence in this ghost town that turned her mind into a swirling mess of chaos, she had no idea if she should take anything he said seriously or not.
A light smirk crossed Lirian's face as he was released from the earth and the pillory that restrained him was released.
Blood ran down his skin from where the pillory dug into his skin, but he didn't mind, by the look of things he was going to get what he wanted.
After reading through Cassy's memories and Reyna's Lirian learned some very interesting things about the noble's structure and how they kept control of the cultivators.
The viewpoints of Reyna a legitimate noble and Cassy a noble who had lost all his backing for being born as the seventh child and had to come up with his own means to become a cultivator was quite enlightening to say the least.
Due to the toxin in the worlds breath, the general populace was incapable of cultivating, however the nobles had a means to counter the toxin.
In all the important nobles territories they had special rooms, built with top quality materials and thousands of layered enchantments that allowed the toxin to be filtered from worlds energy.
Even as a spell caster Reyna didn't know the spells required to create the room or the necessary materials.
With the creation of these rooms the nobles found an opportunity to not only control and monitor the general populace of cultivators but it was also turned into an enormous money making scheme for the nobles.
The first obstacle to all cultivation was the need to attain 25 gold coins to obtain an elementary grade body cultivation technique or 200 gold coins to get an elementary grade spell caster cultivation techniques.
As for spiritist techniques Lirian found no price tag for them, but he did learn that they could only be found in the main cities and the capital, and that those with access to spiritist cultivation techniques were only major nobles and the royal family.
Gathering 25 gold was a life long goal that most people were unable to achieve if they lived ordinary lives, which inspired hundreds of thousands of people every year to become adventures, seeking out opportunities and riches.
Not only did it motivate people to train and become stronger, but the requirement of a letter of merit from an important individual also kept them on their best behaviour.
Most adventures would end up dying or becoming some soldier in the nobles army's when they gave up on the chance to collect 25 gold coins, which served the interests of the nobles.
And those few that managed to become a cultivator every year would be caught in the grand trap of the nobles.
Because ultimately every cultivator would have to return to the nobles in order to cultivate and they had to pay a fee of 30 coppers for a single days use of a room.
The time required to cultivate only grew with every level, so ultimately it would cost all cultivators thousands in gold just to build up a decent cultivation.
Meanwhile the nobles could freely use the rooms as they pleased, and should they ever discover a cultivator that caught their interest, they could rope them in or get rid of them with ease.
The common cultivators were basically slaves to the nobles without even realising it, it was a perfect system for noble supremacy.
But the interesting thing that Lirian found in Reyna's memories was that there was no actual restriction on releasing that information, in fact it was pretty common knowledge to adventures.
Had Lirian not seen Cassy's memories he would have been completely confused, because he remembered that caravan guard who was a cultivator exploding when he tried to speak about the method of cultivation.
As it turned out that caravan guard was likely someone associated with Unity in some way, in Cassy's memories after being abandoned by his family Cassy tried his luck at being an adventurer, but it was proving difficult for him to grow stronger.
That was when he sought out Unity a terror group that aimed to destabilise the system of the nobles.
Cassy only met one person from Unity his handler Sire, when he expressed his interest in joining Unity, she knocked him unconscious and dumped him in a cultivation chamber.
He didn't have any idea where he was taken but he accepted the cultivation technique and dutifully cultivated for two years before they released him and assigned him the task of taking Willcolly.
But before he left she presented him with an oath disc that prevented him from leaking any intel, and should he speak he would explode and become minced meat.
He was also granted a letter of merit from some blacksmith and a certification of him being a genuine cultivator.
From what Lirian saw this terror group Unity was no small matter, they had to have power over at least one local lord to forge a cultivators certification.
But Lirian highly doubted that they had only one, from the looks of things the reason they wanted Cassy to take over the village was to establish someone with a little authority over the area and someone who could create legitimate letters of merit.
This group called Unity definitely had big goals and a firm footing in the region, they were either trying to take over the region or fill the region with spies, either way they caught Lirian's attention in a big way.
But before Lirian made any contact with them he needed to establish his cultivation and the place he needed to get into was one of those rooms in the Kurt estate.
Lirian figured that if he went caravan raiding again it would be easy for him to gather the necessary gold coins, but obtaining a letter of merit was going to be a troublesome task, in the sense that it would take to much time.
These soldier from House Kurt arrived at the most opportune time, he needed to get in and get close to those cultivation chambers, if he could just analyse those rooms, he was certain to be able to find a way to replicate the rooms effects and use it to his advantage.
Lirian remained lost in thought as the soldiers brough the watering troughs used for the animals to drink water and splashed him, to wash away the horrendous smell he was emitting, when that was done they locked his hands in chains and dragged him to the huge steel cage they were dragging along.
As the steel gate of the cage clamped shut Lirian heard the system ring in his head.
[Ding]
[Threat detected on your fate string, Level: Extremely Fatal]
Name: Reyna KurtStatus: Pseudo Second Grade/Adept sixth stageAffiliations: House KurtCurrent realm: The Mortal RealmBody: 700 lockedMana: 2632 elementary energy cultivation techniqueMind: 700 locked---No matter how long she looked at Lirian, that feeling of trepidation remained, wrapping itself all around her very being.She brought her hand to Lirian's face and did several probes into his body to check if he had any cultivation at all, but there was nothing at all not even a slight trace of energy.Yet she still couldn't shake the feeling that he was the cause of this disaster, the little bits of her logic that was working, was screaming danger and begging her to kill him then and there, but she couldn't bring herself to issue the command.She was feeling a little overwhelmed and decided to retreat, besides she needed to take a breath, she had been holding her breath and speaking for a while, and the stench from dozens of barrels of ale was making her eyes water.Reyna finally felt like her mind cleared up a little when she got a good distance away from Lirian, the soldiers could clearly see that she was slightly shaken but they didn't voice their thoughts, for fear of earning their captain's anger."My last question, you still haven't answered it, what happened here?" she asked."kekekeke," Lirian gave a heart jeering laugh, "I happened of courseeeee," he said with a crooked smile."Youuuu had to be here to understand," Lirian said, "You should havehic seen how I cut all of them down, and rained fire upon their homes,""Heads rolled, and limbs flew, but nothing hic beat the blood that fell like rain, in the end hic this god turned them all turned into particles of white light," Lirian explained with a crazed laugh.The soldiers let of hysterical laughs at what Lirian said, there wasn't even a single dead body or a drop of blood anywhere naturally they thought that he was just rambling like a mad man, meanwhile cold shudders passed through Reyna's body, unexplainably she believed his every word, but her common sense was saying that it was impossible.Reyna swiped her hands through the air and Lirian was suddenly ejected from the ground, "Chain him up and lock him in the cage, toss him in a watering trough to get rid of the stench if you have too," Reyna ordered as she turned around.Her mind was feeling far to clouded for some reason, there was just something about Lirian's presence in this ghost town that turned her mind into a swirling mess of chaos, she had no idea if she should take anything he said seriously or not.A light smirk crossed Lirian's face as he was released from the earth and the pillory that restrained him was released.Blood ran down his skin from where the pillory dug into his skin, but he didn't mind, by the look of things he was going to get what he wanted.After reading through Cassy's memories and Reyna's Lirian learned some very interesting things about the noble's structure and how they kept control of the cultivators.The viewpoints of Reyna a legitimate noble and Cassy a noble who had lost all his backing for being born as the seventh child and had to come up with his own means to become a cultivator was quite enlightening to say the least.Due to the toxin in the worlds breath, the general populace was incapable of cultivating, however the nobles had a means to counter the toxin.In all the important nobles territories they had special rooms, built with top quality materials and thousands of layered enchantments that allowed the toxin to be filtered from worlds energy.Even as a spell caster Reyna didn't know the spells required to create the room or the necessary materials.With the creation of these rooms the nobles found an opportunity to not only control and monitor the general populace of cultivators but it was also turned into an enormous money making scheme for the nobles.The first obstacle to all cultivation was the need to attain 25 gold coins to obtain an elementary grade body cultivation technique or 200 gold coins to get an elementary grade spell caster cultivation techniques.As for spiritist techniques Lirian found no price tag for them, but he did learn that they could only be found in the main cities and the capital, and that those with access to spiritist cultivation techniques were only major nobles and the royal family.Gathering 25 gold was a life long goal that most people were unable to achieve if they lived ordinary lives, which inspired hundreds of thousands of people every year to become adventures, seeking out opportunities and riches.Not only did it motivate people to train and become stronger, but the requirement of a letter of merit from an important individual also kept them on their best behaviour.Most adventures would end up dying or becoming some soldier in the nobles army's when they gave up on the chance to collect 25 gold coins, which served the interests of the nobles.And those few that managed to become a cultivator every year would be caught in the grand trap of the nobles.Because ultimately every cultivator would have to return to the nobles in order to cultivate and they had to pay a fee of 30 coppers for a single days use of a room.The time required to cultivate only grew with every level, so ultimately it would cost all cultivators thousands in gold just to build up a decent cultivation.Meanwhile the nobles could freely use the rooms as they pleased, and should they ever discover a cultivator that caught their interest, they could rope them in or get rid of them with ease.The common cultivators were basically slaves to the nobles without even realising it, it was a perfect system for noble supremacy.But the interesting thing that Lirian found in Reyna's memories was that there was no actual restriction on releasing that information, in fact it was pretty common knowledge to adventures.Had Lirian not seen Cassy's memories he would have been completely confused, because he remembered that caravan guard who was a cultivator exploding when he tried to speak about the method of cultivation.As it turned out that caravan guard was likely someone associated with Unity in some way, in Cassy's memories after being abandoned by his family Cassy tried his luck at being an adventurer, but it was proving difficult for him to grow stronger.That was when he sought out Unity a terror group that aimed to destabilise the system of the nobles.Cassy only met one person from Unity his handler Sire, when he expressed his interest in joining Unity, she knocked him unconscious and dumped him in a cultivation chamber.He didn't have any idea where he was taken but he accepted the cultivation technique and dutifully cultivated for two years before they released him and assigned him the task of taking Willcolly.But before he left she presented him with an oath disc that prevented him from leaking any intel, and should he speak he would explode and become minced meat.He was also granted a letter of merit from some blacksmith and a certification of him being a genuine cultivator.From what Lirian saw this terror group Unity was no small matter, they had to have power over at least one local lord to forge a cultivators certification.But Lirian highly doubted that they had only one, from the looks of things the reason they wanted Cassy to take over the village was to establish someone with a little authority over the area and someone who could create legitimate letters of merit.This group called Unity definitely had big goals and a firm footing in the region, they were either trying to take over the region or fill the region with spies, either way they caught Lirian's attention in a big way.But before Lirian made any contact with them he needed to establish his cultivation and the place he needed to get into was one of those rooms in the Kurt estate.Lirian figured that if he went caravan raiding again it would be easy for him to gather the necessary gold coins, but obtaining a letter of merit was going to be a troublesome task, in the sense that it would take to much time.These soldier from House Kurt arrived at the most opportune time, he needed to get in and get close to those cultivation chambers, if he could just analyse those rooms, he was certain to be able to find a way to replicate the rooms effects and use it to his advantage.Lirian remained lost in thought as the soldiers brough the watering troughs used for the animals to drink water and splashed him, to wash away the horrendous smell he was emitting, when that was done they locked his hands in chains and dragged him to the huge steel cage they were dragging along.As the steel gate of the cage clamped shut Lirian heard the system ring in his head.DingThreat detected on your fate string, Level: Extremely Fatal
