Chapter 293: 058 – Tell Me What I Need To Do
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The door to the room creaked open slowly, Izlandi held the handle with a firm grip and gradually stepped into the room with batted breath.
Her eyes darted to the furthest corners of the room with alertness, she quickly scanned every inch of the room, and in the end the only thing she found was the cage sitting in the centre of the room.
As she looked into the cage she could hardly believe her eyes as her gaze fell upon Lirian, 'Is he the monster Selner spoke of?' she wondered while gapping at Lirian.
A soft and beautiful smile involuntarily crept onto her face, it was completely beyond her control and she could feel her heart rapidly accelerating, 'Maybe Selner meant that he's monstrously beautiful,' she reasoned with herself and cupped her own face to hide her growing redness.
She couldn't explain it but from the moment her eyes landed on Lirian, she felt like it was impossible to tear her gaze away.
"You must be Izlandi," Lirian's voice travelled with a smooth and calming tone, added to the charm that he was focusing on Izlandi, it was like an explosion of feelings wormed there way into Izlandi.
The moment she entered the room, she was cornered prey.
"I-I-I am," she stammered and internally she was screaming, 'He's talking to me, by the heavenly empress he's talking to me,' she thought like a little girl who was getting the attention of a man she longed for.
But then the intense feeling started to calm down a little and she regained a bit of her rationality, enough for her to be able to think properly once again.
"Are you the one that wanted to speak with me?" she asked trying to keep a cold and firm expression, but with a simple glance at Lirian she felt her body getting excited again.
It took all her strength to keep herself calm in Lirian's presence, she had a strange urge she never experienced in her life to throw herself at Lirian.
But a bit of rationality filled her head, she had never been intimate with a man, after all she never found a single man who was appealing, after all she inherited the blood of elves, who were known for their prejudice against all things that weren't beautiful.
It was said that elven woman would rather kill themselves than engage in simple conversations with a person they didn't find attractive, it was a bit of an exaggeration, but it wasn't far from the truth.
However, elves also had a fatal weakness if they found something beautiful, they would devote themselves to it, practically becoming it's slave.
Izlandi quickly rationalised with herself that her thoughts came from her elven blood that desired to have the most beautiful things in the world, with that thought she was just barely able to calm herself.
"Yes I understand that you are a facing a predicament, and you desire to change your fate," Lirian said felling slightly impressed that the girl was starting to calm down.
Lirian also started to lessen the amount of charm he was placing on Izlandi, he didn't want her to become obsessed, while that might prove useful to convince her to take him into a cultivation chamber, if she became obsessed he didn't know if she would be able to spend three days apart from him, and he desperately needed three uninterrupted days to complete his esper transformation.
"And you think that you can help me," she said sceptically raising a brow as she took a step closer, "A crippled slave who is blind?" she asked in incredulously, without the charm acting against her she felt a lot more clear headed, enough to notice details that she previously missed.
"hahaha," Lirian chuckled humorously, "All that you said is true, but then you could say that if I wasn't all those things I wouldn't be meeting you now," Lirian added with a wry smile.
Izlandi knitted her brows as she tried to focus, "What are you trying to say?" she asked.
"I'm simply saying that fate works in mysterious ways," Lirian said in an enlightened tone, "You need a way to change your fate, and fate has brought me to you to answer your prayers,"
"Little child it's not a matter of whether I can help you or not, I most certainly can," Lirian said and slowly pulled himself up on the bars of the cage until he was face to face with Izlandi.
"The only question is whether or not, you have what it takes, I can offer you the chance at a new life, a life in which you will gain the freedom you desire, but all things come at a cost," a small smile crept across Lirian's face.
Izlandi looked at Lirian's smile, and was finally able to see part of the reason why Selner called him a monster, she could see the playfulness in that smile, a smile that took joy at her plight and she could vaguely sense that it meant to corrupt her.
A part of her sense told her to leave and never return, but another part was filled with exhilaration at the thought of having her wish granted, in any case it wouldn't hurt to find out if the man was just a crazy person or if he had any merit to his words.
"What is the price for granting me what I want?" she asked.
She saw the smile on Lirian's face widen, "The price isn't anything tangible, if you were wondering, which is why I will ask you are you sure that you want to know?"
Izlandi frowned, 'Not tangible!?' she thought, 'How am I supposed to pay him if it isn't anything tangible, does it mean that he wants my soul,' she thought giving Lirian a thoughtful look.
At the back of her mind a voice said, 'I wouldn't mind giving my soul to something so pretty,' it said while swooning happily.
Izlandi quickly supressed the voice she was certain came from her elven blood and asked serious, "What do you want, I'll give you anything if you can stop Tanicks from taking me as a concubine!" she said resolutely.
Lirian giggled softly, "You poor girl I already told you that the cost is nothing tangible, besides there is nothing that you possess that I could possibly desire,"
"The price that you will have to pay is one that will cost you deeply, it is a price that will follow you forever, no matter where you go, no matter what you do,"
"You must have the conviction to do everything it takes to obtain your cherished desires no matter how depraved or cruel your actions are, tell me are you capable of doing that?" Lirian asked with a delighted smile, if she said yes then he'd have the perfect chance to make her open the doors to a cultivation chamber for him.
Lirian simply didn't want her to know what his goal was, the moment someone knows what you are after it was like giving them a way to control you.
"Tell me what I need to do!" Izlandi said without any hesitation, she made up her mind if there was a way for her to escape being disgraced as a concubine she would take it with open arms even if she had to sell her soul to the devil.
A wide smile split Lirian's face that instantly sent cold shivers down Izlandi's back, he was the embodiment of a devil, he had an appearance that drew her in and he whispered words that she wanted to hear, it was like as long as she followed his words everything would be fine.
Izlandi struggled desperately to calm her mind and shove those thoughts away, as she waited for Lirian to speak.
"First," Lirian said raising a finger, "Bring me a pen and some paper,"
Izlandi hurriedly went back into the office and grabbed some blank pages from the desk and grabbed a quill and a jar of ink, as she was about to return she remembered Selner and her strange condition.
She returned to Lirian while holding the items close to her small chest, "What did you do to Selner?" she ask warily.
"You mean your little servant, you should just kill her, her mind has been broken, from here on out her condition will only get worse, honestly it will be a mercy if you kill her sooner rather than later," Lirian said and snatched the items for her hands, without her even realising it.
"What do you mean her mind is broken?" Izlandi asked with worry, "Is there anyway to heal her?" she asked.
Lirian sighed, "Her mind was too weak to withstand my presence when I released it," Lirian said shrugging his shoulders.
"If you want her to recover, you'll have to keep her drugged on narcotics to calm her, and obtain a spiritist cultivation technique for her to use to strengthen her mind, which she will struggle to learn and utilise while under the influence of narcotics," Lirian said.
Izlandi's elegant face sunk as she heard Lirian's solution, spiritist techniques were impossible to obtain, even if she sold all her family's possessions it would still be impossible for her to get her hands on one.
When she looked down again, she looked at Lirian in surprise as she saw him drawing what looked like a plant in extreme detail.
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The door to the room creaked open slowly, Izlandi held the handle with a firm grip and gradually stepped into the room with batted breath.
Her eyes darted to the furthest corners of the room with alertness, she quickly scanned every inch of the room, and in the end the only thing she found was the cage sitting in the centre of the room.
As she looked into the cage she could hardly believe her eyes as her gaze fell upon Lirian, 'Is he the monster Selner spoke of?' she wondered while gapping at Lirian.
A soft and beautiful smile involuntarily crept onto her face, it was completely beyond her control and she could feel her heart rapidly accelerating, 'Maybe Selner meant that he's monstrously beautiful,' she reasoned with herself and cupped her own face to hide her growing redness.
She couldn't explain it but from the moment her eyes landed on Lirian, she felt like it was impossible to tear her gaze away.
"You must be Izlandi," Lirian's voice travelled with a smooth and calming tone, added to the charm that he was focusing on Izlandi, it was like an explosion of feelings wormed there way into Izlandi.
The moment she entered the room, she was cornered prey.
"I-I-I am," she stammered and internally she was screaming, 'He's talking to me, by the heavenly empress he's talking to me,' she thought like a little girl who was getting the attention of a man she longed for.
But then the intense feeling started to calm down a little and she regained a bit of her rationality, enough for her to be able to think properly once again.
"Are you the one that wanted to speak with me?" she asked trying to keep a cold and firm expression, but with a simple glance at Lirian she felt her body getting excited again.
It took all her strength to keep herself calm in Lirian's presence, she had a strange urge she never experienced in her life to throw herself at Lirian.
But a bit of rationality filled her head, she had never been intimate with a man, after all she never found a single man who was appealing, after all she inherited the blood of elves, who were known for their prejudice against all things that weren't beautiful.
It was said that elven woman would rather kill themselves than engage in simple conversations with a person they didn't find attractive, it was a bit of an exaggeration, but it wasn't far from the truth.
However, elves also had a fatal weakness if they found something beautiful, they would devote themselves to it, practically becoming it's slave.
Izlandi quickly rationalised with herself that her thoughts came from her elven blood that desired to have the most beautiful things in the world, with that thought she was just barely able to calm herself.
"Yes I understand that you are a facing a predicament, and you desire to change your fate," Lirian said felling slightly impressed that the girl was starting to calm down.
Lirian also started to lessen the amount of charm he was placing on Izlandi, he didn't want her to become obsessed, while that might prove useful to convince her to take him into a cultivation chamber, if she became obsessed he didn't know if she would be able to spend three days apart from him, and he desperately needed three uninterrupted days to complete his esper transformation.
"And you think that you can help me," she said sceptically raising a brow as she took a step closer, "A crippled slave who is blind?" she asked in incredulously, without the charm acting against her she felt a lot more clear headed, enough to notice details that she previously missed.
"hahaha," Lirian chuckled humorously, "All that you said is true, but then you could say that if I wasn't all those things I wouldn't be meeting you now," Lirian added with a wry smile.
Izlandi knitted her brows as she tried to focus, "What are you trying to say?" she asked.
"I'm simply saying that fate works in mysterious ways," Lirian said in an enlightened tone, "You need a way to change your fate, and fate has brought me to you to answer your prayers,"
"Little child it's not a matter of whether I can help you or not, I most certainly can," Lirian said and slowly pulled himself up on the bars of the cage until he was face to face with Izlandi.
"The only question is whether or not, you have what it takes, I can offer you the chance at a new life, a life in which you will gain the freedom you desire, but all things come at a cost," a small smile crept across Lirian's face.
Izlandi looked at Lirian's smile, and was finally able to see part of the reason why Selner called him a monster, she could see the playfulness in that smile, a smile that took joy at her plight and she could vaguely sense that it meant to corrupt her.
A part of her sense told her to leave and never return, but another part was filled with exhilaration at the thought of having her wish granted, in any case it wouldn't hurt to find out if the man was just a crazy person or if he had any merit to his words.
"What is the price for granting me what I want?" she asked.
She saw the smile on Lirian's face widen, "The price isn't anything tangible, if you were wondering, which is why I will ask you are you sure that you want to know?"
Izlandi frowned, 'Not tangible!?' she thought, 'How am I supposed to pay him if it isn't anything tangible, does it mean that he wants my soul,' she thought giving Lirian a thoughtful look.
At the back of her mind a voice said, 'I wouldn't mind giving my soul to something so pretty,' it said while swooning happily.
Izlandi quickly supressed the voice she was certain came from her elven blood and asked serious, "What do you want, I'll give you anything if you can stop Tanicks from taking me as a concubine!" she said resolutely.
Lirian giggled softly, "You poor girl I already told you that the cost is nothing tangible, besides there is nothing that you possess that I could possibly desire,"
"The price that you will have to pay is one that will cost you deeply, it is a price that will follow you forever, no matter where you go, no matter what you do,"
"You must have the conviction to do everything it takes to obtain your cherished desires no matter how depraved or cruel your actions are, tell me are you capable of doing that?" Lirian asked with a delighted smile, if she said yes then he'd have the perfect chance to make her open the doors to a cultivation chamber for him.
Lirian simply didn't want her to know what his goal was, the moment someone knows what you are after it was like giving them a way to control you.
"Tell me what I need to do!" Izlandi said without any hesitation, she made up her mind if there was a way for her to escape being disgraced as a concubine she would take it with open arms even if she had to sell her soul to the devil.
A wide smile split Lirian's face that instantly sent cold shivers down Izlandi's back, he was the embodiment of a devil, he had an appearance that drew her in and he whispered words that she wanted to hear, it was like as long as she followed his words everything would be fine.
Izlandi struggled desperately to calm her mind and shove those thoughts away, as she waited for Lirian to speak.
"First," Lirian said raising a finger, "Bring me a pen and some paper,"
Izlandi hurriedly went back into the office and grabbed some blank pages from the desk and grabbed a quill and a jar of ink, as she was about to return she remembered Selner and her strange condition.
She returned to Lirian while holding the items close to her small chest, "What did you do to Selner?" she ask warily.
"You mean your little servant, you should just kill her, her mind has been broken, from here on out her condition will only get worse, honestly it will be a mercy if you kill her sooner rather than later," Lirian said and snatched the items for her hands, without her even realising it.
"What do you mean her mind is broken?" Izlandi asked with worry, "Is there anyway to heal her?" she asked.
Lirian sighed, "Her mind was too weak to withstand my presence when I released it," Lirian said shrugging his shoulders.
"If you want her to recover, you'll have to keep her drugged on narcotics to calm her, and obtain a spiritist cultivation technique for her to use to strengthen her mind, which she will struggle to learn and utilise while under the influence of narcotics," Lirian said.
Izlandi's elegant face sunk as she heard Lirian's solution, spiritist techniques were impossible to obtain, even if she sold all her family's possessions it would still be impossible for her to get her hands on one.
When she looked down again, she looked at Lirian in surprise as she saw him drawing what looked like a plant in extreme detail.
The door to the room creaked open slowly, Izlandi held the handle with a firm grip and gradually stepped into the room with batted breath.Her eyes darted to the furthest corners of the room with alertness, she quickly scanned every inch of the room, and in the end the only thing she found was the cage sitting in the centre of the room.As she looked into the cage she could hardly believe her eyes as her gaze fell upon Lirian, 'Is he the monster Selner spoke of?' she wondered while gapping at Lirian.A soft and beautiful smile involuntarily crept onto her face, it was completely beyond her control and she could feel her heart rapidly accelerating, 'Maybe Selner meant that he's monstrously beautiful,' she reasoned with herself and cupped her own face to hide her growing redness.She couldn't explain it but from the moment her eyes landed on Lirian, she felt like it was impossible to tear her gaze away."You must be Izlandi," Lirian's voice travelled with a smooth and calming tone, added to the charm that he was focusing on Izlandi, it was like an explosion of feelings wormed there way into Izlandi.The moment she entered the room, she was cornered prey."I-I-I am," she stammered and internally she was screaming, 'He's talking to me, by the heavenly empress he's talking to me,' she thought like a little girl who was getting the attention of a man she longed for.But then the intense feeling started to calm down a little and she regained a bit of her rationality, enough for her to be able to think properly once again."Are you the one that wanted to speak with me?" she asked trying to keep a cold and firm expression, but with a simple glance at Lirian she felt her body getting excited again.It took all her strength to keep herself calm in Lirian's presence, she had a strange urge she never experienced in her life to throw herself at Lirian.But a bit of rationality filled her head, she had never been intimate with a man, after all she never found a single man who was appealing, after all she inherited the blood of elves, who were known for their prejudice against all things that weren't beautiful.It was said that elven woman would rather kill themselves than engage in simple conversations with a person they didn't find attractive, it was a bit of an exaggeration, but it wasn't far from the truth.However, elves also had a fatal weakness if they found something beautiful, they would devote themselves to it, practically becoming it's slave.Izlandi quickly rationalised with herself that her thoughts came from her elven blood that desired to have the most beautiful things in the world, with that thought she was just barely able to calm herself."Yes I understand that you are a facing a predicament, and you desire to change your fate," Lirian said felling slightly impressed that the girl was starting to calm down.Lirian also started to lessen the amount of charm he was placing on Izlandi, he didn't want her to become obsessed, while that might prove useful to convince her to take him into a cultivation chamber, if she became obsessed he didn't know if she would be able to spend three days apart from him, and he desperately needed three uninterrupted days to complete his esper transformation."And you think that you can help me," she said sceptically raising a brow as she took a step closer, "A crippled slave who is blind?" she asked in incredulously, without the charm acting against her she felt a lot more clear headed, enough to notice details that she previously missed."hahaha," Lirian chuckled humorously, "All that you said is true, but then you could say that if I wasn't all those things I wouldn't be meeting you now," Lirian added with a wry smile.Izlandi knitted her brows as she tried to focus, "What are you trying to say?" she asked."I'm simply saying that fate works in mysterious ways," Lirian said in an enlightened tone, "You need a way to change your fate, and fate has brought me to you to answer your prayers,""Little child it's not a matter of whether I can help you or not, I most certainly can," Lirian said and slowly pulled himself up on the bars of the cage until he was face to face with Izlandi."The only question is whether or not, you have what it takes, I can offer you the chance at a new life, a life in which you will gain the freedom you desire, but all things come at a cost," a small smile crept across Lirian's face.Izlandi looked at Lirian's smile, and was finally able to see part of the reason why Selner called him a monster, she could see the playfulness in that smile, a smile that took joy at her plight and she could vaguely sense that it meant to corrupt her.A part of her sense told her to leave and never return, but another part was filled with exhilaration at the thought of having her wish granted, in any case it wouldn't hurt to find out if the man was just a crazy person or if he had any merit to his words."What is the price for granting me what I want?" she asked.She saw the smile on Lirian's face widen, "The price isn't anything tangible, if you were wondering, which is why I will ask you are you sure that you want to know?"Izlandi frowned, 'Not tangible!?' she thought, 'How am I supposed to pay him if it isn't anything tangible, does it mean that he wants my soul,' she thought giving Lirian a thoughtful look.At the back of her mind a voice said, 'I wouldn't mind giving my soul to something so pretty,' it said while swooning happily.Izlandi quickly supressed the voice she was certain came from her elven blood and asked serious, "What do you want, I'll give you anything if you can stop Tanicks from taking me as a concubine!" she said resolutely.Lirian giggled softly, "You poor girl I already told you that the cost is nothing tangible, besides there is nothing that you possess that I could possibly desire,""The price that you will have to pay is one that will cost you deeply, it is a price that will follow you forever, no matter where you go, no matter what you do,""You must have the conviction to do everything it takes to obtain your cherished desires no matter how depraved or cruel your actions are, tell me are you capable of doing that?" Lirian asked with a delighted smile, if she said yes then he'd have the perfect chance to make her open the doors to a cultivation chamber for him.Lirian simply didn't want her to know what his goal was, the moment someone knows what you are after it was like giving them a way to control you."Tell me what I need to do!" Izlandi said without any hesitation, she made up her mind if there was a way for her to escape being disgraced as a concubine she would take it with open arms even if she had to sell her soul to the devil.A wide smile split Lirian's face that instantly sent cold shivers down Izlandi's back, he was the embodiment of a devil, he had an appearance that drew her in and he whispered words that she wanted to hear, it was like as long as she followed his words everything would be fine.Izlandi struggled desperately to calm her mind and shove those thoughts away, as she waited for Lirian to speak."First," Lirian said raising a finger, "Bring me a pen and some paper,"Izlandi hurriedly went back into the office and grabbed some blank pages from the desk and grabbed a quill and a jar of ink, as she was about to return she remembered Selner and her strange condition.She returned to Lirian while holding the items close to her small chest, "What did you do to Selner?" she ask warily."You mean your little servant, you should just kill her, her mind has been broken, from here on out her condition will only get worse, honestly it will be a mercy if you kill her sooner rather than later," Lirian said and snatched the items for her hands, without her even realising it."What do you mean her mind is broken?" Izlandi asked with worry, "Is there anyway to heal her?" she asked.Lirian sighed, "Her mind was too weak to withstand my presence when I released it," Lirian said shrugging his shoulders."If you want her to recover, you'll have to keep her drugged on narcotics to calm her, and obtain a spiritist cultivation technique for her to use to strengthen her mind, which she will struggle to learn and utilise while under the influence of narcotics," Lirian said.Izlandi's elegant face sunk as she heard Lirian's solution, spiritist techniques were impossible to obtain, even if she sold all her family's possessions it would still be impossible for her to get her hands on one.When she looked down again, she looked at Lirian in surprise as she saw him drawing what looked like a plant in extreme detail.
