Chapter 295: 060 – Izlandi’s Decision 1
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Izlandi took her time to gather the materials, and even done a little research on them to learn their effects.
But so far they all seemed simple, with simple uses, even the rarest of the lot wasn't all that rare it just took her servants a few stops to find it.
In that time she also found out from her uncle that what Lirian said about the impurities was true.
But the best part was her uncle's expression when he learned that she released the impurities, after all she had only started using the mage cultivation technique 1 and a half years ago.
It was the reason that her uncle hadn't told her about the impurities yet, he knew how she'd react to learning about something filthy and disgusting coming out of her body, so he chose not to tell her as to prevent her from slacking off in her training.
On one morning Izlandi found herself in the infirmary, there were several white beds lined up with thin linens acting as partitions between the beds.
The infirmary was only used when the soldiers had an accident in training, it was rare that anything else ever happened that required medical attention, but currently there was one patient, sound asleep in the infirmary.
Izlandi sat beside Selner who she had brought in after her meeting with Lirian, after all these days the best the doctors could do was use narcotics to keep her calm and asleep.
It was all exactly like Lirian had said, no matter what anyone did, her condition still deteriorated, and no one could find an explanation.
The only person Selner could say a few coherent words to was Izlandi and the rest of the time she would scream and have fits, showing no response to anyone else.
The more she thought about it the more she felt like Lirian had to be a demon out of hell, after all he said that it was just his killing intent alone that put her into such a condition.
As she sat and watched over Selner she heard movement behind her and quickly snapped her head around, only to find her cousin Reyna, her first uncle's daughter, approaching her.
"Reyna," she said simply as the extremely round faced woman, that had those key traces of toad that was signature to the members of House Kurt, looked at her with a deadpan cold expression.
Reyna always looked like that to Izlandi, but she found it odd that her cousin was coming to her of her own accord, Reyna had never liked her, it was the same for most of the family members of House Kurt.
She was the odd one out, a girl who was bless with elegance and beauty while the toadish looks made everyone as ugly as mud in comparison.
It was like a toad gave birth to a swan, which singled her as the odd one out in the family, due to that she was always singled out, not that Izlandi cared she hated looking at their ugly face's face all the time and Reyna liked her less than most because her father gave Izlandi a lot of attention as she grew up.
"I suppose that congratulations are in order, my father told me that you've reached the peak of the novice realm," Reyna said, but her tone was just as cold as ever.
"If not for your pitiful future, the entire city would be celebrating your god given talent," she said in her cold tone, but Izlandi could hear the slight mocking in her tone.
When Reyna reached the peak of the novice realm, the entire city celebrated for a week, it was impossible to walk down a single street without wetting your lips in ale, or so the ballads went, Izlandi wasn't even born at the time so she didn't know what it really was like.
"Is there something you wish to speak with me about?" Izlandi asked putting on an even colder front, no one could beat her in that aspect she spent years developing that skill to help deal with the piggish members of her family that would ogle her body all the time.
"Actually, there is, and it has to do with this one?" Reyna said pointing at Selner.
She looked at Reyna curiously wondering what business she could possibly have with Selner.
"When I returned from my mission to investigate the problems on the road, I picked up a bandit, and he was put up in an auction," Reyna said, "I'm sure you heard all about the fiasco at the black market auction and how all the items were taken by the staff of the auction all accept for one,"
The pieces clicked into place in Reyna's head as she realised what that one item was, a slave that Selner bought, the same slave she had met in the back room of Selner's office.
The image of Lirian quickly filled her head, "Your slave, is that the item?" Izlandi asked playing dumb after all she was currently contemplating gaining the help of that person, she didn't want Reyna to know that she already knew about Lirian in case Reyna wanted to take him back.
Izlandi understood that because of what happened no payments had been made, so technically Lirian didn't belong to her and if what Reyna was saying was true then technically Lirian was still her possession.
"Yes," Reyna answered nodding her head, "And your little pet took my slave, however I received no payment,"
"I will look into it, when I find your slave I will pay you the amount, how much did your slave go for?" Izlandi asked.
"610 gold," Reyna said her forever cold face showed a hint of happiness as she looked at Izlandi's blank face.
'610 gold?!' Izlandi thought blinking her eyes rapidly wither face going blank, 'Did I hear that right?' she wondered thinking that maybe those impurities messed up her hearing, "Could you repeat that?" she asked while wrapping her hand around the armrest of her chair to steady herself.
"610 gold," Reyna replied so quickly it was as if she had anticipated Izlandi's reaction, she too was god smacked when she heard the amount Lirian went for.
'Just what the hell were you thinking Selner,' Izlandi thought while looking at her sleeping confidant with widened eyes, 'He's worth a lot more,' a voice said in her head, 'He's so dreamy,' the voice chimed happily.
Izlandi rubbed her temples, "I'll see to it that everything is arranged," she said to Reyna, who smiled smugly.
"If I may ask, how did you come across that slave?" she asked Reyna curiously, there was something not right about the situation but she just couldn't place her finger on what it was.
Reyna was about to turn and leave when she heard Izlandi's question, she frowned slightly at being question, but it was understandable that Izlandi would be curious about a slave that was sold for such a ridiculous amount.
"On my return back, my squad encountered some bandits, we killed all of them, but someone noticed that there was a good looking man in the group, we had already hurt him badly, but they wanted to see if he would sell since his looks were outstanding, so I branded him and had my men put him on auction," Reyna quickly gave her the cover story she came up with the rest of her squad.
Izlandi blinked in confusion, 'But he's so strong, unless Reyna acted against him herself I don't think they could have beat him, and that to I'm not completely sure if Reyna would be able to harm him,' she fell into deep thought.
She realised that this is what bothered her the most, she had no idea about how strong Lirian was she only knew that there was something about him that scared her, 'Could he have let them capture him on purpose, if so then what are his real intentions?' she wondered.
"I see," Izlandi said while deep in thought.
Reyna took that as an opportunity to leave but as she reached the door she glanced as Selner, "Do you know what caused her to mind collapse?" she asked Izlandi, but in the back of her mind she was wondering if she made a mistake in letting Lirian go.
She still remembered that feeling of foreboding she received when she met Lirian, like she was looking at a monster capable of doing anything, 'Could he have caused Selner's mind collapse?' she wondered with a thumping heart.
Izlandi tightly knitted her brows as she wondered if Reyna knew something more but eventually she sighed, "No idea," she lied.
An hour later Izlandi made her way into her cultivation chamber and quickly went to the area with all her alchemy equipment.
'This is it,' she thought, 'If I go through with this I'll be able to change my fate, but what will the price I pay come to,' she wondered as she remembered Lirian's vague words, about the price being intangible.
She walked up to a leather pouch and started to wrap it up, inside it was all the ingredients Lirian asked for, before long she had several large boxes packed full of her alchemy tools.
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Izlandi took her time to gather the materials, and even done a little research on them to learn their effects.
But so far they all seemed simple, with simple uses, even the rarest of the lot wasn't all that rare it just took her servants a few stops to find it.
In that time she also found out from her uncle that what Lirian said about the impurities was true.
But the best part was her uncle's expression when he learned that she released the impurities, after all she had only started using the mage cultivation technique 1 and a half years ago.
It was the reason that her uncle hadn't told her about the impurities yet, he knew how she'd react to learning about something filthy and disgusting coming out of her body, so he chose not to tell her as to prevent her from slacking off in her training.
On one morning Izlandi found herself in the infirmary, there were several white beds lined up with thin linens acting as partitions between the beds.
The infirmary was only used when the soldiers had an accident in training, it was rare that anything else ever happened that required medical attention, but currently there was one patient, sound asleep in the infirmary.
Izlandi sat beside Selner who she had brought in after her meeting with Lirian, after all these days the best the doctors could do was use narcotics to keep her calm and asleep.
It was all exactly like Lirian had said, no matter what anyone did, her condition still deteriorated, and no one could find an explanation.
The only person Selner could say a few coherent words to was Izlandi and the rest of the time she would scream and have fits, showing no response to anyone else.
The more she thought about it the more she felt like Lirian had to be a demon out of hell, after all he said that it was just his killing intent alone that put her into such a condition.
As she sat and watched over Selner she heard movement behind her and quickly snapped her head around, only to find her cousin Reyna, her first uncle's daughter, approaching her.
"Reyna," she said simply as the extremely round faced woman, that had those key traces of toad that was signature to the members of House Kurt, looked at her with a deadpan cold expression.
Reyna always looked like that to Izlandi, but she found it odd that her cousin was coming to her of her own accord, Reyna had never liked her, it was the same for most of the family members of House Kurt.
She was the odd one out, a girl who was bless with elegance and beauty while the toadish looks made everyone as ugly as mud in comparison.
It was like a toad gave birth to a swan, which singled her as the odd one out in the family, due to that she was always singled out, not that Izlandi cared she hated looking at their ugly face's face all the time and Reyna liked her less than most because her father gave Izlandi a lot of attention as she grew up.
"I suppose that congratulations are in order, my father told me that you've reached the peak of the novice realm," Reyna said, but her tone was just as cold as ever.
"If not for your pitiful future, the entire city would be celebrating your god given talent," she said in her cold tone, but Izlandi could hear the slight mocking in her tone.
When Reyna reached the peak of the novice realm, the entire city celebrated for a week, it was impossible to walk down a single street without wetting your lips in ale, or so the ballads went, Izlandi wasn't even born at the time so she didn't know what it really was like.
"Is there something you wish to speak with me about?" Izlandi asked putting on an even colder front, no one could beat her in that aspect she spent years developing that skill to help deal with the piggish members of her family that would ogle her body all the time.
"Actually, there is, and it has to do with this one?" Reyna said pointing at Selner.
She looked at Reyna curiously wondering what business she could possibly have with Selner.
"When I returned from my mission to investigate the problems on the road, I picked up a bandit, and he was put up in an auction," Reyna said, "I'm sure you heard all about the fiasco at the black market auction and how all the items were taken by the staff of the auction all accept for one,"
The pieces clicked into place in Reyna's head as she realised what that one item was, a slave that Selner bought, the same slave she had met in the back room of Selner's office.
The image of Lirian quickly filled her head, "Your slave, is that the item?" Izlandi asked playing dumb after all she was currently contemplating gaining the help of that person, she didn't want Reyna to know that she already knew about Lirian in case Reyna wanted to take him back.
Izlandi understood that because of what happened no payments had been made, so technically Lirian didn't belong to her and if what Reyna was saying was true then technically Lirian was still her possession.
"Yes," Reyna answered nodding her head, "And your little pet took my slave, however I received no payment,"
"I will look into it, when I find your slave I will pay you the amount, how much did your slave go for?" Izlandi asked.
"610 gold," Reyna said her forever cold face showed a hint of happiness as she looked at Izlandi's blank face.
'610 gold?!' Izlandi thought blinking her eyes rapidly wither face going blank, 'Did I hear that right?' she wondered thinking that maybe those impurities messed up her hearing, "Could you repeat that?" she asked while wrapping her hand around the armrest of her chair to steady herself.
"610 gold," Reyna replied so quickly it was as if she had anticipated Izlandi's reaction, she too was god smacked when she heard the amount Lirian went for.
'Just what the hell were you thinking Selner,' Izlandi thought while looking at her sleeping confidant with widened eyes, 'He's worth a lot more,' a voice said in her head, 'He's so dreamy,' the voice chimed happily.
Izlandi rubbed her temples, "I'll see to it that everything is arranged," she said to Reyna, who smiled smugly.
"If I may ask, how did you come across that slave?" she asked Reyna curiously, there was something not right about the situation but she just couldn't place her finger on what it was.
Reyna was about to turn and leave when she heard Izlandi's question, she frowned slightly at being question, but it was understandable that Izlandi would be curious about a slave that was sold for such a ridiculous amount.
"On my return back, my squad encountered some bandits, we killed all of them, but someone noticed that there was a good looking man in the group, we had already hurt him badly, but they wanted to see if he would sell since his looks were outstanding, so I branded him and had my men put him on auction," Reyna quickly gave her the cover story she came up with the rest of her squad.
Izlandi blinked in confusion, 'But he's so strong, unless Reyna acted against him herself I don't think they could have beat him, and that to I'm not completely sure if Reyna would be able to harm him,' she fell into deep thought.
She realised that this is what bothered her the most, she had no idea about how strong Lirian was she only knew that there was something about him that scared her, 'Could he have let them capture him on purpose, if so then what are his real intentions?' she wondered.
"I see," Izlandi said while deep in thought.
Reyna took that as an opportunity to leave but as she reached the door she glanced as Selner, "Do you know what caused her to mind collapse?" she asked Izlandi, but in the back of her mind she was wondering if she made a mistake in letting Lirian go.
She still remembered that feeling of foreboding she received when she met Lirian, like she was looking at a monster capable of doing anything, 'Could he have caused Selner's mind collapse?' she wondered with a thumping heart.
Izlandi tightly knitted her brows as she wondered if Reyna knew something more but eventually she sighed, "No idea," she lied.
An hour later Izlandi made her way into her cultivation chamber and quickly went to the area with all her alchemy equipment.
'This is it,' she thought, 'If I go through with this I'll be able to change my fate, but what will the price I pay come to,' she wondered as she remembered Lirian's vague words, about the price being intangible.
She walked up to a leather pouch and started to wrap it up, inside it was all the ingredients Lirian asked for, before long she had several large boxes packed full of her alchemy tools.
Izlandi took her time to gather the materials, and even done a little research on them to learn their effects.But so far they all seemed simple, with simple uses, even the rarest of the lot wasn't all that rare it just took her servants a few stops to find it.In that time she also found out from her uncle that what Lirian said about the impurities was true.But the best part was her uncle's expression when he learned that she released the impurities, after all she had only started using the mage cultivation technique 1 and a half years ago.It was the reason that her uncle hadn't told her about the impurities yet, he knew how she'd react to learning about something filthy and disgusting coming out of her body, so he chose not to tell her as to prevent her from slacking off in her training.On one morning Izlandi found herself in the infirmary, there were several white beds lined up with thin linens acting as partitions between the beds.The infirmary was only used when the soldiers had an accident in training, it was rare that anything else ever happened that required medical attention, but currently there was one patient, sound asleep in the infirmary.Izlandi sat beside Selner who she had brought in after her meeting with Lirian, after all these days the best the doctors could do was use narcotics to keep her calm and asleep.It was all exactly like Lirian had said, no matter what anyone did, her condition still deteriorated, and no one could find an explanation.The only person Selner could say a few coherent words to was Izlandi and the rest of the time she would scream and have fits, showing no response to anyone else.The more she thought about it the more she felt like Lirian had to be a demon out of hell, after all he said that it was just his killing intent alone that put her into such a condition.As she sat and watched over Selner she heard movement behind her and quickly snapped her head around, only to find her cousin Reyna, her first uncle's daughter, approaching her."Reyna," she said simply as the extremely round faced woman, that had those key traces of toad that was signature to the members of House Kurt, looked at her with a deadpan cold expression.Reyna always looked like that to Izlandi, but she found it odd that her cousin was coming to her of her own accord, Reyna had never liked her, it was the same for most of the family members of House Kurt.She was the odd one out, a girl who was bless with elegance and beauty while the toadish looks made everyone as ugly as mud in comparison.It was like a toad gave birth to a swan, which singled her as the odd one out in the family, due to that she was always singled out, not that Izlandi cared she hated looking at their ugly face's face all the time and Reyna liked her less than most because her father gave Izlandi a lot of attention as she grew up."I suppose that congratulations are in order, my father told me that you've reached the peak of the novice realm," Reyna said, but her tone was just as cold as ever."If not for your pitiful future, the entire city would be celebrating your god given talent," she said in her cold tone, but Izlandi could hear the slight mocking in her tone.When Reyna reached the peak of the novice realm, the entire city celebrated for a week, it was impossible to walk down a single street without wetting your lips in ale, or so the ballads went, Izlandi wasn't even born at the time so she didn't know what it really was like."Is there something you wish to speak with me about?" Izlandi asked putting on an even colder front, no one could beat her in that aspect she spent years developing that skill to help deal with the piggish members of her family that would ogle her body all the time."Actually, there is, and it has to do with this one?" Reyna said pointing at Selner.She looked at Reyna curiously wondering what business she could possibly have with Selner."When I returned from my mission to investigate the problems on the road, I picked up a bandit, and he was put up in an auction," Reyna said, "I'm sure you heard all about the fiasco at the black market auction and how all the items were taken by the staff of the auction all accept for one,"The pieces clicked into place in Reyna's head as she realised what that one item was, a slave that Selner bought, the same slave she had met in the back room of Selner's office.The image of Lirian quickly filled her head, "Your slave, is that the item?" Izlandi asked playing dumb after all she was currently contemplating gaining the help of that person, she didn't want Reyna to know that she already knew about Lirian in case Reyna wanted to take him back.Izlandi understood that because of what happened no payments had been made, so technically Lirian didn't belong to her and if what Reyna was saying was true then technically Lirian was still her possession."Yes," Reyna answered nodding her head, "And your little pet took my slave, however I received no payment,""I will look into it, when I find your slave I will pay you the amount, how much did your slave go for?" Izlandi asked."610 gold," Reyna said her forever cold face showed a hint of happiness as she looked at Izlandi's blank face.'610 gold?!' Izlandi thought blinking her eyes rapidly wither face going blank, 'Did I hear that right?' she wondered thinking that maybe those impurities messed up her hearing, "Could you repeat that?" she asked while wrapping her hand around the armrest of her chair to steady herself."610 gold," Reyna replied so quickly it was as if she had anticipated Izlandi's reaction, she too was god smacked when she heard the amount Lirian went for.'Just what the hell were you thinking Selner,' Izlandi thought while looking at her sleeping confidant with widened eyes, 'He's worth a lot more,' a voice said in her head, 'He's so dreamy,' the voice chimed happily.Izlandi rubbed her temples, "I'll see to it that everything is arranged," she said to Reyna, who smiled smugly."If I may ask, how did you come across that slave?" she asked Reyna curiously, there was something not right about the situation but she just couldn't place her finger on what it was.Reyna was about to turn and leave when she heard Izlandi's question, she frowned slightly at being question, but it was understandable that Izlandi would be curious about a slave that was sold for such a ridiculous amount."On my return back, my squad encountered some bandits, we killed all of them, but someone noticed that there was a good looking man in the group, we had already hurt him badly, but they wanted to see if he would sell since his looks were outstanding, so I branded him and had my men put him on auction," Reyna quickly gave her the cover story she came up with the rest of her squad.Izlandi blinked in confusion, 'But he's so strong, unless Reyna acted against him herself I don't think they could have beat him, and that to I'm not completely sure if Reyna would be able to harm him,' she fell into deep thought.She realised that this is what bothered her the most, she had no idea about how strong Lirian was she only knew that there was something about him that scared her, 'Could he have let them capture him on purpose, if so then what are his real intentions?' she wondered."I see," Izlandi said while deep in thought.Reyna took that as an opportunity to leave but as she reached the door she glanced as Selner, "Do you know what caused her to mind collapse?" she asked Izlandi, but in the back of her mind she was wondering if she made a mistake in letting Lirian go.She still remembered that feeling of foreboding she received when she met Lirian, like she was looking at a monster capable of doing anything, 'Could he have caused Selner's mind collapse?' she wondered with a thumping heart.Izlandi tightly knitted her brows as she wondered if Reyna knew something more but eventually she sighed, "No idea," she lied.An hour later Izlandi made her way into her cultivation chamber and quickly went to the area with all her alchemy equipment.'This is it,' she thought, 'If I go through with this I'll be able to change my fate, but what will the price I pay come to,' she wondered as she remembered Lirian's vague words, about the price being intangible.She walked up to a leather pouch and started to wrap it up, inside it was all the ingredients Lirian asked for, before long she had several large boxes packed full of her alchemy tools.
