Chapter 124: Warning
Yuehai’s heart skipped a beat, silently cursing, “Master, you really speak so bluntly.”
“Um… Well, this, uh, is not bad either.”
“What do you mean by ‘not bad’?” Laogeri closed the book with a wry smile, glanced at Yuehai, then stood up, walked to the bookshelf, and put the book back.
“Yuehai, are you interested in hearing an old man like me tell a story from the past?”
Yuehai wondered if Master Laogeri was going to tell a story with a hidden meaning to warn her. If that was the case, it would be easy because she didn’t harbor any ill intentions towards the Duke’s mansion.
“Master, please go ahead.”
Laogeri kindly looked at Yuehai, casually picking up a green-covered grimoire from the shelf. Although he seemed engrossed in reading, his mouth didn’t stop.
“Roughly ninety years ago, your master, I, took in a disciple named Daven. Yes, indeed, he shares the exact same name as the first Duke of our kingdom, Cyril. His background was simple, just a street urchin without parents, often causing trouble in the slums and engaging in shady activities with a few beggars.”
Laogeri shook his head and smiled, his eyes filled with reminiscence.
“One day, he was chased by military personnel and ended up in front of me. This fellow, grabbing onto my trousers and shouting for help, I don’t know if he did it on purpose because he recognized the name Laogeri.”
“So, did the Master save him?” Yuehai asked in confusion.
“Do I seem like someone who is compassionate?” Laogeri looked at Yuehai with a kind smile, which made her silently think, “Master, you don’t seem like it, indeed.”
“At that time, I observed his extremely high affinity for the elements, which is why I decided to keep him. After he entered my Duke’s mansion, he appeared very obedient, versatile, and quite likable. However, it’s a pity that good times didn’t last.” Laogeri sighed inwardly, feeling extremely guilty every time he thought of this.
“I nurtured him for nearly forty years, only to find out that I had raised a spy for the enemy.”
“A spy?” Yuehai raised an eyebrow. “This spy seems to be quite dedicated. Spending forty years in the Duke’s mansion, he must have had some attachment here. It’s too cold-blooded to betray like that.”
“I know what you’re thinking,” Laogeri sighed again, his usually sharp gaze now dulled, as he said in a subdued tone.
“Fifteenth-level magic, Seal of Dust. Do you know about it?”
“I don’t know,” replied the disciple.
“The principle is quite simple. The Milik Kingdom sealed away a vast amount of indoctrinated knowledge from Daven’s childhood, to the extent that even the gods would have difficulty detecting it. Eventually, when the time was ripe, Milik unleashed it all at once, causing chaos throughout the Duke’s mansion. They only escaped using a teleportation scroll after the appearance of the gods.”
“Milik again? It’s the Milik Kingdom.” Yuehai couldn’t help but ponder the seemingly endless conflict between the two. Thinking about the teleportation array, she couldn’t help but consider whether she should mention this matter to Master Laogeri as a hint.
“Have you understood the meaning of my story?” Laogeri’s gaze pierced through Yuehai as if delving into her soul, causing her heart to skip a beat, involuntarily taking a step back.
“I understand, but Master, rest assured, I don’t have anything…”
Wait a minute, Yuehai suddenly had a realization.
The fifteenth-level magic, Seal of Dust, seals memories until the opportune moment to unleash them…
This was remarkably similar to her current amnesia. Could it be that her entry into the Kingdom of Cyril wasn’t coincidental?
Right! She happened to meet Claude, who was returning triumphantly, on the way and was coincidentally rescued back to the Duke’s mansion by him.
If she considered herself as a brainwashed spy of the Milik Kingdom, then all of this would seem to make sense.
This thought left Yuehai feeling numb in the midst of the winter, could it be that she was truly a spy sent by the Milik Kingdom to infiltrate the Duke’s mansion?
At this moment, Laogeri suddenly closed the grimoire, speaking with forcefulness and severity.
“Yuehai, I only ask you one thing, would you do anything harmful to the Duke’s mansion?”
“No, I wouldn’t.” Yuehai’s heart raced, but her expression remained resolute. Currently, she indeed had no intention to harm the Duke’s mansion.
“Alright, you are my last disciple, and I won’t take any more after this. Yuehai, you must remember what was said today.
“If one day you do something like what Daven did,” Laogeri’s momentum suddenly intensified at this moment, the kind of battlefield-honed murderous intent enveloping them, Yuehai’s face instantly turned deathly pale.
“No matter if you ascend to the heavens or descend into the earth, no matter if you hide in Milik or the Imperial City, I, Laogeri Xishen, will spend the rest of my life hunting you down.”
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