Chapter 257
Chapter 257 Alice Returns
McThran was dead!
A veteran adept with decent prowess had died for no reason in a completely insignificant battlefield!
This shocking truth was hard to swallow for both sides of the conflict.
Kartia Hills was a territory no bigger than sixty square kilometers, with one mid-sized and two small-sized cities, as well as seven or eight human villages. Even if all of the mansions and villages within Kartia Hills were razed and converted into its worth in magic crystals, it still wouldn’t be enough to compensate for the loss of a veteran adept.
The true reason the three adept forces had allied with each other to attack was to test the waters. If the Sarubo Clan had indeed taken huge losses in the plane war, they would take a strategic retreat and voluntarily surrender some benefits that it couldn’t defend. They would trade time for space to recover their strength.
In fact, such border wars happened on a daily basis within the Zhentarim area. Countless adept clans and organizations were involved in the various tussles and disagreements. However, it was extremely rare to see an adept die in one of these conflicts.
As the invading party, Carlos of the Mikayne Clan had no choice but to declare their loss. The two parties finally sat down to have a tough negotiation on the war reparations.
“This… Alice, I think I’m your master! Not the other way round. You, a servant girl, want to get something good from me without doing anything? Hmmmm… “
Alice instantly switched from her pouting face to a bright smile when she heard this.
“Oh my dear master, my beloved master, is there anything the cute Alice can do for you?”
Greem’s head hurt when he saw Alice’s shameless transition. He let out a cold laugh and spoke, “Wouldn’t you know what a servant girl can do? You grew up in nobility after all.”
“Sleep with the master?” Alice let out an overjoyed laugh as she exclaimed, “Sure! Of course! What do you think about tonight? Your cute Alice will come warm your bed tonight!”
Greem planted his face into palm. He was utterly speechless now.
Even though he knew Alice was a talkative person, Greem couldn’t maintain his cool and calm attitude when the one talking had the appearance of a seven-year-old loli.
He did a quick calculation. Alice was almost seventeen already. Still, it was hard to treat her as someone of similar age to himself with this loli body and face.
With how arrogant she was, Greem would have long tossed her aside if she was any less talented. However, having personally witnessed the wonder of a top-tier fate-wielding ‘scammer’, Greem couldn’t help but be intrigued by the title Alice bore on her back. The title of the ‘Witch of Fate’.
If… he was able to personally train a prophet that was loyal to his cause, it would have tremendous significance for his future development.
It was precisely because of this thought that Greem had immense hopes for Alice. Greem wouldn’t be ungenerous if it meant a chance to forge a good relationship between her and himself.
Greem raised his head and thought for a moment. The only thing he had that seemed to be useful to her yet not appear too stingy would probably be that!
Having come to this thought, Greem waved his hand. All of the magic barriers within his dwelling were instantly activated. A layer of light radiance appeared everywhere on the walls, the ceiling, and even the floor. Now, even the fellows who had absolute authority of the tower couldn’t listen in on his secret without alerting Greem’s sensory detections.
“You… what do you want… to do?” Alice took a step backwards frantically. Her hands grabbed her collar tightly, and her eyes darted about the room as if she was terrified.
“Hmph! Only ghosts would be interested in that beansprout-like body of yours!” Greem commented in an upset tone, “You wanted a gift, didn’t you? Here, this is my gift to you!”
Greem took out a gray pouch and very reluctantly passed it to Alice.
“All’s good as long as you are not setting your sights on me! What’s this? It looks really ugly… ” Alice pinched her nose while picking up the pouch with two fingers.
The pouch clearly was not any sort of magic-infused item. It was just a normal pouch sewn from rough linen. Not only was it old and in tatters, there was even a stuffy and rotten smell coming from within.
Alice instantly lost all confidence in its contents with how unpresentable the pouch was.
She pinched her nose, pushed back her disgust and took out a strange grey stone the size of a fist from within the pouch.
“This is the gift you brought me from another plane? A stupid stone!”
Alice rolled her eyes and threw the stone aside.
However, at the very moment the gray stone left her palm, it drew a brilliant silver line across the air. Before the stone even reached the ground, the silver line started to vibrate, and a small opening had opened in the space in front of Greem’s and Alice’s eyes. The stone moved as if it had a brain of its own. In the blink of an eye, it had almost vanished into a space wormhole and disappeared from this plane.
Alice’s sharp voice finally rang out.
“A spacestone!”