Chapter 849 - Stalactite Water
“Without that apprentice, I’m sure Goldspink has what it takes to win the war. And if not, we’ll just accept our defeat like real fighters.”
When hearing her words, Angor quite admired this princess who threw herself to the front line soon after bearing a child. Even so, he didn’t agree to help because of this. He promised to deal with the unknown apprentice in exchange for something he was interested in, which was Tavier’s sword.
How did the mortal weapon contain fire elements on it? As an alchemist, Angor would like to find the answer.
Normally, it was extremely difficult to gather magical elements at the Old Earth, where such elements were slow and stagnant. He wondered if, by finding the secret held by the strange sword, he could also learn something about what caused the particular lack of elements on this land.
For this reason, he was fully willing to spend two days away from Padt Manor.
“Now that I offered my help.” He looked at Tavier, who was almost jumping in delight. “Will you tell me the second treasure you mentioned?”
Tavier looked worried. She feared that Angor was tricking her into spilling the information before changing his mind and leaving.
“I have more than one way to find out, and you won’t even notice,” Angor added. “But I didn’t do so. Since I’m negotiating with you, I meant to stick to my part of the job.”
“It’s our fault.” Tavier sighed in distress. “We always keep the presence of the treasure as our top secret. After getting that letter, father believed we had a spy or betrayer among us. After some investigation, we noticed that the third consort was missing. We found remains of burnt letters in her room. Letters from Heylan Imperial.
“That was when we discovered that she’s from Heylan. She was being too friendly to my brother probably because she wanted to get her hands on our confidential information. Somehow, she found the stalactite and sent the info to Heylan, which in turn drew the apprentice to us.”
Tavier suddenly began to sob. “After carelessly revealing the secret, my brother wanted to amend his crime by offering himself as a tribute. That was how we fended off the Heart Gorger from the palace.”
Angor saw Tavier almost crying and decided not to ask about their secret weapon that used people’s lives to work.
He might as well go and take a look at the capital.