Nothing else could explain how Aldrich had co up with the outco.
Nothing else could explain how he reached from failure of so potion to a secret known to very selected few in uric's family.
Nothing else but Aldrich's identity as a spy.
And Aldrich had no mood to explain the truth behind his statent, either. He looked at uric without blinking, making uric's throat drier and drier. There was no smile on Aldrich's face, but in the darkness, it seed as if he was grinning.
Words rang out in uric's ears just as this evil grin felt to make him lose his mind.
"No, I am not a spy. Heh! Can't you see my condition?!"
Aldrich scoffed, but despite him ntioning his almost crippled condition, uric's muscles didn't lose the tightness. Aldrich nodded, seeing these expressions and the condition of uric's body. He had successfully planted a seed of submission in uric's heart. And no matter what would happen after this mont, this seed would keep sucking out nutrients from uric's subconsciousness.
Gulp!
A heavy gulping sound ca out as uric wet his throat. Aldrich noticed, contrary to the norm, the wilderness had beco eerily quiet. Aside from so small clicking sounds, he couldn't hear anything.
'Hmm'
Aldrich put this silence to the back of his mind and looked at uric.
"Why are you standing here? Don't you want to win?"
Aldrich delicately controlled the sound pressure waves to give so hallucinating effect to his words. uric's heart had already beco defenseless, giving Aldrich the best ti to get so answers which had been puzzling him since the start.
uric's eyes dilated, and the towering young boy seed like a drunk man about to fall in the embrace of a long sleep. Not realizing what he was saying, uric blurted out as if he was talking to air.
"Haha! I want to, and I will win. But Boids don't forget their given words. I have promised that I will guard you, so I will. Besides, you are weak, Mr. Tudor. Only my punch has the power to blast a beast like that to pieces. Also, my father always used to say"
""
Aldrich stared at the stupefying scene of uric keep blabbering even when he was under auditory hallucinations. But the surrounding silence had made him apprehensive about it. Keeping it short, Aldrich cut uric's words off and again asked.
"Why didn't you use your Summon to fight the beast?"
Aldrich had been thinking about it for quite so ti. From uric's family na, and the Skill nad Thunder Boa First Fist, Aldrich could guess that there was a link between this family and the creature known as Thunder Boa.
But even at that perilous ti, uric hadn't used his Summon Skill. There must be a hidden fact behind it, and Aldrich wanted nothing but to know that as soon as he could.
uric licked his lips, hearing the question thrown at him. And though Aldrich could tell he was still on the boundary of complete hallucination and reality, he could feel the self-pity return in his heart.
"That Mr. Tudor, I I can't make it follow my instructions."
'Hmm?!'
Aldrich had encountered none of such cases so far, where artificial Summon ford between a Drear and a creature based on so contract. He was just familiar with only one type of Summoning, which he had got as a reward in the Dungeon on his ho planet.
'Liath Macha'
Aldrich rembered the na of his summon. On any other Drear, this creature could have been the most devastative summon, but Aldrich had rarely used it. Not because he couldn't, but because Aldrich had always found him involved in fights where the Rare Ranked Beast could hardly assist him.
Aldric did not know, with his Summon Skill being gone, what could have happened to the creature. But just as he was contemplating it, another piece of mory ca back to him from tens of thousands of years ago.
He rembered getting a notification where the beast, Liath Macha, had demanded Aldrich prove his worthiness.
'Was that a type of contract?!!'
As this question ford in Aldrich's mind, he also thought of a possibility of what would have happened if he had failed to prove his worthiness. Aldrich looked at uric and gently controlled the sound waves.
"So you couldn't prove your worthiness"
Just as Aldrich ntioned worthiness, he felt a dam of self-pity getting burst open in uric's heart. This sudden outburst of emotion also made uric co out of his hallucinated state, but Aldrich didn't prevent it from happening.
Falseness within Truth and Dreams within Reality were among the dirtiest weapons in Aldrich's arsenal.
Thup!!!
uric fell and his knees got buried in the slightly muddy ground. Even after being in that position, his head had reached Aldrich's chest. Silent tears kept streaming out of uric, and he almost cried out.
"No No, I couldn't What is wrong with ? What"
'Hmm It seems this proving of worthiness isn't as easy as I had thought it to be'
Aldrich emphasized this point to himself, but it seed even then he had underestimated this "proof of worthiness". One must not forget that even Aldrich, the abomination he was, had taken three full days to prove himself to Liath Macha. Although it included the fact that he didn't know how to ride a horse, with Class Generalist, it hadn't taken him long to do so.
Aldrich brought himself out of his stupor and gazed at uric, who seed to have lost all will to even stand up. Suddenly, a devilish dark light flashed in his eyes. All around him, a sinister wind howled, and for the first ti, Aldrich slightly parted his lips to let out a whisper.
"I can help you"
uric snapped his head up with a jerk and stared blindly into Aldrich's eyes. He didn't know that these sa parting of lips had instilled terror in Baron Benjamin's heart in the afternoon.
Aldrich could do many things alone, but the place was foreign, and so were people. He had decided to be extra cautious until he finally regained his lost Ranks and Levels.
'If only Sha'
This thought passed by Aldrich's mind, but he didn't stop mimicking the Skill Devil's Whisper.
"I can help you beco worthy and much more But you must pay a price."
uric muttered, clasped in the clutches of the Law of Devil.
"An Anything"
If Aldrich could, the corners of his lips must have reached to his ears in a heinous grin by now. Words, sweet like honey but rotten from within, ca out of his mouth.
"Haha Very well! So be it."
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