Chapter 74 Premonition
It had been close to a month since the trio had arrived at Hannes City. With the city's curfew starting at sunset and the increased nightti patrol, the disappearances had lowered significantly.
However, this didn't an progress. After all, the Magi were still unable to locate where the captives were being held.
Adam's life in the city had beco monotonous. The entire night, he'd be out with Edward and Lisa, patrolling the streets. Then, he would return to the rented manor in the wee hours of the morning.
After sleeping for six hours only, he would begin practicing mindfulness and then bury himself in studying herbalism and experinting with potions.
During such tis, oh how much he wished that practicing mindfulness could substitute for his sleep. But unfortunately, it didn't.
In the past few weeks, after repeated failures and subsequent learning from said failures, Adam had already mastered brewing the Potion of Aqua Breathing.
Furthermore, he had also begun experinting on other potion recipes that he'd acquired from the expert's mories. Of course, the potions he could experint on were restricted to his rank. He wouldn't even try experinting on those high-level potions that he had mories of.
Currently, Adam was inside his temporary lab and was thoughtfully looking at a pile of dust on the table. He rubbed his chin and mumbled, "What exactly is missing…"
The dust in front of him was an accidental byproduct of one of his experints. When he learned that it could be further improved upon, he established a clear-cut goal of how he could use this dust in his battles.
Although the dust that he envisioned wouldn't have any attack power, it would greatly aid him nevertheless. Especially right now when he knew that the criminal that he was searching for had a great chance of being an undead.
After thinking for a long ti, he still couldn't understand how to proceed. In the end, he grabbed a blank piece of paper and a quill and then began writing a correspondence.
A few minutes later, he rolled the parchnt paper and slid it inside a small cylindrical compartnt. Then, he took out a bronze whistle from within his robes and looked at it with anticipation.
"Let's see how this thing works," he muttered and then blew the whistle.
Much to his surprise, the whistle didn't produce any sound. No matter how hard he blew into it no sound ca out.
"What the?" Adam frowned as he examined the whistle. "Does this not work? Or am I doing sothing wrong?"
He was about to blow on it again, when all of a sudden, the space in front of him distorted and the colors around it began to saturate. Then, the space was torn open!
Adam's eyes lit up. "Blac—Ackk!"
Before he could finish what he was about to say, sothing bolted out of the tear in the void and slamd right into his face. The youth fell off his stool and landed on the ground.
"Blackie!"
"Woof!" Blackie, who was sitting on Adam's face, continued to lick him without stopping. It took Adam a lot of effort to get the little fellow off of his face.
He sat up and placed Blackie on his lap. Then, he rubbed the spirit creature's head fondly. "How've you been? Did you miss ?"
Blackie nodded his little head, his tongue sticking out, and his tail wagging intensely.
"Hahaha!" Adam gave him a hug and warmly said, "Well, I missed you too, buddy."
Adam played with Blackie for a while and then waved the compartnt that contained the letter in front of his face. "Can you deliver this to the old man?"
Blackie snorted and looked away. At the sa ti, he relayed sothing to Adam ntally.
Hearing Blackie's ntal transmission, Adam's eyebrows twitched. He repeated, "Can you please deliver this to the old man, Lord Blackie?"
"Woof!" Blackie imdiately swallowed the small compartnt.
"Oh, I almost forgot." Adam got to his feet and then put a bit of his experintal dust inside a leather pouch. Then, he handed it to Blackie. "Here, give this too."
Once again, Blackie swallowed the pouch. Following that, he looked at Adam with narrowed eyes, seemingly waiting for sothing else. "Woof?"
"I know, I know." Adam chuckled. "I haven't forgotten."
He took out a small purple crystal from his satchel and gave it to Blackie. "Here you go."
Blackie was ecstatic seeing this crystal. His eyes shone brightly and he began drooling. He bit on the crystal and slowly ate it, savoring the flavor. Seeing Blackie's intoxicated look, Adam couldn't help but chuckle.
This small purple crystal was an ore that could be found only in the Spirit World.
Berger had given so to Adam for one reason and one reason only. It seed that this little fellow, Blackie, would refuse to deliver mail for Adam if the latter didn't give him so type of incentive.
Recalling the ti when Berger had instructed him to use the crystals as if they were so sort of transportation fee, Adam found it very amusing.
After Blackie had finished eating the crystal, he waved his paw and tore the space open once again. Then, he bade Adam farewell and stepped inside the Spirit World.
The space nded itself back and everything returned to normal. Adam stood in the sa spot and marveled. "To be able to open a direct portal to the Spirit World so effortlessly… Blackie, man, what a guy!"
Adam tidied up the lab and got rid of all the waste. Then, he went to his bedroom and got changed into his black Magus outfit that he had purchased in Moon City. After he had put on his pointy hat, he went downstairs and saw that Edward and Lisa were already waiting.
The sun had already set and the city-wide curfew had begun. The trio left the manor and were greeted by six city guards sent by the Count.
Adam, Edward, and Lisa each went their own ways with two city guards accompanying them. This was much more efficient than the three of them patrolling together.
As Adam greeted the two city guards who were stationed with him, suddenly he had this strange premonition that tonight wasn't going to be a quiet one.
Ever since his soul had strengthened after absorbing the bright motes inside the white lotus, Adam felt that his sixth sense had developed imnsely. And right now, his sixth sense was faintly giving him warning signals.
The youth was unsure if his 'intuition' was a result of his strengthened soul or if it was sothing directly related to the white lotus. Nevertheless, he chose to trust it.
He looked at the two guards behind him and solemnly said, "Be on guard at all tis."
"Yes, Lord Adam!" The guards respectfully complied.
Adam looked at the night sky. The twin moons, Selene and Luna, had hidden themselves behind dark clouds.
Is the criminal finally going to show up tonight?
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