Esdras was putting his clothes back on while Tara stood in the hallway with a complicated expression. This whole ti she was unable to comprehend how everything fell apart like this.
In her shock she didn't respond to Esdras for a long ti which irritated him at last.
"Hey, are you done spacing out? I want to hear an answer." He said firmly.
"T-that… what do you want to exactly?"
Tara closed her eyes and opened them again to return to reality as hard as it was to accept, she had to find a sliver-lining.
"Actually nothing. Just keep acting as you always do. Pretend that everything is as usual."
"R-really?" Tara asked in disbelief.
"Yes, really." Esdras smiled, "keep your little friends out of the loop and convince them that I am under your spell, you can do at least that much right. I will tell you the rest later."
"B-but we— I an they, they want to kill you during the exam, you know it's allowed to kill other apprentices during the exam without any repercussions."
"Sure, I do." Esdras replied, with a sinister smile that send shivers down her spine.
Yes, everything has beco clear now. He almost forgot about his true identity, as a True mage for a second. It was so absurd that she hadn't excepted it as reality yet.
She could you know what Esdras wanted, he plan to get rid of them during the exam just as they were trying to do him. But of course, from the beginning they missed the most important factor.
A True mage.
Their numbers wouldn't matter, it was a massacre waiting to happen.
Even if he didn't do anything so far, things would have proceeded in the sa manner.
Even if she told Sam and the others about the truth, it wouldn't change anything unless they decided to hide under the ground during the exam and not move or do anything hoping that Esdras wouldn't catch them.
However, knowing Sam and the others, they wouldn't even believe her.
They would definitely die, but she had a chance to live throughout this ordeal. If he obeyed Esdras and delivered Sam and the others to him, then she would have contributed, and proved her usefulness.
Tara didn't need to hear Esdras tell her all this, but she was able to infer and read what was between the lines.
More importantly, her desire to live, no matter what was very great.
As Tara thought about many things that concerned, her life and death, Esdras rolled his eyes mockingly.
Of course, her thought process was not wrong, but she herself did not know, or other did nothing further than that. The real reason that he wanted Sam and the others want to investigate the motivations of Roberts sches against him.
And for revenge of course too.
Esdras could ask Tara about it now, but he had no intention to do it, so right now. Simply because he would not trust any answers she gave him instead, it was better to have her distracted with survival.
Of course he was the person that he wanted the most not Sam or any of the others. She was the closest to Robert, of course, being his fiancé. She would know the most about his thoughts, and what he wanted to do.
But first he was going to break her, before, trusting any answers she gave him. Throughout this ti, he was going to make sure to build up resentnt against Robert inside of her heart, and violate her body at the sa ti.
It would not be long before she broke.
Esdras got to the training room leaving Tara to stew on his instructions and started examining the negative energy gathering technique. And he was shocked.
Actually yesterday while taking revenge on Tara and humiliating her, he started using the technique unintentionally but he was surprised by the results.
The amount of negative energy he absorbed from tornting Tara was unbelievable. His normal pace was like a snail but in a single night he made the progress of a fortnight?!
It was a completely different level!
So this is what it ant to absorb negative energy from people. He thought of it as sothing similar to mana or vigor but in fact it wasn't the case.
To improve in this technique it was a hundred tis more effective to inflict suffering on others and then absorb the resulting negative energy.
That seed a little too evil, right?
But… he couldn't go back to normal cultivation after experiencing that difference!
Anyway he was going to use it on his enemies in the first place so it was fine.
The speed wasn't the only thing that changed, it was the affinity. It was like he got closer to the essence of negative energy. Was it because of he newfound thod or his own understanding of the energy growing, which lead to this change?
Anyway he needed to investigate the negative energy and experint on it more.
Within the training ground, there was no one around at this ti despite the inevitable exam, no one seed intent on improving themselves. Of course, what good can a few days do that five years couldn't change?
Esdras pondered on this and concentrated the negative energy along with his spiritual energy and aid it at a pebble the size of his finger. An intense feeling of ache ran through his body and his mind especially.
After a minute of struggle, the pebble started floating, perhaps a more appropriate word to describe it would be 'levitating'. From a distance of 1 ter the pebble slowly moved through the air into his palm.
"Success!!"
Esdras couldn't contain his excitent and jumped in the air. At last he was able to see the first result of a technique he started training in for a month or so.
After a mont he suddenly looked at the hand holding the pebble and and smirked.
'Tara may prove to be of use to after all.'
He he he
In more way than one.
"The force is with !"
This may not be the galaxy far, far away but the force was still able to chose him.
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