"Howling Mountains?" Elias could not help but raise his voice when he heard Rosalind's words. "Are we going to train in that place?"
"You look scared," Atior chid in. She was standing by the door, staring at Elias.
"Scared? Who is scared?" Elias asked.
"Ehem We have heard rumors about that place, the Captain told us about it. He said that that place was very dangerous. Not many people lived to tell the tale. Not even the seven families dared to visit the Howling Mountains, and yet, you want us to go there to train?"
"It was His Grace's idea. We will be with Huig and Magda and two other mbers. Mr. Denys will be here along with so other people," Rosalind said. "We need to get stronger. If you want to face the seven families then we need to beco stronger, and the best way to do that is to face the danger in the Howling Mountains."
"The Howling Mountains is forbidden, even for sorcerers," Atior spoke, her voice still sounding like they were the voices of three people who were talking at the sa ti. It could be a little creepy, but Rosalind and most of the others were already used to it except for Elias.
For so reason, Elias seed to hate Atior so much that he now refused to stay in the sa room as her. Of course, etings like this were an exception.
"Then I agree," Elias said.
"I don't think we have a choice," Valentin said. "What about Captain Gaudy?"
"He will be staying here to welco the other sorcerers that will arrive," Rosalind said.
Elias snorted but said nothing while Valentin shook his head.
"Very well when are we leaving?" Valentin said.
"As soon as we can," Rosalind uttered. They only have a month to train. By the ti they got back to this place, it would be ti that she married the Duke. It would also be the ti when she turned 18. Her debut would be coming. This was another reason for her to prepare herself.
Once the world knew about her, once they saw her face, they would start asking questions. After all, her similarity to Rosalind Lux was uncanny. Her arrival was also the perfectly tid to when Rosalind 'died'. This ti, Rosalind was not going to act so confident and look down on those people.
She did not want to get the Duke in any more trouble.
"First, I have to visit a place," Rosalind said. A trip needed preparation and the best place to do that was in the black market. This would be the perfect ti to inquire about the things that had been happening in Aster as well.
"Do you need to co with you?" Atior imdiately asked.
"No. It would be best if you stay here and helped with the construction of the building where the others would stay. We will leave in three days. I expect you to be prepared by then."
With that, Rosalind left the room. The mont she went out, she imdiately saw Magda waiting for her.
"Did sothing happen?" Rosalind asked as they made their way into the tower.
"I should be the one asking you that," Magda said. "I know I have no right to ask, but are you alright?"
"I will be," Rosalind answered honestly. There was no point in pretending that Milith's death did not affect her. She was, after all, still human. She had emotions that she needed to nurse. She was grieving, and she was not going to lie about it.
"I appreciate your honesty. I heard about the trip," Magda said.
"Yes."
"Howling Mountains, eh?" Magda said. They were now walking inside the tower.
"Are you scared?"
"What is scared?" Magda was actually smiling from ear to ear. "I am pretty giddy about it. What is more exciting than getting stronger?" she asked.
"I saw you fight in Rakha. You were magnificent," Rosalind praised. She never thought that a woman could fight like Magda. To Rosalind, Magda was the perfect embodint of a physically strong woman and she could not help but be amazed by the seemingly endless things that Magda could do with her sword.
"Stop praising ," Magda said. "It was only because of your Blessing." Magda was smiling. Rosalind had not told her about her Blessing, but by now, it was actually pretty easy to guess. Moreover, Magda had been seeing her do all sorts of things. The woman was not stupid.
There was no point in hiding these things anymore.
"So do you need to do sothing?" Magda suddenly asked out of nowhere.
"What do you an?"
"I an do you need anything else? I know that you were not allowing maids inside the tower lately because you fear that whoever did that to Milith will co back. So I can cook."
"Huh?" Rosalind did not know what to say. "You can cook?"
"How do you think I survived in the beast lands without cooking? I can grill sothing."
Rosalind smiled. "Thank you, but Atior already volunteered. She can easily sense soone that could teleport in and out of the place especially if that person has a Blessing, so she is pretty helpful." Atior was like a human detector. Just like how the ones with a Blessing could sense a sorcerer, the sorcerers could easily sense soone with a Blessing too.
Because of this, Rosalind agreed to have Atior stay inside the tower. This decision sohow made Atior so happy, she literally cried tears of joy, thinking that she would be serving her 'Goddess'.
"Oh then then is there sothing else that I can do?" Magda asked. She looked a little disappointed so Rosalind nodded.
"You can co with " Rosalind said.
"Where?"
"To watch a show."
"A show?"
"In Aster." Rosalind then handed a one-ti teleportation device that she bought from Mr. Pratt. This was created using another relic. However, just like her ring, it could only be used to teleport to and from the black market. Right now, they were still developing ways to make soone teleport from one place to another which was not the black market.
With that, Rosalind and Magda left Wugari.
However, the scene that welcod them when they arrived in the black market was just a little too chaotic.
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