After their dinner, they all went to sleep as Zaroth kept Silverfang summoned to alert them of any suspicious activity, such as ravens or similar appearances.
Thankfully, it seed that whatever had followed them had given up for now, as they didn't see it again.
The next morning, they went back to the capital to attend their lectures.
Zaroth didn't have ti to shower as he had just barely managed to arrive in ti, and the sa was true for his friends as well.
Thankfully, because Elysia was the one holding the lecture, most of the students were a few rows back, so nobody would be able to sense that Zaroth was slling like fish .
"That is why once the blessing had be—"
He massaged his forehead despite Elysia teaching the first class. It was about history, so as such, he found himself bored and thinking about what he had to do.
'First, I threw away my spear, so I will have to buy one. Once I do, most of my credits would be gone… I don't think it would be wise to ask Elysia for more, considering that she gave a lot recently.'
Of course, there was the option that she could give him so kind of a job for more credits, but honestly, he didn't like the idea of having to do one more of her weird jobs.
Who knew? She could send him sowhere even more extre than last ti, like the center of an active volcano.
"So does anyone have an idea why so little is known about the demons?" Elysia asked as she observed the students in the room.
Pushing past his fear that he felt from the chairwoman, a timid boy with glasses raised his hand.
Elysia pointed at him, and he began to explain.
"The reason is that demons are fundantally different from us humans. As such, we are in very bad relationships with them. It would be too dangerous for soone to go and try and investigate, aning that the only way to learn more is by outright invading. But starting a war against beings that we know so little about is suicide, so no Empire has yet to do it."
Elysia smiled in satisfaction as she spoke. "That is correct. I just want to add—"
'A demon…' Hearing the word, Zaroth imdiately rembered Midnight and the way the symbol on his hand had begun to shine when she was in danger, last ti.
He, of course, had asked her what could be the reason, but she made it clear that she didn't have a clue. Because demons and humans were so separated, and because she hated them, she not only didn't think that she would make a deal with one, but she had refused to even learn how the deals worked.
So in the end, since they didn't have much of a clue, they simply thought that it was because she had been in danger and didn't think much about it.
Zaroth himself, being curious, had tried to check in the library, but even after reading so many of the books on the topic, nothing ca up.
It was all just useless things that were either theories or flat-out wrong.
'Forget about it, I will focus on learning how to use two daggers… It has also been a long ti since I've learned a new skill. It will not be a bad idea to start now, as it will take ti. I should be careful not to beco too cocky. There is always the possibility that I will lose in the tournant.'
At the end, this was his plan, train with the daggers while simultaneously learning a new spell.
'The question is, what spell?'
Elysia cleared her throat loudly, and Zaroth almost jumped out of his seat, startled.
She was looking at him like she was waiting for sothing.
'Shit! Did she ask sothing?! I was so zoned out, I didn't hear anything!'
A few seconds passed in silence, so he smiled awkwardly as he scratched the back of his head.
"Can you repeat that?"
She sighed in disappointnt. Continue reading at My Virtual Library Empire
It was going to be a long day.
*****
"This sure is a weird creature," the black thing thought as it stared at the girl who was sleeping peacefully.
It had taken the body of her father, yet she didn't seem to show that she could sense the difference in personality at all.
Was it because her father had been emotionless before the thing took over? Or was it because she was just too young to sense the difference?
"No matter, she is asleep, so I better get going—" the thing muttered but then stopped.
"I did decide that I am going to pretend to follow that man, Zack, right? If they learn that I would need extra help to kill the man, they would send sobody else with , which would be trouble. The more they know about my abilities, the less advantage I will have… I guess I can take it easy for a while. Who knows, I might even learn where the emperor is keeping that thing I need and take it without having to go through all that trouble…"
The question was that if it was going to take it easy, it would have to blend with the people and try not to arouse suspicion. But that wasn't an easy task, as fooling humans was hard.
"Actually," the thing murmured as it gazed at the sleeping girl.
"If I play the part of her father, surely no one would suspect , right?"
It was going to be weird at first, but in the long run, it could prove to be beneficial. The more it knew about humans, the easier it could fool them, after all.
"Mom, I'm sorry," the girl muttered under her breath as she slept. It seed that she was having a nightmare.
The thing smiled darkly. "Am I supposed to console her or sothing?"
It muttered as it exited the room.
"She is sleeping, it's not like it will have any aning anyway."
It seed its life pretending to be a father had begun.
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