"Yes, I can! Now, Siegfried, please come here and let me take a look."
He hesitated but came over and sat down obediently. The elegance of those steps! That was no man!
And she wasn't!
Now to guard her privacy I will omit what I saw in there but let me just say it wasn't much better than in Sigurd. The only difference was that the force pushing me out was very soft and gentle. Still, it didn't stop me from leaving another present ^~^.
"I'm done."
"Lord Eldar, can you help my two nephews?"
"NO!!!"
"I can't help imaginary people. So that second nephew of yours will probably die."
"Imaginary people? Lord Eldar, I don't understa-... you know?!"
"You realize that I just checked her body. Obviously, I would notice something major like a different gender!"
"Wait... You are male. Are you a pervert? Did checking her body arouse you?! "
"I'm a tree! I can't get hard because I always am! My goddess, do you even realize that trees don't have the means to reproduce sexually? In addition, I checked her body with magic, not my eyes."
She looked like she wanted to say something more regarding the subject but held back.
"Now about that help you want. There are two steps. The first is a simple spell that can help you deal with the voice in your head. The second step will take me a few days as I need to fine-tune the spell. In the meantime, we can talk about my compensation."
"Compensation? Why would we need to compensate you? We are the royalty of this kingdom!"
Sigurd clearly had some issues holding in his temper. I couldn't blame him much, he was young and had the soul of a fire dragon in his body. That didn't mean I would give in though.
"I am not part of your kingdom so it doesn't matter to me who you are. And before you ask me why I'm not part of the kingdom, why don't you go ask Völsung."
"Fine we will pay you but I don't want that other spell of yours. We don't need that."
"I'll teach you that spell for free."
"We don't need it!"
"I-I'll learn it."
Siegfried spoke against her brother? He looked positively infuriated. His pride forbade him from fully showing his temper but his face was tinted in a dark shade of red.
I wouldn't force Sigurd to learn this spell. I was only obliged to teach the willing. That was the promise I had made at that seminar.
Ah, the nostalgia!
Back then I was still an ordinary student, attending the western mage academy of the grey empire. I was spent most of my time studying and visiting my friends.
At that time the principal was going to hold a seminar on time magic due to an upcoming event. The moon was predicted to enter into a mysterious constellation with a few other celestial bodies, thus producing a spatial phenomenon of incredible rarity.
But due to its innate spatial characteristics, the event happened sooner than predicted and the seminar was about to be canceled. In the last minute lord Abel had arrived and held his seminar instead.
This seminar was, as mentioned before, on the subject of dealing with powerful bloodlines. Then, when he was done, a scroll appeared in the lap of all participants. We received the spell for free, the only condition being that we taught it to others willing to learn.
Enough of these sweet memories now. I had to teach Siegfried. She was a very attentive student and by the end of the day, she was capable of using the spell.
"Sanity lock!"
A light blue glow appeared around her fingertips. She brought her right hand up to her temple and did a turning motion with her fingers. The blue glow solidified into something similar to a screw and drilled into her head without hurting her skin in the least. After a short while, the blue glow dissipated as if it had never been there in the first place.
"Huh? I can still hear the voice in my head. Did I fail?"
"No, you did great. As I said, the spell can only help you deal with the voice, it can't eliminate it. It's hard to explain how it works but I'm sure you'll know what it does when the time comes."