How do we kill Varsas Gungnir?
Suddenly it was a problem that was handed to Margaret. There is something call a mindset training. It is to ensure that one would be able to follow order without hesitating or worrying about moral, if Margaret finished her training she would necessarily also learn that. That does not change the fact that currently she is only 16 years old and has not yet spilled blood with her blade.
Or at least she has to think of a way to handle Varsas Gungnir when it is needed.
She does not know why her father interrogated that servant, or why he would know something that is from the future, the secrecy is kept from her because she is not trustworthy yet, not finished her training yet. What is even more surprising is the fact that supposedly the heir of the Gungnir land also know the future too and has prepared for that. The old man is skeptical, but deeply worried at the same time. It is a known fact that the man from the Venir can sometime be too paranoid, but this time that paranoia is sufficient for the situation, she thought.
If she has her own agenda she would have demanded to know why both of them know of the future, however she is still a daughter of the Venir and specifically his daughter, she can't question her father, the only thing she can do is to look after the guy, Varsas Gungnir from afar and watches him with narrow eyes.
But then that problem was handed to her.
She does not hate that guy, not really even after knowing the fact. He knows that the Venir's land is about to have a famine, he stocked up on food to profit from the famine, it is not one hundred percent moral but it makes sense kinda. That is what she would be doing anyway if she was him, and in this situation she knows that currently her family's treasury can afford it. They were just filled up after that deal with those fire worshippers in the east who escaped from the land of Dragon. Who know Pyromancer would be that handy with refining gold?
It is not even the fact that she has qualm with killing the guy, it is just that something inside her just...
'Don't kill him, you will regret it!'
She does not even know him that well. It is just that that guy has a quality like a long time friend that she has not seen for a while, and suddenly the thought of plotting against him make her feel guilty. It is as if there was a bond that was beyond time tying everything together.
But it is okay if she does not kill him, her job was only to think of a way to deal with him if it comes to it.
And boy was her job difficult when she looks into that guy's life.
Like her, Varsas started his training under his grandfather when he was only 5.
Malfius Gungnir disagrees with his son's pacifism and the way he was raising his only grandson so he took it upon himself to do the job. Marrik Gungnir disagrees but relent in the end when his son shows talent and an interest in the family art. Unlike her he was not lonely, he was both trained and raised in his family's ground, enjoying the love of his parents and grandfather.
And the guy is a monster.
Malfius Gungnir was only known by name by Margaret's grandfather generation. The guy was like a ghost for the last 50 years of his life, quietly siring a son when he is 50, and past away when he was 95. However from the impression she has of her grandfather the name Gungnir has some meaning with him.
It is the land of the thunder he explained, and when Malfius passed away her grandfather looks upon that land and tell her that it was the passing of an era. She was young then, and while none really knows about it, she was able to understand and remember thing from way back then.
Even so Malfius was old even compare to her own grandfather. No wonder no one has heard of him. The last time he rampaged was probably two or three generations ago. And yet she can't help but be wary of the ability of a man her grandfather spoke highly of.
That man raised a child under his tutelage.
The child was an outright genius.
At 16 he has already mastered all of his family's spear art and thunder magic. It was not just hearsay either, Margaret caught the sight of one Varsas doing his daily training in his backyard, it was just exercise, yet the sight before her was that of a master spearman at the peak of their ability.
So there come the issue, how do one deal with that. Margaret herself may not survive in a direct encounter, that man was a prodigy at the spear, whose talents seem endless, he may just tear her apart and walk away with it unlike so many other. Varsas Gungnir was a monster at the spear so you can't fight him head on like, what about indirect disposal?
She immediately thinks of poison but then dismiss it. She is just trying to think of a way to deal with him, not actually trying to kill him. So Margaret tested out her hypothesis, because prodigies is usually limited to their field only and outside of their field, they may be very inadequate about everything, so she thought of removing his favorite weapon from the occasion and testing him with a hired thug.
She expected at least some ability with the sword because he was trained under a famous fighter, yet that single stroke... that single stroke is definitely on the level of a master swordsman.
Varsas Gungnir is truly a monster, in more way than she thought before.
So truly, one can only use poison?