Niedern's serious expression eased a little.
Blackbeard looked at his short, stout, and chubby hand with a grin and said, "Now you owe me 276 barrels of wine. Deducting today's barrel, that leaves 275 barrels."
A both guilty and unusual look appeared on Niedern's face. He coughed lightly and said, "You know how I am. I Won't harm you, but for the sake of my student, this is what I have to do."
"What do you mean?" Blackbeard was still grinning.
"Memory erasure."
Blackbeard's jaw slowly dropped. Then, with a terrified look, he hurriedly ran out of the room.
Niedern pointed at Blackbeard with his right hand. His ring dispatched a scarlet ray of light that landed on Blackbeard's body.
Immobilization spell.
Plop...
Blackbeard fell to the ground and lost control of his entire body. His eyes gave off a strange beam of light, one of anger, confusion, pain, pleading, and cursing...
