Mathias' face grew awkward as he knew he was caught.
Stacy was looking at him with anger and shock, while the white cat continued to bite his arm.
Stacy quickly took the cat off of Mathias' arm.
"Aspro, thanks," Stacy said as she patted the white cat's head and petted it.
After the cat, named Aspro, jumped out the window, Stacy turned her cold gaze back to Mathias.
"How did you get here?" Stacy asked Mathias coldly.
"I just got here..." Mathias lied with a straight face.
"Really?" Stacy looked at him with suspicion.
"Yeah..." Mathias replied.
Stacy's expression became even colder.
"Don't lie! I know you're lying!" Stacy shouted at Mathias, clearly angry.
"Don't you believe me?" Mathias tried to lie further, but seeing that Stacy's expression was not improving, he sighed helplessly.
"Alright, I've been here for a while before you noticed." Mathias admitted.
"What!?" Stacy was astonished and shocked when she heard this.
"How did you do it?" she asked.
Stacy was one of the more talented mages among her siblings.
She could feel a mana surrounding Mathias earlier that dissipated as it was interrupted by the cat.
She was curious about the magic Mathias had used and thought it might be useful to her.
"It's because of a stealth magic spell I used," Mathias decided to tell the truth.
"What spell?" Stacy asked eagerly.
"Shadow Walk," Mathias said simply.
"Shadow Walk? I don't remember a stealth spell with that name," Stacy said, nodding. "What about the chant?"
Although Stacy was angry at Mathias, she wanted to learn the spell he used.
"What chant?" Mathias asked, confused.
The previous Mathias was not talented in magic and didn't even know anything about it, so he didn't know how the mage system worked.
"Don't act dumb! The chant of the spell!" Stacy shouted angrily.
Seeing that Mathias was still pretending not to know, she shouted angrily, "You better tell me the chant and the method of the Shadow Walk spell as compensation for entering a lady's room, or I'll tell our father!"
Mathias really didn't know what the chant for the Shadow Walk spell could be.
He had just thought that the spell could be activated by simply saying the name of the spell, "Shadow Walk." Or was "Shadow Walk" the chant itself?
Seeing that Stacy's expression was growing more impatient, he hurriedly said, "The chant for the Shadow Walk spell should be... Shadow Walk, too..."
Stacy, who heard this, felt that her intelligence was being insulted.
"You really want to act dumb, huh?" she said with an irritated voice.
"What do you mean?" Mathias felt helpless. He was telling the truth!
Stacy's anger couldn't take it anymore, so she decided to give Mathias a lesson. "Winds of the east, air of the south, bring forth your power, let it come forth. I call upon the forces of nature to weave a rope, a rope of wind, strong and able to cope. With the power of my will and the magic of the elements, I bind this rope, with my intent. Let it hold fast and secure, as I will, so shall it endure. Rope of wind, be my guide, take me to where I need to reside. So mote it be, this spell I cast, bringing forth the Rope of Wind at last."
The winds entered Stacy's room and the wind formed into a visible rope. A wind magic spell had formed the wind into a rope.
Mathias, who was dumbfounded, looked at the rope of wind in a daze.
Stacy then aimed the rope of wind at Mathias, who was standing speechlessly. The rope of wind tied itself around Mathias' body.
Mathias snapped out of his daze and tried to move his body.
"Shit," he thought. "I can't move. Great. I thought it was just a flashy, long-chanted spell." Mathias felt dumb.
"Are you still not going to talk?" Stacy asked with a cold expression.
"What chant should I say?" Mathias asked helplessly.
"The chant for the Shadow Walk spell! Just say it and it'll be over," Stacy insisted.