Rex Violet frowned, sensitive to the reaction of his disciple and that annoying person.
"I didn't expect you to be the one to greet me, Ei. You must be too free," he quipped, gesturing for them to continue inside.
Ei, who was secretly watching Elurian's reaction, chuckled. He snapped his fingers to open the barrier gate and allowed Rex Violet to enter with his disciple.
He led them into the entrance of the towering black tower. When entering the area close to the black tower, Elurian's heartbeat pounded again as fast as when he entered the teleportation portal.
This strange reaction continued until they arrived right in front of the entrance to the black tower, which was in the form of double doors with complicated symbols carved that could not be explained simply.
Elurian didn't know what was wrong, but he vaguely seemed to hear something calling him. His violet eyes widened as he stared at the black tower's entrance as if in a trance.
"Well, don't call me that, you should to have basic decency." The bespectacled figure scolded as he placed his hand on the symbol groove at the entrance.
Rex Violet quipped, "So, should I call you Master of Fraud, Eire? Your name and title don't match at all."
The name Eire sounds like someone who is kind and obedient, that's why Rex Violet prefers to call the cunning person 'Ei'.
Eire kept smiling and ignored the sarcasm. The golden eyes behind his glasses shone as his pupils formed the shadow of a clockwork. The river of time was connected to him and his connection manipulated the key aether to open the black tower's entrance.
Instantly the complex lines of symbols glowed and the heavy black double doors slid open. What was behind it is not the inside of the tower, but a special teleportation portal that leads to the inside of the tower.
Eire turned around, pointed at the teleportation portal that was glowing bluish, then grumbled, "You guys go in first, I have to change the seal so that no one like you can sneak in carelessly."
He stared intently at Rex Violet, feeling a little irritated that Rex Violet had so easily entered the black tower and broken through the seal.
He suspected that if it weren't for Elurian, Rex Violet wouldn't have bothered to announce his arrival and just went straight into the tower and destroyed the seal.
"Okay." Rex Violet turned his attention to Elurian and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
He felt his little disciple trembling and slightly pale. Thinking that it must be the result of the aether energy being too concentrated here, Rex Violet felt uneasy for the first time.
He couldn't strengthen his barrier for fear that it would hurt Elurian, nor could he find out the exact cause of his disciple's anomaly so he couldn't make any careless moves.
Elurian endured the tremors that ran through the inside of his body, he felt like he was being stung and a pain similar to that of a monster transformation coursed through him. At that moment, he suddenly felt something being stolen from him, the pain disappeared along with his discomfort.
The smell of blood made Rex Violet and Elurian turn towards the bespectacled figure. There was blood flowing from his mouth while he looked calm and relaxed.
Eire wiped away the blood, didn't mean to explain anything and signaled them to come in immediately.
"You..." Rex Violet wanted to say something, but ultimately thought better of it and immediately entered the tower before the effects of the theft ended.
Even though the two weren't on good terms, at this moment they strangely had the same goal.
Elurian, who knew why the pain suddenly disappeared, felt a little emotional. He didn't expect that entity, which was Eire, to do something like that.
[See you again, Ahn Seohyun. I think you will soon be able to control the assimilation and curse.]
The moment that voice sounded in his mind, Elurian, who had been brought into the teleportation portal, instinctively wanted to retort, but he held back and chose to remain silent. The bluish light from the teleportation portal enveloped the two and transported them to the world inside the tower.
...
Eire, who had witnessed the entire process, wiped the smile off his face. He no longer looked like someone who was annoying and called a cheater.
"Well, this was according to His Majesty's wishes."
Eire turned towards the gate barrier and strengthened it. Then, his golden eyes shone again as the entire barrier became a large-scale illusion that hid the existence of the black tower from the outside world.
After all the troublesome processes, Eire looked more relaxed. He slightly turned his head to his shoulder, where there was an illusory blue butterfly radiating high-level aether energy.
It was the butterfly that created the large-scale illusion and Eire was only the catalyst for its power.
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Elurian felt like his stomach was churning, he experienced a fugue and disorientation for a moment before the bluish light finally cornered and he had arrived in a new environment.
The curse mark on his right hand heated up and seemed to burn his insides. He wanted to scream in pain, but his throat was choked with a lumpy liquid. Blood flowed from his mouth as his consciousness gradually sank into darkness.
Rex Violet panicked when Elurian was unconscious and bleeding from his mouth. He didn't expect his disciple's reaction to the tower's teleportation portal to be more terrifying than he thought.
He immediately rushed to the treatment area, which was located on the first floor at the end of the corridor. The first floor of the Black Tower Academy is a transit place for new students and important places such as the treatment area.
Healers and nurses in the treatment area have the ability to cure all kinds of illnesses and curses. Of course, as long as it was within the bounds of causality, they could not violate it. They were subordinate to the owner of this conquered black tower.
The arrival of Rex Violet clearly caused a surprise for the residents. They saw him rush to the treatment area, which was a rare sight.
The healer on duty greeted him with surprise and fear. She asked politely, "Master Rex, what do you need?"
Then, she saw the boy being carried by Rex Violet. A flash of disbelief crossed the healer's face as she heard Rex Violet's order.
"Heal him, find out about how to remove the curse on his hand," Rex Violet ordered as he moved his disciple to the bed for treatment.
The healer immediately carried out his orders without question. She didn't use aether energy, but rather the holy energy possessed by healers. Warm golden light descended from her hand towards Elurian and spread to his right hand.
The healer's brown eyes trembled slightly as she felt the strong resistance of the curse. Cold sweat dripped from her temples.
The boy on the bed suddenly showed signs of waking up. Meanwhile, the curse symbol on his right hand never lifted and actually caused discomfort.
Rex Violet clicked his tongue. "Stop that," he said while checking his disciple who was starting to wake up.
The Healer stopped her efforts and explained, "The curse is too strong, I don't have the ability to lift the curse." She should admit her incompetence instead of pretending to be strong in front of Master The latter doesn't like being lied to.
Rex Violet said nothing more; he just waited until his disciple woke up and was fine. Regarding the curse, he will find another way to overcome it.
Elurian's eyelids fluttered as they finally opened. Those silvery gray eyes stared blankly for a moment before their owner turned towards the person who had been watching him for a while
Rex Violet narrowed his eyes, feeling something was wrong. The feelings and emotions he had towards his disciple suddenly disappeared.
"Elurian," he called only to get a confused look from those gray eyes.
Master Rex's heart felt cold, as if he finally knew why his affectionate emotions disappeared.
Elurian blinked in confusion, wondering why he was in a strange place and his Master looked so worried? He had a strong and inexplicable headache, on the other hand it was as if something was trying to take over his consciousness.
"Master?" Elurian replied. "What happened?"
The corner of Rex Violet's mouth rose as he told him, "Don't you remember? We're in Red Square."
Elurian's expression froze. "Red Square?" he asked subconsciously. Then, he immediately stopped his confusion and dug deep into his fragmented memories.
He had felt this kind of thing twice where he suddenly lost his memory and had done something he didn't know about. A certain conclusion came to mind.
I have another personality....
Rex Violet's smile grew even brighter as he patted Elurian's little head and said, "It's okay, maybe because that teleportation portal made you confused and lost your memory for a while."
Elurian inexplicably felt a chill down his spine. His Master's worried expression had disappeared and was replaced by a face of pretense. As someone who had lived in a bad environment, Elurian knew the meaning of his Master's current expression.
He doesn't seem to like me... That means he just likes my other personality... But, what happened that made the other me sleep and the other me wake up?
Instead of being sad, he actually felt that this was as expected. After all, he would be the messenger's vessel, he didn't need love. However, that means his other personality might prevent him from being a vessel.
That's not good. I have to take over temporarily.
He strengthened his soul and made up his mind to resist the urge to fall asleep.
Rex Violet felt a corner of his heart ache the longer he looked at the current Elurian. He closed his eyes for a moment before trying to accept this truth.
He was sure about one thing. Elurian in front of him was no longer his disciple. However, his soul was still in that body. So, as Eire said, the gray-eyed Elurian was the body's original owner.
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