Amberser was regretting a bit that he shouldn't have let his old friend Flint escape.
In the incident within Alchemy City, there weren't many people in the know, and if that old guy started spreading rumors, Amberser would find it hard to come up with evidence to clear his name. After all, being a lich, according to the rigid stereotypes of the Nine Great Kingdoms, others spreading rumors about a lich committing any misdeed isn't called rumor-mongering—it could be called prophecy.
But this elf girl from the Elf Tribe was much better than that male elf, Cicero—she was willing to talk.
Cicero was the type who had weathered many storms and adventures over countless years, an old slicker against whom Amberser's "Mind Reading Technique" was very ineffective.
