Opening a portal to Rita's room in Aretuza, Viltz found her putting on black shoes.
"No time for makeup, you're already beautiful just the way you are."
Giving her a kiss on the cheek, Viltz hurried Rita into the doorway.
Rita was confused by the hurry Viltz was in until she saw the scene in front of her.
A large room with all kinds of sex toys displayed on one wall and a cell filled with approximately twenty boys and girls of varying ages.
"Oh my god...what is all this madness."
"A noble, a baron of Poviss, was killed by a witcher from the cat school I happened to be looking for and when I wanted to investigate, I came across this.
"Nobles, rats dressed in silk."
Disgust flashed across Rita's face and then she looked at the confused and frightened children.
"I want you to help me erase their memory about these events and take them to their relatives, doing it myself would take all day and I don't want any inconvenience."
"Hmmm..." Rita nodded absently as she looked at the poor children.
"The world is cruel, those who are born with everything always try to take everything away from those who have next to nothing..."
Viltz patted rita's shoulder and comforted her.
"Look on the bright side of all this misery, if it wasn't for us, surely the royal guard would slaughter these children so that this scandal doesn't spread throughout the kingdom, at least we can make sure they return home safe and sound.
"Yes...you're right, let's get going."
Wiping away the tears she shed for those children, Rita straightened up and gave way for Viltz to open the cell door.
The children huddled together as they saw the door open.
Viltz could only sigh and grab a girl forcibly as she shuddered in fear.
Leaving the girl to rita, Viltz grabbed a freckled boy and put his hands on his head, hypnotizing him and beginning to interrogate him.
"Tell me child, what is your name? What are your parents' names? Where are you from? When did they bring you here?"
The boy answered all of Viltz's questions robotically before Viltz began to erase his memories related to the last six months.
Viltz and rita continued the same process for over half an hour, until all that was left was a scrawny, pale-skinned, golden-haired boy of about ten years old who if it weren't for the fact that he was naked and his genitals could be seen, Viltz would have mistaken him for a girl.
Viltz grabbed the boy's head who squirmed in his grip, reluctant to let him touch him, and pulled back the messy blond locks of hair that covered his ears, revealing them to be elongated and pointed.
"An elf?"
The boy began to struggle even more in Viltz's arms at her words, looking up at him with challenging eyes.
"I like the look in your eyes boy, but I need you to cooperate so I can take you to your parents."
The boy stopped moving and a great sadness invaded his heart as he heard the word parents.
"Parents? I don't have parents anymore. Everything is gone, everything burned, because of that man..."
A great fury seemed to burst in the boy's eyes as he remembered the baron and a great determination seemed to burn in his eyes, causing the flames of the candles to begin to tremble.
Looking at the candles out of the corner of his eye, Viltz smiled at the boy and asked.
"Did that guy do something to you? Did he touch you?"
The boy flinched but replied, "He didn't get to do it, he tried once but I bit him on the ear, but that only made him mad and forced me to watch everything he did to others. He told me that after he was done with the other kids it would be my turn. He said he didn't like the rebellious look in my eyes and he would make me kowtow to him, break me and turn me into his new top quality toy but I wouldn't give in, I couldn't give in....
I plan to kill him, one way or another I plan to kill him whatever it takes."
Viltz smiled even wider and patted the boy on the shoulders.
"Well said boy, I like your determination and your will, but unfortunately for you you won't have the chance to kill Baron Laxent, after all he's already been dead for almost an hour now.
The boy looked at Viltz with wide eyes in disbelief.
"What, you don't believe me? I'll take you to see him if you want but are you sure you want to see a decapitated corpse?"
The boy looked at Viltz with great determination and replied, "He forced me to watch my parents being burned next to our house so I have to see it with my own eyes, only then can I feel at ease."
"Well, if only I had your same determination at your age..."
Denying inwardly, Viltz stopped thinking about issues from the distant past.
Opening a portal, Viltz and the elven boy appeared next to the headless corpse of the butler.
"He... He was always next to that fat pig..."
Seeing the butler's decapitated corpse, the boy's fear dissipated a little and he no longer called the baron in a formal manner but insulted him directly.
Picking up a head of an obese man with a face so swollen that it even looked funny, Viltz showed it to the boy, who froze for a moment before he began to cry.
Seeing the man responsible for the death of his family, the one responsible for torturing him physically and mentally for months dead before his eyes finally gave him the respite he had needed for a long time, making him finally break down, making his feelings come out.
Viltz walked over to the boy and patted his head as he asked him in a gentle manner.
"Now what do you want to do? I can erase all those bad experiences from your mind, you will no longer remember anything that happened here during this time but let me remind you of something, our traumas, fears and experiences are what shape our being, I see you have a great will forged from pain.
You are similar to me, in fact too similar, I can erase those memories and leave you in a place where there are more elves like you who will take care of you and protect you or you can follow me, turn your pain into willpower and try to carve your own path to the top, where nothing and no one can harm you or your loved ones.
The boy looked at Viltz seriously and answered without hesitation.
"I want to follow you! I don't want to go through the same helplessness again, I don't want to feel that disgusting weakness again."
Viltz smiled and stroked the boy's head.
"By the way, what's your name?"
"Magna...my name is Magna."
"Well Magna, from today you will be my first apprentice."
Viltz grabbed her tunic and enchanted it to shrink before passing it to the child.
"Put it on, when we go to a nearby city I'll buy you some decent clothes."
The boy put on the tunic and tied his waist with a belt before following Viltz through the doorway to where Rita was with the other children.
The boy felt dizzy and grabbed Viltz's arm to steady himself.
"I see the dizziness caused by teleportation has finally caught up with you eh? Looks like you had too much adrenaline coursing through your body before for it to affect you."
Opening a portal to the vicinity of the mansion, Viltz had the twenty children, along with rita pass through before smiling at the boy and asking, "What? That's it? You can't take a few teleports anymore?"
The boy looked at him with a defiant look before launching himself into the portal.
"Haha! That's the spirit!"
Viltz threw a bunch of fireballs before launching himself into the portal.
Just as he closed the portal, a huge explosion was heard and the entire mansion began to collapse in on itself.
"Good thing these kids are all from nearby villages otherwise this would result in a big problem.
Rita, you stay with the group of children here while I take the children to their respective villages."
"Fine, if only we had more people to help us, at least we could finish more efficiently and you wouldn't have to make multiple trips back and forth."
"Don't worry, the sun is still high and we'll be done by sunset at the latest."
Viltz opened a portal to Stigga's castle and returned with a carriage which he placed on poor Storm, who was unaware of the amount of travel that awaited him.
Letting a group of five children into the carriage, Viltz began to drive in a certain direction while Magna who was sitting next to him asked him questions from time to time.