The tier three medicine was a big deal as it worked on level three warriors very well which meant, right now, Terias was really vulnerable.
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'A tier three?? Why would she go so far? Isn't a tier two together with some artifacts enough?'
He was genuinely concerned about his life for the first time after his transmigration, he was never this vulnerable and helpless.
As he did not know what crime Alice was accusing him of, he decided to play along to get to know her intentions. If she were not making some outrageous demands, he was willing to comply and accept it.
"What do you want? You know I am a level three veteran warrior as well as a Viscount under the Earl." Terias made a stoic and unreadable face as he said this, imposing his hierarchy.
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"Done with your act? Good. Now that we are talking, I would like you to serve under me." Alice said not even bothering to reply to his threat, Terias who was tied and made to lay down glanced at her, his face confused.
"Serve under you? Do you want to be the temporary Earl? Or do you want me to work under yourself?" He asked
"Quite bold of you to assume that I would be letting you work under me. " She harrumphed
"Ohh, do you still not understand what secret I was referring to?? I understand, very well then. See for yourself. You will better understand your current situation then. "
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She pulled out a round marble and presented it to him.
"Does this look familiar to you? " She asked letting him see the familiar item in detail.
"Recall stone? "
'Is that what she was referring to? I had recorded a scene of Serena giving me a blowjob. Is that her masterpiece to enslave me? '
Though serious, a debauchery like that was very common. As long as the video did not spread to many people, he would be fine.
The problem was that Alice was an influential business owner and had many contacts. If she willed, and the scene spread, the issue would become a really bad one.
His face had traces of anxiety as sweat started appearing on his forehead.
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"Recall stone, correct. Though it differs from the one you have bought. This one is a finished product.
Want to see what's inside it? Let's see. " She turned on the device.
A 3d projection appeared, the scenery was of a small village, on the verge of destruction, probably from a battle between ki warriors.
The houses were on fire, the people were in disarray, running around in fear of death. There was one guy, in the burning village, he stood tall unworried of the incoming fire.
He was covered from head to toe, the identity of the individual remained unidentified. He was glancing at the ground in front of him, contemplating.
He glanced around, looking at the dozen or so people running away from the fire. The strange individual drew a circle on the ground with his legs.
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In the next moment, the individual appeared in front of a man who was escaping the fire and made hole in the poor guy's head with a finger, instant kill. The poor guy escaping from the fire did not even have a second to cry in pain or even beg for his life.
The strange individual, moved the dead body from the crime scene and placed it near the ground he was contemplating at.
The people escaping together with the dead guy barely ran for a few seconds before one of the guys among them turned back to remind his friend to run faster.
Unfortunately, his friend was put dead on the ground and was not behind him. He only saw a strange individual staring at him before he saw a blur.
Second kill
Third kill
Fourth kill
Fifth...
Fifteen..
Twenty. The individual finally stopped at twentieth kill. The circle he had made on the ground was now had it's boundaries turn red from the blood.
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The figure did not stop and started drawing more shapes on the ground inside the circle, the blood from the dead bodies around him entered the circle, following his drawing.
The dead bodies were barely brutal and did not affect his psyche much. It looked like a movie, the bodies kept falling, he felt sad for the common populace who had to die unwillingly.
But the part where that strange individual started drawing with blood was different. It felt gore, abnormal and brutal to him. He could not stand the indifferent use of blood from dead bodies, it felt very eerie to him.
He tried to divert his mind, he could not be focused on the individual and wait for the next scenes. The gore was distracting him, so he tried focusing on the diagram and the shapes being drawn.
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'The diagram she showed to me, it was a ritual. A really evil and ruthless one.' Terias understood why he was being asked about the strange diagram, it was a cause of a bloody massacre, but why investigate him?
His question was answered just at the moment he thought of ' why investigate him'. The strange individual sat inside the circle half naked, bare from head to waist.
'Viscount??? '
Terias had his eyes widened in surprise as he glanced at the person, the strange individual who had killed twenty common people. The individual was no other than him, to be more exact it was the previous Viscount, the man whose body he was possessing now.
The man sat inside the ritual circle drawn by real blood, the real owner of the blood flowing on ground lay around the ritual circle, dead.
Terias, the real Viscount physically manifested his ki and pushed it into the ground, as if activating an artifact.
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"What do you think? A noble massacres a small village, burns it down. How does that sound? "
Alice paused after saying that, looking at him for his reactions. He was still in shock from what the Viscount had done.
'It would have been far better if I were to be caught by Earl Scheta with the scene I recorded on the recall stone. It would have been the best. '
The scenario he imagined to be his cause for demise was actually so tiny and insignificant in front of his real problem.
"Or do you like the sentence, a noble performing a demonic ritual from comnoner blood. Hmm? This has an evil ring to it, kind of suits your real personality. "
She smirked as she looked at his face, filled with anxiety and panic. She realised that she had achieved her goal of intimidating Terias, now the only part remaining to complete was to propose a deal.
A deal which would work only in her favour, though not fully as she didn't want Terias to go mad and kill her.
'What evil? , what sacrifice? I didn't do shit. ' Terias thought as he heard her words but how could he refute, she had a video of him in the act. He was almost sure that the Viscount could have tried it.
"Now that we have come to the terms, let's finalize our deal. " Alice congratulated, ready to promise him a good life of slavery.
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