Knock, knock, knock.
A series of knocks on the door sounded. The knocking was very urgent as if the people outside were in a hurry.
"The door is unlocked, come in," Finty says lightly.
The door opens and a young man enters, it is Lloyd, but his face is wrapped in a bandage. This injury might been caused by Finty a few weeks ago. When he sees Finty sitting on a chair reading a book, he immediately bends down and bows.
"Members of Seth nobility come again. Walker and I have dealt with them, leaving some alive for interrogation." He says.
"Well then, let me see it." Finty rises and closes the book.
With the lead of Lloyd, they walk toward the cell under the mansion. When they reach the entrance to the basement, Lloyd struggles to open the heavy iron door.
The cell located underground is very dark with no light coming in. The freezing temperature here is filled with despair and makes people tremble uncontrollably. Lloyd ignites a row of candles on the wall, lighting up the corridors and also illuminating the cells.
There were people in every cell, not many of them, and everyone was dressed like a servant and looked like they had been caught before escaping. Without exception, they all had a look of fear on their faces.
They do not dare to raise their heads and only dare to watch them pass by them with their peripheral vision. After they pass, they breathe a sigh of relief. After all, this means that Finty and Lloyd were not here to catch them.
When they reached the deepest part, the last cell, there were two injured men. One only suffered a slight scratch, and the other was more miserable, his left arm was completely cut off. Beside them, a young boy sits on the ground and leans against the wall, it is Walker, his head is low, they can't see his face.
"Is it them?" Finty asks.
"Yes." Lloyd replies shortly.
Lloyd opens the door of the cell, it is not locked since Walker is here to guard them. The sound after opening the door wakes Walker up from his dozing sleep, and he sits upright instantly.
"Dang it! How did I sleep?!" Walker shouts in mind.
"Ah, you guys are finally here! I've been waiting here for a long time." Walker smiles and rises.
"Yes I know, that's why you slept a while ago." Finty says lightly and walks towards two men.
Two men's clothes are stripped off already but their pants are left on their bodies. They now are tied up on the wall by chains.
"Then... you going to interrogate them alone?" Walker ignores Finty's taunt and asks.
"Yes, I just want to ask some questions, you two can stay here too." Finty says lightly and crouches in front of two men.
The two men looked scared and their bodies were shaking constantly. They never said a word. When Finty crouches down in front of them, they subconsciously gulp and shrink their feet a little.
"Three questions, first, how you do guys contact our guards before? Second, does Seth nobility know our identities? Third, say all the news that you guys know about Seth nobility." Finty asks.
"...I-I won't say anything! Kill me if you want!" The man who lost his whole left arm shouts loudly.
Finty sighed softly and covered his face with one hand. After thinking for a moment, she decides to simply dissolve his head with the venom of the dark web spider. Finty always helps such stubborn people, if they want to die then she will send them to hell directly.
Dark web spiders' venom has a strong solubility but only for living things. The dissolve was fast, and his head was completely dissolved and gone.
"Do you want to die with him?" Finty asks another man.
"No! No! I'll say everything! Please don't hurt me!" The man shouts and shakes his head rapidly.
"Then answer my question." Finty says lightly.
"F-first, the guards are actually our people, a subsidiary force of the nobility. Second, my noble family doesn't know the identities of you all, but they are angry because you took their subsidiary force and you also killed some of us. Third... there are many... the biggest problem was the territory dispute with Astor nobility." The man replies to three questions quickly.
Finty listens with a hand on her cheeks, tilting her head slightly, staring at him with focused eyes until he finishes speaking. After the man finished speaking, the air was silent for a few seconds. Finty's hands quickly untied the shackles and handcuffs on the man's body, but there was also a chain cuffed around his neck.
"Say every news that you know about Seth nobility, then I'll free you." Finty says.
"Ugh... aside from the territory dispute, there is also about the missing team in the Loryn forest, the head of Astor and Seth nobility was sending members because they found the traces of an aberrant." The man explains.
"Missing team in Loryn forest? Aberrant?" Finty frowns deeply.
Loryn forest was the forest where dark web spiders lived, where Finty and Moty were born, and where Saze lives right now. Thinking of this, Finty started to worry about them.
"The missing team's last trace was at the outer ring of the forest and the also traces of fire all around... hey, where are you going?! Hey!" The man shouts as Finty rises and leaves the cell quickly.
Finty quickly steps towards the entrance of the basement and goes out, Walker and Lloyd are standing outside, waiting for Finty to return. When they saw the anxious look on her face they immediately knew something was wrong.
"Finty...? What happened?" Walker frowns.
"Astor and Seth nobility discovered traces of an aberrant in the Loryn forest. Judging from the words of the captives, it is probably Morty..." Finty says with worry.
"Are they going to there?" Walker asks anxiously.
"Yes, they are sending members to go." Finty nods slightly.
"Then quick! I'll go prepare your things, Lloyd, you go take the carriage!" Walker immediately moves.
As he moves, Lloyd looks at Finty to confirm the command, with a nod from Finty, he quickly goes out from the mansion.
"Hope they don't find them too early... and Moty... you're too careless..." Finty sighed.
.....
At Loryn forest.
The white ruined palace hides in the woods full of life, Saze and Moty stand in the huge room of a dilapidated tower. The room is full of a medicinal smell, it's not too strong or uncomfortable, and the medicinal smell is quite pleasant.
There are vines growing wildly, intersecting, and many weeds growing under the wall. In the middle is a black pot that looks like a witch's pot, many tables with different sizes and shapes, and many small cabinets that have many medicine materials.
"Alright! It's time to make a blood arcane potion!" Moty says happily.
"Okay, let's finally confirm the materials and method of making the potion." Saze says and looks at the book again.
There are books and ingredients on the table. The books were brought from the study room. As for the materials, the ruined palace has a storage room, and there are many things inside such as ingredients, gold, and some artifacts.
After confirming that everything was ready, Moty took out a triangular glass container and prepared to make it.
"Alright, since you don't have fire arcane then I will heat it, you will add the ingredients until I say so. Understood?" Moty asks.
"Understood!" Saze nods.
"Then let's start!" Moty says, pouring the blood inside the triangular glass container.
This was the blood of Moty, with Moty's third stage power, she can indeed support a 500 milliliter blood draw even though her body shape is the same as Saze's. However, her skin is paled a bit, exposing that she is weak now.
On the stone table, Moty places the triangular glass container on the iron bracket letting it suspend, leaving a space below the container to use fire arcane heat up.
"Alright, It's boiled! Put the heart inside!" Moty commands as the blood starts to boil.
Saze doesn't say anything but takes the heart that was frozen in an ice cube and puts it inside gently. As the frozen heart fell inside, the ice melted immediately and the heart started to dissolve slowly.
"At this time, just keep the temperature, don't increase or decrease heat." Moty teaches Saze while waiting for the heart to dissolve.
"Okay... the bubble is... attacking the heart?" Saze says confusedly as he sees the bubble doesn't flow up on the surface but gathers around the heart.
"It's amazing, isn't it? Many things in the arcane field violate science." Moty chuckles.
"Well... it's true..." Saze looks at this amazing sight and doesn't want to take his gaze away.
As the heart dissolves completely, Moty commands Saze to add the remaining ingredients to the container. Those ingredients fall into the container, they dissolve and become powders settling at the bottom.
"Start to stir it." Moty says and passes Saze a glass stick.
With a quick stir from Saze, the powders quickly dissolved by the blood. Even though the blood was in a boiling state it didn't like water will emit a lot of hot water vapor so Saze could still stir it normally.
"Hmm... those powders have dissolved... now I'm going to drink it." Saze gulps.
"Yes, it's still boiling so let's just make you lose blood quickly." Moty says lightly and gives him a silver necklace that connects a small emerald.
"What's this?" Saze asks.
"For you to reduce the pain, ready?" Moty's fingers linger with dark spider silks.
Saze gulps once again and quickly settles his mind. With a deep breath, his heart racing, and adrenaline flowing rapidly. He can feel the excitement, fear, and stimulation colliding in his mind.
"Yes! I'm reading." Saze closes his eyes and says loudly.
"Okay, don't open your eyes if you scared." Moty says.
"Hmpf! I never scared!" Saze opens his eyes and straight up his body.
With that, Moty waves her hand forward, and several dark spider silk pierces directly into his body. She measures it just right and does not damage Saze's organs, only the blood vessels.
"AHH!" Saze cries out in pain, the pain causes veins to expose on his forehead.
Moty slaps him in the chest, causing him to cough up a lot of blood. The heavy blow to his chest makes him want to scream, but he can't. He can only cough up more blood, but this also accelerates his blood loss. His vision begins to blur and he slowly falls backwards.
"Alright, It's time to drink it! Hold the pain!" Moty supports him to stand.
Moty takes the triangular glass container that is filled with boiling blood arcane potion, she opens Saze's mouth and pours all the hot liquids inside.