33 Risen#re - Chapter 344

The question that most people would wonder is why did Lirian make it seem like Lady Liberia was responsible for the death when he wanted to bring damage to House Kurt.

The answer was simple, it was to create an element of chaos amongst the nobles.

If the nobles believed that it was House Kurt, there wasn’t much that they could do aside from feeling frustrated.

House Kurt was the dominant power, even if the minor nobles believed whole heartedly that it was House Kurt who killed Lord Grant, no one would be able to do anything.

The minor nobles were bound to feel too afraid to act up, for fear of Lord Ventrano’s death repeating itself, only this time it would be them and not Lord Ventrano to die.

It was for that reason that Lirian introduced an element of chaos.

When Lirian entered Lord Grant’s study in the night he let Lord Grant see his reflection in the window for a second to get Lord Grant to think about him.

When that happened Lirian used a fate technique to make Lord Grant act on his impulses, which made him write what he was thinking about which was Lirian himself.

The fate technique that could affect a person’s impulse, was the same trick that Efrideet had used on Alastor in the academy, to make Alastor attempt to kill Lirian.

It cost Lirian 300 000 fate particles to use the technique but after killing Lord Grant, it more than made up for the consumed fate particles as he earned an additional one million fate particles.

It was like the saying went it takes money to make money and the same applied to fate particles.

Lirian didn’t care if anyone learned about him, and besides Lord Grant didn’t reveal anything that would mess up with his plans, in fact, what he wrote would only be beneficial to Lirian.

The only people that knew about him so far, was House Kurt and Lady Liberia, if either of them attempted to pin the blame on the unknown silver-haired mystery man, it would only come off as an excuse.

Before Lord Grant died Lirian scribbled the words about Lady Liberia, to draw Lady Liberia into the centre of the mess,

Unlike House Kurt, her House was not as powerful, it allowed the other nobles to turn their frustration onto her, and most importantly it brought her daughter to the spotlight.

Under the current circumstances, not only would House Marshall be under severe scrutiny, but the truth of Lady Liberia’s daughter being held by House Kurt could be revealed.

Lirian had effectively isolated House Marshall and made it so that the only one Lady Liberia could rely on was him.

And best of all with all the nobles picking sides and pointing their fingers at each other, Lirian effectively created chaos within the ranks of the nobles, no matter what this was a serious blow to House Kurt’s alliance.

Lirian smiled in satisfaction, as he made his way through Bell’s daily schedule, Lirian handled the orders of a few customers and played a couple of songs at a few clients’ requests, before long noon arrived.

Lirian waited patiently, he was supposed to meet with Izlandi at noon, but so far he hadn’t heard any word about the keep opening its gates.

An hour passed, and there was still no sign of Izlandi, which made Lirian sigh, ‘It looks like I’ll have to act tonight,’ Lirian thought and popped another food pill into his mouth, as it digested he found that his energy was fully restored.

Lirian was about to take a break and complete his immunization against the toxin when he spotted Lady Liberia, Lirian took his first proper look at her as she walked into the Red Boar.

Lady Liberia was a little over a hundred years of age, but as an adept who could live for 500 – 800 years, she was still young and retained her youthful appearance.

She wore a simple white dress but as she looked around Lirian couldn’t help but notice that she wore a gloomy expression.

Lirian noticed that the other nobles were distancing themselves from her and given her status as the strongest House amongst the minor nobles, it showed the severity of her current situation.

Lirian quickly went forward to escort her to a room, he took her order and a few minutes later he brought her, her food.

Lady Liberia barely paid any attention to the waiter, she recognised Bell, he was growing quite popular amongst the noble ladies, but she didn’t have the mind to pay him any heed.

In truth she didn’t even want to leave her manor, she wanted to shut herself off from the outside for a few weeks and return once things cooled off.

In truth it wasn’t like she had no allies, of the eight leaders of the alliance, there were three who were unquestionably on her side, but they were simply keeping their distance to see how things played out before any of them acted.

The only reason that Lady Liberia came to the Red Boar, was because she had to meet with the silver-haired man, whom she suspected was Grant’s true assailant after all the wounds left in his back could have only been made by her fans.

And currently, they were in the silver-haired man’s possession, she felt like a complete fool for how she had been thoroughly fooled, she started to wonder if everything he said was lies.

From her perspective, Grant was the silver-haired man’s best bet in ruining the alliance, and Grant seemed more than happy to help him, yet he was betrayed and murdered just hours after he agreed to help.

She didn’t feel safe at all, but she didn’t dare to betray the silver-haired man now, for fear of the repercussions that would fall upon her and her House.

Liberia was so distracted that she didn’t even notice that she wasn’t alone, the thing that brought her out of her thoughts was the sound of someone crunching on food.

As she looked across the table she saw her waiter happily helping himself to the food she ordered.

“What do you think you’re doing?!” she yelled at her waiter as he continued to devour a freshly baked pastry that had a light layer of strawberry jam.

“Sorry, I’m just really bad at choosing my own food, honestly it feels like everyone is better at choosing food than me,” Lirian sighed and took a sip of the steaming hot tea he just poured for himself.

“Also, it feels like it’s been forever, since I’ve had such a free range of food to help myself to,” Lirian added as he happily put another delicacy into his mouth, much to the dismay of Lady Liberia.

“This behavior is preposterous,” Lady Liberia said through gritted teeth, “I will be taking this up with the owner young man,” she scolded him with anger and got up to leave.

She found herself in disbelief, that even a lowly servant would dare to disrespect her in such a way, she had half a mind to smack him until not even his mother would be able to recognise his face.

Just as she got up however a teasing voice sounded from behind her, one that she clearly recognised, and that made her hairs stand like needles.

“It’s only been a day and yet you can’t recognise me,” Lirian teased returning his voice to what it normally sounded like, he made sure to make it sound like he was hurt by her inability to tell that it was him.