33 Risen#re - Chapter 346

Lady Liberia listened closely to Lirian’s instructions, for several minutes, and despite her fear she felt that she had to praise Lirian internally, his foresight and tactics were leagues ahead of anyone that she knew, she found it impossible to understand how a single person could possibly know so much.

Before long she found herself amazed by the entirety of Lirian’s plan, but at the same time she wondered how much of it was true, she felt that it was foolish of Lirian to disclose his entire plan to her.

It was then she realised that she was being tested, if she gave away any of the details of the plan it was likely that it wouldn’t affect Lirian, but at the same time, it would show that she betrayed his trust, at that point, there was no need for her imagine what would await her.

She already saw what became of Lord Grant and he didn’t even do anything to offend Lirian, she shuddered at the thought of what might happen to someone who truly got on his bad side.

“Here,” she heard Lirian say once he finished explaining the plan and she saw her two fans being returned, “They have served their purpose already,” Lirian said he didn’t care that they were mystic grade weapons, they were only slightly useful for him anyway, with his current power he needed something of exotic quality or higher, otherwise the weapons would end up breaking when exposed to his power.

Lady Liberia snatched the fans without hesitation, she didn’t want to give Lirian a chance to renege on his word, and she didn’t show any gratefulness for having it returned, it was hers, to begin with and Lirian stole it.

“When will you bring back my daughter?”  she asked Lirian seriously, and she even surprised herself, because she found herself whole heartedly believing he could do it.

Lady Liberia didn’t know when this change occurred, but it did startle her, unknowingly she had come to trust in Lirian’s ability.

“That will happen tomorrow,” Lirian said, “You do your part with the other nobles, and when I give you the signal leave the city, and return to your estates,” Lirian said.

“You still haven’t even told me what the signal will be,” Lady Liberia sighed.

Lirian chuckled lightly, “Don’t worry about that, you’ll know what the signal is when you see it,” Lirian said mysteriously and Lady Liberia couldn’t help but wince, she felt like whatever it was going to be it wouldn’t be too pretty for House Kurt.

Once Lirian finished discussing the plan, she pulled out a fat pouch from her dress and passed it to Lirian, “This is the food pills you requested,” she said as Lirian reached out to take the pouch.

“I do hope that everything in here is okay,” Lirian said with a serious undertone and popped one of the pills into his mouth like it was candy.

Lady Liberia calmed her breathing, “Of course, I wouldn’t dare to do such a thing,” she said hiding the nervousness she felt, the day before she had seriously contemplated poisoning Lirian, but after the events of Lord Grant’s death, she felt too afraid to do such a thing.

“I should hope so,” Lirian said as he continued to pop more pills into his mouth, “You know at a time like this I’m reminded of a story, one that happened a very long time ago,”

“It’s a story about a father and his daughter,” Lirian said calmly.

Lady Liberia felt a slight change in Lirian’s tone he sounded calm, but she noted a bit of melancholy in his voice.

“Once upon a time, there was a man who had a daughter,”

“A daughter like no other, you see the man was akin to a god and so he fashioned his daughter with his own two hands,”

“And so, she was special like no other,”

“She had a soul as pure as the first snow of winter,”

“And her eyes, they shone with the radiance of the stars,”

“To her father, the girl was akin to an angel, and the world was unworthy of her presence, so he loved her with all his heart,”

Lady Liberia felt powerful emotions smother her every sense as Lirian spoke his story, and as Lirian described the daughter, she could see the image of a delicate and beautiful child whose beauty and purity was beyond compare.

She watched as Lirian reached out his hand as if the child was before his eyes and stoked the air as if he was stroking her long velvety hair.

“His daughter became his entire world, and he did everything in his power to keep her happy,”

“But all good things are destined to one day come to an end,”

“You see the child’s mother was treacherous and cruel,”

“One day she snuck her own daughter away and sold her to her father’s most hated enemies,”

Lirian turned to look at Liberia with a cold demeanor, and Liberia could feel all the emotions that burned in his mind.

“Needless to say, when the father found his beloved daughter’s body again, the light that her eyes radiated had gone out, she was nothing more than a broken mutilated corpse,”

The tension that Lirian’s voice carried was enough to make Lady Liberia find it hard to breathe, and she felt the threat that lingered in his words.

“We wouldn’t want history to repeat itself now would we?” Lirian posed.

Lady Liberia shook her head, moving it from right to left, if she used any more strength she feared that her head would start to spin in circles, “Of course not,” she uttered.

“I’m glad that we cleared that up,” Lirian said and gestured for her to leave.

Lady Liberia didn’t wait for him to repeat his dismissal, she didn’t want to spend another second in his presence.

Lirian stood by the window in the room with his ‘Gods Gaze’ wandering the sky, his eyes appeared a little wet, but they quickly returned to normal, “I miss you, my little light,” he whispered softly.

Lirian shook his head, that was all in the past, a past better forgotten.

Lirian walked out of the room and continued to act like Bell, throughout the remainder of the day, in that time Lirian heard a couple of interesting things from the mouths of the nobles.

Whenever someone complained that their food was missing or that they didn’t empty their goblet of wine, Lirian played the simple song, ‘Tranquillity Upon the Seas’ and like magic, it would erase their anger and all their doubts.

They would become happy customers and they happily gave Lirian some pretty hefty tips after listening to the songs, in the end of the day Lirian calculated that he earned almost 5 gold from wealthy patrons.

Lirian also found that the song worked extremely well to lower and erase a lady’s libido, he went in with them expecting one thing and by the time he finished playing them a single song the thoughts were erased from their minds, it was magical.

When evening finally came and the last of the clients left Lirian enjoyed a hefty meal in the kitchen, as he told the boss all the intel he gathered.

The boss was so happy with Lirian’s finding that he outright handed Lirian a gold coin for his info, which would have been a lot to Lirian earlier, but after a single day of playing the lute for the wealthy patrons of the Red Boar, he was sitting rich.

In a city like this 6 gold could last a common family for an entire year.

When the inn was all clean and tidy, Lirian snuck out under the cover of the night, it was time for him to create some trouble.