33 Risen#re - Chapter 367

“Where is your family ancestor?” Lirian asked taking Izlandi slightly by surprise.

She wasn’t so much surprised as she was curious as to why Lirian was looking for him, “He is cultivating in a cultivation chamber, after your fight with him he said that he found the path to becoming a true knight,”

“He is currently trying to breakthrough, why do you ask?” she asked back curiously.

Lirian frowned at the revelation, both things he learnt were concerning, if Izlandi was to be trusted then it meant that the cultivation chamber was made with a special material that could not only hide the presence of those within, but also it emitted a special energy that made everything around it appear normal.

In general most materials that could block ‘Gods Gaze’ would appear like a spot of darkness, immediately making it stand out, yet the area where the cultivation chambers stood appeared to be no different from the normal world.

As for the other matter, a true knight was the level of a fourth grader, and fighting one was currently quite far out of Lirian’s scope to fight directly.

Their energy level would also have an enormous increase, currently the leaders of House Kurt’s energy levels were still in a range that Lirian could handle, but a true knight would have a base energy level of 504 000, even if Lirian released his heavenly suppression, it wasn’t enough to deal with such attacks.

Also even though the Kurt ancestor only cultivated a single energy centre and it would cause instabilities to his other centre’s of power, for the first few years after ascending his rank the ancestors mind would be at it’s best before it reached its rapid decline.

Lirian sighed, ‘If he succeeds, I might have to sacrifice quite a bit to walk out of this alive,’ Lirian thought, but he wasn’t gloomy by the prospect, quite the opposite he was happy to hear about a challenge.

“Is that a problem for you?” Izlandi asked with worry as Lirian had remained silent for a little too long.

“A problem?” Lirian muttered, snapping out of his thoughts, “No it’s troublesome, but nothing I can’t handle,” Lirian replied confidently.

Izlandi smiled in relief, she was afraid that if her grandfather was successful it would end badly for them.

“What’s with the floating rug?” Izlandi and curiously and pointed to the rug covering Stanley.

“It’s your brother,” Lirian said.

Izlandi instantly frowned, “Don’t ever call him my brother,” she hissed in anger and turned away from Lirian.

“Since you have him with you, you must already know what he done,” Izlandi said clenching her small fists tightly.

“Not even the people he slaughtered made sounds remotely close to what that family made,”

“Even the guards were so traumatised by the sounds that they fled from the area around his chambers,” she spat angrily.

She thought that the poison she used was vicious, but she didn’t even know people could make such sounds, heck she didn’t even know that such sounds could exist.

“Was he always like that?” Lirian asked curiously.

A moment later Izlandi shook her head, “He was a pig, but he used be careful and thoughtful with his actions, he never done something like this to my knowledge, but recently he seemed to have snapped, becoming more and more depraved,” she said softly.

Lirian nodded, with a few new thoughts running through his mind, but what they were was unknown.

“Give me a pen and some parchment,” Lirian said suddenly.

Izlandi quickly did as Lirian asked and watched as Lirian wrote a quick note.

After reading she raised a brow, “I’m your hostage,” she said with shock, “Then what about him?” she asked pointing at Stanley.

“He is the main message, the signal,” Lirian answered her with a light smile.

Izlandi sighed, “You’re not going to tie me up are you?” she asked with a slightly flirty tone and her fair face turned a shade of pink.

“Do you want me to tie you up?” Lirian asked with a sigh of exasperation, if she was willing to follow him, he really didn’t need to.

“Won’t it be so much more convincing if the soldiers see me tied up and helpless, completely unable to help myself, as the evil man drags me away?” she asked innocently with her bright green eyes lighting up.

“No one is going to see me take you away,” Lirian said with a sigh.

“Oh, but what if we are seen by accident,” Izlandi pouted, “Imagine if one of the guards tells my father that I walk out of the castle, with a happy smile on my face,” she said with a grin.

Lirian sighed, “Fine go and get something that I can use to tie you up.”

‘What is wrong with this girl? I swear that she was way different when I first met her,’ Lirian thought.

Lirian didn’t get much time to think because, Izlandi quickly returned with a huge roll of thick rope, the roll was almost as big as her, she happily dragged it to Lirian and stood still as Lirian started to tie the rope around her.

“I must say, you really did a number on my father and all of House Kurt for that matter,” Izlandi sighed with admiration as Lirian tied her up.

“Lord Grant’s assassination got the family members extremely worried, the minor nobles were too scared to say anything, but everyone knew what they were thinking,”

“At the first chance they got, they were planning to break away from the alliance, and with all the in fighting that started when they pointed blame at House Marshall it was enough to make them fear that the alliance would start attacking each-other,”

“Do you know that House Ventrano has started a blood feud against House Marshall?” Izlandi said with admiration.

“It’s the first I’ve heard of that one,” Lirian replied honestly, but it wasn’t all that hard to imagine, given the evidence he left pointing at House Marshall.

“You must have been planning all of this for years,” Izlandi said praising him highly and she couldn’t hide her admiration, even if she had years she doubted that she would have been able to do the same.

‘It was more of a spur of the moment kind off thing,’ Lirian thought, but kept that to himself, he didn’t want to blow the girls mind to smithereens.

When Lirian was done he tied a piece of the rope to his hand and pulled Izlandi, like she was on a leash, but she resisted being pulled.

Lirian turned to her, wondering what she was up to now he left her legs untied so that she could walk, and kick and flail her legs around, and have all her fantasies about being an unwilling captive.

“Aren’t you going to do that to me?” she asked with a pout and pointed at the floating rugs, that held Stanley.

“…”

‘It’s no wonder she wanted to be tied up,’ Lirian realised, ‘I swear all these noble girls seem to be obsessed with flying,’ Lirian noted, it was the same with Althea.

“It feels like I’m going to become some circus ride,” Lirian complained softly, with a thought his energy wrapped around her and lifted her in the air.

Izlandi laughed happily and looked down with her green eyes filled with amazement.

“Just try not to scream when we move quickly,” Lirian said and broke into a run.

Izlandi’s current room had no windows, it seemed that House Kurt was taking their own precautions against Lirian sneaking in.

Lirian noticed the excitement that Izlandi seemed to emanate as they ran through the corridors, as it so happened a few guards did spot them, but their lives were short lived.

Most of the guards were still far too busy fighting each-other and the sound of metal striking on metal filled the corridors.

When they reached a window Lirian glanced down and spotted the two leaders of the family, they returned to the keep and they were currently racing through the floors.

“You made it,” Lirian said, “But sadly you’re just a little too late,” he laughed and jumped out of the window.