Chapter 116: Pondering-I

Lucius couldn't help but feel that he may need to meet up with Keith a few more times more, but didn't know if it would be possible. 

"What happened there, Asher?" Kiana suddenly spoke.

"Huh? You mean with Keith?" Lucius asked.

"Yes… I've never seen anything like that. I know you understood a lot more than you were letting on." Kiana spoke.

Lucius was intrigued that Kiana was able to pick on it, and wondered what he should say he thought for a bit before coming up with a response.

"I think what happened does not concern us as much for now. If anything, it has only given us a greater advantage. With Keith being in this condition, I doubt Viscount Drew would be able to fully focus on the separation of the territory.

This will also us to get out end of the deal ready. Plus, with the brewery on the way, I think it will extend the time we have till we'll need to start using our own savings to run the territory." Lucius replied.

Kiana heard Lucius's explanation and thought that there was a bit more that he did not elaborate not. But she reckoned there must be some other reason behind it, and that Lucius just did not think it was right to reveal it now.

"Alright. I hope it is according to what you said." Kiana spoke.

Lucius nodded his head and the two went back to being silent again. But that was not for long, as they soon arrived at the inn. This was the best inn of the Dowland city and only the rich merchants and visiting nobles could afford to stay here.

Originally Lucius was going to return to the Inanis city after the party, but the plan had been changed because of Keith. He had decided to check up on him by coming to the Downland City which was further away from the Inanis city.

It was already close to sunset and if they left now it would take them over seven hours to reach there. Which would be way past midnight. Thus Lucius reckoned that it was better to just get an inn in the city and rest for the night.

Besides, he wanted to check up on Keith tomorrow as well. Another thing he was curious about was the small dried flower that Head Healer Berk had used.

"Noctus Bane… now that's an interesting thing," Lucius muttered to himself.

He had not read about it yet and thus wondered what its exact effects were. From what he saw though, he could tell that it had some very strong tranquilizing effects. If it could sedate someone who was berserking due to the Hell energy corruption, then it was bound to be strong.

Lucius and his companion took up rooms in the inn and slept for the night. Lucius spent his merry time thinking about the corruption with hell energy more and also remade the spell matrix for Enrage.

He now knew that the spell could be used here too, and as long as he used it at the right moment, it could show rather impressive effects. Eventually, time passed and Lucius fell asleep.

***

The morning arrived rather gently as Lucius woke up lazily. He took his time to rest a bit extra as he had used a lot of Aether and Hell energy yesterday. It was now fully replenished and the fatigue had been washed away.

~Creak~

Lucius opened the window of the room and gazed at the bright sunlight outside. He could see the clock tower in the distance and saw that it was about nine am now. Similar to Inanis city, Dowland city had a clock tower, too.

The only difference was that the clock tower here was shorter in height as compared to the one in Inanis city. Still, it was located near the center of the city and thus could be seen from nearly every point of the city.

It was only the slums on the outskirt of the city that could not see the clock tower. Lucius stretched for a minute before getting ready to leave. He washed his face with the water that was kept in a jug and a basin that was at the side.

~Creak~

The door of the room was opened as Lucius waked out. At the lower common area of the Inn, Kiana and Donald were already waiting for him. 

"What do we do now? Are we going to head back to the mansion?" Kiana questioned.

"No… not so fast. I wanna observe Keith a bit more. I think we can leave after I see Keith one last time." Lucius answered.

Donald did not question this, as his job was to just guard Lucius. He did not care about what he did as long as he was safe, and he would be doing his best to do that. He had already seen the conduct of the Harrels heir and he did not want a repeat of that here.

Kiana simply nodded her head and accompanied Lucius to the hospital. They got into the carriage and swiftly reached the Hospital. 

"When do you think that the Viscount will be arriving here?" Lucius questioned.

"Hmm… it shouldn't be long. Since the messenger left yesteryear, he should have reached the territory by midnight. And if we assume that Viscount left his territory right after that, he should be here in about six hours from now at the very latest." Kiana answered.

"That seems accurate enough. Though I don't think we should interact with the Viscount for now. It may only complicate the situation more." Lucius spoke.

"That's right. We already saw how the people acted and even Baron Harrels was swayed by the words of a guard. I'm sure that the Viscount will assume the worst and will probably come here with quite a few guards.

If we're unlucky, we may even have to get into conflict with them. I'm sure that we can take care of them, but it would be better to prevent it at the start." Kiana replied.