The tier three medicine was a big deal as it worked on level three warriors very well which meant, right now, Terias was really vulnerable.
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'A tier three?? Why would she go so far? Isn't a tier two together with some artifacts enough?'
He was genuinely concerned about his life for the first time after his transmigration, he was never this vulnerable and helpless.
As he did not know what crime Alice was accusing him of, he decided to play along to get to know her intentions. If she were not making some outrageous demands, he was willing to comply and accept it.
"What do you want? You know I am a level three veteran warrior as well as a Viscount under the Earl." Terias made a stoic and unreadable face as he said this, imposing his hierarchy.
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"Done with your act? Good. Now that we are talking, I would like you to serve under me." Alice said not even bothering to reply to his threat, Terias who was tied and made to lay down glanced at her, his face confused.
"Serve under you? Do you want to be the temporary Earl? Or do you want me to work under yourself?" He asked
"Quite bold of you to assume that I would be letting you work under me. " She harrumphed
"Ohh, do you still not understand what secret I was referring to?? I understand, very well then. See for yourself. You will better understand your current situation then. "
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She pulled out a round marble and presented it to him.
"Does this look familiar to you? " She asked letting him see the familiar item in detail.
"Recall stone? "
'Is that what she was referring to? I had recorded a scene of Serena giving me a blowjob. Is that her masterpiece to enslave me? '
Though serious, a debauchery like that was very common. As long as the video did not spread to many people, he would be fine.
The problem was that Alice was an influential business owner and had many contacts. If she willed, and the scene spread, the issue would become a really bad one.
His face had traces of anxiety as sweat started appearing on his forehead.
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But the part where that strange individual started drawing with blood was different. It felt gore, abnormal and brutal to him. He could not stand the indifferent use of blood from dead bodies, it felt very eerie to him.
He tried to divert his mind, he could not be focused on the individual and wait for the next scenes. The gore was distracting him, so he tried focusing on the diagram and the shapes being drawn.
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'The diagram she showed to me, it was a ritual. A really evil and ruthless one.' Terias understood why he was being asked about the strange diagram, it was a cause of a bloody massacre, but why investigate him?
His question was answered just at the moment he thought of ' why investigate him'. The strange individual sat inside the circle half naked, bare from head to waist.
'Viscount??? '
Terias had his eyes widened in surprise as he glanced at the person, the strange individual who had killed twenty common people. The individual was no other than him, to be more exact it was the previous Viscount, the man whose body he was possessing now.
The man sat inside the ritual circle drawn by real blood, the real owner of the blood flowing on ground lay around the ritual circle, dead.
Terias, the real Viscount physically manifested his ki and pushed it into the ground, as if activating an artifact.
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"What do you think? A noble massacres a small village, burns it down. How does that sound? "
Alice paused after saying that, looking at him for his reactions. He was still in shock from what the Viscount had done.
'It would have been far better if I were to be caught by Earl Scheta with the scene I recorded on the recall stone. It would have been the best. '
The scenario he imagined to be his cause for demise was actually so tiny and insignificant in front of his real problem.
"Or do you like the sentence, a noble performing a demonic ritual from comnoner blood. Hmm? This has an evil ring to it, kind of suits your real personality. "
She smirked as she looked at his face, filled with anxiety and panic. She realised that she had achieved her goal of intimidating Terias, now the only part remaining to complete was to propose a deal.
A deal which would work only in her favour, though not fully as she didn't want Terias to go mad and kill her.
'What evil? , what sacrifice? I didn't do shit. ' Terias thought as he heard her words but how could he refute, she had a video of him in the act. He was almost sure that the Viscount could have tried it.
"Now that we have come to the terms, let's finalize our deal. " Alice congratulated, ready to promise him a good life of slavery.
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