His Corruption bloodline and its traits were going to help him defeat Rae, and then the Earl smoothly, or that's what he thought!
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Since, Rae had already given sufficient time to Ekaros. He left after looking around for Lisa. She was not around when he was negotiating terms with Ekaros.
So, there was no reason for him to waste his time with those unfortunate men.
"Sir Rae, I have a message for you." Two days after the negotiation with the Viscount, he got another message from the guard who had presented him with the note in the first day at the door.
'Finally, You could not hold any longer Ian!' Rae thought as looked into the message that the guard had handed him over.
"A meeting.... Why though? He wants to meet me when I haven't even completed his task. Alright then." The letter contained the location where he was supposed to visit to meet with the guy.
Who is the guy? The Earl? His subordinate? Nothing particular about the person was mentioned in the letter. So, Rae was interested to meet the individual from the other side.
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"Hello? I was supposed to meet someone near this place. Is that you?" Rae asked as he reached the mentioned spot in the letter.
There was this man who was fully covered by his black robe like a necromancer.
Why did Rae think that it was a man? Because the physique of that human was well built and kind of big for a woman but absolutely perfect for someone who is a hand to hand combat expert.
Rae asked him the question, even though he was pretty sure that the man in robes was the person who had invited Rae.
Although, the time it took him to reach the Viscount's place was shortened but the injuries he received on the way were grave and he was too exhausted to heal. So, he had to take a day off.
At the moment, he was still gravely injured but he still appeared in front of Rae. As for the reason? Harry just wanted to intimidate Rae, that was the reason he did not heal his injuries with his natural ability to heal.
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"I had quite the rough travel on my way here, leading to my current situation." Harry laughed hard as he pointed to the many cuts and bites on his body which were obviously from the fights with dangerous beasts.
'Poor guy, So many injuries, his face would be ruined even though it heals later on.' Rae thought as he glanced at Harry's face, his first impression of the bloodied man was pity. A pity that Harry would not ever attract beautiful ladies.
"It is lot better like this right?" Harry asked as his body began to shed off the skin and dried blood off his body.
The changes in his body were rapid. The cuts on his face quickly healed and his face now appeared new. The marks of bites and cuts on the rest of his body also quickly began to disappear.
All the traces of fights from Harry's body disappeared and he looked anew.
"That is an interesting... Sir Harry." Rae muttered as he stared hard at Harry, who was literally shedding his skin like a snake.
'Is that a skill he has trained to the extreme or an inherent ability of his? He is literally shedding skin and recovering fully from his injuries. To think I was feeling pity for this man.'
'He does not seem to be expending Ki in large amounts. This must be his inherent ability, like the one I had. No, not one, like the two abilities I used to have but I do not have them anymore sadly.'
Inherent abilities or the abilities that are passed down from people to their offspring were generally very less demanding with energy consumption compared to the skills that had to be learned and mastered manually.
With Rae's level, he was able to sense that Harry was not using large amount of Ki which made him conclude that the overpowered ability he was showing off was an inherent ability like the Notepad ability he had in his beginning years.
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