Guar.... .
Just as he was about to scream for help from the guards outside the room with all of his lungs, Aura Of The Strong and Curse both shuted him down instantly .
Leaving him staring at me with wide eyes and quite bewildered since he was now incapable of even asking for help, forgot about asking for help , he was now fixed in his place incapable of even moving a muscle not to mention screaming for help.
I looked at him straight in the eyes and began to say in a nonchalant and unbothered tone completely brushing off his gritted teeth and the horrified expression on his face but they were still have some curiosity in them, but i can't blame him since that would be a normal reaction to most , seeing a masked man in your room at night, yes i had put the mask on for the infiltration after i removed it when i tried to pass the checkpoint .
Him getting incapacitated like that too without much effort meant one thing and that was the strength of the intruder was far above his own which turned the worries he had before into a complete panic .
I began to say while removing the mask since i was pretty much certain that he will figure out my identity, the moment i start speak anyway and currently there weren't much reasons for me to hide it anyway :
Why are you calling the guards ?, aren't we just getting to know each other a bit more , Mr,Bling .
After i took off the mask , i saw his eyes shook involuntarily and his horrified expression changed to one of terror like expression as if he wasn't expecting our meeting to be in this kind of fashion .
I then continued on saying :
You see mr.Bling , i believe you intentionally plotted against one of my friends and you almost got her executed yet your actual target was me all along , isn't that right ? .
He was able to regain his composure or at least some bits of it as he actually began to have a frivolous look on his as if he was somehow begining to enjoy this but he didn't respond, even though i lessened the effect my skill have on him to allow him making the simple gestures like nodding or shocking his head, he didn't respond and even began to grin slightly as if he was mocking me .
I made my way to the man who was standing still in his position like a statue and began to lean a bit towards his ears and said soothingly and whisperingly:
This isn't nice mr.bling , we are having a serious conversation here and i believe that i asked you a question, didn't i ? .
His reaction to what i was saying infuriated me adding to his amused grin, i already understood and reminded myself that the man in front of me was having some connection to the Royal Family and second the man was also an Adventurer and most probably a high ranking one too .
So after i finished my monologue, i reached for his hand and shook it with mine then applied some pressure on it but under the boost to my strength that the Obsidian Armor skill gave, even the slightest gestures held devastating amount of power in them .
His hand began to make a cracking sounds as if the bones inside it were actually going to be fractured and that was pretty much what was really happening .
Gaaaah , that was the whimpering voice he made and it acted as some sort of declaration to how much pain was he currently in , i have no doubts that if not for the effects of my skill he would have been roaring from pain .
A few seconds later, i then saw him gritting his teeth as if trying to bear with the pain, so i decided to help him and used Healing Magic to heal his hand then just as i saw his expression ease a bit, i once again did the same action again but this time i let him suffer for a longer period of time than before .
Then once again healed him and i somehow felt as if he was already getting accustomed to pain since his muffled groans stopped earlier than i expected it to , i then again whispered in his ears with the tone as before and said :
I still didn't get an answer for my previous question .
And i guess it was effective since he nodded while clenching his teeth, at least that's a start .
My next question will be if you would willingly pull off your charges against Liliana, maybe say your attacker wasn't a Beastfolk to begin with or something like that .
And just as he was beginning to shook his head, i pulled off his arm entirely from his body and again asked the same question .
~Psssssss~ .
He took a deep breath and gritted his teeth will closing his eyes , i can tell that he was in so much pain that without the effects of my skills, i could very much see him collapsing to the floor in pain, so i guess i coincidentally helped him .
I let his blood continue to flow for a few more seconds, i then noticed that his complexion was getting weaker and paler by the second so i finally decided to heal him .
After healing him, his complexion began to return back rosy at a speed visible to the naked eye ,i should never understimate the vitality of the high ranking Adventurers here in this world .
His eyes were looking at me intently and they were both filled with unrestrained hatred and why shouldn't he hate me, i'm the one responsible for his suffering in the first place, right?!!.
I looked at him and began to bring my chair closer to him and i then sat at the chair and said in a tone that laced with a bit of anger at the way he was reacting :
Don't look at like as if i'm your archenemy, we wouldn't be even here if not for you accusing Liliana of something that she clearly didn't do.
Completely and fully aware that your false testimony will lead her to her death , and you still have the nerve to stare at me like you did nothing wrong .
Guess what you did something wrong and you really brought this upon yourself and another reminder for you , if i really decided to end you right now your superiors won't be able to revenge your death.
Or be even able to link me to the incident that's one and two is that i will massacre every member of the Bling family who is currently staying here , a complete obliteration over night .
Think of it as a parting gift from me and whether you believe that i'm capable of such a thing or not think of your current state as a clear example of what i can really do .
His eyes that were filled with hatred wavered a bit and his resolve began to be shaking, i found it to be an opportunity to forcefully change his mind completely so i again asked him to pull off the charges against Liliana and this time he fell in silence for quite a few seconds then he began to weakly nod his head in approval .
His eyes were still clouded with apperant hatred which i actually didn't gave much about anymore since i was quite certain that i now hold him in the palm of my hand and i have also my strength to count as my strongest support .
I then continue to say trying to dispel and vanquish any weird ideas about retaliation from him by saying :
If you believe that you can fool me and change your mind when you arrive at the guard station, i will just tell you that you are completely wrong , i will be accompanying you through the whole process and if something appeared to be going wrong, not even completely sure that it was actually wrong but if it began to appear as so, believe me neither you nor i would like the results and the consequences of your decision .
And i can swear that i saw the eyes that were filled with hatred began to die out at the end of my words .
Now with that out of the way, i want to know why was a Royal Decree issued for the sole purpose of capturing me by trading my fate for the fate of Liliana and who exactly issued that Royal Decree .
Wiiiggggiioo .
I remembered that he was actually incapable of answering me or indulging in any kind of conversation currently and i told him that the answers of my questions will have to wait for later but currently we will be going to run a quick errand at the Guards Station and stared at him from head to toe and again made him aware of what was at risk here if he tried to do any tricks which he nodded and i then began to put the mask .
And said : i will now unfreeze you but any mistake and your and your family heads will be today hanging on the gate outside , you will go directly to the Guards Station and say what i already told you before and after that you will give me my answers, let's go .
He finally was able to move again and just as he raised his head to look at me, i was already using both Stealth and Camouflage to hide myself, so to make him even more nervous than before .
He looked around the room for a bit but was stopped when i reminded him of what his objective was in an impatient tone that left him caressing his moments before severed arm and he again gritted his teeth and went out of the room and asked the guard to prepare his carriage but the guard who he asked seemed to be quite troubled by something, then he said what was the current problem.
The Mana Carriage was taken by his uncle and the rest of the carriages in the manor were normal carriages pulled by horses , he was quite annoyed by this but he then sighed and asked the guard to prepare the finest carriage of them all .
The guard then did as he was told and make the arrangements needed and came back to report that the carriage was ready after a mere 3 minutes, we then got inside the carriage and then heard the nosy coachman asking for where our destination might be as he asked , saying :
Where are we going at this late of hour , if you excused my curiosity milord ? .
We are heading to the Guards Station, i have some business to take care off there and i'm in quite a hurry, so i would appreciate if you did your damn lousy jop and stop acting like you are working in an information gossiping agency , or else your head will be on a skewer tomorrow morning , have i made myself clear .
Clear as the light of the stars, I'm very sorry sir , we will get going right away…Hheeeyyyaa .
The carriage then began moving towards its designated destination , a few minutes later we arrived at the station and he got off the carriage and he was warmly welcomed by the guards to come in but he only stared at the station and didn't take a single move towards the entrance .
I used Obsidian Armor and swiftly came to his ears still on my hidden state and put my hand on his arm and applied some pressure on it, then i told him to keep moving or else our agreement will be off and that he should really be more aware of what was at risk here .
He then continue to walk towards the entrance with me on his tail , he got greeted by a lot of the guards on the way but he paid them no mind and they too didn't care much about his attitude .
We then continue to walk into the hallway for a few seconds more and finally arrived at the office who belonged to the person in charge or so i believe and the guards tried to tell Mr.Bling to wait for them to go inside and get the permission of chief guard inside before allowing us entry to his office, but he wasn't in the mood to wait for something like that, as he then directly stormed the office, leaving the guards and the chief guard inside quite speechless but they swallowed the unwillingness and the dissatisfaction in their hearts once they recognized the person who had just came inside .
Oh, is that you mr.Bling , sorry for the inconvenience caused by my underlings , he then turned to his underlings and said: you are dismissed .
Making them go out while closing the door behind them as the armored chief guard then asked mr.Bling of how can he be in service , i guess even here or more likely especially here your influence can make you even beat that chief guard if you wanted too, and he won't have any opinion about it .
Mr.Bling then began to tell him why was he was here at this late of the night and asked him to finish making the arrangements needed for that Beastfolk girl Liliana's release, which gave the chief quite the startle as he again asked mr.Bling to confirm what he just said and looked him intently as if trying to see if someone was impersonating him or something .
Mr.Bling then took out the Royal Decree from his storatge ring and showed it to the chief which allowed the chief to be more at ease of the whole situation that was currently going on .
I don't want to remind you that i'm quite in a hurry so you will have to finish all her releasing arrangements while i'm here as for the real culprit who was behind that attack on me you don't have to care much about since i will be handling this myself , do you understand ?.
I understand sir, and i will even directly handle her release arrangements myself, and if you need any help in tracking the traces of your esteemed self attacker , be sure that you will have the station full support and efforts at your disposal .
He then began to get out of his office and asked mr.Bling to wait for a bit and to make himself comfortable in the office until he come back .
I believe that should have been enough to appease you, so could you possibly give me a bit of leniency and answer this question of mine .
I stayed silent, but that didn't stop him from asking anyway as he said :
When we first met two or three days ago your ranking test results came to be that of E Rank, how was it possible for you to have grown so much in such a short period of time , or did you just make yourself appear to be weak for the sole purpose of hiding your real strength, or did you really have a Divine Artifact in your possession that allowed you to be this strong .
Different kinds of questions but they all resolved around the same topic of how i was able to become so strong in such a short period of time , and from where would someone like me get his hands on a Divine Artifact and why would i rumored to even have one .
But since i was quite in a good mood now that the whole situation with Liliana could be considered solved , i decided to answer his inquiries truthfully too and replied to him saying :
I Neither hid my strength nor i had the Divine Artifact you just mentioned but the real answer to why was my strength so great was actually pretty simple you see, My Skills Are A Bit Weird .
The moment i finished saying this, his mouth went wide open as if he was shocked beyond measure at how simple my answer was but i can already tell that he didn't believe that to be the actual reason since it was so absurd and bizarre thing to believe that reason to be actually true .
It was pretty much the truth but him buying it or not doesn't really concern me that much but his stunned face was quite an eye-opener .
The room then fell back to complete silence, since he was very dismissive about the answer that i just gave previously and that led him to believe that he won't be able to get any clear answers from me, so he refrain from asking any further questions .
Just as Regard said, even if i did tell the truth no one would believe it to be so .
A few seconds later the door of the office opened and the chief came to report that the girl's release arrangements had been finished and she was being currently released from her confinement and he asked if there was anything else that mr.Bling wanted which he answered by shaking his head and began to also march towards the office door without giving any regards to the chief guard but he still offered to accompany him out of the institution himself .
Just as we went out of the office, i was greated by a scene that almost threatened me to go berserk and that scene was a scene of a quite bruised Liliana with a few skin burns on her ears and face but what really enraged me was the coller marks she had on her neck and remembering that the guy beside me was once trying to buy her to be his slave.
I unintentionally used Aura Of The Strong and made its effects to engulf the whole building we are in leaving everyone in the vicinity standing still as if they were a bunch of statues , but finally aware after a few seconds of the scene that i caused around here i turned off the skill effect but still had it active, since it doesn't cost me much to do so anyway .
All the people in the area were now filled with dread but they were reacting weirdly as if this wasn't the first time something like that happened around here .
I then silently went to the almost collapsing Liliana and whispered in his ears that everything was going to be okay, and i don't know if it was a sixth sense of her or something alike that allowed her to know that it was me who was whispering in her ears, but she beemed with a smile , so kind and so sweet that left me in awe for a bit but remembering her current looks, fueled my anger even more , since in the end it was me who caused her to suffer like this , hope she finds it in here heart to forgive after we get out of here .
I ordered him to take Liliana with us and he wasn't in no position to refuse and he asked her to join him in the carriage in front of the building, baffling all those who witnessed the scene.
He asked me where should we go, and i pointed that we will be dropping her at the inn then we will be returning to the Bling's family manor , his body shook for a bit but he then gritted his teeth and told the coachman of our next destination .
I used my Healing Magic to heal the severely injured girl and got her a few food and drinks from the stortage ring that i had, she was quite hungry as she was gulping down the food and for some reason it pained me to see her like this, but i kept assuring myself that this was the last time something like this would occur to someone that i know and hold in high regard .
But what surprised me the most was the weird stares that mr.Bling were stealing which was mostly directed at the storage ring in my hand as if he was somehow able to recognize it, don't tell me .