Albert's back tighten as he almost reached into his coat to pull out his sword from his spatial storage ring, but immediately renounce the instinct. As far he knew she was the girl Lord Ty had went out of his way to help and being aggressive towards her might displeased his new master.
"I said who are you?'' She repeated her self again, this time with more force that made the already dense atmosphere completely still. Her slender figure seemed like it could strike at any moment and he wasn't confident of surviving her first strike. She must have been an assassin type because he didn't think his instinct would mislead him and he felt like she was more dangerous if he let her make the first move.
Staying silent wouldn't help either, so his best bet was to diffuse the rapidly escalating situation. Obviously she hadn't fully recovered yet and her hostility may just be a side effect from being on the verge of death.
"Ahem... Pardon me, I am Albert Cronoff, a servant of my master, Lord Ty and I only wanted to check up on the situation here and on my wife Erin Cronoff. She's the healer that attended to you last night.''
"Huh?"
Rain looked both shocked and confused by his clear and concise response. Her expression told him, she had no idea what he was talking about and was puzzled by the content of his reply. She looked at Albert strangely and finally took her time to observe him closely, in order to tell if he was lying before taking a look at her hands and the strange room she was in. She couldn't help muttering to herself.
"Where, Where am I?"
Albert being the high ranking demon he is, heard her mutters clearly and responded. "You're in Lord Ty's castle the previous residence of the demon king." If Tyler was here to hear this he would have had an heart attack from that statement. Rain on the other hand was even more confused, she had no idea who this Tai person was and certainly didn't remember entering their castle.
Her memories were a little fuzzy and she finding it hard to recall her last memory when, a word from what the old man had said finally registered in her head. "Demon king's castle" She mumbled again with widened eyes.
At this point Liz also a high level demon heard the commotion and woke up. She and Erin had planned to take turns keeping an eye on Rain throughout the night but it turned out they had both underestimated how tired they both were and had both fallen asleep at some point in time.
Erin had physically exhausted herself in the fight against the magic beast and Liz was mentally fatigued. She sat up from the sofa she had fallen asleep on and turned to the bed instinctively to check up on Rain only to find just Erin by the side still asleep. "Rain?" she shouted snapping herself awake and also Erin.
Raine hearing the familiar voice, turned around to see Liz in the room and hurried over disregarding the man in front of her. "Liz you're here. I'm so glad, are you okay? these people didn't do anything weird to you did they. Common talk to me."
Liz could barely believe her eyes, it was only yesterday that her friend was practically dead and was brought back to life. She couldn't believe she was the one in front of her going off in her usual rants. Tears slowly built up in her eyes as they flowed down like a river, her eyes glistening in the light as she hugged her friend.
"Hey what's wrong. What happened when I was out? did they really do something to you, tell me, I'll make them pay with their lives." Although it sounded like she was just comforting her friend, Albert who had only taken a step into the room immediately took two steps back.
Erin had woken up fully by now and even she felt a bit emotional when she saw the two friends. She had talked with Liz for a while last night so she knew quite well, just how much Rain meant to her. Liz sobbed a little before she replied to Rain. "It's alright, everything is fine. You're fine."
Although Rain was still a bit confused she knew when to ask questions so she just comforted her friend. She also noticed her hair colour had retured to normal which made her finally realize the people here must've help her out and finally lowered her guard.
Soon the girls were able to calm Liz down and they soon explained to Rain what had happened so far. Albert wasn't invited to their conversation so he was kicked out. Rain was still confused on the identity of Tyler and Erin was surprised the two girls hadn't met him before a few a day ago. Still, Rain was thankful he was able to forcefully cancel Liz transformer before it went out of control.
She wouldn't be able to forgive herself if something had happened to Liz because she suggested they cut through the forest. Liz then told her of how they got to the Red ogre settlement only to find it being attacked by monsters and was almost destroyed. That was when she witnessed Ty's incredible speed as he blew passed her to save Erin. Erin felt a little embarrassed when she heard her name and blushed a little at the thought.
Liz then continued to narrate his fight with all three magic beast although you couldn't really call that a fight. However to someone like Rain killing Three Tier 5 magic beast with ease wasn't that impressive, she was pretty confident she could do it too especially because lesser basilisks weren't speed based monsters.
Even the fight with the Gray-War troll wasn't particularly interesting to her, although she was a bit curious on why he had suddenly lost his previous cool and unleased an aura that could even affect Liz she still couldn't bring herself to admit defeat. He was probably just a little stronger than her anyway.
However, what came out of Liz mouth soon after shocked her to the core.
"He... he walked through the barrier." Her face was plastered with shock and confusion. It wasn't all that different from the faces of everyone who witness Tyler performing this seemingly simple feat.
She, more than everyone here had a better understanding of the Five-Layer barrier that protected this place, after all she had specially prepared a tool to help bypass just a section of the barrier.
"Huh, wait, my dagger! Where's my dagger."
"Dagger?" Erin and Liz spoke simultaneously as they looked at Rain in confusion. Rain ignored the girls as she sprang up tossing everything in her wake as she searched desperately for something.
"Hmm Rain, I don't think there's anything here or i would have noticed it earlier"L Liz said softly, even she didn't know why Rain was so frantic in losing a pair of daggers even if they were magic items she should know that their lives were more important than those. She didn't know much about the weapons Rain uses because she almost never needed to use them in front of her so she had no idea if they were magic items or not.
Rain felt her heart tighten as she realized that she had lost both daggers. She remembered she had thrown one at the Ancient Rykir and had steeled herself to lose it but now she realize she must've dropped the other one when she passed out. 'I can't believe i lost it, damnit, I got us in so much trouble just to get it.' She thought as her face paled even more.
"Umm... Rain, can you explain what's going on." Liz asked still confused about her friend's exaggerated reaction. Erin was also quite interested in the reason as well, as her healer she was also concerned about her body, using tranquility may have restored her life but she had still lost a considerable amount of lifeforce that only time would fix. Rain sighed and thought for a moment before speaking.
"Those daggers i had with me this time were special. They were magic artifacts."
A collectively gasp ran across the room as the looks of surprise were on display. Magic Item and magic artifacts were vastly different from each other mostly due to their rarity and value. With magic artifacts being more valuable as the process of making them had been lost for millenniums so therefore they were very finite in number and incredibly powerful.
This however did not limit the demon nobles as they had collected large quantities of magic artifacts over the years adding to their power. Infact the power of a single artifact had cost the last demon king his life without giving him the time to counter. Whereas magic items could be made by even a low ranking magic caster, although they would have to fail a million times to succeed just once, it was still technically possible.
Erin wasn't surprised by the fact that the girls had a magic artifact but by the fact that the one holding it was a dark elf. She knew the situation of the dark elves in the demon continent. She was curious about the situation of the pair but she knew better than to pry into other people's secrets.
She felt a bit shy, and was unable to ask anything so she made an observation instead. "Mmm... If the last place you had the dagger was in the forest and, Um... since Lord Ty was the one who brought you from there perhaps he also found the dagger."
"Really!" Rain spoke with piqued interest as she saw a little bit of hope in the horizon. "Should we ask him directly?"
"Isn't that a little rude, he saved your life after all."
"Then what should I do."
"Well... You can just go thank him first then perhaps we can find a way to ask him later, he did say he wanted to speak to you."
"To me, huh... why"
"I guess he just had some questions, he wanted to talk to the both of us so maybe he's curious on why we took a route through the forest."
"Oh..."
Erin had almost spoken the words I'm also curious when Liz had said that but forcibly controlled herself. Rain seemed to be completely fine and not even a bit of fatigue showed on her face, even though her lifeforce hadn't fully recovered yet. They all still decided to visit Tyler so Rain could thank him personally and Erin was still just curious about the pair so she tagged along.
Although they needed to get Rain cleaned up first. She was still on the same torn and tattered outfit she had on the entire time, they had to get her to take a bath first.
Erin then lent her a pair of clothing that were most suited to her style, which was a bit loose around the chest area but was fine everywhere else. It wasn't a flashy outfit, only compromising of a long black pants and a white long sleeve crop shirt. Rain was pretty satisfied with it and the other two girls soon got ready as they exited the room and making Liz lead them to Tyler's Chambers before placing a knock on the door.
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Albert's back tighten as he almost reached into his coat to pull out his sword from his spatial storage ring, but immediately renounce the instinct. As far he knew she was the girl Lord Ty had went out of his way to help and being aggressive towards her might displeased his new master.
"I said who are you?'' She repeated her self again, this time with more force that made the already dense atmosphere completely still. Her slender figure seemed like it could strike at any moment and he wasn't confident of surviving her first strike. She must have been an assassin type because he didn't think his instinct would mislead him and he felt like she was more dangerous if he let her make the first move.
Staying silent wouldn't help either, so his best bet was to diffuse the rapidly escalating situation. Obviously she hadn't fully recovered yet and her hostility may just be a side effect from being on the verge of death.
"Ahem... Pardon me, I am Albert Cronoff, a servant of my master, Lord Ty and I only wanted to check up on the situation here and on my wife Erin Cronoff. She's the healer that attended to you last night.''
"Huh?"
Rain looked both shocked and confused by his clear and concise response. Her expression told him, she had no idea what he was talking about and was puzzled by the content of his reply. She looked at Albert strangely and finally took her time to observe him closely, in order to tell if he was lying before taking a look at her hands and the strange room she was in. She couldn't help muttering to herself.
"Where, Where am I?"
Albert being the high ranking demon he is, heard her mutters clearly and responded. "You're in Lord Ty's castle the previous residence of the demon king." If Tyler was here to hear this he would have had an heart attack from that statement. Rain on the other hand was even more confused, she had no idea who this Tai person was and certainly didn't remember entering their castle.
Her memories were a little fuzzy and she finding it hard to recall her last memory when, a word from what the old man had said finally registered in her head. "Demon king's castle" She mumbled again with widened eyes.
At this point Liz also a high level demon heard the commotion and woke up. She and Erin had planned to take turns keeping an eye on Rain throughout the night but it turned out they had both underestimated how tired they both were and had both fallen asleep at some point in time.
Erin had physically exhausted herself in the fight against the magic beast and Liz was mentally fatigued. She sat up from the sofa she had fallen asleep on and turned to the bed instinctively to check up on Rain only to find just Erin by the side still asleep. "Rain?" she shouted snapping herself awake and also Erin.
Raine hearing the familiar voice, turned around to see Liz in the room and hurried over disregarding the man in front of her. "Liz you're here. I'm so glad, are you okay? these people didn't do anything weird to you did they. Common talk to me."
Liz could barely believe her eyes, it was only yesterday that her friend was practically dead and was brought back to life. She couldn't believe she was the one in front of her going off in her usual rants. Tears slowly built up in her eyes as they flowed down like a river, her eyes glistening in the light as she hugged her friend.
"Hey what's wrong. What happened when I was out? did they really do something to you, tell me, I'll make them pay with their lives." Although it sounded like she was just comforting her friend, Albert who had only taken a step into the room immediately took two steps back.
Erin had woken up fully by now and even she felt a bit emotional when she saw the two friends. She had talked with Liz for a while last night so she knew quite well, just how much Rain meant to her. Liz sobbed a little before she replied to Rain. "It's alright, everything is fine. You're fine."
Although Rain was still a bit confused she knew when to ask questions so she just comforted her friend. She also noticed her hair colour had retured to normal which made her finally realize the people here must've help her out and finally lowered her guard.
Soon the girls were able to calm Liz down and they soon explained to Rain what had happened so far. Albert wasn't invited to their conversation so he was kicked out. Rain was still confused on the identity of Tyler and Erin was surprised the two girls hadn't met him before a few a day ago. Still, Rain was thankful he was able to forcefully cancel Liz transformer before it went out of control.
She wouldn't be able to forgive herself if something had happened to Liz because she suggested they cut through the forest. Liz then told her of how they got to the Red ogre settlement only to find it being attacked by monsters and was almost destroyed. That was when she witnessed Ty's incredible speed as he blew passed her to save Erin. Erin felt a little embarrassed when she heard her name and blushed a little at the thought.
Liz then continued to narrate his fight with all three magic beast although you couldn't really call that a fight. However to someone like Rain killing Three Tier 5 magic beast with ease wasn't that impressive, she was pretty confident she could do it too especially because lesser basilisks weren't speed based monsters.
Even the fight with the Gray-War troll wasn't particularly interesting to her, although she was a bit curious on why he had suddenly lost his previous cool and unleased an aura that could even affect Liz she still couldn't bring herself to admit defeat. He was probably just a little stronger than her anyway.
However, what came out of Liz mouth soon after shocked her to the core.
"He... he walked through the barrier." Her face was plastered with shock and confusion. It wasn't all that different from the faces of everyone who witness Tyler performing this seemingly simple feat.
She, more than everyone here had a better understanding of the Five-Layer barrier that protected this place, after all she had specially prepared a tool to help bypass just a section of the barrier.
"Huh, wait, my dagger! Where's my dagger."
"Dagger?" Erin and Liz spoke simultaneously as they looked at Rain in confusion. Rain ignored the girls as she sprang up tossing everything in her wake as she searched desperately for something.
"Hmm Rain, I don't think there's anything here or i would have noticed it earlier"L Liz said softly, even she didn't know why Rain was so frantic in losing a pair of daggers even if they were magic items she should know that their lives were more important than those. She didn't know much about the weapons Rain uses because she almost never needed to use them in front of her so she had no idea if they were magic items or not.
Rain felt her heart tighten as she realized that she had lost both daggers. She remembered she had thrown one at the Ancient Rykir and had steeled herself to lose it but now she realize she must've dropped the other one when she passed out. 'I can't believe i lost it, damnit, I got us in so much trouble just to get it.' She thought as her face paled even more.
"Umm... Rain, can you explain what's going on." Liz asked still confused about her friend's exaggerated reaction. Erin was also quite interested in the reason as well, as her healer she was also concerned about her body, using tranquility may have restored her life but she had still lost a considerable amount of lifeforce that only time would fix. Rain sighed and thought for a moment before speaking.
"Those daggers i had with me this time were special. They were magic artifacts."
A collectively gasp ran across the room as the looks of surprise were on display. Magic Item and magic artifacts were vastly different from each other mostly due to their rarity and value. With magic artifacts being more valuable as the process of making them had been lost for millenniums so therefore they were very finite in number and incredibly powerful.
This however did not limit the demon nobles as they had collected large quantities of magic artifacts over the years adding to their power. Infact the power of a single artifact had cost the last demon king his life without giving him the time to counter. Whereas magic items could be made by even a low ranking magic caster, although they would have to fail a million times to succeed just once, it was still technically possible.
Erin wasn't surprised by the fact that the girls had a magic artifact but by the fact that the one holding it was a dark elf. She knew the situation of the dark elves in the demon continent. She was curious about the situation of the pair but she knew better than to pry into other people's secrets.
She felt a bit shy, and was unable to ask anything so she made an observation instead. "Mmm... If the last place you had the dagger was in the forest and, Um... since Lord Ty was the one who brought you from there perhaps he also found the dagger."
"Really!" Rain spoke with piqued interest as she saw a little bit of hope in the horizon. "Should we ask him directly?"
"Isn't that a little rude, he saved your life after all."
"Then what should I do."
"Well... You can just go thank him first then perhaps we can find a way to ask him later, he did say he wanted to speak to you."
"To me, huh... why"
"I guess he just had some questions, he wanted to talk to the both of us so maybe he's curious on why we took a route through the forest."
"Oh..."
Erin had almost spoken the words I'm also curious when Liz had said that but forcibly controlled herself. Rain seemed to be completely fine and not even a bit of fatigue showed on her face, even though her lifeforce hadn't fully recovered yet. They all still decided to visit Tyler so Rain could thank him personally and Erin was still just curious about the pair so she tagged along.
Although they needed to get Rain cleaned up first. She was still on the same torn and tattered outfit she had on the entire time, they had to get her to take a bath first.
Erin then lent her a pair of clothing that were most suited to her style, which was a bit loose around the chest area but was fine everywhere else. It wasn't a flashy outfit, only compromising of a long black pants and a white long sleeve crop shirt. Rain was pretty satisfied with it and the other two girls soon got ready as they exited the room and making Liz lead them to Tyler's Chambers before placing a knock on the door.
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