Malevolent Warlock: Sin Of Eternity

76  Strength

"Don't move!!"

"Stay your hand!!"

"Drop your weapon"

Immediately, the guards of the kentow family surrounded Leon and Carlson. Leon had gone too far by killing the warlock, it was but a match, that's what they told themselves.

But deep down, they knew this was a death match.

"This is bad!! What are we going to do?" Carlson visibly panicked. But his hand was firmly gripped on his spear. He was battle hardened didn't mean that he couldn't feel fear.

From his observations, the kentow family had at least 3 peak level 1 mages and several middle stage level 1, they were unable to take them even if they tried.

"Uhhh I don't really have a plan to be honest..." Leon held on to his chin like he was deep in thought. Then all of a sudden, he had a bright idea.....

"Pridefulheart!!!!!" Leon shouted out loud like a crazy person. This made Carlson frown and looked over at Arian's figure.

She gently shook her head in embarrassment while watching this sight. Then in the next second, she gently floated into the air, causing Carlson's eyes to widen.

His eyes followed her from the ground all the way to the ceiling, where she floated in midair.

Seeing this shocked expression on Carlson face, the guards and other members of the kentow family followed his line of sight until.....

"That..."

"This can't be"

"I'm seeing things, right?"

They couldn't believe it, this was flight. How in heaven's name did Peri get a level 3 mage on her side?

They thought with their purchase of a level 2 warlock they could win against Peri, but reality showed otherwise, now they were seeing that they had no chance at all from the get go.

A level 3 mage. This was a disaster for them.

"Storm Area: Crackling lightening"

Arian pointed her hand outwards and all of a sudden, several bolts of lightening simultaneously struck out from beneath her and barreled towards the guard

—ziipppp

—crrrrrr

Each bolt carried enough energy that they were all easily shocked to unconsciousness. In but a few seconds, Arian had knocked out all of the kentow family's armed personnel.

"Hehe," Leon looked over at Peri and gave her a thumbs up. This mission was as good as done. In fact, he had solved a larger problem for her, the problem of the schemes of the kentow family. The presence of a level 3 mage completely dashed their hopes of ever getting back at Peri.

It was a done deal.

A few hours later, Peri came back from her late husband's grave with a gigantic suitcase filled with memories. If it were before, the kentow family would not let her leave with any of her husband's belongings. However now they had no choice.

They could only watch on the side lines as she took what she wanted.

"It's time to go" Peri said to Leon and the rest and almost immediately, they set off from the kentow mansion.

"Shit!! How did this happen?." The kentow family head threw a tantrum upon seeing Peri's carriage leave the compound. He really thought he had her this time, but she seemed to be getting stronger with every passing minute.

"Do I really need to agree to those term" he mused while looking back at the silhouette of Larth at the steps to the main hall.

He also had his pressures, Larth was planing to take the family head seat from his hands and several others were on his side. It seemed like they were on the same side, but they definitely weren't.

"Wake the old butler up" clenching his fists, the head of then kentow family commanded the guard to his side.

He had no other options now….he had to do it that way.

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A few hours later,

Peri's carriage made its way into the Eastern city market, where it caused its usual commotion. But they didn't wait to absorb the atmosphere, they made their way straight to Peri's office.

"That was fun" Leon laughed loudly while playing with a solid gold coin in his hand. Beside him was a small treasure chest filled to the brim with glistening gold coins.

He had been paid in full

"Yes it was, but then please consider what I told you before" Peri urged Leon. She wanted him to become her head guard, and to that effect she had promised him the heavens and the earth.

But Leon didn't seem too interested.

"Hehe, I'm afraid the next time you see me, my rates will be much higher. However, Carlson should still be open for work, right?" Leon said while looking at Carlson.

If she wanted to poach anyone, it would be easier to poach Carlson. He was not only needed the cash, he also needed to leave his usual route to avoid his fiancée.

"Oh?" Peri looked over at Carlson's face with some surprise. The Aquaway boy required a job? What kind of logic was that? Clearly, she didn't know as much as he thought she knew about the Aquaway family.

It wouldn't hurt to hire him. He seemed competent.

"Anyway, we will be heading out. You can contact me through the faceless mercenary company, or I'll contact you myself" Leon said before standing up to leave.

Placing Carlson there was also a way of maintaining contact with Peri. Whenever he required her or her resources, he would go through Carlson.

"Where to next?" Arian asked Leon.

" We are going shopping." with a wide grin on his face, Leon announced. It was time for him to attempt to breakthrough.

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Outside of duan city in a subterranean cave.

A few men with faceless masks could be seen performing a ritual before a massive pool in the middle of the cave.

They all had traditional clothing and the sort. Some with feathers sticking out and some with animal skin around their waists.

"Hu" "hu"

As the leader performed the ritual, the men around danced flamboyantly, seemingly worshiping whatever was inside the pool.

"The old one brings us power, the old one brings us strength and most of all, he keeps us steady. A hundred faces a hundred natures.....but essentially, we are one" the leader of the ritual chanted….

About 30 minutes later.

"We can't have the enforcing event with no hiccups. Just make sure not to go more than a 500 meters down." The leader of the ritual urged a number of men, among which was Embers father, Half-moon and several others.

"Yes leader!!" They all echoed in unison.

"Good" the leader nodded in approval then proceeded to walk off.

Meanwhile, deep inside the pool, the statue of a humanoid sat at the bottom of the pool. This statue looked entirely human except for its non-existent face.

Yes, it was faceless.

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Back at Duan city.

Leon And Arian could be seen walking down a random alleyway. They didn't have Ember with them right now. The Mission was over and this was a personal matter, so they didn't take her along.

"Is that you?" Leon's voice sounded in the alleyway, startling a dodgy youth not too far away.

"Ahhh!!" The youth was shocked as he jumped back from the sudden scare. But when he looked at where the voice had come from, he was elated.

"Boss!!!" The dodgy youth ran towards Leon hand, gave him a big fat hug.

"Ahhh" Leon couldn't help but feel strange. He didn't see a need for affection, this was just plain out weird. But then he remembered that Gunta was but a kid.

That's right, the dodgy youth was Gunta.

"Did you find it?" Leon asked gunta.

"Yes, yes, it's right inside this building." Gunta said hurriedly.

Leon had tasked him with several things. He was to gain information on where the Warlocks in the city were based, the rumors being spread in the warlock community, and so many more. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

But for today what Leon wanted from his was the location of an auction house where he could get the best materials with life-energy.

Life energy herbs and materials have been banned from being sold on the streets for a while now. The city administration and royalty didn't want warlocks becoming stronger. Unfortunately, this was what Leon required the most.

To become stronger.

To that effect, he had to seek out an illegal auction house.

"Good, then let's go inside" Leon smiled and walked into the back door of the auction house.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to valerian auction House. We bring you the most valuable items' money can buy. An immortal sword had shown up here before. A death magic golem was sold here before. Even a petal of the Purple Heart eternal flower once rared its head here."

"If you need it, we got it and if we don't have it we will find it, for a price of course"

Inside the "auction house" were several booths with auctioneers on the inside auctioning goods.

One only needed to take a ticket to join them.