Adam remained silent for a long while. “You know, you’re probably the noble whose pissed me off the least. From what I know, this nd is cursed. I hate this pce, but I uand that everyone else here doesn’t have as many options as me. Sometimes, even though my mouth almost gets me killed, I am very gd that I’ve made my home where I’ve made my home.”

  ‘Why is he being so vague?’ Matteas thought, narrowing his eyes at the Half Elf, who called one of his panions his brother.

  “This is what yoing to do. Yoing to make my panions into knights, without all the kneeling nonsense. I don’t care that’s not how it’s done, yoing to be the king, and you o act like one. Yoing to be put into a position of power, so you o stand upright, and that also means you o break whatever shackles other people have decided to put on people from the past.” Adam raised his brows towards Matteas, who had almost spoken up about de.

  “We’re going to help you quer the nd, and yoing to elevate us into barons, and then we’re going to legitimize you as a t. We’re going to keep doing that until you’re a king, and while we’re doing that, I’ll o figure out a way how to give you your keys to power so you don’t lose it all once we’re gone.” Adam pced his hands together, trying to think about everything a future king would need. ‘The biggest threats to his regime are me and the others, so he might end up stabbing us in the back. We might o figure out another way of keeping him in check.’

  “If you are able to assist me, you will be pensated fairly,” the Baron stated, w if he could pull the versation away from knighting them and giving them more power.

  Adam narrowed his eyes at the Baron. “We want half the treasure.”

  “Half the treasure?” Matteas asked.

  “We’re going to get nd as we bee nobles, but we don’t itles or nd, so we’ll return the nd back to you for you to use as you see fit, but if I’m going to make you a king, then I better get enough money for being a damn kingmaker. Gems, treasure, so on and so on, that’s what we want. You’ll bee a king, you’ll get your nd to spread among your vassals, a to go home with all kinds of treasure. A fair trade.”

  “A fair trade?”

  “You bee a king, we get the mohere is no one else in this nd that would want to make someone else a king. We don’t care for your titles, as you’ve seen, so you don’t have to worry about us stabbing you in the back, as long as you don’t mess with our .”

  Baron Matteas wasn’t sure if he should believe Adam, but of all the people in the world, wasn’t Adam the craziest person he had met? Every word which left his lips were unbelievable, but he said such crazy things as though they were pletely normal.

  ‘Should I use my alchemy and enting to help him out?’ Adam thought. ‘If I reveal a buny secrets, he might want to keep me, but we use it for leverage too.’

  Matteas still wasn’t sure about the young man. Moments ago, he was threatening the Baron, and then the boy offered to make him a king? ‘Is this how the youth are these days?’

  “Fate is truly a harsh mistress,” Adam said. “If I could use some of my other abilities, then I’d be able to help you out. As, I don’t have the tools required.”

  “Truly, a most harsh mistress,” Matteas agreed, frowning slightly. “My family once owned a shrine which could bless ons with divine magic, but we have long lost such abilities. Three of my aors knew how to utilize it, but they died, all within a week of one another, and thus the knowledge was forever lost.”

  “Excuse me?” Adam asked, raising his brow.

  “My aors, they onew how to bless ons using a shrine and the moon,” the Baron stated, sighing once more. “A hundred years ago, a short while before I was born, those who knew how to use the shrine all passed away rapidly. I was gifted Wolffang, as was my right as Baron Moonglow, but from my geion onwards, we have lost the ability to create magical ons to push away the darkness.”

  “Hmm.” ‘How much XP to use the shrio ent?’

  [As long as the ditions are met, you are able to ent using the shrine.]

  ‘You’re being awfully nice, Bell. Do you feel that guilty about taking my ability to create formus?’ Adam smirked to himself. ‘ I unlock it for him the same way I unlocked it for Churot?’

  [Yes.]

  Adam stared at the Baron, still smiling slightly. ‘So I unlock his ability to ent? How much XP?’

  [1000.]

  ‘Damn! That’s so cheap!’

  The others could see the way Adam’s face twitched and moved, as though he were having a versation with himself. Jurot crossed his arms and waited for Adam to be doh his versation with Bell.

  ‘So 1000 XP and he ent everything?’

  [Yes.]

  ‘Does he o roll for it?’

  [Yes.]

  ‘What about passive enting?’

  [1000.]

  ‘What if I wanted him to ent only a few things? +1, +2, and passive?’

  [3000.]

  ‘So a thousand for each?’

  [Yes.]

  ‘What if I unloe things, will they be able to unlock other things?’

  [If they wish to ent in ways outside of what you have grahem, they must learn how to do so separately.]

  ‘I see…’ Adam closed his eyes and crossed his arms, tapping his bicep gently, falling deep in thought once more. ‘Hmmm. What should I do?’

  “Is he alright?” Matteas asked.

  “He might be thinking about how difficult it is to let you live now that you’ve offended him,” Jaygak replied, before chug to herself.

  “…”

  “It seems Fate may not be a harsh mistress after all,” Adam said, slowly opening his eyes as he caught the Baron’s eyes. “We might be able to assist you.”

  “What do you mean?”

  “What I mean is… I quite like the moon?” Adam gnced aside to Great Moon and then to Wolffang, w what it’s abilities were. “Your sword, is it magical?”

  “It is.”

  “Do you know what it does?”

  “Somewhat.”

  “Do you have a pearl I borrow?” Adam asked.

  “A pearl?” Matteas asked, before uanding what Adam might he pearl for. “You wish to uand more about my bde?”

  “Yeah.”

  “…”

  “You wao risk my life for you in making you a king, and you ’t do this much?” Adam asked, raising his brow. “sidering the darkness which we vanquished, I feel like we’ve earned quite a bit of good will from the nd, and you should uand just how powerful that probably makes us.”

  “Very well.” Matteas undid the bde at his side and ha to Adam. “You may study it tonight.”

  “I’ll do it right now,” Adam said, eyeing up the on. It was made of almost pure silver, and had a weight to match, almost twice as heavy as most bde its size. “I he pearl.”

  The Baron motioned a hand to one of his servants, who swiftly brought the pearl, o within a neckce. Adam held it and the bde, meditating with it, clutg the pearl with his other hand.

  Spell: Identify

  WolffangYou gain a +1 bonus to attad damage rolls made with this on.When fighting against lythropes, gain an additional +1 bonus to attad damage rolls made with this on.While wielding this on you may will its greater magic to activate once per day causing Wolffang to glow for one minute. Any lythrope within the glow will suffer three levels of exhaustion.

  Adam whistled. “It’s pretty good.” Adam hahe bde back to the Baron. “As you know, good against lythropes and such. You will it to glow too, and it’ll… poison them as long as they stay within its glow.”

  “How I will it?”

  “You just think about it glowing I guess?” Adam replied, shrugging his shoulders. “It sts a minute and you only do that once per day.”

  ‘Is he truly not a Night Lord?’ Matteas thought. ‘Only some vor know how to use minics, and though the spell is sidered minics, he seems to be able to wield greater magics…’

  “Why don’t you take me to this shrine and I’ll make you a nicer on?”

  “What?” Matteas blinked.

  Adam could see his Iyrmen panions gnce his way, and the look within their eyes. “What? If we’re going to make him a king, I might as well make sure he doesn’t die.”

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