Chapter 45: Magic Library (II) (1/2)

Supreme Monarch AnimeTagz 41790K 2022-07-23

*Knock... Knock... Knock...

Tyler's attention was jolted awake, his thoughts returned to normal as he stared at the door that lead to the hallway. For a second there he had thought the knock came from within the library and almost lost it. 'That would have been scary...' He wanted to ask the person that knocked to enter but when he realized the state of the room he quickly got up and walked to the door.

After resting for a while now he finally felt a lot better, his mental exhaustion had been alleviate by the thoughts of his sister and mother. Even though he knew that there was no longer any hope of returning back to Earth. He had investigated it several times in the past and had never found a way back, he had also died on Earth before coming here so his body was probably long gone.

Only heroes that were summoned here were generally able to return back to Earth. He shook the depressing thoughts off as he opened the door to see the aged demon, Albert standing there.

”My apologies for interrupting you my Lord, but the everyone's a little restless Right now.”

”They are?”

”Yes sir, as freemen, they have never sworn their loyalty to anyone before and had only lived by their own rules. Now that they have lost that title, they are quite unsure of what to do next.”

'That's why they shouldn't have done that.' He thought to himself while tilting his head slightly. ”Anxious huh... If they need something to keep them busy for now, they can try having a bonfire in the ward. There's nothing special I need from them so they should just relax for now.” He paused and thought for a while.

If he was successful in entering the library, he would spend as much time in there as possible untill he had gotten what he wanted or was forcefully kicked out again. Last time he spent more that 24 hour in there so if he was to base his assumptions off of that, then...

”I might be busy for a while so if for some reason they feel they can't relax, you can get them to do some stuffs around the castle, they can clean and maintain it for now while getting themselves familiar with the place, it has been a while since anyone's used it so it's a little dusty.”

”As you wish, we will get on it right away.”

”Huh, get on it? wait, I didn't say right now.... and he's walking away.” Albert had already walked quite a distance away before Tyler could even finish his sentence.

As Tyler watched him leave he sighed and shrugged, if Cleaning made them excited then he shouldn't stop them.

He turned around to return back to his seat when a sudden jolt of electricity shot through his brain. 'Huh...' He turned around puzzled as he tried his best to think of the reason why that happened. He felt like someone with malicious intent had just touched a part of his body. But no one was next to him right now.

Being cautious he activated magic vision but the results were still the same.

Tyler then walked out of the room into the hallway, he stared down the hall for a while but nothing changed. Giving up he decided to head back in, that's when he heard the sound of a door opening. He turned warily to look only to see Liz exiting the her room, she turned in his direction and saw him staring at her.

She then took slow steps as she headed for him. Tyler felt exhausted waiting for her but he felt like he shouldn't move or that would be rude. She finally arrived before him and before he could say anything she bowed deeply to him. Tyler was startled and wanted to say something but before anything could leave his mouth she beat him to the punch again.

”I want to offer my gratitude... Not only did you help us in the forest but you also went out of your way to help my friend. If... Sob... if... You hadn't done anything when my mind was in such a state i might not only have lost myself, I would have also lost my friend.”

Tyler listening to her sincere words of gratitude and could only focus on one thing. 'That state? Does that mean she remembers what happened in the forest... Perhaps she lacks control whenever she transforms. I supposed if that's the case then knocking them out was a good thing.'

”It's fine, no need to bow I was also interested in helping your friend as there is something i lack that both of you may be able to provide me with.” Liz slowly raised her head as she stared at Tyler a little hesitantly.

He knew this was risky. Laying his cards on the table was never without risks, but at the rate things were going, he had a bad feeling the wheels of fate was spinning, and not in his favour. Besides they were bound to figure him out sooner or later, it was best to control the situation now while he had the chance.

Having had some time to think he came up with various ideas as his mind went into overdrive, preparing for any scenario that might happen. As always his main objective was information but Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. Wisdom was also profitable to direct.

He looked at Liz with a calm expression and asked. ”How is your friend now?”

”She is fine, the healer said... Hm... I mean, Erin said she just need to rest for a full day or two to recover completely.”

”I see... Hmm that's good then, I guess I'll tell you what I need and you can fill her in when she wakes up.”

”...”

”Mmm... Well I'll just sum it up for now. Like I said before i have been asleep for a long time now and while I've been away things around here have changed greatly.”