318 Defector 2 (1/2)

Chapter 318: Defector 2

After a series of finger tapping, white sweat started forming on Garen’s forehead. He took two steps backward as his red jaded palms faded away.

The woman was covered in a layer of transparent light upon completion of her treatment. The layer of light flashed as it completely covered every part of the woman.

A cool and sharp chill suddenly filled up the whole room.

”She’s indeed a totem user.” Garen smirked as he activated his white totem light to resist against the strong energy fluctuation.

The woman’s eyelids twitched before she opened her eyes and her slightly slanted mouth.

”Who… am I…” Her bloodshot, grainy eyes were filled with confusion.

”You’re Reylan.” Garen immediately walked to her side and gently said, ”You’re Reylan Lombard, the biological sister of Garen Lombard, which is I.”

”My name is Reylan?... Garen Lombard’s biological sister…” The woman unconsciously repeated Garen’s sentence.

”We were separated since young due to the fire.” Garen’s voice was softer at this point.

”We were separated since young due to the fire…” The woman repeated Garen’s sentence word by word as her gaze started to clear up.

With Garen’s guidance, he spun a flawless lie within her mind. Although he knew that she had lost her memories due to the severe injury of her brain, her strength was obviously incredible judging from her totem light. She must not be an ordinary character, considering that she was able to escape from the Obscuro Society.

As to whether if this mislead would succeed or not, Garen had no idea. He was just testing it out and there would be no loss for him anyway.

After spending about half an hour on her, Garen finally let the woman to fall asleep.

He then left the room to get some fresh air as he had a hard time breathing inside the smelly room.

He’d only crafted the story of her oldest memories and had not tampered with the the rest of her memories. He told her that he’d found her outside of his house and he didn’t know what had happened to her during the years they were separated.

”Looks like I’ll need to spend some time to obtain something useful from her.”

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Garen then accompanied this girl and treated her as Reylan Lombard, in which she believed that she was Reylan Lombard.

Since her brain was partly damaged, most of her memories were already jumbled. She’d already accepted what Garen told her and acted as if she was his younger sister.

Garen took care of her everyday life by himself. This assured her of her memories, as if not for a biological relative, who else would still be willing to take care of a smelly ‘burnt corpse’?

Reylan started to open up to Garen. Her figure had been completely disfigured so no one actually knew how she looked like in the past.

One side of her lips had been burnt, resulting in her mouth slanting to the right. Saliva would drip out of her mouth whenever she tried to speak, and food would come out as she tried to eat. As her skin recovered, it was marred with scars from the blisters and the wrinkled skin that was left behind by the burns made her look eighty to ninety years old.

Garen then started to probe for some information, after Reylan had opened up to him.

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More than ten days later.

Reylan sat on the huge bed inside the very clean room, silently gazing at Garen who was reading a book. The cool air entered the room through a small gap of the window and mixed with the faint odour of a corpse.

The golden sunlight shone on Garen’s right hand, reflecting a smooth and white luster.

Reylan was envious of him.

”What’s wrong?” Garen placed down the notebook in his hand. It was the book he had found from searching the golden hair totem user’s body and it contained information of the primitive totem’s nurturing method. It was an isolated tradition and even though there was little information about it, it was still worth the reference.

”Nothing. Brother, are you looking at the notes on how to nurture a primitive totem?” Reylan asked softly. Her voice had recovered a lot and was no longer leaking. Her voice was coarse but it sounded like a woman of not more than thirty years old.

”Yeah. I obtained it from the enemy and I’m just reading it casually.” Garen replied with a smile. ”Do you have anything you want to talk about?”

Reylan thought for a while as she frowned.

”My brain’s damage is too severe. Although I don’t remember everything, I still can recall some stuff. Compared to the primitive totem, the Creature Totem is much more stronger. So, why is brother not focusing on nurturing the Silver Totem?”

Surprised, Garen shook his head and replied: ”There are no other choice. A Crystal Derivator is needed to control the Silver Totems. Based on this assumption, doesn’t that mean that I will forever be controlled by someone else?”

”A Crystal Derivator?” Reylan looked confused. ”That sounds familiar…”