328 Sudden visi (1/2)
With how confident I was while showing my stance on the matter, this puny lord couldn't help but cave in. While I wasn't as dumb to believe that he fully surrendered and wasn't going to try any underhanded tricks on me, it was good progress for the first step of my plan!
”You summed it up nicely. All the people you recently subjugated, the method to contact the remaining resistance force if there are any, and the safe passage with all of them to the shore I will pick. In exchange, I will share my knowledge on how to create an external barrier that I was using to defend myself from your attacks. But before we settle the deal with a handshake, I would like to see the state of the people that we are talking about. After all, I can't say for sure that you managed to round them all up!”
Just like I said, I based my assumption that all of those people were in the Overlords power only on his own words and the fact that the camp I saw before was deserted. There was no telling whether those refugees didn't catch up with the men who withdrew from the fight I experienced myself and moved deeper into the forest!
If that was the case and I managed to get only a small percent of the total group, I would be trading gold of my knowledge for scraps of what I was supposed to get!
”This is a rational decision. I will get my men to give you a tour through the slave camp. Seeing how you stopped eating, I assume that you have filled your belly. From what I was told, you came to our city first thing in the morning, meaning you have to be really tired. It would be rude of me as the owner of the place to not offer you any rest.”
With those words, the overlord stood up and looked at his daughter.
”Elea, you will guide our guest to the sleeping chamber. Report back as soon as you make sure all his needs are tended to!”
Heh… This guy had to notice something in the girl's behaviour! Be it how she shrugged when I 'accidentally' touched her arm, or how she was all over me ever since I appeared in the dining courtyard. What I couldn't understand though, was how this guy ordered her to guide me inside, instead of ordering any maid or butler to do so!
”Y-yes, Father!”
For the first time since I arrived here, Elea referred to the overlord per Father instead of using 'Papa'. Was this the side effect of using my charm on her?
Well, its nothing that I should be worried about for now!
Since the girl already stood up, I grabbed the glass from the table, finished the drink in one go while disregarding how big of a waste it was and followed the girl inside the mansion.
As soon as we hid away from the sight of the overlord and his entourage, I kickstarted my charm once again, this time making sure to envelop Elea with the 'infected' air, no matter how much did she attempt to speed her movements up to get free from the influence of my spell.
By the time we reached the place, she was barely able to make a single step forward, with her face blushing to an unimaginable degree whenever her thighs brushed against each other.
Observing her silly reaction was really funny, especially with how much Overlord would hate to learn what kind of torture I subjected his daughter to. If not for the way in which those guests of his reacted when she was clinging to me back at the dining area, I would even suspect that she was, in fact, a seductress faking the appearance of the lord's daughter in order of stealing some secrets from me in… underhanded way!