103 Divination (2/2)
Both Heinz and Zatiel were disappointed when they hear this, luckily for them, Nimir hasn't finished talking yet.
”But during the decades of research I was able to obtain a lot of information about the man in the fog, and I am sure that his name is Frederick Teiner.”
That name did not mean anything to Zatiel, but it was different with Heinz, as he frowned when he hears it.
”Brother, how sure are you that what he says is true.”
Seeing Heinz's expression, Zatiel knew that the identity of the man named Frederick was not simple.
”Since it is something Nimir was able to deduce of decades of research, I can't say for sure that he did not make a mistake but what he just say to us now, is what he believes it is true. By your expression, I take it that you know him.”
”Ahhh, yes I know him. Frederick Teiner is the number two man of Salazar Rasputin, a Prince of the Empire like me,” Heinz could not help but sigh when he spoke those words.
His original plan was to find out the person behind Nimir, and then go and kill him. This was an extremely direct way of doing things but it is what the cultivator was going to do, even if that means fighting more than one Soul Forging existence at once.
Unforutunalldy, Salazar Rasputin wasn't someone that Heinz could just go and kill.
”Are you related to him?” Zatiel notices that troubled expression on Heinz face and knew that he will find extremely difficult to attack this person.
”No really, our royal lines are different.”
Not because they shared the title of Prince of the Empire meant that Salazar and Heinz were related by blood.
The title of Prince was given to any person that has reached Rank 4 and whose direct family had generated a Being of Laws.
”Although we are both at Rank 4, I am sure I could kill him if I can fight against him without obstruction, and do not care for the damage done to my body. What makes it difficult to handle him, is his identity as an Origin Runemaster.”
When Zatiel hear that, he understood that this situation was becoming more and more complicated.
An Origin Runemaster was someone that could inscribe Rank 4 runes, and although they were only one level above Rank 3 runes, the difference was immense and they are able to grant abilities that even Rank 5 and 6 life form could find useful.
The Aeternum Empire has hundreds of billions of people living in their domains, with a military force of several thousand Soul Forging existences, but the number of Origin Runemasters does not reach the three digits.
This was a perfect statement of how difficult becoming an Origin Runemaster was and the importance of Salazar to the empire and how deep his connections could be.
But Zatiel was sure that he was not the one giving Nimir his commands. The Sage was someone that lived in anonymity and whose abilities gives the illusion that he could see the future.
”Heinz, did Salazar was once only an insignificant person, and then one day started to obtain one lucky encounter after the another, and display amazing talent out of nowhere?”
When Heinz hear that, he was surprised and with an inquisitive expression he answered.
”There is indeed a rumor about it, that he was someone without any sort of talent during his youth. But that was hundreds of years in the past, how did you know?”
After hearing Heinz's statement, Zatiel becomes sure of what sort of enemy they were facing but it doesn't bring him any happiness and he could feel a headache approaching.
”Whether Salazar was involved in the plan for killing me, is something we do not know. Our true enemy is the individual known as the Sage, and if I am correct, he is the type of person that likes to hide in the darkness and pull the strings of their puppets to see them dance. He is someone that has mastered the art of divination, a user of the Law of Fate.”