33 Fire (1/2)

Vrek snorted in disdain at Lurks demand to take that woman as a sow.

”Xarns personal sows are not on the table unless he says so. If you had not been a shaman. I would squash you right here.”

Lurk sighed inwardly, he had hoped he could secure Emily from further harm away from Xarn. Also to talk with her hoping she knew more about Mercia and the world in general. Lurk gave a nod showing he understood towards Vrek.

Vrek grinned because he knew that Xarn did have exceptions for access to which women could be used by others. Shamans especially would be allowed to pick women that had magical powers, since Xarn had said specifically to allow such bonds if Xarn himself was not expected to return within a specific period. But as far as this woman who had no magical power, but only physical powers.

”Now let's check the new potentials for Xarn.”

Vrek motioned over towards a blocked entryway, a ramshackle door was build covering a hole in the wall. Undoing the locks and removing pins that held it in place. Women cries could be heard from within that grew more agitated as the door was unlocked.

When the door was opened fully, Vrek was suddenly blasted by a ball of flame that hit him in the chest, causing him to stumble back slightly. He struggled to put the fire out for a moment. Lurk quickly took cover to the side of the door, peeking inside. He saw several women sitting huddled up together weakly. One young woman with red fiery hair and slightly pointed ears had moved a bit away to be seated in front of the doorway with a clear view of it, she was struggling to keep her hand lifted and looked incredibly stressed doing just this little.

In her hand was a glowing red ball, mana being charged into it. Ready to lob a new ball out, which she was about to do when Lurk peeked inside. But Lurk quickly dodge back out of sight as the ball blasted against the door frame that caught fire.

Vrek had gotten rid of the flame on his chest, he looked more annoyed and angry than wounded. Clearly, this fireball was not enough to cause him any major distress. He took his crystal club off his belt and began to walk towards the entryway snarling out as he did.

”Grrr... Stupid Mana Blockers did no work?!”

”Wait?.. did you make sure she had no mana, to begin with?”

Lurk questioned Vrek making him stop in his tracks, Vrek was puzzled, he did not think that was how they were used. He had been given some trinkets to use on the appropriate women he was holding at specific times to make sure the spells were renewed. But the trinkets only blocked the target from receiving mana, if they still had mana in their body to cast it would not matter.

”Urgh... Xarn never told that was necessary..”

Vrek snarled, he had taken some of the extra trinkets he knew he could spare, to go out and capture more women, hoping some could use magic. He never expected that the trinkets did anything but stop spell casting. But instead were focused on just mana collection. Xarn would deliver most of these women with the spell already applied. Clearly, he must do other things to drain them of mana.

”Let me handle her, you can only kill her.”

Lurk said, as his hand began being wrapped in wind. He focused his senses inside the room, he could feel exactly where the next ball of fire was held in her hand without looking due to his trait [Heat Sense] that he inherited from Aurk. He unleashed his spell [Wind shield] right on the hand, he felt the Heat become severely unstable as he hoped would happen. He leaped forward yelling out.

[Flash Light!]

The completely dark cave was suddenly flashed with a bright light, Vrek leaped back in surprise covering his eyes, he stumbled back once more in shock. The girl inside was also briefly shocked but nowhere near as bad as a goblin would be. He jumped inside to the side of the girl knocking her over while grabbing her arm she was holding up. His body sitting down on her holding her other arm in check. He was sprawled onto of her, his face near her elegant looking face, that despite her dirty circumstances was looking cute, when he noticed her ears up close and proper.

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[Progenitor Access!]

Race : Half-Elf (Human 50% / Wood Elf 50%)

Name: Resti Firewarden

Sex: Female

Age: 19 years

Status: Unknown

Father: Unknown

Mother: Unknown

Stats: -Unable to Open-

Traits/Abilities: -Unable to Open-

- Effects -

[Mana Locked]

[Paralyses]

[Progenitor Access : No access to abilities or traits!]

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(”A half-elf!, Maybe she could help me instead.. ”)

{”Do not struggle! He will kill you if you do! Pretend that you are out of mana!”}

Lurk hissed it quietly at the girl in Elvish, hoping that maybe she had learned the language. Her eyes looked shocked, she was unable to resist anymore her body could not move. She could hear a goblin outside shouting in anger and confusion. Looking into the eyes of this goblin angrily she would not give these horrid goblins an inch, they killed her mother and looted her village, but then...

{”.. Please..”}

The goblin just did something very odd, it asked with a begging look, its eyes filled with concern and also a hint of desperation. Of course, the main reason Lurk was acting a little desperate was he was sprawled onto of her body squeezing against her ample bosom, he was worried that his ravenous trait would begin flaring up and the girl would get to feel something increasingly hard between them.

She nodded giving in, a tear running down her face. She had no hopes really when she launched her fireball. She would not be able to escape and she had readied herself to die, she just wanted to take some of the goblins with her. It was only now her body had begun to show a little bit of ability to move since the poison was weakening.

Lurk stood up, letting the girl go. She did not suddenly fling a fireball at him. So Lurk hoped she understood he wanted to help. Maybe she really was out of mana, he did not know of a way to see without the progenitor menu. Which did not have access to her stats!

”Its safe now, she has been drained of magic.”

Lurk called out to Vrek who was angrily complaining about the sudden light burst, He came inside still holding his club. He moved over towards the girl and swung a hand giving her face a vicious slap. He angrily looked to Lurk and asked.

”Cursed sow... Are you sure she is drained?”

”Not completely no... But her eyes do look dimmer than before..”

Vrek snarled tightening his grip on his club. Lurk could tell he was hesitating about if he should kill this troublesome girl. Lurk did not know but Vrek was not even more worried about Xarns return. He had used the trinkets to capture a magic user and brought it home to a nest, but the trinkets were not supposed to be used in this fashion.

”Had Xarn put a claim on this one then?”

Lurk asked Vrek as he sat down examining the woman with an interest and a grin as he tried to look sinister and lusty.