Chapter 8: Chapter-8: The Ulaspas Manor-2

A.N-->First of all i would like to apologise for my absence. My grandmother passed away recently because of which i was not able to concentrate on writing. Now after saying my final good byes, i am finally back.

Secondly, HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! 

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It was very hard to make out the face of the silhouette standing just a few feet away from Adui, he was not afraid of the silhouette after all he is a Rank-4 Mage, but he couldn't help but be wary of the situation. Meeting a hooded figure in the middle of a forest is never a good thing, especially when he was carrying some valuable items with him.

“Who are you!” he shouted, with an authoritative voice. He didn't want to show any sign of fear to the figure. The silhouette didn't move a muscle and its unwavering glowing red eyes stayed glued to him.

“If you fear your life, then reveal yourself!” he shouted once again. The figure moved and slowly started to walk towards him.

Under the light of his torch, he was finally able to see the face of the figure, it was the most beautiful woman that he had ever laid his eyes on. She had snow-white hair, a cute small nose, supple lips, and menacing yet gentle scarlet red eyes. The most distinguishing feature about the woman was her ears, they were pointed from the end.

“Here I am,” she spoke in a soft erogenous voice. “Now what will you do to me?” Her pale skin and red eyes were clear indicators that she was a member of the Ulaspas family. And he just now threatened her.

He then lowered his head in guilt. “Ah… Um… I… I am sorry. I’m sorry milady. I didn't recognize you in the dark.” The woman’s widened as he called her Milady. “You know me?”

“If I am not wrong, then you must be a member of the Ulaspas Family. I recognized you because of your red eyes, they are very similar to the members of the family that I have met so far.”

“OH… You are correct. I am Gloria Ulaspas. And you must be the cripple I have heard so much about. ”

“Yes milady. Adui Hampshire at your service. And I sincerely apologize for my behavior earlier.” Gloria snickered. “Don't worry about it.” 

 He raised his head as he felt that she went past him. After turning around he saw that she came to a stop above the Rose flower tiles, after kneeling down she started inspecting the intricate design of the flower.

“Is that the infamous Rose milady?” She turned towards him, surprised that he recognized the flower. “How did you know that this is the Rose?”

“When I came to Huston, I contacted a friend. He is a small clerk in the Royal Library. He found a book that told the history of the Ulaspas family. And based on history I took a guess that this must be the Rose, the insignia of your family.”

“You are indeed correct. This indeed is Rose.” Gloria didn't show it on her face, but she was now suspicious of his motives, so she calmly got up.

“Well, it looks beautiful.”

“It does.” She then started walking towards him looking him straight in the eye as if staring at his soul. “Now that we both have introduced ourselves, I think it is time to address the elephant in the room.”

Adui raised his brow in confusion. “Pardon?” she then a little bit closer to him. “What are you doing here Adui?”

“Oh, that! Well… I came here to check out the land. I wanted to see for myself the land on which Mage’s tower would be standing in the future.” Her emotionless face made it harder for him to recognize whether he was in trouble or not. 

“Is that so? So you’re telling me that you came to this basin which is infested with wildlife of every shape and kind, just to look around?” She tilted her head sideways and with an annoyed look on her face, she asked. “Do you take me for a fool mortal?”

“No… I didn't mean to offend you milady. I will… go.. go back.” He stuttered while taking a step or two back. 

“It is not the trespassing that offends me, Adui. It is your lying. I hate liars and cheaters.” She then came closer to his face and asked him again with a menacing voice. “I will ask you again, why are you here?”

Adui’s back was up against the wall. He didn't what to do. If I say that I came here for inheritance then she would straight away kill me, after all, I would agree that I came here to steal from her family. Oh… Fuck… Think Adui. Think… He then gulped some saliva and stared back into her red eyes.

He needed a solution, but couldn't up with anything. Also, he couldn't overlook the fact that she had correctly caught two of his lies, there was a possibility that he could have some sort of power to recognize lies. 

In the end, he decided that maybe he should not lie, and try a different approach. “To be honest, I came here to see whether I could find any treasure left behind Ulaspas in these ruins.” A smile grew on her face. “So you agree that you came here to steal from my family?”

“It would not be stealing. After all, I bought this land under my name. So technically I am not trespassing.”

“This land is under your name?”

“Yes, Lord Kaisel mentioned that he didn't want anyone to know about his involvement. So I figured that I should buy the land under my name and then transfer the deed to his name later.” She then stopped smiling. She then went to one of the broken walls of ruins and sat down there.

“Impressive work by the way… We didn't think that someone would be able to pull that off, especially considering when we were dealing with those two stubborn nobles.”

“I cannot take credit for that. Lord Kaisel provided me with a lot of mana stones. Anyone would agree to sell this land if provided with strong motivation and good compensation.”

“Don't be so modest. Not only you knew exactly how to handle those Barons, but you also tied them both around your finger. I read the letter that you sent Kaisel, you were able to complete the deal with only 600 joules of mana stones. That is impressive.”

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“Well thank you for the praise milady.” Slowly she got up and started unbuttoning her robes. Now standing before him in a tight leather vest and pants, she passed him a smile. “Adui, let me tell you something very interesting. You see when we received your letter, the people from my family were very impressed and especially Kaisel. So he had planned to give a good reward for your deed. Do you think you deserve a reward?” she then came and stood before him.

“Um…” He didn't know what to say. While she maintained gazing into his eyes as if she was looking at his soul. “I don't know, milady.”

“I think you deserved a reward for your work.” She said in a plain voice. “But then you tried to bare your filthy paws in what belongs to our family.”

Before he could analyze the meaning of her words, Adui felt a strong force that threw him backward, and his torch/walking stick extinguished and fell somewhere. His head had started spinning, now lying in the dark, it took him some time to analyze what happened to him, after he was done, he knew that he was fucked.

“Get up mongrel. I am not done with you.” He immediately took out his walking stick from his pouch and tried getting up, the sudden pain in his feet made him realize that he had sprained his ankle. He understood that he needed to apologize or otherwise he might not be able to leave this place alive. 

On his knees, he looked towards the red glowing eyes, the only thing that he could clearly see in the darkness, and started apologizing. “Milady please forgive me. I made a grave mistake. I will never make such a mistake again.” It was then a ring of fire that appeared above his head.  Like the sun, that ring illuminated the area around them.

“Too late, boy. You have already made a mistake. Now you have to pay the price.” She said with a very creepy sadistic smile on her face, which send chills down his spine. I need to get away from this bitch, he thought.

 “Please forgive me milady. I… Something like this won't happen again, I swear.” Gloria simply chuckled hearing his apology. “ I believe you boy. I really do. But mistakes like this cannot be forgiven without proper punishment. Otherwise, dogs like you forget their place. And as a benevolent master, I have a duty to remind you where you stand in this world.”

Fear gripped his heart, the sadistic smile on Gloria’s face gave him a pretty good idea of what is going to happen to him, and the worst part he cannot do anything to stop it. He didn't know the extent of her power, he could not sense it, but there was no denying the fact that she was very stronger than him.

Gloria then gracefully raised her hand and conjured a fist size blue color ball in her hands. “This mana ball would explode after some time after I let it go. As a good dog, your job is to survive till it explodes. If you can, then I will spare your life. If not, then you will die here tonight, Adui Hampshire” she took a deep breath while staring straight at him. “Now survive.”

Gloria then let go of the ball in the air, waived her hands a neat folded black color leather whip appeared in her hands. With a flick of her hands, she unfolded the whip. She then raised her hands and flicked her hands.

CRACK

The whip struck his back opening a long wound. He screamed in pain, while she smiled sadistically as she saw him cry. The whip got embedded in his flesh, and when Gloria pulled it back, the whip tore through his flesh, making the wound bad deeper than before.

The excruciating pain made Adui lose all sense of his surroundings. He didn't see Gloria walking up to him, her creepy laugh was not registered in his ears, he only saw her standing beside him when he felt some liquid falling on his wound. Like adding dry wood to a fire, the liquid tripled the amount of pain. 

It was then he found himself in a state where he could not even scream properly, his whole body started convulsing and he started shaking, he tried rubbing his back on the ground in the hope to ease the pain, but alas nothing happened. It was then he felt someone in her gentle hands grabbing his hair.

Gloria grabbed a handful of his hair and pulled him up in the air, he tried to struggle but with the poison combined with the pain, he could hardly control his body.

“Look at you, so pitiful, so much in pain.” She laughed sadistically. “Let's play some more.”

She then raised her other hand and punched him in the face. Like a kite, Adui went flying back and crashed into a nearby tree. Handful of hair was torn apart from his head as he was thrown and some blood was dripping from the end its end. Gloria licked some blood and then threw them away. She then conjured her whip again. 

 Laughing manically, Gloria then started whipping and tearing flesh out of Adui's body. He could only sob silently as he felt the blows of the whips, he wanted to scream but no noise came out of his mouth. The only silver lining of this situation was that he knew that he would soon die, and then he would finally be at peace. And finally, after some time he felt consciousness slipping away to the afterlife…

While kneeling beside his wounded body, Gloria conjured a pinky finger-sized red color glowing crystal. With the crystal’s power, she started healing him, his pain started decreasing and he started getting hold of himself. But as soon as he was healed, she then started her torture session all over again.

He didn't how much time had passed, how many times he was healed or how much blood he had lost. The only thing that he did know was he was tired. He wanted to close his eyes and pass the great beyond, he wanted to embrace the light of great Tibba and finally be at peace. But alas, that woman kept on healing him over and over again with her red crystal.

Finally, when he thought that he was finally at peace, he woke up with a splash of cold water. He looked around and saw his torturer kneeling in front of him, looking at him with a slight smile. Seeing his smile his whole body started shaking, and fear gripped his mind.

He closed his eyes and covered his head with his hands, he anticipated an attack from his torturer, but the attack never came. “Look at me dog!” he heard. But he didn't budge. He knew that the instant he would look at her, she would start hitting him again, and he couldn't just take it anymore.

He then felt her grabbing his hands and forcefully moving them away, she then grabbed his head and made him look up. “Look.” She then forced him to look where he was lying.

In front of him was a huge open space, scary thing about the place was that it was full of tombstones, countless stones embedded in the ground with dead bodies thousands of years old buried under them.

“This graveyard was used by our family to grow Roses. All the Roses in the valley have died as the times passed by, and now only these graves are left.” Gloria then got up and walked a few steps toward the graveyard.

“The next time you have thought about pulling something like this, remember this graveyard. These people are lucky that died and were buried here, in a way my ancestors showed them mercy. But I won't.” She then turned around and looked at him.

“Go back to Laverdale, Kaisel has some work for you. ” She then came closer to him and kneeled in front of him again, she grabbed his chin and pulled his face closer to hers, and before he knows it, she planted a kiss on his lips.

“We will meet again, my dog.” She then turned around and vanished from there. He, on the other hand, closed his eyes and fell unconscious. 

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