Chapter 299

Chapter 299.

Andy arrived at the door of the Duke’s study with anxiety, the servant standing at the door saw the arrival of the young mage and signaled him to wait a little bit, turning around and entering the study.

The servant quickly came out and bowed slightly to Andy, “Please, Lord Duke is waiting for you inside.”

Andy gulped, straightened his collar, pushed open the half-covered door of the room and entered the Duke’s study, with a click, the door was closed by the servant outside.

A feeling of bewilderment and disorientation suddenly spread all over his body, Andy then reacted to the fact that the inside of the room was dark.

Thick curtains blocked the windows, from the cracks squeezed out a trace of light, it is with such a weak light, Andy vaguely felt that there is a person sitting next to the desk.

“Ken …… Duke of Kent?”

Andy cautiously asked out loud.

“Andy …… my young friend ……”

The seated man spoke, and for some reason, Andy felt that he was a “living thing” only now.

The owner of the voice was Maltz Kent Ferdinand, the new generation of dukes of the Northwest Bay of the Kingdom of Aldo, or in the words of his enemies – the usurper.

Unlike in public, the Duke’s voice was very low, like the whispering of some beast, and it sent a chill down the spine.

“Sit down ……”

Andy forced himself to endure the intense discomfort both physically and mentally, and groped for a nearby chair to sit down.

“Thank you, Your Excellency the Duke, I don’t know what is the matter you summoned me here for?”

The Duke did not speak, but stood up and slowly left his seat, two points of light moving along with his figure – those were the Duke’s two eyes.

“Sure enough, is he still studying the [Blood Therapy] left behind by Master Barnett? Alas ……”

The young young mage shook his head secretly, the Duke was afraid that it had become difficult to get out of that secret method.

A beam of light erupted from the darkness, the Duke lit the candle as he turned to look at the young mage.

Andy got a good look at the Duke as well, and a muscle twitched in his face.

The Duke’s body was still fit, but the look on his face was truly frightening – his facial skin was a sickly pale color, his two deep-set eye sockets were reddish and reddish, with a morose, ghostly light shooting out from them, and his lips were bright red, as if they had been smeared with blood.

The Duke slowly approached towards him without making a single sound from his feet, Andy twisted uneasily as he remembered all the horrifying legends about [Blood Therapy].

Maltz reached out his hand close to Andy’s face, smiling wryly while making stroking motions across the room.

“What young flesh ah …… what vibrant blood ah ……”

A murmur of an unknown voice came from him, as if he was desperately longing for something, causing Andy to get goosebumps all over his body, and it was hard for him to hold back from trembling.

“Lord Duke!” The little mage frowned.

The Duke who was staring at Andy’s neck in a daze immediately retracted his own hand.

“I apologize, young friend, for letting you see me in private, but there should be no secrets between us.”

Maltz maintained his “smile” and slowly padded back to his seat and sat down.

He spread his hands and said, gently, “I need help, you know, I’ve been having a bit of trouble on the battlefield lately.” The young mage knew what trouble the Duke was having on the battlefield.

Last year, the Council of Secret Laws-specifically, the orders left behind by Master Barnett when he left-sent him to the Northwest Bay to assist Maltz Kent, who was still an Earl at the time.

With the help of some kind of mental spell, Maltz Kent had taken control of the then Northwest Duke, allowing the old Duke to choose him as his heir, who would naturally become the new generation of the Northwest Duke when the old Duke “passed away” from his illness.

Just when they wanted to follow the plan left behind by Master Barnett, an accident occurred.

The old duke’s brother escaped from the tight confinement and made public the old duke’s handwritten letter when he was awake, charging Maltz with “witchcraft and usurpation of the throne”, even though he was indeed practicing witchcraft.

The northwestern bay was divided into two factions, those who supported the new duke and those who opposed the new duke, and soon the whole northwestern region of the Kingdom of Aldo was thrown into chaos.

The outbreak of the war disrupted Maltz’s plans, but at first he was confident that with the power in his hands he would be able to suppress this [rebellion] within a year.

However accidents appeared again.

The goose that pecked the duke in the eye was the Greiman family of Alda.

If the Northwest Bay is the poor countryside in the eyes of the world, then the Alda Earl’s collar is the poor countryside in the poor countryside, however, it is such a piece of poor countryside, starting from a year and a half ago, suddenly started to make a fortune.

In this war, bizarre weapons, neat military formations, obedient soldiers, the main enemy factors that led to Maltz’s army being in a predicament were all from Arda.

The war, fought from the beginning of the year until now in July, had reached a stalemate, and the new Duke’s faction was being attacked from both the front and the rear – and it was the same Paul Greiman who was making trouble in the rear.

The Duke had provoked civil unrest in Arda, and the Duke had recruited mercenaries from the south, neither of which had prevented his side from drifting into decadence.

Maltz wondered for a moment if the Secret Society was also secretly assisting Gleiman, allowing them to kill each other leaving the strongest one as an agent, like the legendary raising of a parasite.

Andy hesitantly said, “Lord Duke, I …… only know a little spiritual spells, how should I help you?”

“Ohhh! Young friend, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about the organization behind you – the Secret Law Society. Send a message to our (he added emphasis on the word our) companions – I need help.”

Since they had been together for so long, Maltz also knew Andy’s ability, it really wasn’t as powerful as he had previously imagined, which made him very cold towards the original incomparable longing of the Secret Law Society, to send such a weak mage to assist him, any more, it must be as strong as Master Barnett ah.

“But …… but …… I am insignificant in the organization ……”

“Could it be that the Secret Law Society has already shot abandoned me?”

Before Andy could finish his sentence, a hysterical roar could be heard, accompanied by a clunking sound – the table next to the Duke’s seat became torn apart, and he had been resting his hand on that table without moving a muscle.

“What strength!”

Andy was startled, and even more horrified when he looked at the Duke – his aura had gone all the way to that of a choice beast, his mouth grinning into an eerie shape, his long, sharp canines showing unobtrusively.

The young mage’s heart was in his throat, what kind of monster did Master Barnett leave behind.

“I …… will send a message …… Ah, I will try to convince them ……”

It was only then that Maltz Kent Ferdinand regained his previous smile, as if his earlier lapse had never happened.

“To the Secret Society!”

He raised a tall glass high and drank the scarlet liquid inside in one go.

(End of chapter)