Chapter 504 – Intervention 3
Chapter 504 – Intervention 3
When Archduke Cabrera first saw the red-haired lady, he was first surprised by her appearance. His wife, Helen, who was known as the pearl of Horned Bay, was already the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life, but this woman, Marianna, was not inferior to Helen in terms of appearance, and was even superior in terms of temperament.
When he looked at this lady, not only did he not feel the kind of hesitant and slightly timid gaze that ordinary people have when they meet the ruler of a country, on the contrary, he was intimidated by the power in the eyes of the other party to some extent.
Yes, this lady’s eyes contain some kind of power that can be directly applied to other people’s mind, people often use words such as gaze like a torch when describing a person’s bright eyes, but Ms. Marianna’s pupils themselves are as red as fire, and when Archduke Cabrera looked into those eyes for a moment, his mind instantly flashed through flames, lava, lightning and other things.
She must be a woman with a strong heart and a strong will, the Archduke commented in his mind.
“Your Majesty, this is my mentor, she just returned to Horned Bay not too long ago.”
Archduchess Helen introduced her husband, her demeanor very respectful to the red-haired lady.
“Your Majesty Cabrera, I am very honored to meet you. Please forgive me for not being versed in the rules of the court.”
Mariana gave the Archduke a slight nod as a curtsy.
Cabré hurriedly said, “Why not, since you are Helen’s tutor, you are also naturally my elder, so naturally you don’t need to abide by all that red tape, so please sit down quickly.”
In addition to the relationship of being his wife’s mentor, the other party was also the key person to save Eaton’s critical situation, so naturally he had to be a little more respectful.
He eagerly asked, “Saying as many polite words as possible won’t help, so, Ms. Mariana, let’s make it short and cut to the chase. I’m sure you’re aware of Eaton’s current perilous situation, may I ask if there’s anything you can do to help us?”
Mariana first glanced at her student Helen and slowly said.
“Magic.”
“Magic?”
Archduke Cabrera, along with his wife Helen who was a spell caster, were taken aback.
The Grand Duchess asked in a small voice, “Teacher Mariana, do you mean …… to use our abilities to quietly sneak into the enemy camp to assassinate the other side’s senior figures? That would be a feasible way, but my husband won’t allow me to do that, he’s afraid that I ……”
Should we let our mentor risk his own life for ourselves?
“No!” Mariana denied without hesitation.
“I mean to defeat the Protectorate with magic on a frontal battlefield.”
The Archduke’s hands trembled, “This, this, this, this ……”
He couldn’t utter a complete sentence. Archduke Cabre was the ruler of the Duchy of Eton, a top-tier great noble whose family legacy stretched for hundreds of years.
And what was magic? For thousands of years, it was considered by the people to be an unnatural, against the teachings of the gods, not supposed to exist in the world, and an evil and filthy power.
Even though the Archduke took a spellcaster as his wife and loved her from the inside out, in the Archduke’s opinion, this was a manifestation of the great power of love, which in his heart was irrational, ineffable, and a more subtle and powerful thing than magic. In the young Archduke’s somewhat naive view of love, since love a person should accept her all, tolerate each other’s shortcomings, even if the other is a legendary witch against the natural way.
Because of his long relationship with his wife, he had a tolerant and sympathetic attitude towards spellcasters. Slowly, he realized that not all spellcasters were evil, and that there was no lack of good people among them, and that they also had the same precious feelings of happiness, pleasure, pain, and sadness as mortals.
But even so, let the grand duke accept magic at once, let him regard magic as a normal thing, regard magic as a serious means, regard magic as a kind of force that does not violate the way of chivalry, put it on the stage, and use it to defeat the enemy with honor, he still can not be transformed immediately.
And what about Grand Duchess Helen? She grew up in a big noble family, pampered and spoiled, gathering thousands of favorites in one, growing up carefree, she was a good girl since childhood, after she set foot on the path of spell caster by chance, magic brought her a freshness, a sense of excitement, or a forbidden pleasure, she learned magic, studied magic, because magic gave her a strange feeling different from those toys that can be claimed at will, as a a woman the world sees as soft and weak, yet she can wield such power, the contrast has her hooked, and caster is merely one of Helen’s labels, not some one-on-one exclusive bond.
Besides, all she had received from Mariana since she was a child was – hide, hide, hide again, her mentor at that time reminded her over and over again that magic should never be displayed in front of the world’s eyes, should never be cast in public, and that when it was known by others that you were a witch, you would face a very horrible fate, and this made Helen This made Helen subconsciously form a kind of inherent thinking – [magic] and [where there are people] are mutually exclusive, in the presence of other people, unless it is a person who knows the root of the matter – such as her husband and her schoolmates who are also spell casters, or an enemy who can’t recognize herself and is confident that she can clean it up, otherwise, she will not be able to do anything about it. confidence in being able to clean up the enemy, otherwise do not cast magic.
Mostly, though, with the depth of Helen’s knowledge of magic at this stage of her life, she could not yet comprehend the extent to which such power could affect a major battle. Her best guess would be something like assassinating an important person, stealing important information, or using unnatural means to make the enemy generals misjudge or something like that.
All of these reasons led to the Grand Duchess being taken aback even after hearing her mentor threaten to use magic to defeat an army on a frontal battlefield.
Mariana could see the shock of the Grand Duke and his wife, and she smiled faintly, a smile that even made her image in Grand Duke Cabrera’s mind fit the image of an evil witch in popular perception for a while.
Of course, it was only for a moment, and the red-haired lady immediately reverted to that image of a solemn, heartfelt and respectful mentor.
She opened her rosy lips and said slowly and softly:
“I know that for a long time, there has been a deep-rooted prejudice against magic and us as spellcasters in the secular world. It is indeed a bit difficult to suddenly make you accept it. However, you have already spent so much time with this lovely student of mine, then …….”
“Tell me, Eteot, what do you think of your wife?”
I didn’t think I’d get around to writing this today, but I can’t believe I finished it.
(End of chapter)