ushernet Chapter 259 Lucy
Chapter 259 Lucy
McThran was dead!A veteran Mage with decent prowess had died for no reason in a completely insignificant battlefield!
This shocking truth was hard to swallow for both sides of the conflict.
Kartia Hills was a territory no bigger than sixty square kilometers, with one mid-sized and two small-sized cities, as well as seven or eight human villages. Even if all of the mansions and villages within Kartia Hills were razed and converted into its worth in magic crystals, it still wouldn't be enough to compensate for the loss of a veteran Mage.
The true reason the three Mage forces had allied with each other to attack was to test the waters. If the Sarubo Clan had indeed taken huge losses in the plane war, they would take a strategic retreat and voluntarily surrender some benefits that it couldn't defend. They would trade time for space to recover their strength.
In fact, such border wars happened on a daily basis within the Zhentarim area. Countless Mage clans and organizations were involved in the various tussles and disagreements. However, it was extremely rare to see an Mage die in one of these conflicts.
As the invading party, Carlos of the Mikayne Clan had no choice but to declare their loss. The two parties finally sat down to have a tough negotiation on the war reparations.
The conquered cities had to be returned and the raided villages had to be reimbursed. The Mikayne Clan even had to compensate the losses of the Sarubo Clan with large amounts of rare resources. As long as the Mikaynes had no intention of escalating the tensions into a full-blown clan war, the curtains would be drawn on the incident today.
As for how the Mikayne Clan was to compensate the Black Glove Association for the loss of McThran, that was their problem to deal with.
Leon and Keoghan immediately returned to Feidnan City after hastily concluding the affair.
That said, after this battle, Leon's terrifying moniker as the Flame Demon spread far and wide.
Battling two veteran Mages at once, yet still being able to forcefully exterminate one of them while he fended for himself. Such prowess was almost entirely unheard of in a newly advanced Mage!
It was said that numerous Mages had personally hurried over to Locker Castle, after the conclusion of battle, to examine the marks of battle. Every Mage that set their eyes upon the place put on a grave face of apprehension!
In all honesty the location was thoroughly in ruins. It was no longer a place fit for humans to live in.
It was as if a violent volcano had erupted there. One could see horrifying magma left behind after the flowing lava had cooled. There were some odd bulging magma rock formations littered across the field. If anyone cracked these open, they wouldsee barely damaged metal armor within. However, the flesh of the soldier within had completely fused with the molten armor. They couldn't ever be separated cleanly.
Locker Castle had also been badly damaged. A large portion of the castle had been melted and softened into a mud-like consistency during the fight. When the heat finally dissipated, and the rock cooled, all of the architecture had solidified into all kinds of weird shapes.
Fortunately, with the amount of reparations the Mikaynes were paying, Viscount Donald would have more than enough to build five castles.
Moreover, after this incident, all of those underlying currents that called for probing the Sarubo had been put to rest. Most of the clans and organizations that had wanted to benefit from the Sarubo's weakness had gone quiet, and resumed their stance of observing rather than attacking.
However, at the same time, Leon also drew the ire and vengeance of the Black Glove Association!
Leon did some basic re
It was precisely because of this thought that Leon had immense hopes for Lucy. Leon wouldn't be ungenerous if it meant a chance to forge a good relationship between her and himself.
Leon raised his head and thought for a moment. The only thing he had that seemed to be useful to her yet not appear too stingy would probably be that!
Having come to this thought, Leon waved his hand. All of the magic barriers within his dwelling were instantly activated. A layer of light radiance appeared everywhere on the walls, the ceiling, and even the floor. Now, even the fellows who had absolute authority of the tower couldn't listen in on his secret without alerting Leon's sensory detections.
"You... what do you want... to do?" Lucy took a step backwards frantically. Her hands grabbed her collar tightly, and her eyes darted about the room as if she was terrified.
"Hmph! Only ghosts would be interested in that beansprout-like body of yours!" Leon commented in an upset tone, "You wanted a gift, didn't you? Here, this is my gift to you!"
Leon took out a gray pouch and very reluctantly passed it to Lucy.
"All's good as long as you are not setting your sights on me! What's this? It looks really ugly... " Lucy pinched her nose while picking up the pouch with two fingers.
The pouch clearly was not any sort of magic-infused item. It was just a normal pouch sewn from rough linen. Not only was it old and in tatters, there was even a stuffy and rotten smell coming from within.
Lucy instantly lost all confidence in its contents with how unpresentable the pouch was.
She pinched her nose, pushed back her disgust and took out a strange grey stone the size of a fist from within the pouch.
"This is the gift you brought me from another plane? A stupid stone!"
Lucy rolled her eyes and threw the stone aside.
However, at the very moment the gray stone left her palm, it drew a brilliant silver line across the air. Before the stone even reached the ground, the silver line started to vibrate, and a small opening had opened in the space in front of Leon's and Lucy's eyes. The stone moved as if it had a brain of its own. In the blink of an eye, it had almost vanished into a space wormhole and disappeared from this plane.
Lucy's sharp voice finally rang out.
"A spacestone!"
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