Chapter 64
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The door closed down and Kendra looked as the strange apparatus started moving. There seemed to be many locks and the main lock is in mid. Its made of the same strange material the walls are reinforced with. She waited that all the locks fell in place and she took the lock out its place and put in her bag. Actually, she put in the storage just in case someone tries to steal it.
She looked at guards and smiled. ''Take that man to jail. The poor noble leave right there as we need evidence. I will go get that man. You all go and hide. Trust me, If that man comes by, run!''
They saw her turning around and walking leisurely. They started scrambling and on end, they started running in different directions. The gate was locked and she slowly walked towards the inner gate. On gate stood a few new guards as well but they didn't stop her as she looked like one of the servants from the outer city. Or one of those hungry ones. She probably will go for food to the ice house and seeing her going that way it confirmed their belief.
She knew she should not run as she would arouse suspicion, so she walked slowly as she felt the eyes of the guards lingering on her back. From previous information, she knew that Fintan gave people food. It seems it was good that she sent so many farmers to him and that they planned the bakery. But thinking about it, It's probably not enough to feed the whole city for months. Or maybe it is?
She walked and saw more and more people gathering near Fintans place. There stood multiple caldrons and lines of people standing there. The guard was trying to go near Fintan but because so many people came he had no way. It was so loud that even his shouts couldn't be heard. She saw him going desperate and raising a stone to throw at Fintan but one man smacked him and yelled at him.
''How do you dare to raize your hand against our benefactor. Is it not enough that they don't let us go out now even the one that wants us to live needs to get hurt. Are you tired of living?'' he didn't even wait for the guard to answer as he plummeted him own and started to beat him.
Kendra didn't feel well seeing that. It seems that the guard really wanted to help her, but the way he chooses to do that...sigh. She chooses to help him. She pulled the man off him and held his hand.''Sir, I am grateful that you want to protect uncle Fintan. But not this way, please.''
He looked at the good looking child that had a friendly face and big smiling eyes. ''No problem, no problem. I was worried that your uncle would get hurt. We have to protect him you know.''
Kendra nodded and pulled up the guard.''Actually, this guard works for the Lord and wanted to send a message to my uncle but unfortunately, it's too loud and too many people and tried a logical way. He didn't plan to hurt him, just to get his attention. Please don't be angry at him. He is one of the good guys.''
She planned to give a good life to the guard as he really tried. Later he will live in this city and people need to remember him in a good way, not in bad. The man nodded and felt sorry.
''I am actually sorry I did that. I didn't even ask. Let me help you get to Fintan.'' he said and stood on one of the boxes near his feet. He started yelling the loudest he can.''Important message from the Lord, quickly move. Important message from the Lord, quickly move! Just make way for two people. They have a message from the Lord, quickly!!!''
People started stirring and making way for them and they run up. They could see that one is a guard and other is the child, so they let them pass. The closer she got to Fintan the more her face becomes solemn.
She could clearly see him being overworked. The old lady and Cian and all their workers and friends all had signs of working for a long time. She furrowed her brows when she saw the noble coming near Fintan. He wanted to get close to the cauldrons but Fintan didn't let him.
The normal humans didn't see anything but she could clearly feel the power from that man. She stopped the steps near the cauldrons and held the guard as he wanted to call out. But he saw the noble as well and shut up as he saw Kendra serious face. They dived between people and got closer.
The two didn't notice anything as so many people constantly lingered around. But Kendra could clearly hear their conversation from the place she stood. She felt happy at this moment as no one could see her.
''I told you I will help you. I don't want later that you peopel say to the Lord that none of the nobles helped,'' he said with a smile.
''Oh well. Everyone saw you coming here so even if I wanted I couldn't deny that you came. But I don't let anyone touch the food. If something goes wrong and the people get sick they won't bother me, they will think you did it or the nobles. I am just protecting your integrity. You can pretend to help as you stand still and smile at them. It's enough. The food no one of your people will touch. Of course, you can leave as well. I think you might get tired soon, don't you think?'' Said Fintan with a fake smile.
Kedra chuckled. Fintan is a person with powers and it seems the poisons don't work on elementalist just on common folks. Interesting. She knew now his secret but he still didn't know hers.
She slowly came closer and used her power to check the porridge cauldrons. Luckily after searching none of them were poisoned. It seems he has poison on his body but needs to be close to use it. Hmmm, should she play a little bit with him.
She turned around and saw that there were way too many people. She looked at the guard and smiled.''Take off the uniform for now and go to the old lady. Tell her to go to Fintan and secretly tell her that I am in town and that he needs to lure that noble away from folks as he is extremely dangerous. Now go...''
He took his uniform off and nicely folded and gave it to her.''Please if you can watch over it. I like the uniform. Really.'' He slowly went through the people at the cauldron where the old lady is and when he reached her he looked at her and slowly whispered her the news.
She got excited and wanted to search for Kendra but then realized what Kendra said. She let the guard give out the food to the people and she went slowly to Fintan. ''Fintan, can you help me something please for a second.'' Then she turned to the noble.''Young man, I can see that you are quite strong, go and help bring out the sacks with food. I don't mind any additional help. Go behind the house there is a shed. I need a big pot of dry seasonings from the shed. Can you do it?''
He got excited and went to look for a shed. Fintan looked at his mother in question. ''Mother what shed are you talking about?''
''Stupid. I think soon we will see a nice play. You can send people home soon. I think we will be free in a bit.'' she said while smiling mysteriously.
''Mother, you need to tell me what is going on. What if something goes wrong.'' he had a hunch that someone is helping him, but who would make his mother have such trust. ''Wait...No way ...That child is in town?'' he almost started shouting.
She nodded and her eyes had a glint in them. ''Let's see how she will handle him. It was about time to see what kind of powers that child has.''
''Kendra was quite strong even before she left, I think if it's here we can truly send people home,'' he said with a sigh. He felt like a failure. He couldn't fight him as he was afraid he would harm other people and that man seemed couldn't go through his protection of ice that he set around his house and food.
''I want to see. Don't tell me you are not curious,'' she said while sneakily walking towards of back house. They had something like a small house behind where she left old pots and similar stuff. This will be fun to watch. She saw Cian looking at her with small eyes. It seems he noticed something so she waved at him to come with her with a wink in her eyes.
He sighed. His great-aunt is always mischievous. Luckily his cauldron was empty so people in front of him left. He went after her, feeling somewhat curious. There must be something fun where she goes. He speeds up and found her peeking around the corner of their store.
''What is going on?'' he asked but she suddenly put her hand on his mouth and put finger on her lips.
''Shhhhh, you little idiot. Kendra needs to concentrate on the fight. This will be fun.'' she said while peeking again. Kendra? He looked around the corner and saw Kendra slowly approaching teh old building where they kept some old pots. He planned actually to renovate that place as he wanted to live alone. He needs space to play with his powers.
Kendra, on the other hand, had that big smile that most people had fear of and people that didn't know were sucked in and swallowed alive. He could hear his great aunt gasping.''Oh boy, that man is so doomed. Isn't he?'' He had to nod.
Kendra could hear from outside some crashing and smashing. Poor pots.''Where the hell are seasoning pots. Did those people really eat all the supplies? If he just took my food I prepared I wouldn't have to go through so much trouble. Damn it!!!'' again one of the pots were smashed.
''Why are you destroying someone's property?'' said Kendra while she leisurely leaned on the doorway. She calmly looked at her fingers and her nails. She really had nice nails in this life. Seriously. In past life, she liked biting her fingernails when she was upset. But in this life, she gave up that habit and had beautiful hands and nails.
He slowly turned around and when he saw her he first taught he saw a ghost. ''It can be...You are dead. Everyone I send to find you told me you disappeared and probably died.''
Kendra nodded and smiled icily.''Probably dead is not really dead. But why were you looking for me? I don't think we have any common ground to chat.''
''You killed my brother. You let those people burn him alive. I saw it all. I wanted you to feel the pain I felt. I loved my brother. But at that time I was doing experiments on human reviving and was about to succeed. If you sent him to the jail I would have no reason to harm anyone but why did you do that. When I received our mother she first asked about him. I had to lie to her that he was playing around the world and don't want to come back home. She just wanted to see him one more time before dying. So I kept her alive and soon she was just rotting corpse that was alive. She was hungry, very hungry. She soon ate half of our servants. And was getting hungrier. One day by mistake she stumbled over some carpet in our home and hit her head and truly died. Now I have no one left alive. They all died. So I revived them all. ''
His eyes shone in the frantic light while he spoke of reviving the dead. She remembered the stories of ghouls and zombies. It seems there is this art as well. The dark art of elementals, or is this even an ability or just frantic crazy professor.
''Too bad you act this way'' she said while looking at him.'' If you were sane I would have loved to work with you. I am sure if you didn't have such darkness in you I might have let you be someone important in the city. You could have married and had your own family and children. But now you will need to choose two things. Let us heal your soul or die. There will be no third option.''
She didn't feel sorry about his brother's death or his mother's sufferings. She indeed gave his brother and those men the death sentence but what they did before to the people couldn't be repaid with just jail. She felt sorry that such a genius would lose his mind and use such powerful ability for such foolish stuff. If he were sane she would put him into the research of the sicknesses and the open hospital where he could work as a doctor in healing people.
But now was all too late. She was it seems too late, a long time ago. Someone planted demon breath in him and he was close to change into a demon. If he could gather some logical thinking he might be able to be saved as Lord's team had few healers and they had the energy water. It is possible.
Unfortunately, it was her wishful thinking. He looked at her with crazy light in his eyes and his surroundings started changing.''Hahahahahaha, you are maybe strong but you can't escape from my hands today. I will change you like I changed them all. Too bad the Lord found my secret laboratory and unfortunately, that owner left the city and died as he was too far to be sustained with my power. Dumb idiot. I told him not to go anywhere.''
Kendra was truly dumbfounded. ''The book collections were yours? You wrote them all???''
He looked at her and sobered up slowly. ''The books? What books? My mother said only people with a pure heart and big power can see the secret scriptures. Did you find them? You saw them?''
He was truly calm now, even the crazy shine was gone.
Kendra didn't know what to think about such sudden changes. It seems the demon in him was interested as well.''You took over him now, didn't you?''She was calm as it seems the last bits of his soul dissipated and the demon fully took over the body.
''How do you know? I hid so well for so long.Hahahaha. Just small child thinks that can win over such strong and powerful creature like I am.'' he got closer and saw Kendra leaving. He smirked as he taught she was scared. But Kendra just tried to save more pots...simple as it is.
She waited that he came out and smiled brightly at him.''You know me?'' she asked.
''Why should I know you. The humans are disgusting creatures and I don't like it at all using such lowly creature. I just wanted to know how humans use their powers. I was interested in the books he was rambling about.'' He slowly walked towards her with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
She stood there and waited and he stopped and looked around him. He wanted to see why this human was scared of this child so he tried to poke her head but the finger didn't even reach close to her. What is this, how is this even possible?
He looked at her in fear, yes fear. He could feel elementalists from far, but on her, he didn't feel absolutely any power. That only means...He stepped back and wanted to run but suddenly run into a water wall where he was stuck like in glue. Kendra after all trained her basic abilities almost two months and her wall became impenetrable. She could cover her body with an invisible shield using the power water instead of normal water.
Now she can even feel the water in the surroundings and use it as she needed. She remembered the water well near the ice house and started gathering it as soon she saw him entering the small house.
The demon was feeling humiliated. ''I really didn't do anything wrong. I am a demon that is true but if humans didn't try to steal from our land why would we fight so long. After they raided our lands for thousands of years our food depleted and we just fought back. I still have no idea why do we fight each other if we can trade. Stupid humans and their greed. This human was not a bad person but was an easy target for me to occupy him. The things I saw him doing to other humans and other humans doing each other... And humans call us demons bad?!''
Kendra stared at him with the wide agape mouth. Suddenly irritated voice could be heard from behind. ''What did you say? You mean you attacked us just because you were hungry? Why didn't you say so? Our King...'' Xara was red in her face in fury and sadness.
''any of your King's never got the news so far. I tried so hard to find out why did this all slaughtering happened from both sides. Once one of the demons was hurt and one child found it and saved his life by giving him medicine. When he told us all about it we started doubting. We always took you humans as evil creatures, but after such kindness, it seems that not all humans are evil. So I have been sent to find out and the truth is even scarier than I taught.'' he said while leaving the skin of that noble behind but when he tried leaving the wall he couldn't move as well.
Kendra sighed and let him go. The black light came in front of her and suddenly a girl of age 13-14 appeared in front of them. ''Let me introduce myself I am Demon Lais.''
''You, you are a girl?'' said Xara and looked up and down the girl in front of her.
Lais rolled her eyes.''Of course, I am a girl. Don't you see my boobs?'' and poked Xara's boobs. ''Nice boobs by the way. I can't wait that mine grow.''
Everyone gasped and Xara looked stunned as Lais continued to poke and look at her breasts while nodding and smacking her lips.
Kendra hit her head. Why did she always get acquainted with weird people? Now there is a demon girl that is obsessed with boobs? What is going on in this world? ''Eh...Lais, right? Let's talk like...'' she wanted to say normal humans but no one here is normal so she gave up while shaking her head.''Just let us get in and talk and explain what is going on actually?'' She looked at the body of the noble and saw him still breathing. It seems he is not dead but his mind...
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The door closed down and Kendra looked as the strange apparatus started moving. There seemed to be many locks and the main lock is in mid. Its made of the same strange material the walls are reinforced with. She waited that all the locks fell in place and she took the lock out its place and put in her bag. Actually, she put in the storage just in case someone tries to steal it.
She looked at guards and smiled. ''Take that man to jail. The poor noble leave right there as we need evidence. I will go get that man. You all go and hide. Trust me, If that man comes by, run!''
They saw her turning around and walking leisurely. They started scrambling and on end, they started running in different directions. The gate was locked and she slowly walked towards the inner gate. On gate stood a few new guards as well but they didn't stop her as she looked like one of the servants from the outer city. Or one of those hungry ones. She probably will go for food to the ice house and seeing her going that way it confirmed their belief.
She knew she should not run as she would arouse suspicion, so she walked slowly as she felt the eyes of the guards lingering on her back. From previous information, she knew that Fintan gave people food. It seems it was good that she sent so many farmers to him and that they planned the bakery. But thinking about it, It's probably not enough to feed the whole city for months. Or maybe it is?
She walked and saw more and more people gathering near Fintans place. There stood multiple caldrons and lines of people standing there. The guard was trying to go near Fintan but because so many people came he had no way. It was so loud that even his shouts couldn't be heard. She saw him going desperate and raising a stone to throw at Fintan but one man smacked him and yelled at him.
''How do you dare to raize your hand against our benefactor. Is it not enough that they don't let us go out now even the one that wants us to live needs to get hurt. Are you tired of living?'' he didn't even wait for the guard to answer as he plummeted him own and started to beat him.
Kendra didn't feel well seeing that. It seems that the guard really wanted to help her, but the way he chooses to do that...sigh. She chooses to help him. She pulled the man off him and held his hand.''Sir, I am grateful that you want to protect uncle Fintan. But not this way, please.''
He looked at the good looking child that had a friendly face and big smiling eyes. ''No problem, no problem. I was worried that your uncle would get hurt. We have to protect him you know.''
Kendra nodded and pulled up the guard.''Actually, this guard works for the Lord and wanted to send a message to my uncle but unfortunately, it's too loud and too many people and tried a logical way. He didn't plan to hurt him, just to get his attention. Please don't be angry at him. He is one of the good guys.''
She planned to give a good life to the guard as he really tried. Later he will live in this city and people need to remember him in a good way, not in bad. The man nodded and felt sorry.
''I am actually sorry I did that. I didn't even ask. Let me help you get to Fintan.'' he said and stood on one of the boxes near his feet. He started yelling the loudest he can.''Important message from the Lord, quickly move. Important message from the Lord, quickly move! Just make way for two people. They have a message from the Lord, quickly!!!''
People started stirring and making way for them and they run up. They could see that one is a guard and other is the child, so they let them pass. The closer she got to Fintan the more her face becomes solemn.
She could clearly see him being overworked. The old lady and Cian and all their workers and friends all had signs of working for a long time. She furrowed her brows when she saw the noble coming near Fintan. He wanted to get close to the cauldrons but Fintan didn't let him.
The normal humans didn't see anything but she could clearly feel the power from that man. She stopped the steps near the cauldrons and held the guard as he wanted to call out. But he saw the noble as well and shut up as he saw Kendra serious face. They dived between people and got closer.
The two didn't notice anything as so many people constantly lingered around. But Kendra could clearly hear their conversation from the place she stood. She felt happy at this moment as no one could see her.
''I told you I will help you. I don't want later that you peopel say to the Lord that none of the nobles helped,'' he said with a smile.
''Oh well. Everyone saw you coming here so even if I wanted I couldn't deny that you came. But I don't let anyone touch the food. If something goes wrong and the people get sick they won't bother me, they will think you did it or the nobles. I am just protecting your integrity. You can pretend to help as you stand still and smile at them. It's enough. The food no one of your people will touch. Of course, you can leave as well. I think you might get tired soon, don't you think?'' Said Fintan with a fake smile.
Kedra chuckled. Fintan is a person with powers and it seems the poisons don't work on elementalist just on common folks. Interesting. She knew now his secret but he still didn't know hers.
She slowly came closer and used her power to check the porridge cauldrons. Luckily after searching none of them were poisoned. It seems he has poison on his body but needs to be close to use it. Hmmm, should she play a little bit with him.
She turned around and saw that there were way too many people. She looked at the guard and smiled.''Take off the uniform for now and go to the old lady. Tell her to go to Fintan and secretly tell her that I am in town and that he needs to lure that noble away from folks as he is extremely dangerous. Now go...''
He took his uniform off and nicely folded and gave it to her.''Please if you can watch over it. I like the uniform. Really.'' He slowly went through the people at the cauldron where the old lady is and when he reached her he looked at her and slowly whispered her the news.
She got excited and wanted to search for Kendra but then realized what Kendra said. She let the guard give out the food to the people and she went slowly to Fintan. ''Fintan, can you help me something please for a second.'' Then she turned to the noble.''Young man, I can see that you are quite strong, go and help bring out the sacks with food. I don't mind any additional help. Go behind the house there is a shed. I need a big pot of dry seasonings from the shed. Can you do it?''
He got excited and went to look for a shed. Fintan looked at his mother in question. ''Mother what shed are you talking about?''
''Stupid. I think soon we will see a nice play. You can send people home soon. I think we will be free in a bit.'' she said while smiling mysteriously.
''Mother, you need to tell me what is going on. What if something goes wrong.'' he had a hunch that someone is helping him, but who would make his mother have such trust. ''Wait...No way ...That child is in town?'' he almost started shouting.
She nodded and her eyes had a glint in them. ''Let's see how she will handle him. It was about time to see what kind of powers that child has.''
''Kendra was quite strong even before she left, I think if it's here we can truly send people home,'' he said with a sigh. He felt like a failure. He couldn't fight him as he was afraid he would harm other people and that man seemed couldn't go through his protection of ice that he set around his house and food.
''I want to see. Don't tell me you are not curious,'' she said while sneakily walking towards of back house. They had something like a small house behind where she left old pots and similar stuff. This will be fun to watch. She saw Cian looking at her with small eyes. It seems he noticed something so she waved at him to come with her with a wink in her eyes.
He sighed. His great-aunt is always mischievous. Luckily his cauldron was empty so people in front of him left. He went after her, feeling somewhat curious. There must be something fun where she goes. He speeds up and found her peeking around the corner of their store.
''What is going on?'' he asked but she suddenly put her hand on his mouth and put finger on her lips.
''Shhhhh, you little idiot. Kendra needs to concentrate on the fight. This will be fun.'' she said while peeking again. Kendra? He looked around the corner and saw Kendra slowly approaching teh old building where they kept some old pots. He planned actually to renovate that place as he wanted to live alone. He needs space to play with his powers.
Kendra, on the other hand, had that big smile that most people had fear of and people that didn't know were sucked in and swallowed alive. He could hear his great aunt gasping.''Oh boy, that man is so doomed. Isn't he?'' He had to nod.
Kendra could hear from outside some crashing and smashing. Poor pots.''Where the hell are seasoning pots. Did those people really eat all the supplies? If he just took my food I prepared I wouldn't have to go through so much trouble. Damn it!!!'' again one of the pots were smashed.
''Why are you destroying someone's property?'' said Kendra while she leisurely leaned on the doorway. She calmly looked at her fingers and her nails. She really had nice nails in this life. Seriously. In past life, she liked biting her fingernails when she was upset. But in this life, she gave up that habit and had beautiful hands and nails.
He slowly turned around and when he saw her he first taught he saw a ghost. ''It can be...You are dead. Everyone I send to find you told me you disappeared and probably died.''
Kendra nodded and smiled icily.''Probably dead is not really dead. But why were you looking for me? I don't think we have any common ground to chat.''
''You killed my brother. You let those people burn him alive. I saw it all. I wanted you to feel the pain I felt. I loved my brother. But at that time I was doing experiments on human reviving and was about to succeed. If you sent him to the jail I would have no reason to harm anyone but why did you do that. When I received our mother she first asked about him. I had to lie to her that he was playing around the world and don't want to come back home. She just wanted to see him one more time before dying. So I kept her alive and soon she was just rotting corpse that was alive. She was hungry, very hungry. She soon ate half of our servants. And was getting hungrier. One day by mistake she stumbled over some carpet in our home and hit her head and truly died. Now I have no one left alive. They all died. So I revived them all. ''
His eyes shone in the frantic light while he spoke of reviving the dead. She remembered the stories of ghouls and zombies. It seems there is this art as well. The dark art of elementals, or is this even an ability or just frantic crazy professor.
''Too bad you act this way'' she said while looking at him.'' If you were sane I would have loved to work with you. I am sure if you didn't have such darkness in you I might have let you be someone important in the city. You could have married and had your own family and children. But now you will need to choose two things. Let us heal your soul or die. There will be no third option.''
She didn't feel sorry about his brother's death or his mother's sufferings. She indeed gave his brother and those men the death sentence but what they did before to the people couldn't be repaid with just jail. She felt sorry that such a genius would lose his mind and use such powerful ability for such foolish stuff. If he were sane she would put him into the research of the sicknesses and the open hospital where he could work as a doctor in healing people.
But now was all too late. She was it seems too late, a long time ago. Someone planted demon breath in him and he was close to change into a demon. If he could gather some logical thinking he might be able to be saved as Lord's team had few healers and they had the energy water. It is possible.
Unfortunately, it was her wishful thinking. He looked at her with crazy light in his eyes and his surroundings started changing.''Hahahahahaha, you are maybe strong but you can't escape from my hands today. I will change you like I changed them all. Too bad the Lord found my secret laboratory and unfortunately, that owner left the city and died as he was too far to be sustained with my power. Dumb idiot. I told him not to go anywhere.''
Kendra was truly dumbfounded. ''The book collections were yours? You wrote them all???''
He looked at her and sobered up slowly. ''The books? What books? My mother said only people with a pure heart and big power can see the secret scriptures. Did you find them? You saw them?''
He was truly calm now, even the crazy shine was gone.
Kendra didn't know what to think about such sudden changes. It seems the demon in him was interested as well.''You took over him now, didn't you?''She was calm as it seems the last bits of his soul dissipated and the demon fully took over the body.
''How do you know? I hid so well for so long.Hahahaha. Just small child thinks that can win over such strong and powerful creature like I am.'' he got closer and saw Kendra leaving. He smirked as he taught she was scared. But Kendra just tried to save more pots...simple as it is.
She waited that he came out and smiled brightly at him.''You know me?'' she asked.
''Why should I know you. The humans are disgusting creatures and I don't like it at all using such lowly creature. I just wanted to know how humans use their powers. I was interested in the books he was rambling about.'' He slowly walked towards her with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
She stood there and waited and he stopped and looked around him. He wanted to see why this human was scared of this child so he tried to poke her head but the finger didn't even reach close to her. What is this, how is this even possible?
He looked at her in fear, yes fear. He could feel elementalists from far, but on her, he didn't feel absolutely any power. That only means...He stepped back and wanted to run but suddenly run into a water wall where he was stuck like in glue. Kendra after all trained her basic abilities almost two months and her wall became impenetrable. She could cover her body with an invisible shield using the power water instead of normal water.
Now she can even feel the water in the surroundings and use it as she needed. She remembered the water well near the ice house and started gathering it as soon she saw him entering the small house.
The demon was feeling humiliated. ''I really didn't do anything wrong. I am a demon that is true but if humans didn't try to steal from our land why would we fight so long. After they raided our lands for thousands of years our food depleted and we just fought back. I still have no idea why do we fight each other if we can trade. Stupid humans and their greed. This human was not a bad person but was an easy target for me to occupy him. The things I saw him doing to other humans and other humans doing each other... And humans call us demons bad?!''
Kendra stared at him with the wide agape mouth. Suddenly irritated voice could be heard from behind. ''What did you say? You mean you attacked us just because you were hungry? Why didn't you say so? Our King...'' Xara was red in her face in fury and sadness.
''any of your King's never got the news so far. I tried so hard to find out why did this all slaughtering happened from both sides. Once one of the demons was hurt and one child found it and saved his life by giving him medicine. When he told us all about it we started doubting. We always took you humans as evil creatures, but after such kindness, it seems that not all humans are evil. So I have been sent to find out and the truth is even scarier than I taught.'' he said while leaving the skin of that noble behind but when he tried leaving the wall he couldn't move as well.
Kendra sighed and let him go. The black light came in front of her and suddenly a girl of age 13-14 appeared in front of them. ''Let me introduce myself I am Demon Lais.''
''You, you are a girl?'' said Xara and looked up and down the girl in front of her.
Lais rolled her eyes.''Of course, I am a girl. Don't you see my boobs?'' and poked Xara's boobs. ''Nice boobs by the way. I can't wait that mine grow.''
Everyone gasped and Xara looked stunned as Lais continued to poke and look at her breasts while nodding and smacking her lips.
Kendra hit her head. Why did she always get acquainted with weird people? Now there is a demon girl that is obsessed with boobs? What is going on in this world? ''Eh...Lais, right? Let's talk like...'' she wanted to say normal humans but no one here is normal so she gave up while shaking her head.''Just let us get in and talk and explain what is going on actually?'' She looked at the body of the noble and saw him still breathing. It seems he is not dead but his mind...
The door closed down and Kendra looked as the strange apparatus started moving. There seemed to be many locks and the main lock is in mid. Its made of the same strange material the walls are reinforced with. She waited that all the locks fell in place and she took the lock out its place and put in her bag. Actually, she put in the storage just in case someone tries to steal it.She looked at guards and smiled. ''Take that man to jail. The poor noble leave right there as we need evidence. I will go get that man. You all go and hide. Trust me, If that man comes by, run!''They saw her turning around and walking leisurely. They started scrambling and on end, they started running in different directions. The gate was locked and she slowly walked towards the inner gate. On gate stood a few new guards as well but they didn't stop her as she looked like one of the servants from the outer city. Or one of those hungry ones. She probably will go for food to the ice house and seeing her going that way it confirmed their belief.She knew she should not run as she would arouse suspicion, so she walked slowly as she felt the eyes of the guards lingering on her back. From previous information, she knew that Fintan gave people food. It seems it was good that she sent so many farmers to him and that they planned the bakery. But thinking about it, It's probably not enough to feed the whole city for months. Or maybe it is?She walked and saw more and more people gathering near Fintans place. There stood multiple caldrons and lines of people standing there. The guard was trying to go near Fintan but because so many people came he had no way. It was so loud that even his shouts couldn't be heard. She saw him going desperate and raising a stone to throw at Fintan but one man smacked him and yelled at him.''How do you dare to raize your hand against our benefactor. Is it not enough that they don't let us go out now even the one that wants us to live needs to get hurt. Are you tired of living?'' he didn't even wait for the guard to answer as he plummeted him own and started to beat him.Kendra didn't feel well seeing that. It seems that the guard really wanted to help her, but the way he chooses to do that...sigh. She chooses to help him. She pulled the man off him and held his hand.''Sir, I am grateful that you want to protect uncle Fintan. But not this way, please.''He looked at the good looking child that had a friendly face and big smiling eyes. ''No problem, no problem. I was worried that your uncle would get hurt. We have to protect him you know.''Kendra nodded and pulled up the guard.''Actually, this guard works for the Lord and wanted to send a message to my uncle but unfortunately, it's too loud and too many people and tried a logical way. He didn't plan to hurt him, just to get his attention. Please don't be angry at him. He is one of the good guys.''She planned to give a good life to the guard as he really tried. Later he will live in this city and people need to remember him in a good way, not in bad. The man nodded and felt sorry.''I am actually sorry I did that. I didn't even ask. Let me help you get to Fintan.'' he said and stood on one of the boxes near his feet. He started yelling the loudest he can.''Important message from the Lord, quickly move. Important message from the Lord, quickly move! Just make way for two people. They have a message from the Lord, quickly!!!''People started stirring and making way for them and they run up. They could see that one is a guard and other is the child, so they let them pass. The closer she got to Fintan the more her face becomes solemn.She could clearly see him being overworked. The old lady and Cian and all their workers and friends all had signs of working for a long time. She furrowed her brows when she saw the noble coming near Fintan. He wanted to get close to the cauldrons but Fintan didn't let him.The normal humans didn't see anything but she could clearly feel the power from that man. She stopped the steps near the cauldrons and held the guard as he wanted to call out. But he saw the noble as well and shut up as he saw Kendra serious face. They dived between people and got closer.The two didn't notice anything as so many people constantly lingered around. But Kendra could clearly hear their conversation from the place she stood. She felt happy at this moment as no one could see her.''I told you I will help you. I don't want later that you peopel say to the Lord that none of the nobles helped,'' he said with a smile.''Oh well. Everyone saw you coming here so even if I wanted I couldn't deny that you came. But I don't let anyone touch the food. If something goes wrong and the people get sick they won't bother me, they will think you did it or the nobles. I am just protecting your integrity. You can pretend to help as you stand still and smile at them. It's enough. The food no one of your people will touch. Of course, you can leave as well. I think you might get tired soon, don't you think?'' Said Fintan with a fake smile.Kedra chuckled. Fintan is a person with powers and it seems the poisons don't work on elementalist just on common folks. Interesting. She knew now his secret but he still didn't know hers.She slowly came closer and used her power to check the porridge cauldrons. Luckily after searching none of them were poisoned. It seems he has poison on his body but needs to be close to use it. Hmmm, should she play a little bit with him.She turned around and saw that there were way too many people. She looked at the guard and smiled.''Take off the uniform for now and go to the old lady. Tell her to go to Fintan and secretly tell her that I am in town and that he needs to lure that noble away from folks as he is extremely dangerous. Now go...''He took his uniform off and nicely folded and gave it to her.''Please if you can watch over it. I like the uniform. Really.'' He slowly went through the people at the cauldron where the old lady is and when he reached her he looked at her and slowly whispered her the news.She got excited and wanted to search for Kendra but then realized what Kendra said. She let the guard give out the food to the people and she went slowly to Fintan. ''Fintan, can you help me something please for a second.'' Then she turned to the noble.''Young man, I can see that you are quite strong, go and help bring out the sacks with food. I don't mind any additional help. Go behind the house there is a shed. I need a big pot of dry seasonings from the shed. Can you do it?''He got excited and went to look for a shed. Fintan looked at his mother in question. ''Mother what shed are you talking about?''''Stupid. I think soon we will see a nice play. You can send people home soon. I think we will be free in a bit.'' she said while smiling mysteriously.''Mother, you need to tell me what is going on. What if something goes wrong.'' he had a hunch that someone is helping him, but who would make his mother have such trust. ''Wait...No way ...That child is in town?'' he almost started shouting.She nodded and her eyes had a glint in them. ''Let's see how she will handle him. It was about time to see what kind of powers that child has.''''Kendra was quite strong even before she left, I think if it's here we can truly send people home,'' he said with a sigh. He felt like a failure. He couldn't fight him as he was afraid he would harm other people and that man seemed couldn't go through his protection of ice that he set around his house and food.''I want to see. Don't tell me you are not curious,'' she said while sneakily walking towards of back house. They had something like a small house behind where she left old pots and similar stuff. This will be fun to watch. She saw Cian looking at her with small eyes. It seems he noticed something so she waved at him to come with her with a wink in her eyes.He sighed. His great-aunt is always mischievous. Luckily his cauldron was empty so people in front of him left. He went after her, feeling somewhat curious. There must be something fun where she goes. He speeds up and found her peeking around the corner of their store.''What is going on?'' he asked but she suddenly put her hand on his mouth and put finger on her lips.''Shhhhh, you little idiot. Kendra needs to concentrate on the fight. This will be fun.'' she said while peeking again. Kendra? He looked around the corner and saw Kendra slowly approaching teh old building where they kept some old pots. He planned actually to renovate that place as he wanted to live alone. He needs space to play with his powers.Kendra, on the other hand, had that big smile that most people had fear of and people that didn't know were sucked in and swallowed alive. He could hear his great aunt gasping.''Oh boy, that man is so doomed. Isn't he?'' He had to nod.Kendra could hear from outside some crashing and smashing. Poor pots.''Where the hell are seasoning pots. Did those people really eat all the supplies? If he just took my food I prepared I wouldn't have to go through so much trouble. Damn it!!!'' again one of the pots were smashed.''Why are you destroying someone's property?'' said Kendra while she leisurely leaned on the doorway. She calmly looked at her fingers and her nails. She really had nice nails in this life. Seriously. In past life, she liked biting her fingernails when she was upset. But in this life, she gave up that habit and had beautiful hands and nails.He slowly turned around and when he saw her he first taught he saw a ghost. ''It can be...You are dead. Everyone I send to find you told me you disappeared and probably died.''Kendra nodded and smiled icily.''Probably dead is not really dead. But why were you looking for me? I don't think we have any common ground to chat.''''You killed my brother. You let those people burn him alive. I saw it all. I wanted you to feel the pain I felt. I loved my brother. But at that time I was doing experiments on human reviving and was about to succeed. If you sent him to the jail I would have no reason to harm anyone but why did you do that. When I received our mother she first asked about him. I had to lie to her that he was playing around the world and don't want to come back home. She just wanted to see him one more time before dying. So I kept her alive and soon she was just rotting corpse that was alive. She was hungry, very hungry. She soon ate half of our servants. And was getting hungrier. One day by mistake she stumbled over some carpet in our home and hit her head and truly died. Now I have no one left alive. They all died. So I revived them all. ''His eyes shone in the frantic light while he spoke of reviving the dead. She remembered the stories of ghouls and zombies. It seems there is this art as well. The dark art of elementals, or is this even an ability or just frantic crazy professor.''Too bad you act this way'' she said while looking at him.'' If you were sane I would have loved to work with you. I am sure if you didn't have such darkness in you I might have let you be someone important in the city. You could have married and had your own family and children. But now you will need to choose two things. Let us heal your soul or die. There will be no third option.''She didn't feel sorry about his brother's death or his mother's sufferings. She indeed gave his brother and those men the death sentence but what they did before to the people couldn't be repaid with just jail. She felt sorry that such a genius would lose his mind and use such powerful ability for such foolish stuff. If he were sane she would put him into the research of the sicknesses and the open hospital where he could work as a doctor in healing people.But now was all too late. She was it seems too late, a long time ago. Someone planted demon breath in him and he was close to change into a demon. If he could gather some logical thinking he might be able to be saved as Lord's team had few healers and they had the energy water. It is possible.Unfortunately, it was her wishful thinking. He looked at her with crazy light in his eyes and his surroundings started changing.''Hahahahahaha, you are maybe strong but you can't escape from my hands today. I will change you like I changed them all. Too bad the Lord found my secret laboratory and unfortunately, that owner left the city and died as he was too far to be sustained with my power. Dumb idiot. I told him not to go anywhere.''Kendra was truly dumbfounded. ''The book collections were yours? You wrote them all???''He looked at her and sobered up slowly. ''The books? What books? My mother said only people with a pure heart and big power can see the secret scriptures. Did you find them? You saw them?''He was truly calm now, even the crazy shine was gone.Kendra didn't know what to think about such sudden changes. It seems the demon in him was interested as well.''You took over him now, didn't you?''She was calm as it seems the last bits of his soul dissipated and the demon fully took over the body.''How do you know? I hid so well for so long.Hahahaha. Just small child thinks that can win over such strong and powerful creature like I am.'' he got closer and saw Kendra leaving. He smirked as he taught she was scared. But Kendra just tried to save more pots...simple as it is.She waited that he came out and smiled brightly at him.''You know me?'' she asked.''Why should I know you. The humans are disgusting creatures and I don't like it at all using such lowly creature. I just wanted to know how humans use their powers. I was interested in the books he was rambling about.'' He slowly walked towards her with a dangerous glint in his eyes.She stood there and waited and he stopped and looked around him. He wanted to see why this human was scared of this child so he tried to poke her head but the finger didn't even reach close to her. What is this, how is this even possible?He looked at her in fear, yes fear. He could feel elementalists from far, but on her, he didn't feel absolutely any power. That only means...He stepped back and wanted to run but suddenly run into a water wall where he was stuck like in glue. Kendra after all trained her basic abilities almost two months and her wall became impenetrable. She could cover her body with an invisible shield using the power water instead of normal water.Now she can even feel the water in the surroundings and use it as she needed. She remembered the water well near the ice house and started gathering it as soon she saw him entering the small house.The demon was feeling humiliated. ''I really didn't do anything wrong. I am a demon that is true but if humans didn't try to steal from our land why would we fight so long. After they raided our lands for thousands of years our food depleted and we just fought back. I still have no idea why do we fight each other if we can trade. Stupid humans and their greed. This human was not a bad person but was an easy target for me to occupy him. The things I saw him doing to other humans and other humans doing each other... And humans call us demons bad?!''Kendra stared at him with the wide agape mouth. Suddenly irritated voice could be heard from behind. ''What did you say? You mean you attacked us just because you were hungry? Why didn't you say so? Our King...'' Xara was red in her face in fury and sadness.''any of your King's never got the news so far. I tried so hard to find out why did this all slaughtering happened from both sides. Once one of the demons was hurt and one child found it and saved his life by giving him medicine. When he told us all about it we started doubting. We always took you humans as evil creatures, but after such kindness, it seems that not all humans are evil. So I have been sent to find out and the truth is even scarier than I taught.'' he said while leaving the skin of that noble behind but when he tried leaving the wall he couldn't move as well.Kendra sighed and let him go. The black light came in front of her and suddenly a girl of age 13-14 appeared in front of them. ''Let me introduce myself I am Demon Lais.''''You, you are a girl?'' said Xara and looked up and down the girl in front of her.Lais rolled her eyes.''Of course, I am a girl. Don't you see my boobs?'' and poked Xara's boobs. ''Nice boobs by the way. I can't wait that mine grow.''Everyone gasped and Xara looked stunned as Lais continued to poke and look at her breasts while nodding and smacking her lips.Kendra hit her head. Why did she always get acquainted with weird people? Now there is a demon girl that is obsessed with boobs? What is going on in this world? ''Eh...Lais, right? Let's talk like...'' she wanted to say normal humans but no one here is normal so she gave up while shaking her head.''Just let us get in and talk and explain what is going on actually?'' She looked at the body of the noble and saw him still breathing. It seems he is not dead but his mind...
