Chapter 274: Cookies and Constructs

Stella, who Julius quickly found out was an extraordinary mage who had access to both spatial and time magic, didn’t waste any time and transported them all back to Blumand.

One moment they were standing on the plains in the dark and the next they were standing on a platform inside of some sort of building. He felt a small amount of dizziness but it quickly faded as he got situated.

He was more impressed at the delicate control of mana he sensed from the woman. From everything he had heard, space and time magic were two of the most difficult categories of magic on the continent. And the fact that this woman was able to use not one, but both kinds was supremely impressive.

“Where did you take us?” He asked the pretty woman.

“We are back in Blumand. I teleported us to one of House Quincy’s properties we have in the city. Where there is also a spot where I can drop these troublemakers off,” she said while pointing at the Tier 5 and two Tier 4s she dragged along. The assassin still looked pretty beat up and the woman was relatively uninjured. Though both of them were placed inside of a sphere of their own.

“I thought it would be irresponsible if I left a bunch of Tier 4s lying around with nobody in the caravan guards who can handle them,” Kyle’s relative explained with a proud grin.

“That and you are hoping that House Easten will owe you for capturing some of their members right?” Marcus added with a knowing shake of his head.

“That certainly helps,” she didn’t deny it at all.

He didn’t see a reason why it was a bad thing. He suspected that the Marquis would be extremely pleased to find that she captured not only two Tier 4s but also the Tier 5 who had been overseeing them.

“So what are we going to do now?”

She was about to respond but Julius sensed someone approach them from a distance. He watched as the door to the room opened and a man in a sharp suit strolled in.

“Ah, Lady Stella, it is an honor to see you so soon again.”

“Well I just missed your company so much Heinrich that I couldn’t stay away,” Stella teased back.

“I see you have brought some honored guests as well,” the butler noted with a polite nod toward Marcus and Julius. But then gave the ones contained within the blue spheres a darker look. “And perhaps some that are not as honorable.”

“Yes, I have to take care of these ones real quick. Do you mind showing these two upstairs where they can rest until I am done?” Stella requested of the man.

“Of course, milday. I will have the same tea and biscuits you enjoyed last time waiting for you when you are finished,” the butler said with a graceful bow.

“You are a peach, Heinrich,” Stella said with a happy clap of her hands, before shooing towards the two of them.

“Go on, I will only be a few minutes. I don’t want to come back later only to find that they have escaped.”

The two of them didn’t bother to argue and followed the butler upstairs. Julius, a bit more quickly than Marcus, the moment he heard that there would be snacks. Almost dying always made him hungry and whatever Stella enjoyed must be something delicious.

***

I was wrong, he thought to himself bitterly.

No offense to the butler or Stella, but he didn’t enjoy the tea or biscuits at all. It became quite clear that Stella had a very big sweet tooth because the tea and biscuits tasted so sweet that his tongue was numb.

Furthermore, Marcus had already seemed aware of this because the man hadn’t touched his food at all. He merely drank the glass of water while giving Julius a knowing look.

“You could have told me beforehand,” Julius complained to the man.

“I thought all kids loved sweets?” The one-armed man asked with a smirk.

“Yeah, but there’s a difference between something sweet and something made entirely of sugar,” he pointed out while removing some of his own snacks from his storage ring and munching on them trying to remove the sting of sugar from his mouth.

“I never understood her taste preferences either,” Marcus stated.

A brief moment of silence echoed through the room as the only sounds made were the crunching of him eating a cookie. It was only when he got the sickening sweet taste out of his mouth that he asked the man a question he had been curious about.

“I apologize if asking offends you, but how come you only have one arm? I would think that Lily’s family would pay for any healing or treatment,” Julius asked the man.

Marcus chuckled at his question. “No offense taken. Most people are curious but are too scared to ask. The truth is that I could have it healed anytime I want but have chosen not to.”

“Why? Wouldn’t having an arm be useful for everyday life, not to mention combat?” He asked.

“You would think so, right?” Marcus asked as he stared at his left arm with a smile.

Julius nodded in agreement. He couldn’t see a reason why being handicapped would be an advantage.

“Well you see, I got this injury when I was Tier 3 much like you are. During that time it wasn’t possible to heal the injury. I got hit by a monster with a dangerous destruction affinity, smashing any dreams of getting my arm back. So I had to adapt. I used my telekinesis to fill in the gap of my missing arm and ended up acquiring some powerful skills along the way.”

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“I still don’t understand why you haven’t gotten it healed. Wouldn’t advancing to Tier 5 allow you to heal it?” Julius was still confused.

“Advancing to Tier 5 did fix that issue. But I had gotten so used to using my telekinesis at that point that I found that I didn’t even need any arms. I had more control and dexterity with telekinesis than I ever would have with an arm. Plus, it felt like it was part of my identity at that point as if getting my arm back would actually hamper my abilities,” Marcus explained.

“Here, let me show you something,” the man offered when he saw that Julius wasn’t quite convinced.

He watched as the man removed a pack of something from his storage device. On closer examination, he realized it was a deck of cards. Interested in what the man was about to do, he quickly polished off the rest of his cookie and leaned forward.

He saw Marcus’s purple eyes slightly brighten as he used his telekinesis to take control of the deck of cards and gasped in amazement as he witnessed the man spread out the entire deck in an elegant spread.