Chapter 364 The Fall Of Lotheliwan [Part 1]
Northern frowned at Annette immediately as she spoke.
But she grinned at his face and looked away.
The others were still finding it so hard to believe. They muttered among each other, giving Northern glances.
One of them, however, stepped forward to Northern's front and looked down on him.
Arlem boasted of a much larger and taller body than Northern; standing directly in front of the white-haired boy, he looked like an older person than he was.
Northern scowled and looked up to his face, wrinkling his nose a little bit.
"You have a strong monster!"
"I know," Northern responded silently, even though Arlem had shouted.
The guy had a lousy nature to himself.
"Hmph hmph, you are doing well." He tapped Northern's shoulder like he was some elderly folk and walked back.
Ryan glanced at Northern and that was it.
Before the others could start approaching him, Annette cleared her throat, grabbing their attention.
"I need to keep Northern up to speed on our state of things. Please give us some privacy."
They all began to walk out after she spoke.
After a while, the only people that were left in the room were Annette and Northern.
She looked at him for a few seconds before she smiled and started.
"First of all, I am now a Savant. And I probably will become a Sage with this next rift. Ha! It feels so nice, there's no better time to have you; remember you promised to go into a rift with me?"
Northern raised a brow.
"I did?"
"Yes. You did. But let's leave that for now. I know you are very curious as to the state you have found us."
Northern crossed his arms over his chest and sat carefully on the table behind, looking at Annette.
"Whatever you are about to tell me, I honestly hope it features how the hell you lost my estate."
"Ah, that…"
Annette scratched the back of her hair with an awkward laughter.
Meanwhile, Northern just glared at her.
"So this problem all started with Braham," she sighed. "I've always known Braham to be a serious problem; all of us have always known, but he was too valuable to develop. In this entire stronghold, he is the only one with a healing ability. Not to say, his ability is so strong that he could heal in a single instance.
"Before now though, he had never been a problem, because Raven was there to put him under control. Her presence alone intimidated him tons. But then she disappeared along with him and Braham suddenly grew five balls."
She paused and looked at Northern.
"You've been with her all this while, haven't you? Where is she? Do you think you can convince her to join this faction?"
Northern glared at her intensely, making her return to her main point of conversation.
She cleared her throat and commented:
"That was just by the way anyways. When Raven left, Braham came after Ellis with some natives of Lotheliwan, his thugs.
"They got into a serious fight with Hao; things got tough, a monster came to their rescue, beat all of them to the point of death."
She gave Northern an extra look as she continued.
"As you know, this monster has been something the party leaders had already been concerning themselves with. So, things went up quickly; after seeing the state of the thugs and Braham, subduing the monster became a priority. Well… it did not go well for any of the party leaders.
"Ellis reached out to me in all of this, warned me not to go against the monster. I couldn't understand what he was saying and was on the verge of thinking he had something to do with all of this.
"Eventually after pressuring him, he told me the truth."
"Of course, he did. That wimp," Northern muttered.
"Don't blame him. There was a lot of pressure and that was the best call for the situation."
"If he hadn't, things would have escalated out of control. Do you think your monster is invincible?"
Northern's lips curled smugly.
"You fool," Annette said, seeing the cocky smile on his face.
"The only reason why anyone would probably have a chance against him is because I ordered him not to kill."
Annette raised her head up and laughed a little bit. Then she shot Northern a glare.
"Don't be too full of yourself Northern. Remember we are drifters and we exist to subdue monsters, kill them. That thing is a monster; it would have died if it wasn't for me."
"Oh? Tell me about it."
"After Ellis told me about it, I told others, I told them it was a summon and it had a master and was acting for a reason. As long as we back away from Ellis, it wouldn't bother us.
"After much back and forth defeat from the monster, eventually the party leaders had to opt for my suggestion. We backed away and thus did the monster… however, Braham did not like this development.
"He wanted Ellis at all cost."
Northern grimaced.
"Why?"
Annette looked at him seriously and retorted:
"That guy is a cunt, a noble-bred cunt, so prideful even in a desolation like this world, he would go to stupid means just to feed his ego and exercise unnecessary authority. He has values no doubt, but that fact has gone ahead and ruined his head."
She breathed, almost heaving with anger but controlled her breath and said:
"He began to get very bothersome, said he will use his own means to get the boy. Hence he tried to kidnap Ellis while he was asleep. But was dealt with by your monster wolf."
"Mr Fluffy?" Northern smiled, touching his jaw. "So, Braham got done in twice. That's satisfying."
Annette continued.
"Well, turned out Braham had been in contact with the Sloria stronghold. Feeding them information about us, in exchange for items, supplies. He was amassing riches of his own."
Northern's look got serious.
"Amassing riches of his own? Why?"
"Man, beats me. I don't know too. The only thing I can think of was so that he could enter Luinngard."
"Do you need riches to enter Luinngard?"
'If that was the case, wouldn't those from Slora stronghold have entered already?'
Annette answered:
"I don't know too. I told you, I don't know. But the worse came… Sloria drifters started attacking us."