Chapter 2476 Birthday
"Marie is not crazy; that matter just blew out of proportion and sprouted a thousand rumors," the Old man said dismissingly. "Really? There must be some truth in all those rumors?" I asked and to which he nodded.
"Yes, there is some truth, but most of what she did was harmless, and she had been extremly careful. If not for that, the council wouldn"t have let her go with just a slap on the wrist," He said, and I am not convinced; the rumors I had heard were quite vivid.
"You have enough access, so read about the case, and if you still don"t think she deserves a chance, then you can choose someone else," he said.
I couldn"t help but become surprised by his recommendation; it seemed like he knew the women well. I added her name to the list of people I have to interview, though I will first read about the whole case as he recommended.
I discussed a few more things with the old man before walking out of his office; there is a very important thing I have to do today; I have been working on it since the day of the day Grandmaster Sethi had consumed the fruit and had got the pieces of the const.i.tution through it.
Soon, I reached the small infirmary I have in my home and sat down before closing my eyes, and the next second, I was in my core.
I walked a few hundred meters away from the lake and stopped at a fifty-meter diameter white crystalline disk. The disc is densely carved with the formation and has signs of spent resources around it; one would be shocked by the number of resources I have spent on this thing.
They are even greater than what I had spent on the Grandmaster Sethi when her const.i.tution had gone haywire; each and every one of the resources was precious; I had even spent two general level-up type miracle fruits on it.
The whole project took two months, a time greater than I had antic.i.p.ated, but I got the result, and it is the pink-black pearl floating above the center of the formation.
I am taking a huge risk on this thing as I am going to use it on the person who is most precious to me. I would have not taken such a hasty decision. If not for the a.s.sa.s.sinations that are happening around, they have even targeted Grandmaster Charline on her outside trip a month ago.
The a.s.sa.s.sin had an extremly powerful artifact, and if not for the Grandmaster cla.s.s bodyguard that the council had given to Grandmaster Charline, she wouldn"t have been able to survive.
While the teacher also gets a Grandmaster cla.s.s bodyguard due to her importance in the project, I still want her to be strong enough to survive any attempts on her life.
A leader"s cla.s.s power she has is too weak to survive such attempts, and seeing the strictness of her Inheritance, it would take her very long to reach the Grandmaster cla.s.s even with all the resources I could provide.
So, I need to take some drastic actions, and this pearl is a drastic option.
I once again begin to examine the pearl, which I have done more than ten times already in the past three days. I have to be very sure, and if I find even the slightest problems in my inspection, I will not use this thing.
I was about to finish inspecting the thing when I felt soft arms around me; I opened my eyes and saw Marina sitting on my lap.
"One of these days, I am going to find out just what you do when you close your eyes." She said, "I had told you I work on my Inheritance," I replied, and to that, she rolled her eyes as if she did not believe me, not completely.
She knows me too well.
I smiled at her and leaned in it kiss those wonderful lips; I have never seemed to get enough of them.
"Happy birthday," I said, and I could see a slight flinch in her eyes. It was her fiftieth birthday, and she had the reservation about, especially around me.
"I have become an old woman," She said finally with sadness and disappointment, and hearing that, a laugh couldn"t help but escape my mouth, which instantly made her glare at me. Like her daughter, the teacher also gets angry very quickly but through the years, she learned to control it that it is very hard to see her angry, even if she is.
"You are beautiful, and no matter how old you grow, you will always be beautiful," I said and snaked my arms around her waist and kissed her.
We kissed, and I could feel Marina asking the rea.s.surance for her insecurities, and I gave it to her that no doubt would remain in her heart about my words.
"So, have you prepared a present for me?" she asked as we broke away from the kiss, "Of course, I did," I said with a smile, and the next second, a gla.s.s bottle appeared in my hand and inside it, a black and pink pearl is floating.
"What is it?" Marina asked as she took the gla.s.s bottle in her hand. "The next step in evolution in your const.i.tution and if it worked as just as I had expected it to be, then you will have a const.i.tution that will be extremly powerful,"
"It will also help you in evading those powerful restrictions of your Inheritance," I said, and I could tell she was shocked, but she recovered quickly. She has gotten used to such things that they did not affect her much.
"You don"t seem completely sure about it?" She asked, picking up the doubts in my voice that not many would be able to do.
"Yes, there are chances that it might not work as intended and even be might dangerous to you," I said and looked at her for an answer, and this time, it was she that laughed.
"You will not take risks when it comes to my life, dear. I am sure you will be able to handle all risks that came in my way," she said and once again leaned in to kiss me, telling me how much she believed in me.