Chapter 127 126 She Just Wants to Go Home

Chapter 127 126. She just wants to go home

The smile on Baron Abel’s face paused, and the “ripples” squeezed out by some dry and wrinkled skin solidified on his face.

The moment the name Vanessa landed, the entire baron’s mansion was strangely quiet.

An unnatural expression surged on Baron Abel’s face. He seemed to want to keep a polite smile, but his twitching cheeks wanted to express the complex emotions of inner anxiety and anger.

Baron Abel was suppressing, and it took several seconds for the twitching facial muscles to gradually calm down, but Lu Yu had seen it all.

Given Lu Yu’s identity, Baron Abel could not help but treat him with courtesy. He just uttered a sound, but it was a tremor. He quickly grabbed the water cup and took a sip, and continued to face Lu Yu with that dry smile.

"Does the lord know Vanessa?"

"Yes."

"Vanessa has been dead for many years. The lord is a human, and there is a long time difference between them. Did the lord recognize the wrong person?"

"No, it's the one you threw into the Silent Mountains."

Abel's voice suddenly became sharp. He might not realize that his voice was so distorted when he blurted it out.

"Is she still alive?"

With a little fear in the horror and some uneasiness in the fear, Abel's fists gathered.

"No, she's dead."

Abel sat down with a sense of relief.

Lu Yu could fully understand Abel's nervousness, because he didn't think Vanessa had anything to do with him at all. He threw Vanessa into the Silent Mountains just to pay his loyalty.

If Vanessa is still alive, then after so many years, what is her current rank as a third-level magician?

A person who has given up blood ties naturally won't think that Vanessa is tolerant of him.

Dead Vanessa is the best for him.

Abel came back to his senses and asked suspiciously: "Vanessa is dead, how did the lord know her?"

Suddenly, as if he had gotten the answer, he asked: "Did the lord enter the Silent Mountains and find her relics?"

Lu Yu did not answer, but stared at Abel's eyes very seriously for a long time.

Lu Yu smiled.

Lulutis always urged Lu Yu to play more magic in his daily life. He would play his favorite wind magic when he was free, and try to experience the feeling of fullness after using up all the magic in one breath and then absorbing the magic to recover.

This practice can effectively train one's affinity for magic, and indirectly help Lu Yu improve the utilization rate of magic. It belongs to Lulutis's training method.

What exactly is the concept of a ninth-level magician?

In the four thousand years of historical records on the Mera Continent, a clear time for the birth of magic was given.

For four thousand years, various creatures have undergone different changes after absorbing magic, and evolved into different races.

Based on the utilization rate of magic and the sophistication of manipulating magic, a rank rating that can be widely used across regional levels was born.

The strongest in the two regions that Lu Yu had come from were only level six, and these level six were weaker than the standards of the Mela Continent because of the regional rating differences.

Level nine, in Lulutis's words, if she used magic to control the flow of a river to divide into a thousand tributaries, then level nine might be ten thousand, or twenty thousand.

Efficient magic utilization brings more powerful and purer magic release power.

The fineness of manipulating magic means that she can build more complex magic that is more difficult for ordinary magicians to restore, and even only worthy of imagination, and unable to implement.

Their exploration of the boundaries of magic, their understanding of magic, and their application of magic are not what low-level magicians can imagine.

Even if they tell you the secrets of high-level magic, you are not able to use it.

Level cannot directly correspond to strength, because the two rating standards cannot be directly linked to combat.

But level can directly correspond to the possibility of magicians.

For the exploration of magic, there must be no lack of possibilities.

The ninth level may be the highest level that a magician in this world can reach at present, and it is the most promising person to explore the secrets behind the level.

Abel didn't know what he missed at all. He was happy that Vanessa was indeed dead, and he didn't have to face the fear in his mind and the guilt from his memory.

If he had ever felt guilty.

When Vanessa returned to Soresen for the first time, she had returned home.

Because Neti and others died, she came to the royal city that abandoned her with anger, and walked into the home that should have had her own place.

The sun had just set, and Abel's family was enjoying dinner. The servants were busy, and the smoke from the chimney on the roof floated out.

Vanessa sat on the roof, listening to the laughter coming from the courtyard and the house.

It was the New Year's Day of the elves, and the brothers and sisters were clamoring around Abel to ask for gifts.

"Don't worry, everyone has a share."

Abel's voice was very penetrating, but his laughter and words were very harsh.

Vanessa sat on the roof, imagining that she could also sit at home.

In the New Year's Day that belonged to the elves, she also wanted to go home.

However, in her perception, everything related to her in this house disappeared.

There is not a trace of her life here. In this lively New Year's Festival, from mother to father to nostalgic elders, no one can remember a child named Vanessa, not even a word.

Vanessa thought about destroying everything. With her strength at that time, the strongest person at that time was only level 5 Soresen, and no one could stop her.

The strong desire for destruction was finally suppressed by Vanessa's amazing rationality. She cut off her long hair on the roof and let the hair be blown by the wind. The light golden light flickered in the afterglow of the sun and fell into the forest that was about to sink into the night.

Vanessa Abel disappeared from then on. The child who no longer recognized her origin stepped towards the position of a ninth-level magician.

Because of her poor speaking skills, the fog demon, who was advised by Hogu to read more and speak less, looked at the small house built in the Silent Mountains and said something after reading the content of Vanessa's diary about returning to Abel's house.

"Maybe Vanessa has been traveling for so long just to have a home."

A person who needs to learn to speak extracted the real reason behind Vanessa's decision to return to the Silent Mountains.

Regardless of whether there are people who specialize in studying Vanessa's past, and regardless of what opinions they hold, Lu Yu feels that what the fog demon has summarized is exactly the core pursuit of Vanessa's first half of life.

Not magic, but home.

The reason why she became stronger is just to be able to go home.

Abel, an elf who has been trying to climb up all his life, but is still only a baron, his actions are so ironic.

He could have not climbed up, as long as he had a trace of guilt, left Vanessa's belongings in the room, or mentioned Vanessa at the New Year's Festival, she would jump off the roof and recognize them.

He spent his life playing both sides, pleasing various nobles like a clown, but he didn't know that he could have become the supreme figure of Soresen.

The towering tree that was enough to shelter Abel from becoming the supreme existence of Soresen was abandoned by him.

"I found her relics outside the Silent Mountains."

Abel sighed softly: "I knew that with her ability, she would not be willing to keep her promise to stay in the Silent Mountains, and she really left."

"In fact, if she had not been aphasic and blind, she might have been a good magician, but it's a pity that fate abandoned her and made her become that kind of person."

Lu Yu could hear the crackling sound of fists clenched behind him, and he could also see the fog monster bulging like an angry pufferfish.

Lulutis waved his tentacles to hold Lu Yu down, and he comforted him: "It's not necessary."

Lu Yu smiled and corrected Abel: "No, you abandoned her."

Abel had to save face after all, and it was hard to hold his face when he was exposed so bluntly by an outsider.

"I have tried my best to treat her blindness and aphasia. I hired the best doctors and the best magicians I could afford to treat her, but it was useless."

"But you still abandoned her." Lu Yu took a sip of tea. "Just because you needed to cling to a duke who wanted to challenge the Elf King in a fit of rage, you threw Vanessa away as a sacrifice."

"Because she is disabled, she is not your daughter, but a bargaining chip, a tool to take the whole family to the sky."

Abel was unable to maintain good etiquette. He had a gloomy face and only strong displeasure in his tone.

"Sir, you are a guest and someone I cannot afford to offend, but you are an outsider after all. In the final analysis, Vanessa's affairs are my family affairs, and you have no right to interfere in how I deal with them."

"Maybe you learned something from Vanessa's relics, so you came to humiliate me for her. I know there is a saying among adventurers that one fulfills the wishes of the deceased."

"Vanessa can hate me, scold me, or curse me. I have already said that all these misfortunes are due to fate."

Abel pointed to the sky: "If fate had not been unfair to her, how could she have suffered these?"

"You have achieved your purpose of humiliating me, and Vanessa's wish should be fulfilled. In this case, I hope Sir can leave my home."

"Is fate unfair?" Lu Yu chewed on these words, recalled the contents of the notes, and smiled.

Vanessa never complained about fate. Instead, she wrote in the description of Sayer, "Thank you for letting us meet here."

It was a unanimous decision of Lu Yu and his party to come to Abel's house. Even Hogu expressed clear support. They not only wanted to know what the family of Vanessa, the unknown great magician, was like, but also for an item.

"I came here this time just to get something. I will leave when I get it."

Abel frowned: "If you want Vanessa's old things, then I can tell you clearly that those things have been thrown away or burned. Abel's family has nothing related to her."

"I want Vanessa's portrait."

Lu Yu did not intend to discuss it. He waved his hand, and Lulutis flew directly to Abel's head. With a roll of tentacles, Abel put a shackle on his neck.

"There is no room for negotiation on this matter. If I can't get it, I don't mind helping a person named Sayer to realize some unfulfilled wishes."

Abel was still shouting at first that this was Soresen, and it would cause big trouble to move a noble recklessly.

However, after discovering that Lulutis's tentacles were constantly tightening, Abel's confused mind suddenly became clear.

Not long ago, the Devin family was just divided up by other nobles. The nobles didn't care about his life or death, and they would not offend a seventh-level magician who was about to leave here.

Abel said quickly: "Sir Lu Yu, we really dealt with all of Vanessa's old things. There is no portrait of her left!"

"If there is none, then paint one." Lu Yu wanted to say this, and he was ready to invite a painter to paint in the mansion.

But he heard a timid voice coming from upstairs.

"I... I... have it."

Lu Yu looked up and saw that it was Adeline, one of Abel's two daughters, who was speaking.

Adeline walked down the stairs, glanced at her father who was tied up tightly by tentacles, and hurriedly said: "In fact, not all of them were destroyed..."

Abel seemed to understand something, and he said excitedly: "Adeline, you!"

Adeline lowered her head and did not dare to look at her father.

Lu Yu encouraged the timid Adeline to continue.

"When I destroyed my sister's belongings... I felt it was inappropriate, so I stole some things."

"And..."

"And..."

After hesitating for a while, Adeline took a deep breath and said, "I seem to have seen my sister... Because late at night on New Year's Day, I heard a strange noise in the house, and I tiptoed to check, but found that many guards were unconscious and facing the wall..."

"Then I saw my sister standing in front of the room that was already little Mandy's bedroom, quietly looking at little Mandy..."

"After seeing me, my sister said a lot to me... She hoped that I would take good care of myself... She also touched my head."

"For a while I thought it was a dream, because after dawn, I slept in bed, and there was no trace of my sister around me."

Sigrid flipped through the diary casually, and did not see Vanessa record this section.

But under Adeline's leadership, they got what they wanted, and even more.

In the tree spirit tribe southwest of Abel's house, a tree spirit vassal took out the sealed iron box buried under the ancient tree.

A portrait that could no longer be found in Abel's home appeared in front of him.

Vanessa sat upright on a chair, her light golden bangs hanging down, covering her empty eyes.

The painter seemed to have captured the moment when the wind started, and every strand of Vanessa's hair in the portrait seemed to be swaying in the wind.

Vanessa in the picture smiled lightly, as if she didn't know the suffering she was about to face, and was enjoying the warmth brought to her by this home with peace of mind.

If Lu Yu had to comment, compared with the elves he had seen before, Vanessa could be on par with Aesop in women's clothing, both of whom were the type that would be very attractive if you looked at them carefully.

There were some sundries in the box, but none of them were as attractive as this scroll.

Abel glared at Adeline, who had secretly kept the scroll, as if she had done something that would anger the heavens and the people.

"You should be thankful that there is a scroll here, and you don't have to redraw it, otherwise your neck will never leave the tentacles today."

"Why did you go to so much trouble to get Vanessa's scroll?"

Lu Yu really didn't know why Abel was angry. Was it embarrassing to be bullied by him? He was still talking to him in this tone at this time. If he were a real seventh-level magician, he would have been ashamed.

"My friend and I got some help from her. We don't want such a person to disappear without a trace, so we found a portrait to hang up and admire."

Lu Yu was telling the truth. Although the teleportation array was likely to take them to the place where Vanessa had traveled, the time span was so long, who could guarantee that there were really traces of Vanessa there?

Magicians respect their predecessors, not to mention open-source magicians like Vanessa who are willing to write new books.

Abel's expression changed frequently, and he asked with difficulty: "Vanessa, what kind of person have you become?"

Lu Yu didn't want to show Vanessa's greatness to such a person, which was even a blasphemy to her.

"You don't deserve to know her experience, Abel. With your desire to be the best, drown in the sea of ​​fame and fortune. Your life will end like this."