Inside a private room, Ezio gritted his teeth and finally gave in.
"Alright, I will give you a blank contract promising 1 assassination for you, the time and day will be up to you, but I have the right to choose a better date to make my work easier, and it cannot extend too much beyond the deadline specified by you. The target's level and other details are written here… I will also pay you a compensation of 20,000 soul stones for the previous troubles caused."
"Good Ezio! You did the right thing, I have a good relationship with the Necromancers of Stygai. You would not escape the curses so easily… Now sign here, there, and lastly here." Rafael said after making him sign 3 different blood contracts.
Ezio left the room with his shoulders slumped and saw Valder standing, waiting outside. As soon as he saw Ezio leaving, he also entered the room to see what Rafael wanted to discuss with him.
"I'll be straight with you, Master Valder. I don't blame you or your brother for what happened, nor do I hold any grudge against Master Sun. Your brother is still alive too… So, how about we leave everything behind and you and your brother become the new members of the Adventurers' Alliance? Remember, it's easy to make enemies in Asshai, but hard to make friends…"
A look of contemplation appeared on the necromancer's face, and Rafael continued his argument…
"My Order of Sages held that position for a few years. We had 20-30% of some important resources in the organization, in exchange for providing aid in times when those resources are in danger. In exchange for us putting our grudge aside, you take this position. I can agree to increase that amount to 50% in another 50 or 100 years. This will be discussed if our organizations give rise to new Masters, the percentage each side will have can be based on this rule."
"Alright, I'll agree to the deal, but I need time to convince my brother. He's hot-blooded and won't forget what happened so easily."
"Alright, but sign a pre-contract before you leave," Rafael said, pushing a blood-red sheet of paper towards Valder.
After Master Ezio and Master Valder left, Laura returned with a neutral expression.
"What happened? Cold didn't want to cooperate? I confirmed that he and his master weren't on good terms."
"It's not that he doesn't want to; he doesn't know much, he offered what he could within the limits about Master White Shadow's assassination contract, but since that fight, he doesn't know the whereabouts of his former master."
"Alright, it seems that we're done here for today. I'll leave these two items with you, take the Glove to Omar, and store the Wand in the Order's vault."
"And you're not going back yet?" Laura asked.
"I received an invitation from Silvia and Marta, they may have information about the origins of my sword... Also, the primordial item of the earth that Silvia has is something I need. I will accept their invitation and try to negotiate. See you tomorrow afternoon at the meeting. Have a good night."
"Ok, good night!"
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Thirty minutes later, in the Tower of Beauty, home of Master Venus. Rafael was in a room/laboratory with the two beauties, looking at a rudimentary painting of a short sword in a book. The image, despite its crudeness, was a perfect copy of his Valyrian Steel short sword; its name was "Red Fang".
In this book, it also showed its origins, which went from a larger broadsword that was then melted down and reforged into two smaller short swords. They were called Red Fang and Blue Fang. Both were over 5 thousand years old, and it was unknown who their bearers were in the last two thousand years.
While Rafael pretended to be reading, and stored the valuable book with various details about other Valyrian Steel Relics, Silvia approached his back, pressing her body against his as she asked how he obtained Red Fang.
Without worrying too much, Rafael told about how he inherited it from his mother, including the details of the fake sword forged on top of it, the fact that his father had thrown the treasure into the sea, but managed to recover it a few months later...
Silvia burst out laughing when she saw my expression as I told the whole story behind the sword. Before I knew it, Marta had left the room we were in, and left Silvia and me alone... After that, we started drinking while I tried to negotiate the item she had and which I wanted so much.
"Look, Silvia, when it comes to rarity, the body and soul affinity are on the same level... So it's worth it for you to trade the primordial item with me since you won't be using either of them, besides, I can always compensate you with some extra resource that you're interested in..."
After Rafael's speech, the beautiful and youthful blonde put one of her fingers to her lips and looked up while thinking. Meanwhile, the mature redhead returned to the room and sat down at one of the lab tables full of notes, taking care of her own business and ignoring her younger sister and guest.
At that moment, Silvia got up from the couch where they were, taking Rafael by the hand as she led him to the large bed that was not far from the bookshelf where they were. As they moved, she spoke with a mischievous smile and a sensual tone:
"Maybe there are one or two things you can do for me then…"
When they reached the large bed, Rafael already knew what the beautiful blonde wanted. She was one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen, and her youthful and energetic personality had also captivated him quite a bit in the few hours they had known each other. All he needed was for Silvia to get her face close enough to his, and Rafael pulled her into a hug and started kissing her.
At that moment, while kissing her, he remembered that they were not alone. He opened one of his eyes and looked in the direction where the redhead was sitting, and realized that she was still distracted by her personal belongings.
But he saw something strange next to her, at some point she had lit a strange red dragonglass candle, and a sweet and fragrant smell was spreading throughout the room…
Not caring about the smell and much less about the presence of the redheaded milf, Rafael continued kissing Silvia, falling on top of her on the bed and starting to undress her, his hands taking short breaks as he felt her entire body…
Soon, the sweet smell of the dragonglass candle was becoming even stronger. Rafael heard several beeps from the system and used all the power of the mental control resistance to read one of the system messages:
[You have been poisoned by a (High) level poison]
That was all he could see before his eyes turned completely red, and he ignored everything and forcefully ripped off all of Silvia's remaining clothes. At the same time, her luxurious cloak, armor, and protections disappeared and ended up inside his inventory.
Without clothes and ready for action, Rafael observed Silvia's body lying down, salivating like a true predatory animal that had found its prey. But his predatory side was not only interested in the young Silvia, panting and with his vision still red, he turned to the redhead, who was still in the living room, at that moment realizing that he was about to attack Marta, Silvia grabbed him with both hands and brought him back to bed.
After that, the night was intense... While Rafael completely lost his rationality, devastating Silvia, sometimes he stopped wanting to go towards the other woman, but she quickly controlled him and took his attention away from her. All the action lasted until sunrise, when, after he finished several times, and finally the "scented candle" went out, Rafael finally lost consciousness and fell asleep…
Author's note:[1]
AN2: Don't forget to check out my new original book Jyera World Apocalypse. Just adding the book to your libraries would help me a lot...
There is also the release of The Stygai's Necromancer!
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[1] Sorry for the censorship, I did what I could to make the scene as explicit as possible within the age parameters, I may have to edit it and censor it even more… So read it while you can…