Chapter 9: The Magician "Salo"

  "I don't know..."

  After drinking the meat porridge, Felicia licked her lips stained with oil and replied to Rove with these four words.

  "Didn't you know?" Rove nodded, took the wooden bowl from Felicia's hand, filled it with half a bowl of meat porridge and handed it back to her, then asked: "Felicia, do you have any other relatives?"

  "I ate all the food in the tavern, and my mom told me to go find something to eat, so I'm waiting quietly for her to come back and then we'll go to Aunt Astrid's house together..." Felicia looked down at the bowl in her hands as she spoke, but when she got to this point, she looked up at Rovi with hopeful eyes: "Mr. Rovi, you've definitely never seen a zombie wearing red clothes and having blonde hair like me, right?"

  Red-clothed blonde zombie?

  Luoyi's eyes flickered, and he remembered the red-clothed female zombie who had been gnawed by other zombies to the point where she could only crawl, but still clutched a bag full of lifesaving food.

  "I see, Mr. Luo, Mother has finally found peace, hasn't she?"

  Although Rove didn't say anything, the clever Felicia had already guessed something from Rove's expression changes in the firelight, and she guessed more than the actual situation.

  Felicity didn't cry, although her eyes were already brimming with tears.

  "I'm very sorry."

  Looking at the little girl with tears in her eyes but pretending to be strong, Luo Wei said sorry according to the dialogue of American TV series he used to watch, even though he actually didn't do anything wrong.

  Let Felicia know that her mother is still "alive" in the form of a crawling zombie, and it's better to let this child guess by default, so that she can completely cut off her thoughts.

  "It's not your fault, Mr. Lovi."

  With tears in her eyes, Felicia rubbed her reddened eyes and surprisingly comforted Rovier instead.

  "It's that scoundrel who spread the plague of undead in our village!" Felicia's eyes flashed with a hateful glow, but this light of hatred soon disappeared: "Felicia can't do anything, and can't help mom and everyone take revenge."

  Looking at the sorrowful Felicia, Rovin hesitated for a moment before getting up and rummaging through the backpack carried by Tyrant to find that blood-stained pouch that hadn't been thrown away yet.

  "Your mother, even if she became a zombie, still tightly held onto this cloth bag filled with food." The blood-stained cloth bag was placed in front of Echilia by Rovi: "So Felicia, whether or not you can avenge her, you must live strongly and stubbornly, because that is certainly your mother's last hope."

  "This was my great-grandmother's keepsake." Felicia put down the wooden bowl and stretched out her right hand, but as soon as her fingertips touched the blood-stained pouch, she quickly withdrew it as if electrocuted. She shifted her gaze back to Rovi's face: "Mr. Rovi, thank you for letting my mother rest in peace! I... can I ask one more thing of you?"

  "You said."

  Although Felicia's child was pitiful and made Rove very sympathetic, Rove's mind was still clear, he wouldn't make any promises that were beyond his power.

  "Can you take me to Aslatt?"

  Felicia said.

  "Asura? I'm sorry..."

  Rovi thought he had no idea what Aslat was.

  "My mother said that this necklace is the only legacy left to her by my grandfather, and my great-grandmother said that my grandfather was a magician, and it's her greatest pride. I know, Mr. Rovi, you're a mercenary who does things for money, and also a magician who charges more than ordinary mercenaries, but...I don't have even a single copper coin on me, so...I can only use this as payment for you to take me to Aslat."

  As she said this, Felicia took off the black ice skull necklace that had been hanging around her neck and held it in the palm of her hand with utmost care.

  "Felicia, do you know how valuable this necklace is? Although it looks completely ordinary, I can sense that there may be more than one kind of magic solidified inside it, and what's more important is that it's also a family heirloom of yours."

  Rovin didn't take away the Black Ice pendant but instead told Felicia some of the facts he knew.

  In his heart, Luo Wei began to make calculations—

  Ferilia, this child, says that the Black Ice Choker is her grandfather's only heirloom, which means... This child might be the daughter of Salisa's daughter who had her leg cut off?

  Daughter's daughter... this time span is a bit too long.

  Recalling the red-clothed female zombie, Luo Wei estimated that she should be over thirty years old, which means it's been nearly twenty years since her death as recorded on the tombstone?

  "What's your grandfather's name?"

  Afraid of revealing his true identity, Luo Wei decided to ask for her name first.

  "I don't know." Felicia shook her head, but before Rovier's face fell in disappointment, she added: "I don't know Grandfather's full name or his magician title, but Grandmother has used the nickname Salo many times when mentioning him."

  "What's Salo?"

  Rovi wrote down the name.

  Also recorded by Luo Wei is the term "Magician's Title". Does this mean that magicians in this world, like the nobles of ancient China, have unique titles?

  Just as his thoughts arrived here, Luo Wei "saw" some memory fragments that didn't belong to him.

  "Salò, my child, mom is not hungry, you eat quickly."

  "Salò, it's mom's fault, mom didn't know who your father is... sorry."

  "Saro, don't go! Don't go! You'll be killed by those guys! It's not worth it, for the sake of mom's already tainted body, it's not worth it!"

  "Salor, you are free! The noble magician Mr. Isenmier, who is passing through the village, wants to take you as his magic apprentice!"

  "Saloh, follow the noble Master Isenmael to the outside world! Your mother's identity will shame you, so your mother will stay here for life and never reveal that I am your mother. You are also absolutely not allowed to come back! My child, you are my pride, forever!"

  Rovi "saw" that woman, the brown-haired woman he had "seen" when looking at the tombstone in the large cemetery.

  But before he could indulge in his thoughts, Rove was brought back to reality by the voice of Felicia.

  "Mr. Lovie, have you ever heard of a famous magician nicknamed Salo?" Felicia asked with hopeful eyes looking at Lovie, and to narrow down the range, this little girl who lost her mother added: "My grandfather was also an undead magician, although he passed away thirty-one years ago."

  "I'm terribly sorry, Felicia, but I've never heard of a famous magician known as Losa."

  Unsurprisingly, and without intending to lie about this matter, Roviel could only give Felicia this answer.

  So now it's already 2801 in the Grey Month calendar?

  "Thank you, Mr. Luo Wei, I understand."

  Felicia's hopeful gaze quickly dimmed, but soon she extended the black ice skull necklace that had been in her hand all along towards Rove once more.

  "Please, Mr. Lovi, you must accept it. My grandmother instructed me before she passed away that to get the best result one has to pay a sufficient price. And you, you've already saved Felicia once, and even if you refuse to take it, when we go to Aslat, if someone else finds out it's a precious magical item, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep it safe anymore... and who knows, maybe even get killed for it."

  Felicia, holding a black ice pendant necklace, said so.

  "Alright, I've accepted this reward, and I'll send you to Asura."

  This time, Luo Wei finally did not refuse. He solemnly took the Black Ice Skull Necklace from Felicia's hand.

  At the age of eleven or twelve, there is such a clear-headed little girl. Even in the world, it's probably not common to see such a child who always thinks about problems from the worst starting point.

  As he put away the black ice necklace, Rove looked at Felicia, and Felicia had already picked up the wooden bowl filled with meat porridge again. She quickly finished her second bowl of meat porridge.

  This is the best result, isn't it?

  After all, from the moment he discovered the Black Ice Necklace, Luo Wei had been determined to get it.

  According to the "memory" from Felicia's uncle Salo, by using a special method to infuse magic power into the Black Ice Choker, Rovio felt that he could only have the basic self-defense ability that made him barely at ease.

  Even in a peaceful world, there are so many cases of murder and robbery every day. What's more, this is a different world where swords and magic reign supreme?

  As he served Felicia her third bowl of meat porridge, Rove let out a silent sigh of relief in his heart.

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