The smile on Baron Abel's face pressed the pause button, and the "ripples" squeezed out of some dry and wrinkled skin just solidified on his face.
The moment the name Vanessa came to light, the entire Baron's mansion became eerily quiet.
An unnatural expression appeared on Baron Abel's face. He seemed to be trying to maintain a polite smile, but his twitching cheeks were trying to express the complex emotions of inner uneasiness and anger.
Baron Abel was restraining himself, and it took several seconds for the beating facial muscles to gradually calm down. However, Lu Yu could already see everything.
In view of Lu Yu's status, Baron Aibel had no choice but to treat him politely. He just uttered a sound, but it was a trill. He quickly grabbed the water glass and took a sip, and continued to face Lu Yu with his withered smile.
"Jazz knows Vanessa?"
"know."
"Vanessa has been dead for many years. Jazz is a human race and there are many years between them. Is Jazz mistaken?"
"You're right, he's the one you threw into the Silent Mountains."
Abel's voice suddenly became sharp, and he probably didn't realize that his voice was so distorted when he blurted it out.
"Is she still alive?"
With a bit of fear in the horror, and a bit of uneasiness in the fear, Abel's fists clenched.
"No, he's dead."
Abel sat down relieved.
Lu Yu could completely understand Aibel'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 for the vote.
If Vanessa is still alive, after all these years, what level is she now as a third-level magician?
A person who has given up blood and family ties will naturally not feel that Vanessa is tolerant of him.
A dead Vanessa is the best thing for him.
Abel, who came back to his senses, said suspiciously: "Vanessa is dead, how did Sir know about her?"
Suddenly, he seemed to have gotten the answer and asked: "Sir entered the Silent Mountains and found her relics?"
Lu Yu did not answer, but stared at Aibel's eyes seriously for a long time.
Lu Yu smiled.
Lulutis always urged Lu Yu to play more magic in his daily life. When he had nothing to do, he would play his favorite wind magic, trying hard to experience the feeling of exhausting the magic in one breath and then the whole body collapses, and the body absorbs the magic and recovers little by little.
Feeling of fullness.
This practice can effectively train one's affinity for magic power, and indirectly help Lu Yu improve the utilization of magic power. It is Lulutis's training method.
What is the concept of a ninth-level magician?
The four thousand years of recorded history of the Mera Continent provide a clear time for the birth of magic.
For four thousand years, various creatures have undergone different changes after absorbing magic power, and evolved into different races.
Based on the utilization rate of magic power and the sophistication of manipulating magic power, a rank rating that can be widely used across regional levels was born.
In the two regions that Lu Yu traveled to, the strongest was only level six, and due to differences in regional ratings, these level six were weaker than the standards of Mera Continent.
The ninth level, in Lulutis's words, is that if she uses magic to control the flow of a river to branch into a thousand tributaries, then the ninth level may be 10,000 or 20,000 tributaries.
Efficient magic utilization brings more powerful and pure magic release power.
The sophistication of manipulating magic means that she can construct various magics that are more complex and difficult for ordinary magicians to restore. They are even only capable of imagining but are unable to implement them.
Their exploration of the boundaries of magic, their understanding of magic, and their application of magic are beyond the imagination of low-level magicians.
Even if they tell you the secrets of high-level magic, you won't be able to use it.
Rank cannot directly correspond to strength, because the two criteria for rating cannot be directly linked to battles.
But rank can directly correspond to the possibility of being a magician.
The exploration of magic cannot lack possibilities.
Ninth level may be the highest level that a magician can achieve in this world, and he is the most promising person to explore the secrets beyond the level.
Abel had no idea what he had missed. He was happy that Vanessa was indeed dead and he did not need to face the fear in his mind and the guilt chasing after his memory.
If he ever felt guilty.
The first time Vanessa returned to Thoresen, she went back home.
Because Nettie and others died, she was angry and came to the royal city that abandoned her, and walked into the home where she should have her own place.
The sun has just gone down, and the Aibel family is enjoying dinner. The servants are busy and smoke is floating from the chimney on the roof.
Vanessa just sat on the roof, listening to the laughter coming from the courtyard and the house.
It was the elven festival, and the brothers and sisters were noisily surrounding Abel, asking for gifts.
"Don't be anxious, everyone has a part to play."
Abel's voice is very penetrating, but his laughter and words are very harsh.
Vanessa sat on the roof, imagining that she could also sit at home.
In this festival that belongs to the elves, she also wants to go home.
However, under her perception, everything related to her in this room was gone.
There is no trace of her life here. In this bustling New Year's Eve, no one from the mother to the father to the nostalgic elders could remember that there was a child named Vanessa, not even a single word was mentioned.
Vanessa thought about destroying everything. With her strength at the time, no one could stop Thoreson, who was only fifth level at the time.
The strong desire for destruction was finally suppressed by Vanessa's astonishing rationality. She cut off her long hair on the roof, letting the hair blow in the wind, and the pale golden light flickered in the afterglow of the sun, falling into the impending
The forest sinks into the night.
Vanessa Abel disappeared from then on, and the child who no longer recognized her origins stepped towards the position of a ninth-level magician.
Because of his poor speaking skills, the mist demon who was advised by Huo Gu to read more and talk less looked at the cabin built in the Silent Mountains and said something after reading the content in Vanessa's diary about returning to Abel's house.
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"Maybe Vanessa traveled for so long just because she wanted to have a family."
A Man Who Needs to Learn to Speak distills the real reasons 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 mist demon summarizes is Vanessa's core pursuit in the first half of her life.
Not magic, but home.
The reason why she became stronger was just to go home.
Abel, this elf who has been trying to climb up all his life, is still just a baron. What he does is so ironic.
He didn't have to cling to her. As long as he felt a little guilty, left Vanessa's belongings in the room, or mentioned Vanessa on New Year's Day, she would jump off the roof and recognize them.
He spent his whole life playing tricks, pleasing various nobles like a clown, but he didn't know that he could once become the supreme figure in Thoresen.
The towering tree that was enough to protect Abel and become Thoresen's supreme being was abandoned by him.
"I found her relics outside the Silent Mountains."
Abel sighed softly: "I knew that with her ability, she was not willing to keep her promise and stay in the Silent Mountains. She really left."
"Actually, if she hadn't 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 clicking sounds of clenched fists behind him, and could also see the fog demon's body bulging like an angry pufferfish.
Lulutis held Lu Yu down with her waving tentacles, and he comforted him: "It's not necessary."
Lu Yu smiled and corrected Abel: "No, you abandoned her."
Abel wanted to save face after all, and it was hard to keep his face when being exposed so bluntly by an outsider.
"I have tried my best to deal with the matter of blindness and aphasia. I have invited the best doctors and the best magicians I can afford to treat her, but to no avail."
"But you still abandoned her." Lu Yu took a sip of tea, "Just because you needed to cling to a hot-headed Duke who wanted to challenge the Elf King, you threw Vanessa out as a victim."
"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 sullen face and strong displeasure in his tone.
"Sir, you are a guest and someone I can't afford to offend, but you are still an outsider. Ultimately, Vanessa's affairs are my family affairs. You have no say in how I deal with it."
"Perhaps you learned something from Vanessa's relics, so you came to humiliate me specifically for her. I know that there is a saying among adventurers that they fulfill the wishes of the dead."
"Vanessa hates me, scolds me, or curses me. I have already said that all these misfortunes stem from fate."
Abel raised her hand and pointed to the sky: "If fate had not been unfair to her, how could she have suffered this?"
"You have achieved your purpose of humiliating me. It's time for Vanessa's wish to come to an end. In this way, I hope Sir can leave my house."
"Is fate unfair?" Lu Yu chewed on these words, recalled the contents of the notes, and smiled.
Vanessa never complained about fate, but wrote in her description of Sayer, "Thank you fate for letting us meet here."
It was a unanimous decision of Lu Yu and his party to come to Aibel's house. Even Huo Gu expressed his clear support. He not only wanted to know what happened to Vanessa, the unknown great magician's family, but also for an item.
"I came here just to ask for something. Once I get it, I'll leave."
Abel frowned: "If you want Vanessa's old things, then I can tell you clearly that those things were all thrown away or burned. There is nothing related to her left in Abel's house."
"I want Vanessa's portrait."
Lu Yu didn't intend to discuss it. With a wave of his hand, Lulutis flew straight to Abel's head, and with one roll of its tentacles, he put a shackle on Abel's neck.
"This matter is non-negotiable. If I can't get it, I don't recommend helping a man named Sayer to solve some unfulfilled wishes."
At first, Abel was still shouting that this was Thoresen, and rashly touching a noble would cause big trouble.
However, after discovering that Lulutis's tentacles were constantly tightening, Abel's chaotic mind suddenly became clear.
Not long ago, the Devin family had just been divided up by other nobles. The nobles didn't care about his life or death at all, and they would not offend a seventh-level magician who was about to leave here for him.
Abel quickly said: "Sir Lu Yu, we have really disposed of all Vanessa's old things, and there is no portrait of her left!"
"If not, then just paint one." Lu Yu wanted to say this, and was ready to invite a painter to come to the mansion to paint.
But I heard a timid voice coming from upstairs.
"I...I...have."
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 tightly by the tentacles, and said quickly: "Actually, not everything was destroyed..."
Abel seemed to understand something, and he said excitedly: "Adeline, you!"
Adeline lowered her head, not daring to look at her father.
Lu Yu encouraged the timid Adeline to continue.
"When I destroyed my sister's belongings... I didn't think it was appropriate, 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 one night during the New Year's Eve, I heard a strange noise in the house. I got up quietly to check, but found that many guards were facing each other in a daze.
against the wall…”
"Then I saw my sister standing in front of the room that was already Little Mandy's bedroom, looking at Little Mandy quietly..."
"After my sister saw me, she said a lot to me... She hoped that I would take good care of myself... and she even touched my head."
"I thought it was a dream for a while, because after dawn, I was sleeping in bed and there was no sign of my sister around."
Sigrid flipped through the diary and did not see Vanessa recording this paragraph.
But under Adeline's leadership, they got what they wanted and more.
In the tree spirit tribe southwest of Aibel'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 Aibel's home appeared in front of him.
Vanessa sat on the chair, her light golden bangs hanging down, covering her empty eyes.
The artist seems to have captured the moment when the wind blows, and every strand of Vanessa's hair in the portrait seems to be swaying in the wind.
In the picture, Vanessa smiles lightly, as if she doesn't know the hardship she is about to face, and she is enjoying the residual warmth of this home with peace of mind.
Lu Yu had to comment. Compared with the elves he had seen before, Vanessa could compete with Aesop in women's clothing. They both belong to the type that you will find very interesting if you look carefully.
There are some other things in the box, but they are not as attractive as this picture.
Abel glared at Adeline who was hiding the scroll, as if she had done something outrageous.
"You should be glad that the scroll is here and you don't have to draw another one, otherwise your neck will not be able to leave the tentacles today."
"Why did you go to such trouble to get Vanessa's picture?"
Lu Yu really didn't know why Aibel was so angry. Is it embarrassing to be bullied by him? At this time, he was still talking to him in this tone. If it were a real seventh-level magician, he would be ashamed.
"My friends and I got some help from her. We didn't want such a person to disappear without a trace, so we found a portrait and hung it up to pay homage."
Lu Yu was telling the truth. Although the teleportation array was very likely to take them to the place where Vanessa had traveled, but the time span was so large, who could guarantee that there would really be traces of Vanessa there?
?
Magicians respect their predecessors very much, not to mention open-source magicians like Vanessa who are willing to write books for newcomers.
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 people, it was even a kind of blasphemy to her.
"You are not worthy of knowing her experience, Abel. With your desire to become a master, just drown in the sea of fame and fortune. This is how your life will end."