Inheriting a Lost Bloodline, My First Task is to have heirs?!

Chapter 103: Chapter 103 - Encountering Mr. Tangerine again

After I have ensured that all the things that needed to be done in the new world tree realm and the Eieneos palace are completed, I teleported back to the headmaster’s office. Once I’m back, I destroyed the traces of the teleportation points and walked out of the office like any other day. It was still quite early in the morning and when I checked the time and date, it was still Sunday morning so I have been away for less than 24 hours.

I decided to clear my mind for now so I continued walking towards the exit of the academe. My first destination for today is the magic tower. Nothing’s wrong with wanting to earn a bit more money every chance you get, right? I just need to answer a few questions and then spend the rest of my time in reading more books to put my mind off of all the things I have seen and heard from Nische’s memories.

I was able to reach the magic tower entrance after a 15-minute leisurely walk from the academe gates. I made a quick and discreet visit at the room of questions. It was the usual room that was filled with post-its that never seemed to lessen in number. I have been here around last week so how can the number of questions posted on the wall increase this much in the past few days? Honestly, I don’t really care so let’s just focus on decreasing it by 10 today.

I have long noticed the color coding of the paper where the questions were written in. I realized that they signify how old the questions were so I almost pick the oldest ones from the board first since their owners must have been waiting for so long. I was able to get 7 which were more than 3 years old and 3 that are more than 2 years old. I must have answered all the older ones on my previous visits. I decided to sit down in one corner of the room and answer the 10 questions carefully and accurately. The difference in the payment price shouldn’t be that big, hopefully.

I quickly finished all of the questions, placed my assigned stamp on it and left it in the box where all the answers were. Instead of leaving the tower, I went further in into the library to do my research. My target was to find different methods that the races have done throughout history in order to give birth to the new generations. I may find an idea to do it artificially and faster too without having to touch those elves and heralds. I honestly don’t mind kidnapping one or two of them too like what they did to humans before and return the hostages after I got what I wanted. I can erase their memories so they can’t trace it back to me. I want to give them a taste of their own medicine anyways but I feel like such efforts will be wasted on them.

I went to the section where the collection of scientific research were. I looked for related studies and books about my target topic. Luckily, since this library has a comprehensive collection, I was able to find six books that were somehow related to the said topic. I guess I will still have to do my experiments in the near future given the fact that these reference books were quite scarce. As I was reading my third book, I saw in my peripheral vision, a man who suddenly sat in front of me at the other side of the table. He did not have any books with him and I knew he was just staring at me waiting for me to feel uncomfortable. We have met again, Mr. Tangerine.

He has been watching me read for almost half an hour now. If he thinks I will feel uncomfortable, well, yes but I would simply ignore the feeling and him in the process. I continued reading and taking down notes on the things I have read on the six research books. As I finished my 6th book, I simply kept all my notes in the storage and carried all the books and placed them on the library cart on the side. He simply watched me as I did so. I then turned around and then started walking to other sections of the library one after another. I took my time reading books about alchemy, botany, healing and cooking. I continued reading until it was almost lunch time. As for the persistent guy, he followed me from one section of the library to another, precisely sitting opposite me in whichever table I decided to sit in. After reading my 10th book for today, I started feeling hungry. I stood up and returned the books on the cart for the last time. I then started walking but this time in a hurry to get outside the magic tower. When I was about to reach the door, I felt a hand grab my left arm to stop me from leaving. I tried to take my arm back but he was holding on to it tightly. I still did not look at him and simply smirked. I coursed electricity through a spark spell on to my skin where his hand was so he would let go. I underestimated how stubborn he was. Even if I gradually increased the voltage, he kept holding on. He eventually passed out while still holding on to me. Damn, this is awkward right in the area near the entrance of the tower.

I had to loosen the hand he’s holding my arm with but as I did so, I realized that it was stuck like there was a quick-drying glue between it. This damn magician. I chanted silently to decipher the spell he casted before he passed out. Each spell has a corresponding action or chant that needs to be done to undo it and that’s what I need to find out.

It took a few minutes to decipher the spell and when I finally did, I found out that it expires in six hours. There is indeed a way, though to lessen the time. As for the quick release option, a kiss on the lips. I scoffed at this desperate way of getting close to me. Is he trying to force me to take care of him. Nice try but nope.

I already know he is connected to the current magic tower master. Based on the information that Kayden gave to me from his commission from Noir, I will never get involved with a red flag guy like him. He’s an exhibitionist (he likes posing almost nude), he has violent tendencies (he likes grabbing people to force them to talk to him) and lastly, he’s a stalker (he followed me around the library and when I did my adventurer missions last time). I had no choice but to chant an invisibility spell on the both of us then I teleported him to one of the rooms in Moon Inn which I own. I placed him on a bed in a guest room. As for the spell he casted on himself before touching me, I have already thought of a way to deal with it. I isolated the room we were in within a separate dimension and then tinkered with the speed of time. The spell lost its effectiveness after 6 hours within the isolated realm. When I deactivated the spell, it was just past two hours in the present dimension. I loosened his hand from my arm, left him in the room and then went out to eat.

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Keeran’s POV

I have been staying and sleeping in the room of questions since Friday evening since based on the trend of her previous visits, she comes here very early in the morning during weekends. Finally, on the early morning of Sunday, she appeared. I am quite sure she knows I am in the room but as usual she just straight up ignored my presence.

After answering 10 questions, I thought she would leave so I followed her out but she decided to read books today. I noticed that she reads quite quickly. I also watched her taking down notes and her penmanship was really neat and elegant. I decided to sit in front of her and stare at her in hopes that she’ll talk to me or even look my way. Well, I totally lost on this game of seeking attention. She kept on reading books and taking down notes and she even moved from one section to another while ignoring me. At about lunch time, she stood up and walked towards the exit of the tower. I honestly panicked and not having any choice, I grabbed her arm and knowing this woman, I chanted a sticky spell on my hand so she can’t shake me off. I THOUGHT I KNEW HER BUT I TOTALLY FORGOT SHE WAS VENGEFUL! She sent an electric shock my way, I wanted to release my hand but I couldn’t! The last thing I remembered was when my vision turned dark. I passed out again for the second time because of her.

When I woke up, I was laying on a bed on what looks like an inn. She was nowhere in sight. I checked the time and it was a little over 6 hours. The spell must have expired so she simply left me here. How heartless.

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After eating my fill, I dropped by the produce market to go shopping. I have to refill the ingredients in the community kitchen since I wasn’t able to do it yesterday. I installed a similar inventory system that I used in Uncle Daejung’s shop in the community kitchen to keep the ingredients eternally fresh. I assigned a trustworthy old man that used to be a cook and the seven young teenage boys to have access to the food so they can cook just in case I am not able to drop by. With the prince’s support, the community kitchen started serving three meals a day compared to only one meal before. I placed a long term contract on the nearby bakeries for some plain bread and some sweet bread types to be delivered in the community kitchen on a certain schedule. I finished shopping within an hour and went straight to the community kitchen.

It was around 3pm when I got there. There wasn’t anybody in the kitchen just yet so I quietly refilled the kitchen pantry and looked into their listed menu for the day and started preparing. I may have to leave before 4pm comes but I have at least prepared all the ingredients for the cook and kitchen assistants.

I was able to quickly prepare all the needed ingredients within 30 minutes and then placed them back in the storage and inventory space for use later. I quickly left after leaving a note on the countertop about the ingredients and the new stocks of food. I then decided to go back to the academy earlier than usual for today.