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

Chapter 209: Chapter 209 - The last day of the ”Annual Mystique Blood Union Festival”

The remaining days of the festival passed by quite quickly. As for my Freyheimr slaves and me, we just continued taking as many useful and valuable things from this territory as we can. Each of my slaves were given their storage earrings and they have already kept all their valuables there and those that they don’t like to bring were sold off for money. The others in the outer district continued doing odd jobs to earn as much money as they can before leaving the territory with me. They did not keep their belongings hidden for now so as not to alert the authorities of their imminent departure at the end of the festival.

The elders were encouraging me to buy more of the elven items that were on sale which I did just to shut them up. These things would be useful for my business research as well as quite a good source of money if auctioned outside. They look quite contented with my purchases as they finally stopped pestering me. This should also be due to the fact that the number of slaves I have bought out of their hands was already quite high. I already have 32 as of the moment. YES. From the previous 25, it has increased to 32 in just a few days since the guys working at the middle district are such great headhunters and sales people. They took the task I gave them quite seriously maybe because of the promised reward or maybe they just relish in the idea of taking more useful people out of here to make the territory suffer in the near future.

Their catch consisted of a trio of farmers named Leaf, Sylvian and Lyik. They were enticed with the promises of fertile lands they could farm to their hearts content, a lot of different types of seeds they can work with and a kind and fair master. I wonder which master they were talking about though.

They found me two more botanists that also serve as healers which were co-workers of Therlis in his shop. Their given names were Rerah and Yaus. The others told me in secret that those two were actually Therlis’ disciples but the guy hated the term since it makes him feel very old (I am sure he is old though none of my elves looked any older than 30). He also forbids the two guys from calling him teacher in public for the same reason. They were forced to call him by name instead.

They also got a leather tanner since they said that I seem to love buying clothes and experimenting on designs. They teasingly told me that they wanted to complete my ”doll” collection since I already have a tailor (Sylten) and a weaver (Neyha), previously. His name is Korlan and he’s been a tanner for a century or two as per what he said.

The last one they fooled- *coughs*, rather enticed was surprisingly another scribe. They said that he was the man who taught all thirteen of them (the childhood friends) how to read, write and also elven history and culture when they were young so they fondly call him ”An’kin” which means teacher in mystique language. I looked at them blankly since I just realized that they were all a few hundred years old already and if this guy is their teacher, how old can he be, right? They seemed to have read my mind and they readily said that he was already a little over 400 years old. As expected, he doesn’t look any older than 25 to me when I met him the first time. They said that they needed a man like him for the education of the future little elves we will be having then all their faces turned beet-red all of a sudden after they realized what they just said to my face. Even their old teacher coughed, his face turned red too and he looked away. The old elven teacher’s name was Yoffir. He did look at me for a few seconds meaningfully but when I looked back into his eyes, he looked away shyly for some reason. I wonder what this seemingly cunning old man is thinking about while looking at me and what did this bunch of naughty friends told him to entice him to leave his life here and start some place else. (Author’s Note: (spoiler alert) Yoffir has always loved children so he chose a profession that lets him teach the young ones. He has always dreamed having one of his own though luck isn’t on his side so you get the idea what they used to entice him. *winks*)

As the last day of my stay in Freyheimr arrived, I gave instructions to the 32 men about our departure from this place. I asked them to tidy up the whole villa and don’t leave anything of value behind. I even took the customized beds I requested them to make for me. I asked Vaelion and Ithil to come with me in the guise of visiting the outer district and their house one last time.

I know many eyes are watching our every move so we kept and acted as leisurely as we can. We passed by some shops in the middle district and even went shopping. It simply seemed like I was using up whatever credits is remaining in my ring. I bought pretty random things like food, clothing, elven tools and simple trinkets as souvenirs. We simply looked like people tidying a house before leaving. There were occasional greetings with people that we passed by but we kept our conversations to a minimum.

It was already time to cook lunch for the people in the outer district when we finished shopping. We were all acting pretty much how our normal days were in the past two weeks. We cooked and ate together and the atmosphere was just happy and calm. I still did the 30-minute illusion barrier to give them final instructions for our departure later and everybody couldn’t help but be excited about it. I told them that when we are about to leave, they simply need to go about their regular activities but have somebody in their houses gradually keep their belongings in the earrings so that when sunset arrives, they will be all packed up. I told them to all go back in the house half an hour before sunset so the absence of people in the streets will seem to be a normal thing for the observers.

One hour before sunset, we have cleared up the villa and the people from the middle district have cleared up their homes, stores and shops. I passed by the managers of the posh district to say goodbye just like a normal tourist would. The other seed bearers followed suite as we all left the main gates of Freyheimr. I waited for each of them to leave through the carriages that were provided to them by the territory. As for me, I told the managers they I could cast a teleportation portal for everybody just fine.

Fifteen minutes before sunset, I asked Vaelion, Elondar and Verrad to create a barrier of some sort to envelope all 33 of us to hide what I was about to do. It took them about 5 minutes to complete a full concealment. Afterwarda, I conjured a huge orb the side of a basketball filled with my mystique mana much to everybody’s surprise. I then removed my disguise for the first time in the midst of their shocked gazes. It was the first time they realized that I was a mystique too just like all of them. I can see the shock in Yoffir’s face as he paled and fell down to his knees. He then uttered, ”Udos yaith udossta bel’lain ulu l’valsharess d’Eieneos.” (We pay our respects to the queen of Eieneos.) The others looked in disbelief between Yoffir and me. I just nodded my head as a response then dismissed it as nothing. I kept my focus on the task at hand. Within 10 seconds, a huge teleportation portal appeared on the ground with the mystique mana orb as its core. I have prepared this beforehand to ensure that the teleportation portal will not lose its mana support in the middle of teleporting several people. I immediately sent the first 20 people straight to Marahuyo. After that was done, I then sent messages to the 58 people left in the outer district to start accepting the offers I sent into their slavery bracelets. As they did, they appeared one by one within the confines of the sturdy barrier my three men have created. Every time the crowd reaches 20, I start the next batch for teleportation. The last batch that will be leaving the territory included me, Vaelion (mage), Verrad (mage), Elondar (druid), Yoffir (mage), Therlis (healer), Rerah (healer), Yaus (healer), Maidar (archer), Merith (hunter) and Reiss (weaponsmith). This was planned just in case we get caught by guards and had to fight our way out of this place.

It was only five minutes now before sunset and the outer district is now a complete ghost town. The ex-residents purposely left light sources in their homes to create the illusion that the inhabitants are still inside. As for me, I chanted a spell for the first time since my stay here. It was a spell to erase all my tracks and the territory’s memories of my existence. It would create a gap in their memories as to where the 90 people I took out from their territory went to or how they were able to leave unnoticed. I hope they will have fun looking for a needle in a haystack.

It took five batches for the teleportating to be able to move all 91 people, myself included, to Marahuyo. As the new moon shines above Freyheimr, the last batch consisted of 11 people disappeared from the outskirts of the territory without a trace.