"Umm..." Ian nodded.
"But where are you going?" he couldn't help but ask.
"You don't need to know."
Margaret waved her hand and suddenly remembered something.
"Oh, by the way, you should probably go to Woodhaven City. That brat got quite the adventure. If you are late, you might not be able to see her again."
She smirked in a playful manner.
"Oh? Sylvia?"
He remembered that Sylvia seemed to have gone to Woodhaven City in anger.
"It is time for me to go. We will meet again if you bee strong enough in the future."
"Wait!"
Ian still had many things to ask, but Margaret disappeared just as she appeared inexplicably.
"If we can meet again, and you are strong enough, I may give you what you want."
Suddenly, Ian heard a distant voice of hers directly in his mind followed by a soft giggle.
"Demoness!"
He cursed, but this time he had a smile on his lips.
Seeing that Margaret truly disappeared, Ian visibly relaxed. Although he appeared easy and free when talking and flirting with her, he was actually on tenterhooks.
After all, she turned out to be so powerful that he couldn't even use his mental power in front of her.
Anybody would be suffocated if their life wasn't in their hands.
'Fortunately, it was a false call.'
Ian thought so, then remembered something intriguing.
'If what Margaret said was true, Ruther can't even use Tier 1 Spell in his soul form?'
He smiled at this piece of information. You know, the reason why he was kind of passive and reducing the contact with protagonist Carl unconsciously was because of this uncertainty.
He was a passerby villain of a novel, and if he jumped around the protagonist in abandon, if the Sixth Ring Wizard decided to kill him, he would have nowhere to cry.
'But if he couldn't even use the Tier 1 spell, I can be more aggressive.'
Of course, even if Ruther was incapacitated, he was still a strong man that couldn't be content with. But Ian was no longer passive like before.
After smirking at this possibility, he then finally looked at the System prompt he got after opening the treasure chest.
[Ding!]
[You killed 5,000 soldiers in cold blood.]
[You killed your uncle Thomas, who was blood-related, with your own hands.]
[You discovered what Thomas had hidden.]
[Congratulations! You have pleted the Intermediate quest: Are you cold enough to kill your blood relative?]
[Your destiny path has been further solidified.]
[Destiny: Passerby Villain (?)]
[Congratulations! You received a reward: A Chance for Bloodline Awakening.]
[Note: Similar rewards can be earned by pleting similar quests, but be cautious as your greed can be your downfall.]
This time Ian's attention was pletely on different parts of the prompt.
'System, what is this question mark next to my destiny?'
He asked, but even after waiting for a while, got no response just like before.
After he got the foreboding feeling and severe warning from the System, he became quite sensitive to this destiny tag.
Seeing that there was nothing he could do to unearth the mystery, he could only put it aside for now and looked at the reward.
[A Chance for Bloodline Awakening: Use this chance to get an opportunity to awaken your bloodline from Initiation to Harmonization level. The degree of awakening depends on your bloodline level.]
[Warning: This reward is a chance, not a guarantee.]
[Do you want to use your chance?]
"No!"
Ian denied it as this place wasn't good for awakening yet. He didn't know what would happen once he used this chance; it was better to be careful.
After understanding the reward, he then looked at the note at the end with interest.
[Note: Similar rewards can be earned by pleting similar quests, but be cautious as your greed can be your downfall.]
'Does that mean I can get a more bloodline-related reward if I kill my relatives connected by blood?'
'How wicked.'
This time was a special case, but he wasn't a murderer and a psycho. However, this prompt did really test the conscience of a person.
After all, you just need to kill someone related by blood, and you would get exciting rewards.
'No wonder it is telling me to be cautious.'
Ian had no intention of doing such a deplorable thing.
"I'm indeed a villain, but with a conscience."
Ian laughed, totally forgetting he killed his uncle while making out with his wife on the same day.
He then briefly looked at the items in the treasure box and stuffed all the items inside it into his ring, and walked out of the room.
The things inside were nothing precious, just a dark meditation method that allows a person to use humans as a pill to increase mental power; thereby being a Wizard Apprentice.
He even saw more than 10 pills inside the pouch; evidence of Thomas's cruelty.
However, he was in no mood to criticize a dead person as he had more important things to do.
Ian wanted to awaken his bloodline as quickly as possible and return to the place mentioned by the map given by Margaret.
That place was so close to the lair of Ruther that Ian remembered the bloody plot he read in another novel in his previous life.
What if he was looted by the protagonist with the help of Ruther? It was indeed possible with the terrifying luck of that bastard.
'Tch, I bet that guy already has this medal.'
He was annoyed. Although from reading the Arcane Passage, he knew that Carl wouldn't return to that place anytime soon, what if?
Anything could happen as his presence had already deviated the destiny.
"Young Master!"
After Ian came out of the room, the black-clothed youth hurriedly saluted him with respect.
"Umm..." Ian nodded at him and ordered,
"Seal this room and send a message to the capital and wait for the order above. You can also delegate this task to Lancer. He should arrive in a few days."
"Yes, young master."
Ian just nodded and walked away from the basement, heading directly outside of Bridgeport City.
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