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Chương 185: Difficult Dealings

With that, negotiations between Henrietta and Michael fall through. The former attempts to offer various things afterwards, such as noble titles, lands, gold, and even the commission of magical artifacts, yet Michael rejects it all.

Henrietta goes silent after realising that Michael never really intended to accept any deal she offers, and half an hour later, Louise arrives at the bottom of the hill with a good-sized entourage comprised of Agnes and her Musketeer Knights, and two squads of supporting mages.

Louise and Agnes leave the entourage as dictated by Michael in his note. The duo scaling the hill until they are eventually standing a couple meters opposite Michael and Henrietta.

"Louise..." Henrietta mutters, feeling both happy and upset that she'd disobeyed her orders and come anyway.

"Princess." Louise weakly smiles back, Brimir's Prayer Book tightly tucked into a pouch on her side. "You haven't been harmed?" she asks, sending a scathing accusatory glance at Michael who merely grins toothily back.

Henrietta shakes her head, "Aside from waking up on the floor, no. But, I would rather you return back to the palace, Louise. Tristain should no negotiate with terrorists. If this leads to me being harmed, it will only prove how unworthy they are to treat with." she states as she ignores Michael entirely. She would be left with a burn scar around her neck for the rest of her life, but that hadn't happened in Michael's care... Though, that wouldn't stop her from using it in any future negotiations... Pity was an easily manipulatable emotion after all.

Michael tugs on her bindings as he locks eyes with Louise, "Yes, leave. Honestly, I'll get what I want eventually, so letting me spend more time with the princess would suit me fine." he retorts with a lopsided leer that Henrietta can't help but turn her face away from.

"Unhand her your beast!" Agnes angrily exclaims but doesn't draw her flintlock pistol for fear of the negotiations fully falling through.

"Hand over the book and I will!" he swiftly replies, eying the rather conspicuous book-shaped bulge present on Louise pouch.

Louise scowls at his treatment of the princess but refrains from throwing explosions at him for now, "We will! But you must let the princess go first!"

Michael scoffs, "I only want the book, you can have her once I have it! Just throw it over here, and I'll let her go!"

...

Louise grits her teeth, shaking her head and breaking her gaze from Henrietta's own imploring look. Clearly, she thought the Prayer Book was more valuable than herself. Not that Louise felt the same, was it selfish to want her best friend back at any cost? Or was it selfless to give up all the opportunities the artifact afforded? Argh! Why does she even have to make this choice in the first place! "Fine! I'll hand it over, just promise that the princess will be returned unharmed!" she asks, pulling the Prayer Book from its pouch and displaying it clearly for Michael.

"Louise, don't!-Ugh!" Henrietta starts but is cut off as Michael tugs harder on her bonds.

He grins, eyes implacably locked onto the book, "Throw it over, and I'll let her go." he confirms, his grin only becoming wider as Louise finally throws it at his feet... At least, that's what would have happened.

The group are all stunned in shock as a familiar-looking hand made of darkness sprouts from the ground and snatches the book from mid-air. Michael snarls angrily while looking around for the culprit, Agnes doing the same as she'd seen this before as well, back in Albion.

"Sheffield!" Michael roars, scanning the area until he spots her lithe figure on a nearby hilltop, holding the Prayer Book with a shit-eating grin on her face.

"Oh, is it not my pet Gandalfr? How are you getting on? Things haven't been the same since you escaped... I've had no one as interesting to play with." she casually remarks whole rolling her wrist, causing the hand of shadows connected to her bracelet to mimic the motion.

"Bitch, you better give that fucking book back or I'll make the things you did to me look like a massage!" he shouts back, barely holding back from flying into a rage and charging her.

Sheffield tuts while casually flipping the Prayer Book open, her face frowning slightly as she lays eyes on the blank pages, "Now, now, is that any way to talk to your master? I have to thank you though, if you hadn't set up this, 'meeting', I'd have had far more difficulty acquiring this." she explain, now drawing the ire of Henrietta, Louise, and Agnes.

Agnes finally draws her flintlock pistol and points it at Sheffield, demanding her to hand over the book or she'd fire, but Sheffield just laughs at her. "Princess, you should leash your dog before it hurts itself. As for the book? I think I'll be keeping that."

Michael seethes but manages to maintain control of himself well enough to begin preparing his attack on her. She wouldn't escape this time if he had anything to say about it. Unfortunately, Sheffield was more than prepared for him.

She lets the shadow hand fade away as she presents the back of her hand towards the group, specifically, showing the Ring of Andvari that steadily begins to glow.

"Get down!" he shouts towards Louise and Agnes, knowing that Sheffield intended to take control of them. He forces Henrietta to the ground and covers her with his body, knowing that he'd be able to endure the artifact now that he had magical and mental defences.

A flash of light washes over all of them, taking Louise, Agnes, and even their entourage at the bottom of the hill off-guard. Henrietta is saved from its effects as Michael takes the brunt of it, but as the light fades, he quickly finds himself outnumbered by Sheffield's mind-controlled forces.


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Chương 186: Shadow-Geuse Hands

"Shit." he mutters as he stands and allows Henrietta to see the glassy-eyed Agnes and Louise staring at them. "Fucking Ring of Andvari." he grouses, shocking Henrietta at the name of the artifact.

"Then they are-"

"Controlled." he finishes for her. He draws Derflinger from his waist and cuts her bonds before turning towards Sheffield. "I'LL LET YOU GUYS HANDLE THEM! SHE'S MINE!" he shouts, loud enough for Tiffania and Ralf to hear.

With that, he pounces towards Sheffield, leaving Henrietta standing there weaponless as her mind-controlled subjects slowly advance towards her, weapons at the ready.

She slowly backs away, unsure how to react in this situation, or even if she should run or stay and help them break from the spell. Her eyes trail off to the side where her entourage of soldiers and mages begin marches up the hill towards her. Did this Sheffield woman intend to have her killed by her own subjects?

Fortunately, a shadow flies over her and blocks the sun temporarily, quickly landing and allowing the man named Ralf to leap forward and block the musket ball shot by Agnes. Tiffania quickly hops off of the dragon next, turning her attention towards Louise who seemed to be absent-mindedly casting an explosion spell, only to be forced to dodge to the side as Tiffania's own 'Erase' spell flies past her ineffectually.

"Princess, stay behind me." she says, hoping to prevent any casualties from Sheffield's magic... Even if such a thing was terribly unlikely.

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Michael shoots towards Sheffield like a bullet, his Essence Shift passive wasn't stacked at all, so that combined with Shadow Dance being inactive massively lowers his usual speed. But he's still significantly faster than your average person.

He quickly arrives atop the hill where Sheffield was standing, the woman tucking the Prayer Book in between her breasts as he holds out her palms towards Michael in a combat stance.

"I've been waiting for months to do this! Take this you cunt!" he exclaims as he uses Blink Strike, appearing behind her and chopping down heavily with Derflinger as said blade cheers for his partner's success.

*Thwip!*

His blade passes through nothing however, as Sheffield rolls to the side, obviously having anticipated such an attack from her previous experience observing Michael. Still, the speed of his attack has her stumbling to avoid it, forcing her to swipe a hand at him, causing her shadow hand to manifest and smack him in the chest with a backhand.

"Argh!" he grunts as he's sent tumbling away from the force of the attack, eventually sliding to a stop as he finally catches himself. Her attack had knocked the wind out of him, but it hadn't done in real damage, none that he couldn't heal in a second or two at least.

"Not looking so tough now, Gandalfr." she chuckles as runes he'd never seen before begin glowing on her forehead under the fringe of her hair.

"Mjöðvitnir?" he mutters, quickly recalling anything he'd read on it. He knew she was a Void Familiar, but what runes she had was another matter entirely. Mjöðvitnir was known as the Mind of God, which had something to do with magical artifacts... Kind of expected given the many shiny baubles she always seemed to be wearing.

The runes on her forehead grow brighter with more intensity as more shadows manifest around her bracelet. The single hand of shadows splits into two, then four, then eight. This continues until there were around thirty large shadow hands sprouting from her shadow.

Things don't just end there however, her boots flash with light as she literally steps on the air, as if standing on an invisible platform. She jumps again as Michael picks his jaw up off of the floor and begins to act, but by then her shadow hands were already darting towards him.

"Time to show your worth, Derflinger!" he exclaims as he swings the magic eating swords towards the shadow hands.

"I have no idea what you mean, partner!" the sword yelps, unaware of his own abilities due to some kind of mental block or senility only found among old sentient artifacts.

Fortunately, the blade swings true, sucking the shadow hands up like a vacuum cleaner every time he comes into contact with them.

Sheffield squints at the ease with which her summoned appendages are eliminated, but just focuses and summons more of them, though, this does come with some costs. Her bracelet cracks slightly as her runes glow brighter, the enchantments on it being overtaxed.

Indeed, her Mjöðvitnir runes didn't just allow her to easily use any artifact. But use artifacts in ways their creators hadn't intended. Her bracelet was known as the 'Shadow-Grasp Band', as was only intended to summon a single shadow hand at a time. Additionally, it these hands could only manifest from the bracelet itself, instead of Sheffield's shadows.

Her boots were no different, only intended to create temporary footholds so that the user could 'double-jump', but the footholds she was creating lasted as long as she wished... At the expense of her boots durability.

Not that Michael was aware of any of this, content to continue destroying her manifested shadow hands with Derflinger. Unknowingly sucking the Shadow-Grasp Band dry of its enchantments as Derflinger continued eating the magic made manifest by it.

Sheffield growls, and retrieve some inconspicuous-looking spherical stones that occasionally pulsed with red light. She focuses on them with her runes before tossing them at Michael in a haphazard manner. She lacked accuracy, but the number of projectiles she'd scattered made up for it.

Michael notices this, but isn't willing to flee until Derflinger shouts in fright, "Partner! Run! Firestones!" he exclaims, causing Michael to sweatdrop. Firestones? Like the Windstones used to summon a gigantic tornado in Antomiers? "Shit!" he murmurs, quickly summoning Counter Spell and simultaneously Pouncing away, just in time too, as the stones explode with a tremendous *BOOOOM!*.


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