Chapter 2 - Good ol’ magic
Scarlett sighed deeply after Evelyne left the office. That did not go as well as she had wanted. The original Scarlett's personality was more twisted than she'd thought.
The moment Evelyne had entered the room it had felt like Scarlett was overwhelmed by a wave of loathing. This wasn't Scarlett merely disliking her sister. This was complete repulsion. She was sickened by Evelyne's mere existence. And all of that hatred from the original Scarlett came rushing at her all at the same time. As disturbing as it was to have such feelings forced onto you against your will, it was more disturbing that Scarlett felt like that to begin with. It had taken all her willpower just to speak with Evelyne relatively normally just now. Although she had also ended up agreeing with everything the original Scarlett's younger sister wanted just to get her to leave.
Not that she minded that part too much. In the game Evelyne had been a decent enough character and the one who actually took care of most of the Hartford family's management. She was bound to know more about any matters than her.
But this did make it clear to what extent Scarlett was affected by the original's personality.
Drumming her fingers against the desk, she looked out across the office. She had to figure out what to do next. If this world truly was like the game, then there were a lot of dangers just waiting to happen. Especially for her character. And though she was slightly curious, she didn't want to find out what would happen if she were to die as Scarlett. Naturally, that meant figuring out how to survive.
Scarlett was a low-level villain so even amongst NPCs in 'Chronicle of Realms', she was on the weaker side. [Third-rate Mana Veins] and [Minor Mana Control] both showcased that. [Minor Mana Control] was one of the starting traits for the player if they chose a mage route and lowered mana costs in general. In her first playthrough, she'd already managed to level that to [Mana Control] by the time she faced Scarlett and her goons. The problem was that she didn't know how to upgrade this version of it. In the game the player earned experience with skills and slowly leveled them up like that. But her status window didn't indicate any such feature. In fact, it lacked a lot of the features that the player's status window had in the game. To add to that, she had no idea of how to use her apparent magic, nor did she have much mana to begin with.
[Mana: 967/967]
This was even less than the player had at the start of the game. Two or three low-level spells would probably run her dry.
This did explain why Scarlett did so little in the game when you fought her. Instead she relied on her underlings' strength in that fight. But she didn't know who those underlings were. Nor did she really want to know, considering most of them were ruthless criminals.
But then what was her priority? Growing stronger? Finding strong people to work for her? Going into hiding?
Scarlett rose from her seat and crossed the room before opening the door to the office. Walking down the hallway, she spotted the servant from earlier sitting inside a small room next to a small table. The woman was knitting a pair of small mittens. When she looked up a shocked expression came across her face. "M-My Lady?!" The servant hastily put away her knitting needles on the table next to her and stood up to curtsy.
"Take me to the training facility," Scarlett said, not bothering with hiding the chill in her voice for the time being.