Chapter 177: The Great Esmeray
"Master, what’s going on?" Ascher couldn’t hold himself back anymore and finally dared to speak after all the weird and unexplainable things that had been happening ever since that one carriage caught his master’s attention, or more like that one woman.
Though he couldn’t deny that the woman was really beautiful, to the level where one could be left completely mesmerized by her mere presence, and held a powerful and noble presence, his master was not someone who could be distracted by beauty.
If following the woman to the Royal Palace wasn’t already weird enough, then the two of them hiding in the shadows right outside the Cursed Castle while they tried to see exactly what was going on inside the castle, definitely was. Looking at his master’s glowing green orbs he could tell that the latter had already found the woman.
Magical wards, ancient spells, long distances, or concrete walls could never stop his master from looking at what he desired to see. He was strong enough to be physically present in the Deep Valleys while still being able to see everything that would be going on in the Capital City or the Cursed Castle.
"Master..." He tried to call his master again when the masked man didn’t respond to his question even after certain long moments had already passed.
"Ascher, just stay silent." The masked man was really not happy with his underling’s constant questioning that was distracting him from the woman who was currently the center of his entire world.
"But master..." Ascher was nowhere near giving up, yet. The world probably knew his master as someone with a heart of stone, heartless, cruel, and the very reincarnation of destruction and doom, however, he had seen that side of his master that the world was never able to see, one that was the actual true personality of the Great Esmeray who once walked on the four lands, a man who had been long forgotten as everyone believed he’s dead.
"What?" The masked man, or the man once known by the name Esmeray, asked his only disciple while not even trying to hide how irritated he was at the moment.
"Master, can you please tell me why you are so interested in that woman? She doesn’t look like anything special." Ascher pressed further and waited for his master to finally tell him something about what had gotten him so excited all of a sudden.
"She is special," Esmeray spoke suddenly, his voice coming out so low but full of calmness and a confidence that made Ascher realize that his master believed what he was saying and if it was his master who believed that the lady of the Cursed Castle was someone special, then she was indeed special. It wasn’t every day that someone got recognized as ’special’ by the Great Esmeray himself.