Chapter 59
For a short while, Michelle observed the servants in the prison-like space beneath the mansion using her ice strings before turning her attention back to Malrik Sloan. She was curious about the content of the letter. She was guessing that it was about her visit to Garric Sloan, but it also could be something different.
Using the ice strings, she inserted her consciousness into the wall behind Malric and stared at the letter. Squatting behind the door, she smiled when she saw the content. "So he isn’t completely stupid..." she thought as she stood up and strode towards the door leading to the dark labyrinth. She couldn’t stay in the lit-up part of the mansion any longer, or Malric would discover her.
In the letter, Garric mentioned her visit, and also stated that she had probably followed the servant to Malrik’s mansion, so he should be careful and watch out. The moment he noticed a trace of her presence, he should send the servant back to Garric’s mansion to inform him.
Not wanting to scare away her prey, Michelle hid in the labyrinth, and started spreading a thin net of her dark element spirit energy to map out the whole labyrinth. After a while, she realized that the doors into the lit-up part of the mansion were the only ones in the labyrinth, with all the numerous hallways being dead-ends.
After having covered the whole mansion in her spirit energy so she could keep a track of it, Michelle slipped out of the building and hid in the mansion. She pulled a thread of her spirit energy to the gate and a bit in front of it, so the moment she came there, she could see what was happening inside. Then, she left and went to Garric’s mansion to meet up with Cold Flame. But to her surprise, Cold Flame was no longer there.
Michelle was about to search for him when she felt her contract with Nyxaroth move as he sent over some information from the middle realm.
The information stated that the Thomas Hillberg that Michelle crippled was just a double, but when he returned with the poisoned and crippled Eleanor and Joseph, their adoptive mother, Thomas’ wife, got so desperate that she got into a fight with the real Thomas, and as her power was a bit higher than Thomas’, she ended up killing him for not protecting her children properly, but after the fight, she herself ended up in come, with little to no chance of waking up. Of course, Thomas’ double wasn’t spared and was thrown into the sect’s prison to rot there.
With their work finished in the middle realm, Snow, Mare and Nyxaroth were returning to Michelle. But that would take a few days, as traveling between realms was difficult, especially since Snow and Mare were clearly under-leveled compared to the middle realm’s people.
After receiving the message, Michelle smiled a bit before returning her attention to Cold Flame. "Flamie?" she asked, using the contract to contact him, but she got no response. "Cold Flame?!" she tried again but to no avail. Frowning a bit, she put her hands down on the ground and started forming a net of spirit energy beneath her, spreading it as far as she could reach. She didn’t care that she was overusing her spirit energy, or that she could harm her spirit veins. She just wanted to find Cold Flame.