Chapter 161
The Sect Elders are really quite polite to us, as they escort us in and to a mountain cave where the waiting disciple begins making tea.
"So might I ask, what brings you to such a remote location for your timely intervention?" The Elder asks carefully.
"We are actually looking for a Thunder type relic that was sensed after the earthquakes last year. The object doesn’t seem to have moved, but the sense is very faint, according to our Elders. We’re hoping to come close enough to pinpoint it, and that’s how we stumbled across the battle here on the mountain." I explain as the disciple hands me my tea.
[It’s poison. Nightshade based I think, my spell isn’t perfect] Karl sends me through the mind link.
I pick up a biscuit from the table, the Elder has been snacking from them so they are likely fine, and use it to cover calling an antidote pill from my storage rings. I eat the pill with the cookie in one bite and sip the tea to wet my throat.
"Oh, that is lovely. The bitterness of the Nightshade keeps the honey from being overpowering." I commend the disciple.
They all take on a bright red embarrassed shade, so I decide to bail them out, but Elder Song beats me to it.
"Might I know where your privy is? It’s been a long journey for an old man." he says.
The disciple goes with Elder Song and I’m left with Karl and two Elders in the high Core Formation Realm. They’ve certainly got immortals in the compound, but it seems we didn’t rate highly enough to be assassinated by one of them.
I sip more tea with a smile "It’s a beautiful compound here, carved directly into the mountain. An extinct volcano, right? That would explain the warmth of these caverns."
They both nod nervously, unsure how to respond, since I’m not dying. Total amateurs, the both of them.