Chapter 315 - 080 – The Man In The Chamber

The next day Reyna left the infirmary.

She wasn't completely healed, but she had a few things that she had to take care of, she needed to learn the whereabouts of Lirian.

With that in mind, her first action was to head to Izlandi's businesses in the inner city, she went through each establishment, carefully inspecting the entire property.

After entering the business none of Izlandi's workers dared to voice any complaint about her inspections, she was an Adept, after all, no one would dare to get in her way.

She found nothing in the first few establishments, but once she reached Izlandi's Male Escort Services, the receptionist, made her aware that Lirian had been brought directly thereafter the auction.

Reyna soon reached the room where Lirian had been held, after Selner brought him in, but she soon found that the room only held an empty cage.

"What happened to the slave?" she asked and turned to the receptionist with a questioning gaze.

The receptionist audibly gulped under Reyna's cold, "I-I-I don't know," the reception stammered out in a panic.

"There are no records of him being moved," the receptionist hurriedly added, as Reyna started to glare at her coldly.

"Then tell me who has been up here since the slave was brought in?" Reyna continued to question the receptionist.

"No one is allowed on the fifth floor besides Lady Izlandi and Madam Selner," the receptionist answered hurriedly.

Reyna frowned, and started to inspect the room, 'Did he escape or did Izlandi allow him out of the cage?' she wondered and started to inspect the cage.

That's when she noticed something strange, there was a layer of dust on the floor, only she realised that the dust was metallic, she took a closer look at the cage and that was when she realised that it looked like the entire thing had been lightly corroded.

Once she noticed that, she also realised that the entire room was in a similar condition, the walls and ceiling looked like they had also experienced a similar degree of corrosion.

The corrosion was caused by Lirian when he showed Izlandi his power, but Reyna had no clue about what happened, so she could only come up with her own theories.

'Could he really have a way to hide his cultivation?' she pondered deeply, as she inspected the room.

The more she looked at the corrosion, the more certain she became that it was the work of energy, not even she knew a spell to cause such an effect, so she was certain that it wasn't Izlandi's doing, which left only one other option.

Worry lines grew across her face as she started to inspect the lock of the cage, it wasn't forced open, but she knew a few spells that could help her open a lock, so she couldn't put it past Lirian to have the ability to open the lock by himself.

Which only left her with more uncertainty, it was impossible for her to tell if Lirian escaped by himself or if someone opened the gate for him.

Reyna turned back to the sweating receptionist, "Tell me everything that has happened in this brothel since that slave was brought in?" she questioned the receptionist harshly.

It didn't take long for the scared receptionist to spill everything that she learned, she learned the names of a large number of the woman who came to the brothel to have affairs, she was surprised to find that some of them were nobles from House Kurt, and there was even a man from the family who was a regular at the brothel.

But other than that she learned about the amount of time Izlandi spent in the brothel, but the thing that made her raise a brow was when she learnt that Izlandi brought her alchemy tools in at one point and then spent a few days in the brothel.

She also learnt that Izlandi took all the tools back to the keep about a week ago, suspicion filled Reyna's eyes as she thought about the details.

When she matched it with the time of events, things started to click together in her head, 'The day she finished with her alchemy session was the day that the poisoning happened,' she thought.

'But Izlandi lacks talent in alchemy, I don't see how she could have brewed such a nasty poison, unless she had the assistance of a master,' Reyna concluded but she didn't like what her thoughts were telling her.

She felt that if she was thinking clearly, then she had grossly underestimated Lirian, she couldn't help but regret not killing him when she had the chance.

"If my speculation is correct then I'll need proof before presenting this to the lord," she reasoned and hurriedly left.

Time was of the essence, she knew that it wouldn't be long before word reached Izlandi about her investigations.

Once Izlandi found out about her actions, it was only natural that she would raise her guard against Reyna, hence Reyna decided to move fast in her attempt to search for answers.

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When Reyna returned to the keep she kept moving through the corridors and occasionally passed Izlandi's chambers, there were over a dozen guards standing at the entrance the entire time.

However, after a few hours of performing rounds, she saw the doors to the room slowly open.

Reyna quickly backtracked and hid in a side corridor, she snuck a peek and saw Izlandi walking in a beautiful red dress that revealed a lot of her fair slender legs.

Reyna's face grew a little green as she saw Izlandi walking with elegant steps as she held her head high with that arrogant and condescending look on her face, that said she thought she was better than everyone else in the world because of how beautiful she was.

Most noticeable was the corset that Izlandi was wearing, which showed off her extremely slim waist, Reyna could only rejoice at the fact that the top of the corset was filled with nothing but air, due to her extremely undeveloped chest.

Reyna remained hidden, as the guards moved into formation around Izlandi and started to cross the corridors, Reyna didn't know where she was heading but now was the time for her to act.

Once Izlandi was out of sight she rushed forward and pushed the doors open, the room was glowing with the afternoon light, as Reyna started to search through the room for some form of evidence of Izlandi's crimes.

She hurriedly searched through the bed pedestals, the dresser, and the closet, but after a while, she came up with nothing.

Reyna was starting to stress a little, she felt like she had been searching for hours, but there was nothing to be found, it was then that she noticed a peculiarity that she had previously missed.

Reyna noticed that the door to the cultivation chamber was sealed off, it was strange, the only reason for the cultivation chamber to be sealed was if someone was cultivating inside it, but she had just watched Izlandi leave, hence there was no reason for the chamber to be sealed.

Reyna walked to the massive door, wondering what lay behind, 'Is it him? Did Izlandi really go so far as to sneak him into her cultivation chamber?' she wondered hardly believing her guess.

Reyna pressed her hand against the door and activated the spell circle to open the door, a moment later a series of clicking sounds ensued, and the sound of air being sucked filled the room.

The massive door started to swing back and reveal the contents of the chambers, but words completely failed Reyna as she looked at the naked silver-haired man who was hovering in the chamber.