Of Arms and Arcane

Chapter 219

A short ride in an unmarked carriage later, I found myself getting off at the servant’s entrance of the Langston estate. And waiting for me inside was a man in his fifties, immaculately dressed in a butler’s uniform. 

The young butler went ahead of me and whispered into the older butler’s ear. After the old butler nodded, he turned to me, “Mr. Lima, welcome. I am Head Butler Giles. I presume you are here to take a look at Young Master Ambrose’s room.”

I just nodded in reply, and Giles said, “Please follow me.”

As I followed Giles throughout the mansion, I noticed a distinct lack of people. Even a baron family like mine has servants all over the place doing chores. Now, it was only the two butlers and me.

Giles noticed me looking around for the missing people and said, “Master Victor has cleared out the rest of the staff. The fewer people who know you were even here, the better.”

We soon entered Ambrose’s room, and it was a mess. It looked like someone ransacked the place.

“When we entered the room, it was in this state. We have already done a physical and magical

When they got closer, I counted forty-three people in hooded cloaks, and along with them was a hand-pushed cart loaded with two barrels.

When they reached the top of the hill, they stopped a couple of meters away from the shade of the tree I was in. So just to be safe, I shrouded myself in darkness mana to provide myself extra concealment.

After they parked the cart at the trunk of the tree I was in, using the roots to make sure the cart does not roll anywhere, they all gathered in a circle and put their lanterns in the middle. Then, one of them stepped forward to the middle of the circle and addressed the rest.

“Brothers and sisters of the Eclipsed Eye, we gather once again to be one with the moon and nature, and to have fellowship with one another.” the hooded man said. “Come, join me in meditation under the eye of the night sky.”

The hooded man sat on the ground, followed by the rest of the gathering, and the man in the middle of the circle started chanting in a language unknown to me.

This had better not summon some shadow beast form hell or something, otherwise I am going to request a bigger reward.