Chapter 618 Seraphina [1/2]
'What's happening?!' Max cried inwardly in panic. He first thought he was having his bloodline backlash but soon dismissed the thought because unlike before, he hadn't used up all of his bloodline energy, much less his bloodline source.
Then he noticed somethingâalthough what was happening was similar to the bloodline backlash... It was something completely different.
When he had the backlash, his lust was magnified several fold and it was overwhelming his mind. Whereas now, although his lust had spiked, it wasn't trying to overwhelm him. Also, there was something else that was different... He was feeling an intense desire to take possession of this simple looking lady and make her his. It was as if he had become a beast and she was a delectable, and irresistible prey.
Not wanting them to notice his abnormality, he did his best to suppress this overwhelming urge but Riva, being a Five Star Mage, still noticed something was up with him and asked.
"You alright?"
"Yeah." Max nodded before peeling his eyes off the lady in front of him and snapped them shut, not caring what they would think about it.
The moment he closed his eyes, he felt his bloodline calm down albeit a little. Riva raised her brows at his rude behavior but recalling how she had been treating him, she chose to ignore it and looked at the lady who respectfully bowed to her in greeting.
"Greetings, Elder Riva."
Then despite the fact Max had closed his eyes, and was seemingly trying to ignore her existence, she politely greeted him, "Hello sir."
Max planned to ignore her until Riva was done explaining to her, but when he heard her greet him, his heart fluttered and unwittingly, he opened his eyes. 'How troublesome!' Sighing in frustration, he met her gazeâthe moment he did, his bloodline again became violentâand returned the greeting with the best gentlemanly smile he could muster in his current situation.
"Hello milady! It's very nice to meet you."
'Are you afraid her family will act against you later?' She had asked.
With a calm look, Sera had shaken her head and said, "No. I'm not afraid of that. I just don't want to punish her. She is already suffering enough."
"Suffering from what?" She had asked out of curiosity.
'From jealousy, anger and hate. She can never be happy because of these and will eventually suffer. She will suffer so much that my suffering will pale in comparison.' Sera had said, 'That's why I don't want to punish her. She is too pitiful for me to do that.'
That day, that 12 year old girl had given Riva a new perspective of life and gave closure from some things that had been holding her from focusing on more important things.
A day later, she had Sera investigated. Realizing how she had no family and how much she was suffering, she decided to give her a better life. However, when she went to bring her to her mansion, Sera had said she wouldn't take anything for free and would instead work as her servant.
Riva relented and little Sera started working as a gardener.
After that, Riva got busy and it was only after a month that she met her again. When she saw him, she was shocked because Sera had gone from an ordinary person to a peak Two Star Mage with dual elements awakened in just one month. Furthermore, her mana core was incomparably pure and solid.
After realizing how talented she was, Riva started guiding her along with Sophie and her son, Uriel. Under her guidance, she showed even better talent and in just half an year, she broke through and became a Three Star Mage.
Riva was ecstatic and wanted to take her as her disciple before the Grand Elders found out about her talent and snatched her away. But before she could do that, she was sent on another month-long mission. During that month, she was constantly worried that when she returned, a Grand Elder would have made Sera their disciple. When she returned, she was relieved to realize her worries were unfounded.
But when she met Sera again, all her relief and excitement vanished because she noticed Sera seemed to have aged a lot more than she should have in a mere month and her body had become frail.
When she checked her body, wanting to find what could have caused this, she was devastated.