"If it's possible, tomorrow night, my father, Colonel Bernstein, will be holding a gathering. He hopes to invite you to attend."
Liliana Bernstein's voice was very soft, as if this waiting was just to inform him of this matter.
This gentle tone and her attitude made it difficult for the listener to refuse her proposal.
Those who were secretly watching couldn't help but curl their lips, only feeling that this big guy had really gotten lucky.
Why didn't such a good thing happen to them?!
Owen turned his gaze from the bodyguard behind the girl. Facing the girl, he finally nodded his head slightly, "I will go, Miss Bernstein."
"In that case, my father will be very much looking forward to your arrival... I, I am too."
The girl seemed very happy. She subconsciously brushed a stray hair from her forehead, as if the matter in her heart had finally settled, revealing a bright smile.
She glanced at the tall man in front of her one last time, and then left with the somewhat helpless bodyguard behind her.
Owen stood there for a long time before withdrawing his gaze.
He didn't return to the tavern, but followed the guidance of the spirit threads and walked towards the nearby area.
The night of Fort Saga, under the bright moonlight of the crimson moon, still had many shadowy alleys that appeared even darker.
When Owen passed through an almost unlit dark alley, he was dragged inward by a huge force.
He stumbled, and with the power of an ancient Hermes incantation activating a death domain charm, the surrounding sounds instantly quieted down, as if entering a silent night of death, with all things entering the realm of the dead.
As for why not use the night domain... ah, was that even possible? Would the Goddess turn around and send the Master of Marionettes who made the charm to the town to be neighbors with the chopping board fish (Antigonus)?
Tang held the Sun Scepter, thought for a moment, and then added a black sunbeam at the alley entrance.
He used the Manipulator's extraordinary characteristics within the Sun Scepter to give psychological hints and hypnosis to everyone passing by the alley, preventing them from accidentally entering this area.
Fort Saga was, after all, in the Hornaches Mountains, bordering the Kingdom of Feysac and the Kingdom of Intis, and was a very important military fortress for Loen's foreign relations, garrisoned by a Sequence Four demigod of the Loen military.
Even if this demigod wasn't currently here, Tang had to be cautious.
After confirming that there were no problems around and that nothing wearing a monocle suddenly appeared, Tang snapped his fingers. Firelight flickered in the dark alley, illuminating the area.
Owen stood not far away, not surprised, watching Tang magically produce several lit candles and have them dispel the surrounding darkness.
"Why did you come over?"
"Some things." After using his Clown abilities to stick these candles to the wall, Tang took a few steps forward.
He held the Sun Scepter, using the sun symbol at the top of the scepter as a mirror to reflect Owen's figure, thereby confirming whether the other party was affected by some extraordinary power or psychological hints.
Black sunbeam was the core extraordinary ability of the Sun Scepter, but after using it a lot, Tang had naturally figured out some things not mentioned in the System's appraisal.
For example, using the inherent characteristics of the Sun Scepter, without using spirituality to activate it, relying solely on the Sun Scepter itself to passively use a portion of its extraordinary power.
This ability would not cause the sun to rise, nor would it have any negative effects.
"How's Mom doing?" Owen asked casually, taking advantage of Tang fiddling with something he didn't understand.
"Not bad, you'll know if you go back to see her sometime." Tang replied casually, and after confirming that he hadn't found anything dirty, he sized up Owen.
"Looks like you've been doing pretty well lately?"
Knowing to send home some random things that he didn't even know what they were, it looked like he was doing quite well.
Thinking of the scene he had just seen, combined with what he had seen in Euclid's space, Tang used the Faceless's extraordinary ability to make his voice soft and gentle, even deliberately drawing out his words a bit, "Wow~ she's so beautiful."
Owen was about to say something, but Tang's words choked him. He helplessly put down the broadsword behind him and leaned against the wall, "Why are you being so sarcastic right off the bat..."
"I'm not being sarcastic at all. After all, she does seem to have a bit of interest in you. Could it be that your heart wasn't moved?"
Owen was speechless, "She's just a fourteen or fifteen-year-old kid, what's there to be moved about?"
He still had basic moral principles. He wasn't that depraved.
Hearing this, the smile on Tang's face gradually widened, "Is that so? If that's what you think, then that's really great."
He nodded, acting casually, "After all, she's a witch. You two aren't suitable."
Owen: ...?
What are you talking about?
"Huh?"
He didn't react for a moment. When he spoke again, his voice had become somewhat distorted, "An Extraordinary of the Assassin pathway? A Sequence Seven Witch, such a young child?"
Tang shrugged, "Believe it or not... and she's not that young anymore."
He had always promoted the idea of eighteen being the age of adulthood at home, initially trying to coax his own mother not to rush to kick her dear son out... Incidentally, after so many years of his cultural influence, Owen's values had also somewhat aligned with his.
In this era, the churches hadn't yet promulgated anything about the most suitable age for childbearing.
With not much labor, anchors, or believers, the churches and the state couldn't wait for ordinary people to have more children.
However, what surprised Owen wasn't just this.
Marrying off a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl wasn't uncommon for them. What was astonishing was a Sequence Seven at fourteen or fifteen, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old Witch.
"Most likely a Witch, less likely a Pleasure Witch... Didn't you notice that your previous reaction was obviously abnormal?" Tang glanced at Owen, then looked away again.
A brainless guy, really. He wouldn't even notice if he was being instigated without him. He was being completely fooled, and might even help count the money after being sold.
Leaving this kid here, wouldn't he really one day find this kid poisoned to death, then locked in a coffin, and his head taken by that someone in later generations as ritual material...?
Of course, when observing through Euclid's space, Tang only saw that the other party was a Witch through her spirituality, some magical items on her body, and the mirror connected to her. He hadn't observed further in detail yet.
He wasn't sure if the other party was a member of the Witch Sect, or a loose Witch, whether she had secretly advanced while hiding it from the military here, or if she was simply someone from the Loen military responsible for recruiting potential individuals.
But in the end, who knew what this, uh, young lady, was in her previous life.
Poke a certain prince and a certain emperor.
The taste of a Witch is really good~
"If it's true love, emmm, whatever makes you happy."
(End of this chapter)