"Rough night, huh?" Haug asked.
"You can say that." Lith sighed, looking at his Council amulet and the many notifications that Faluel sent him about his family and the Kingdom.
Even the usually cheerful bartender gasped at the news that Belius had almost fallen and was eager to read the chronicles of the three battles on the Kingdom’s interlink.
"Do you still have some of that Crimson Garuda?"
"Depends. Are you going to steal another keg?" Haug replied.
"No."
"Then I do have some more." The bartender offered Lith a beer mug filled with the red ale, being careful to never show him the source, just to be safe.
"Thanks. You won’t believe what happened to me tonight." Lith gave him a report about the latest events and the progress they had made in tracking the missing children.
Haug was his contractor so Lith felt obligated to keep him posted. Between a snack and a drink, Lith managed to relax. He also told Haug about the quarrel between Baba Yaga and the Master without revealing the latter’s identity.
Lith had no idea of the Professor’s plans nor of how much Vastor’s role as the Master had affected his life so he preferred to keep the secret for himself.
The only things Lith knew about Vastor’s alias was that the Abomination hybrids worked for him, and so did the Rock Worm and the Empowered Abomination who had come to retrieve the Orc’s violet crystal.
The first point was irrelevant to Lith, and the other two he could understand. Gremus, the Rock Worm, had only done his job while trying to protect the crystal while the Abomination had attacked Lith without the Master’s permission.
’If Vastor wanted me dead, he would have sent Xenagrosh, Tezka, or any of the hybrids since I’m no match for them yet.’ He thought.
"Great Mother almighty!" Haug whistled in surprise. "And here I thought my life was f.u.c.k.e.d up. I heard about the children of divorced parents having four parents, but you basically have six.
"Each one of the sides of your life force has a lovely couple worried for you." He chuckled.
Elina and Raaz for the human side, Salaark and Leegaain for the beast side, and now the Master and Baba Yaga for the Abomination side.
"Yeah, except that those kids receive lots of gifts from their parents in the attempt to buy their affection whereas I just have a bunch of meddling assholes who claim to know what’s best for me." Lith said with a scoff.
"Aside from my human parents and Salaark, I’ve got only troubles from the others."
"That’s what parents normally do to their children. You must consider yourself lucky just because they didn’t inflict permanent emotional scars on you, unlike it happened to Dryna." Haugh pointed with the glass he was cleaning at one of his barmaids.
She looked like a pretty young woman in her early twenties, about 1.78 meters (5’10") tall with blonde hair and red eyes. She had a small set of golden wings on her back, horns on her head, and a knee-length golden tail coming out of her spine.
’Either she is a god-tier cosplayer or some kind of hybrid.’ Lith thought.
"Is she-"
"A Wyvern? Yes." Haug misunderstood his question and cut him short. "She’s still got trouble with shapeshifting, but customers find her cuter for that. That asshole of Xedros kicked her out without Awakening her after Dryna befriended a human.
"Not knowing how to shapeshift and Xedros being Xedros, bad things happened."
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