'Corrupting me? That is a funny thing to be worried about,' Rowan sighed internally, 'Here I am struggling to keep my power hidden to not corrupt you all, and you are worried about my welfare, I really need to gain my class and push my levels to the peak, I have a feeling that this appearance of outward weakness can become an irritating source of misinformation in the coming days, and I would rather not have weak fools plotting my downfall when there are larger troubles that should be holding my attention.'
Rowan paused as if in contemplation and then beamed, he made this a habit to habitually pause because the power of his perception was so powerful, that he could process information and arrive at a decision nearly instantaneously in real-time, but since he was still in the form of a mortal, he needed to follow certain annoying rules,
"Your concern is admirable, and I would be foolish not to heed them. I would rather propose an extra step to this, if it is possible, then split this information into two parts, one would contain all the mortal-level affairs you are aware of—I want everything, even if you feel it is not important and is a general information that is known to all, it doesn't matter, and the other part of the information would be focused on the immortal, I'm sure my guardian would be grateful for that information. I hope this request will not be problematic."
The body of the two Will Holders froze for a fraction of a moment at the mention of a guardian, while he was not aware of what a Sanctified Scion was, he had been able to gather clues from their short conversation and he suspected that these group of people were at least royalty, and in their eyes that should make him at least a prince, it was common sense that whoever was to guard a prince while he was still mortal would be extremely powerful.
"No Scion, this request would not trouble us at all, and we would share all that we are permitted by the law."
Rowan nodded his thanks and settled and sipped his wine. All of his actions these past few moments were carefully orchestrated to show a degree of competency in the affairs of this world that he otherwise did not have, and it was not that difficult when he had to basically just maintain his silence and make open-ended statements to appear more competent than he appeared. It also helped that the wine he gave them had increased the power of their soul by more than five percent.
The Soul of a Will Holder was incredibly powerful, and anything that could increase the power of their soul to such an extent without any visible drawbacks was a ridiculously powerful treasure. Only Rowan knew that imbibing Ambrosia could leave you open to his manipulations but that was something he would be investigating later, but for all intent and purposes, he had just given them a priceless treasure.
Ambrosia had little visible effect on him, and he had been imbibing the pure stuff for centuries, but using the methods from the wine he had just imbibed, the efficacy of his unique Aether had just multiplied, and he knew that he could increase the potency of this wine when he became familiar with enhanced brewing and distilling processes.
Mirthal did not take long to consider Rowan's words before he began the process of sharing his information. He gestured towards the floating green orb at the center of the table, which was called an Ori, a unique Eldar device with multiple uses, he parted his fingers, and the orb separated into two smaller orbs, and from his eyes twin streams of cyan light emerged and sank into the obs.
Rowan sat in silence as he watched the lights from the orbs get brighter and gradually expand in size, he could detect faint visions, and if he concentrated he could read all the information entering the orb, but Rowan decided to not take any action that could destabilize the process, whatever technique Mirthal was using appeared to be something that should be a circumspect method of transferring information, and it would be suspicious if Rowan could easily break it just by looking at it.
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