Anna had previously thought that since there was no way to escape the fate of being slept with, she would exchange some benefits. If Rotgar refused, she actually had no choice at all.
And this idea is based on Rotgar "liking" her. The so-called liking has a certain time limit and is not necessarily unique. He can like her now and tolerate her in every possible way, and the next second he can like someone else and be merciless to her.
So she never thought that Rotgar would enter into a soul contract with her. When it really happened, she was stunned.
See what the hell reasons he said? Did he think she would actually believe this excuse
Anna wanted to cry a little now, but also wanted to laugh a little.
Finally, she secretly pulled the quilt aside to cover herself.
If there was no way out and everyone could get what they needed, she would feel slightly better. Now that Rotgar suddenly signed a soul contract with her, she was caught off guard and understood his true feelings, and it seemed that she could not let things develop like that. .
That wouldn't be fair to Lotgar.
But she was really not in the mood for romance at the moment. Knowing that Natalie died unjustly, how could she possibly be intimate with Rotgar
Rotgar understood that Anna had changed her mind when she saw her little movement.
He gently pulled the quilt, and Anna, who was holding the quilt tightly, screamed and fell to him. He hugged her with the quilt and said with a cold face: "Go to sleep. From tomorrow on, you will understand the need to become strong. What a price to pay.”
… So, the price is not to include her body
Anna didn't expect that Rotgar would let her go like this. She felt relieved for a while, but then she felt that she owed him.
Rotgar has never been a good person in her heart. The initial confrontation between them was based on life and death, and they were entangled for so long. She didn't know when she fell in love with him, just because she knew the devil He will not fall in love with a human being and never dare to let go of his feelings.
Now, she finally knows that demons can also fall in love with humans, that Rotgar likes her, and even loves her. She should have accepted this happily, let go of her inhibitions and responded to his feelings to her heart's content, but she But I learned about Natalie's death...
Maybe she has to wait until Natalie's matter is over before she can face him calmly.
In fact, Anna couldn't completely figure out who should be the target of her revenge in Natalie's death.
After all the calculations, it was her own fault that was the biggest.
If she hadn't made friends at first when she knew she was being watched by the devil, and hadn't let Natalie be involved in her bad affairs, Natalie might have been forced to marry an old man, but at least she was still alive.
Even if she still made friends with Natalie, if she hadn't provoked Magnolia, she might not have been targeted and captured for sacrifice, and Natalie wouldn't have died.
Or, if she hadn't taken in Epp, Epp would have died somewhere, and there would have been no such thing as his suddenly transforming into a demon and killing people, then Lotgar would have been able to get away from Magnolia's family. Save her and Natalie.
But in fact, there is no reason to say this. People cannot predict the future. As social animals, people cannot exist alone without their respective social relationships. If she all took another path, that person would not be her. Failure does not mean the decision was wrong.
Anna had many theories and reasons in her mind to excuse herself, but reason could not defeat emotion at this time, and her reason clearly recognized this.
No matter how she tried to convince herself, she still felt deeply guilty, wrapped up in the terrible hypothetical phrase "It would have been better if I had...".
There were so many "what ifs" in her mind, and as long as one came true, Natalie wouldn't die.
But Natalie still died.
So while she clearly understood that she was not to blame for this matter, and that she was technically a victim, she was also overwhelmed by the overwhelming self-blame.
So who can she blame but herself
It seemed like everyone played a role, big or small, in Natalie's death.
If Natalie's family hadn't forced her to get married, Natalie wouldn't have studied with her in order to pass the promotion exam, so that their relationship gradually became closer and they were eventually involved in the whirlpool.
If Rotgar hadn't been staring at her and chasing her, she might not have come to Black Cloud City to get to know Natalie, let alone what happened next.
If Magnolia had not regarded her as an imaginary enemy and not arrested her and Natalie, Natalie would not have been at the scene where April transformed into a demon.
If Ai Pu came to Black Cloud City and fell at her door, there would be no subsequent transformation and killing.
if…
There are too many people to blame, and many of them actually make no sense at all. She understands that there is correlation but not causation.
Even Rotgar, who deliberately concealed the news of Natalie's death, only expressed her anger at first. After calming down, she realized that it was not necessary.
But her guilt needed an outlet.
If she did nothing, she would feel sorry for Natalie and unable to move on.
Therefore, she needs strong strength to take revenge, and the targets of revenge are Magnolia's group who captured her and Natalie, and Epp, who actually killed Natalie... No, Epp is no longer here. , the one alive now is the demon Aosta, and has no friendship with her. She vaguely remembered that Magnolia and her group were almost massacred by Aosta. There might not be many people left, and those people didn't need her to be too powerful.
Facing the demon Aosta, she needs far more strength than she currently has, and she needs Lotgar's help.
After having a clear goal, Anna was determined.
One reason for gaining great power is for revenge, and the other reason is that she hopes that she will have enough power to protect all the people she cares about in the future.
Nothing could be relied upon, only the power in her own hands made her feel at ease.
Rotgar held Anna tightly, so he could clearly feel the stiffness in her body gradually softening.
He saw her slowly closing her eyes, looking somewhat relieved.
He just pulled her casually, and the quilt was not tightly covered. As long as he looked away, he could see her round and white shoulders and the more alluring and deep curvature.
At this moment, his hope for her has not diminished at all. If Anna took the initiative to pounce on her again just now, he would definitely not let her go.
But after seeing the little moves she made to cover her body, he retracted his previous thoughts.
He knew that Anna and Natalie had a very good relationship, and he also knew how emotionally devastated Anna would be after suddenly learning of Natalie's death.
Naturally, his majestic Grand Duke of the Abyss would not take advantage of her at this time. He was waiting for her to surrender to him willingly.
Rotgar picked up a strand of long brown hair that was still damp and wrapped it around his index finger out of boredom. Then he lowered his head and kissed her forehead gently, slightly raising the corners of his mouth, and closed his eyes to accompany her to sleep.
If she wants powerful power, he will help her. He will ask for the reward she promised later, and then just add interest.
Anna's dreams this night were a bit confusing. Sometimes they were about the scene when she was studying with Natalie in Black Cloud City, and sometimes they were about the dark underground altar, where Natalie fought side by side with her in the face of a demon that was too powerful to defeat. , and eventually died in her arms. In that bizarre dream, she even saw Natalie traveling into her world and becoming the female CEO’s pet.
Anna was a little confused when she opened her eyes, and couldn't tell which was true and which was false.
She glanced to the side, and Rotgar hugged her tightly with her eyes closed.
Just as she was about to sit up, her scalp suddenly tightened, and she could only half-support her body. Her long hair was caught in Rotgar's hand and twisted around her fingers. If she had no more strength to get up, If it were bigger, the whole bunch of hair might be pulled out.
Ana pulled her hair and said, "Let go."
She knew that Lotgar was already awake, or that he didn't need sleep much.
Rotgar opened his eyes, spread out the fingers of the hand tangled in Anna's hair, and seemed to hold it in front of his eyes to look at it. Then he pressed the back of Anna's head, pulled her forward with a slight force, and kissed her on the lips. . After a while, he couldn't feel enough anymore, so he turned over and pressed her underneath him.
He just collects some interest first.
After Rotgar let go of Anna, her cheeks turned slightly red due to a physiological reaction, but she heard him say: "I was injured yesterday, you treat my injury first."
Anna looked at Rotgar and held back a sentence for a while: "I'll get dressed first, please turn around."
She had no clothes on when she came out of the bathroom yesterday, and her nightgown was still inside.
Rotgar looked at her for a while, his eyes subtle. After all, he had seen it and touched it.
But seeing Anna's stern face and uncompromising look, he closed his eyes even though he didn't turn around.
Anna knew that Rotgar was very cooperative, so she jumped out of bed and went into the bathroom. After putting on her nightgown, she went back to her room first, put on riding clothes that were convenient for movement, and returned to Rotgar. room, and now he was standing in front of the window neatly dressed.
Ana walked over and stood behind him and asked, "Where are you injured?"
Rotgar turned around and let Anna see the injury.
Anna didn't talk nonsense and skillfully used the Holy Healing Technique. Lotgar didn't ask about her escape. Since he didn't ask, she didn't take the initiative to mention it.
After treating Rotgar's various skin injuries, he took Anna's hand and pulled her downstairs to the door of the study.
After entering the study, Rotgar walked around, selected a dozen books and returned to Anna: "Read these first."
Anna quickly held all the books and said, "Okay."
When she picked up the first book and read it, Lotgar turned and left.
When Anna turned her head, she only saw Rotgar's back disappearing through the door. After a while, she saw Rotgar's retreating back outside the window.
Just leaving her alone in the castle, he really believed that she wouldn't run away halfway.
Of course she can't run.
Anna continued to read with her head down. After flipping through all these dozen books, Anna found that these were all books related to meditation and magic.
The level of a mage is artificially determined, and the level is determined through manual assessment. In fact, there is no precise boundary between one star and two stars, or between two stars and three stars. The older these books of Rotgar are, the less they mention the classification of stars. At that time, there were no levels. When two mages met, it would be hard to know who would be more powerful without a fight. sharp.
In these ancient books, there are many ways to improve the efficiency of meditation and improve the effects of spells. Some changes are relatively large, but the effect is relatively small, and some changes are small, but the effect is very good.
Anna did not try it immediately, but planned to finish reading all these books before talking about it.
After a while, Anna heard some noise. She looked out the window of the study and saw some smoke and dust coming from far to near. When she got closer, she found that it was gray and white hair.
Looking at the sky again, Rotgar crossed the front of the castle and landed on the side terrace that she couldn't see.
When Anna persuaded Huihui and the others to leave, she was mentally prepared to never see them again. She didn't expect to see them again, and so soon.
Of course, Rotgar specially brought them here to take care of her daily life for her sake.
Anna did not immediately go down to look at Huihui and them. She withdrew her gaze and continued reading. She had never been so serious in her life. She was even more serious than when she was preparing for the exam in the Mage Association. She didn't even care when Lotgar came in.
After closing the fourth book that she had finished, Anna looked at Rotgar and asked: "Assuming that the combat power of a person who has just become a one-star mage is equivalent to ten, what is the combat power of other levels? What is yours? "
Rotgar had never used Anna's calculation method before, and thought for a while before saying: "If a one-star mage is equivalent to ten, a mage apprentice is five, two-star is twenty, three-star is forty, four-star is eighty, and five-star It’s one hundred and six. Mine… counts as three hundred.”
Anna nodded. Rotgar's estimation of the mage's combat power was similar to her usual feeling. The difference in combat power at each level was almost doubled. Before, when he possessed Raymond, who was only two stars and was about to rise to three stars, he could defeat the three-star mage.
Her current combat power can be counted as forty, while the devil's is three hundred. The gap between them is hopelessly huge.
However, the numerical value is only a rough estimate after all. If there is another way...
Anna asked again: "In addition to giving me life, does the soul contract have other benefits? For example, you can share your strength with me..."
Rotgar sneered: "What good thing are you thinking of?"
Anna was just asking casually. She really had never thought of such a good thing. She was not angry when she heard Rotgar's sarcasm. She picked up the next book and flipped through two pages. Suddenly she looked at him and asked, "Balan is very good." As I said before, you all climbed up from the abyss... What kind of place is the abyss?"
"You really want to know?" Rotgar raised his eyebrows.
Anna nodded: "If you can tell, I do want to know."
"I'll take you to see it in two days." Rotgar smiled, a little bit like watching a good show.
Anna immediately responded: "Okay!"
She sensed Rotgar's evil intentions, but he couldn't kill her anyway, so why not take the risk and see the abyss
She then added: "The gifts and curses of the abyss...can I also ask?"
Originally, this was a secret belonging to the devil. Even between Rotgar and Balan, they would not talk about it normally, but Anna was in a special situation. Whether it was his gift or curse, she had personally experienced it and survived.
Rotgar didn't have much to hide from Anna now. He didn't wait for Anna to ask questions one by one and said: "The talent gifted by the abyss to me is possession. As for the curse... on the day of the attack, the first person he sees will be recognized as his master. .”
Anna remembered the way Rotgar called her master and kissed her instep that day, and asked one more question: "How many attacks have you had so far?"
Rotgar stared at her and sneered: "You want to ask me, how many times have I experienced such a shameful thing?"
Ana shook her head: "No."
Rotgar approached her and looked down at her: "Besides you, there was one other time. That time... I mutilated myself to resist the power of the curse, and Balan helped me kill that person. You are the only one who has seen my curse attack. Those who survived.”
Rotgar was too close, and Anna's breathing was slightly suffocated. She didn't expect that the question in her mind would be answered. It turned out that it was really because that person was her that he was easily controlled by the curse of the abyss and bowed to her. But this answer is not important now after he signed the soul contract with her.
His words were almost a confession. Anna was silent for a moment and said, "And Balaam."
Rotgar frowned: "What?"
"Balan has also seen you survive the onset of the curse." Anna said.
Rotgar stared at Anna for a few seconds and said, "You want to provoke me to kill Balan?"
Anna: "...I don't want to." She just wanted to change the subject.
She picked up the book and poked Rotgar's chest, signaling him to move away.
Rotgar really backed away.
Anna flipped through two pages of the book and asked casually: "Do you know what gifts and curses other demons are?"
She had witnessed Balaam's curse with her own eyes, but the gift was not yet clear to her. As for Ep... no, it's Aosta, and the curse should be related to his transformation into Ep.
Lotgar didn't hide it either: "You have already seen Balaam's curse. His gifted talent is chaos."
"Chaos? What kind of ability is that?"
He sarcastically said: "With your current strength, once he uses it on you, you will become dementia."
Anna was startled: "Is it permanent?"
"Only when he uses it."
Anna breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise it would have been too scary. But that wasn't what she really wanted to ask, so she asked again: "What about the other three Abyss Grand Dukes?"
"Grand Duke Aosta of Fearley, Grand Duke Aigui of Grid, and Grand Duke Bailey of Slaged." Rotgar said, "The latter two are unclear. Aosta's curse will turn him into a human being. All power lost."
Rotgar initially guessed that Aosta would enter a period of weakness during the onset of the curse of the abyss, but after hearing Anna's description, he revised his guess and believed that Aosta would become a human during the onset of the curse. Therefore, he can only hide in the human world and wait for the curse to end. There would be a massacre in the human world almost every hundred years or so. He thought that was what Aosta did. Aosta would fall into a violent state when he reverted from a human to a demon.
"Oh? How often does the Abyss Curse usually occur?" After hearing the complete description of Aosta's Abyss Curse, Anna couldn't help but feel a little moved in her heart and asked again.
"A hundred years or so." Rotgar replied casually. In addition to Balan, his own curse also happened from time to time, with intervals of about a hundred years. Aosta thought it would be similar to him, and even the time of onset was different. Not much different.
One hundred years... was too long, and she simply couldn't wait.
Moreover, it would be very easy for her to kill Aosta if he turned into April again, but she probably wouldn't be able to do it.
Seeing that Rotgar seemed suspicious, Anna quickly said: "Then next time your abyss curse strikes again, I will help you to keep others away from you."
She just told Rotgar that she wanted to have power like him, but she didn't say what she wanted to do with that kind of power. She didn't know if he had guessed it, and she hoped he wouldn't.
It is her business to avenge Natalie alone. She can improve her strength under his training, but she cannot directly borrow his power to deal with Aosta.
Some things have to be done by her own hands to make sense.
Rotgar raised his eyebrows: "Next time?"
The hidden meaning of Anna's words made him feel comfortable. Before Anna could figure out what he meant, he looked at her with a crooked eyebrow and said with a smile, "Okay."
The time when the curse of the abyss will take effect is uncertain. If she wants to fulfill her promise, she must stay by his side for at least the next hundred years.
Anna was slightly stunned. It was very rare for her to see Rotgar smiling happily like this without any grudge.
She quickly withdrew her gaze and stared at the page in her hand.
The next time will be more than a hundred years later, she should still be there, right
She took a deep breath, not thinking about what happened so far away for the time being.
Seeing that Anna was once again immersed in the world of the book, Rotgar only said: "Ask me any time if you have any questions."
"Okay." Anna responded.
Then she remembered the threatening "remember" question that Lotgar had made when he possessed Ulysses and was her teacher. It seemed like it had happened in a previous life.
Now, Rotgar has also learned how to be a real teacher? Or is this preferential treatment unique to her
Anna had doubts in her heart, but when she saw the back of the book and asked Rotgar if she really had any questions, she felt relieved after he answered seriously like a teacher.
He really learned how to be a good teacher.
After Anna finished reading another book, she was surrounded by hunger.
Apart from a slightly different feeling, knowing that Rotgar had indeed signed a soul contract with her, her body did not change at all. And that kind of difference was such a mysterious feeling that it was difficult for her to describe it in words. If she had to say it, it was probably because she who was originally lonely and helpless in this world suddenly seemed to have an ungraspable connection. She vaguely She felt that no matter whether she went to the desert or the ice field, someone would always be with her. She couldn't see or touch it, but she knew that the other person was always there.
And other things... such as increased life span, etc., will definitely not be visible in a short time. She will still have the same metabolism as a normal human being, feel hungry, and want to go to the toilet.
As they walked to the kitchen downstairs, Anna and Rotgar walked side by side. She suddenly asked: "What if you regret it? Will you kill me or let me go?"
The reference of Anna's question was unclear, but Rotgar knew what she was asking.
And the option she followed made him very unhappy. Why did he want to kill her? Why let her go
"I won't regret it." Rotgar said coldly, looking straight ahead, and then turned his head to warn her, "Anna, you'd better not do anything that you will regret."