hotmtlnovel Chapter 56: Treatment
Chapter 56: Treatment
Chapter 56: Treatment
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Erielle had that thought in her mind which she couldn't shake off. It just came to her a few hours ago and made her wonder about one detail that no one might have touched before.
There was this strange and scary notion that the current Leon is saying the truth. That he's no longer the one he used to be. Amnesia might be affecting him and this is what most of those who are aware of his condition think but there is something else with this Amnesia.
Amnesia patients struggle to retrieve their memories and unlike Leon, they don't alter their personalities and completely reject their past. That, however, isn't something strange to Erielle or rather this isn't strange to most pure Elves.
"I think that Leon has passed a Human Cycle." She said.
Without any interest, the two Dwarves in front of her simply looked at her with narrowed eyes before just returning to what they were doing.
"Oi, cousin. Have ya found anything special about that card yet?" Vadim asked.
"No, Vadim. Results won't come this fast." Sacha replied.
"Sigh!" Vadim just let out a strong smokey breath as he put aside his tobacco pipe, "A dreadful day, this is!"
"Have you heard what I said by any chance?" Erielle spoke out.
"Aye!" Vadim looked at her unamused, "There's na such thing as a Human Cycle."
"It is like an Elven Cycle but with a Human. How hard is that to understand?" She asked.
"Oh, interesting!" Sacha looked up showing interest in the subject, "Other than the Elves, no other race gets affected by the Elder Sap."
"Yeah, I just tried it out" Erielle said as she held up a vial of a thick green liquid dangled down from a necklace around her head.
"Holy Stones of the Mountain!" Vadim jumped on his feet immediately and held her arm and started shouting, "Ya feelin alright, lass? Ya drank any of that horse dung? Why do ya have that shite on ya?"
His reaction was genuine as he tried to snatch the vial off her hand. She immediately moved her hand aside and looked at him with a funny expression.
"Why would I use it? I am more than comfortable with this Cycle." She replied causing the Dwarf to have a comfortable face.
Anyone who is a friend to an Elf would want them as far away as possible from the content of that vial.
"Mountains bless ma beard! Is that the Elder Sap?" Sacha approached the two right away.
"It is." Erielle confirmed.
"You said you experimented with it or something?" Sacha asked.
"Yes you remember that request from the Academy Camp you told me to take?" Erielle said but Vadim was quick to take note of the horrific thing she just spoke about.
"You were sent to the Academy Camp to check on someone?" He asked.
"Yes." She replied.
"And you tried the Elder Sap on them."
" It is not as bad as you make it sound."
"The Hell?"
The two glared at each other.
"Excuse me but" Sacha tried to interfere but he found Vadim glaring at him.
"Excuse ya?" Vadim asked, "You sent her to check on someone?"
Seeing as if he messed something up, Sacha tried to reason with Vadim.
"I don't really understand. I thought Master Erielle is one of the excellent pharmacists around here and the Academy people asked for painkiller medicine. I just asked her if she could see the patient." Sacha said.
Vadim's face almost went red from anger and stomped the ground.
"Ya dimwit." He immediately slammed Sacha on his head, "Don't ya know that this woman is as crazy as that brother of yours?"
Sacha's eyes widened.
"Anatoly?"
"Yes." Vadim was about to punch Sacha, "She has the title {Mad Scientist} for a damn good reason!"
"Excuse me but I am standing here." Erielle became rather upset mentioning that title all of a sudden.
"Says the woman who suggested bathing a kid in acid to force his talent to bloom." Vadim shouted madly.
"It was a good idea at the moment" She tried to defend her theory then lowered her voice, " I just forgot that human children are weak to acid." Visit for the best novel reading experience
"Clearly. They are not Dwarf children." Sacha agreed with her.
"Humans and Dwarfs look exactly the same when they are babies. How do you expect me to keep track of that?" Erielle nodded as if she and Sacha were getting on the same page.
"They do look different though. Human babies lack public hair when they are born." Sacha added.
"Are you sure?" Erielle asked in a fake care manner.
"Let's get this over with."
Ella surrendered to the fate she sat upon herself. It is basically suicide but without dying. She would forget everything, everything she ever knew, her family, friends, good moments, good times just because she was ignored by her fiance?
It wouldn't make sense to an outsider but Erielle was aware of how those Second Estate nobles think.
Ella was not just heartbroken in a relationship of a one-sided love but in a bad spot too. Imagine losing her position as the Princess Consort after being actually born for that title the consequences would be severe.
She would be excommunicated by her family, targeted by whoever becomes the new Princess Consort, and her position as an Aristocrat will be tarnished forever.
She is just a sitting duck waiting for the slaughter at this point. If she loses due to something other than her inability to keep the Princess Consort position, it would be a much better excuse and a fate than being the tarnished incapable young lady.
Her situation was indeed critical and this was her only way out.
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"And? What happened afterward?" Vadim asked.
"Nothing much." Erielle put a leg across the other and shrugged her shoulders in a dispirited manner.
"The lady is alright?" Vadim asked to make sure.
"Nothing I said."
"No other aftereffect I should or shouldn't worry about?"
"Not at all. We tried a drop of the Sap with different combinations of poisons especially from the same kind we found in Leon's room in the Academy. She may have had a little headache from the effect of the Sap but she is alright as I left her."
"And nothing is going to bite our arses after this?" Vadim asked, "Karanberg is the last city I want to do another break out from."
"Nothing happened. Really" Erielle said, "The young lady was disappointed the Sap didn't work and then pretended she went into a shell-shock."
[A/n: Shell-shock is the old term of PTSD]
"That's not good." Vadim groaned.
"I told the people that this is natural given the stress and what she has been through." Erielle dropped the matter and changed the subject, "I was disappointed though. I combined all the possible poisons so far and no one did to that girl the same it did to Leon."
"Bah! You just keep coming up with crazy ideas. Elven Cycles are spiritual, not physical." Vadim waved his arms and no longer cared about what consequences this may bring.
"Excuse me."
At that time, a certain young man stopped by the alchemy store and waved towards Sacha.
"Oh, Huxley. Came to take Edrick's medicine?" Sacha stood up to meet his customer.
"Yes, sir." Huxley nodded with an innocent smile and blushed when he saw the fairly beautiful elf looking in his direction.
"You're Leo's friend right?" Erielle asked.
"Y- Y- Yes, Ma'am. Leo is a good friend of mine." Huxley replied with a smile before realizing how awkward he became.
"Call for him when you go back, please. Tell him I need to ask him a few questions." She said.
"Oh" At that time, Huxley's face became frozen solid.
"Something's wrong, kiddo?" Vadim was quick to realize something was amiss.
"No, not at all, Chief." Huxley replied, "It's just I thought Leo dropped by here first before he left."
Instantly, Erielle and Vadim as well as Sacha, who was uninvolved, all looked at Huxley with a deathly cold glare.
"He left?"
"When did he leave?"
"Where did he go?"
Huxley was startled but he replied as fast as his reflexes could serve him.
"Eh He left right after he arrived. He took his things and said he said he's going back to the city."
"Dammit!" Erielle slammed the nearby table, "I just kept my eyes off him for an hour."
"He can never sit still, can he?" Even Vadim became angry.
The two of them stormed outside the shop instantly and disappeared among the crowd of Mercenaries going south with serious looks on their faces.
"I'm I'm sorry, Master Sacha, I didn't really think" Huxley tried apologizing to Sacha.
"Hm? No worries, no worries I was just going with the flow. Haha!"
One little detail Huxley forgot to mention though. Leon said he was returning to the City but the direction he took was the opposite side. Now that Huxley thinks about it, Leon was really feeling ominous and dark.
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