Crafter's Fate 1: A LitRPG Adventure by DB King

Author:DB King [King, DB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

“Your eyes are the same as mine,” Varanius Vladium Orellius barked with laughter.

Alastair wanted to disagree with him if only for morality’s sake. The man before him had seemingly been long since bereft of it, leaving only the shell of who he once was. They weren’t entirely the same, but he couldn’t exactly say they were too different either. But Alastair kept his opinion to himself.

“You hate the very idea of nobility and despise the clamor for status and fame and glory,” Varanius said. “I know that look, boy. I had that very same look when I was younger, even if I myself am from a great and noble house of lords, ladies, and masters.”

Alastair scoffed. “Isn’t that a little hypocritical of you to think that way when you yourself likely benefited from such a system?”

Varanius didn’t seem offended in any way. In fact, a strangely melancholic smile graced his lips upon hearing Alastair’s words. “I do not deny that my youth was spent in the decadent halls of my forefathers, lounging and happily enjoying the fruits of the labors of our serfs and servants. I cared little about them in those days, you see. I saw them as nothing more than extensions of my will, walking sacks of flesh that carried no name and no destiny. I believed myself above them—far above them.”

Alastair nodded. That was how most nobles looked at everyone who wasn’t of noble blood, excluding the rich merchants, who—rarely—might rise to the mantle of nobility and join the ranks of the aristocracy. The simple truth of the matter was that the nobles thought themselves much higher than they really were.

Arrogance. He hated them for it, especially when it was accompanied with stupidity.

Without prompting, Varanius continued, “But that all changed when it was discovered that I held powerful magic in my veins. My family was overjoyed at the prospect of having a mage in the family, and I was soon sent to one of the most prestigious magical academies in the Middle Kingdom, Collegia Hecatis, where I was taught to harness my powers, to channel them into something useful.”

The man’s voice turned dark and hard, his shrunken blue eyes taking on a shadowy hue as he spoke next. “There, I became obsessed with healing magic. I studied the human body and how it functioned, and then I studied how to preserve it, how to ensure its continued existence. I was hailed as a genius among my peers for it was I who created the Stasis and Cadaver Preservation spells. But that was not enough for me. I wanted to defeat death itself.”

The dark look turned melancholy. “It’s a funny thing, I think. This all began because I was afraid of losing my cat to old age. She was a pretty thing. I raised her by myself, ever since I found her as a kitten, abandoned by her mother and left to die in my family’s gardens. You see, after all that time, we had grown close. Her eyes could not see as well as they used to and her joints ached all the time.

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