Cold and dark.
Arya Kazan took a deep breath and stretched out her hands, feeling deeply powerless and sad.
Looking towards the front, it was a dilapidated hut, so simple that it only had a wooden bed, and the only light source was a candle that was almost burned out.
This is a house in Turin's largest civilian area, and it is also one of the few places that is safe for him.
He spent the past three days here.
In fact, he was planning to go find his aunt three days ago because his father gave him a list of people he could trust before his death, and his aunt was one of them.
But halfway through, he decided to change places and hide here for a while.
The aunt can indeed be trusted, but maybe his uncle will take advantage of this and set up spies around those people, waiting for him to fall into the trap.
Moreover, his mind was still thinking about the person he met three days ago, that mysterious person, and the "business" they discussed.
Now that three days are up, will he come?
And he didn't even have his address, how could he find him.
"Like a magician?" The elegance and calmness of the man that day suddenly appeared in Arya's mind, as if everything was certain to win.
But to be honest, he didn't have much hope.
Because he always felt like it was a bit like a dream.
"Three days have passed immediately. It seems that I have thought too much."
Arya glanced out the window, it was almost dark now, and then glanced at the wooden door not far away, which didn't move at all.
Zizzi!
Suddenly, the wooden door moved.
Hearing the sound, Aria's eyes widened and her heart beat inexplicably faster. His first reaction was not that Eli was coming, but that his uncle had found him. But that was impossible. It should be safe here. How could it be possible? find him.
"You look a little nervous!"
But what reached Aria's ears was not the rough mercenary's voice, but a calm voice.
"It's you!"
Moonlight streamed in through the crack in the door. Eli was wearing black clothes and holding a cane in his hand.
"Nice place, but it looks like you haven't had a good three days!"
Eli glanced around, and then said to Arya Kazan, if it weren't for the mental mark, it would be hard to find this place!
"You, you, you...how did you find me." At this time, Aria was stunned. He did not expect that Eli actually found him.
Could it be that Eli has actually been spying on him these past few days?
"As promised, I brought perfume!" Eli seemed to have no patience to listen to him and directly threw a bottle over.
Arya:? ?
Aria caught the bottle in her hand, and the liquid in the bottle was flowing.
He was stunned for a moment. Could this be the perfume he mentioned before?
He unscrewed the bottle, and the smell in the bottle immediately penetrated his nose. As the original heir of the Kazan Chamber of Commerce, his ability to identify perfume was naturally good.
This smell was average at best, but when he smelled it, he seemed to feel an impulse, an impulse to get closer. It was a collision on the spiritual level!
Gulu!
Arya had no choice but to smell it. He was stunned. He seemed to be unable to understand how there could be such a strange perfume, but then he was ecstatic. With such a great perfume, he would definitely be able to win the support of the nobles behind the Chamber of Commerce. .
Once he gets her support, and the people in the Chamber of Commerce who already support him, as well as those swing factions, he can use this to regain control of the Chamber of Commerce.
As for why he is so confident in the energy of the nobles behind him.
Because standing behind the Kazan Chamber of Commerce is the largest noble in the Kingdom of Lorraine, Queen Cynthia. Only she can not even care about the profits of a large chamber of commerce.
Aria held the perfume tightly in her hand, as if it was the last straw.
"Wait a minute, are you forgetting something?" Suddenly, a voice sounded, and Eli whispered from the other side.
"Oh, yes, business, I remember you said, this is a business!" Aria also woke up from a dream and hurriedly asked Eli:
"Then what do you want?"
"There is a principle in doing business, called the principle of equivalence, do you know?" Eli slowly approached Aria and said.
"Of course, don't worry, I will give you the equivalent of this perfume." Aria was stunned for a moment and then got busy.
"No, that's not how the account is settled." Eli shook his head.
Isn't that how it was calculated? How to calculate that.
Arya was confused.
"I caught my car by chance. Calculated, I should have saved your life. Therefore, your life should be mine next. It's only reasonable." Eli looked at Aria and smiled. Analyzed.
Arya:? ? ?
He froze.
He didn't quite understand what Eli meant, but he generally understood that Eli was giving everything to him, whether it was his life or the chamber of commerce he might have in the future.
"Impossible, you are too greedy!" Aria's eyes widened.
"No, the transaction has already started as soon as you get into my car." Eli shook his head. At the same time, the wizard's hand appeared instantly and grabbed Arya who was close at hand.
Aria's eyes widened, but she couldn't resist at all. She could only watch as Eli slowly stretched out his hand and put it on his head.
pain!
For just a moment, Aria felt as if his brain was being pricked by countless needles. An invisible but seemingly mysterious connection was formed between him and the man in front of him.
This process lasted for five minutes before Eli stopped.
After all, soul imprinting is not a simple witchcraft.
Witchcraft-soul imprinting, zero-ring witchcraft, is a witchcraft that engraves the soul imprint on the target's consciousness so that it can fully understand the target's thinking and enslave the other party.
Requirements: Second-class apprentice or above, with a huge gap in mental power, no excessive resistance, and a mental mark needs to be left on the target three days in advance before it can be implemented.
This is also the first time for Eli to use this witchcraft, because the conditions for using this witchcraft are really troublesome, and with his current mental power, he can only perform three at most.
And the reason why he booked three days was because of this witchcraft. As for the mark he left, it was when he lightly patted Aria on the shoulder before leaving the carriage.
"What did you put in my head?" At this time, Aria had collapsed on the ground, looking at Eli with fear in her eyes.
He even had a feeling that Eli could completely understand what he was thinking at this time and even kill him directly.
"Didn't you already think of it?" Eli looked down at Aria.
He had planned to do this from the beginning. After all, if he really just relied on his own consciousness and really waited until Aria got the Chamber of Commerce, could he really fully meet Eli's conditions?
In fact, Eli felt that the agreement was the most unreliable thing.
Contracts on paper are just clouds, but contracts engraved in the mind are much more reliable.
"Impossible, how could such a method be possible!" Aria's face twitched.
"Then give it a try?" Eli looked at Aria and asked.
Arya's eyes widened.
The next moment.
As if his brain was torn apart and his soul was burned by flames and pricked by countless needles, Aria let out a painful howl. This was a pain he had never experienced before.
Compared with physical pain, the pain of the soul is ten times, a hundred times more terrible.
The torture lasted only five seconds, but it felt like hundreds of years had passed to Arya.
"Do you want to try again?" Eli asked again, but in Aria's eyes, it seemed like the whisper of a devil.
"No, no, no," Aria said unclearly.
In just five seconds, he fully understood his situation.
He had not fallen into the tiger's mouth before, but this time he jumped directly into the bottom of hell!
"From now on, you are my "slave" and everything about you is mine. Are you willing? Of course, you have another choice, that is, I will remove the brand and then kill you. You can choose ." Eli said, looking down at Aria.
Does he have a choice?
There were tears in Aria's eyes, and he understood that he had no choice at all.
He suddenly remembered what his father once said, that all gifts have already been secretly marked with prices. He didn't understand it before, but now he seems to understand it, but it's just a little too late.
"I do!" After a few seconds, Aria finally nodded resignedly.
He chose to live.
"Very good, you accepted it quickly!" Eli's relaxed voice came: "Relax, I'm almost thirty, and you're only 19. When I die, you and your descendants will be free. "
There was a light in Aria's eyes, and he slowly got up from the ground.
"You're in good spirits." Eli smiled, squatted down, looked at Aria and said:
"Then let's talk about the nobles behind the Kazan Chamber of Commerce and how you plan to get back the Chamber of Commerce that belongs to me."
