The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 312: Veylin’s surrender.

Sigrid paid a visit to the the prison after she escaped from the classroom. There, Cosmos was siting for her

outside of a small prison cell which was lit so brightly as if stars had been collected and pasted to the ceiling.

He was not drinking alcohol this tbut licking an orange and berry flavored lollipop, the newest candy

released by Thorin candy store. It was a special variety because the berries cfor the mage estate and the

oranges were from Sigrid’s last harvest on The Vale.

"How is it, is he still refusing to takeas his mistress?" She asked calmly.

Sigrid peeked at the man in the cell, he looked nothing like the proud mage he had once been. He had lost

weight because he rejected all food and drink, his eyes were red rimmed like he lacked sleep. The dark circles

around his eyes were so wide, wider than any Sigrid had ever seen before.

His hair and beard had grown and he stunk, having refused to bathe out in the open where cameras and others

could see him.

"Well, you look worse than | remember Veylin. Are those blisters on your skin? Don’t tellthat you are allergic

to the sun." She brought her face closer to the magic bars, taunting the mage with her tone and eyes. "Erythis,

your goddess seems to be deaf to your prayers. The church your group tried to start in Medoris was uprooted.

| don’t know how your identities were discovered but your faces are plastered all over Medoris as wanted

criminals. A very good information source had toldthat the church has put out a kill order for you and the

mages in your group.

Do you truly want to stay loyal to them? They have abandoned you."

Veylin retained his silence. The harder he was to break, the more that Sigrid wanted him. Loyalty like his was

what she required most in those that served her.

"We don’t have tfor this." Cosmos told her.

Sigrid held her hand out and lifted him through the air using magic. She pulled him close to the bars and

breathed in his face. A purple smoke cfrom her mouth and it went up Veylin’s nose.

It filled the void inside of Veylin, returning to him the magic that he had lost. Like a fire, it charged through his

blood and veins, reminding the man of what was missing in his life.

"Would you rather be an ordinary prisoner with no magic or a great man that serves an empress. | don’t have

strict rules, all | expect from you is loyalty and to do the occasional task. The rest of your tis yours to do with

as you please. | can even help you increase your magic, you can beca great mage whose nwill be

written in history books. Surely, that beats being an unknown shadow whose entire life is owned by a church that

is using you as an assassin. They gave you nothing, | am giving you everything." She tempted him with her voice

like a witch inviting a child to a candy coated house in the middle of nowhere.

Veylin remained quiet and then he started feeling his magic leaving him again. It was not the magic alone but

something else--the essence of his soul.

His eyes widened and he scurried back to the wall, looking for a shadow to hide in but there was none. This

power that Sigrid had, it was power that only the goddess Erythis had. Did it mean that she was a goddess as

well?

One that could walk among mortals unlike Erythis who could only communicate through a statue? Did it mean

that she was more powerful than Erythis? He believed that if that was the case, then she could have wiped him

out of existence with a single breath instead of giving him tto make up his mind.

For the first time, he tasted true fear.

He fell to his knees and bowed his head in surrender. For a higher power, he was willing to give up everything.

Sigrid smiled. He had passed the test with flying colors. He would submit to no human master but he could

submit to a god. She had learned a lot about Erythis from the other mages and that is how she was able to do

what she had just done.

Veylin would be loyal to her--at least until a more powerful existence surpassed her. Even then, who knew.

Perhaps he would choose death rather than submission.

Sigrid removed the magic bars and entered the cell, making Veylin take the oath of loyalty on her staff. He did so

willingly. When it was finished, she handed him off to Alistair for a ten minute bath and clean up.

Sigrid and Cosmos left the prison, heading to the office of the lord mage. In there, Mauve, Elarin, Christie, Brolin,

the Lord mage, John, Elowin, Duke Thorin, Lady Iryne and Nathaniel were waiting. Mauve was already pacing up

and down, showing her impatience.

She was the first however to run up to Sigrid and look around curiously. "The shadow mage has still refused to

surrender."

Sigrid simply smiled.

"0-oh-oohhhh!" Mauve shouted, her voiced laced with wonder. "If you are smiling then | take it that you got what

you wanted."

Sigrid nodded.

"| cannot believe that you did not force him to submit earlier." John said through a yawn. "Obviously you had the

power to do so."

"Why did you give him a choice?" The lord mage asked curiously.

Sigrid looked at them and she

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"Wait." Mauve shouted and gasped. "Don’t tellthat you plan to give him the Eclipsion sword!!"

There were two more gasps in the room but similar frowns or wide eyes.

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There was a round of silence as shock settled in the group. But before they could raise questions or discuss the

matter at length, Alistair brought Veylin.

Their team which was to face off against Lord Benwick vanished in a void created by Veylin and re-appeared in

Sheepfield.