The Crimson Magister Chapter 67: V2-C48: Lira, the Fourth Disciple

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V2-C48: Lira, the Fourth Disciple A single candle lit up the face of the Spymaster. She sat in the darkness of her chambers as she thought about the future of the wretched den of non-humans. Lira wore a sadistic smile as she fondled a small emerald wand in her hands. She and Soleah were locked in a battle of wits for a while, and while she was sure that a lowly elf would be able to figure out her affiliation with the Red Dawn, she could not leave such a loose end. The Great Inquisitor’s First Disciple had ordered her to weaken the elven kingdom and to make sure they could not afford to let their gaze turn to the southern borders. While she could not fathom what the Inquisitor had planned, it was not something she could ever hope to comprehend. Just as the elves were witless compared to her, she was the same to the Inquisitor. Lira admitted that she was not the best, nor the Inquisitor’s favourite, thus she had been given a rather plain, boring mission. “Working with these lesser creatures is such a drag.” She groaned as she placed her head on the table. Her duty was surely important; she had fought tooth and nail to convince Lord Rolan that she was worthy of Inquisitor’s grace, and thus she could not fail. “Azure is under my control, the Servant girl should be dead by tomorrow, the princess Sheira is gone, and the king is still clueless…” She chuckled. Her only threat was Soleah, someone who was smarter than what elves had any right to be. “Perhaps she is part human?” That was a question she asked herself many times, yet what human would dilute their purity by copulating with a lesser species? It was no different than to lay with an animal. Some kind of heretic for sure. An image of the fake smile that Soleah made when she was around her angered her deeply. Her brows furrowed. With a sigh, she hid the wand in her dress and retrieved a letter her spies had delivered to her, yet unlike the information about lesser creatures, this one was sent by someone she ought never to anger. Her fingers slid under the envelope’s seal and retrieved the contents. “From the First Disciple.” A slight blush formed on her face before she coughed. “To the fourth disciple…” Her lips formed a small smile at her real title being uttered. Rolan had trained her and turned her into someone she could be proud of being. There were three people she had admired: first, the God King who protected all of humanity, then the Great Inquisitor who had made the lesser races serve as they were meant to, and finally the First Disciple, Rolan. He was trained by the Inquisitor himself and had graciously bestowed those skills upon her. While she was not nearly as skillful, she was in an enviable position. Her eyes darted over the letter, “Beware… A powerful disrupting force.” She scratched her cheek. The letter stated that an unknown goddess with flowing red hair and piercing blue eyes attacked him and had destroyed two of his puppets. “Doesn’t that sound like that servant?” She shook her head. There was no way anyone who could disrupt Rolan’s plans was a mere servant; it had to be a coincidence. Yet despite the dire warning, she couldn’t help but smile. “ He cares so much about me as to warn me!” However, she doubted there was a point in it; she had no clue what her mentor wished for, and the goddess had not attacked her. She stashed the letter into her dress and pushed herself up. The puppet king had listened to her and called the council. Once the council that was under her thumb gathered, she would call upon Azure. Lira grinned. Soleah would die by her own champion’s hand, and then the pest that was the Champion would perish. The kingdom would be weakened and crushed by the savage hordes. Yet even though she worked toward weakening and, in the end, destroying the kingdom, the inquisitor’s real plan eluded her. She was not foolish enough to attempt to understand it, yet a small part of her yearned for such knowledge. “No… I have my role and I will fulfill it to the b