The Kind of Evil-Chapter 342: Journal of the past. (2)

‎Rasmus rented the whole inn for himself, Aris, and Rullein, allowing rumors to brew. The people in town already spoke a lot of things about him thanks to Yur who eavesdropped on the townspeople. In a town where hundreds of merchants came and went every day, it was a perfect place for him to gain recognition without doing anything.

‎Gorge also helped spread the rumors of Rasmus as Vije, a man from a respected family in the East. He also hinted at Rasmus’s connection with the Asghar family, solidifying his persona as Vije even more.

‎"Aristoria never gave you these things?" Aris stared at Rullein with her brows furrowed, showing a hint of disgust and in disbelief.

‎"No..." Rullein answered as she wiped her lips with the back of her hand. She then put the empty bottle of whiskey on the counter. "This is delicious! I feel funny and I like it!" She giggled as she looked at dozens of empty bottles of alcohol.

‎"You’re going to let her drink like this? You’re spoiling her," Aris looked at Rasmus, who was reading Erglade’s journal.

‎"Have I ever prevented you from doing whatever you want?" Rasmus asked, staring at Rullein, emptying another bottle in a matter of seconds.

‎"No, but this is getting out of hand," Aris answered as she glanced at Rullein, who was about to grab a wine bottle. "She needs to learn to control herself..." She snatched the bottle since it was her favorite.

‎"Look who’s talking," Rasmus smiled as he shook his head and took his focus back on the journal.

‎Rasmus chose to find some peace by going upstairs, leaving those two alone. Aris watched Rasmus walk upstairs, realizing that she and Rullein were being too loud. She then decided to open the bottle of wine and pour it into two glasses, for her and for Yur.

‎Rasmus entered his room and chose to sit in the window alcove. He made himself comfortable as he read the journal and paid attention to the town. He was about to continue his reading when he noticed a glimpse of something black flew in the sky.

‎Rasmus saw a raven flying above the town, and then he used his draconic eyes to look at it. He could see the small scroll that was tied to one of the raven’s legs. He realized it might be Javi’s raven, and so he opened his window and sent Mana toward the raven to guide it toward him. As soon as the raven felt the Mana, it moved its head toward the window where Rasmus was sitting and began to fly toward him.

"You must be tired..." Rasmus said as the raven landed on his wrist. "You may rest for a while before I reply the message," he added as he grabbed the scroll from the raven’s leg.

The raven croak quietly and seemed to understand Rasmus’s words. It stayed in the room with him while Rasmus put water into the bowl for the raven to drink.

"Rasmus, we managed to make deals with Carrion’s brother and his associates. We also managed to pull it off, getting the Magic Tower to make a deal with us. Right now, we are still at Gratlan, however, we heard the news about the Holy Nation, and the world is now focusing on them," Erlina wrote in the paper. "We should be fine here, but we are planning to leave Gratlan soon. We will prepare the minerals for Carrion’s brother and the Magic Tower, so we will be staying at Foern, a port city of the Lusinia Kingdom," she added.

Rasmus burned the paper after he understood the content in there, and ripped a paper for him to write on. He pulled out a map of Central Neva to locate where Foern was located. He saw how it wasn’t that far from the Cerdantis Kingdom, only two kingdoms away.

"Stay away from the Cerdantis Kingdom, and any neighboring nations. Nemu and two others like him are residing there. Keep your head low when you can, but if you can’t, do what you must," Rasmus wrote in the paper as he listened to the raven’s claws moving around the table.

Rasmus carefully tied the piece of paper onto the raven’s leg, making sure it was tight enough to not fall off but not tight enough to hurt the raven’s leg. Once he made sure the paper was stuck and firmly attached to the raven’s leg, he gently brushed the raven’s head.

"Take care," Rasmus said as he looked at the raven.

The raven stared at Rasmus for a moment before it croaked again and began to spread its wings. The raven then flew away silently, going up high into the sky to make sure no arrows could reach it. Rasmus watched the raven fly in case there was someone or something that tried to take it down. Once the raven flew away safely, Rasmus sighed and closed the window, continuing to where he had left off in the journal.

Rasmus sat at the window again and continued his read of where his father had just come back after eliminating the threat called a demonic cult. He read how his father was deeply shaken by what he found, his father wrote his heart into the journal how he saw countless bodies, from dozens of pregnant women that seemed to be forced to give labors but ended up killing them.

"We couldn’t find the babies... this is sickening even for me..." Erglade wrote in the journal, his writing seemed different, the lines and the scratches seemed forced and unnatural. There was visible turmoil in his writing. "I don’t know what to think. If this is a setting, then humans are worse than anything in this world. If this is really happening, what kind of sick person or being that made humans do such things..." He added, his writings seemed to be less forced, and less willingly as well.

Since that moment, more and more demonic cults that appeared across Central Neva. One thing that shocked Rasmus was the fact that his father was joining hands with the Holy Nation and the Suncrown Empire to deal with this issue. His father led the team to eliminate demonic cults that appeared almost simultaneously.

"At this point, I don’t know what’s going on anymore. The more we find out about demonic cults, the less we know about them. If I kept chasing the tail, I should be able to find the head eventually. However, why I feel like this creature keeps cutting its own tail and growing it over and over..." Erglade wrote in the journal.

Rasmus could see the pattern the moment his father wrote that paragraph. He could see it that he was indeed only chasing the tails that had been cut off from its body. However, he understood how overwhelming and stressful it was for his father to see it since he must have worked nonstop to get rid of them.

"They’re quite smart to make my father lost his ability to think by giving him the sense of immediate threats that were actually not..." Rasmus muttered as he looked at the night sky with his brows furrowed. "To make a lie believable, you turn it into reality..." he continued and turned his focus back to the journal.

Rasmus looked at the thing that bothered him more than what bothered Erglade. It was when Erglade mentioned that the Holy Nation and the Suncrown Empire had joined hand to deal with the issue.

"How could these two powerful families that had ended the Great Era of Neva were unable to see it..." Rasmus narrowed his eyes. "Letting my father led the team while those two should be more experienced in dealing this kind of thing..." he muttered as he sighed.

Rasmus leaned his back against the wall, his eyes seemed to be moving from side to side as if he was scanning or searching for something that seemed amiss. He couldn’t gather enough information because his father didn’t reveal who made it possible for the two major nations to join the mission. If it was King Fredrick, then how did the royal family of a small Kingdom know more about them than the Holy Nation and the Suncrown Empire.

"Unless they want my father to fall into their trap, that’s the only reasonable answer..." Rasmus crossed his arms with his head lowered. "Aurelia showed her hatred for her own mother and the Holy Nation for hiding the truth. This and that, they both seem to be connected with each other..." He rested his head against the wall and stared at the ceiling.

"You’re so deep in thought that you don’t even notice my presence at all," Aris said as she stood at the door.

Rasmus immediately turned his head to look at Aris who had seemed to be standing there for a while. He took a deep breath and nodded his head as he fixed his seat in the window alcove. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Yeah... I am..." Rasmus got up and walked to the table to drink a glass of water.

"You know you could read everything in one go like how you read records and archives. But why you’re taking this differently?" Aris asked with her arms crossed.

"Because I don’t want to miss a thing..." Rasmus answered and emptied the glass in one go.