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The sound of a horse's hoof hitting the gravel could be heard along with the shaking of a carriage. The carriage came to stop in front of a two story building and the door at its side opened.

"So this is where the healer is keeping Keith." Lucius muttered.

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After him, two more people stepped out from the carriage. One was none other than Kiana and the next was Bethany. Since she had been taken prisoner by Lucius she had no option but to follow him around, at least until they got back to the Inanis mansion.

Such was the decision that Lucius had come to and Baron Harrels had no option but to accept it. If he did not there was a great chance, the Harrels Barony would not exist past the next day.

Thus he gritted his teeth and let Lucius take him. He himself though went to prepare for the negotiation that was to happen by the end of the next week. Lucius had purposely given the Baron time to prepare so that he could see who else would support him.

This would allow him to pick out the potential traitors that were hiding within their midst. Lucius also wondered if the Baron would take help from the Viscount or not. While it would be fine getting the help, what would determine his fate would be the kind of help he got.

If it was just monetary help to get out his daughter from the clutches of Asher, it would be fine. But if he decided to get her out forcefully by exerting political pressure, it would be the final straw for him.

Lucius had already gotten one of the guards that were accompanying them, to take a letter to the count. The letter described all that had happened and what would happen letter. Lucius told the Count to prepare on his end too, just in case something unexpected happened.

While Lucius had come out on top here, he was not so stupid as to wholeheartedly believe that everything would go their way. That was one of the reasons as to why he was here. Lucius wanted to see how his first part of the plan was going.

"Are you sure this is a good idea, Asher?" Kiana asked.

"Mmm, we are here to just check up on our fellow noble, Kiana. We are 'concerned' for his health after all; nothing bad about that, is there?" Lucius asked with a lazy smile.

"If you say so…" Kiana replied with a nod, and followed behind him.

Bethany too, walked behind them with her head lowered. Since they had left the manor of the Baron, Bethany had not spoken a single word and would just stare at the ground the entire time. Lucius sneaked a look back at her and nodded thoughtfully.

'Choosing the immediately reconstructing the spell matrix for Enrage was the right choice it seems.' Lucius thought.

One must not forget Lucius had used the spell Enrage twice in a short amount of time. Normally this would have been impossible, as the spell matrix would collapse. But once Lucius had seen Keith's reaction and the subsequent events that happened, he had come up with a plan.

He was not sure it would work, but he was willing to bet on it. But that entire plan relied on one thing, which was nothing but the spell matrix for Enrage. If Lucius was able to rebuild it in that short amount of time again, he would go ahead with it and if not… he had another plan for that of course.

Thankfully, lady luck was on his side and despite the numerous disturbances, Lucius was able to reconstruct the spell matrix for Enrage. And he actually built it in barely two attempts, which was a new record for him in this world.

In his past life Lucius had used Enrage so many times, he could very well make the spell matrix while sleeping. But the thing about Enrage was that the spell was useless for most of the humans of his past life.

It was so common that nearly everyone knew how to deal with it. One didn't even need specific magical defenses; if one had a strong willpower, they would be able to overcome its effect. Plus even if the spell took effect, its duration was not that long, lasting anywhere from less than a second to five seconds.

But the way Lucius used the spell was quite different from its intended way. He would use it on beasts, who had no control like that of the humans or even when he used it on humans, he would do so when they were in critical situations.

For example, fighters would curse and insult each other in the middle of the fight, but barely anyone would be affected by it after one point as they were used to it. They would simply ignore it. 

But what if the spell was used right after insulting the foe's mother, who had slept with a harem of goblins? 

Even if the foe was good at ignoring such things, they would be subconsciously be affected by the spell which would throw them off. But in a crucial fight, even a split second was the difference between life and death.

Lucius would weave the fights in such a way and use the spell Enrage like this. It was quite efficient too, as it barely needed any Hell energy for his past self and could use it as many times as he wanted.

An enemy may be able to escape the pinch once, twice, or even ten times. But Lucius could keep it up for far longer than that, and after hundreds of attempts, they were bound to slip up. And that was exactly what he looked forward to.

'Time to see what Hell energy does to people of this world.' Lucius thought to himself as he stepped through the door of the hospital.