Magical Soul Parade - Chapter 324: What Happened?

Chapter 324: What Happened?

Finn took the hand and gave a firm and brief handshake. He did not feel the need to be hostile but he was not about to be overly friendly either. “Finn.”

Either Cade XIV was exceptionally good at masking his true depth or he was actually at a level much greater than Finn had expected from a Sepulchre patriarch. He couldn’t even pinpoint the man’s Transcendent fragment, which suggested a level of skill in concealment, but Finn did not think it was worth the effort to probe deeper into such an inconsequential figure.

“He serves his purpose,” Finn replied simply, ending the conversation curtly. He pulled his hand back and looked toward Helix. “Shall we continue?”

Once they were out of earshot, the younger Cade turned to his father with a look of frantic curiosity. “So? What did you sense? What is his fragment? He has to be using something powerful to keep that dragon so docile.”

“Nothing.”

“I am telling you that I could feel nothing at all!” His father whispered in a low, sharp voice. “It was like staring into an abyss. There was no resonance and no vibration. It was simply a void of information…” he let out a soft breath, his eyes growing distant with calculation.

Cade XV looked down at the floor and nodded begrudgingly. He looked like a child who had been told he couldn’t play with a dangerous toy but he knew better than to cross his father when he spoke with that level of gravity. The father watched him for a moment and knew he would have to keep a close eye on the boy to ensure he didn’t do something stupid.

As he walked, Finn was hit with a strange sense of deja vu. The layout of the corridor and the way the door was positioned reminded him of the headmaster’s office back at the Seneschal Ossuarist School in the kingdom of Aethelos. It seemed the architects of power in this world all followed the same blueprint for intimidation.

The man in the lead had a cold and condescending expression while the woman behind him was stoic and unmoving. They were clearly a probe meant to test him before he reached the final room.

He snorted softly as they drew close, and the sound echoed in the quiet hall.

Finn didn’t say a word. He simply allowed a faint and emerald glow to flicker in his eyes. To the Preceptor it was as if the hallway had disappeared and been replaced by a vast and uncaring abyss.

He knew with an absolute and terrifying certainty that Finn saw every vulnerability and could unmake him with a single thought.

By the time the Preceptor came back to himself, Finn and Helix had already passed him. He felt a hand shaking his shoulder and he blinked to see the female Preceptor looking at him with wary and hesitant eyes.