Nazir Ramenor
It's been more than 3 years since Nazir became the little lord's guard. When Lord Eliar first invited him, he thought he was bored and wanted to meet, but he never thought he would offer him a job. Also he thought it was impossible for Lady Aurelia to get pregnant again. He really didn't know if Lord Eliar was extremely lucky or unlucky. He didn’t like children because he liked peace and silence, but he seems to like the little lord Altevia a lot. It was actually normal because the little lord was one of the calmest and kindest boys Nazir have ever seen, even though he has some weird kinks. Also he looked like his mother a lot with his gray hair and red eyes, that was a plus.
Nazir understood that little lord knows his father doesn't like to be disturbed so he was usually with his mother or with him. But the little lord doesn't like to hang out with other lords' children either. At first he played with them but then he just stopped. His personality was definitely close to his father’s.
And he was strangely interested in alchemy. The first time he used his mother's alchemy workshop, he asked him how to make something called a healing potion. Nazir had a chuckle at that moment, the little lord still didn’t know most of his incredible racial abilities. The healing potion he described was not even a tenth of his own regenerative power, but he wished that they could make such a potion. Even though they couldn't make the thing he wanted, he showed him how to make painkillers. Since then, he has been making different potions almost every day, and for some reason he started making poisons and stockpiling it. A small army could use these. Now that he thinks about it, it was a bit dangerous.
Besides alchemy, little lord also loved reading books. He knew many words despite his age. He even gave him a nickname like ‘Big black ears’. He was a funny kid, Nazir loved him.
“Nazir, why are you standing so far away?” Little lord asked, raising one eyebrow.
“Even the smell of the poison you're making is dangerous to me, my lord.”
“I don’t feel bad, red rabbit's foot, giant scorpion venom and lavier flower.
It's a strange mix, but I don’t think even the smell can be dangerous.”
The little lord looked at him for a while and then continued mixing. As he continued to make his poison, the door to the room opened and Lady Aurelia entered. She was as beautiful and dignified as always. She was wearing a long white dress and was probably chatting with other noble ladies.
“Are you making potions again, love?” She sounded a little disappointed.
Nazir could actually understand her a little bit. As much as the young lord has potential and talent for alchemy, socially he was even worse than his father.
After the little lord nodded to his mother, Lady Aurelia pulled up a chair and sat next to him.
“Did you need something, mother?” he said, looking at her with his big eyes. Lady Aurelia smiled, she probably wanted her son to socialize.
“What is this, another poison?” She stroked his hair.
“Yes, but I don't think this one is strong enough either.”
“Strong enough?” She giggled.
“If you're thinking of killing a dragon with poison, I have bad news for you.” The little lord looked at his mother in confusion.
“No, no, not that…
The book you gave me and Nazir said that even the smell of some poisons are fatal, but they don't seem very effective to me.
Mother… Can I go hunting with Nazir and try the poisons?”
“I'm sorry, but you're too young.”
“Then how will I know if they are…”
“Effective?” Lady Aurelia finished his sentence. “We can try if you want to learn that much.” she added and little lord looked at his mother with surprised eyes. “Mother that’s…”
“That’s what?
Nazir, can you get us two glasses?” she said as she continued to look at her son “There is also a guy, a gift from Eralith, bring him too.”
After her words, Nazir nodded and left the room. He could imagine what's going to happen, but… they should be fine.
Lady Eralith was probably at the event in the garden, so he'll get the glasses first.
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When he entered the kitchen, the maids looked at him in wonder.
“What did you need sir?” A woman with brown hair came up to him. Nazir had a very good memory. After he looked at the faces of the maids one by one, he remembered her name.
“Can I have 2 glasses, Olga?”
“Sure…” She turned and after three steps took the glasses that another maid handed to her. After thanking them, he hurried to the garden with glasses in his hands. If he wasn't wearing these fine quality clothes, people would probably think he was a servant. Sometimes even the little lord says he'll set him free. He probably looked like a gladiator from the outside.
When he went out into the garden, he saw that the huge open field was filled with dozens of nobles. He didn’t know how many hours he had been standing in the alchemy room with the little lord, but he didn't realize that the crowd had grown so much. The sun has already set and did he hear a violin? He wondered where Lord Eliar is. Though right now he needed to find Lady Eralith.
He asked the nobles around for where she was and after wandering around for a while he was able to find her. The moment he saw her, his heart almost stopped. She was an incredibly beautiful woman with long blond hair and delicate skin. She was wearing a long black dress with a low neckline. And her body was blocking all of his thoughts.
He shook his head. He must not forget Lady Aurelia's request.
“Are you Lady Eralith?”
When she heard his voice, she turned toward him, but she was much shorter than him, so she looked at his chest. She slowly lifted her head, looked at his face and a smirk appeared.
“Don't you think you're a little overconfident?”
After looking at her in confusion, he realized the glasses in his hands and took a step back “Oh, I'm sorry.” She took a step and approached him “Don’t worry, I liked it.”
“You misunderstood, Lady Aurelia sent me here.” As her smirk grew wider, she took one of the glasses from his hand and put it on the table behind her.
“She usually does nice favors in return for my gifts, but I didn't expect this.” When she came close to him, she put one hand on his chest and he put his hand on her shoulder and pushed her slowly.
“As happy as I am for your interest, I really came for something different.
Lady Aurelia wants the guy you gifted her.” Nazir sighed after she looked at him with surprised eyes.
She giggled.
“Forgive me, you wanted him, right?”
She showed him a half-naked, muscular man with short brown hair standing a little ahead. He was a little shorter than him, but if he compare him to the average, rather than to himself, he was quite tall. He was very muscular, probably a gladiator or an old adventurer, one of the strong ones. The scars on his body showed his experience.
“He is Tom, I bought him from Bastian's Ludus.
8 battles, 7 victories, 1 loss.” She tapped him twice softly on the shoulder, laughing.
“I never thought Lady Aurelia would train a gladiator,” he added.
“She said he was for a friend of hers.
Why does she need him now?”
“I don’t know.”
“Meh, it is not important. You can take him.”
He nodded and thanked her, and as soon as he looked at Tom, he started to follow him. But after the second step they took, Lady Eralith grabbed Nazir’s arm, stopped him and pulled him down “A gift, yes, but tell your lady I'm expecting a favor.” she whispered in his ear and pushed him.
This woman was dangerous.
“Is she like this to everyone?” He asked Tom while they were walking.
“I can't say everyone, but she's a woman who knows how to get what she wants.
It hurts me that I don't have anything she wants.”
Nazir chuckled “You're too relaxed for.”
“Gambling debt and a past I am not really proud of. I'm just waiting for the day I die on the sand now.”
“I can watch one of your battles.”
When Nazir looked at Tom and smiled, he realized he was holding the other glass.
Lady Eralith got his head all messed up.
“Thank you.” He reached out his hand to him and he bowed his head once and gave him the glass. “I can carry them if you want.” he said but they were already in front of the room.
“You don’t have to.” After opening the door, he was about to take a step inside but a dangerous smell hit his nose. He felt his eyes redden and pushed Tom back.
“Strengthen your body with mana before you enter!” Lady Aurelia shouted at them from the other end of the room.
When he felt Tom using mana, he strengthened his body with mana and stepped inside. After they came to the lady and the little lord, he saw them making potions together. It was like they were playing with toys.
He handed the glasses to her. “I know Eralith was stalling you, don't worry.” she said and put the glasses on the table.
He looked at their desk, different colored liquids had spilled everywhere. Strange animal parts and various plants were also spread on it. But what interested him the most was the bowl in the center with a red liquid in it. Lady Aurelia grabbed the bowl, poured the liquid into both glasses, placed one of them in front of the little lord and took the other.
“Mother, are you sure about this?” Little lord asked nervously and took the glass with both hands. “Won't you join me?” she smiled and held out her glass to him.
The little lord clinked glasses with his mother, sighed, and when his mother started drinking, he did too. What they drank was probably an incredibly dangerous poison, so if that red thing was the cause of the air in the room, it must have been.
“How do you feel?” she asked after stroking his cheek.
“It hurt my throat a little bit but… Just like I thought, I failed.”
“You think so?” After looking at her son with a funny smile, she took his glass and poured some more of the liquid.
He looked at Tom and saw the look of confusion on his face. He still didn't realize why he had been called here. Nazir didn't know if that’s a good or bad thing.
“He looks like a strong man, doesn't he, Altevia?” She looked at Tom.
After little lord nodded, poor Tom slowly approached Lady Aurelia, took the glass she handed him and stared at it for a while.
“Go on, drink it.”
Tom looked at Nazir once and then started to drink, and when he was halfway through the glass, a purple stain appeared in his throat and he collapsed to the floor as it conquered his whole body. He had a face as if he wanted to scream, but he couldn't anymore. He was dead before he hit the floor. A quick death, almost instantaneous. And the purple spots on his body… Nazir took his glove out of his pocket, put it on, kneeled down and touched the spot. The area was hardened.
“I must say it was a bit cruel, my lady.”
‘I guess, that's being in the wrong place at the wrong time.‘
He seemed like a good person.
When he stood up, he turned and looked at Lady Aurelia. Her calm smile was on her face as always. “Look at Altevia.” she said and he looked at the little lord.
Little lord was terrified, his eyes were wide open in fear. He couldn't even move, just staring silently at Tom's body. This wasn’t the first time he had seen someone die, they watched gladiators before but it was the first time he had killed someone.
“My lord.” he called out to him but he didn't seem to hear. “My lord!”
He slowly raised his head and looked at him then he turned to his mother.
“Mother… Was that…?”
“So, was it strong enough?”
“How… I…” Lady Aurelia caressed the little lord's hand.
“I wanted you to grow up a bit more to explain, but you're smart enough to understand what happened, right?”
Lady Aurelia stood up after her words and took the little lord by the hand. “Come, after we wash our hands, there are some people I'd like you to meet.”.
“What about him?”
Should he be happy that the little lord is not one of the thousands of lords who don't care about people's lives, or should he be sad that it might traumatize him? He didn't know if there was a more precise and easier way to tell him that he was immortal at such an early age, but Nazir wished she have thought of a different way.
As Lady Aurelia looked at him, he put on his other glove and picked Tom up.
“Don’t worry, Nazir will take care of him and do not be sorry that your poison killed him.
It was an instant and painless death, if he hadn't died here today, he might have died horribly in the arena another day.”
The little lord looked at his mother for a while and then lowered his head.
“And Nazir, after that I want you to spend the next day with Lady Eralith.
She saw you so will ask for you.”
After they left the room, he looked at the body in his hands for a while. Whatever happened here, Lady Aurelia was actually a good person. The woman he knew was a good person, and she's his master now.
He sighed.
At least he’ll get to spend time with Lady Eralith. Every job has its upsides as well as its downsides...
Now… Where the fuck was he supposed to throw him?