Darla's house was built on a hill that was present near the center of Grendel forest. It was a big building that had three floors with countless rooms. The architecture was quite grand and made it looked like a small castle built on a hill. Why hill though one can ask and that was so that Darla could tap into lunar energy easily. From the city the forest was located at a distance of three days from carriage and the territory near her house was covered in barrier that protected it from intruders and monsters.
Darla hopped out of her carriage and went straight to her study. "Cal. Cal come here", Darla called out. A young boy came running to her room. He had green hair, a frail body, and was wearing tattered and shabby clothes. A strange tattoo on his left shoulder blade was visible through the hole in his shirt. Cal was Darla's slave that she had purchased from the slave market.
"You called Master", Cal greeted Darla and answered to her call. Darla put the cover box on the table and sat on the chair. "Ask Laudia to open the lower chamber and wait for me there", she dismissed Cal with a hand swipe. "As you wish Master".
Laudia was Darla's immediate disciple and a genius. She was personally picked up by Darla after being impressed by her talents in magic and since then had been studying under her.
Cal cautiously walked towards Laudia's room to wake her up. The reason was her shitty personality. Aside from her being genius, she treated Cal like an animal and would usually place various traps near her room so that Cal doesn't disturb her. On many occasions Cal had been victim of those spells like being blown outside the window, being forced to speak in animal language etc.
"Phew, looks like I am safe", Cal safely reached her room and knocked. When no answer came from inside he gathered his courage to speak and knocked again. "Miss Laudia, Master has asked you to open the lower chambers now. She will be meeting you there".
"Hmm, who is it?", asked Laudia meekly. "Master has asked you to meet her in lower chambers now", after conveying the message Cal dashed away from there as fast as possible. *swoosh. The door opened and a pillow came flying out of the room hitting the other wall.
Cal went to stand in front of the lower chambers and waited for Laudia. The lower chambers were Darla's work area and she will spend her time researching and experimenting here. The only one allowed inside was Laudia and Darla herself. So usually Cal would stand in front of the gate if and if his master would call him.
Soon Laudia came and seeing Cal standing agitated her but she held inside and opened the doors. Immediately Darla came and entered the chambers. Seeing Darla happy Laudia asked, "What is it we are going to do so late Teacher?".
Darla ignored Laudia's question and continued moving things around and setting up the table. "Finally, I can complete my research", said Darla while laughing. 'Teacher, scary!!', thought Laudia.
Darla gave a book to Laudia and asked her to start working on making the potion as described inside. While Darla continued reading some papers and started drawing a magic circle.
On the other hand Laudia slowly continued brewing the potion and after thirty minutes the potion was finally done. Darla came over and seeing the potion patted Laudia's shoulder and filled the potion in a small bottle and chanted a spell. She then asked Laudia to bring in Cal. 'Huh, Cal? In here?', Laudia had many questions but kept quite and brought Cal in.
It was the first time Cal had entered the chamber and was quite fascinated with all the apparatus and specimens that were stored in a jar and kept on the shelf.
"Cal, come here boy", saying this Darla put the potion forward and said, "Drink this". Cal saw the crimson colored potion inside the bottle and then looked at Darla. "What is it Master?", asked Cal while picking up the bottle.
"Something that will make you powerful and strong", Darla replied with a smile. A power enhancing potion was out of picture but Cal had no choice but to drink it. *Gulp,*Gulp *Gulp. He chocked down the mystery potion down his throat without any sound.
"Let us wait for the result fufu", Darla said.
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