The Legendary Mage novel Chapter 89

“Let’s speak in the room first, and let’s not alert the others,” Lucan beckoned Alavin into the chamber. The estate was close by, and it would be troublesome if anyone within noticed.

Cobalt Strike would never willingly allow Alavin to return; he must have escaped by some means.

Everyone of the Mallister family was both shocked and overjoyed, scarcely believing their own eyes.

“Has the young lord returned?”

“Is this really our young lord?”

“He’s grown so much!”

“My dear, let your Aunt Helna have a good look at you; you’ve grown so tall.” The elderly woman, named Helna, was Alavin’s mother’s elder sister. She had suffered tragedy early on, losing both her husband and child. Since then, she had been living in the lord’s keep, treating Alavin as if he were her own son.

Once dignified and graceful, now her head was crowned with white hair. In merely eight years, time had rendered her so aged.

Alavin could hardly believe his eyes, and tears began to blur his vision. “Aunt Helna, what has happened to you?”

“I’m quite well, quite well, strong as an ox,” Helna said, clutching Alavin’s hand tightly while gently caressing his cheek. “Let me look at you. Let me have a good look.”

After her in-laws’ misfortune, she took refuge in the lord’s keep, considering it her home and the Mallisters her kin. But one night of upheaval changed everything—her sister and brother-in-law’s fates were unknown, the Mallisters suffered greatly, and over two hundred thousand townsfolk endured untold sorrows. She had seen it all, felt the grief and the pain, and also the helplessness. She even wondered if it was her own ill fortune that had brought such calamity upon the keep.

“Alavin, I missed you so much.” Oda clung to Alavin, afraid it was all a dream.

“Young lord, how did you return?” Lucan asked with concern. If discovered, Cobalt Strike would not be lenient with Alavin.

“I joined the Cobalt Strike’s hunting event at Griffin’s Roost, hundreds of leagues from Azure Mountain. I slipped away when they weren’t looking to come and see everyone, but I’ll have to return soon.”

“You joined a hunting event?” Lucan remembered that at least a Novice Mage Stage VI was required for such an endeavor.

“I’ve reached Novice Mage Stage VI.”