Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Chapter 104: Test Of Courage Part Three

Alicia had already spent three days and nights in this illusion world. But unfortunately, the amount of information she has been able to gather did not account for much. She had not even seen the countess yet and was not allowed to enter the main house. There were a few new things that she did figure out. First and the most important thing she did find out was that she could still use magic. She figured this out the first night she was in this illusion world. The second thing was the time when the countess ate dinner and what her normal eating habits were. She had befriended one of the servants in the kitchen named Samantha which got her a few extra pieces of bread with her nightly meal. So now she would save some bread for morning time and share it with Beth. 

The last thing she found out was when the countess went to bed. Since she was widowed she runs the whole Covett house by herself. So her going to bed would be the best time to take care of things. Alicia knew that just killing her would not fix much. This, of course, is because there was no evidence that she had been beating and killing people. Alicia would not kill someone unless there was proof of these things in front of her. But the past few days that she has been here there were no signs of severe mistreatment except the lack of food. Because of this Alicia had yet to move.

But this was different on this night. Alicia decided it was time to do some night investigation. Luckily she learned some concealment magic from Blake and her father before the test which will come in handy at this time. Concealment magic was very hard. This was mainly due to the fact that you had to bend light around your body making it almost pass through you. Just trying to imagine such a thing could be difficult. This kind of magic was good for what Alicia was about to do and that was to infiltrate the main house!

Alicia casted concealment magic on herself and then climbed out the small window of her bedroom. It was a bit of a squeeze to get out but the lack of food meant that the body Alicia was in was quite slender. This made it easier for her to squeeze out the window. The top portion of the building that stuck out of the ground had a nice overhang on the sides that made the area near the windows to have little to no snow. It would have been quite weird if someone was walking by and they saw the snow near a window being disturbed all of a sudden. This was also the reason why Alicia decided to climb out of the window. If she went through the main door it might cause alarm with the other servants still running around or maybe even the guards.

Now that she was outside she could finally head towards the main house. The main house had three floors. From what Alicia had found out the Countess lived on the third floor. Her room took up the entire third floor. In total there were twenty bedrooms in this house all of which were furnished. But there was no one using these extra bedrooms. When Alicia first found out that the countess used an entire floor for just her bedroom she couldn't help but shake her head. She wondered just what exactly what one would do with an entire floor for a bedroom. But the more she thought about it, she did end up coming up with quite a few things she would do with such space. Only then did she stop criticizing the Countess for her lavishness. 

Alicia quickly arrived at the side entrance to the mansion where the guards and servants mainly entered. She waited patiently by the side door. About a half hour later the door finally opened and a guard that seemed to be half drunk walked out. When Alicia looked at this guard's expression her face sank because he had the same look in his eyes as those bandits she had wiped out. 

"Hic! Who will I visit tonight? Hmm, I am kinda sick of the usual girls, maybe I will go find a new one Hic! Hic! There were two new girls brought in not long ago. I will let them say hi to this daddy! Hic!" The guard mumbled to himself.

Alicia happened to hear what the guard said right as she was about to step through the door. Her face sank even more since she knew who the guard was talking about. The only two new servants that had recently been brought in were her and Beth! Alicia looked at the open door, her eyes filled with complications. Thinking quickly she casted some ice magic and froze the lock on the door. Afterward, she turned and chased after the guard. By freezing the lock, the door will not automatically lock allowing Alicia to take care of the guard and then return to infiltrating the main house.

The guard walked step by step down the path humming some made up tune. Alicia snuck up behind him and quickly chopped the back of the man's neck. She did not kill him because he had yet to commit a crime that she knew of but to stop him from doing such things in the future, she decided to induce a little punishment.

She dragged the guard behind a few trees and with a small fireball in hand she 'accidentally' dropped it on the man's crotch. When she saw that the guard's crotch was now on fire, she shot back to the main house. Right as she stepped through the side door she heard a horrid scream coming from the place she had just left. Unfortunately for that guard, the fireball was not made of ordinary fire but fire she imagined based on burning medical alcohol. She was guessing that it would burn the guard enough to keep him in bed for a good while. Because he would not be able to put it out easily. She only did this to keep any hindrances from showing up and bothering Beth while she was out at night. She could have just knocked him out and left him there but that did not mean he would not try again the next day or the day after that.

As soon as Alicia entered the main house she made her way to the third floor as quickly as possible. But when she went to the second floor her sense of smell was filled with the smell of iron!

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