Ayana felt like shouting because each time Viktor jumped, her heart would feel like it was falling from its place.

But she covered her mouth to not alert the people walking under. Otherwise, what would they think if they saw her being carried by someone who was leaping over the buildings like this?

Within no time, Viktor quickly reached Ayana's quarters after getting directions from her. The reason he didn't go to his was on the off chance some people might try to visit him or snoop around out of curiosity about the man who was going to get engaged with their Young Mistress.

Ayana was able to let out a sigh of relief, seeing that they had finally reached a safe haven, but at the same time, she started to become a bit nervous now that she and Viktor were alone in her room, except for the unconscious Laynar.

Viktor threw Laynar's body to the side and shifted Ayana's body to carry her in a princess carry fashion, making her blush, abashed from being carried like this, and weakly protested as she lightly fisted Viktor's chest, "Hey...Let me down.."

Viktor smiled as she walked near the bed and looked at her, making her gulp in nervousness, wondering what this big bad wolf was going to do.

"L-Let me go...what—Ah!" Ayana was startled as Viktor suddenly let go of her, making her drop on the bed.

"Hey! What was that for? I am injured..." Ayana petulantly said as she looked at him with an aggrieved expression.

"I thought you were tough enough to endure a few scratches. But first, tell me how to restrain this guy so that when he wakes up, he will give up any notions of escaping," Viktor said as he looked at Laynar lying on the floor, still knocked out.

However, he was sure that even if Laynar woke up, he wouldn't be able to walk anytime soon, especially with the...squished little brother between his legs.

Ayana frowned as she looked at Laynar and was still angry about what he tried to do to her. She didn't want him in her room for more than a second, but now there was no other choice.

So she took out a blank talisman hidden in her robes and began to draw strange runic marks on it with just her finger.

Viktor was fascinated by what she was doing, especially how she seemed to be drawing these mystic symbols so beautifully with just her finger.

"How do you do that?"

"Do what?" Ayana asked while keenly focusing on what she was drawing.

"Drawing with just your finger. How do I do it?" Viktor curiously asked.

"I concentrate my Odic Force towards my finger and then simply use the knowledge of the spells I know to draw it onto this," Ayana replied as a matter of fact.

"Odic Force? What's that? I have heard you guys mention this a lot before. Is that some kind of energy that allows you people to use magic?" Viktor hadn't bothered to ask this before since he was too preoccupied with more important things.

He was fascinated by the magic these people used but wondered if he would need it since he was already powerful without them.

Ayana briefly looked at him as if she was surprised he asked such a basic question, but then she remembered he lived all this time as a Regular and so said as she continued her drawing, "Odic Force is nothing but the energy from nature. We absorb that energy or borrow from nature to use for various purposes, as you have seen."

'Nature is a source of magical energy? What is the world coming to these days..' Viktor inwardly shook his head, wondering why he never found out anything about this.

But then again, he felt that nature always had its share of secrets, especially how even life on this planet developed on its own. He was sure some force or energy must have been driving these changes and felt that what Ayana said made sense.

"So..how do you people absorb this energy? Can ordinary people do it as well using some secret technique?" Viktor eagerly asked but not for him. Instead, he was thinking about Taya in his mind.

He could feel how badly she wanted to be with him for a long time...it was something obvious since the time she was young.

Ayana again looked at him with a narrowed gaze, "Ordinary people? Who do you have in mind? Anyway, ordinary people can't or are not born with the ability to absorb such a higher form of energy. We are born with an Odic Heart that allows us to circulate Odic Force through our bodies. So unless Regulars are born like that despite the fact that it is impossible, they would also be able to absorb nature's sacred energy."

Viktor felt disappointed hearing this since he was really hoping that there could be some way for Taya to learn magic and extend her life.

But it seems as if fate was making things for both him and her.

Still, he didn't give up and decided to keep seeking a solution.

"Okay! I am done. Now just stick this talisman onto his back. He would remain unconscious for at least the next 24 hours. This is all I can do with the level of my expertise. You don't even have to tie him up or anything," Ayana said as she handed him over the talisman.

Viktor took it and slapped it onto Laynar's back after walking towards him. But as a force of habit, he found a steel pole lying about in the room and bent it to bind Laynar to one of the legs of the bed.

He had no idea if Laynar was strong enough to break through a thick steel pole, but still, something was better than nothing.

He felt that he should learn some methods to restrain people like him...those with the ability to use magic.

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He then walked towards Ayana, who was tending to her wounds on the bed, and sat beside her, making her slide back like a nervous rabbit, "W-What is it....Don't you have an e-engagement to attend?"