Chapter 101: Crutix

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Luther opened the doors to his room and walked in, closing the doors behind him.

He saw that Ivery was sitting on the couch eating her food. He smiled and sat on the couch beside her.

"What happened?" Ivery asked him

"Nothing much." Luther answered

"Okay.." Ivery wasn't going to pry, she already knew what happened due to the slight scent of blood he carried

"When should I go home?" Ivery asked

"Go home? This is also your home, just stay here another night or two." Luther told her

"But we have to go to the academy in two days and now I don't have a uniform..." Ivery said with a sigh

"I can prepare you another uniform, just relax here, there's no rush for you to go back, I'm sure your mother and father won't mind it." Luther assured her

"Okay." She nodded

"Good." He smiled

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Luther took Ivery back to the bed after she finished eating. They both laid in the bed, cuddling. He suddenly kissed her and put his hand on her waist and his hand moved down from her waist and ran down her leg.

"Let me know when you start feeling better.." Luther broke the kiss to say

Ivery blushed and nodded, knowing exactly why he wanted to be informed.

"Are you still tired?" He asked her

"Mhm." She nodded again

"Then sleep.." He put his hands over her eyes and kissed her forehead

She snuggled closer to him and eventually fell asleep.

Several hours passed and Ivery felt oddly uneasy. She tossed and turned in bed, and couldn't shake the discomfort she felt. She opened her eyes and sat up.

It was midnight, she didn't think she'd sleep for so long. She looked around the dark room and yawned.

She noticed Luther was sleeping beside her. When she turned her head right she froze at the sight.

An 8 feet tall man with a lot of black mist coming out out of his head acting like long hair, stood beside the bed. He was pale gray, his eyes were closed and black mist constantly flowed from his mouth.

Ivery glared at him and raised her hands, instinctively releasing a bit of her magical energy from her hands, making the room and furniture shake. Her magic instantly made him dissipate.

Luther quickly sat up.

"What happened?" Luther asked, seeing the floating golden magic particles around the room and sensing strong magic residue in the room

"There was someone in the room.." Ivery told him as she scanned the room for it

"You mean Crutix?" Luther asked

"Cru-what?" Ivery didn't understand

"One of my summons." Luther snapped his fingers

A black mist swirled in front of the bed and the misty, tall, pale man reformed.

"Your summon?" Ivery looked at it

"Yes, since the guards were useless in keeping people from barging in, I decided to start using my summons instead." He explained

"I apologize for alarming you." Crutix bowed, his voice was extremely deep and raspy

"He can speak?" Ivery whispered to Luther

"Yes, Crutix is a phantom that can interact with the living, but the living cannot interact with him." He nodded

"He has no weaknesses, magic doesn't work on him either since he's able to absorb it, even holy power has no effect on him." Luther felt proud

"Okay, but I don't think anyone will be coming this late at night.." Ivery felt like she wouldn't be able to properly sleep with Crutix watching over her and Luther

"You'd be surprised by the determined few that like to come whenever they want now, as if they believe they have some sort of family pass." He shrugged

"Do you not like it?" Luther asked her

"Can't he just stand guard outside? I can't sleep if someone is watching me.." Ivery whispered to him

"If that makes you comfortable, of course." Luther smiled

"ᎶᎧ ᏕᏖᏗᏁᎴ ᎧᏬᏖᏕᎥᎴᏋ ᏖᏂᏋ ᎴᎧᎧᏒ." Luther's eyes turned black and he spoke in an unknown language

Crutix nodded and dispersed into a black mist.

Ivery looked confusedly at him. His eyes reverted back to normal and he looked at her.

"Hm?" Luther noticed the confused look she gave him

"Oh, I just told him to go outside the door." Luther told her

"What type of language was that?" She asked

"It's not really considered a language it's just something dark magic users can speak when they reach a certain level in dark arts, Crutix only responds to my orders in that tongue." He answered

"Now go back to sleep." Luther gently pushed her down on the bed and kissed her forehead

"What are we doing tomorrow?" Ivery smiled and looked up at him

"Well, I have a meeting to attend in the morning with my father and the imperial advisors, after I'm done we'll spend the rest of the day together." He laid down and pulled her close to him

"Okay." Ivery nodded

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