It didn’t take a lot of time for Victor to catch up with Sebastian and Evan who were walking slowly as if he was in great pain.
Victor nodded. That’s what he got for touching Hana. Victor didn’t quickly dispel her curse for this very reason… He just made sure not to touch her at all. Even when she thought he tried to hug her, it was an illusion.
Too bad that Evan was a ghoul class player. He has a very high poison resistance. So the poison that was supposed to make him suffer in pain for nine days and nights, only acted about 10%.
Victor quickly ran after them, ignoring the five remaining demonized men who were guarding and searching their surroundings in an impenetrable circle.
Victor knew about those. They were a part of the Von Zwei secret army. They used them just before the reckoning, and they almost succeeded if it were not for some stupid scion whom they angered by mistake… They survived total annihilation though, thanks to their heir’s friendship with a more powerful scion… Someone Victor really wanted to cut into very tiny pieces.
By analyzing those monsters, Many other powers began to develop similar warriors… There was a project financed by some countries too. Victor didn’t expect those to appear this early though.
All of that became irrelevant after the Reckoning. As everyone became a player.
The research didn’t stop but shifted into trying to grant players monster powers, paving the way for bloodlines research.
Victor decided not to kill those for now as he might be able to control them, he just ran to Evan and Sebastian's side and began to walk between them like a close friend. He even began to chit-chat with them. Too bad he couldn’t offer them some of his blood, he had no empty spots for new blood slaves.
…
“Master… Your… Men… Can they be called that? What are they really?” Sebastian asked.
“I already told you, I will explain later… They are men.” Evan scolded lightly.
“That girl. Alpha. I saw her get pierced by one of your… Men’s spike. She seemed poisoned.” Sebastian said.
“That would be better… It means she can’t travel fast.” Evan said with some difficulty.
“What if she has an antidote?” Sebastian asked again.
“What did the man who injured her look like?” Evan asked.
“I don’t know, she cut him in half before I could tell… The spike had a lot of barbs and some black dots.” Sebastian contemplated.
“Oh… That’s Freddy… The poison he has… It is some kind of centipede blood poison… It is slow acting but lethal… We don’t have a cure.” Evan seemed disturbed… He didn’t like poisoned food. ”You should have told me earlier.”
“What! How can you develop a poison without a cure?” Sebastian asked in surprise as he watched Evan take out a round artifact and began to activate it… It was no longer working.
“We didn’t exactly develop it…. We will talk later.” Evan said then paused. He was feeling strange. His survival instincts were telling him to run away as if he was facing an imminent danger coming from all directions. Evan was carefully scanning the area around him for the last five minutes, but he could find nothing wrong.
He was now convinced that this was a hallucination caused by the poison in him. Who the hell poisoned him? Was it that seashell? He knew that restaurant was sketchy….
“Master… are those men loyal… I was thinking… What if they suddenly attacked us with such evil poisons?” Sebastian asked as he walked.
“Don’t worry, They are under my control. We will speak about them later!” Evan touched his ring as he repeated and never spoke ever again after that.
Green goo does not speak.
…
“Master… You are moving too slowly…” Sebastian complained as he looked around. “I am sure that white-haired b*tch is still here somewhere, but why do I feel the forest keeps changing…” He added.
“Weren’t you after that blond girl?” Evan asked in surprise.
“Ah… I forgot to tell you… I mistakenly injured a girl before you caught up. I tried to give her a quick death but she was ungrateful and bit my finger… That b*tch must have stolen my ring then.” He said.
“Your ring? Even so, Sebastian, walk slowly…you must learn to be careful… What if she had allies hidden around” Evan scolded.
“Ah... Sorry. But my ring had many valuables… “ Sebastian said.
“Don’t worry, with my artifact I can easily find her… I got it from those guys at the fate sect. So it can’t be blocked, I just need to change the target, you should have told me before.” Evan said as he took the orb he used to weaken Alpha earlier.
“Ahh… You met with the fate sect too?” Sebastian asked in surprise.
“Oh… So you know about them…” Evan asked.
“Yes… I met one of their disciples once. She helped me escape a certain danger in exchange for a blood promise…” Sebastian said.
“You too!” Evan said in surprise.
“Did you encounter that cold chick too, Master?” Sebastian asked as he looked back.
“No… It was a cold old woman… But she saved my life and taught me a lot of my arts, and in exchange, my mission was to search for a certain treasure in a very dangerous dungeon, then deliver it to its rightful heir.” Evan said.
“Really?” Sebastian was surprised.
“Yes… I found the treasure after nearly losing my life, but I still couldn’t locate the heir… What about your promise? Maybe we could help each other.” Evan said.
“I… I promised that I will fulfill three requests for them in the future… So I still don’t know…” Sebastian said as he continued to walk forward, hiding his face.
“Fool! How can you give them such power over you?” Evan scolded.
“Well, I put some restrictions, of course, their requests can’t go against my principles and would never be to harm me or my allies and loved ones.” Sebastian defended himself… He knew that he made a mistake, but he was still young at that time… And that chick was really hot… and cold.
“You must be careful in the future… They asked me for something similar at first, but I didn’t accept, so they only asked me to locate a player who practices a certain immortal art and give them the artifact I located. They even told me that I am destined to meet him, but I have been searching for 10 years, and still looking.” Evan shook his head with a sigh, he was way more talkative than usual, but Sebastian didn’t mind.
“What immortal art?” Sebastian asked.
“Something called Eternal Martial arts,” Evan answered after some pondering, making Sebastian stop in his tracks and look back again.
“Master… Are you sure?” Evan asked.
“Yes. They said something about that player becoming one of the strongest in the world… Too bad I already made that blood promise, or I would have used it myself…” Evan sighed.
“Master, can I see the artifact?” Sebastian licked his lips.
“No… I can only give it to its true owner.” Evan refused firmly.
“What if I told you that I practice the Eternal Body art… It is the first book of the Eternal martial arts script,” Sebastian whispered.
Evan froze… then signaled with his hand, causing the 4 demonized men who were surrounding them to turn around and move away a little.
“You are not lying to me?” He asked suspiciously.
“I am not,” Sebastian replied as he took out a small dagger artifact that was hidden in his boot and pushed it against his hand. It didn’t pierce through.
“Is this really eternal body art?” Evan hesitated.
“Yes. It allows me to freely make any part of my body very tough, and it also makes me heal faster.” Sebastian said.
“If you can activate it, then it is yours…” Evan said after some pondering.
Sebastian smiled as he watched his master reach for a pouch around his neck and take out a glass bead containing a leaf-shaped flame. He could feel the huge amount of vitality inside of it resonating with his body.
Evan hesitated, then put it in Sebastian’s hand. The bead began to shine in a soft light… Victor was really nervous, but no one saw that.
“Can you bind it?” Evan asked with some skepticism.
“Yes…” Sebastian was not sure… He pricked his finger with the dagger he was already holding… It bled this time, just one drop which fell onto the bead.
Nothing happens.
Evan frowned… Sebastian got nervous and dropped two more drops, but still, nothing happened.
“Sebastian…” Evan was getting angry.
“One-second master…” Sebastian quickly thought… He had never heard of such a treasure before, but the resonance between it and his body meant something…. A bead…. A bead…. A green leaf… A green flame…. Then it struck him… Yes, he knew a way.
“Master… Just watch.” Sebastian said as he cut his finger again and began to draw certain symbols on the bead.
“Those are dungeon symbols…” Evan said,
“Yes… I saw this in a mural in the dungeon where I got my art… A huge green flame and below it was a bead with such symbols…” Sebastian finished drawing, causing the bead to shine and then explode,
BOOOOM
Evan and Sebastian were thrown away by the grenade explosion.
“NO ONE COMES NEAR,” Evan screamed at his men as he stood with some difficulty, he was in a sorry state when he ran to Sebastian’s side.
Sebastian was injured too, but not a lot. Just some scratches and a couple of small cuts here and there.
He was guarding against Evan but did not expect such an explosion from the bead.
“Quickly take this healing pill.” Evan knelt to his side and pushed a healing pill to him, but Sebastian didn’t take it… He shook his head and only wiped the blood off his mouth with his sleeve… Victor cursed.
“I am ok.” He said as he stood up and looked around until he found the bead, still looking the same on the ground, just a little hot… Sebastian licked his injured lip as he headed to pick it up… Victor smiled.
“What happened? Are you sure you know how to activate this…” Evan frowned and asked. Sebastian could hear the impatience in his voice.
“I… I may have made a mistake as I also needed to draw the same symbols on my body.” Sebastian contemplated with a frown. “It should have only dimmed again, not exploded…” He added, then paused and looked at Evan…. Why was he telling him this? He didn’t reveal the entire method because he didn’t entirely trust Evan, and he was right… But why the hell was he telling the truth?
“Now,” Evan said coldly, ordering his men who unknowingly got close because of the explosion. They didn’t hesitate to attack Sebastian who quickly grabbed the bead from the ground and began to run away… He was right, Evan was never his ally. Sebastian only wanted to get his help to find Hana, that’s why he accepted him as a master.
“Where do you think you are going?” Evan asked as he took out a talisman and activated it, making Sebastian go docile as the demonized men attacked him. This was the same talisman Evan used at the auction house to control Sebastian, he bound it to the evil souls inside of him when he saved his life.
The monsters’ teeth and claws that were about to shred Sebastian into pieces suddenly froze in midair, as their owners turned into dust… An amulet that was on Sebastian’s neck shone with a blinding light, turning everything into dust, including the evil spirits that were influencing Sebastian, and Evan who was watching with shocked eyes.
The white light resides, revealing a scorched ground with the phantom of a short girl holding a blue umbrella in the epicenter. She was looking at the now awakened Sebastian.
“Now we are even.” The phantom girl spat as she slowly dissipated. The necklace on his neck broke into pieces at the same time.
Sebastian sighed while shaking his head. That princess is really spicy. But that’s how he liked them.
After using the necklace, he will have to find another way to put her in his debt again, but that’s for another time… He has many ways to scam little girls.
Looking at his hand, a smile slowly appeared on his face then disappeared… His hand was not holding the bead, but a stone.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” He howled into the night.
So Victor killed Evan and baited Seb into giving away secrets and wasting a life saving trump? Not bad eh
Shota:has many ways to scam little girls
Victor:are you sure about that!!
Shota : has many ways to scam little girls.
Victor : scamming veteran scammers.
The best thing about this chapter is that if by chance Evan ever said that he belonged to the Von Zwei family to Sebastian, the Von Zwei family will gain a new Siscon enemy! LoL
It depends if Evan had reported about Alpha's existence or not.
@Architect_Realities It's true what you said but after Sebastian saw the eternal flame and felt his body resonating with this item I believe he would hardly let "Evan" escape with "his treasure", and he would probably try to find out anyway about the Evan's identity, at least I think it would be possible with his sect's resources.
The opposite is also possible, if the Von Zwei family discovers that the last person who was with Evan and Troy and who is still alive would be Sebastian.
@Architect_Realities I don't think he'd report her, he wanted to eat alpha's blood to expand his lifetime
Thanks for the chapter!
Wait so the ghost girl dissipated or not ? The amulet is her bonded item in which she stays no ? Or she isn't with Seb and this amulet is something like the 'will' or avatar of her ? Since she is princess Victor should make some benefits out of her if he can. Like inheritance, ancient knowledge, some soul techniques etc. Taming spicy girls is not problem since he practices on Alpha.Ghost girl should have good potencial on assassinations, scouting and spying. So I hope she will appear soon.
I wonder if he will use that bead for himself or for Alpha. But I always thought that Seb is in that eternal sect that was hidden but now it looks like it was really destroyed and he got part of inheritance. Maybe the bead is entire inheritance. That would be good.
But I think it is shame Victor didn't record his conversation with Sebastion about Nightshade. Their love destiny is already corrupted so he just need to show her his true personality to let her know. It would make it easier to convert her.
@Akaichi I just realized that Victor relies too much on sudden opportunities(finding spider den and making the poison or finding the painting getting 100 levels). Not that he would be weak without them but much weaker than now and his missions would be much harder. Victor should be more proactive in some ways.
For example I wonder what will happen if he disguises his level as 0 and starts levelling up. System will not recognize it since he has bigger authority and experience are not some type of energy (like in other novels) and works more like merit -> for enough merit you get reward in shape of level. So theoretically he can scam system making his levelling always low-effort(if one person can't have same level twice he can just change name).
Next I wonder if he can use his authority to get out of dungeon like mining hole making infinitive expirience cave. He can even make super hidden base in dungeons and make monster in it subordinates(if he finds suitable monsters).Maybe he can disguise dungeon status making it 'raided' making artificial outbreak etc.
He didn't even try to experiment with the contractor of doom. What happens when clause is this -> target A helps target B in revenge. Target B's entire potencial(fate,skills whatever) will be added to Target A when revenge is done. What will happen ? Maybe it would not work normally but with Victor authority it should.
What happens when he disguises prices in merchat skill etc. Maybe he can disguises days so random merchandise changes several times a day.
Using his authority against system has lot of potencial but Victor uses it mostly passively. So he should try some things like this if it works. At least I would if have infinitive authority as I would always think how to scam system for benefits.
Victor is still building his team... He doesn't have the resources yet. Why would the fate strike him with something he is fated to defeat?
The disguise doesn't work against his own system... Any data the system processes is before the skill applying.
He can't dig out of a dungeon. Even if he has the authority, He have no energy to break the world's protective shield.
Contracts had to have an equal trade to some extent. He can't just write anything... For example, for Hana he would help her hide her family secret.
He can't disguise prices in his merchant skill. Those are verified by all the parties, who are very far away.
The system can be scammed, but in other ways.
@Akaichi Well that is shame. As for fate striking him... I meant it like if he didn't get all those opportunities some events would be much harder for him even if he still could do well. After all that poison and levels make everything he does much easier.
But the equal trade of contract doesn't make much sense to me. Who decides what is equal ? When he did contract with Alex he made scion his slave for third-rate sect. That isn't much equal to me. So the worth of something is made in the head of those doing contract I guess -> Alex wanted revenge very much giving it big worth or something. That means that as long he finds someone who needs or want something very much (like revenge) and is willing give anything he should be albe exploit it for benefits. The main question of mine is if those contracts can be used to extract data from one status to another. That would be sick. And also that random merchandise... I mentioned it once but it wasn't in novel for very long time. Even if Victor doesn't find anything ultra useful it could be at least mentioned in some chapter if he looks into it or not. For all I know since it is random there can be some OP skill or artifact. Even if useless for him he has around 100 subordinates so everything would find its owner. Even useless skill like cooking can be given to some of maids after all.
Thanks for the chapter
Too many ... in this chapter
Thanks for the chapter
Sebastian rubs me the wrong way. He doesn't have a pleasant end does he?
Too bad he couldn’t offer them some of his blood, he had no empty spots for new blood slaves.
Evan knelt to his side and pushed a healing pill to him, but Sebastian didn’t take it… He shook his head and only wiped the blood off his mouth with his sleeve… Victor cursed
If he couldn't use his blood, then what was Victor trying to feed Sebastian here?
It was a soul wine. He wanted Sebastian to tell him the entire method.. He knew he was still hiding things from him.
@Akaichi Sebastian didn't accept it, so why did he tell the entire truth?
@silverdrem He did... He licked his lips. Victor has sprinkled some of it there... It's effect was weak, but enough.
Sooo, good and worth the wait. Keen to see how alpha reacts to victor now