Harvey Von Geldstadt kicked Tobias chest very hard, breaking a couple of his ribs and sending him flying through a couple of walls and a dinner table. The poor man finally stopping after hitting the reinforced concrete wall on the other side of the mansion.
Harvey slowly moved through the new ‘openings’ in the walls and stood above his grandson who was coughing up blood.
The poor maids who were shocked by the sudden destruction, all ran away as soon as they saw the patriarch's angry face.
“Grandpa! That maniac killed Clint!” Tobias screamed after wiping his mouth. "I had to do it!"
“I already said that no one was allowed to make a move against Victor!” Harvey said as a silver sword slowly formed in his hand. “Clint was already expelled from the family anyway! Do you think I didn’t know you were secretly sending him money?” he added as he slashed Tobias’s arm.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhh………” Tobias screamed in pain as two men ran into the ruined dining room nearly stumbling upon the crushed glassware on the ground.
“Father/Grandfather please stop!” they said. Those two were Kolmir, the punishment hall master, and William, Gary’s father and Harvey's favorite grandson.
“What? Do you want to defend this bastard too?” he said angrily before beginning to cough hard causing him to cover his mouth with his pale hands… black blood seeped through his fingers.
“Father, appease your anger…” Kolmir said, “You already cut his hand… I think this is enough punishment! You must care about your health…. We already sent out an agent and removed the bounty on Victor.”
“Fine then…” Harvey said angrily as he glared at his son while wiping his hand. “But if anything were to happen to Victor I will kill you myself!” he barked. If Victor was hurt by his family this would be some real trouble, as Victor had already made him sign a contract.
Kolmir sighed as he ran to help his father who leaned on the wall for support. He became a little weak after his outburst. His health was not very good.
“Will! Take your brother to the infirmity,” Kolmir told his nephew who nodded and hurried toward Tobias.
“Wait!” Harvey said, “William, about what I told you last week, make it happen soon…”
“Grandfather, but Elise is… That man is a pervert!” William said with a complex expression.
“Shut up. Don’t act as if you really care about the girl now? Your wives and sons almost bullied her to death last year! I shouldn't have entrusted her to you! All you truly care about is your f*cking image!” Harvey scolded then coughed a little.
“But father, can’t we arrange for her to be an official wife at least?” William asked.
“No, it would take a lot of time for that, I need someone to carry the seed of the Von Weise as soon as possible… If my sources were right, their family might not last until the winter!” Harvey said as he turned around and began walking to return to his office with Kolmir’s help. He slowly passed through the broken opening in the wall which slowly began to repair itself after him.
…
“Father, wasn’t this a bit too much acting?” Kolmir asked his father, who was completely fine.
He sat on his chair, raised his legs on the gilded mahogany desk, and watched the office’s wall repair itself. This wall material cost a fortune as it can only be found in some specific dungeons, but it was worth it.
“No… Fooling the dark chamber is our priority now… They must not know that I was cured of that poison,” Harvey said after some pondering.
“But wouldn’t Tobias try to attack Victor again? Clint was his favorite son!”
“I am counting on that! That fool Tobias is as useless as his son… I am sure he will go and ask the dark chamber for their help very soon…”
“But didn’t you want to protect Victor?”
“If Victor can be killed this easily then I would be a fool! My hunch is never wrong, if the Von Weise family manages to survive this crisis, that kid might become one of their supreme elders if not the patriarch one day!” Harvey replied, “I just want to watch the chaos and wait for a chance to gain some benefits.”
“Father… You mean that Victor’s latest blunder in the brothel was a cover-up?” Kolmir asked, “He even dared to damage his own public image like this on purpose?”
“Yes, I was pretty surprised when I met him that day in the auction, that kid is a snake! He has been deliberately building a certain image around himself, and he managed to pull a cover over everyone’s eyes!” Harvey said as he looked at the report on his desk, “And… Those toys he left at the brothel are very interesting…” he said.
“Aren’t they just normal toys? Do they serve some purpose?” Kolmir asked.
“No… It is just that those are handmade, you can’t find things like that on the shelf… They reflect some fine taste…. Find out where he got them from!”
“Ah… ok…?” Kolmir was not really sure what to reply. His father was beginning to revive his old habits after he was cured. Kolmir was already expecting to gain a lot of new little brothers and sisters pretty soon.
“Now leave me, I need to… Meditate…” Harvey said as he took out a leather bonded book from his storage ring while waving for Kolmir to exit the room with his other hand.
“Yes, grandfather…” Kolmir said as he walked out of the office while wondering what kind of top-secret things that book continued. His father always kept it with him.
…
Margret cursed as she began to bang her head against the rock-solid ground… It hurt like hell and she felt that it was about to explode.
Why was this happening, she had no idea.
The moment she ate that demon in her soul space everything was fine, but the moment she regained her consciousness she felt this pain.
It was getting stronger as if her very soul was tearing apart. She could taste the blood in her mouth and she knew that she had bit her tongue, but she didn’t care… She had no time to care. She felt everything around her clearer than ever, but at the same time, the pain was 1000 times more severe.
She could feel the burning lines appearing all over her soul. It was breaking apart.
Was she going to die?
Just as the pain became unbearable, from deep within her soul a series of symbols shone as in Margret’s soul space a large talisman began to form as it absorbed energy around it.
The pain slowly subdued and then stopped.
Margret slowly sat up and focused on her soul space where now a complete golden talisman was floating in front of her soul.
What was this?
Margret had no idea, but she knew it was not harmful as on it, Victor’s symbol was engraved.
…
“Were you telling the truth earlier?” Lily asked Victor as she watched the girls leave after getting their instructions. Victor usually told her the truth when they were alone.
Although Lin was with them at the moment, from the way Victor treated her, Lily knew that he would not mind telling the truth in her presence.
“About what ?” Victor asked.
“Everything… The mural…” she said.
“Oh… About 90%. I only lied about one thing. Can you guess what it is?” he asked as he eyed both Lin and Lily. “The one who guesses right will get a kiss! While the other would get her butt spanked!” he declared as he inspected the rest of the murals.
“The language name? No… The woman on the mural is definitely an elf..” Lin pondered as she frowned, trying hard to remember what Victor said exactly… “Is it about the deal with the demon? In the mural there was no demon, just skeletons,” she said.
“No. The deal is true… This entire garden was probably the result of that deal… The demon is hiding in the black coffin," he explained, spanking Lin’s butt out of nowhere.
“Ahhh…” she moaned in surprise then blushed. That was not a voice a noble girl like her should make… She hoped that Victor liked her reaction though.
Lily glared at Lin hatefully. That slut was definitely trying to seduce her young master.
“You lied about the old man who taught you. It was definitely a pretty girl. That’s the only reason you would listen to her…” Lily said finally, earning herself a surprise reward kiss on her pouting lips as Lin who was glaring at them with some jealousy rubbed her butt. She lost this round.
“Exactly! You are prettier though!” Victor told Lily as he chuckled, then let go of her and began to move deeper into the hall.
“There is nothing in that direction, I already checked,” Lin said as she ran after Victor and grabbed his arm while glaring at the still-stunned Lily with challenging eyes.
Lily quickly sobered up and touched her lips with a smile, then, not wanting to lose, ran to Victor’s other side and grabbed his other arm.
“There is something there….” Victor said then paused, “Ladies, I might need my arms later….” Victor pointed out, but none of the girls let go… Did he push them too hard earlier?
“Ok, since both of you don’t want to let go, grab hard! This might hurt a little” he said as they reached a certain bland wall. Then the world around them wrapped as Victor used his shadow-shifting ring to pass through the wall.
The girls watched as the scenery changed around them, they were now in a white room with a marble pedestal in its center.
“What is this place….” Lin asked as she tried hard to regain her balance and in the end, had to let go of Victor and sit down… Her mana was a little drained.
“The reward room for the upper dungeon…” Victor said as he took a pill and put it in Lily’s pale mouth, her state was not good at all as the process of passing through the thick wall had drained all her mana. Her intelligence attribute was not high enough.
“First dungeon?” Lin asked as she watched Victor lay Lily on the ground slowly. This was her punishment for not listening to his command earlier.
“Yes, If I guessed correctly this dungeon is composed of two or three dungeons above each other.”
“What?” Lin asked.
“You saw the mural earlier… the elf queen must have found the dungeon below this one, and instead of clearing it, she must have made a deal with its boss!” Victor explained…. “I presume that the deal must have had a curse that shattered the elf queen’s world!”
“But… how could she leave a dungeon after entering it?” Lin asked.
“Different worlds have different rules… or maybe she had some artifact for that… I can’t really tell,” he said as he slowly walked toward the marble pedestal. On it, there was a small golden apple.
INVERSE SOUL APPLE, S CONVERT ENERGY TO SOUL |
“Sh*t this thing was amazing!” Victor said with a smile.
“What is it? It looks like the ones in the garden!” Lin exclaimed as she grabbed his arm again.
“Lin… We can be intimate later….” Victor scolded, flicking her small nose with his finger. Lin bit her lip and then slowly let go of his arm. she was a bit reluctant but his tone was clear.
“This apple is useful to me… for others, it might be wasted, or be very dangerous…” he said finally as he put the apple in his ring.
“What does it do?” Lin asked.
“It allows someone to convert energy to soul power… Basically, it is for enlarging one's soul!”
“Why is it dangerous then?” Lin, who didn’t fully understand, asked.
“You must know that enlarging someone’s soul recklessly is a very dangerous process. Souls are not usually that flexible. In fact, most souls have a hard limit, if they grew any larger than that, they might explode…. I have ways to mitigate its effect that others can’t understand….” he explained as he surveyed the empty reward room one last time then headed toward Lily who slowly opened her eyes and sat up.
“Do we have to go through the wall again?” Lily asked with a little fear. She had just recovered.
“No… The wall here can be opened from the inside…” he said, moving a secret lever that opened the wall. “We will rest a bit here then move downstairs toward the second dungeon… “ he said as he frowned.
“That Hell symbol thing?” Lin asked.
“Demons that come from Hell are very unique… You can consider them nobility among demons, who usually have some very tricky and underhanded techniques. If my guess is correct, that Lich king is such a creature.” Victor said, “ We must rest and prepare well, the battle downstairs would certainly be hard…” He paused as an announcement rang throughout the dungeon.
SYSTEM NOTIFICATION 2# QUEST HAD BEEN COMPLETED THE LICH KING HAD BEEN ELIMINATED. |
“Sh*t! What the hell happened?” Victor asked as he read the notification while ignoring the girl's questioning eyes.
I find it both charming and a bit silly that Lin and Lily are still competing despite having reached what seems to be the zenith of Victor's girlfriend status.
There is still an unknown wife of Victor from the past
@Entrugo she will not appear anytime soon...
@Akaichi At least make Victor remember her to give us spoilers. Maybe secure her family etc.
@Akaichi has she even been born yet?
I have felt from the chain of events at the beginning of the novel that Victor married her between his 60s to his 100s.
He was kicked out of the main family between the 25 and the 30, then he builds his connections with various friends and snacks, and in the next couple of years maybe until 35, he was tricked again before his 40s to steal the artifact and then he was banished completely from the family, I would assume he goes into hiding until the family was destroyed between his 50s to 60s by that overpowered bastard, then he comes out of hiding to explore the family archives and discover his bloodline secret and another various secret before he builds his small family until he was hunted by that overpowered bastard that killed his wife and experiment on him and his children, I would assume that all of this happens between his 60s until the age of 100.
@Akaichi Does he at least love as much as Lily ? I would find it ridiculous if his wife of the past has smaller status in his heart than Lily who he knows for few months at most. Overall I don't like how he favours Lily so much... He is even letting her go with him even if it will burden him. It feels very stupid. If he is so much in love then he should take only her as wife. I feel bad for other girls...
@Argon459 She needs the Exp now and in the future. As a wife she will need to be strong enough to survive what will come in the future.
His thoughts in this chapter are that he can protect one person, so it is time for her to get onto the bus.
@Blueneck666 Yeah I know. It is just that I am feeling bad for other girls.
and then there is Alex..... the pinnacle of the perfect wife! adventure and fun await us!
@Argon459 It's impossible, it doesn't fit Victor's character to favor Lily over the mother of his children, he fell deeply in love with Lily but that was only for her charm, they barely spent any time together to develop genuine feelings of affection that exists between a married couple... His wife can not be replaced by Lily, she may raise to be on equal footing with his wife after the marriage but more than his wife? I can't see that happening.
As for other girls, it will be in phases.
The author at the beginning of the novel was adding them randomly to the degree that the majority of them were his maids before chapter 130. (22 of 27+1 maids were introduced in the span of the first 130 chapters but only 5+1 for the last 135 chapters)
From this, you can easily conclude what happened... The author overfilled the maid's ranks and only after a serious decision to correct the plotlines from the beginning that he reconsiders his rush actions and this result in a prolonged period of readjusting every maid's position and dividing them into groups to clarify every maid's role in the story.
And all this led to the current situation, where there are phases for every 2 or 3 maids to concert their relationship with Victor.
The first phase is for Lily, Lin, and Margret, and this will end after the marriage arc and then I would assume the author to start a phase for the other 2 or 3 maids, but I can not guess who would they be.
@Argon459 Dude he's a von Weise for god's sake they like have as many wives stronger and higher their authority and level I wouldn't even be if there was relation between number wives and authority and level of player. Do you think Theodore loves all his wives and have children with because he loves them all ? Victor probably wanted settle down and not be associated with his family when he married in his previous life. It's not always sunshine and roses dude. He might like his wife but not necessarily love her as his soul mate.
@H-GO Yeah I really hope she won't be just side character hidden in the corner forgotten by author...
@Ausilldan You completely missed my point. Moreover just because Victor is part of piece of sh*t family doesn't mean he needs to be piece of shit. Most of his cousins his age raped lot of woman already. Should he become like them since he is Von Weisse ? Victor is Victor. As for him not loving his wife.. he literally lived with her for so many years . It is not like he needed to be with her if he didn't love her. Do you think marriage will conjure him invisibility potion and family won't see him after that ? He probably hid and then went looking for wife. Else if family knew about his kids they would not be happy surely. He was kicked out yeah but he got back once he awakened his bloodline. That means if his kids had bloodline they could go to family as heirs. And many in the family wouldn't like that and sent assassins. So if one thinks it is always sunshine and roses then it is you Dude.
@Argon459 That would be a horrible miscalculation from the author.
@H-GO Yeah but I wonder how author will solve the problem of her and their children not being born yet. What I mean is the fact that the more he changes things the bigger chance is that she will be never born. Her parents may still make a child but the chance that it will be still the same sperm that was her is extremely miniscule. The more so with his kids since he is the source of change. Even if he makes kids with her, they won't be the ones he had in last life. And the problem is with entire world. It would be extreme waste if some geniuses that should be born in the future wouldn't because of Victor's interference. For example that Emperor's concubine who created that poison. She must have been extreme genius in herbology, medicine or poisons. Moreover his friends and some other lovers from future would be gone too. I hope author won't just ignore this fact. Victor could actually solve this with his class through some fate skill or use and manipulate Fate sect to guide world the same way it was in the past life. After all while he wants to change things after 50 years all his knowledge of future would be useless.
@Argon459 Victor will love all of them and they will all be happy, how are you missing the entire point of the story? This is isn't Riverdale or one of the YA snotfests, the main character is actually capable.
Please make another comment if you are going to "End is Nigh" post, it keeps notifying me and it's annoying.
@Helkyrk I am pointing at the fact he is favouring Lily too much, not if he loves girls or if he is capable or not. I wrote my opinion only so don't know what is your problem. Since then I just reply others. That is called discussion. I don't know about any 'End is Nigh' post you talk about but if this annoys you then sorry but I just literally just replied and argumented on others comments since that are comments for. But ok I will respect it. My opinion was already written.
@Argon459 A valid point, indeed.
I have no idea how he will solve this or if will he even care to solve it.
Also, maybe Mr author would not care enough about this because it's necessary damage.
Also, many geniuses may not be born because their parents dead or never meet after Victor return... But their souls are still themselves even if they were born from different eggs and sperm as only their physical appearance will change but the core will be the same.
For his wife, will I guess that she may not yet be born, I am not Mr. Author to decide this, she may be another Nobel person that fell from grace, Her information is completely unknown.
As for his children? If it's like what you said then I can only accept it... He may lose them forever but any child born from his wife will be still his children.
@Argon459 Congratulations on the new profile picture, now it will be easier to recognize you.
@H-GO He He thanks. I was always postponing it since I am lazy. Since I was playing in Midjourney server on discord I said to myself I must do it.
As for the problem with birth of people. You are right with souls. Through souls the problem could be solved much easier even if bodies will be different. But still Victor needs ensure that right soul possess the fetus during pregnancy.
@Argon459 dude you have made a lot of assumptions.
First of all i mean the author never mentioned when he got married. It could be before the family got destroyed or after the family got destroyed. It is only mentioned scion found his family and killed them after destroying Von Weise family.
Second member of Von Weise family are not born with Violet hair. It only manifest after touching nether stone after they are born. His family believes Victor has a low purity bloodline. They would assume his children also has low level bloodline. Especially when they don't have a chance to touch a nether stone.
Third when did he return back to the family? He went to the ruins of family after awakening bloodline. He hid himself and his family and later scion found him.
@Ausilldan I looked at first chapter and you are right he married after family destruction. But it was also state he fell in love so in the end he really loved her.
And I have never talked about Violet hair ? There is rule where everyone has chance to become heir if you have bloodline of elder dragons. So yeah family doesn't know if they have bloodline but once kids prove they have it they becomes heirs. Nether stones aren't exclusive to Von Weise, moreover lot of appraisal skills can prove, the blood book that Victor has also proves it. And the best way to prove it is to awaken the bloodline. Moreover it was never stated that family believes Victor has a low purity bloodline. Maybe befoe ceremony.It was shown at the examination results before elders that he has 100%.That was now and could 'disguise' it back then but he had same purity even in first life like he said.He didn't do good at ceremony mainly because of his potential and fate + the rune of course. Also I don't think that bloodline's purity lies in parents(my opinion). After all Victor's purity is higher than even Ancester of theirs. You can also purify it through external means.Moreover family would probably have bigger inbreeding tradition to 'keep bloodline pure'.But this is just 'what if'. Since the kids were born after family destruction ha ha.
And for the third point. I meant when he awakened and then went to the family for heir status but family was already in ruins. But that he didn't know. I just wanted to show that if kids had bloodline and went to family and survived ceremony then they would be heirs(or at least someone of much bigger status than Victor back than)
@Ausilldan He went back to the Von weise archipelago after he lost his bloodline for the scion, when Victor found his ancestors bones he used those to extend his live as he would not live as long as an normal dragon descendant