The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 498: Courting Death (5)

Victor stood on the mansion’s roof, lost in thought as he watched Margret order Alpha around to do all kinds of erotic things on her own under the pretense of ‘I am pregnant and yet you want me to do that for you?’. Well, he would have believed her if she hadn’t been smirking while using her phone to film everything. This was even more torturous for poor Alpha, who held her face above everything else!

It made him feel somewhat sorry for her, but after thinking about how she tried to curse them earlier, he decided to let Margret handle her for now. Who knows, he might get a new masochist Alpha after all of this… Nah, those chances are very slim!

Well… Once she was allowed to take that pink thing out of her mouth and be ready to talk, he had some things to inquire about, as she seemed to have gained some insights into some secrets.

He also has many things to think about, most importantly those eternal Threads things that filled his vision.

From inspecting them for the last 30 minutes and comparing them with his other connections, he found out that out of his wives 5 had those threads! 5!

Lily, Mana, Mina, Monica, and Alex, who was his only bloodslave who had any… There were others, but since he didn’t have bloodslaves or marriage threads with them to act as a reference, he couldn’t really tell who was who.

Now that he thought about it, all of those girls had very unique encounters with him. Was it the effect of his class or had some other origin? Was he the cause of it or was it someone else? The Akashic record skill of not finding its caster made him suspect that it might have something to do with his time travel.

He wondered if he should consult Lily about that or keep it a secret. Well… For some reason, she was not responding to his calls. It might have something to do with the cleansing ritual, and this made him very worried, but since she reassured him that everything would be fine before, he decided to give her a few days before forcing his way into the Von Krone’s Nest Castle.

“Did she trouble you?” someone suddenly asked from behind him. It was Elise who found his location through the mansion’s array and hurried here.

“Ah… Who?” he asked, turning his head to look at her.

“Alpha…”

“Oh, not really… I had already dealt with people far stronger than her in the other world… I…” he paused as he felt her hands wrap around his waist and her head digging into his back.

“It must have been tough on you… You grew strong…” she whispered as she hugged him hard from the back.

“...” he sighed, reading between the lines. “Sorry for leaving you on your own!”

“I missed you… Everyone did…”

“I missed you guys too, but some things needed to be done…” he sighed. He was really too busy lately. It was not his fault that things kept getting messier but he really needed a vacation!

“I know…” she pouted. “Are you going to go away again?” she asked.

“After finishing something tonight, I plan to stay in the mansion for a week or so until the Tournament… Then I will have to leave again!” he told the truth. After learning all those things about Lords, he decided to collect as many skeleton keys as possible in the tournament, because he was pretty sure that the Jade dungeon might hold many secrets to this world, and he needed to send a team there in order to maximize his benefits.

“Can I ask for something…”

“No matter what you want, I will get it for you even if I need to go against the entire world!” he said as held her hands and turned around to look at her blushing face.

“No need for boasting…” she pouted a little as her face turned red. “I… I just want to go out with you… Just the two of us…” she bit her lip. “ After you leave this time, it might take some time for us to meet, and I didn’t get to…” her fumbling stopped as she felt his lips press against hers. “Mmmmm…”

She wasnʼt resistant.

…

Their kiss lasted 5 full minutes.

“You have been learning from Margret I see…” he said after their lips parted as he brushed her hair and looked at her out of breath expression. “One can’t get this good from just practicing with a pillow…”

“...” she bit her lips and looked away with a heavy blush. If he wasn’t holding her hands, she wanted to cover her face with them and drill into some hole. “What a bully…” she whispered.

“You were the one asking for it… Don’t think I couldn’t see through your plot, sending all the little maids away, commanding them to never look up before climbing her on your own!”

“...” She looked away, blushing even heavier. “That was the only way I could have some private time with you…” she mumbled.

He chuckled. “Let’s go on a date then… It will be your birthday in a few days right?” He asked softly. He really didn’t get to spend a lot of time with Elise after their wedding due to her situation. He should really make it up to her. “Do you have something in mind?”

“...” She shook her head, feeling a little happy. He could easily remember her birthday thanks to his Eidetic Memory skill, but the fact that he bothered to check about it in the first place mattered!

“Then I will arrange for something special!” he said with a smile. He needed to make sure not to reveal that he was back but that was easy.

“I understand…” she bit her lip as she blushed.

“Now, take care of the house for me… And make sure Alpha doesn’t end up getting killed! Also tell Margret not to forcibly stuff that thing in Alpha’s mouth, I need to question her about a few things later!” he said as he turned to leave.

“I am not going to enter that room!” Elise, who was blushing heavily, said.

“Tell Hilda to go then… Margret had just finished with the candles and took out the barbed whip, so you better hurry… ” he said before jumping off the roof and disappearing into the night.

“Ah… Hilda might not help her, though…” she said, but no one responded!

***

After speaking with Elise, Victor quickly flew up, heading quickly toward the road where he sat on top of a bus for 30 minutes before reaching the train station, where he sat on top of a bullet train leaving the city.

Thanks to his bloodline, the air pressure no longer annoyed him as he traveled, finally reaching his destination 3 hours later.

It was in a nearby city that he knew quite well since he spent a few months here in his past life.

There, he headed to a secluded forest clearing, and after pasting some disguise talisman around, he used his skills to send a few fireballs around before extinguishing them, making it look like a meteor impact site.

Making sure everything looked perfect and no one was spying on him, he took out the Cauldron.

It was time to get the people sleeping inside out.

He hesitated.

Would the world react violently to any of them? He was mainly worried about three, Aeith, Emira and Meril… Ah, there were the elves too!

Thinking about it for a moment, he decided to take Emira out first. Since she was his bloodslave, he would be able to protect her if anything were to go wrong!

Taking a deep breath, he let the little girl who was still awake inside out.

Nothing happened.

The moment her feet touched the ground she began to look around before looking toward Victor. “Did we arrive?” she asked him as she finally noticed the single yellow moon in the sky.

“Yes..” he sighed in relief. “Now stand aside as I try to send Aerith out,” He said, with Aerith’s marriage arrangement with him, things should be fine… Right?

“Oh… I…” she paused. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh…..”

Just when he was going to try to send Aerith out, Emira let out a loud scream and fell to the ground!

“Shit!” Victor quickly hurried to send her back into the cauldron, but he couldn’t…. It was as if he couldn’t find her body at all! It was as if the little girl didn’t even exist!

He quickly hurried to her side, but… He wasn’t moving… Not fast anyway. It was as if he were in the midst of a quagmire or something. The same feeling when he fought the other lords.

He immediately activated his bloodline, allowing him to move a little quicker. 2 inches per minute instead of 1….

FUCK! What was going on? Damn it, he had just returned, and things were turning bizarre!

Was someone attacking him?

ERROR

ERROR

ERROR

ERROR

The system was throwing all kinds of errors in his notification panel as he made his way toward Emira, who lay on the ground frozen with her eyes looking toward something far away beyond the horizon.

The moment he tried to touch her, his hand passed right through her. It was as if she were a ghost… No, a better way to describe her as if she was she was glitching or something as her body kept disappearing and reappearing unnaturally.

What the…

Feeling something, he looked up.

10 feet away from him stood a little girl.

Emira?

She sure resembled her… but looked a few years older, and she was dressed in a black goth dress.

She was glitching too, and seemed to be in a lot of pain as she totally ignored him and looked toward Emira.

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DUPLICATE ID FOUND

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MERGING…

Victor frowned as the notification window suddenly showed sweating differently, but before he could get it.

BOOOOOOOOM

A strong force detonated right beside him, throwing him away from Emira and toward the forest, with him barely being able to stabilize himself and looking up.

He saw it.

The two Emiras turned into a mess of threads that exploded into a vortex, wrapping around each other, then merging again to form only one little girl, One Emira.

She paused there for a moment as if asserting what happened to her before turning to face Victor, who hurried to his legs, not knowing what the fuck was going on!

The only thing he was certain about was that escaping would be troublesome… not impossible... Just very troublesome!

EMIRA GE LITARISTA

LEVEL: 722,415

CLASS: DEATH LORD, U

SUBCLASS: Corpse Eater, E

AFFINITY: DEATH

AFFINITY RANK: LINE (100%)

STATUS :

AUTHORITY: 89101

HEALTH 100%

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STAMINA 100%

▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓

MANA 100%

▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓

STRENGTH: 2997211

AGILITY: 3318111

INTELLIGENCE: 3942110

LUCK: 49

CHARM: 73

ORDER POINTS: 9811

ABNORMAL STATUS :

NONE

SKILLS :

ERROR RETRIEVING DATA: LORD >> DATABASE FIELD CONNECTION IS SEVERED

FATE

ERROR RETRIEVING DATA: LORD >> FIELD UNAVAILABLE

BLOODLINE

WHITE ELF, 100%

EQUIPMENT:

THE ROBES OF FALLEN DEMON, SSS

DEATHWISH DAGGER, SSS

IMMORTAL STORAGE RING, SSS

DISGUISE PENDANT, SS

The death lord? The one who gave Rain his blessing? Why? What? How….

He had a million questions, but as every wise man must do when facing the unknown, he had one choice. To escape…

Thankfully, the moment the two Emiras merged, the pressure affecting him disappeared, so he quickly turned and began to run.

Two steps… That was all he could do before his legs gave up and let him fall to the ground.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh…” he stumbled face down before turning to look with horror as not only his legs, but his entire body below the neck, no longer responded to him.

Emira, who was floating in midair and closing her eyes as if to rearrange her thoughts, finally opened them and looked at him.

“Viki?... No… Victor von Weise…” She frowned as she spoke, as if she was having difficulty choosing her words. “It is a pleasure to finally meet you… I bet you have a lot of questions…” she said looking at him.

“What did you do to me?” he asked nervously as he began to formulate a plan and consider his options to escape, but he needed to figure a few things out before that!

“Oh, don’t worry, I just ordered your body to die temporarily… In other words, to go to sleep… From the memory of my other self, I know how resourceful you can be, so I had to!” she said.

“Ah… Well I…”

“Really? A blood slave?” she interrupted him and asked as she felt him try to subdue her though their blood connection.

ERROR…

BLOOD SLAVE DIED…

CONNECTION SEVERED.

“That should do…” she said before spitting a blob of black rotten blood.

“You lords are really hard to control…” he said nervously. His first attempt failed spectacularly! Well… He never expected it to work in the first place!

“It’s a perk of the job…” she said. Her personality and way of speech were identical to the Emira he knew, just a little bit more mature. “If any other person had dared to do that to me, though, he would have died a very ugly death… Consider it your honor that I let you live!” she said arrogantly, the character switching from that of a little girl to that of a queen in a second!

“So you are… She was…”

“What does your appraisal skill tell you?”

“..” he swallowed. “Death lord… EMIRA GE LITARISTA….”

“So you can see even that…” she pondered.

“Then… Who was she? What are you?” He repeated his question.

“The one with you was the real me…” Emira said after thinking for a moment, “But the one here was also the real me…” she added tilting her head.

“...” he frowned. Was she messing with him? Not likely!

In his mind, he considered many possibilities. Was she her clone or something? Her avatar?

“Intriguing, ha…” she smiled as if was enjoying toying with him. “All you need to know is that for now, I have all her memories and I have hers… We are one and the same!”

“Is that all you are going to tell me?”

“Maybe…” she said with a smirk.

“... And what if I need more info?”

“ I want something in return!” she said as she eyed him from head to toe.

“Sorry, I already lost my virginity!” he smirked, testing how she would respond.

“...” she sighed, shaking her head. “You really like courting death…”

“You are the death lord, so….”

“He he he he he he….” Emira began to chuckle as if she didn’t think of that. “You are the 613th person to say that to me…” she said as her face turned cold in a second.

“Did they survive?” he swallowed. Her character was really moody.

“Nope…” she smiled sweetly like a little girl who just told her friend how many puppies she killed with a hammer.

“...” he quickly considered his options, wondering if his Karmatic arbitration would work on her. Since she was Emira, he did save her life, so this should work!

Using his Fate eyes, he could see many threads connecting him to her, confirming his guess.

Would the same thing he did to Alpha work on her? No… They already made her use the pillar to check if she was a demon back in Israel, so that may not be an option…

“Enough with your stupid jokes…” she said. “I need you to open that gate for me… I need to go to Ismeralia and collect a few debts!”

“That Zendo?” he asked as he weighed his options.

Her face turned ugly immediately. “YES…” she hissed as he could feel the desire for murder in her voice.

Poor Zendo… Well, that guy is a bastard!

“Tell me your story first, then I will decide,” he said after thinking for a moment. Since she needed him to open the gate for her, she wouldn’t easily kill him, so he could relax for now.

“Decide?”

“...”

“... “ she pondered. “Fine…” she said, her body desnded onto the floor and walked toward him.

“... “ he was taken aback; he didn’t expect her to comply this fast.

Bam!

She smacked his head as if reading his mind. “Look… I owe you a bit, and since half of me considers you a friend, I will consider you as such…” she said, looking away while puffing her cheeks like a little girl. “And you will have no choice later…”

“...”

“But be warned, though… If you dare to scam me, your end will be very ugly!” she spat.

“... Ok… Can you let me move through… This pose is very uncomfortable…” he said. He was lying on the ground on his stomach after all, lifting his head up with difficulty like some worm.

“No… “ said, taking a seat on his back.

“....It seems like I was mistaken thinking that you are a pure little girl… You must have been planning to ride me for a while now!”

BAM!

She smacked his head again.

“Think of it as you will!” she said, blushing a little as she remembered the thought she had when she was with Victor. Yeah… They were not 100% pure….

“... So…”

“...” She shook her head to throw away some of the crazy thoughts she was having.

“You are…”

“I am Emira, but from the future… about 100 years in the future…” she said after some thinking.

“Time travel?” He opened his eyes wide. Didn’t time travel only work on the soul? How did she transfer her body? How many people did time travel before he did it?

“You don’t sound surprised?”

“Ah… Considering how bizarre this world is, nothing surprises me anymore…” he said.

“Good point!” she nodded.

“So you are…”

“If you dare to say it, I will really be angry…” she pinched him.

He swallowed the words. LEGAL LOLI.

“In that timeline, you didn’t come to Ismeralia and take me out of that place… The DEATH Gorge. I lived there for about 60 years…” she said, lamenting on her past. “It was not until I found the Death Spark there and managed to integrate with it that I managed to reawaken my memories and leave as the death lord!”

“Oh…”

“At that point in time, Ismeralia was no longer a livable world!” she pondered. “What I learned from the very few survivors I managed to find hiding was that after the storm lord died, the filthy Sun lord launched a campaign to cleanse the world of all non-elves wanting to create a pure elven world! And after he succeeded, he ended up dying of a demonic curse, bringing his entire race with him!” she said, summarizing things up!

That Zifr was really through in his plan!

“And?”

“At that time, the demons were everywhere fighting among themselves over what was left and spreading death and decay…. Thanks to them, I managed to create a new Death spark!”

“....” he swallowed. “You killed them all?” he asked, knowing a few things about sparks.

“Most of them… a few of them managed to run away, but by following them I managed to find a gate leading out of that world, and it led to this one!” she said. “This world was not peaceful either. Since it was of a higher quality than Ismeralia, not only the demons but all kinds of invaders seemed to have set their eyes on it… Thankfully, it was united under one leadership, so it managed to fend those off for a long time” she sighed. “… The Spirit Empress….” she hissed.

WARNING: SYSTEM SCALE EFFECT

FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE REBOUND CURSE ACTIVATED

WARNING…

NOT ENOUGH AUTHORITY

CURSE FAILED

“...”

“HOLY SHIT! So they had a curse!” Emira said in surprise. “Viky… Are you ok?” she asked, patting him on the back, with some worry in her voice.

“I should be fine, I heard that name before, but have no real info about it!” he said, relaxing a bit. HE could feel it now in her voice; she was the same little girl he knew. Just 10 times more arrogant.

“Oh…” she sighed in relief. “Good… Anyway, when I got back here the battle was going fierce with all kinds of things happening… I chose to join one of the forces in order to gain a better understanding of the situation and… ”

“I bet you were scammed… OUCH!” he screamed as she lapped his head.

“Look! I wasn’t experienced as I didn’t have to deal with liars like the ones from the Heavenly Empire… Those bastards will pay for it!” she spat angrily.

“And?” he asked.

“It was only a month later that the world ended…” she sighed. “I was trapped in a fight with that bastard Twilight demon when everything began to vanish… The demon seemed to have been aware of what was happening and used a strange artifact to resist it, but thanks to a new Aspect that I realized at that moment, I managed to kill him and take his place using the artifact… The next thing I knew was that my body was destroyed and my soul on the verge of shattering reappeared at that same spot 1000 years in the past!”’

“1000 years?” he frowned. This was important… Wasn’t that when the stories about the demonic invasions began with the history of his family?

“I was lost for a while, barely surviving… If it were not for my sparks managing to travel with me, I would have been long dead…” she said, he could feel the dread in her voice. “Thankfully, as time went by, I slowly managed to repair my sparks and create a new body for myself… Too bad that during all of this I seemed to have grabbed that bitch’s attention…”

“The Spirit Empress?”

WARNING: SYSTEM SCALE EFFECT

FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE REBOUND CURSE ACTIVATED

WARNING…

NOT ENOUGH AUTHORITY

CURSE FAILED

“You don’t need to say her name… Just say ‘The Bitch’ and everyone who knew her would understand…” Emira spat.

Victor nodded, finally realizing why the lords had kept using that name on their conversation.

“Anyways, she turned out to be the one behind the Time travel…” she continued.

“You got that info when she scammed you to tell her that you were part of it too, didn’t she…”

“Shut up!” she spat. “It was she who made it clear when she told me that I shouldn’t exist in that time frame…”

“Oh…”

“Anyway, she captured me, and after getting all the info she needed, she extracted one of my sparks! She was doing some kind of experiment, but I am not sure about it…” Emira spat angrily. “After that, she locked me up in a prison inside a pocket dimension… Just like the one you use… “ she sighed. “I don’t know what happened after, but demons suddenly entered that demotion making it their Stronghold…. I couldn’t do anything, and it was not until about 10 years ago that I had a chance to escape into this completely changed world!”

“That guy, Rain?” he asked, remembering his status that said DEATH LORD BLESSING in it.

“So you met him?” she said in surprise.

“Yeah… Is he your pet boy or something?”

“... You really have a death wish…” she paused. “WAIT. That girl Rea…”

“Who is Rea…. OUCH!” he was smacked again.

“So it was you… No wonder….” she said, sighing in relief. “When I met that Shard Slave I thought it was the bitch who was controlling her…. I was almost scared shitless!”

“What do you mean? I donʼt understand...” he said as he wondered if Emira has some kind of Trauma regarding the sp... that bitch!

“No need to deny it…. I can tell that you are the one with all that authority, or else you would have been long cursed dead by mentioning the bitch’s name…” she said. “The only people who can dodge that are Lords, and you are clearly not one!”

“...” he couldn’t argue against that! Still, he made a mental note that in the future, he should go crazy if the spirit empress’s name got mentioned. Wait… Could this be used as a weapon?

Interesting…. Although it might be a little dangerous if overused, attracting unwanted attention, it might be handy!

“Look, I will not ask for your secrets!” she said. “Everyone has their chances… But I must warn you, having a lot of Authority points must be kept a secret until you can fend for yourself… Some people can extract those… In the other timeline I have seen it happen, the only way to resist them is to be more powerful than them or to have way more authority, and believe me, no matter how much you have, those people who had been collecting Authority points throughout the universe would definitely have way more!!”

“...Noted…. Do you perhaps know why those people need that much authority?” He quickly shifted the subject.

“In the system, everything needs authority… You just experienced it, resisting curses and such…”

“And beside it?”

“Some skills…”

“...”

“...”

“You don’t really know, don’t you…”

“Look, I told you… I didn’t really get the time to learn a lot! Since the moment I got out, I have been busy killing demons, searching for a way back to Ismeralia, and trying to figure out what happened to the spirit empress!”

WARNING: SYSTEM SCALE EFFECT

FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE REBOUND CURSE ACTIVATED

WARNING…

NOT ENOUGH AUTHORITY

CURSE FAILED

“This is getting annoying…” he sighed. “Found anything about her?”

“No, it is as if she completely didnʼt even exist... Someone is doing this on purpose, I bet… it may...” she paused, then turned to the side and pointed with her finger.

PAM!

7 men dressed in black fell to the ground, completely dead.

Victor swallowed. This girl was really scary!

“Saying that name must have attracted a few insects… Weʼd better find another place to talk…” she said, grabbing Victor from his own belt and lifting him up in a very humiliating way.

“CAREFUL!” he said as the world shifted, and in the next moment, they were standing on a tall building a few miles away.