"Do you like what you see?"The voice which came from right behind her made Agatha turn around subconsciously. She found that instead of joining her in enjoying the works he painted by himself, he was looking at her.He was still in bed, looking so lackadaisical as he propped up his chin up with one hand.Seeing the teasing grin on his face, she laughed and said, "I didn't know you can paint."Paul replied. "Yeah. I learned. I had to."She froze for a moment, realizing the hidden meaning behind his response.He had to. Because he had nothing with him when he got tossed out of the country and couldn't procure news or pictures of her too.Painting had become his only solace. He learned the craft as to not go mad from missing her too much.Her heart felt so heavy and constrained.It was not only him who almost went crazy due to their separation. He too. When they had a brief talk yesterday, she learned of how he couldn't go into the city no matter how many attempts he tried. No possible
The day that Paul and Agatha reunited was also the day that the enchantment and illusions beguiling their home city all fell apart.It happened in absolute silence. All the normal citizens felt no change in their lives and only the few affected and with prior knowledge about the matter knew that everything had turned back to normal.'... I feel like it should not have been resolved this easily... Finally found his conscience?'The man was plagued by many indescribable emotions when his private plane finally managed to enter the city.The time was around 2:30 pm. The half-host's group was with them but they were on the other side of the carrier. Moments passed and they have all successfully broken through the beautiful cluster of clouds, approaching closer and closer to the ground.How many times had he tried doing this same, exact thing before? Only to find out everything was a barren land devoid of any traces of humans, much less Agatha's?Countless times already, perhaps?He chuckle
Night came to the city.After speaking with Agatha's parents and giving them a heads up regarding the engagement, the two went out of the Silver family's main mansion. But instead of confronting Conrad, they went to what would serve as their new home, a luxurious penthouse within Central Alina.This place was Paul's property, one of the very few which had escaped Sandro Smith' bombardment before.The man did not agree taking settling in one of the woman's houses, reasoning that it had to be him providing the roof for both of them. Agatha thought this was surely a man's pride at work. As a sensible fiancee, she should not make a big deal out of it.'In a sense, it's funny. Yet at the same time more than enough to fill one's heart with extreme delight. A man who wants to take care of everything for his woman is someone to die for.'Agatha was lazying on the couch when her phone vibrated. And no. It was not on her or in her pocket, but on top of the s
At the first floor of McArthney' mansion, inside its spacious workroom, Conrad's secretaries could be seen exchanging glances when their computers' screen suddenly froze.Quite a huge problem considering that they were in the middle of completing a request from their master at the time, when the mishap happened."Sir, I received too many emails," one of them said to Conrad's closest confidant, Sebastian.Another secretary interjected. "Same here. I had to pull out the plug and restart the PC. It seems Sir Conrad's request will take longer since there's a need to recover the files first.""The emails have the same subject."One secretary added in his head, 'Yet the contents are different, different senders too, and each of them has creativity ranging from terrific to vomit-inducing.'When the butler slash personal driver checked his own mail through his tablet, he also froze for a few seconds.If his guess was correct, all of the
In East Alina, to be precise at Purple Shadow Residences. A day passed and all of them were already back to Alina City.Since then, Eithan couldn't take off his mind from the pitiful boy he saw in his dreams.Just last night he was summoned to that dark place to accompany the boy.The kid's state had never improved. Eithan felt pain at this fact hence there were many times that he wanted to rescue him.The problem was that this small guy didn't know where he was.He only knew that his name was Brennan, and that he was a level 2 system user, number 1020.This was the other problem. Brennan was a level lower than him. And according to him, he had never gone out of this place ever since he became a host.The little guy had been there ever since his current AI bound itself to him.Brennan was sold to the owner of that huge underground dungeon a year ago by his own father... and was made into an immoral host through all the tortures and mistreatment that he received...'Sighs!'Bothered an
Just as expected, when the next day dawned, Conrad summoned Paul back to the main residence.The mild-tempered middle-aged man must have thought that he would not have problems with keeping a temporary cold war with his nephew.Since he understood how hurtful his actions that time was, his intention was to let some time passed to cool off the anger or resentment Paul would have accumulated within.But it seemed, old age had gotten him good this time, making him forget that even if his family heir had grown up splendidly, with a temperament honed by the long years in the military, Paul was still someone who etched in his mind to always repay a misgiving or wrongdoings done to him at least seven-folds.Now, the lad Conrad raised in order to take over his seat had now begun to revolt against him.And while he felt the idea funny, when he checked how much damage was done to him and his reputation, he actually could no longer laugh.It was not a
"Hey, tell me where you are!"When another thunderous sound came to her ears as a reply, she worriedly added, "Uh, whatever! I'll just track your location through the GPS. My brother's back to Alina. I'll call him to back you up!"Because she temporarily put the call on hold in order to dial his brother's station's number, she missed out on the man warning her again about not leaving the place. He even said to mingle with the crowd if possible and not let strangers pull her anywhere.The situation seemed dangerous. Yet unlike how the girl somehow guessed that Ver had a scuffle with the organization people at another place and was intentionally held back, Ver was not aware that Misty didn't hear whatever he said after."Target spotted..."The wavy-haired beauty was about to hit on the okay button to connect the call to West Alina police station when a voice akin to blokes of ice made her freeze.What target?Why does the speaker sound so near to her?She blinked for a couple of seconds
Agatha reappeared right where Misty was last seen.It was not at the airport where the confused Amanda was left alone, panicking, and bothering another guard to look for the suddenly missing woman.Teleportation could send system users anywhere they want to.However, the maximum distance it would them to cross was only 10 miles.If the distance was great, a series of warping had to be done.She was sure the one who kidnapped Misty was another teleporter host.The system has just reported the woman being at the airport just a minute ago.How come now the coordinates given to her change to that of the mini-forest adjacent to the endless desert of the borders?Her eyes narrowed. The last time she had been to this place was just a week ago.A mercenary from the neighboring empire tried to kill her ally and got mind-controlled in return.Due to that mercenary being a non-host supporter, her interest was piqued, hence she teleported to this place to interrogate the person.As a result, she
When the troops of the God’s Domain stepped onto the Imperial Capital’s soil, the common folks on both sides of the road sprinkled fragrant petals from within their hands. As for the guardsmen that were standing above the city walls, they set off festive fireworks, and the melodious sound of a trombone resonated throughout the entire horizon.The sky was ravaged with fireworks as they blossomed above in broad daylight. Even if it was still daytime, after undergoing the modification of magicians, the fireworks still blossomed with radiance that was dazzling to the eye.The monarch of the Long Xuan Empire personally brought a troop to welcome the sage, and when everyone prostrated down in worship, the monarch welcomed the sage into the Imperial Palace.The liveliness that was accompanied by the clamor was
When Taka made her move on the Suzaku Clan, due to the theory that ‘one shouldn’t do anything to harm one’s neighbors’, she had only had a little test of her skill and had not been too heartless by exploiting them too much. As for the other three big clans, however, it was an entirely different story. She saw no reason for reservation so she basically went full force on themThe reason for her doing what she’d done was to truly seize an opportunity that had presented itself! Her ferocity had exponentially increased until it was capable of making one’s hair stand up in anger.For example, on a certain young master’s bedside that was from the Azure Dragon Clan, where the 7-star sword was hung, the lavish scabbard of the sword had been entirely cleaned of its dazzling precious stones and its gilded golden ornaments was not
Ryu, on the other hand, figured that he would not be able to afford to have another mishap inside his own household, especially not before they were able to secure the invitation of the sage. Thus, he immediately sent his most trustred people to have the Snow Spiritual Fox delivered to the God’s Domain. Not long afterward, he then received information that the other party had arrived from the God’s Domain.In ten days, the sage of the God’s Domain would personally proceed towards the Long Xuan Empire, to the Suzaku Clan, in order to rouse the Phoenix. This one piece of information had everyone from the Suzaku Clan crying tears of joy. Their hundred years of misery would finally be seen through to an end.Within the next ten days, everyone put out an extreme amount of effort, and it was a rarely seen sight where the elders and the youngst
On the flip side, Taka stood at the entrance of the Qilin Auction House. Upon seeing the rear view of the attendant leaving, Taka’s hand subconsciously reached out to touch that little face of hers that had changed beyond recognition.The result of the low-level face-altering potion was pretty good. Although the effectiveness was shortened by that bit for that given period of time, it was just enough to conform to her requirement for the three hours were enough for her to have those goods delegated. If there was even more effectiveness for a given period of time, she truly would not know how she would carry that kind of face back to the Suzaku clan.The present Taka’s facial appearance was slightly better when compared to her original and she figured it was due to a huge difference in skin care regime. Not only was her skin right now was slightly fa
Since she had already set the Qilin Auction House as the target, Taka then couldn’t help but make the next step of planning. Although there were very less people who had seen the shame of the Suzaku clan, it was hard to say that she would not be recognized by the people of the Qilin clan at other locations sometime later. Therefore, Taka had decided on the spot to go to another auction house in advance and used the money that she had and bought a few bottles of face altering potion.The face-altering potion was a rather common kind of medicine and it can be divided into three grades which were the ‘low’, ‘middle’ and ‘high’. Different subdivisions of the face altering potion, of course, would all have a varying duration depending on its grade. Likewise, the duration of its ability to hold a disguise as well their price would have even more disparity. On that night,
As of now, Taka’s main problem was precisely money!The only sole thing that made Taka rejoice was that she had picked a proper ‘occupation’ for herself at that time, the godly thief, don’t you think so?! With regards to her, this kind of thing called money was like a rock on the floor, that could be seen just about everywhere. If she had not widened her horizons at that time by being a hitman, a spy and so on, it would have been very likely that she could only silently stay at that dim corner and constantly dawdle about there!“Isn’t it just 30000 pieces! You can be at ease for by the means of this young master’s skill, I will definitely make you eat till you feel like throwing up!”With regards to her workmanship, Taka was quite confident in herself. What was more wa
‘Didn’t I say that it would have inhibitions on your strength. Undoing the first layer of seal is only but the beginning. If you want to become stronger, then you have to continue to undo the later seals. In this way, not only you can continue advancing but also, those strength that was previously inhibited would subsequently gush out.’ Linux’s voice was still the same as before where it was tranquil without any ripple and a hint of chilliness was carried together.“Then, what is needed to undo the second layer of seal?” Taka asked.Linux went silent for a moment and then only said one statement, ‘Demonic Beast’Demonic beasts were vicious organisms that were scattered everywhere across the Radiance Continent and resided
“Taka. You have fairly done well!”Agnar distressingly looked at the daughter of his which was still at the bosom. If it was not for the fact that Ryu was here at this moment, it was very likely that he would have already long ago pounced Taka and ripped her apart into fragments.As Abiri had Taka protected behind his back, he looked at Agnar and said,“Second uncle, why do say such a thing? Just what had this matter got to do with Taka?”“How could it be that she is unrelated to this matter? Jesse was injured in her room and it is very clear that it is this vile spawn that has harbour this evil intention wanting to injure Jesse!”No matter how Ryu was to think about it, Agnar had always fr
Just at that moment when Taka was inwardly wiping away her tears, in a rage, Jesse, who had been ignored by Abiri had killed her way into the room.The moment when she entered into the room, she immediately saw that pile of presents on top of the table and that pair of eyes of hers which filled with anger had momentarily became red in jealousy.“You, idiot, on what basis had you made Brother Abiri treat you that well! You are simply just a trash! Idiot! Even the most inferior servant within the mansion is one hundred times stronger than you! You simply do not deserve to have Brother Abiri’s items!”Gripping her fist tightly, Jesse tenaciously glared at Taka who was sitting on top of the bed where within the eyes of hers was the unwillingness that had practically burnt away all of her rational