A young man wearing a white long-sleeved polo with ends tucked into a black pair of slacks marched his black and heeled shoes into the dining hall. The place was gorgeously decorated and even the intricately patterned wooden chairs looked to be something with history on it. The ambiance of the room was screaming 'old rich' to everyone coming into the Baroque styled mansion. Unfortunately, none of the place's grandeur or the pleasantness of the host's smile could erase the scowl in the young man's face. In fact, the creases on his forehead deepened when he saw a person he didn't want to see.
"Young man, you're finally here."
The one that greeted Paul was a dignified fifty-three years old man sitting comfortably on the seat at one end of the long table. The gorgeously dressed woman seated on the middle-aged man's right side immediately followed up with a greeting, but Paul did not even spare her a glance. He merely walked to his uncle's side. In an emotionl
After getting home and dealing with the palm wound she got from that violent woman, Agatha changed her dress into a more comfortable set of clothes and then spent the rest of the time thinking about everything that happened. Paul was still not around. He had attended a meeting or whatever ceremony at Aurora City so she was all alone in the unit, left to her own devices. Right now, in their bedroom, she was sitting with folded arms in front of the computer. Her pretty face was not looking good as there were just too many things weighing in her mind.There were many problems to consider. The first one was how the other party knew so much about her yet her information about the other was almost next to nothing. At first, the only worry she had when she learned of this shop-ban punishment was not being able to cure her eyes before its commencement. This was why when the hastily done operation finished with some time to spare for the system's healing assistance, she already sighed in relie
Agatha took a deep breath, her head subconsciously turned to the bed's direction. It was as if she saw Paul's figure there and suddenly she remembered how she vowed to make herself stronger and useful. She could no longer be weak. At least, she must do her best not to appear distressed as she did earlier. The system had already been bound to her for more than two months, yet she hadn't fully explored its potential. Her reason for this had always been her reluctance to sink deeper into the dark water of immorality. But now that she had sunk deeper into this water, and could only let herself sink more to protect herself and the people around her, it seemed she would have to finally get rid of the restriction she imposed on herself in order to become stronger. Of course, she would set some bottom lines in order to not totally blacken. For example, never involve the innocent. To survive against the system and the other hosts, only do the minimum things needed. Needless to say, she wonder
When the Saturday sun finally dawned upon the Earth, Agatha went back home as her man's assistant finally sent the report. Sadly, on it, there's no information about Maurice's involvement with the mafia. No records also of contact with high ranking politicians or businessmen. Nothing about her family. No records with the police as well. In other words, Paul's people found no substantial intel she could use against Maurice Jensen. If Agatha would say that she was not quite devastated, she would be lying to herself and the system. Fortunately, she had also expected this to happen, and so the frustration was not much. When she contacted Dylan's team for help, she was only thinking that 'maybe' they would find something. It seemed Maurice was very careful though. She rubbed the place between her eyebrows while reading the remaining pages. When she finished, the only useful thing she found out was Maurice's mysterious appearance more than one year ago and her sudden rise to prominence. I
The bits of lessons she had in her free time about etiquette and the world of the rich finally came to use a day later.It was on Sunday, at 7 pm. The wide and spacious hall of the Silver's family mansion was lavishly decorated and varieties of food and wine were served to the guests. On the left part of the raised platform in front, a famous male pianist was filling the place with pleasant classical music hence making the hall lively yet still sophisticated. Every person inside was dressed in expensive suits or gowns and none of them looked common or average people. With their accessories and branded items on their bodies, all of them really seemed like celebrities or members of the high society.Agatha couldn't tell if it was because the Silver couple had yet to formally announce the start of the gathering, but she hardly saw anyone staying in one place. People kept roaming around with smiles on their faces and champagne flutes on their hands. Everyone seemed to be changing conversa
'It seems I'm not yet ready for this kind of events.'She helplessly looked up and sighed. Then she walked to the side where sofas were placed. Seconds after she took a seat, a waiter passed by and handed her a glass of wine. As she stared at the champagne flute on her right hand, she began studying the liquid on it and wondered why people love to drink this.She was feeling curious because she had never drunk any alcoholic beverage before.'I remember, at gatherings like this, most protagonists in TV are always schemed against, most of the times, victimized due to drinking drugged wine.'Agatha was having this silly thought when a man who looked to be in his forties approached her. His motives were obviously impure as reflected by his lusty eyes. Agatha frowned a bit but didn't stand and walk off. Anyway, the black-dressed lady bodyguard was nearby so she has nothing to fear."It's my pleasure to meet you, beautiful lady. May I know your name?"A polite smile was now back on her face
Meanwhile, the woman seemed to like the response she got from Agatha, and therefore added, "Am I wrong? Which part? Enlighten me! Because I'm thinking if you are not ignorant and dumb, how would you not have known me, Madison Abenson, the beautiful daughter of the city mayor? And if you are not a comfort girl, why then would Paul keep you, when you're just a whore with nothing but nice skin and a pretty face on you?"Agatha appeared stunned.And she had not yet come back to her senses when the self-introduced daughter of the city mayor spoke again, this time, with much more hatred and madness, as if Agatha was the most hated enemy she long wanted to tear into pieces."Listen to me, slut! No matter what you do, you're still nothing but a cheap, disgusting slut!""A nobody! A whore! You're somebody who should disappear from the earth! I am the one ashamed because you're so damnably wasting space!""Do you hear me!? A nobody like you has no right to appear by his side! So I'm telling you
It did not take that long before the two started exchanging whispers which appeared very loving to Madison's eyes. The woman somehow had another strong desire to shout at the girl, but because this showed in her face, the two angry parents immediately intercepted.Mr. Silver, in particular, started interrogating the mayor's daughter about her previous words.Even the seemingly kind Cindy couldn't help but input some stabbing remarks in the conversation."I never know the honorable mayor brought you up this way! You are such a disappointment!""As someone who has been mingling in our society for so long, I couldn't believe how poisonous your words can be. To think you even dare to threaten someone's life!" The madam then showed her a disbelieving and disapproving expression.When Madison tried to justify herself by saying it's not her fault and that she just couldn't accept a slut latching onto someone she admired, the master of the house once again roared, truly very angry, "Are you r
It was followed by a chiming sound that always notified hosts of a report. The system's words didn't register on Agatha's brain. The girl was more focused on watching Paul talk over the phone. She was no longer sporting a tense look because the introduction and congratulatory part had already ended.As they both wanted to take a breather and escape from the lively and noisy crowd below, the two went up to the second floor and were now at the open balcony. Currently, the man was talking wit
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