When I got back to the Black Market, Evellyn had gone to sleep, Nikolai and his father were talking about sothing, and the rest of the building was as silent as death.
I announced my arrival, and went straight to my room.
It looked cold from my part, but I just didn’t want to have any small talk after what Oliver had told .
After a shower, I went straight to bed, and after a few minutes, there was nothing left around .
I didn’t even rember when I fell asleep.
All I rember, is waking up the next day, in which Evellyn ca to my room after breakfast to plan everything out.
We didn’t have much ti, since we had to go to school anyways, and everything was sort of ssed up after everything that had happened, so I got my backpack, shoved my notepad and my mask inside it, and we left.
But when we arrived there, the main gate was blocked by a human barricade that consisted of several agents of the Association.
Not only the monitoring division, as I initially suspected.
The point, anyway, was that we couldn’t get inside.
"What’s going on?" I asked, trying to hide the urgency in my voice.
"A Nest has opened inside the secondary building, so no classes today kids. Go ho, and wait for further instructions."
The one who said it wasn’t a mber of the monitoring division, he was probably from the field analysis, wearing a blue uniform and glasses, holding a tiny device that asured the mana level in the air.
We turned around and pretended to leave, when we saw the cars in the parking lot.
Expensive cars that could only belong to high ranking wielders.
And not only that.
Those were the only cars in the parking lot.
There were not a single staff’s car there...
"The guilds are here already." I told Evellyn, trying to see if she was taking the sa hints as , but she wasn’t looking at the sa direction.
"Yeah, but sothing’s off." She looked at . "Do you see any mbers of the Shadow guild around? Or from the Golden Scythe, or any other guild non-affiliated to the Association?"
I saw no one from the Shadow guild around, and about the other guilds she spoke?
Never even had the pleasure to et them, so I just shrugged.
"What’s on your mind, Evellyn?"
"I think you should go investigate. I’ll go back to the guild and see if anyone knows anything, okay?"
But before she could take the first step, I grabbed her hand.
I felt movent behind , and looked over my shoulder, ever so slightly.
And what a surprise, huh...
"Wait... It’s not a Nest opening."
She raised a brow.
"What do you an? How do you know?"
"Look behind . Discretely."
She did, and saw the monitoring division being allowed inside.
Even Evellyn could feel the almost non existent level of mana in the air, and for the monitoring division to take part in it, it had to be a pretty big Nest.
Either that, or it was the New Dawn guild.
And I didn’t even know how Nadia and Nikolai could be useful in this situation, so maybe they would have to sit this one down, this ti...
"Go alert the Shadow guild, and tell Yuri that we’ll probably need his guild here too."
Evellyn looked at , curious and perplexed.
"What’re you going to do?"
"Just what you said, I’m going to investigate."
And before she could say anything in return, like ’Don’t do anything reckless’, I activated [SHADOW WALK], and vanished from her sight.
***
I jumped over the human barricade of association agents, and smoothly landed on the school grounds.
It was exactly like I thought.
The mbers of the monitoring division were moving around and wearing the sa kind of robes the guys I killed were using when they kidnapped Nikolai.
And the other Association mbers were doing nothing about it.
’Just as I thought...’
They were planning on doing sothing at the school, along with the New Dawn guild.
I took the smart recorder, which I learned to always keep with , and started recording.
In my holowatch’s screen, I typed a ssage to Nadia asking her to stream the recording I was making at that very mont, which she promptly did.
After that, I took the mask and wore it because you never know, right?
After that, I went to the roof.
When I got there, I left the smart recorder in a safe spot, aiming at the ground, filming each of their best angles.
I also asked Nadia to manage the live stream for as long as possible, and to put a single, specific tag in the video.
#SilenceIsHere
I left after that, going straight to the Black Market.
And that’s when everything started to go straight to the gutter.
***
We spent the whole day watching the live, and seeing the people comnting it by the thousands.
I was glad soone understood why I wasn’t fighting.
So of them were quicker than the others to catch up on what was possibly going on, but sothing was horribly off about what the Association was doing.
It beca more and more obvious that they were working together with the New Dawn Guild in whatever they were doing.
It was just a matter of ti until they showed their true colors.
But ti seed to be the only resource we couldn’t afford to have.
So I spent the whole night awake, thinking and planning.
But more than that, I spent so ti looking at the system window and trying to get the hand of why everything felt so fast, so rushed.
I an, I played a few video gas back in the day, and I know that, unless you’re a speed runner, who already knows all the ins and outs of the ga, there’s not an actual way for one to get as strong as I felt, right there, in what felt to be just the beginning of that ’ga’.
***
The next morning was silent, with only the gray clouds covering the sky in a lifeless light.
Evellyn had gone back to the Shadow Guild, and Yuri had so business to attend to, so he left and Nikolai at the forr abandoned building, now brimming with a little more life than before.
Yuri had given a few of his Wielders to the Black Market, in order for Nikolai to be able to protect what he was building, because in a few weeks from now, the paperwork to turn the Black Market into an official guild would be ready, and Nikolai would be the first regular to own an entire guild.
During lunch ti, though, the building suddenly started to shake, as if there was an earthquake happening.
But I could feel a strange mana signature around, a familiar one that sent shivers down my spine.
’What the hell... It should be long gone by now...’ I thought, getting up.
Every single hair in my body went up with a strange fear that just shouldn’t be there...
I’m stronger, aren’t I? I’m not bound by fear of anything, or anyone...
While everyone ran around looking for shelter, I ran straight outside to make sure I wasn’t just hallucinating.
Although I had to, because it couldn’t just be true.
No...
It couldn’t.
But when I arrived outside, my heart sank to my stomach at the sight of the owner of that powerful energy signature.
Quintus Blake was looking straight at , as if he was waiting for all this ti.
"Hello, little brother. Did you miss ?"
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