Upon opening the door, Lucas was confronted by a young teen with black hair. Although the newcor wasn't quite who he had expected, Lucas had correctly guessed his identity.
"Yo, boss man. Been a while." The famous playboy of the Central Prefecture district, Vergil rtens, walked into the store with a wide grin on his face.
"You're the one you're family sent?" Lucas raised an eyebrow, surprised by his presence.
The rtens was the only mber of the top four families that had yet to pay Lucas a visit. Seeing as each of the top four visited him once a day, Lucas guessed that the rtens family's representative would arrive today; and he was right, just that it turned out to be the playboy.
On one hand, Vergil's presence seed like a disrespectful move, since the other families had sent soone of the older generation with an appropriate position to et with him.
For instance, the Bergs family had sent their advisor and aide for external affairs, Calhner Bergs. The Dufour family had sent the family head's youngest step-brother, who was the sixth in-line to the title in that generation. The Ross family had also sent soone of an appropriate identity to et with Lucas.
However, while the rtens family's decision might seem disrespectful, it actually wasn't. Although Vergil was known to have a bad track record and na on the streets, he was also the family's second-most talented figure of the younger generation. At the sa ti, he was placed on a pedestal and identified as the one to help the family step into the vestige-smith industry.
Finally, he was the next in-line for the title of family head, since his father was the current family head.
All this added together made Vergil to be of a higher rank than the previous visitors Lucas had t with.
"Hey, don't be like that. The young master is here, and this is how you greet ?" Vergil smirked.
He was an easygoing person who didn't have the sa inherent pride as Maximillus Oder. To Vergil, everyone was the sa, whether human or hyuman. In their two encounters, even as strangers, Vergil had treated Lucas better than the others.
"So, what's the special visit for? Here to relay your proposals?" Lucas glanced at Vergil with a questioning look.
"Nah. Pressuring innocent people isn't my thing." Vergil waved him off.
"I'm here to send you an invitation. It's from my father. He wishes to et with you at the family house this evening."
Vergil imdiately took out an envelope and handed it to Lucas.
Lucas was imdiately stunned.
It seed like the rtens family worked differently from others. If it was a simple invitation, they could have sent it to him through his contact details; for the rtens family, it shouldn't be difficult to get that. Even if they wanted to hand Lucas a physical invite as a form of respect, they could simply have soone else do so rather than Vergil. To use the family's successor as a deliveryman, it could only an that the rtens family wanted to display their sincerity in cooperating.
But then again, why invite Lucas to the family house for that?
The question couldn't help but make Lucas wonder.
"What makes you guys think I would show up?" Lucas stared at Vergil as he released a bit of his aura.
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Although Vergil was at the second level of the Apertures Opening stage, he was still quite young and didn't have as much battle experience as Lucas did. All he had to do was release an appropriate amount of ferocity and bloodlust, and Lucas could ss with Vergil's psyche.
"You said previously that you don't like pressuring the innocent. Then you should know my situation, as well as the truth. Now I wonder, does your family have a hand in this? If they do, doesn't that contradict your earlier statent?"
Each question struck Vergil directly, making him hesitate how to answer. Together with the aura Lucas released, he began shuddering.
"...I understand your concerns." Vergil said as he gritted his teeth, while withstanding the aura.
"But believe when I say this; my family has no hand in this."
Lucas stared at him for a second more, before recalling his aura and accepting the envelope.
"Evening, huh? I guess I'll try to make it."
Vergil, who was recovering from the shock he had just received, smiled bitterly at Lucas' words.
Lucas was the only one he knew who would respond in such a way to an invitation from the rtens family head. Even the current city lord, Noah Bergs, would treat the invitation seriously.
This wasn't to say that the city lord was scared of the rtens family head, but an invitation from such a figure could only be for a serious matter.
"Alright." Vergil sighed before leaving the store.
Why would he want to remain after that horrendous experience that almost made him wet his pants?
One should know that the rtens family ran a company in the desolate beasts parts industry. At the sa ti, they also controlled their own private force; a freelancer guild that was very popular in Baylands city-state.
Due to the nature of the rtens family's business, family mbers —especially of the direct line— would participate in a one year service at the freelancer guild once they turned seventeen (17). During the service, they didn't just do physical exercises and sit back in the freelancer base; rather, they also participated in desolate beast hunts. They were even made to take down a desolate beast in groups with other seventeen year olds from the family.
This helped the rtens family build a sense of cooperation as well as survival and battle skills from a suitable age.
Despite having completed his service a few months ago, and still fresh out of the Wastelands, Vergil had been suppressed by Lucas' aura. Naturally, this evoked a sense of fear and respect towards Lucas, whom he previously once thought to be a weak human talented in blacksmithing.
'That guy is one scary hell of a being.' Vergil breathed out and cald himself after he had left the store.
'Those guys might one day regret what they did.'
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