“What happened?” Arthur thought as he stepped out of his lab.
The entire villa was a ss, with broken furniture and books scattered all over the floor. Soone broke in and was looking for sothing, but how?
Arthur had spent lots of ti creating the formations around his villa, and even though the city had lots of criminals, it was not to the point of people breaking in without the guards noticing it.
Also, this villa was in a rich area of the city, making it safer than the rest of it.
“I should ask Jhazaken to see if he saw sothing.”
Jhazaken was his neighbor, a dark elf who was also a mage. Arthur barely went outside, but every ti he did, he would take the chance to chat with Jhazaken.
He left his villa and went to the villa on his right side.
“Jhazaken!” Arthur yelled, and within seconds, a youth appeared.
“Akhur, hey. Is sothing wrong?”
“Actually, yes. I was away, visiting a few shops in town, and when I return to my villa, everything inside was a ruckus. Soone broke in and destroyed the place.”
“What? No, this is impossible,” Jhazaken said.
Jhazaken still rembered when Arthur put all of those formations that even he couldn’t break, and now soone easily broke in? It made little sense.
“I am so sorry, Akhur, but I heard nothing. I was inside my lab working in a few experints, and that place has a soundproof formation, so if soone broke in while I was there, then I did not hear.”
“No problem. See you later.”
Sothing inside Arthur was telling him that Jhazaken was acting weird. Could he be lying about this? If anyone could crack those formations that it could be him who saw Arthur place them.
Arthur saw no reason to go after him without proof, so it was the best if he first tried to find so clues about the invasion.
Back at his villa, Arthur stood there, looking at all the damage the trespasser did. With a focused mind and sharp senses, Arthur slled everything with his dragon senses.
Deulara’s scent, the sll of food, flowers from his garden, and…
“What is this?”
There was a strange sll that Arthur could not recognize, which ant it was possible from whoever broke in.
“This does not sll like Jhazaken at all, but he could still be involved, so I should be careful.”
It was a sll Arthur never ca in touch with. He recorded that scent so that he could recognize the owner with they ever et.
Arthur went to the sa place where he bought the villa, as it also offered cleaning services.
“Soone dared to break in? I will send soone to clean it up and add more guards around your area.”
He was pleased with the quickness of that attendant, so with a bright smile, Arthur returned to Deulara’s shop, which was as dead as when he had left.
“No costurs?” Arthur said to Deulara, who was sleeping on the counter.
“What? Who? Akhur?”
She was surprised to see him there, but also wanted to hide her face in a hole after Arthur caught her sleeping while working.
“It is dark already, so close to the shop.”
“Also, soone invaded our villa, but I am already taking care off.”
“What?”
Deulara woke up in an instant after hearing it, worried that sothing could have happened to the place they lived, but Arthur reassured her that everything was fine.
“Soone is already there cleaning everything, and I think more guards will now patrol the area. So, let’s go out and eat sothing in the anti.”
“Okay, okay. Let lock everything.”
The talk about food made Deulara hasten up her moves, locking her shop within seconds, and then following Arthur closely behind.
“The moon is beautiful tonight,” Arthur said.
It was a full-moon, which made everything brighter and beautiful. There were lots of people in the streets, enjoying the night, chatting, eating, exploring. A vivid city that reminded Arthur of his previous world.
Their destination was one of the fanciest restaurants, which had 5 floors, and the people with more authority would sit in the higher levels.
A guard stood in the restaurant’s front. Anyone could use the first floor, but the other floors one needed so status to be in.
The second floor was only four mages between the 1 circle. The third for 2-3, the fourth for 4-5, and the fifth floor was only available for mages from the 6 circle beyond, and the royal family of the dark lands.
As there was no one with that level of strength as a mage, it was basically only for the royal family. Well, not until Arthur arrived.
“Excuse , is it with you I must speak to go onto the higher floors?” Arthur said to the guard who was in front of the fancy restaurant.
That guard scanned both him and Deulara with clear disgust in his eyes.
“Yes, but do you know the rules to go higher? One needs actual strength to do so.”
“Oh, actual strength? Like this one?”
Arthur had his palm facing up, and then circle after circle appeared. He would not cast a spell inside the city. It was only to show the guard that he had the strength to cast such spells.
He thought about showing his 9 circle prowess, but it would spoil the surprise, so he opted for only 6 circles.
“I-Impossible.”
The last ti a 6th circle mage appeared in the dark lands was a long ti ago, but now a youth showed up, making the guard unable to realize what was happening.
“Wait here, let talk with my boss.”
After thirty seconds, a man showed up. It was the owner of that restaurant, as well as a 5 circle mage.
“Can you show , please?” He said to Arthur.
The guard was skeptical about Arthur’s veracity as a mage, and for that reason asked his boss, who was also a mage, to co and check.
Arthur did not mind that, and cast once again a tier 6 spell.
“It is true. You are a 6 circle mage, ha ha ha. Please co in. Is she with you? You can co, too.”
The owner of that restaurant was a mage that wanted to one day reach the status of a 6 circle mage, as he was close, yet could not reach the next step. So, he treated Arthur even better, hoping to have a chat that would benefit him on his mage journey.
They kept going up, and everyone who was on each floor could not believe the status of that young dark elf.
“What floor is he going to? Fourth? Fifth? Who is he?”
“Maybe a lover of the queen?”
“Shhh, don’t say that. Don’t you know she is there on the fifth floor? What if she hears you?”
When Arthur heard those conversations, a smile ford on his face.
“So the leader of the dark lands is here? What a coincidence.”
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