As Lily went out to speak with Nora who was running the assassins base to ask her about a certain Malcolm, Victor kept frowning, sothing was bothering him and he couldn’t put his finger on it.
“Wait… You just said that Caspian is being supported by the Fate lord or sothing…” Margret said.
“Yup!” Victor nodded.
“You told us earlier that he was a demon…” she added.
“Yup!” Victor nodded again.
“Doesn’t that Fate lord know?” Margret asked, raising one eyebrow, as Alpha and Elise looked at Victor.
“I am not sure… But probably not. Caspian is hiding his demon identity pretty well, so I guess the Fate lord has no idea…”
“Couldn’t you have just exposed him at the wedding then… No… You made Alex comnt on that… What are you after?” Margret asked.
“I just did that to make Caspian lose his cool. The Fate Lord will not easily believe us… And you saw Caspian’s reaction, I am sure he will keep a low profile for a few months after this… Enough ti for to make a move…”
“Oh… “
“Now… I must tell you sothing very important!” Victor suddenly said. “It is about the Dark chamber….” Victor said. “If my guess is correct, they are planning to replace with a double!” he said.
“What?” Margret asked. “A double? Like an evil twin?”
“Yes! They will find soone Give him plastic surgery or sothing to look just like , then they will try to make him a player and train him a little before making him take my place… I eavesdropped on their agent at the Wedding, he was discussing this with his bosses through that artifact mirror…” he said, in his past life this happened in the Von Geldstadt family where the agent who took the place of one of Charlotte's brothers was discovered after 7 years when he made a mistake after losing the battle to be the next patriarch! That’s why Victor believed that’s the way they would deal with him. He was in a perfect position to be replaced now!
That’s the way he would have done it if he was in their place.
“What should we do if that happened?” Alpha asked.
“Nothing… When the change happens, that guy might claim amnesia or appear at a hospital after so accident happens to …” Victor said. “You just play along. It would be a good chance for you girls to experience scamming people…”
“Where would you be at that ti?” Elise asked. He already ntioned this in the wedding, intriguing her curiosity.
“Playing dead of course… But don’t worry, if I am fine I will communicate with you through our… Connection,” Victor shrugged, not explaining to Alpha. “I was planning on making Alex or Lin beco my double anyway so that I would be able to move stealthily… I need to go to Heavenly sent to oversee things there myself, Caspian must be taken care of ASAP…” he said.
He also needs to go collect so imperial debts and ‘convince’ so people to join the nutcracker cult… He couldn’t do that while everyone was spying on his every move.
“Do you happen to know their tiline?” Lily asked.
“No idea… But if they have just started, it will take at least a few months to get soone ready… And They will probably wait until after the Tournant, as an elite heir I will have to show up, and that guy might not be able to imitate perfectly at that ti!” Victor shrugged. “After that, we can use him to expose many of the Dark Chamber agents in the Von Weise family by creating troubles around the double to force them to help him fix it. Playing a little with him is not bad at all... He will be in the light and we are in the shadows after all!”
“Oh… Are you going to let him play with your girls then… with your wives?” Alpha asked coldly, very coldly. She was worried about her sisters.
“Of course not…I already taught the girls to be careful if I start acting funny…“ Victor smiled. “There will be different plans depending on that guy's actions, and I already prepared so plans and sches…” Victor said, taking a pink notebook and giving it to Margret. He had a lot of spare ti while training Harper, so he wrote it then.
“I will be responsible for him?” she asked in surprise as she flipped through the notebook.
“You are the one I trust most not to be scamd by stinky n, and I will need you to run the company with Aria, so you can’t really go hide or travel on so mission to avoid him!” he said. “Basically, if he dares to try anything funny, we will just make him lose his ability as a man!” Victor said coldly, making Margret chuckle as she began to read his plan.
“Those are so an…” she said in surprise. “You will have no good reputation left if I did any of those… Even your father might disown you!”
“He won’t… Those are nothing compared to what he did when he was young…” Victor said, making Alpha and Elise very curious just as Lily returned to the room with a very dark look on her face.
“What?” Victor asked, looking at her. He had to confess, Lily looked very cute even when her face was as gloomy as it was at the mont. He should make a compilation photo album of her expressions.
“We have a problem… A huge problem…” Lily said as she locked her pretty eyebrows and made the girls look at her. “What is today’s date?” she asked.
“Friday the fifth…” Margret replied, raising her head from the depraved notebook.
“Exactly… I felt strange when you told Victor that today is the date for the movie opening that should have happened yesterday!” she said, looking at Victor.
“I noticed that… But it might have been just a ti dilation created by the moon dungeon and traveling in the negative space…” Victor said, not really sure, but dungeons' ti dilation are not unheard of.
“It is not…” Lily said as she grabbed the remote control from the desk then turned on the Study’s hidden 82” TV Panel, turning to the news.
“... According to the sources, the gas Leak must have happened late last night, at exactly 12 Am… The entire city of Windrev was affected…”
“We are affirming the dead… More than 700,000 people peacefully died in their sleep… The governnt agencies are still examining the location for poisonous gasses, but it was most likely a CO2 eruption from the nearby lake where a huge cave appeared out of nowhere.…”
“Yes… Not only that, John… Many people died on their beds at the sa ti yesterday… So people think it was aliens...”
“So say it is a virus or a tid biological weapon… We will go to the experts in the….”
"Now we will return to the case of Gloria Flick who was caught trespassing..... Do we have a new Jane Armstrong?"
…
“What is this about?” Alpha asked, feeling very strange.
“Last night many people died in their sleep without any symptoms all over the world… This phenonon was most prominent in Windrev city where everyone ended up dead…” Lily said, making the girls frown…
“And?” Victor who had no idea what this all ant said, realizing Lily knew sothing.
“Well… If my guess is correct, sothing happened yesterday… Sothing that everyone forgot!” Lily said. “You can say that yesterday was Friday the fifth!” she said, making the girls look at her with raised eyebrows.
“Have you seen sothing like this before?” Victor asked.
“Yes… It was in the other tiline… I just want to make sure of sothing first… When exactly did you send Alex out of the dungeon?”
“It was at about 11 PM… 11:21 PM to be exact. I killed all the rabbits and didn’t want her to create trouble so I kicked her out.” Victor said. “You an this has sothing to do with the reason she was teleported to the other side of the planet?”
“Um… The second thing I want to make sure of is the Shard you got in the dungeon… Its command should be to disable all artifact effects…” she asked.
“Exactly…” Victor nodded as if he began to understand sothing. “Sothing big happened and we were shielded?” he asked.
“Yes…This happened three tis before in your other tiline…” Lily told Victor as the girls listened. “It is when an entire day repeats as if the world forgot sothing happened… Even the planet’s location returns to its previous place as it forgot where it was… the only thing that can’t be returned are the lives of the dead. So their body’s return to where they were, but without souls… so everyone who died the day prior ended up dead in their beds when the rewind happened…” she said.
“Ti rewind?” Elise asked.
“No… A ti rewind will revive the dead! It is as if the world forgets about a day, even its position will return to its state the previous day …This might have been the reason Alex was flung to another continent… She must have entered the world as the rewind was happening! ” Lily explained.
“That’s what I call bad luck…” Margret comnted, making Elise nod.
“When I was in the other tiline, I was not affected at all so I could observe this phenonon…” Lily said, ignoring Margret. “The first ti I didn't know what happened at all and I thought it was so strange world phenona… The next two tis it was accompanied by many people dying and so very important people disappearing! I tried to find the culprit, but I couldn’t… All evidence is always erased the next day. People seem to have forgotten about the disappeared! “
“Then Windrev City…”
“Yes… Everyone on it died yesterday!” Lily said. “And it just happened that Malcolm was on a mission there… He should have been…” she was not sure, the last ti she had a look on the assassin’s organization's logbook was before the wedding.
“Explain… Was he found dead on his bed?”
“No… That’s the problem… No one rembers who Malcolm is!” Lily said.
“What?” Margret asked.
“No one in the base rembers who Malcolm is! It is as if they have never heard of him… Even his na no longer exists in the files. It was as if he was completely forgotten!” she said. “Tonight… Yesterday… I rember that there should have been an operation at Windrev City… But it no longer exists. Malcolm was the best candidate for such a mission…” she added.
“What was the mission?” Victor asked.
“As far as I rember, it was to infiltrate the building there and investigate so guy’s love affair…” Lily said. “We thought such missions were good for the new cadets…”
“The company disappeared too?” Victor asked.
“No… But their lab in Windrev city no longer exists, not even on files… That cave in the news should be the location of the building… But I am not 100% sure…”
“What is that company’s na and who is behind it?” Victor asked.
“It’s a new startup, it’s na is SpaceTroll tech. I don’t know who is behind it…” Lily said.
Victor frowned and sent a ssage to Kai asking about it. The response returned almost imdiately.
“It is a dungeon tech research company created by Helen Seedflint the heiress of the Seeflint family… Officially it is a space tech company with a base in the capital and many labs around the world….” Victor said as he read the files Kai sent him. “Apparently, the Seedflint acquired the rights to a newly discovered dungeon and had been excavating it for the last year or so…” he said with a frown. The Seedflint family beca one of the most influential families after the reckoning, gaining a lot of trust from the Von Krone. In fact, one of the concubines that was chosen for Yulian before his reputation was ruined was from that family.
Now that he thought about it… The Seedflint family was very lucky. It was as if they were always at the right place at the right ti…
“Did this exact incident happen in the other tiline?” he asked Lily who was thinking about the sa things as he did. He couldn’t really rember hearing it in the news.
“No… The incidents that I experienced didn’t include major deaths in one city… They are only people who were supposed to have died on that day dying in their beds all over the world…” Lily said. “That’s why I couldn't find anything… ”
“So… Whatever happened this ti was probably because of us changing sothing… And it is most likely Malcolm…” Victor said.
“Um…”Lily nodded. “I believe they must have found so kind of an X ranked artifact, that’s the only rank of artifacts that can have a global effect like this… But why did all the people die in Windrev city?” she wondered.
“Activating an X ranked artifact usually takes a lot of energy… And it must have failed in the other tiline…“ Victor analyzed. “Sothing must have gone wrong… “ he frowned.
“Do you want to send the girl after this?” Alpha asked.
“Yes! Just be careful not to reveal a thing, and notify imdiately if you find sothing!” Victor said as he took a shard and handed it to her. “This shard has the effect of disabling artifacts effects, I want you to place it in your base…”
“Wouldn't you want it here to protect yourself?” Alice frowned and asked.
“No… The information database that you are compiling is more important… If this incident happened again, with all the data you are collecting we might be able to pinpoint the artifact location! “ Victor said he was sure that this artifact will not affect him anyway, his Authority would surely protect him.
“Fine…” Alpha nodded as she took the shard.
“Now…I guess we'll just forget about Malcolm for now…” he said looking at Lily. “That guy is surely to seek you though… I believe he has a love fate against you or one of the assassin girls!”
“It is definitely for …” Lily said. She noticed the way he looked at her in the base, but as he was still a child she was planning to delay his castration until he had his first ti… “Don’t worry, my heart is already taken…” she said with a smile.
“How old is Malcolm exactly?” Margret suddenly asked.
“He should be around 14 or 15… He is an orphan and doesn't have a record...” Lily said.
“Then I am sure that he is not after your heart. That’s the part teenage boys care about the least…” Margret stated, earning herself a glare from everyone.
“What! I am just stating facts!” she said… And she was right.
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