The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 176: An Accident

Mira was shocked by the view she saw after gaining conscience… She was in a large room made of stone… This was like that dungeon in an ancient castle she was shooting a movie in… Except here, there was no window, and the only light source was those blue flowers that gave faint luminescence, barely enough to see the road around her.

She clutched the spear in her hand tightly… It has been a long time since she left the family island… Her combat style was a little rusty, but if this place was full of snakes like they told her she would have to fight.

Why did her young master want her to come here? What was that blue vortex? And how did she get in here? They were all questions that she didnʼt know how to answer.

Suddenly she noticed the blue shimmering screen to the side of her sight… Focusing on it, it slides to the front as if it were the UI of some VR game.

; ; WARNING
YOU HAVE ENTERED A DUNGEON…

INITIALIZING DUNGEON AWAKENING PROCEDURE…

Welcome Player...

Analyzing input data Finished...

You have successfully awakened as a PLAYER, your attributes have been automatically assigned by the system.

; ; NAME: Mira
LEVEL : 0

CLASS: ILLUSIONIST

AUTHORITY: 2

Strength: 15

Intelligence: 28

Agility: 18

Luck: 22

Charm: 35

Order: 10

SKILLS :

Invisibility, A

Ventriloquism, B

Minor Self-Disguise, C

; ; Setup Complete.
Mira was surprised at first, wondering what this was, but after a few minutes of trial and error, during which she considered this to be a candid camera prank, she realized this was real.

That girl Margret told her to prepare for an experience weirder than her wildest imagination.

Looking at the screen she really felt that this was a game… Why would she get this class? An Illusionist What does that mean? She frowned as she felt something hot in her pocket.

Looking at it, she realized it was the disk Margret gave to her on the bus… She said that this was a gift from the young master to keep her safe. It would get hot when an enemy is nearby.

Mira clenched her Spear tight in an amateurish defense posture and scanned the area around her… There was nothing... She wanted to throw the disk away as a scam, but some deep instinct inside her told her that it was not.

Could it be mistaken… She didn’t dare to relax…. She took the snake repellent spray with her left hand and began to spray around her…. Then something moved… On the wall, blended with the cracked mortar between two huge stones there was a finger-sized worm… No, it was a snake with teeth half the size of its body. Mira didn’t hesitate to step back and use her spear to strike at it… She missed and the snake lurched at her. But seemingly due to the repellent smell it backed off a little, giving Mira a chance to strike again… This time she hit it. The snake disintegrated in seconds leaving a fingernail-sized red GEM.

…

After a few hours, Victor regained his consciousness. He sat up and looked at the pearl in the bucket… The battle inside was over… Now he just needed time to eat them… The remnants of the soul will not dissipate in the pearl.

That’s why he split his soul, he can’t risk entering another coma for a few months this time… Not until he finishes with his setup for the future that is…

He coughed… Although the soul-splitting had hurt him badly. In time his second soul would digest those demons and send some energy back to him, making his soul not only heal up but also get stronger than before.

He needed to return to the brothel, but first, he needed to resolve the pearl’s curse.

He took a few healing pills, then stood up and knelt before the bucket. He bought a very expensive curse dispelling talisman and activated it on the pearl.

; ; ERROR : SELECT TARGET
A screen appeared.

In his mind, he focused on the Pearlʼs fourth nonexistence effect…

; ; TROVAL’S DEMONIZATION TOUCH CURSE SS was found.
REQUIRES AUTHORITY TO DISPEL

ARE YOU SURE?

Victor pressed

; ; CURSE REMOVED.
Victor checked the Pearl again thoughtfully, making sure nothing was amiss, then still a little couscous, he stored the bucket with the pearl inside it in his ring… He will analyze it later once he digests that artificer’s memories… Just in case.

Wanting to leave, Victor paused for a second and looked at the room. Shall he harvest the walls… No, those materials might be a novelty now, but after the reckoning, people would complain about them all the time.

He could try the same trick he used on Tom… Maybe some scion would discover this place. But Victor didn’t dare to leave some of his blood here without a proper plan. Blood can be used to create some very nasty curses.

Still… It was a pity to leave such a perfect scamming location… Should he use this place to make some profit?

After some thought, Victor took out a storage ring… This one was one of many in the stack he stole from his familyʼs treasury. A random B-ranked Ring… Something many players would desire.

First, he disguised his info and then bound it to him… So now, no one can look inside and discover that it was empty… That wonʼt do.

Victor took a photo of Venus, Lilyʼs grandma, that he copied earlier from his ring and put it in the new ring... Just in case.

After that Victor used his dagger to inscribe the number 3 in an otherworldly script on the ring. Whoever finds this might want to get numbers 1 and 2. They might pay a lot of money for the mysterious ring that canʼt be opened.

Victor was always curious about who took the pearl in his previous life, and this was his way to find out. And make some money on the way.

Looking at his setup, Victor smiled and left the cave with some difficulty.

It took him an hour and a half to return to the room where Alex had finished her dirty deed and was waiting for him.

“Young master… Are you ok?” Alex asked with concern when she saw Victor collapse on the floor’s carpet with a pale face…

“Do I look OK?” Victor Scolded despite being out of breath. He overestimated his ability to swim under a waterfall in his current state.

“Young master… What happened to you, where have you been?” Alex asked.

“Don’t ask unnecessary questions, Do you see me asking you what you did to the girls?……. Now help me to the bathroom.” Victor ordered.

Alex was hesitant… But looking at Victor’s state she quickly dragged him to the shower and helped him with a blushing face… This was her first time.

“You call yourself a man damn it.” Victor scolded. “Can’t you stop getting shy? How are you going to get married if you keep acting like a wimp.” He added as Alex helped him wear his clothes and then walk back to the room with a blushing face. She didn’t hear his scolding at all, as her mind was still occupied by what she saw inside…

“Should I help you to the bed?” She asked after a few seconds.

“No… You idiot.” Victor said while looking at the filthy bed with naked girls sleeping in it in some very unnatural positions. What did she do to them?

Never mind, they deserve this for calling him a pervert pizza boy in the past.

“Let’s leave. It is already 5.00 Am.” Victor said as he sprinkled an antidote to wake up the girls in the air then unlocked the door and left with Alex.

“Ara…Young master… Leaving early.” The receptionist who was still at her desk asked with a hidden smile when she saw Victor’s haggard state. This was not the first time she saw someone leave the brothel like this. Young men overestimate their skills. “Hopefully the girls didn’t disappoint you.” She said,

“Not at all……. Ahmm... Ahm...” He coughed…

“Young master your bill.” She said not caring about his health and politely presenting him with a folded paper. He looked at it secretly and nodded then gave the receptionist his family bank card. The one for business expenditures.

The receptionist quickly completed the payment and gave Victor back his card with the receipt.

“Come again, young master….” She said, barely hiding her chuckle… “And next time try with fewer girls…” She said as she watched him leave through the door,

“STOP” Someone yelled as soon as Victorʼs foot touched the street outside the brothel. It was a group of young men led by a cocky handsome guy with blue and pink hair. He was holding a hatchet in his hand...

“Are you the one who took my room?” The young man asked pointing the hatchet at Victor.

“Room 31?” Victor asked after a cough.

“No….” The man replied. Not expecting that answer...

“Then it’s not me,” Victor said as he headed to the car with Alex’s help. She held her laugh professionally.

Alex could only laugh loudly after starting the car and reaching the road.

“Young master, you are so bad…. This must be that master Chen… He didn’t dare to make trouble inside and waited for you by the door.” She said giggling.

“You are still in the mood to laugh? Look… That’s how much your youthful night had cost me… You better be thankful.” Victor scolded as he handed Alex the receipt, dampening her laughter immediately.

Her eyes grew larger looking at the 8 digits number… That was her past sect’s expenditure for an entire year! Those guys are super greedy! She should have shoved that stick a little deeper.

“The one behind this brothel is a real big shot to get away with charging this much…” She asked.

“Unofficially it belongs to the player’s council… On paper, it belongs to the biggest conglomerate in the world… Which is the player councilʼs front. So no matter who, Player or not, no one dares to make trouble here, and they know what privacy means… So it can get a little pricey.” He said.

“Would the girls get any of this?” She asked with some concern…

“Of course…About 40~50%” Victor said “Do you want me to sell you here?” he asked, reading her dirty thoughts.

“N…No…..” She said with blushing ears… She can’t believe she thought of that.

“Good… They only take pretty girls here, and no matter how many dresses you wear you can’t work here.” Victor said, “Although I know a place that could make use of your… Talents…” He added.

“No thank you, I am fine as you butler, young master.” Alex quickly refused. “Would there be a problem with leaving the girls unconsciously?” She asked, changing the subject.

“No… Many young masters from playersʼ families come here. They usually use some kind of memory erasing artifact or talisman. People say things they shouldn’t say when they are … You know….. And many of them would also want to hide their uselessness…” Victor explained.

“Then why didn’t the young master use one of those?” Alex asked.

“There are ways to return lost memories, but there are none if the memories didn’t exist in the first place,” Victor explained. “Now go to the Golden Hotel and get me a room. I will sleep until noon… You should get some sleep too. We would have a good show to watch in the evening.” Victor said as he relaxed in his chair and sent a message to Lily informing her that he will meet her at the hotel in the afternoon and to stay with his mother and protect her…

She replied…

His grandmother seemingly had an “Accident” last night and ended up in the hospital, so his mother would be staying there with her… She would stay in the hospital too to protect her.

“Is she Ok? What happened?” Victor quickly texted.

“Nothing major, Apparently she fell… That’s what she told the doctors anyway :P” Lily answered back.