The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 325: The Sign (3)

Victor looked at the results presented by his Akashic Search skill in shock.

; ;
TIMELESS CROW SOUL SEAL.

EFFECTS : 

SOUL CONNECTION

LIFE CONNECTION

FATE CONNECTION

Timeless crow? He knew no one like that!

Could it be Yulian? No way!

Victor quickly asked who put it and when the sign was placed on him, paying 10 Order points.

; ; PLACED 3 MINUTES AGO, AGE:  148,855 DAYS. PLACED BY LILY VON CRONE.
Victor looked at the screen with a frown, not really getting this. Did Lily just add that? No… This was on him from before she awakened her Timeless Crow bloodline… NO the keyword here was timeless.

It was as if this thing crossed time… Did she also get an X-ranked bloodline?

HOLY SHIT… Victor gasped as he saw many things fit into place… Especially after he paid another 50 order points to learn about the Timeless crows powers.

It was all Lily from the beginning. This must have been her ancestral skill! She must have been following him through his past life!

No wonder he fell in love at first sight! Their souls were literally connected!

No wonder his luck was so bad when he was a child. He was sharing Lily’s fate all along. She was literally riding on his shoulder!

No wonder he met Yulian and they became best friends. He was sharing Lily’s original fate! He was his brother in a way!

All things that seemed a little random began to make sense!

After Lily died in his past life, bad fate kept following.  This must have been the Fate sect’s doing. They must have been the ones who kept targeting Lily who was a timeless crow on his shoulder.

They had no idea she was dead… this stopped after Caspian’s demise… That’s when his luck began to turn around!

SHIT! 

Now that he remembers his fate, the thread connecting her to him was special, at first he thought that it was because he saved her life. Now it is apparently not! 

Victor slowly looked at the age of the sign. 148,855  days. With his intelligence he could easily calculate this… it took him a few minutes.

“SHIT!” he said as he finally realized what this was.

It was all in reverse. It didn’t take him long to realize that it was Lily who saved his life back then!

…

After saving Victor, Crow Lily decided to stay beside him.

He was literally broken for the next 10 years or so.

It took him a lot of time to calm down and cope with his loss… She watched as he struggled with the loss of his bloodline as his health kept getting worse.

She watched as he returned to the Von Weise Archipelago and began to dig in the already ransacked ruins.

He learned many things, and so did Lily who by that point was convinced that Victor was able to return in time and she was now witnessing his first lifetime!

It was a sunny day when Victor met with none other than Yulian confirming Lily’s guess!

Yulian under his imperial father’s orders, was tasked with the investigation. He managed to track his sister to the Von Weise family archipelago!

That’s when he bonded with Victor who acted as if he was just an archaeologist, searching for old knowledge for historical purposes.

So after Victor helped Yulian locate Lily’s remains, they became good friends, and Yulian promised Victor a position in the capital if he ever went there!

For the next few years after that, Victor traveled around the world, visiting famous doctors and magicians. Exploring dangerous ruins in search of a solution for his bloodline problem, and a way to kill that hateful man.

During this time there was some disturbing news about Alice’s ugly death under the influence of those who feared the Light lord.

Then the Heavenly sect rebelled and the world was engulfed in a bitter war as many hiding demon races who were pushed back during the early days seemed to have regrouped and were planning a comeback.

Victor, having no other choice, hid away and continued his research in silence as the world shook.

After two years the war ended with Caspianʼs demise with his four demon girls parade.

Then there was a certain rumor about the Book of Time that was found in a secret subspace!…. 

This made Victor leave for the capital and Lily to finally be sure of what Victor’s next steps would be.

Getting to the capital, Victor, who was slowly getting older met with Yulian whose position in the imperial family was not very good because of the internal fighting.

Yulian, happy to meet his old friend, quickly welcomed him in. He not only got him a position in the Imperial Library but also bought him a mansion and filled it with slave elves.

Lily was so angry with her foolish brother that she decided to kick his ass and castrate him if she were ever to return to her real body!

So for the next 100 years, nothing really happened, but Lily used her time to learn many secrets including some things about the fate sect and the scions. She also finally realized where Victor learned all those secret methods… Especially how to summon that dumb rooster… It was all from the Imperial Library with him posing as a scholar.

She watched as Victor transformed from a depressed man into the one she knows. As he aged, he not only became more scheming but also more confident in himself. Although he was old by this point, she liked him like this.

During this time Lily was surprised to have encountered many people whom she had known. Like Zoe who became a very strong scion! And Tom who kept popping up every once in a while to prove that he was a pervert.

There were Alpha and Hana too. They seemed to be working for some guy who called himself the eternal lord, but she was not able to find anything else.

During this time she was fully convinced that her sister Tulip who made scions go around her like flies was a bitch… So was her mother… She could understand that they came from an imperial family and acted arrogantly, but their attitude was really too annoying. Even when Victor acted proud like a young master, he failed to reach their level of arrogance!

On the other hand, she grew to really like her father. Although he acted like a wimp in front of her mother, he was a really wise king… that was unless her mother decided to intervene in something.

As for her brother, she really couldnʼt wait to kick his ass… That piece of shit had the audacity to promise her to Victor while he was peeping on some Dwarven P***y!

She also realized why Victor let Alice marry Yulian. This was really the best for both of them!

Anyway, It all ended when Victor’s lifespan was about to end. He used an opportunity when the entirety of the imperial family went out of the capital to welcome some otherworldly being and stole the Book of Time.

He did what she already knew he would. He ingeniously used the Book of Time to return to the past. She had to confess, his way was really smart as she couldnʼt even imagine something like that!

That day she was standing next to him when she smelled something familiar, a smell that she didn’t smell in the past 400 years… MARGRET. 

Her smell was on one of the talismans.

As soon as the ritual ended, the world shattered and Lily opened her eyes. She was not a crow anymore, but a newlywed wife, in her husbandʼs embrace. He was looking at her with some very angry eyes.

“... I like you better as a young man…” she said directly, hiding nothing. She could easily tell that he figured out what happened. 

She had been with him for nearly 400 years after all, and knew him more than anyone.

“Next time don’t do anything this foolish… By connecting our souls, you put yourself in danger….” he said with a disturbed face. “I still plan to go against that guy after all!”

“That is a risk I am willing to take…” she said as she pushed herself on him, cornering him in the corner of the bathtub. During the last 400 years, her personality seemed to have changed a little… no, it would be better to say that it was developed.

“I have to clarify that what happened changes nothing…” he said as he watched her ride his body. He wanted to resist, but his body didn’t. Lily’s charm seemed to have skyrocketed after her awakening. Even with all the resistance skills he got, he could only keep a part of his sanity.

“Change nothing?” she asked as she pinched his cheek and smiled at his reaction. He could swear that when she laughed he almost spotted a third eyelid when she blinked...

“I will still have my harem!” he clarified. He would not give up that right! ”I will still marry the girls I like… ”

“Oh… You are very cute and sweet!” she didn’t get angry, on the contrary, she smiled like a devil…” We will see if you will have the energy for that after I finish with you!” she chuckled and then pushed him down diving into her unprepared husbandʼs embrace.

Throughout the years, she learned everything about him. She knew how to make him obedient. This was something she learned from her bitch mother.