The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 354: Malcolm who?

As Lily went out to speak with Nora who was running the assassins base to ask her about a certain Malcolm, Victor kept frowning, something 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 something…” 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 comment 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 time for me to make a move…”

“Oh… “

“Now… I must tell you something very important!” Victor suddenly said. “It is about the Dark chamber….” Victor said. “If my guess is correct, they are planning to replace me with a double!” he said.

“What?” Margret asked. “A double? Like an evil twin?”

“Yes! They will find someone Give him plastic surgery or something to look just like me, 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 Charlotteʼs 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 some accident happens to me…” 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 time?” Elise asked. He already mentioned 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 become 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 some imperial debts and ‘convince’ some 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 timeline?” Lily asked.

“No idea… But if they have just started, it will take at least a few months to get someone ready… And They will probably wait until after the Tournament, as an elite heir I will have to show up, and that guy might not be able to imitate me perfectly at that time!” 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 guyʼs actions, and I already prepared some plans and schemes…” Victor said, taking a pink notebook and giving it to Margret. He had a lot of spare time 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 scammed by stinky men, and I will need you to run the company with Aria, so you can’t really go hide or travel on some 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 mean…” 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 moment. 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 time dilation created by the moon dungeon and traveling in the negative space…” Victor said, not really sure, but dungeonsʼ time 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 government 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 same time yesterday… Some people think it was aliens...”

“Some say it is a virus or a timed 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 phenomenon 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 meant said, realizing Lily knew something.

“Well… If my guess is correct, something happened yesterday… Something 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 something like this before?” Victor asked.

“Yes… It was in the other timeline… I just want to make sure of something 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 mean this has something 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 something. “Something big happened and we were shielded?” he asked.

“Yes…This happened three times before in your other timeline…” Lily told Victor as the girls listened. “It is when an entire day repeats as if the world forgot something 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.

“Time rewind?” Elise asked.

“No… A time 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 commented, making Elise nod.

“When I was in the other timeline, I was not affected at all so I could observe this phenomenon…” Lily said, ignoring Margret. “The first time I didnʼt know what happened at all and I thought it was some strange world phenomena… The next two times it was accompanied by many people dying and some 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 time she had a look on the assassin’s organizationʼs logbook was before the wedding.

“Explain… Was he found dead on his bed?”

“No… That’s the problem… No one remembers who Malcolm is!” Lily said.

“What?” Margret asked.

“No one in the base remembers who Malcolm is! It is as if they have never heard of him… Even his name no longer exists in the files. It was as if he was completely forgotten!” she said. “Tonight… Yesterday… I remember 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 remember, it was to infiltrate the building there and investigate some 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 name and who is behind it?” Victor asked.

“It’s a new startup, it’s name is SpaceTroll tech. I don’t know who is behind it…” Lily said.

Victor frowned and sent a message to Kai asking about it. The response returned almost immediately.

“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 became 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 time…

“Did this exact incident happen in the other timeline?” he asked Lily who was thinking about the same things as he did. He couldn’t really remember 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 couldnʼt find anything… ”

“So… Whatever happened this time was probably because of us changing something… And it is most likely Malcolm…” Victor said.

“Um…”Lily nodded. “I believe they must have found some 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 timeline…“ Victor analyzed. “Something must have gone wrong… “ he frowned.

“Do you want me to send the girl after this?” Alpha asked.

“Yes! Just be careful not to reveal a thing, and notify me immediately if you find something!” 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…”

“Wouldnʼt 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 weʼll 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 me…” 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 time… “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 doesnʼt 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.