The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 203: Zena

Unlike the relatively obscure auction in Vein city, The auction here in Tetraquad was a huge event, so any failure was not an insignificant matter. Gary made sure that every angle was fully covered and every situation was perfectly accounted for.

The auction here is made into two parts, a public one for everyone who can afford an entry ticket and a private one, for the players.

Victor arrived at the auction building and stepped on the red carpet with Margret and Theta at precisely 7.30 that night. Paul was ordered to stay in the car as usual.

Victor was dressed in a white tuxedo as the girls wore matching maid dresses that made everyone including the attendees and those who were here for the fun look at them with a frown. The way the girls were clinging to him made him appear like a pervert despite his charming look… Was he here to make trouble?

Even the press, the live broadcasters, and photographers who were snapping photos of everyone hesitated to photograph him, but quickly began to snap some photos after a moment of hesitation, they would leave publishing decisions to the editorial department.

“Your ticket please..” The pretty receptionist at the door asked politely while trying hard not to show a disturbed look on her face. This was a public event, not a cosplay party. Why was he dying his hair purple? And what with the maids' dresses? They looked authentic.

Victor casually showed her the invitation letter and the Ticket issued in his name, and that made her quickly bow in respect after noticing the Z rank on the ticket.

“Please this way.” She quickly guided Victor inside as another receptionist took her place.

Everyone who expected him to be kicked away was surprised, who was this guy? The receptionist didn’t even flinch when a big CEO entered earlier and just pointed him inside.

With that thought, every member of the press began to ask around while sending the photos they took… A new headline would be published tomorrow, A NEW YOUNG MASTER IN TOWN!

“Now, you two are publicly mine,” Victor told Margret and Theta as he hugged their slender waists and followed the receptionist.

The girls just smiled but said nothing as they watched the Auction venue from the big windows in the winding corridor. It was a big auditorium with hundreds of seats. And on top of that, many balconies are protruding from the domed ceiling base in three interweaving layers.

The receptionist guided them up to a similar VIP private room with a balcony overlooking the auction stage directly. It had a big couch with a small table filled with fruits.

“The balcony’s curtains have the function of obscuring the young master’s identity, so the young master can freely close them if anonymity is needed.” The receptionist said as Victor entered the room and was about to sit down when he noticed a shadow behind the curtain of another room on the other side… All this time he was appraising people around and what he saw on that shadow made him frown.

Despite the curtains being of an appraisal and detection skills blocking material and despite the detection canceling Talismans around every room that the receptionist didn’t tell him about, Victor’s skill was not stopped at all, as his authority allowed him to use his skills uninterrupted.

“I don’t like this room.” He told the receptionist, “It smells like someone defecated here before. I can’t stay with my girls in such a dirty room like this, show me another one.” He said making the receptionist freeze for a second before smiling again.

“Of course, young master… What kind of view do you like?” She asked, she was not stupid and realized that he wanted some specific room.

“Give me the one with the number 25.” He said, “I can see it is empty.” He added as he licked his lips.

“Please follow me.” She said nothing, Holder of the Z-ranked tickets can kick lower tier ticket holders out of their rooms, let alone change to an empty one. She quickly knew why too, as the room right beside number 25 had a very pretty girl sitting there. She didn’t close the blinds as she sat proudly in her shoulderless diamond-studded gown watching the attendees finding their chairs downstairs with an arrogant look. Little did she know that the room below this one had a man that would suffer a very humiliating fate.

The receptionist guided Victor and the girls to the new room quickly and watched as Victor nodded in satisfaction then thanked her with a slap on her butt. She didn’t mind it, especially when she felt the stack of money he professionally stuck in her uniform’s pocket.

“Tell Gary that I want to meet him after the auction.” He told her then quickly headed to the balcony and opened the blinds then began to talk to the girl there as she expected him to do.

“I am Victor White, I didn’t expect to meet a mega-celebrity like Miss Zena Zero here,” Victor said to the woman, who looked at him coldly.

“Please don’t disturb me. Or I will call security.” She said coldly,

“Sure. feel free to call them… You are worth the trouble.” He said as he sat down, but kept his eyes on her body, checking every nook and cranny. This girl was a famous singer… That was her public identity anyway. She was secretly a free player that is not associated with any power. Victor knew that she was one of the three founders of the free players association.

She hated the families and anyone belonging to them and was one of the extremists who wanted the families to be executed…

In the future, after the Reckoning, she would be one of the leaders of the revolution against the families. Of course, she would fail and be killed in a very ugly manner by the Von Zwei family. The Von Krone would use that accident to agitate the free players and get their help to destroy the Von Zwei family after that.

Victor felt strange, her fate was “greatness” why did she die then? Did she achieve greatness by dying in a great manner? That didn’t make any sense… Maybe some scion was involved in her death… and her last name Von Miller was not the public one… Wait, wasn’t that the same surname as his teacher Isabella? That one was in the free players association too… Victor decided to make Kai investigate his background.

Zena was now clearly disturbed by the way he looked at her while frowning as if he was inspecting some burned cookie, so she quickly called one of the employees and whispered something pointing at Victor who flashed them a wide grin while Theta began to feed him some grapes.

The employee nodded and then went away before returning 30 seconds later with an uneasy face.

“We are very sorry, we can’t do it. We can get you another balcony if you want. But all of the balconies are already taken by now… So you would have to share it with someone else. You can also go to the auditorium.” He said in a soft voice.

Zena frowned, then sighed, “I will stay here then.” She said then completely ignored Victor. This Auction was too important for her to waste because of some perverted young master.

Victor chuckled and activated his disguise skill, then gestured to Margret to act as if he was still on the balcony before shifting using his ring to the room below his where a man in a black cloak was busy watching the crowd.

The man was completely oblivious of Victor's existence behind him as held a hand-sized mirror and pointed to face the stage. This was the reason Victor hurried here.

This man was an agent of the Dark Chamber, as this was the same kind of mirror Dick had. Victor was intending to kill him but after some thought he chose to stay here and watch, he might get some info. He was still close enough to his balcony to maintain the illusion there anyway so he casually sat on a side chair and observed the rest of the auction as the man looked around with a frown…

“WHAT…” A masked man that suddenly appeared in the mirror said,

“Lord third, I felt someone spying on me… It is my survival instinct.” The man said,

“Use an S Concealing talisman. And another Detection one.” The lord ordered, and the man did that… The feeling didn’t disappear... The detection returned nothing.

“You are just worried,” The lord told him with a sigh, “Don’t be so nervous, you only need to release the poison at the end of the auction. Its effect would only work two days later, so there is no danger.” Lord third said.

“Yes, I know.” The man said, but the feeling of a predator watching him didn’t disappear.

“Lord third… Why do we have to help that b*tch Charlotte… She tried to seduce me the other day… I am as old as her father!” The man said.

“You are always complaining like this… You should stop fearing your wife. She is just an old hag damn it!” The man in the mirror scolded him. “And Charlotte is important for our plan, She must win the next patriarch position. That’s all you need to know.” He added, making Toral shake his head, if Lord Third met his wife, he would not dare to talk badly about her.

Victor frowned… So Charlotte was the one behind this… She must have also been conspiring with the Dark Chamber in his past life. At that time, the poisoning incident happened a year from now. His actions must have sped things up.

At that time, After a very important auction, all the VIP participants begin getting sick one by one. Some even died.

Gary who was promoted after his many successful auctions were stripped of his position to appease the public anger… This incident also played a part in his expulsion from the family.

Victor decided to strike just before they released the poison, which will not give them any chances to make a comeback and would make him gain anything they buy at this auction. Now, he could only wait and watch the auction that was about to start….

He began to inspect the other balconies. He could see Troy in one of them, he wanted to kill him here, but that would be bad for Gary, and his hands are now occupied with the dark chamber conspiracy, so he decided to give this task to Alpha… Looking around once more at the other balconies Victor froze.

“WTF!” He almost stood up and revealed himself when he saw one of the occupants of a balcony near his own. That guy was the last person he expected or wanted to see here.