The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 228: Jade Key

It was already 11 AM when Victor reached the mansion. Hilda welcomed him at the door, eyeing Hana carefully.

“Welcome young master,” She bowed,

“Oh, no need for formalities, Where are the girls? ” Victor asked,

“Most of them are doing their arms training in the backyard, The twins are at school with Miss Monica… Today is a school day, young master,” Hilda reminded him.

“Oh… It’s already late, I am not going.” He stated, looking at the clock. There was nothing important for him at school anyway. He had some more pressing matters to attend to.

“This is?” Hilda, seeing that Victor was a little absent-minded, asked about Hana.

“OH, right… This is Hana. She will be living with us from now on.” Victor said,

“Does the young master require me to assign some tasks for her?” Hilda asked, after seeing that Hana was keeping her distance from him.

“No… Treat her as a guest. Just let her get familiar with everyone for now,” He said looking at Hana who was surprised a little, she thought he would put her to work immediately.

Victor had other plans as Hilda's question reminded him of something important.

“I plan to make Hana help me with some Alchemy. But I don’t have a good place for that. I decided to build an alchemy lab in the basement. you will be taking care of this. ” He said, He can’t simply keep making bombs and poisons in the kitchen after the girls go to sleep.

“Oh… I understand, I will begin making arrangements, does the young master have any designs in mind?” Hilda asked, she wanted to ask him to do that before, those weird stains in the kitchen were getting on her nerves. She thought they were something else at first…

“Not really, let Hana design it… I want it ready by next month.” Victor demanded unreasonably,

“Isn’t the timeline a bit tight?” Hilda asked, “Young master, the family subsidies had been cut off and the infinity account was frozen… ” She added, Kai had informed her in the morning.

“I know. Use the money from my own account, it should be enough for now… You can ask Aria to give you a loan using the company assets,” Victor winked at Margret.

He decided to give her half of the money he laundered. She will use them in the stock market and should be able to bring him some big profits very soon.

That’s why they didn’t sleep last night, as after an hour of pointless turning on the couch, he was approached by Margret who couldn’t sleep either. Together, they sat down and put down a detailed plan and a list of all the successful companies they remembered and all the incidents that would affect the markets in the near future.

Although their time travel would surely affect the markets, certain events are inevitable.

Victor also wanted Margret to be on the lookout for any anomalies, as they might lead him to the other time traveler, Claricia.

“I understand,” Hilda said, it was his money anyway. She will have to find a cheaper contractor though, and maybe use the chicks for free labor. It is time for them to do something useful other than guarding the front door. They got their dental insurance after all.

“Oh… And also make sure to build some cages! Make an especially big one… I will do the designs for that myself,” He said,

“In the basement? Don’t you have some cells at the other base?” She asked with a weird look.

“I need some close by.” He said

“For what?” Hilda had to ask, just to make sure he wasn’t developing some kind of deprived hobby. She heard of others in the family going that way and never returning.

“For experiment monsters of course… I might use them to house my enemies too.” He pondered, “Just make them sturdy enough to withstand an elephant.” He said, not saying the whole truth. He can’t simply tell her that he will be summoning an SS class demon to keep as a pet.

Hilda nodded and sighed, she had no idea what he had in mind, but at least it was not what she thought about.

“If there is nothing of importance I will be in the study,” Victor said finally,

“Young master… There was that news report… Your name was on it. Butler George had called, informing me to tell you that you should stay out of trouble for the next few days until the family cleaned this mess up.” She said

“Oh… Kai already told me,” He said turning around, the report on him had nothing to do with the player stuff, it was just an example of using the family's influence to get rid of the police after killing Nick. Jane was probably holding a grudge against him because the chicks locked her up. But in the end, he had nothing to worry about.

“One more thing! Young Mistress Lara had been in a fight in school.” Hilda interjected, making him stop and look back at her.

“Oh… Was it El?” He asked, Lara was very docile, and she would never fight back.

“Yes, someone insulted Miss Lara, so El hit them and broke their front teeth. Miss Lara took the blame for her.” Hilda said, “The principal said that he had appeased the parents, but he wanted us to punish Lara and El a little.”

“Oh… Just double Lara’s exercises for the next three days and Let El do them with her.” Victor said This was just a symbolic punishment so that Lara doesn’t get cocky. “Find out who insulted Lara and threaten their parents a little, and re-educate them about their position in the food chain. ” Victor added,

“I will send Alex to do that,” Hilda said, “He had been idling around the mansion lately, doing nothing useful.”

“No… Send one of the chicks. I will be taking Alex with me to Newlure city tomorrow. Where is sh.. he by the way?” Victor asked, Alex, having nothing to do was not good, he must make her suffer a little bit.

“He is training his spear arts in the clearing next to the gym… The girls didn’t want him to exercise next to them.” Hilda said, “They have been a little wary about him ever since he tied Miss Margret up and locked her in his room.” He added,

“Oh, he earned that… Let him come see me after taking a shower.” Victor said shaking his head,

“I understand, “ Hilda nodded,

“Theta, Show Hana around the mansion!” Victor said to Theta as he turned around and headed to the study.

Theta nodded, then dragged Hana who was still disturbed about Sebastian upstairs.

She had learned that Hana was Alpha’s cousin when she slept with them last night. So her attitude toward her was way better than before. She was family after all!

“Miss Margret, Are you going to school now?” Hilda asked Margret, who was squinting at Victor’s back.

Despite not letting it show, Hilda didn’t like Margret at all. She had a feeling that she was taking advantage of Victor as she had seen a lot of these girls before. And she felt that she was having a very bad influence on the girls! Especially the twins whom she caught doing kissing training with each other initiating her flirting lines!

She had read the family report on Margret’s past, and she also showed it to Elena who shared his opinion.

Although they felt sorry for her circumstances, both of them didn’t like her. They knew well that at the end of the day, the apple would never fall far from the tree.

It was ok if Victor was using her as his plaything, but lately, It could be seen that he was giving her more and more responsibilities.

“Nope! I am going to take a shower then go to sleep… Last night Victor was really rough!” Margret said, making Hilda totally forget the next sentence she wanted to say.

Margret smirked as she walked up to her room. She had more important things to do… As for Hilda’s disapproving gaze, she felt indifferent. She was not a naive little girl anymore.

As long as Victor considered her his woman, she would consider him her man. That’s all she cared about.

…

Victor sat at his desk in the study, popping an energy pill into his mouth. He took a quick nap on the plane but it was far from enough. He was a little sleepy but he had things to do.

Yesterday’s surprises were a lot, from Alpha’s to Poe’s attack and Margret’s secret. It was an eventful night.

First things first, he needed to arrange his spoilers!

First of all, the junk.

He took out a storage ring that belonged once to the flying myth sect elder.

Inside of it were some spoils from the auction… and three other rings, probably stolen.

Inside those, there were other low-grade treasures and some Gems. He should probably sell those for some cash later.

Sadly nothing really caught his eye as he emptied the ring, so he just sorted them out and then stored them in his ring.

After that he took out Sebastian’s and Evan’s rings… those are the real treasures

Sebastian’s ring was already searched in the forest but at that time he was looking for manuals, not treasures, so he didn’t look carefully enough.

Victor activated an isolation Talisman just in case before opening the ring and dumping its content on the desk.

After a deep frown, Victor sorted out the garbage like the food, clothes, and underwear keeping the good stuff!

Rare pills, rare Talismans, and rare Artifacts!

In addition to that, Sebastian had a bag full of medicinal herbs and random forging materials. Victor also found some random fake IDs and a hand-drawn portrait of Vivi which made him chuckle.

That’s a lot! Victor was especially pleased with the Elixir which would completely remove any system effects.

And he got the Arachne Slayer spear back! Yay…

Wait… Wasn’t it an S rank before? Did Sebastian upgrade it?

Victor carefully inspected it. No, it was repaired. When he found it in the dungeon it had some cracks that were now removed. Sebastian must have fixed them at his Sect. This must have cost him a fortune.

Victor laughed as he looked at the final Item then froze… Then a smile slowly appeared filling his entire face.

This was a treasure! Victor didn’t know if Sebastian knew what this was, but Victor did. This thing was related to something that was still too far in the future. It should appear in a few years. The SKELETAL Gates.

Those are gates to a ruin! The Jade skeleton ruin.

Ruins are different from dungeons. They are otherworldly places where people can come in and out freely depending on the ruin's conditions. Even none-players. if they can keep their lives. As this would not cause an awakening.

The world doesn’t usually block Ruins as either they don’t have any living thing, or the ruin itself exists outside the world with only its gate inside.

Ruins could be decided into two Categories, stable and temporary.

The stable ones are the ones that have stable entrances, like conquered dungeons that can be considered as a kind of ruins, but those are dead ones that had no entry conditions.

Living Ruins are placed like otherworldly burial sites and test grounds. They tend to be heavily guarded by their families and major powers. Even the Von Weise family had one. The reason they kept to their island was the deep underground ruins under it.

The real reason that hateful guy destroyed them was to get that ruin.

The second type is temporary Ruins, those with gates that open once every specific time.

The SKELETAL JADE KEY was the only requirement to enter SKELETAL RUINS. A temporary ruin that opened once every 777 years. In Victor's past life, many treasures that changed the order of the world were found inside there.

At that time Victor didn’t get a chance to enter. As only the top echelons of the family got that chance… Only those with keys.

This time he plans to collect enough keys to take his harem with him. Sadly, since this one was here it meant that the rest of the keys had also appeared, and most of them should be at the moment in the hands of the player’s council.

The keys usually appear scattered randomly around the world and a long time ago this caused a huge battle, so an agreement was reached. Any key collected would be put into one pile and redistributed across the family in a tournament. This time the tournament would happen  next year.

Victor didn’t plan to participate as he knew the place of a few keys that the families didn’t reach and he planned to send Alpha after those once she got her secret organization in order. He quickly put the Key away before redistributing Sebastian’s things between his rings. Some would be kept, and some would be sold.

He stopped at one thing. A black stone. This must be the one Alex told him about. The one Sebastian used against him.

Now it was empty with no evil souls in it. The system told him nothing about it. But Victor knew that it was not made from an earthly material. He just decided to keep it. Maybe he would be able to use it later.