The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 272: Mission

It was a couple of hours before dawn when Victor finally reached his mansion. That bastard Tom sure knew how to run, but the Nutcracker caught with him eventually. No one could escape from his clutches.

Victor casually greeted the two chicks dressed in suits who were guarding the front gate then walked in.

He noticed that there were quite a few cement bags here and there in the front yard, proof of recent construction works. It seemed like Hilda had already started renovating the basement.

Entering the mansion, Victor was immediately assaulted by Lily who was of course the only one waiting for him. She hugged him hard.

“Did the girls sleep?” Victor asked after he dragged his body and hers which were now glued onto him to the study. He just threw himself on the leather chair and relaxed. He was utterly exhausted.

“Um… They were tired after all the stuff that happened in the dungeon and the interrogation yesterday. Hilda wanted to wait for you, but I told her to go get some sleep,” Lily said as she adjusted herself on his lap as if this was the most natural thing to do. She put her head on his chest, relaxing to the sound of his heartbeats. She was feeling very frustrated because she wasn't of any help in the dungeon. That vixen Lin was more helpful than her. Even that idiot Alex played a role!

Victor sighed as he watched her attributes. She gained a lot in this dungeon as part of the team who took out the boss. She even got a magical affinity!

Unfortunately, Although both Victor and Zoe were holding the sword that delivered the final strike, the system had given most of the exp points were grabbed by Zoe, she was now at level 110! Her authority had even risen to 13. The family would surely be having a festival at the moment. That’s if Falcon allowed her to tell the truth. 

Victor only managed to raise a handful of levels, while Lin and Lily got to raise by 30 or so… This was to be expected though. The Scion always got the largest piece of the pie. even that stupid Tom got to level up by 20 levels. That’s how the world worked. It was totally unfair!

“Is there anything wrong, young master?” Lily suddenly said, startling him.

“Oh… Why are you saying that?” he asked, raising his eyebrow.

“Your heart is telling me…” she said, “It usually beats smoothly when I am near you, but today it sounds troubled… “ she said, making Victor sigh, this girl was getting more and more sensitive as her level grew and her blood awakened!

“Don’t worry about it, it is just that everything happening recently is very troubling…” he said but didn’t elaborate. For the last two months, he was running around without rest. Now he had a shit load of problems that he had yet to decide how to solve.

The first one was Nova. That girl was a time bomb, he knew that. If he gave her to Tom, she would definitely end up dead one way or another. Destiny does not lie! Victor was conflicted about whether to just send her to her death or use her.

Tom, who was psychologically scarred after he met with the nutcracker, was at the moment busy getting ‘healed’ by his teacher. In the morning he would surely hear about the wedding though, and would surely begin to cause problems. That was another dilemma that Victor needed to fix.

After that, there was trouble with Alex. Victor was initially thinking of finding a way to clear the fate that caused her to be a dark scion. But there was no fate like that. The world was after her because she was a princess from a very strong alien race. This painted a huge target mark on her sorry butt!

There was also a myriad of troubles ranging from the dark chamber to the fate sect… There was also that Caspian of the heavenly sect who would definitely appear at the wedding.

Victor didn’t think that just changing his destiny a little, had caused all sorts of echoes.

The biggest trouble of all was Lily!

She would have to leave him sooner or later, he knew that. He could try hiding her, but that would not be good for her. She needed to be baptized in her family. But after that, he was wondering how to take her back… her family would surely value her a lot, but she would also have to face a lot of enemies from within. With the purity of her bloodline, she would be a candidate to hold a very prestigious position in the Von Krone family, and some parties would not like that at all. He knew that well after living in the shadow of the royal family in his past life.

No matter what, she was destined to rule the world…. 

No wonder that scions kept popping like mushrooms. It had nothing to do with him, it was just that their fates were dragging them to worship their ultimate mistress!

Being with Lily had proved to be a very dangerous position. Far more dangerous than Alex and Nova.

Victor frowned, wondering what he should do. If only he could manage to be like Caspian with his deep background, Von Krone would surely welcome him as a son-in-law, though reluctantly…. Wait! He smiled in a very evil way. What if he did that? It would be dangerous. Very dangerous. But with his current skills, it was possible. He would be able to move many elements. He might need to collect a few things though. He might get a chance at the wedding…. He he he. He might even be able to solve Nova’s problem once and for all!

A new very evil plan sprouted in Victor’s mind.

“Young master…. What are you thinking about?” Lily asked as she saw the wretched smile on his face.

“Nothing… Just thinking about our wedding night…” he lied, making her blush heavily as she buried her face in his chest.

“Pervert young master….” she mumbled as she hugged him harder, making him slowly pat her head and kiss her forehead.

A phone rang, breaking the romantic atmosphere. It was Theodore, Victor’s father. Victor gave Lily a troubled look and then answered.

“Father! I am ……”

“Shut up you piece of sh*t! Do you know how much mess I went through to clean that stinky ass of yours! If you want to satisfy your fetches, do it privately next time!” Theodore scolded. He had just finished cleaning the brothel scandal.

“Ahhh sorry….” Victor was really awkward. He couldn’t tell his father about Alex, as that would raise more questions.

“No, you are not!... Anyway…Don’t worry about it. We used AI to replace all the videos online with similar ones but featuring another guy. The world now thinks that you were misidentified… Be careful next time!” Theodore sighed. This coverup had cost him a lot of money and favors. It also cost the 20 journalists, who refused to cooperate, their jobs. They were now at the bottom of the ocean having intimate conversations with the sharks.

“Oh… Ok….” Victor already knew that his father would clean his ass. In his previous life, there was a similar accident with his half-brother John. But it involved h***ses instead of grannies.

“I managed to fool your mother this time, so don’t tell her anything! The poor lass almost had a heart attack! “

“Um… Tell her I said hi…” 

“I will… Now, how was your dungeon raid?”

“Didn’t you already read the report?”

“No… Falcon had seemingly killed the inquisitor who questioned you and then grabbed all the reports… Although he denied it, we know that he did that to protect Zoe’s secret…. What a good man!”

“Would he be alright?” Victor asked with a troubled look. It was he who stole the reports. He had already sent them to Alpha to go through them and search for any interesting things.

“He will be questioned later, but as long as there is no evidence, no one can pin anything on him… Now, about the dungeon…. Are you ok?”

“Yes, perfectly fine…. One of my maids lost a hand, but that’s it….”

“That's a very good result for an S dungeon, you guys were lucky Zoe was there… Did you level up?”

“Yes, I am now at 33!”

“I see…. WHAT! Sh*t! Even you? Zoe is already at 45!” Theodore was shocked. He was currently at level 57, but when he was Victor’s age he was only at level 14 or 15… He was not sad though, he was extra glad. Victor had proved to be as good as Mike who was at level 40 the last time he checked, and Alice was at level 37. He was suspecting that this had something to do with Elina as his sons from his other wives were still at level 20! Maybe he should try to get another child with her….

“Yeah, I got lucky!” Victor, who didn’t know what his perverted father was thinking, replied.

“Lucky my ass! You just rubbed some of Zoe’s luck. Did you get any good loot?”

“Yes…”

“Good, keep it a secret!” Theodore said, “Unfortunately, the von Zwei had put their hands on the dungeon. Seemingly they owned the land around it, but didn’t know it!” he said with a sigh.

“I see…” Victor squinted his eyes, this definitely had something to do with that necromancer, Gustave. 

“Now, according to the regulation, I will need you to come to the family island for an assessment to mark your progress. But you can do that after the wedding…. Maybe at your grandmother’s wedding… ”

“Wasn’t it canceled?” Victor asked.

“We will be doing a small gathering… nothing major. The elders can’t stop this…”

“I understand, I will be there. Anything else?”

“Yes… As you might know, your cousin Titus used to be the manager of Vein city. That position has been transferred to you after his incident. The procedure with the council had been finalized three days ago. So you need to do missions for the council and the family as the manager of Vein city from now on!”

“Oh right… I almost forgot about that… '' Victor frowned, this was a little troublesome.

“Good, most of those things are random and can be delegated to your men… I sent Kai the details, just call him and ask…”

“I will…”

“Now… there was something else…. I already prepared the wedding venue in the white grand hotel. This is an important family so it would be managed by the family. Just make sure to pass by and check if things are to your liking.”

“I understand….” Victor nodded and then said goodbye to his father before ending the call.

“Is everything ok, young master?” Lily asked.

“More trouble…” he said as he called Kai who took a while to answer.

“Young master….” Kai yawned. He was asleep.

“Are there any missions for me?” Victor asked directly.

“Ah yes… There were three… two of them were just routine checks, which have already been fixed remotely by me. The last one is a little troublesome. It comes from the council... I will send it to you directly…” Kai said.

“Ok… Good... anything else?”

“No…”

Victor hung out directly and then looked at the message Kai sent.

Victor frowned as he showed the message to Lily.

“Let me do it…” she said. She wanted to prove herself.

“No… I will do this myself…” he said... Lily was not suitable for such missions.

The players' council usually left the mission to uphold the rules and the ‘status of secrecy’ to the managing players in the areas where they don’t have a local office. So there was nothing strange about this request.

When players got discovered, the council usually would send someone to register them and explain the rules to them. After that, if they were deemed powerful, they would usually offer them a chance to join one of the powers. They can’t force them though, this was one of the rules of the council.

In fact, this was how many family heirs built their focus. They found those loose awakened players and then offered them a lot of benefits, 'employing' them into their own teams… The same way Victor 'employed' Margret initially.

The only exception to this was when newly awakened players commit crimes using their powers or undermining the "Status Of Secrecy" that the Council supervised. In that case, they would lose their freedom, and he would only have two choices, to join one of the families or get wiped out! This case was a good example of such circumstances.

Victor had never heard about this in his previous life, as he was just a random pawn at this period of time. But the words ‘electrical energy’ reminded him of a certain incident that would happen about 4 months from now. It was a massive blackout during a thunderstorm. Back then he remembered accidentally meeting his father who was in town. Theodore was injured back then, but he said nothing when Victor asked him about it. Could it have something to do with this?

No matter what, he planned to see to this in a couple of days when he went to check on the wedding venue. He was too lazy for this now.

Today he just wanted to relax and check his loot!