Inside the mysterious space.
Mark was still formulating his plan by glazing over the map, yet the entry of few unexpected guests had startled him.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Few figures flashed inside the space which alerted the senses of him and made him stop with his work thereafter!
" One, two, three... many familiar faces are entering this damn space! "
Wendy popped inside the space with few familiar faces besides her.
She then gently landed before Mark and made an accomplished smile, which was that of asking him to praise her before them.
" Boss!~ Wendy has chased the trouble makers away! "
Looking at her smile which appeared mocking enough, Mark was angered, yet the circumstances were dire that he didn't push the matter further, to beat her down at this moment!
Mark was able to recognize those new faces. Rover and his bunch of buddies, Margaret and her pair of assistant, Rey and her associate Daniel with their household subordinates, who had some history with him!
The former were the very bunch of people whom he had rescued before, while the latter were to one's who were his household servants!
Looking at their excited faces, who probably felt mystical everywhere, Mark was able to guess their emotions as he also experienced it beforehand.
Before mark could question her intentions, Wendy broke her smiled and started explaining the details of her work.
" Cultivators of Warlord palace had fled away, while few were stubborn enough to make me break their legs and store them within my inner space! "
Mark felt cold shiver to his spine by her nonchalant exclamation, yet the ability to store living within her inner realm had startled him.
Pointing at the ones around her, she continued.
" These bunch had no where to go, so I could only bring them to boss, to make them your servant in their own accord! "
Mark was startled by their decision, yet he couldn't help but want to reject them as they were literally dead weight to him.
" But... We aren't running a nursery to raise them... You should that we ourselves are pressed hard with matters! "
Mark wanted to refuse these bunch at first, yet their pleads had made him hesitant...
" Young master, we request you accept us... we really have nowhere else to go! "
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" All our friends and colleagues had been killed, leaving behind us as orphans who had no support to thrive! "
" We know that we're weak but we would be glad if young master look interest in us! "
Margaret took the lead at this moment and started explaining her concerns.
" Young master though western warlords palace is nothing but an insignificant ant before your great household, we the survivors would be held account for the slaughter which took an this place! "
" A slaughter of million is not a simple matter which the noble king of this vassal state could bear! "
" To remain in good books of the mighty ruling empire, and prevent an black mark in his reign, us seven would be left to take blame, which could be used to stabilize the populace! "
" So all in all we will be left to be sacrificed, if found without any great support! "
The Milton executives then stepped forward, before kneeling under his presence to exclaim their sorrows.
" Young master, we of the seventeenth lineage didn't have a male heir! "
" If young master isn't going to acknowledge our lineage, then... that would be the end of us! "
" All bloodline males would lose their status, without any hope to make a set back while all bloodline females of seventeenth lineage without discrimination would be banished to temple, so as to make their bloodline from being stolen by rivals! "
" Young master... your older sister pair are also included in that list, if it wasn't for lady Margaret to inform about your existence... our branch would have faced extinction by pressing rival branches! "
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One after the other their worries had made him feel pity, and a sense of responsibility was shadowed over his shoulders when Milton executives had cried out their worries!
" Boss!~ Why don't we... "
Wendy wanted to explain more, yet Mark cut her words in the middle and asked to hand over the orange crystal to tamper it.
" Wendy! Let me borrow that orb for a second! "
Catching the orange orb in his hand, Mark took a strange square shaped rune from his pocket and inscribed it over it's surface!
Whoosh!
Several inscriptions stated popping out and the crystal floated above his palm which eventually started rotating around with a brilliant illuminance!
" Hope that Aina wouldn't disappoint me! "
Mark murmured internally and looked at the shining orb with anticipation.
" Boss! "
" Young master! "
The ones around Mark felt like panicking and even Wendy was startled as the waves released out the crystals were pushing her back!
She covered her face with an arm and narrowed her eyes to get a clear vision.
" Beautiful! "
This was the word popped over her mind when she looked at the shining orb in marks grasp.
Whoosh!
Just like how these chains of inscription popped out, they re-entered back into the same orb, but this time a small white inscriptions was seen over the orb's surface, which had the insignia of white ring.
The bright illumination in space was short lived which later was followed by absolute silence.
" Sigh! Almost all my assets were drained for it! Aina... She made me bleed my pockets, damn her? Can I even pay off my debt by completing the mission? "
Looking at him being depressed, Wendy asked him out in panicking.
Mark explained his plan to her and prepared to use this inscription to for teleportation!
Yes, the tampering which Mark attempted on the orb was to make them teleport to dynamic locations of moving bases on map!
Earlier, when Mark was left alone in the space, Aina answered his questions after a long pause and gave him a suggestion.
She asked him to get a "map teleporter rune" from store! To make his quest simpler!
Though his slayer points weren't less, they were far from enough to make that purchase.
Being attempting this imp mission, he was privileged to take loans, yet he didn't imagine that his debt might stake to a sky high price of billions, with interest rate of 40 percentage quarterly!
Nevertheless the world was also a hunting grounds for SP, so he needs to kill targets to complete the mission while clearing off his debt while being at it!
Since fighting the whole of half mutant group was out his current capabilities, he formulated the plan to fight one base at a time, to gain surplus number of undead, and fight a decisive battles against the enemy when he was confident enough for frontal attack.
Though the teleportation was going to cost him ten of thousands for a single use, Mark didn't frown much as it was adding a small drop to his huge debt!
Now that his plan for teleportation was set, Mark want to deal with the others who has come begging for him to take them under his mantle.
Since their resolves appeared worthy enough to spare them some time, Mark decided to check weather they were truly resolved or were just empty sheets which could be wavered.
" Look... it's not that I am reluctant to undertake you, but it's just that you'll die more faster by following me! "
Mark exclaimed his words openly as there was no use in hiding things from them.
" Wendy... "
He looked at Wendy and asked weather they know the significance of the enemy they were dealing with.
" Boss... "
Looking at her staggering self, Mark clearly got his answer, yet he decided to let them make their final decisions, when certain things were left disclosed to make clear decisions!
" Just explain about the bases we are dealing with, if they still persist... I can make a decision! "
Wendy gave a humble nod before turning to those bunch to state matters.
" It's... Let me start from the beginning... "
Wendy took a couple minutes to simply exclaim the core matters as to what bases were, who were operating them and as to why they are to be eliminated and were enemies of Mark!
Each and every word of her was shocking to them. They were startled to listen matters which they were completely left unknown to begin with.
As if the world they were living in was extremely strange, the existence of half mutant had struck them motionless.
If a single base had made their young master experience near death, what matters could thousands of bases account to?
For the sake of pleasing Mark, Wendy decided to over exaggerate the matters, to make these bunch take an irrational decision if their will was a wavering!
By the end of these couple minutes these bunch stood frightened, with near shuddering bodies which disclose their state.
" Young master! It's too dangerous... I am... forgive me for not being loyal! "
Young master! My only mother would become orphan if I die... please excuse me for getting out my formal proposal! "
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One after the other, many executives chickened out, just a single half mutant was enough to make them piss they pants, let alone the great numbers of them which were yet unknown in numbers.
Sigh!
Mark made a knowing smirk when these people were chickening out, he couldn't help but laugh at them as his household executives were the bunch that were scared enough to make an quit!
Other than Rey, Daniel and four loyal ones, more than a dozen executives had lost their initial loyal faces and became fear striken.
Margaret and Rover were still firm with their earlier reasoning and so were the bunch who owe their lives to Mark!
Looking at their feeble resolves which broke easily as such, Mark decided to make them leave the space, but not before they took a blood vow "to never divulge the matters which took at this mysterious space!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
One minute later.
Thirteen unwavering ones were now left before him, who were willing to serve for him!
" Good! Good! Since you decided to serve under me, show me your current powers! "
Mark gave a friendly smile before trying to experiment his hypothesis on them!
" Circulate your mana... Fast! Don't make me waste enough time! "
Unknown, the reason as to why their young master made them command as such, the thirteen of them circulated their mana and regardless of their cultivation, Mark examined their bodies thoroughly to confirm his guesses.
Few seconds later.
" Enough! You can stop! "
Mark chuckled and bit and reasoned
" As expected, it's not that they bodies are at defect, it's just that they didn't have any proper set of cultivation techniques to master mana!"
" Well... I want to say several things currently, but we are pressed on time so practice this technique well, and we'll return back fast to clear your doubts! "
Mark imparted an ordinary cultivation technique to Rover, which startled the latter.
The sooner Rover got imparted with this technique, he sat cross legged over the floor and started circulating his energies according to his master's technique.
After finalising the matters at here, Mark targeted a remote green rank base from the approaching group, mainly to access their strength in numbers!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Along with Wendy, Mark made an assault team of two, to fight against weak green rank base and understand enemies strength.
Before departing from the space, Mark ordered Rover to first master this technique before sharing it with others to confirm his theory for real.
10 minutes later.
After the pair of Mark and Wendy left the space, the rest had surrounded Rover and started glaring at his body with an astounding face, as if what occurring to Rover was a miracle.
" He... He... he entered aura mastery path in mere minutes! "
Rey was dumbfounded as aura users were not common and setting the path in aura mastery to control mana was not achievable in mere minutes!
For some it might take days and to others their whole lives might be spent in stepping into it!
But considering the truth that Rover had entered aura mastery in minutes and still was going to achieve breakthrough, the matter was not believable unless they examined it with their very own eyes.
With anticipated eyes, Daniel glared greedily over the body of Rover and remembered that his young master has privileged them to learn the method from Rover once he mastered.
Even if he were to start cultivating aura from the very beginning, he wouldn't hesitate as the results shown before him were far enough to convince him to restart his cultivation again!
" Damn! Doesn't that mean, brother Rover is now an elite! An elite of aura cultivation! "
" And this rate... He might achieve a breakthrough soon! Wouldn't that make him an aura grand master by then? "
The bunch were speechless and couldn't help but wait for rover to finish with his cultivation and teach them with that method.
Author's notes:
Mark gained about a set of thirteen new followers, which was unexpected. Yet he managed to discover a matter which might help him greatly if proven correct.
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