Darkness covered the area as night had come.
Three heroes jumped over top of the walls landing perfectly on top of said walls. They jumped out from the other side of the castle so that the village people will not notice them. After all, if there are witnesses things would get complicated.
"Dude, what are these… are these turrets?" Corbin pointed out to a bunch of mounted turrets on top of the walls.
"Yeah, looks like it." Shane added as he had seen them before but didn't care. He wondered why Will would ever place so many turrets on top of the walls when there were just two people living in the castle, Sandra and Will.
What they didn't know is that they weren't just ordinary turrets but sentry turrets, Will had deactivated them because of the villagers who were in range of the turrets.
Will realized that Sandra had become attached to the people outside of his walls. If he were to chase them away she would get mad, and he had already disappointed her once when he practically cut her off from his life the day Alex died.
To him, the villagers were a minor annoyance.
Jessica wanted to inspect the turrets a little more because the material they were made of appeared to be of diamonds and steel, but that wouldn't make any sense because who on their right minds would put diamonds on a turret, to make it prettier? So she just assumed it was a material that resembled diamonds.
The diamond turrets are indeed made of diamonds, Will made them because they are the strongest turrets that he could craft.
"Quietly." Shane and the others began softly walking down the stairs made of stone.
Corbin and Shane started to feel nervous. This is the first time they were breaking and entering a castle to steal, although it is the second time Shane has broken into the castle he was still as nervous considering that it has been a couple of hours since he broke into the castle.
Shane once again transformed his face and changed his voice to match Sandra's, should anything go wrong they could use her face to catch Will off guard or something, they haven't really talked about it.
"Where did you find that crown?" Jessica asked, cool as a cucumber.
They walked past the waystone ignoring it for now.
"Right in that stone building."
"You're gonna have to be more specific." Corbin asked, pointing to the other buildings made of stone.
"The biggest one."
They entered the building that only contained thrones for a king and a queen.
"I don't see anything here." Corbin asked. They searched the building but there weren't many places to hide stuff.
"I checked the other buildings before and they didn't have anything on them. Except I did not check the cave."
"Where's the cave?" They couldn't see the cave because it was night time. The kingdom was barely lit and therefore hard to see.
"I… forgot."
*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*
Without warning, three shots were fired and all bullets were aimed at the three heroes' buttocks.
"AH! WHAT HAPPENED!"
"I CAN'T SEE SHIT!"
"ARE WE GONNA DIE?!"
The heroes fell down to the ground suddenly, as they started to scream erratically, they were nervous and scared as they had no idea what was going on.
It was as if their entire bodies had lost all strength and couldn't muster any to move. That wasn't the only thing, they also were completely blind.
Will had shot them and purposefully didn't aim to kill them, shooting them in the butt seemed like the ideal place to not cause a fatal wound. Besides they're heroes, they'll heal fast, as long as the bullet is lodged inside their bodies that was all that Will cared.
If people break into your home anything is fair game at that point. In fact Will was prepared to kill a few people if they tried to break into his kingdom. He doesn't believe in prison.
Heroes, however, are a different case entirely. If Will kills one hero, not to mention three of them, the Great Sage might take action and not just the kingdom.
Everyone would rather face an Apex, mutated dragon than the wrath of the Great Sage.
Despite his old age getting to him, the Great Sage is not to be trifled with at all means.
{Curse of blindness}
{Curse of weakness}
Will had enchanted bullets that have never had been seen before in this world.
The thing about the cursed enchantments is that they cannot be mixed with normal enchantments, meaning that Will could not add his explosive enchantment on a cursed enchanted item, even his infinity enchantment wouldn't work on a cursed enchanted item unfortunately.
And also Will could only make a certain number of cursed enchanted items as they were expensive to make, not to mention much harder to make compared to regular enchantments.
Unlike the epic blue fire that enchanted items have, the cursed enchantments had a dark, and sinister aura instead of a fire glow.
"That was… embarrassingly easy. Adaline, now." Will said nonchalantly.
"WHO'S THERE?! SHOW YOURSELF!" Corbin shouted to Will.
'You broke into my home. Who do you expect to be here?' Will wanted to know what was going on in his head, but since he was scared he could understand his unreasonable thinking.
A couple of vines sprouted from nowhere and coiled themselves around the heroes. Adaline exited the kingdom through a secret tunnel that Will made just so no one could see these heroes.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!" Shane yelled as he felt something alive, like multiple snakes, coiling around his body.
"NO! NOT LIKE THIS! NO RAPE!" Corbin shrieked in horror at the thought of something terrible happening to him.
"Adaline, shut them up, please."
Adaline coiled her vines around them as if they were in a cocoon. They could neither speak nor hear clearly.
Jessica, who was a bit nervous now but still acted composed, struggled to bring out her nails to cut through the vines. But with the weakness enchantment bullet lodged in her, it wasn't possible at the moment.
"Golem, you know what to do now." Will said.
"Yes, Master." A mid tier Golem saluted Will.
A bunch of fighter Golems walked out of the cave and all were stationed around the kingdom like guard statues. They all appeared to be intimidating with their guns, large steel shields, their entire bodies made entirely out of steel.
To anybody else, they appeared to be heavy but harmless statues, and that is exactly what Will was hoping for.
This way should anybody else want to break in, Will could have more countermeasures to use against trespassers.
Will followed Adaline through the secret tunnel. Behind them were two identical fighter Golems following them as well.
When Will first saw Shane disguised as Sandra, of course he noticed that Sandra wasn't Sandra at first, but someone else entirely. Although he was a bit skeptical at first, their difference in HP numbers above them gave it away.
Sandra's HP is 212,000.
Shane's HP is 174,000.
He remembered that Sandra' HP was above 200k, and he also knew the one who pretended to be Sandra is a hero because they both had the {Hero} floating on top of their heads. It doesn't give out the individual name but the 'species' name as it seems.
Goblins have the word {Goblin} on their heads, Dragons have the word {Dragon} floating on top of their head, and so on.
Will only had his HP above him. He didn't even qualify as a {Human} according to the system.
While one's maximum HP does change it doesn't decrease by a few thousand in a few hours, unless they use some sort of magical pill that he hasn't heard of.
Second, Sandra would never steal his stuff. Will could literally cover the entire kingdom in gold or diamonds if he wanted to and it wouldn't even make a dent on the amount of gold and diamonds his golems had mined. Even if she didn't know of his insane wealth, it wouldn't make sense for her to start stealing from him now when she could ask him. And just to be safe he sent her a message and she was still in the kingdom helping out people.
Victoria did not take that into account as she has never used a communication stone, as no one wants to talk to her. The king did give her one, but she threw it away. She didn't care what the king had to say.
Third, the reason Will let Shane leave in the first place is because of a few reasons: He did not know why this hero broke into his home.
And the most important reason is because heroes never travel alone, the king always wants heroes to be accompanied by others when they leave the kingdom, the ones who accompany the heroes have to be able to aid them and therefore be strong, this mostly implies to experienced sorcerers or other heroes.
In short he needed to weed out the others who accompanied the hero, he just didn't expect it to be soon and for it to be 2 other heroes.
Victoria is a different case, she has proven to be strong, has killed hundreds of monsters by now, and nobody wants to accompany her, even sorcerers, since she scared everybody who has come in contact with her with her sadistic ways.
Had Will killed Shane on the spot, whoever accompanied the hero would have told the king that Shane has gone 'missing' on Will's kingdom, and perhaps even the Great Sage would have taken action, something Will did not want. Right now Will did not want to get into trouble with the kingdom.
At this point Will could not think of a way to avoid trouble with the kingdom. Since the hero stole his 'diamond crown' Will thought that they would be back for more, and possibly kill him or even Adaline.
If he had let them be, they would have found something eventually if they ventured inside his cave.
Even if killing a hero is justified, Will didn't believe that the king or even the Great Sage would just let it be.
This reminded him of the time when people wanted to kidnap Adaline to sell her, and had to make the difficult choice of taking another human's life. Will knew that the hero would be back, he just didn't think so soon and with other heroes.
Will could think of a few reasons why this hero infiltrated his kingdom, by orders of the king, or because he was naturally curious, or because, and this was the most highly unlikely reason, Victoria sent him here for some reason.
Will knows that Victoria will never forget the day he basically called her 'fat' in front of the entire class. He was just hoping that after so long she'd either forgotten about it or simply let it be.
"We are here, Adaline." The tunnel came to an end after walking for nearly twenty minutes.
There was an entire room, almost as big as a house, and there were a lot of gold coins, gold bars, silver and gold weapons, attires, jewelry, everything that would make a rich king even envious of such wealth. It was a sight one would only see in a movie.
Everything in the room was enchanted making it even more valuable than it is, including the gold/silver coins and bars.
The valuables were on opposite sides of the room. There was an empty path that led to another room right across the room they were in.
The total amount of valuables in this room was merely a drop in the bucket for Will.
"Adaline, Golem, if you don't want any of us to die, do not touch any of those enchanted items by any means. Always stay on the clear path." Will strongly suggested them.
"Yes, Master." The Golems responded.
Adaline, however, got scared as she understood what he meant.
Will and Adaline entered through another door that was made of steel. One Golem was stationed near the steel door, close to the enchanted loot but not enough to touch it.
The room inside was smaller than the other room with valuables. It was a jail room. There were 10 cells made entirely out of enchanted steel.
The floors, the roof, the steel bars, even the beds were made of enchanted steel, the enchantment being {Unbreaking V} and the best part it had no doors or locks to be picked on.
It had no lighting apart from the light cracks that peered through the steel door, and the enchanted cells that had their epic blue fire that barely lit up the room.
Both rooms were easily made by Will in a few hours. Will's speed in mining and building has improved a long way since he first started.
The 'disposable' heroes said nothing as their mouths were shut by Adaline's vines.
"Apparently heroes are overrated. All it took was three shots to pin three heroes down." Will was prepared for the fight of his life, but this felt more like cheesing a difficult monster in a game, which he wasn't against.
There were a few reasons it was easy for Will to take down three heroes:
1st: the element of surprise.
2nd: cursed enchantments that are way more OP than he expected
3rd: the three heroes are incompetent, it was no surprise as the majority of the new heroes are basically useless.
If it were Bruce or Shaun Quincy instead who had been among them, actual useful and strong heroes, things would have turned out rather differently.
Adaline stripped them of any items that they carried. Which was Shane's ring, and a few regular weapons that the other heroes carried.
Will then placed each hero in a different cell by teleporting inside with them. Being able to teleport, even at short distances, was convenient, he didn't even need to make doors and locks to enter.
All heroes lied down as they couldn't even muster the strength to stand.
"Gah, where-who are-where." Shane was so shocked, scared, and nervous that he couldn't form a proper sentence. It didn't help that they were still blind and feeling weak.
"Please, don't kill me, I have lots of friends, take them instead!" Corbin pleaded for his life as he cried.
Adaline handed Will a ring that Shane carried.
'Ooh, lucky me. And I just lost my ring when that dragon killed me.' Will thought.
He took out his crown, which had a rather large scratch on it as if a wild animal had scratched the gold surface with a single finger claw, still nothing he couldn't fix. And a few other items were in the ring such as food and clothes and a map.
"Who sent you here?" Will asked the three of them.
"GAH!" Corbin and Shane were scared to hear an unfamiliar voice that their body jolted.
"You idiots, it's Will."
Jessica firmly believes that Will simply did not have the guts to take a life, not to mention three heroes.
She knows how her fellow heroes, apart from a few, had taken the lives of monsters. None had taken the lives of human beings, as far as they know.
If Will was anything like the other heroes, she saw no need to worry about her life.
"Oh… right, his voice sounds familiar." Shane started to relax a bit. He thought that someone dangerous had kidnapped them.
"Will? This shit isn't funny anymore. Just let us go and take off… whatever this is." Corbin if referring to their blindness..
"I asked… who sent you?" Will asked, again.
"Dude, let us go and we'll talk this out." Shane insisted.
Will repeated his question a few more times, but they always responded with something different. Jessica on the other hand said nothing.
"I didn't want to have to do this." Will placed another cursed bullet inside his gun.
"Do what?"
*Bang*
"OWWW!" Shane curled up in pain as a bullet went through and lodged itself in his right leg.
The bullet wound on his leg healed fast, but the bullet was still stuck in his leg causing a great amount of pain.
{Curse of lying}
Suddenly the three heroes feared for their lives once again. They couldn't see, but why would Will shoot Shane all of a sudden?
The only reason they could think of is 'he's a fucking psycopath' because otherwise why would he shoot someone who was like a friend to him?
In reality Will did not know anything about them, and neither did they know anything about Will. They weren't even in the same class since their ages are different. They were practically strangers. They were just hoping that Will would let bygones be bygones since they had some sort of history.
"You, the one who I just shot," Will couldn't be bothered to learn their names. "Why are you here?"
"Victoria sent us here. Saying something about you having the ability or an item that can change the weather."
Shane let out a small gasp after finishing his sentence. Why would he say that?
Victoria told them not to mention her or else there would be hell to pay. Instead they should pin their actions on someone else like the king.
"Victoria…" Will was afraid of this.
"Goddammit, Shane. Shut up!" Corbin said loudly.
'Wait, why am I scared of her? I can respawn when I die! I have so many golems and weapons at my disposal.' Will suddenly thought.
His fear did cloud his mind, but when the realization struck he wasn't afraid of her anymore, well not that much anyways.
While everyone was playing minecraft hardcore mode, Will was playing survival mode.
"You say that but your actions say something else entirely. Why did you break into my home not once but twice, and steal my crown?"
"When I found the crown, we thought that there might be more riches so we decided to break in to steal everything you had and sell it. At that point we forgot the reason we were here."
"Shane, shut the fuck up." Jessica said.
"Interesting. And by any chance were you planning on killing me, to steal my riches?"
That was something Will wanted to know. What would have happened if by chance, when these three heroes broke into his castle, if they encountered each other?
"If it was necessary, we definitely would have."
Shane and Corbin did not have the guts to take a life, yet. Jessica on the other hand would have. She was the one who proposed the idea.
"SHANE!" Corbin and Jessica shouted.
"Guys, it's not me!" Shane said honestly, he wanted to cry.
Will went into a deep thought as the two heroes began cursing Shane for his idiocy.
'I don't know how strong they really are if I were to take out that cursed bullet lodged in their butt cheeks, so letting them go free is not an option if they were to kill me. What to do…' Will thought of all possible outcomes.
Will left the heroes in the jail room. Not before dumping out all the food on the ground right outside of their cells.
"WAIT! DON'T LEAVE!"
"DON'T LEAVE US BLINDED HERE!"
They heard Will open the metal door which made a lot of noise. Will then closed the door, their voices and screams echoed throughout the room.
"Golem, that food that I dropped in front of them, give them a portion of food every 24 hours." Will talked to the other Golem that was standing near the pile of loot.
The food from Shane's ring consisted mostly of bread and some meat.
He even took a piece of bread and meat for himself since he hasn't had any in a long time. Wheat is hard to come by for growing bread. And meat is even harder to come by since the kingdom owns all the living produce.
Camel meat is nothing compared to chicken, beef, and pork. And thanks to the scorpions, the time when they destroyed his kingdom, he hasn't been able to eat camel meat.
"But, Master, if the food is out like that it'll go rotten in a matter of days at room temperature. The meat will go bad in a matter of hours."
"I know. Trust me they'll rather eat rotten or moldy food rather than nothing. I know I would." Will thought of the time he had to eat grass for a period of time.
'Is this the right move? Keeping them imprisoned? I don't know what to do here. I don't fucking know what I am doing here!' Will thought to himself, wanting to claw his hair out.
He knows that these three heroes broke into his home to steal his stuff, an action he despised with all his heart. And they would have killed him if they had the chance, perhaps Adaline as well if they knew about her.
And what would happen if they mention his 'hidden' wealth to the king? Would they try to take it from him, all his hard work?
Not to mention Victoria seems to somehow realize he has the ability to change the weather, which is a logical way of thinking.
Will didn't think that this was the right decision, but what choice did he have? He didn't want it to be this way.
However… Honestly, he can't think of anything good about the three heroes. The only thing he feared was the Great Sage, and the kingdom if they were to go to war.
Will has never seen the Great Sage in action, and he would rather keep it that way.
'I know this is the right call, I think. But keeping prisoners... I just don't fucking know!"
"Understood, Master. What will you do now?"
"I guess I'll go home. I don't think there's much I can do here, for now."
Will walked back home as if nothing had happened. He did however build more enchanted Golems, and even added more sentry turrets just in case, it even helped him take his mind off of the prisoners.
He realized in the end it has to be this way.