{AN: Made a discord server with the help of my friend, here is the link:
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We closely followed Tulia and quickly passed through a double door. The strange thing is that the moment we passed through the door we were face to face with an Illusion, said Illusion wasn't that strong. And the fact that I have [Sharingan] only made its effect on me even more pathetic.
The others were able to also shrug off some of the Illusion effects, Shuten was the first and quickly followed by Turalion. The Illusion is also probably part of the test, or something close to that.
The strange this is that the moment I looked at Tulia she had a silver mask on her. But looking at her with my [Sharingan] she wasn't exactly Tulia, it was another person entirely. She was an Altmer and had golden colored eyes, her hair was also blonde and she is a little bit taller than Tulia.
Looking around I saw that both Aahin and Elii had also disappeared, probably because they don't need to do this test as they are already part of the organization. How everyone had disappeared is anyone's guess, but I am not invincible and I do have some blindspots and some magic was probably involved.
The Almer woman spoke; "My name is Melynda, and I will be your Initiator.", she said in a flat and low tone, Altair seeing Tulia was missing decided to ask a question; "And where is Tulia? Aahin? Elii? You didn't do something to them did you.".
Melynda appears to want to troll Altair very badly, but her mask flashed blue for a second and she gave up and reassumed a serious persona; "No. I did nothing to them and they are completely safe right, and probably watching your tests too. Tulia was deemed too 'close' to the testers this time around, and some old man with more power than he deserves didn't like it, so he changed it.". Hmmm, I smell politics or bullshit of some sort in the air... How petty someone can be if they're interfering in this of these sorts?
"Now, as good as it is to complain about some people all day long. I have a test to give, and you all, a test to pass.", she took a pause for a deeper dramatic effect and continued; "The first thing I wanted to say is Congratulations. You already passed the first test.".
Altair opened his mouth probably to ask about it, but Melynda just cut him to the chase; "Before any of you asks, the first test was the Illusion. Now your second test, follow me.", she just started walking down the corridor, we followed her very carefully looking around to see if there weren't any more tests on the way like previously.
Suddenly I saw a simple trap on the ground, nothing major, just some wires to make your trip. Immediately I decided to alert my friends; "Hey, I think it is a trap evasion test.", sadly even close to each other my voice looked like it couldn't reach them.
Guess, it is everyone for themselves right now, but considering all the traps we evade on the dungeon I believe we can get through this without any major problems. Turalion almost sprung a trap, but he managed to avoid it in the last second, Shuten also had some very close calls, but it appears that her senses are pretty good. So this second test is about our perception, and senses, hmmm.
Soon we reached the end of the corridor and Melynda stopped; "Good you just passed the second test successfully.", she nodded her head while opening the door, we quickly followed her towards a small hall with multiple exits. There were doors and double doors alike, from what I could see there isn't much in this hall right now, just a simple carpet on the ground and some tapestry to decorate the walls.
"Now for your last test, you will need to steal something from any member of Silverhood. I don't care how you do it, you just need to do it in the time span of one hour.", she seems to pause for a second as if she was thinking about something a little more deeply, but decided against saying it for us.
Seeing that everyone hear her sound and clear Melynda just said in a little bit louder tone; "The test starts right about .... NOW.", to the surprise of Melynda none of us moved in the slightest, I bet everyone also noticed that she never said we can't form groups.
I looked at Turalion and asked a simple question; "Hey Turalion, do you have any object owned by your sister in hand?", Melynda eyes immediately widened as wide as saucers, she definitely knows Turalion is Tulia's brother and technically Tulia is indeed part of the Organization so nothing wrong here. Just her stupefied response to this simple question is more than enough.
Turalion smirked immediately catching on to what I am going about; "Yeah, I picked up a couple of daggers on my sister's house before coming here.", his smirk was almost contagious to Altair and Shuten who were also smirking.
"Oh my... How fortunate, simple newbies managed to steal from a [Silver Dagger]!!!", I made my best impression of surprised Pikachu face, I could clearly see Melynda left eye twitching in irritation.
Shuten also joining the fun added her own two cents, with the best impression of an Ojou-Sama she could manage she said; "Ohohoho! How fortunate, such splendid performance!!".
Altair also noted, with a clear tone of fake reverence, he somehow also added fake tears to everything; "Boss! Such a monumental task completed successfully. We definitely should celebrate.".
Turalion wen towards Melynda, that right now is twitching almost completely in confusion between howling in laugher or lashing out in anger. turalion simply put the four small daggers on Melynda's hand, marking our successful completion of the third task.
At that moment Tulia comes from one of the entrances of the minor hall, she made a fast beeline towards us opening her arms and smiling; "Congratulations people, you are now all part of the Silverhood. Welcome, little [Silver Coins].".
After that, her mood simply made a 180-degree turn, with superhuman speed she approached Turalion grabbed his right ear twisting it slightly; "And you... Next time you mess around on my things I am gonna kick your ass. Clear", Turalion not wanting to antagonize his sister right now simply nodded his head in acceptance. she let go of his ear, which now looked a bit red from the strength she was probably using.
Tulia's mood did a 180-degree turn once more, coming back to a cheerful and celebratory persona; "But I have to give it to you four. Even if I didn't like it, the idea was pretty ingenious. Next time, just don't involve my stuff on it, ok?", we all simply nodded towards her.
Melynda, who right now, got out of her super quickly approached us; "Tuli, how did I do? Did I do good?", she asked in a childish voice that was honestly surprising coming out of a grown-up Altmer. Principally when you consider that most of the Altmeri I ever heard of was pretty stuck-up in some form or the other.
Sighing in resignation Tulia simply shakes her head; "Melynda, these Are Jin, Shuten, Altair, and my brother Turalion", she introduced us while pointing at each of us as a reference; "And this is Melynda... My apprentice of sorts... You will understand it better when or if any of you becomes a [Silver Dagger]", she pointed at Melynda who was looking pretty happy with Tulia's presence, like a little sister that finally met with her adored older one.
"I didn't give these last two tests for the four of you because of some... complications... Politics *Ught*", the last part she said with a clear disgusted sound, almost as if she was vomiting.
At this moment a very arrogant and high-pitched voice entered the room; "What is this? How come the test already finished? Are you cheating Tulia?", the moment I heard that voice I knew a headache was coming. Right now I could only pray it was not some kind of arrogant young master. Please, not an arrogant young master, I don't think I can hold myself back from killing one if they are too close. It's almost an instinct.
Tulia's and Melynda face immediately darkened in irritation and anger; " What do you want Morel? they passed the third test fair and square.", Morel blatantly looked at Tulia with one of the most disgusting eyes that I have ever seen, he was doing way more than just undressing her with his eyes.
Seeing us he sneered in disdain. And for some strange reason, I felt extremely relieved he didn't do the same for Shuten, I didn't understand this emotion very well but-
Before I could continue to ponder more about my new emotion Morel simply continued; "This test was outrageous, it was unfair. A stain on the name of Silverhood. I already forbid you from conducting the test Tulia, and you send your own [Kuphunzira] to do it? Simply outrageous.", the last par he said with spitting flying off his mouth, and now I finally had a clear view of the new arrival.
Morel was a middle-aged imperial man of average stature, he walked with such a pose and such arrogance that it caused envy even in the biggest of nobles. His face was almost on a perpetual sneer, only changing when he was undressing Tulia with his eyes, saliva dripped down from his mouth in a disgusting form while he talked. His hair was greyish showing his old age, and he wore a [Silver Circlet] on his head. His physique is something I could describe as decaying athletic, someone who once took great care of it and now is neglecting it for whatever reason.
What was most surprising about him was that he was an [Advanced Master] close to becoming a [Real Master], he was pretty strong. Thankfully his magic side appears to be slightly neglected. Morel wore some kind of strange pompous clothes.
Tulia didn't wait and quickly answered him; "I did the test fair and square, and you very well know it. You were watching eh entire time you uncultured swine. I-", this time another presence made itself know, different from Morel this one demanded respect whiteout showing an ounce of arrogance. This person had an old and wise presence that I could almost compare to Helen. His presence demanded silence, and everyone shut-up almost immediately.
He was a Redguard man of roughly the same height as Altair, his body was muscled and packed, he was old, very old. His hair white, and his beard the same color, he wore the same kind of leather armor Tulia wore, he just didn't have as many daggers. He also wore the same [silver Circled] Morel did, but his' was more decorated and adorned.
But what was surprising about him was his sheer strength, he made the peak [Advanced Master] Morel look like a malnourished hobo in comparison. He is a [Real Master] and strength basically radiated from him.
"Before any of you start your usual spiel and start polluting my ears. Why don't we reach a compromise, huh?", Morel very unwisely chose this time to voice his opinion; "But why should we-".
Morel was quickly shut-up when the [Real Master] interrupted him; "You. Shut. Up. Morel. You are already on thin ice as it is, don't worsen your own situation.", Tulia wisely decided to maintain her silence, which the new arrival vastly appreciated.
"Now as I was saying. Morel thinks is unfair, and Tulia thinks it was just. So I thought it would be prudent to choose something in the middle, so why not another test? So why not use their first mission as some kind of test? It will be something of their own choice, and their success or failure will be all the confirmation we will need. After all, actions speak louder than words.", Morel wanted to protest but shut up under the old-man glare. Tulia simply nodded accepting this turn of events.
Looking at us the old man said; "Don't worry you four, you all are already part of Silverhood and I warmly welcome you all. You will just need to take your first mission a little bit more seriously? No problem, right?", we simply nodded, none of us wanting to antagonize this old man that looked extremely important right now.
The man looked at all four of us once, his gaze trailed on me for a little longer before he smiled slightly for a bit. After that, he looked at more, and with a very serious flat tone he said; "Now come with me, Morel. We have much to discuss.", Morel slightly resigned, simply followed the old man out of the hall, the last thing he did was looking angrily at all of us.