At 5 am in the morning.
I came back to my room with a large bundle of documents.
Last night I tried to mimic their knocking style but failed miserably. Thankfully I was able to knock both of them unconscious using air element on chair and the strength of my fist on the other.
The boss worked tirelessly to make this bundle. Apparently that small room was a secret warehouse of important info. It was stored on papers rather than on any computers since info on paper can be easily burned but the info on hard drives can be restored even after formatting them and this information trading group was not that rich to afford a magic artifact to store their information.
I just had to sit there and put on my best mysterious and dangerous expression I could muster.
I have decided that I will make an organization consisting of 9 people aka only me.
I will name all of them on colors and their powers will be based on what I got from my familiars. For example, the character white has invisibility and air control.
This organization will be my go to chaos maker in the future.
'Hmm… I wonder how they will react when the info that, the power which makes you young, is some sort of drug.'
I deliberately said that it was a drug.
There were a couple of hours until the time of going to school so I decided to read the documents.
Since I have the stone, I can use it to turn my memory photographic. I turned page after page until I finished reading the whole thing in about 1 hour.
Then I spent the next hour processing the info.
I learnt a lot about the city from this info. Behind the scenes there is a lot of moment. The spies of the other lords and organizations, plots, people dick waving each other, illegal trading of magic weapons and even reports of city officials involved with mafia and other organizations.
I mean a city is not a city without corrupt officials.
After organizing the info in my brain I found out that there is a person who is desperately searching for person making people young.
Amada Stelart. Age 75. A master of greatsword weapon arts. She uses a large sword type magic weapon artifact which can also spew lightening out of it. It is said that she can go toe to toe with a 400-year-old elven mage with her weapon. She is the daughter of Arthur Stelart, one of the founders of this city.
She is the head of security for this city and one of the reasons that this city is able to stand on its own despite the fact that it does not have protection of any lord and all three races are living together.
However, the age has gotten better of her. She can no longer fight at her peak anymore. Recently in a failed assassination attempt, she was injured and has been trying to hide the fact from others. Unfortunately, now that fact has gotten out.
So right now she is in a tight spot.
'Hmm… I guess she is going to be my first client.'
I decided to sell my 'drug' to her.
For now, I just decided to go to school like always. I will leave her a message at night.
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Meanwhile in the police headquarters.
Thud!
"What is the meaning of this?!"
A woman slammed the desk. There was anger in her eyes.
"Police of entire city went nuts trying to find the identity of fourth lord and you are saying you knew about it all along!"
This woman was Amada Stelart. Standing in front of her was none other than the teacher who knew about Marc's identity since day one.
He is a secret agent going by the nickname 'Tiger'.
Despite Amada's shouting he stood still with an indifferent expression.
This made her even more angry.
She opened her mouth to shout again but he beat her to it.
"He asked me."
"…What."
"That's right fourth lord Marc Darius asked me to keep his identity secret so his high school life remains undisturbed."
Amada went silent.
After a while she said.
"Even if that was the case you should have told at least me."
"I didn't want to betray his trust."
"Ho! And betraying our trust is ok?"
"Chief."
Tiger looked in her eyes.
"Calm Down."
Amada stared at him for a moment and then sat down.
"I AM calm."
After a few seconds of silence Amada said.
"You kept this a secret all this while but why are you revealing it now."
"Simple. I think police is very close finding his identity. And I can't keep it hidden until I step into investigation as Tiger and not a teacher."
He paused for a second.
"Besides your desperation is calming as well."
Amada is getting old. Despite looking like 40 in age. She is near 80.
She loves this city and does not want anyone to harm it.
"A month ago when the lord awakened, you were already suffering from that injury. If I had told you, you would have taken who knows what desperate measure to get rid of this variable."
The room went silent for a while.
"I would have only transferred it to other city."
Amada said.
"Other city? There is federation who would have found out about it no matter how we conceal it. Lord territories? Everyone knows what will happen to him if we do that."
He paused.
"No matter what plan you had in mind it would have affected his life and may result in death of his sister. Are you sure this city will survive if he decides to take revenge one day."
A lord is immortal. No matter how many times you kill him he will still rise. This world has seen many wars done on whim and revenges of lords. Since a lord is immortal his revenge is also an inevitability.
"Your method will only repeat what happened to second lord."
Second lord. A 5-year-old boy who became a lord. His country killed his family and sold him to the first lord. There he spent a hundred long years of captivity and torture. One day he broke through giving a heavy blow to first lord and turning that country into a wasteland.
Looking at determined look in his eyes. Amada sighed.
"Have it your way. We will leave him alone and respect his choice. But I will still assign someone to monitor his moments."
She paused.
"Besides your worries are a bit baseless. Sure it happened in the past. But that does not mean it will happen again. Each lord is in a stalemate against two others. Even if they decide something as impossible as working together to get rid of this city to imprison the lord, they will still spend a decade to observe the situation. After all, time is only a concept for mortals."
"Tiger since this is your wish then do me a favor as well. Join the investigation team to find that age reversing person."
After all that is the only hope Amada has right now.
Tiger saluted her and left the room.