"Here you go," Anon said as he tossed the small seal with a dove bird on it towards the butler.
The butler immediately grabbed the seal and looked at it for a brief moment.
"Okay, guards, you can go now," the butler ordered.
The guards immediately bowed down to Anon and left the premises at once.
"I, the head butler of this castle, greet Sir Anon. Please come in," the butler said as he also bowed down to Anon.
"That's some serious security you have here... huh?" Anon asked with a smile as he also felt reassured that this was all just a verification process.
"I am sorry, sir, but it was an important verification. We received news that the clones are working for the dark forces in the shadows. So, we had to be sure that it's you and not a clone," the butler replied with a smile as he continued moving inside the castle.
"Hmm... How can you be so sure that I am not a clone?" Anon asked with a smile.
"The expression on your face when you entered the house didn't flinch even a bit. If you have the courage to stand before my aura and not even care about it, then it means you are a very strong person. And if you are a strong person, then that means no one can easily make a clone of you. Is that reply to your satisfaction, Sir Anon?" the butler asked.
"That's nonsense. How did you really find out about me?" Anon said without hesitation.
"Yeah... that is indeed nonsense. Here, I found you with this," the butler said as he showed Anon a silver locket that he was wearing around his neck.
Anon immediately used his skill to find out more information about the locket.
[Locket of Triumph]
[Created By: Unknown Blacksmith]
[Skill Attached: Illusion Cutter.]
[With this skill, the user can easily see through any illusions. The user also becomes immune to any other mental conditions.]
"That's one damn good locket you've got there, mate," Anon said as he stared at the locket carefully.
'Can this locket really block any of my attacks?' Anon wondered as an evil plan came to his mind.
'Let's see what this locket of yours can do,' Anon thought as an evil smile appeared on his face, and he used a skill on the butler.
Suddenly, a black smoke covered the butler's face, but it immediately retreated because of the locket, and a message popped up in front of Anon.
[Your skill [Illusion] has been nullified.]
'Wow... That's one damn good locket. If someone has that thing, it means I can't do anything to him,' Anon thought to himself.I think you should take a look at
"Didn't work, did it?" the butler asked Anon.
"Hmm..? So, you knew that I was casting a spell on you," Anon spoke.
"Yes, sir. This locket tells me everything," the butler spoke.
"How many of them exist?" Anon asked.
This question surprised the butler. Everyone who knew about this locket either asked him 'Where did he get it from?' or 'Can it stop physical attacks too?' But Anon asked something different.
"Hmm... that's a good question you asked, Sir Anon. I received this locket from my granddaughter. When we were shopping in the main capital, she purchased this locket from a stall. On that stall, 14 more lockets were being sold. So, I think about 15 of these lockets are inside our continent right now," the butler answered.
"Can you tell me the position of that stall, where he sells this type of lockets? I think I will buy one of them," Anon spoke.
"Ah, why not? But if you're so interested in this locket, why don't I tell you a story until we reach our destination?" the butler asked.
"Yeah, why not," Anon spoke.
'I am feeling danger for the first time in my life. This guy is immune to most of my abilities, and I can't corrupt his mind either. If he knows that the only thing stopping me from controlling his mind is that locket, he will definitely use that to his benefit. His martial arts are not lacking in any aspect. I think I will easily be defeated by him if fought hand to hand. I don't know about his weapon combat, though. Can he be—'
"So, once upon a time during the great war of demons and the other races... The Demon King's right-hand, The Counselor, was the reason why this locket came into effect.
He controlled humans and bewitched the minds of elves into fighting for him.
But when the elves started losing their members, they joined hands with the human church and made these lockets.
They protected our and their soldiers from being mind-controlled by the Counselor. We fought, but suddenly the production of the lockets started reducing day by day.
That's when we found out that the elves had to donate their hearts and the humans had to donate their brains to make one batch of these lockets.
When the public from both sides started questioning their leaders, the church was pressured to stop making them. But in reality, they started kidnapping the elves and forcibly making these lockets.
After a very big loss against the demon army, the church stopped making them, and only a few were left. But they didn't come in the antiques because after some time, they were declared unholy by the church itself.
But some believe that he will return someday, and we will need these lockets... That's why some houses pass these lockets down through their generations even today," the butler finished talking.
"So, what do you think? Will the Counselor ever return?" Anon asked.
"Yeah, I believe so. Sir Anon, demons never die. They just change bodies and continue to do their filthy tasks in this world," the butler answered.
"Well, that's true," Anon agreed.
'Well, guess what, old man. The demon is back, but this time he is here to fuck some bitches.' Anon thought as a smile appeared all over his face.
"We are here, Sir Anon." The butler said as he halted his steps in front of a big metallic gate.
The butler opened the gate, and both of them entered inside the room.
It was dark inside the room; the butler immediately summoned a lamp and lit it up.
The lamp shined so brightly that the whole room got illuminated.
There was a table in the middle of the room with different items placed on it.
As Anon was looking at the table, he immediately noticed a guy sitting across the table, tied up, blindfolded, and his mouth also blocked with a cloth.
He was a male Elf, aged around 16 or 17, with blonde hair, fair skin, and long pointy ears.
"I will take my leave now, Sir Anon. You can take a look at your items. Thank you," the butler said as he left the room and closed the doors.
"Oh, Okay," Anon replied as he saw the butler leave.
Anon first looked at the items on the table.
There were four items on that table:
1.Some ingredients packed in a white cloth.
2. A crystal ball with an untraceable mana string.
3. A thin notebook with some words written on its cover.
4. Some elven clothes and an academy uniform from the Elven Kingdom.
Anon requested five things from Derein; four of them were on the table, and the last one was a live male elf.
Picking up the notebook from the table, Anon used telekinesis and called a chair towards him.
The chair immediately flew upto anon.
He sat down in front of the tied-up elf and spoke, "Hello, Mr. Elf."
"Let's see... So your name is Mr. Jules," Anon said as he read the words written on the notebook's cover.
"Oh, sorry... You can't look at me or see me, huh? Let me help you," Anon said as he removed the elf guy's blindfold first.
His blue eyes glowed as he looked towards Anon but soon closed his eyes when the light from the lamp entered his eyes.
"Let me get that cloth from your mouth too," Anon said as he removed the cloth from his mouth.
"On the name of the forest spirit—" The elf immediately started chanting a spell.
"Shut up, you are sitting inside a Null Area," Anon said as he pointed towards the circle that was made around his chair.
"What do you want? Am I a slave now? Will you rape me now? Who sold me? Those jerks, right?" The elf asked so many questions.
"Now I get it. Why they sealed your mouth even though you are sitting inside a Null Area," Anon spoke as he started reading the book in his hands, which was about the elf guy.I think you should take a look at
"Hmm... Jules, you are 37 years old, huh? You look very young though. You have one mother—damn, she looks sexy. One father and one sister. You live in the dorms of Forest Guardian Academy, away from your family.
Your father has a debt of a total of 30 golds, and most of it goes to your studies, so that you can study without any difficulties. But you were getting bullied by some stupid-ass dark elves—five of them, to be exact. They beat you, snatched your money away that your father sent every year as your academic fund, and now the teachers are forcing you to deposit your pending fees on this upcoming month's first day, which is due for the last three years, or they will kick you out of the academy and send a letter of suspension to your parents.
You had no money, so you thought the best way to get free from all this is to commit suicide, right?
But you couldn't do that either, because when you jumped off the mountain's peak, you didn't die. You just sustained some minor injuries and one major injury, which has been fully treated by a healer," Anon said as he closed the notebook and burned it.
"What the hell do you want with my life, Mister?" Jules asked with a dead expression.
"Nah, you just look pathetic to me. Committing suicide? Really? And only for some money, that is," Anon spoke as he smirked a bit.
"Just some money?" Jules murmured in a low tone.
"What?" Anon asked.
"You think that's 'some money'? My father took that huge loan so that he can make me the strongest magician of the Kingdom, and you say it's 'some money'? It's everything my father had," the elf started crying.
"Stop doing that drama, bitch. Here," Anon said as he summoned a platinum coin in his hand and destroyed it by applying pressure with his fingers.
"Y-You, what have you done? Do you know how much money you just wasted?" Jules shouted.
"Yeah, I know, and guess what? Here," Anon said as he summoned another platinum coin and destroyed it too.
"Oh, shit..." Jule's eyes were left wide open when he saw Anon destroying so much money.
"You see that? I can destroy thousands of platinum coins like that and not even blink," Anon said as he looked dead serious in Jules' eyes.
"Why are you doing this? Are you telling me how pathetic I am? Or are you showing off your money in front of me?" Jules asked.
"You already know that you are pathetic, and yeah, I am showing off my money," Anon answered with a smile.
"Why have you kidnapped me? I don't think you are low on money, so selling me as a slave is out of the options. You want something from me, but I don't have anything to give you other than my body.
Don't tell me you want to—"
"No, I don't want to do anything sexual with you," Anon interrupted.
"So? What do you want?" Jules asked.
"Open your mouth and drink this," Anon said as he summoned a knife and cut through his finger with it.
"Why should I do that?" Jules asked.
"Yeah... Let me answer that," Anon said as he grabbed Jules' face and forcefully opened his mouth.
"H-EY...." Jules tried to say something, but before he could've said something, Anon poured his blood into his mouth.
"Because you are in my care now, bitch. You will do whatever I tell you to do," Anon said as he left his mouth and sat back in his chair.
[One new target has been found under the skill [Mind Control].]
[Would you like to execute the skill?]
'Yes.'
[Jules's Corruption: 0%]
"Let's see what you have in your sweet memories." Anon said as he put his hand over Jules's head and used the skill.
Suddenly, memories started surging into Anon's brain, but he felt something... With each memory, his mind was resisting too much.
After eating some of his memories, Anon started feeling headaches, but he still continued to eat his memories.
After 15 minutes, Anon completely ate Jules's memories.
[Level Up]
"Fuck... What type of stupid ass bitch are you? Getting bullied by some garbage shitters and committing suicide because of money issues.
Ouch, my head hurts... I have to restrain this skill from eating so many memories at once, and these elves also have this resistance thing in their minds that is preventing me from eating their memories.
I have to find out what this resistance thing is." Anon said as he looked at Jules.
Jules now looked like a newborn baby, looking around the room curiously.
"Ha... I am not giving you your memories back. You don't deserve memories; either way, you were going to die... So better than dying is to become my slave." Anon said as he put his hand over his head.
'I am feeding some basic info into his mind so that he can understand what I am saying, and I am making his mind my slave, so he follows whatever I order him to do.' Anon thought as he altered Jules's memories.
Jules immediately went down on his knees, accepting Anon as his master.
"Good... Tell me your name." Anon asked.
"Jules."
"Good... So, Jules. Give me some of your hairs." Anon ordered.
Jules immediately tore off some hairs from his head and gave them to Anon.
"Thank you, Jules. Now rest here until I come again." Anon ordered.
"Yes." Jules immediately spoke with a blank face.
"Good.." Anon left the room after that.
As soon as Anon exited the room, he saw that the butler was standing right outside the room, waiting for him.
"Have you taken your items, Sir?" The butler asked.
"Yeah, keep the elf boy alive. I will need him in the future." Anon spoke.
"As you say, Sir Anon. Now, please follow me... I will introduce you to the guy who will take you into the elf kingdom." The butler said.
"Okay, let's go." Anon said as he followed the butler.
Both of them exited the mansion through the gates that Anon came through.
Suddenly, both of them noticed a female knight standing in front of the main gate; she wasn't moving at all.
"Excuse me, soldier? Why are you standing here? Don't you have night patrol duty?" The butler asked.
Suddenly, Anon realized something.
'Fuck!! I forgot to Un-Hypnotize her.' Anon remembered as he instantly removed Hypnosis from her.
"Huh..? Where am I? You!!! Intruder... Sir, he is an intruder." The female knight immediately shouted as she saw Anon standing beside the butler.
"Please go back to your duties, or I will have to talk to your senior." The butler said as he looked at her.
"Y-Yes, sir." The female knight said as she understood that Anon wasn't an intruder; instead, he was a friend of the butler.I think you should take a look at
"I am so sorry for her behavior." The butler immediately apologized to Anon.
"Ah, no problem. It can happen." Anon said.
After that, both of them moved towards a carriage that was parked right outside the castle.
"Please sit in this carriage. Inside, you will find that person... He will take you to the elven kingdom and give you your new identification papers to enter and exit the city at will." The butler said.
"Okay." Anon said as he walked inside the carriage.
As soon as Anon entered the carriage, he noticed an elf already sitting inside the carriage.
He had green hair, green eyes; he looked around 35, and he had a bow beside him.
"Hello..." The elf greeted.
"Hi." Anon greeted back.
"I am Ron. I will be helping you from now on." Ron said.
"Good." Anon didn't tell him his name and kept the conversation short.
The carriage started moving.
"Here... These are the documents that will tell you everything about the elf kingdom's rules and regulations.
They hold information on everything: Academy, Jobs, Management, Security, and Business.
If you read this, you will have no problems settling in with the elves, but your face can be a problem.
I don't think they will be willing to accept a human in their society." Ron spoke.
"Why are you helping Derein?" Anon asked straightforwardly.
"Obviously, money." Ron answered.
"Just that? You are selling out the information about your kin, just for some money?" Anon asked.
"Yes."
"Good." Anon spoke with a satisfied face.
"You should read those books." Ron advised.
Anon now had the memories of Jules, so he didn't need these books.
"Yeah, I will do that." Anon answered.
"I was told that you will go inside as one of them. Do you have a skill that turns you into an elf?" Ron asked.
"No, but I have a little something that can do just that." Anon answered.
"Oh, Okay then. I think it's time that you use that because we are about to enter the elf kingdom." Ron spoke.
"Okay..." Anon said as he looked outside and noticed the sky shining with stars.
"The Time works differently on this side. To be more precise, it works exactly opposite." Ron explained as he noticed Anon looking out of the window.
"Ah, that's how it is." Anon said as he pulled out the Mask of Nature from his inventory.
Putting one hair of Jules inside the mask, Anon wore it on his face. As soon as he wore the mask, his body and face started changing. In just 30 seconds, Anon was transformed into an elf resembling Jule.
"Wow... You look like a real elf," Ron said with a very surprised expression.
"Well, that's good," Anon replied.
"Here... The gate to the entrance is near. This is your identity card, and here are your papers. If they ask for identification, you show them the card, and if they inquire about the purpose for leaving, just show them these papers.
If they ask any questions, just say yes," Ron explained.
"Okay," Anon answered.
Suddenly the carriage came to a sudden halt.
"We are here... Try to be quieter. The elves are not very talkative with another unfamiliar elf," Ron informed.
"I understand," Anon said.
"Let's go. I will go first, and you will be behind me," Ron instructed.
"Okay."
Both of them stepped out of the carriage and started walking toward the checkpoint gate of the elven kingdom.
"Sir, you forgot my fees," the carriage driver called out from behind.
"Ah, shit. Just wait a second," Ron said as he stopped and pulled out a pouch of coins from his pocket, then started searching for a bronze coin.
10 seconds passed, but he still kept looking...
"Ahahaha... Bronze coins are so hard to find among all these silver coins," he spoke as he tried to show off.
Anon looked at him and summoned a gold coin.
"Here, keep the change," Anon said as he threw the gold coin toward the carriage driver.
Both the carriage driver and Ron were shocked at this.
"W-What? S-Sir, I think you have given me the wrong coin. It's a gold coin," the carriage driver spoke as he held the coin with both of his hands.
"Wow, that's very nice of you to give it back. You are one nice carriage driver," Ron said as he took the coin from the carriage driver and gave it back to Anon.
"...and you don't throw your money like that. Showing off is one thing, and losing money is another thing. So, be careful about what you throw next time," Ron taught Anon.
"Yeah, I am not wrong. Here, gift your family some new clothes and have a good dinner for once," Anon said as he threw the coin back to the driver.
"T-Thank you, Sir. I will never forget you. May I know your name, Great Sir?" The carriage driver asked.
"Phantom," Anon said as he smiled toward the carriage driver.
"I will remember that name, sir. Please call me if you need any other ride," the carriage driver said as he left.
"You really donated a gold coin to that carriage driver? Are you that rich? Even a king wouldn't do that," Ron asked.
"I am not a king, and that's the lowest coin I have in my pocket right now," Anon said as he started walking toward the main gates.
"Haha... Nice show-off. Are you saying you have a platinum coin in your pocket?" Ron asked.
Ching
Anon immediately summoned 5 platinum coins in his hands and de-summoned them.
"What the heck? Did you just summon 5 platinum coins?" Ron asked with wide eyes and a surprised expression.
"I told you," Anon spoke with a smile.
"Wow... You are one rich person," Ron spoke.
Both of them reached in front of the main gate, and two guards stopped them by crossing their spears.
"Show us your identities," the guards asked.
Anon was observing the gate of the elven kingdom carefully...
It was carved out of wood, and many ancient figures were drawn on it, depicting the legendary tales of the Elves.
"You, show us your identity," the guard asked Anon.
Anon didn't say anything and just showed them the identity card that Ron gave him.
The guard looked at the card and then looked at Anon for a brief moment.
"Name...?" The guard asked.I think you should take a look at
"Jule," Anon answered.
"Mother's Name...?" The guard asked.
'Oh no... I forgot to tell him that he needed to learn his details,' Ron thought in his mind.
"Hahaha... Sir, We are clear... Why don't you-" Ron tried to divert their attention.
"Oi, Shut up," the other guard shouted.
"Y-Yes..." Ron said as he got ready to run at any moment now.
"Hillary," Anon answered.
"Father's name?" The guard asked.
"Ian," Anon answered without any worries.
"State your purpose of leaving the city?" The guard asked as he gave the identity card back.
"I went out for academic purposes...." Anon answered.
"What purpose?" The guards asked.
"To conduct research on maple trees found in the human kingdom for the mid-term exams... I can show you the paperwork if you want?" Anon answered with the most confident expression an elf can ever make.
"Okay, you can go." The guards immediately permitted them to go through.
Both of them crossed the gates and entered the city of elves.
Anon looked at the city of elves, and he was left shocked... The view was stunning.
It was as if he had entered a futuristic city. The houses were made out of wood and metal.
They were built in a very orderly pattern.
No random houses in the middle of a road or winding paths all over the city.
The roads were straight, and houses were built on the sides, properly.
They also left sidewalks for people to walk. On the sidewalks, there were lamps that illuminated using candles.
Ladies were playing with their kids, and gents were talking to each other on the side of a bar.
It was like a happy land; everyone was happy here. There was a positive energy in the air.
"Wow... This is one beautiful city," Anon said.
"No, it's just like the human kingdom. The deeper you go inside, the more depressing the environment gets.
Nobles live in the center of the city, even though we have no walls like you, but we know where we have to keep our distance.
You see that fountain... That represents the start of the second ring and the end of the first ring.
After that, only nobles live... Elf Nobles and Some Human Nobles too," Ron explained.
"Hmm... So you have the caste system too, huh?" Anon asked as he looked at the fountain.
"Yep, we were the ones who started that. You guys just copied us. Elves are distinguished by blood, the more old blood they have, the more royal-blooded they are.
And the more royal blood you have, the more efficiently magic you can use.
I don't know how you identify the royal blood in your kin," Ron explained.
"I am going to my house," Anon said as he left immediately.
"Yeah, bye. My job is also finished here," Ron said as he started walking his own way.