The day wasn't long , after three hours of preparation and setting the stage, until he felt it was ok,Elon exited the secret hideout. Dressed in gray plain and unadorned noble robe except for his dirtied hair, Elon passed through the street with barely any passerby, unnoticed, not drawing a single attention or whatever.
Thanks to his new found familiarity with these paths, after checking on the horse carriage, Elon found his way home much easier to scale through than it had been before.
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Calm and silent, a young noble lady fully dressed in a long green gown that covered her full body and hide her womanly qualities apart from the below average bulge on her chest, with a temperament that showed how disciplined she was-gazed at the far serene and quiet lake that reflected the coming twilight of day through the window of her room from afar with eyes filled with worries.
The young girl who seemed to be in her late teens, had a troubled expression on her face as she chewed on her nails, tarnishing the disciplined temperament around her.
Just when the girl was about to directly chew on her fingers a soft voice called out her name from behind.
"Olivia"
"Arh!"
Hearing the voice of her mother, Olivia instantly recovered from her dazed, yelping as she unknowingly bit finger.
"Mom!" Olivia similarly called in a soft voice ,with a teary expression as she turned towards her mother who gave her a pitying gaze.
"Why.. why me?" Olivia said, running into her mother's embrace with her long hair dancing behind.
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Later, Elon found himself dressed in his previous stained white long shirt and black victorian style pants. The journey worn grey robe had been hidden within the secret passageway after his return.
Strolling along the large hallway with a feigned natural expression on his face, Elon intently studied the expression of several maids as they passed by.
' They seemed not to have noticed' Elon couldn't help but comment in this thought.
The returned Young Lord immediately after returning home disappeared for almost four hours without any knight and yet no one seemed to have noticed. What if he had been murdered or kidnapped, would it have gone unnoticed for a day or two before they realized this, Elon wondered.
The long red carpet extended forward while the blue cottons were spread apart, Elon silently entered his room - and just when he was about to let a relieved sigh…
Audrey's worried eyes appeared in his view, stunning him with surprise as he was left speechless with no words to say.
' Was she always this worried about me ?' Elon thought, quite surprised because this was the first time he had seen Audrey's worried eyes which never existed in his memories.
"My Lord!" Audrey shouted instantly as her worried eyes met Elon's, almost making him jump in fright.Grasping his hands to check if he was real, Audrey breathed out , her formerly worried eyesa relived.
"What's it?" feeling rather awkward that he was being treated like a kid, Elon shrugged his hands from the blue haired maid, taking step back in order not to making his attraction to the beauty obvious.
"I couldn't find you when they said you had returned…"
"...so I thought you had been kidnapped" Audrey said with her head down while muttering the later part of her sentence.
'Well, at least someone cared for me… buh isn't she acting too immature though?'
Staring at his attractive maid for a moment, Elon quickly shook off the indecent thought that were starting to take form in his head. Who knew if he could hold back himself later on.
"S..sor..sorry…" Audrey struggled to say when she suddenly realized how much she had over reacted,but Elon quickly cut her short.
"Hmm, it's alright"
Ignoring the rather awkward atmosphere, Elon went on to take his bath, refusing Audrey's request to call in the maids to bath him or bath him herself.
Although he was a virgin on earth, all thanks to masturbation, he wasn't ready to break that curse yet.
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Finally, night came.
Long after Elon had taken his bath, strolled the castle under the observing eyes of the maids who couldn't comprehend the reason for his sudden actions, including Audrey who nevertheless followed behind, until dawn.Sleeping early was the first step to succeed his plans,and so Elon did.
Night.
The calm serene light of the moon shined from above, embracing the eerie silence of the night around the castle, torchs of fire were lit at various checkpoint sorrounding the castle, standing beside were the well disciplined and trained knight with exceptionally strong will belonging to the Maxwells.
And on the upper part of the stone walled castle, within it's inner chambers, guarded by several more stronger and trusted knights including Sir Remus who stood still like a steel fortress without moving an inch.
Elon laid on his bed silently listening to Audrey's subtle breathing sound for the past thirty minutes, while consecutively confirming she was asleep.
'Well, it's time to move'.
Silently getting off the bed barefooted, Elon slowy picked up the prepared pair of boots by the side, tiptoeing towards the half closed door frame with almost inaudible footsteps.
Not far away, illuminated by the two slowly burning burning candle lamp at both side of the wall, the two knights alongside their wavering shadow was revealed before Elon.
Surprised,Elon stared for a second before shifting his gaze towards the two inlaid pillar on the wall stretching far up into the ceiling with a well hidden window in-between, very hard to notice , it was also one of the secret escape route within the castle but requiring the skill of a agile monkey to use.
Of course, Elon wasn't able to see it from his current position, not because he was too short, but because it was far out of his reach even if he was ten times his current height.
Silently tiptoeing towards the pillars, Elon bit the lace of his boots tightly with his teeth taking them along neither caring of his image while making sure he left no sound behind for the two knights to notice.
Almost letting out a relived sigh, Elon stretched out both hands between the pillars, covering the distance between them as he stilled his arms. Using his legs as support , Elon further placed both legs, firmly outstretched on both opposite sides as he slowly moved upward, while doing his best to remain quiet.
After almost five minutes, with his limbs squirming in pain and frustration, Elon quietly went through the window , totally unnoticed as he stepped on several inlaid concealed bricks that popped out through the walls to get down while continuously cursing…
'Damn it, I'll make sure you pay for this' feeling quite vengeful at Amelia, Elon adjusted his clothes as he quietly sneaked out upon getting down.
Unlike the inner part of the castle, the security on the outside wasn't that tight, so Elon maneuvered quite easily.
Upon entering the third hidden way, Elon was once again back within the castle, remaining unknown to the knights who guarded his chamber as he sneaked through, appearing at the familiar hallway, another section of the castle where the hidden passage to the dump site was located…
"Finally".
Appearing at the same old worn out passage, Elon was met with the same flametorchstick ,illuminated as before and sticked to the wall as if untouched, leaving Elon stunned for a moment.
Ignoring the torchstick, Elon quickly dashed through the passageway.
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Author's Note:
Just so you know;
To sum it up, Elon went to the academy by 8 got back by 11, went out by 11 , reached the secret hideout by 12 then spent 3 hours there, which is about 3pm, then to return takes another 30 minutes.
Y'all,so I saw a review saying I should have introduced the system stuff within the 1-10 chapters of the book. Well… just so you know,I previously said I was gonna use cuttlefish style in this book,slow paced at the beginning. Sorry if you feel it has been boring reading so far, can't help with that.
I'm creating my own dao and not just some cliche novel.