Once having returned to Egon's office, I told him that the order had been completed, he was so caught up in his papers that he didn't even realize how much time had passed and that the magicians were late.
Good for me and good for them, besides, there were risks that my little trick would be exposed if à discussion happened between Egon and the magicians.
Egon : "I don't have the time to go their, ahhh, all the paperwork"
Lucian : "I can go by myself"
He was having some troubles with his mountains of work, he didn't even want to go just check the order, he didn't have the time to.
He thought about it for some times and then got back to his papers, checking what he all had to do, he just was very annoyed and made a choice.
Egon : "Can you go check the order for me"
Lucian : "What do I have to do ?"
Egon : "Just go count the numbers on the paper and take it to the entrance"
He gave me a copy of the paper, also some other paper to confirm the order and everything else, he let me go, giving me his authority to go check on this.
Lucian : "I will go now, it was fun"
Egon : "I won't be able to walk you back to the baron's house, you'll go with a friend of mine"
Lucian : "Good luck to you"
Egon : "Haha, a slave saying that to me, kinda funny"
He letted me go, having to do his job, so I just took the stairs and got back to the fabrication area.
A magician : "What are you doing here again ?"
Lucian : "I am here to take the orders"
Chief of the magician : "He didn't have tome again it seems"
Magician : "That's not that bad, we evaded his criticisms for once"
Chief of the magician : "Maybe this time, not the other one"
He helped me check, he was checking the quality of them with a knife and I was counting the number of every single piece of armor.
It didn't bother me more than that, I had less chance of being in danger than if Egon was here with them, thank you paperwork.
Chief of magician : "Okay we are done"
Lucian : "Yeah it's good"
Chief of magician : "Go now, someone is gonna wait for you at the entry"
The chief signed the order form and gave the agreeded reward to the magician who, as usual, had to respect the budget and the order to me.
I then got back to the stairs with the orders where I had to take all of it myself, a man waiting for me, not at all wanting to help me.
I had to do a lot of travel to take everything, it seems the magicians were pretty happy that I was here so they did not have to take everything themselves, putting the work on me.
Lucian : "Okay I finished putting everything here"
??? : "So let's stop hanging out, I have other thing than that to do, I already have to be with you for this ride when I don't even want to"
Lucian: "You are not the only one who are forced"
Another person who don't like his job, it seems like a common thing for magician it seems, but he didn't really have a choice as Egon already knew what was going to happen and made a quick letter.
Egon (in the letter): "Foros, Do you remember when you blew up our Crystal warehouse you still have to pay off a good part of it I'm telling you"
Foros: "He didn't have to say that in front of a stranger and it was an accident, an accident"
??? : "Yes an accident, like the basement or the trees we had planted"'
He was fuming as a magician in the entrance was very well making fun of him a lot, even though their were not a lot of people, they made fun of him a lot.
Foros : "Damn it"
He was not happy at all and used his fist to destroy one of the table that was here and made a lot of damage in the entrance even though their was a protective barrier in the entire building.
??? :" Now you have even less reason to say no"
His strength was almost scary, with his amount of mana Egon could be in trouble if they were to be fighting, he was the person in charge of the security of deliveries so surely someone who uses all his mana in body strengthening, someone like me.
Well at least with him if something happens on the way I won't need to take care of it, he had a good muscle rate for a magician but he didn't seem to manage his mana in the same way as Vector.
Foros : "Why me for such a small delivery...ah...let's go before I go mad"
Lucian : "Sure"
One might think at first sight that he had like an aura of mana all over his body, protecting him then internal mana for attacks, but not at all, his mana was entirely on the surface which is more difficult to manage but is way more powerful.
Foros: "What are you looking at like that you, bring it all to me we hurry up"
Lucian : "Yes"
I took the delivery (within 3 working days) went down the final stairs and took the road back in another wagon towards the Baron, another 3 days and these weapons would be in my possession.
Foros : "You better let me sleep in peace"
Lucian : "Sure"
The man with me did not say a word, sleeping quietly in the wagon during the whole trip not knowing what was going on in the tower at the same time or what my plan was.
---In the tower (narrotor POV)
The white-haired kid stopped reading his book after Lucian had left the library and went up to Egon's office after Lucian was gone from the tower, he entered without knocking and almost immediately turned himself back into an adult.
??? : "So Egon what were you looking for by letting a stranger wander around the tower"
Egon: "It seemed suspicious to me, this kid was weird, I thought he was a mage in disguise, he had traces of strong mana when being low level"
The man in front of him was laughing, putting the papers aside to look at Egon directly and then made fun of him and Egon not understanding why he was doing it.
??? : "Your sense of observation has been lowered with the years my little magician Egon"
Egon: "???"
??? : "He was with you all the the time here but his amount of mana stayed exactly the same while he is exercising with you, don't you find it weird"
Egon : "No way..."
And then, Egon understood his mistake, normally by training you lose a little mana that dissipates in the air and from the usage of it, but here the amount of Lucian's mana had remained exactly the same he had never lost or gained mana as if he balanced his mana constantly.
??? : "And besides, he used your authority to read rather advanced books, he's rather strange this kid, he even has some magic marks"
Egon was sirprised by the revelation of the man infront of him, he didn't know anyone would dare to use him, to do something and he thought of himself as kinda guilty about what happened even though it wasn't really a problem.
Egon: "Magic marks? »
??? : "Yes, like some kind of spell on his own skin or a curse, he's hiding something fishy this one, where did he come from? »
Egon: "He would be servant of a baron"
??? : "In this case he got us right, there is no chance that a baron can have someone like him at his command someone who masters mana so well even while being young, which means that his goal is quite different and we have just given him on a silver platter"
Egon thought that the letting him read some books about mana was not a problem as he would never be a real problem with just that amount of knowledge, but for the weapons, their is something else.
Tier 2 weapons and armors are not the most powerful ones and really are not a problem in itself, but the reputation of the tower come from the nobles that put this type of request, if they mearn about the mistake, it would be terrible.
Egon: "The weapons, but you could catch up with him by flying"
??? : "The archmage who uses his magic to find a kid with Tier 2 weapons, no there's nothing to worry about after all we just did our job"
Egon seemed quite surprised by this answer but at the same time it was true that technically their missions did not go further than to make the weapons and where would a kid go (that's what he thinks) worh stuff as weak even with these weapons, little did he know that it was one of the biggest mistakes that humans had made.
----In the demonic kingdom
Thanatos was finally at peace since Lucian was going about his business, even if they followed him on the trail despite all the distance traveled and made sure to meet his expectations if he ever potentially needed him.
There was a moment when the demonic signal seemed to be a little blurred by a gigantic amount of mana for half a day but he could still feel his presence.
Thanatos : "Idk where he is going but it seems dangerous for him"
The requests of the other 4 humans arrived at the same time that Lucian was rather quiet, the three-quarters had not even understood that they could ask for his assistance, the smartest of the four Chris (I had to go back through all the chapters to find his name) had managed to guess the real function Thanatos had and therefore occasionally ask for information about the others with some equipment for his training.
Hypnos : "It seems Lucian is not the only one to use you"
Thanatos : "But he is the most annoying one"
Hypnos : "That's why you miss him"
Thanatos : "Now I have another one to train, and its quite better"
His progress was very remarkable, in addition considering that he was already starting from 3 stars, he was the one who clearly had the best chance of killing the hero, the others had realized it over time, so much so that he naturally became the leader of the group.
As for Lucian, he seemed to have no interest in him, he had seen him abandon his training and take refuge in books and then disappear and therefore had taken him for a weakling without interest.
Thanatos: "It's a pity that he doesn't try to find out what he's doing, well, although I don't know anything about it myself, if he wasn't so stubborn he probably would have won"
Hypnos: "Then according to you the boy with the black hair will be the one who will kill the hero"
Thanatos: "He is called Lucian, that's not hard to remember, he understood how mana works with observation and books and even managed to combine the two divine systems"
Hypnos seemed quite happy about the results Thanatos was telling him, he saw the possibility for Lucian to win whereas Thanatos didn't care.
Hypnos: "Who would have known that it was possible"
Thanatos : "Nobody ever tried"
The system was not something normal people knew how it exactly worked, so that Lucian ised one of the thing nobody knew to be more powerful was not surprising by any means.
Thanatos: "She'll bite her fingers off, this impudent one"
Hypnos: "The time of her death is near"
They chabged conversation, clearly mad abput something, but what, of course trhie true objective, but that Lucian didn't really care.
----Back with the mc
On the way we didn't say a word to each other, it was very quiet, we stopped from time to time to eat and the like but that's nothing.
Once we arrived at the baron's castle, we went downstairs, asked the Baron to sign the last document and the magician left immediately, making me go back to my business.
Baron : "You are back, nice they don't seem to have done anything to you"
He left me go back to work, and I did, staying not far to hear what would the Baron, now that he has all that he wanted.
Soldier : "We have all we need now"
Baron : "You hurry up to learn how to use all this, we'll leave in a week"
So I have a week to collect the weapons but I wasn't going to wait that long cause I knew that if I let them train with those weapons I could have a difficult time to fo something.
Just in the evening, I waited for everyone to sleep to sneak in the basement and take the weapons back, of course it was easier in the evening to do what I had planned even if there were always guards.
Lucian: "Time for a little fun, I have to be very precise about what I am doing"
I went down into the basement and killed the guards, nothing complicated, the strongest of them being only 2 stars and they were not even really defending to be honest.
Lucian : "Okay I know I will break one to make a lot of damage"
It made me feel a little sorry to have to break one to make it look natural but hey, it was the risk of it, anyway I could murder everyone, as soon as the Crystal explodes there will be nothing left.
And its what I did, because of what I did, the slave fleed their cage when their was no one, I had nothing against them so I let them do whatever.
Ruby : "What about black ?"
Golden : "The other guy will just flee himself"
After they were gone I could finally think of doing the explotion, but for that I needed someone, Thanatos, yes him again.
Lucian: "Thanatos, I need you"
Thanatos: "What is it again? »
Lucian: "As soon as you see this Crystal light up, immediately teleport us outside"
He didn't even seem surprised that I had literally planned to blow up an entire castle and for once was not annoyed that I called him.
So I went up all the floors and had fun during the night to kill them all, which frankly wasn't very complicated.
If it had been a higher-ranking nobleman, killing everyone would have been much more complicated, maybe I could have even bumped into a master or some high ranking people.
Lucian: "Well let's go, I was able to harvest what I wanted"
Thanatos: "okay"
I put a huge amount of mana in a Crystal that was supposed to be used for defense, it began to glow and Thanatos immediately teleported us a little further up the mountain where I had a good vision of the huge explosion that had just arrived.
Well I didn't waste my time, I will be able to study magic armor pieces, weapons and even a Crystal, in addition to that, killing all these soldiers had allowed me to gain a lot in mana, even if it was only 2 stars a good hundred of them allowed me to be very happy.
Thanatos: "What are you going to do with this, is it for your comrades?"
Lucian: "You dream it's only for me"
Thanatos: "Where are we going?"
Lucian: "We're going back to the castle, I still have things to do"
We went back to the castle pretty quickly, now I was off to one of the most complicated parties, making myself a weapon, armor and everything that I needed without helpers.
The only thing I could count on was what I had seen, my memories of the books and the natural resources of the continent.
I'm also going to have to find a way to get me some information about the hero, about how he trains and stuff, but how I was going to do that, right now, I had littealy no idea.