Free Web NovelChapter 31: Shall I give it a try?
[Sungrade city, right after the battle commenced: ]
"He told me to do something else." Lexie, the maid that was always by Prism’s side, was wandering around the empty streets of the city.
A confidante, a caretaker, a guardian. Lexie was a lot of things to him. But, she had also perished in the war that was happening right outside those walls.
So, while he had told her the truth, he also ordered her to do something more important, and perhaps something more dangerous away from the battlefield.
"Something else? What does that mean though?" Kiren was with her as well.
He had a good bond with a unique creature that resided in the fifth cradle and he wanted to bond with it. Sadly, no common technique worked for them, and he had been in a slump for some time now.
He was a guide but he was still not an academic fellow that had access to formal documents. He was trying to get to a higher position within the family so that he could find what he was looking for... but, Prism just gave it to him.
And with his help, he knew he was very close to success as well.
So now, the guide of the sixth cradle was following the youngest master of Sungrade.
Though, neither of them were doing something good under him today.
"We have to kidnap someone."
"Huh?"
"Well... it would be better to say we are going to kidnap ’some thing’ instead." There was a helpless look on her face as she said that, but it was the order of her dear young master.
"You’re still not making any sense to me, Miss Lexie." Kiren had walked with her all the way to the center of the city.
They were standing before the museum located some distance away from the Sungrade main castle, a place that was guarded by some of the most powerful ’mothers’ of the east.
This museum was well guarded all the time. And it was national property that Sungrade was protecting in the name of the Empire.
There were few places as great as this one, but they weren’t here to admire artifacts today.
"Well..." With her deep blue eyes glued on the old historical building used as a temple in the olden times, she smiled bitterly. "We are going to steal from the museum."
Museum theft. It was a state offense punishable by several years in prison.
But then again, they can only punish them if the two of them ever get caught.
-Oooooooooooong!
"Hmmm? What just happened?" Kiren felt a strange sensation run down his body.
He did not understand what had just happened, he knew for certain that something had happened just now.
"Well..." He was looking at Lexie for some answers, but explaining to him how she had just erased every trace that he can make by covering his body in a thin layer of ’negative’ energy didn’t seem necessary.
She just shrugged it off and moved towards the museum.
"Hey, wait!"
Now that the entire city was in a state of panic, most of the guards that protected the artifacts of the museum were gone.
The security system was still in place– but there were few artificial spell systems that could stop the advent of this particular maid.
"What we are looking for looks like a shell fossil. It’s the size of my palm and is blue. Do you happen to know anything about it, Ki?"
"Ki?" He was taken aback when he heard that nickname. No one called him that.
"You don’t like that? Well, that’s fine as well."
"No! No no. I didn’t say I didn’t like it." It just didn’t matter what she called him anyways.
As for the thing she was talking about...
"So we are going to steal the Vijiniyu relic found at the shores of the far southern sea lands? Why does a young master want something like that?"
There was only one artifact with such description. And as someone who had wandered around the museum all his life, he knew most of the things that were present there.
"Hmm. looks like you have your own uses as well. I once again marvel at your foresight, young master." She sighed with a delighted smile on her face.
They had one mission on their hands right now while their master was out there, fighting in that forest.
They knew he was working to save the people of this city and he was not going to get anything for everything he was doing.
He wasn’t recognised as an official hair to the title, and the people of this city only saw them as trash that survived on the family’s resources.
They had tormented him all his life... so something as small as an old rock should mean nothing as a repayment, right?
"Do you know the way to do this, Ki?"
"Certainly, m’Lady."
"Huh?"
If she was going to keep calling him with that ridiculous nickname, he could call him a little respectfully as well, right?
"I’m no Lady, mister." She wanted to give him a terrifying look, but she stopped and just moved forward.
There were all kinds of traps, alarms, and safety devices in this museum but none of those things even perceived something that existed in a completely negative wavelength than what they were supposed to perceive.
"Oh, right. There’s this gate." Sadly, even though the regular artifacts were kept out in the open in the hall, the ones of more importance were sealed away in a separate area.
And this area, as fate would have it, was locked by a powerful lock made of both magic and old technology.
"I should just break it. It shouldn’t be a problem-."
"No! No way! Don’t you know how important this lock is, m’Lady?"
She wouldn’t have to use even half her strength for something that looked as weak at the stone lock twice their weight.
The door was sealed off with this old lock, but breaking it would also break an artifact that had stayed part of this temple for centuries.
"What’s the problem? It’s just a rock lock." She was confused why he was being so dramatic.
However, as someone who appreciated the history of this lock and what it meant to this temple, he could not let her do that.
"Haaa... Miss Lexie. If you don’t mind, shall I give it a try?" He knew it would not be easy, but he had seen them open and close this door tens of times throughout his life.
They did not use a key to open this lock.
The lock itself was a key and they only needed to activate the right energy channels on the door to open this door.
"You want to give it a go, mister guide?" Lexie looked at him and smirked. She could not believe someone as normal as him could open this door.
But she was not a regressor like her master.
She did not know what became of the guide they are calling Kiren in the near future.
"It won’t take long." He was unnaturally calm and eerily motivated.
The same thought of a heist that terrified him a moment ago, had sparked a new kind of fire in his eyes.
It almost seemed like he had wanted to do this for a long time.
But she did not know the truth.
As a matter of fact, she did not know anything about him.
"Fine then."
He had only been a guide in the lowest of the cradles of their house. He was also only an ordinary man outside of his job.
He did not have anything extraordinary about him... or at the very least, there had been nothing extraordinary about him until now.
-Ooooooooooooooooong!
"What in the six hells..."
It did not even take him a full two minutes to solve the complex code by which this gate was sealed.
In her eyes, it seemed like he was no stranger to this lock or the gate.
It was just too natural to him.
Strangely so...
"Huh?" Even he could not believe it.
It just simply seemed too natural to him.
-Swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish!
Similarly...
"Argh!"
{ "Kneel, human." }
To the newborn lord of the demonic beasts, controlling the human will was as natural as their breathing.
"Ahem! Ah... hahahaha!"
The newborn Demon Lord managed to catch Prism, kill the people that followed him, take away an arm from the Green Hawk, and bring the son of the Sungrade patriarch to his knees.
They lost too much in the process...
But in the end, they succeeded.
