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Chapter 222: His business

Chapter 222: His business

Adonis, Mors and Ifrit. They were the only people ever to receive special training from a great god. Kobayashi was a god who’d never receive anyone as his disciple without any special reason.

But since his territory was in danger and Viktor was the only person who could help him, Kobayashi had no choice but to listen to his words. He accepted them as his disciple and promised Viktor to protect them in exchange for 10 infinity mana stones.

It was a win-win deal so he had no problem accepting it.

But his curiosity made him impatient. Ever since he got to know that Adonis was Viktor’s taboo creation, he wanted to dig deeper into the case and find out who Viktor was.

To do that, he separated those three and kept them under surveillance. Most of his focus was on Adonis but since he had a god-level barrier magic spell cast inside his body, Kobayashi couldn’t manipulate him.

It was the same for the rest of Viktor’s family. None of his mind-reading or manipulative magic didn’t work. But to keep Viktor’s word, he started to train them and taught them how to cultivate their divine Qi in order to reach their goal.

Adonis on the otherhand had a different plan in his mind. Ever since Viktor fell for the tower quest, he kept an eye on Name’s moments. After Viktor made an enemy out of them, they started to make their move. Nobody knows how many gods out there had been manipulated by him, but Adonis was sure he would do something now or then.

For keeping an eye on them, Adonis ordered Welis to join the city guild and work for them as an information collector. Adonis also told her to make a list of those demigods who went to the underworld to have their name ceremony. Since Name could easily manipulate those who had lower divine Qi, there was a 90% chance for them to be under his control.

After 4 months, Welis made a list of 400 demigods and 102 gods who went to the underworld in a million years. 231 demigods died of the immortals’ trap, scams and other unknown causes. 12 gods died during a war. Those who made up to the god level from demigods would naturally grow resistance to manipulation magic so Adonis assumed about 20% of them were able to lift their curse.

The others were still demigods so they were all living in Helsia and the realm above it. To gain more control over Helsia’s political matters, Adonis opened a hidden guild to supply a type of drug. It was the same type of drug that Tali, the demigod of grapes had created but it wasn’t harmful like the golden grape.

It was more of a potion that boosts their divine Qi for an hour or two, made from the infinity mana stones and some random fruits.

Of course, all of his customers were demigods whose territories were in Helsia.

With that drug he created, he was able to control most of the demigods living in Helsia. So checking if they were truly under Name’s spell or not wasn’t a hard task.

But sadly, Adonis wasn’t allowed to leave Kobayashi’s palace during his training season. He was under Kobayashi’s surveillance so he had to make Welis his right hand to continue his business outside the palace.

Kobayashi wasn’t a fool either. He placed a servant to serve Welis as an excuse. He wanted to see what kind of orders she was following but Adonis had a different plan.

He gave her a small part of his dimension room and made entrance cards for his VIP customers. With this, Kobayashi’s servant wasn’t able to enter their business house and Adonis’s business was successfully kept a secret from him.

...

After Adonis was done with his daily training, he called Welis into his room and cast a sound barrier. He was so tired but he had to work. So he called Welis in the middle of the night to learn about the progress.

"Did you put spies on those servants of Name?"

"Yes. Surprisingly, all of his servants are demigods. They had 320 letters in their bags and 40% of them were distributed to our customers. The rest of them were handed over to a god who lives in the realm above us. Since we don’t have access to the upper realm due to our lack of strength, we were unable to follow their tracks. Shall we discuss this matter with lord Kobayashi? There was no letter sent to his address. He’s not on the Name’s list."

"This is our problem, Welis. He’s already doing a favour by taking care of us. And were you able to look at the letter?"

"A few hours ago, I bought one letter for 2 doses of ’red tear’ from a customer. It is actually an invitation letter. But the letter can only be touched by its owner so it caught on fire the moment I touched it. Luckily, your CCTV cameras are so advanced that they captured what was written on it."

Welis showed him the letter on her laptop and again said, "Name has invited about 500 people or more to his dinner party. But something is very weird."

Adonis looked at the data and said, "10 years? The dinner party is in 10 years?"

"Yes, I don’t know why but I think this is how the gods and demigods think of the time. 10 years isn’t a big deal to them but for us, it’s a long time. 10 years is enough for us to spread our business all over Helsia."

"You’re right. But I’m worried about those letters that went above this realm. Just how many gods Name has manipulated so far? Thousands? Just what is he trying to achieve?"

Welis agreed with him and replied, "Sir Adonis. Do you think Lord Kobayashi is also a part of his unknown play?"

"No, Lord Kobayashi is a great god who received his name after he became a god. So I don’t think Name’s manipulation spells worked on him. If he was under his spell, master couldn’t have noticed it earlier."

"Looks like I have no choice but to agree with you, Sir Adonis."

Adonis went to his bed after finishing his dinner and said, "Are you still going to stay in my room now? I have to sleep."

"Welis smiled softly and said, "I wonder if Lord Viktor has seen this cute side of you, Sir Adonis."

"My cute side?"

"Yes, the way you sleep exactly like Lord Viktor is really amusing."

Welis then chuckled to see Adonis crawl inside his blanket like a caterpillar just like Viktor.

"Servants takes after their master, Welis. You’ll understand one day."

"I don’t think I can sleep on my stomach, Sir Adonis, my chest is too wide and big."

"Get out-_-."

Welis smiled and said, "Good night, sir Adonis. Let’s meet tomorrow."

The moment she walked out of his room Yir grabbed her hand and pulled her closer. "Just what were you doing in my Lord’s room late at night?"

Yir then looked at the empty dinner plates in her hand and said, "Did you feed him those mortal foods again?"

"Sir Adonis can’t concentrate on his work if he doesn’t consume raw meat. I’m sure you’re well aware of his race, don’t you? He’s a demon who loves raw flesh."

"I am aware of that. But why did you feed him those smelly things? Wait.. are those human bones? Where did you get those in Helsia?"

"They were stored in his dimension room. He likes to eat them occasionally. I hope you don’t feel disgusted by his bizarre habits. He’s your lord after all."

Welis started to walk towards the kitchen leaving him behind. Since it was late at night, she had to get prepared for her work. But Yir started to follow her.

"Hey!! Wait.. I just wanted to ask you something."

She stopped walking and looked back. "What?"

"Why is the lord receiving help from Lord Kobayashi when he can grow stronger by himself? I can help him just like Lord Kobayashi is helping."

"It was a part of the agreement. Lord Viktor has a lot of enemies. Since the god of names knows we are a family, he will also be targeting us in Lord Viktor’s absence. That’s why we are taking shelter in Lord Kobayashi’s house and receiving his help."

"I.. I see."

"Now, excuse me. I have to go to work now. Feel free to follow me or you can stay in front of Sir Adonis’s room so you can aid him in the morning."

....

Viktor’s POV

Meanwhile in the poison dungeon.

"Golems... rock golems, sand golems, tree golems, iron golems. Why did I even bother to come here when I’m now even level 40?"

Viktor looked at the army of golems standing in lines. They were all above level 80 and each of them had a title called ’Knight.’ And there was a golem sitting on a huge chair with iron armour, level 90, titled ’Golem King’ and ’A great commander.’

Viktor stared at the army of Golem and again said, "Okay, I’m out. I need to come here after I reach level 70. Not today, I can’t win this fight."

Viktor stood up and walked on his staff. He then took the exit and went into another path to look for weaker monsters than those golems.

Fighting with those golems with his level was nothing but jumping straight into hell for Viktor.