The Young Master in the Shadows
Chapter 497: Courting Death (4)

“Let’s start from the beginning… When we first met, you tried to kill me, then made that mistake and became my slave. I didn’t kill you, nor did I take revenge. On the contrary, I gave you my own clothes, then let you share my sleeping bag!” Victor, who stood opposite Alpha in the endless darkness, stated, making an ethereal thread reach from him to her.

“This…. You always had this power?” Alpha asked as she tried hard to move, but failed; her skills failed to activate. “Wait… YOU USED ME AS A HUG DOLL! That’s why you let me sleep in your sleeping bag!” she responded as she instinctively understood what this place was.

“There were a lot of spiders outside, would you have wanted to do it on the cave’s ground?”

“... SHIT…” she cursed as the thread materialized around her.

“After that, I saved your fate to become Sebastian’s lover!” he said, making another thread appear.

“WHO SAID I HAD THAT FATE?” she flared.

“I do… You were meant to be affected by his Scion aura and fall into his grasp… I saved you!”

“YOU? SAVED ME? You used me to your advantage, taking a great opportunity from me!” she quickly said.

“So… If you know what you do now, do you still want to be Sebastian’s lover?”

“.... I could have decided that on my own…”

“But you would have lost the Spark to him…”

“...”

Another thread materialized.

“After that, I gave you a home and a job, not telling my family or the player’s council about your origin!” he said, forming a new thread.

“This was to your advantage… You wanted to use me… You wanted to use my sisters!”

“Not really… You were totally useless at that point, and selling you to the council would have been more beneficial to me in the short term… I might have gotten a lot of things!”

“But not on the long one…”

“That’s not certain. I would have had to work a bit harder!” he said. “And I never treated you like a slave, more like a comrade, giving you many rights that you wouldn’t even dream of encountering otherwise!"

“...” She bit her lip as the thread materialized; she knew that she was losing this, but she couldn’t think of anything.

Another Thread materialized.

“I even told you my secret of being from another timeline… This is big, you know!”

“That’s a lie…”

“Nope, it is the truth…”

Another thread materialized, making her gasp in shock. So, it was true!

“After that, when you were on the verge of death, I secured that spark’s activation method from Sebastian and gave it to you…. I am the reason you became a lord!”

“You simply couldn’t use it on yourself!”

“How do you know that…”

“...”

“Well, even so, I could have tried it on other people, but knowing that you are about to die, I chose to give it to you to heal!”

“...”

“For the second time, you owe me your life!”

“...”

Another thread materialized.

“After that, I saved your cousin Hana and gave her a home…”

“You scammed her and made her your slave!”

“...”

The thread failed to materialize, but it didn’t matter.

“You gave the Spark that should have been kept with you to the system to gain immense power…” he was speculating on this.

“.... You never specified how I should use it… And you gave it to me!”

“….”

No threads materialized, but her statement confirmed Victor’s guess.

“...”

“After all that, not only did you try to take over my power, you even dared to injure my pregnant wife!” he continued, after thinking about some random things.

“I was only scaring her to submit to me! I never intended to hurt anyone…” she said, pouting a bit. “That slut would never submit easily!”

Again, no threads materialized; she was telling the truth.

“This should be enough, I guess… “he sighed. “Let’s get to the demands! For all of that, firstly, I demand that I have the spark back!”

“Ooopse…” Alpha smirked, feeling somewhat triumphant over him, despite it being momentarily.

“...” He squinted his eyes. He guessed as much, but he was not pleased. “I demand that you become my absolute slave for eternity!  Without the power to disobey or to withhold information or try to harm me or my interests. You can’t even die without my permission! If I tell you to act like a dog, you will start barking!"

“WHAT! I would never submit!” she hissed with desperation in her eyes. She knew what this meant!

“You don’t have that luxury!” he spat as the threads turned golden and began to wrap against her. 

She tried to struggle using all of her power, but it was to no avail. Perhaps if her power didn’t come from the system, she would have a chance, but since she had already given up her spark, she was powerless, engulfed like a cocoon.

The darkness immediately receded as Alpha fell to her knees with a red symbol appearing on her forehead. Her eyes were in shock and desperation, not knowing what to think.

“You… AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH….” 

The moment she thought of using her power to struggle against him, she felt as if her body repelled against her, and the pain was so great that she collapsed to the ground with her hand around her head.

“You are really a masochist… Don’t worry, I will take my time to educate you well this time!” Victor said as he used a dagger to prick his finger and then knelt beside her and pushed it directly into her mouth. “Don’t bite… Suck it all!” he said. “Become my blood slave!” he demanded. 

She couldn’t resist as her mouth sucked on its own like it was made to do this!

Victor paused there… Right, he didn’t level up after filling that last slot with Nyanra. Thinking for a moment, he quickly connected to Danial, after giving him the scare of his life, he selected his name and pressed <Yes>. Now that he knew who the future Young Light Lord was, he no longer needed this guy!

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…………….” Alpha screamed all of a sudden, startling him as he stepped back and watched as she held her head hard.

…

Victor opened his eyes wide as he watched Alpha roll on the ground and scream in pain. In his status window, repeated messages began to roll. His Authority bug was creating all kinds of problems for the system.

He was totally taken aback, but before he could think of anything, Alpha began to bleed all over as her skin began to disintegrate. Still, in mere moments, she began to heal again.

Her screams grew louder and louder as it was clear how painful it was!

It was as if the system was stuck in an endless loop.

“JUST KILL ME!” Alpha screamed as tears of blood filled her face. 

“...” Victor frowned; he really didn’t expect this to happen. Still, in a split second, he thought of a few possible solutions. Not wanting to go to the ones that might cause Aloha to die, he took out a huge pillar from his storage space and hit her with it.

NAM!

“.... AH!” 

Everything stopped at once.

As he guessed, the pillar's effect stopped not only Alpha’s use of the system skill, but also the passive effects of her lord status!

Alpha who was drenched in her blood, laid on the ground gasping for air.

Victor quickly took a healing pill and put it in her mouth before grabbing her and disappearing.

Some people might have noticed that something wrong was happening here, and he didn’t want to risk it.

He just left a storage ring on the ground just in case.

***

“That was close…” Victor said as he appeared in the mansion again. As he left, he felt a few auras of people rushing into the mountain. He was not sure who those people were, but his instinct was telling him that he better not face them.

“Husband!” Margret, who was waiting for him in the mansion’s study, stood up immediately, eyeing Alpha, who was being held like a bag under his arm. She closed her eyes, playing dead, with her face pale white. She was still in shock after her instant defeat, and had no idea how to react. “Is she alive?”

“Yeah, something happened, but she should be fine in a while… I will give her to you after I finish with her!” he said as he threw Alpha to the ground. “She only wanted to scare you, so you don’t need to use that against her! Just the normal kinky stuff would do!” he said, noticing the ‘Brother’ she leaned on like it was some cane.

“... So now you are on her side?” Margret asked, squinting her eyes.

“She lost her power; she would never survive it!” he smirked.

“What?” Margret opened her eyes wide looking at Alpha. “Permanently or Temporarily?"

“It will be my call!” he said, making Alpha, who was still playing dead, shiver a little.

“Then all I have to do is wait…” she said as she threw herself at him, hugging him hard and pressing her face against his chest. “I missed you…” she said.

“I missed you too!” he said brushing her hair with his hand as he hugged her and kissed her lips.

The kiss for five entire minutes with Margaret’s hand began to move around his body, trying to undress him. Sadly, for her, she couldn’t even begin to understand how his otherworldly armor was put together!

“We will do it later…” he whispered.

“No. I want it now!” she demanded. Pressing herself against him in a very lewd way, as her dress let itself fall onto the ground on its own.

“You are pregnant…”

“And? I am sure you will be careful!”

“I have many things to do… “he said, telling the truth, he needed to find a place to release Rosette and her group.

“Some delay would not hurt!”

“I need to question her about a few things first!” he said, glancing at Alpha.

“You can do that after we finish!”

“You girls are really Sex crazy!” he sighed as he was powerlessly thrown onto the couch. He didn’t dare to resist, lest he hurt Margret and the baby, as he was not yet fully in control of his power.

“Yeah… And whose fault was it, making us this way?” she said, smirking toward Alpha. “Now, are you going to undress?”

“...”

Margret pulled a little at his shirt, but still, she couldn’t take it off by herself. Who made this thing like that?

The answer would be two elf girls who didn't want anyone else to enjoy their master that easily! But he was not going to tell her that!

“Alpha… Stop playing dead and come help!” Margret turned to Alpha, who didn’t want to believe that Margret was going to do it in front of her just like that.

“What…”

“You heard me! It’s time for you to learn to serve a man!”

“...” Victor sighed, looking at Margret. “Really?”

“You are the one who wants me to go easy on her!” Margret shrugged. “And I can’t take you all on my own…”

“Good point!... Alpha… Obey her!” Victor commanded. 

“I… No…. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa…” Alpha sat up as a pain ran through her, looking aggrieved at Victor, then at Margret.

“Come help me undress him… I think it is about time you experience a real man! “She spat, knowing well that she wouldn’t be able to take Victor on, and watching Alpha love herself comply would be a good first course of revenge.

“.... I…. I want to say something first!” Alpha said as she bit her lip in desperation.

Margret squinted her eyes. “We can do that later?” she asked as Victor turned to face Alpha.

“No, this is important… Very important… It might change everything… Please let me say it!” Alpha pleaded.

“Ah… Ok… What?” Victor frowned.

“This world… Has a big secret….” Alpha said. “The old tales of how the old invasion ended are all a lie… It is not that the world became conscious and set the rules… It was the Spirit Empress who took control of the World Node and locked down this world in order to slow the System infiltration, banishing all the other lords and making people forget what happened… The minute 10% of the world becomes players, the reckoning will happen!”

“Why are you talking about bunnies? Do you want to play crazy now? Believe me, this would never…” Margret paused as she noticed something unnatural. Victor seemed to have lost focus for a second before focusing again. His eyes were ice cold for a second, but that quickly dissipated.

 “An interesting curse…” he said, looking at the notification, making Alpha, who turned paler than pale, gasp and begin to shiver. “You even used a loophole in my commands to let it happen… Really smart ha….”

“I…”

“Thankfully, though the Slave link, I felt your malicious intent and shielded Margret from it!” he said. “Who would have thought that mere information could cause the system to apply such a crazy curse…. From now on, I forbid you from speaking about this without my permission!”

“...” She bit her lip, her eyes wandering around for some way to escape despite knowing that she had no way out.

“Margret… Use your brother!”

“Ah...” Margret seemed to have realized something and turned to look at Alpha, who in turn was looking at Victor in shock. “COURTING DEATH...”

“No… no… I…” Alpha bit her lip. She couldn’t believe her last attempt failed just like that!

“You are a bad girl!” Margret said coldly as she picked her ‘brother’ for the couch. Its metallic luster reflects light onto Aloha’s eyes. She was not sure what Alpha just did, but from Victor’s reaction, she knew this would have been really bad!

“She was just desperate,” Victor sighed again.  “At least oil it a bit…” he added for some strange reason, looking at the ominous thing.

“Defending her again?” Margret asked with a frown.

“Can’t blame the sick… She seemed to have some kind of a phobia…” Victor sighed. A part of him really wanted to punish Alpha hard, yet another part knew well what she went through, and now that she was humiliated to the extreme, he felt a little sorry for her.

“Oh… It’s called Erotophobia…” Margret corrected him. “But it’s not an excuse, and regardless… This might cure her…” she said, slamming her brother into the ground, then dragging it behind her as she stepped toward Alpha. “It might also ruin her for good… Do you mind?” She turned to Victor.

He was no longer there…

“Well… I guess I got my answer!”

“Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo……….”

***

Watching the girls ’play' through the Slave link, Victor stood on the mansion’s roof with a frown.

Just now, he felt very angry, and was about to really kill Alpha, but a part of him stopped at the last moment, it was as if his emotions switched gears and pressed the brakes right there!

What was that feeling…

He didn’t like the change of emotions one bit! It felt like he had no control over it. Thinking about it, he always felt strange for Alpha as if he never really got angry with her, no matter how much she acted like a bitch. And whenever he planned to punish her big, it always ended up with a spanking or something sexual!

Sure, her looks when she activated her bloodline really suited his taste, but that was not that sexually depraved!

“Akashic Record, Activate…. Why did I change my mind about hurting Alpha?” He could only use his skill.

He immediately pressed <YES>

…

That was it?

“What is the eternal link effect?” he asked again. 

“Shit…”

“Is it something Alpha cast on me?”

He hesitated for a moment and pressed <Yes>

He frowned; he only had one question left before the skill went on cooldown.

“Who is the MAJOR ETERNAL LINK EFFECT, X caster?”

Oh…

“Why can’t I see this MAJOR ETERNAL LINK EFFECT, X, when I appraise myself?”

He pressed Yes.

Victor was taken aback, activating his Destiny eyes to take a look.

There, when he looked at Alpha, from the hundreds of threads forming the link between them, he could finally see it as if only knowing about it was all that was required.

A strange golden line that connected them and…

He gasped, from his body, from the myriad fate threads, 22 similar golden threads spread in all directions. Most were very thin, but 4 of them were thick like Alpha’s. Two where even thicker, indicating that he knew those guys.

And on top of that he couldn't help but notice that three of those threads were in the same direction!

What the hell was going on?