Chapter 536: Reporting

BANG BANG BANG BANG… BAAAAAAAAAANG!... BANG BANG BANG….

“You couldn’t sleep too?” Ruby, who walked in holding her pillow, asked Theta and Elise, who sat on the large bed in the hotel’s suite's bedroom playing chess while awkwardly listening to the chaos from the suite on the other side of the floor, down the hallway where Victor and Lin were going at it…

“Don’t mention it,” Theta said, sighing. “Victor is really hurt this time, isn’t he? “

“You could tell?” Ruby asked.

“Although he is disguising the voices from in there, he forgot to mask the banging…” Elise sighed, blushing a bit. No wonder Lin insisted on taking him on by herself; the level of power at play here was something that would be very dangerous for anyone else, as Victor seemingly lost the power to fully control his bloodline.

BANG BANG bang BANG!…. SHATTER!

“ Is this the third window?” Theta asked.

“The fourth…” Ruby sighed, wondering what the fuck they were doing in there?

“Didn’t you heal him?” Theta asked worriedly.

“Oh… I did, but this time the damage was a bit severe, but according to Victor, he should be able to resolve the problem in two days max! Ruby sighed, then looked toward the door.

It opened, and Alpha walked in wearing her pajamas and also holding her pillow.

“Why aren’t you there helping Lin satisfy your young master?” Elise asked immediately. “Isn’t that part of your new job as a ‘Bed Warming maid’?” she asked sarcastically.

“....” Alpha glared daggers at her, then, ignoring her, she threw herself on a couch. This room was the furthest from Victor’s, so like the others, she could only escape here. Not even the Hotel management could help them here, after all, no one could tell the great VICTOR VON WEISE to stop banging his wife! “What happened today?” she asked, trying to distract herself.

“Can’t you wait for the young master to tell you himself?” Ruby asked, not giving Alpha face at all. After they heard how she tried to mess with Margret, all of them except for the Alphabet girls began to treat her a bit coldly.

“...Can’t you give me the short version? I bet Theta and Elise are dying to know too…” Alpha didn’t care about the little girl’s tone and said.

“I am not dying or anything…” Theta pouted. “But I really like to know!”

“...It would be fine, I guess…” Ruby sighed. “After entering the dungeon, we quickly discovered that all the Von Rosen family members there were already dead, and that tentacle monster had already occupied the entire space, filling it with its tentacles and strange feelers!” she sighed. “Other than the surface, everything underneath was swallowed by it…”

“Oh…” Theta nodded. They did know about that, as Victor already told Elise about his plan the previous night.

“At first, the young master immediately tried to subdue the monster using his Master seal power, but it didn’t work. That thing resisted very strongly, even tried to secretly kill us multiple times before reluctantly giving up after getting punished severely…. Next, Victor tried to force it into his cauldron, intending to deal with it slowly, but… It didn’t work… Apparently, the monster is not a single infinity, but an amalgamation of many parts, like the human body is made of many cells, yet the monster’s parts have strange things where each of them seems to have its own partial soul…. I don’t know how to describe it, but it was the strangest thing I've ever seen… I think that’s why it could resist the young master’s power, as when one part obeys, the other finds it easy to rebel, this makes it impossible to pull it into the cauldron!!"

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG….

They were at it again, but the girls ignored them.

“Then he had to go with plan C…” Elise said awkwardly as she squinted her eyes, finally making a move on the chessboard.

“Yes,” Ruby, blushing a bit, said. “For that, we had to enter its insides… Let me tell you, getting swallowed whole was not a pretty experience, but thankfully that monster couldn’t harm us… Once inside, the young master ordered Lin and me to seek out the Von Rosen’s Vaults and Treasuries as he went to check the mummified Von Rosen family heads to steal their treasures and storage rings. After that, he planned to finish off the remaining agents from the different families who were sent there and scam mistress Lily’s sister, who happened to be there as a part of the Von Krone expedition!”

“Typical Victor scumbaggery…” Alpha spat.

BANG BANG BANG BANG….

Ruby ignored her. “So, after we found the Vaults and grabbed everything inside of them into the cauldron, we headed to the Summoning room where the Monster's Anchor existed… Thanks to Victor’s power projected through Miss Lin, that monster didn’t dare to harm us the entire time, though it kept its eyes and strange inner mouths aimed at us, especially when Lin began to prepare the Body Seizing Array for Victor…” she sighed. “We finished just in time for Victor, who was disguised as Vic Volt and five other guys, to enter the hall! There, he began the ritual as planned by forcing the monster to eat many sword apples to weaken its soul and convert it into energy. The monster first let its part consume the apples, but after it confirmed its power, it became greedy and let its hidden central part take a bite… That’s when Victor gave it one of the soul Cherries that was laced with a drop of soul poison…”

“Then it exploded…” Theta said, making a move on the board. She was about to win!

“Yes, it was a bit scary, but thankfully, as Victor expected, that room was reinforced enough to withstand it… Anyways, the monster’s central soul was harmed severely and lost control, giving Victor the chance to order it to die… This severed the connection between the parts for a split second allowing Victor to Serve his soul and push part of it into the monster taking control of a part of it that he used to eat the reverse soul Apple, converting all that rampaging energy into soul once again that dead into Victor’s fragment, slowly making it grow stronger and stronger until it managed to overpower the central part and take its authority!” Ruby explained. “Then, Victor easily pulled it all into the cauldron, after cutting away the one last tentacle where the Monster’s last remaining soul hid!”

“And then he canceled the summon, cleared the dungeon, and collected the reward!” Alpha spat as she squinted her eyes. Now Victor should have an extra body like that of a tentacle monster…. Damn it!

“Yes! My level jumped to 81!” Ruby said with a smirk. “Still, the story is not over yet!” she said.

“What happened?” Elise asked, making another move.

“We got intruders… Mona, Miss Zoe, and some other girl appeared out of nowhere!” Ruby sighed.

“What?” Elise asked, looking up. “What were they doing there… How did they get into the monster?”

“No idea, according to Victor, it seemed to be one of Mona’s newly awakened powers. Anyways, that girl seemed to have noticed the young master’s demonic bloodline and thought he was a demon because he began losing control of his bloodline and the clear symptoms of soul y, so she attacked immediately!”

“HOW DARE SHE!” Theta spat as she stood up, knocking over the chessboard where she was apparently winning but in fact was about to lose very badly.

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!

“You can’t blame her, she didn’t know his identity… Anyways, Miss Zoe seemed to realize something and held back, so Lin, with the help of that Tulip girl and her friends, who were forced to help, managed to safely fend Mona and that other girl off!”  Ruby explained. “Knowing that she couldn’t overpower us, Mona quickly began to make demands that we should hand them some artifacts we took from the Vault… Apparently, it was for Miss Zoe to awaken some rare class, so the young master immediately complied…”

“Oh!” Alpha rolled her eyes. Victor really liked to pamper that cousin of his. He probably wanted to add her to his harem, but couldn’t find a good chance yet.

“Anyways, during the negotiations, the young master began to kinda lose it, almost giving up his cover a few times, so Mistress Lin quickly decided to escape… Using a teleportation talisman, we bolted to the outer peripheries of the dungeon and hid in the cauldron until it was over!” Ruby concluded just as the banging noise stopped.

“Did they finally finish?” Alpha asked as she felt a strange sense of peace.

BANG BANG BANG BANG…

They started again!

***

“George, is the damn Monthly report ready?” Theodore asked as he took his seat behind the grand desk, then took out his pipe and began to fiddle with it. Doing this report felt like homework for him, and if not for George bugging him to finish this, he would have procrastinated a bit more.

“Yes, Master… Everything is right here!” George said as he sat right next to the desk with a very thick stack of paper, then took a small monocle and placed it on his eye. This was an artifact that raised Intelligence and allowed him to think more clearly for a short period of time.

“Let’s start then and get done with it… What’s first?” Theodore asked, keeping his eyes and hands busy with his pipe.

“It is a report about the sales of our latest products…” George said. “The Algae beauty product, despite its exorbitant price, is selling out amazingly well.”

“Selling products to women is always the right thing to do… Those idiots would pay anything for beauty!” Theodore sighed.

“Indeed, master, the energy bars are also selling well, the Von Geldstadt family already bought took 87% of our inventory last month, and the other families are already showing interest, they are still negotiating with the main family for a better price though!”

“Like hell we are going to lower it! Don’t those idiots know what MONOPOLY means?” Theodore spat.

“Madam Ann might agree to them in exchange for some other types of benefits!” George said. Although the Energy bar businesses were officially under Theodore ’s control. The family had the final say in any deal regarding such a strategic resource!

“... Fine, what’s next?” Theodore sighed.

“It is about our hotels and resorts around the continent, due to the ongoing conflict in the north and the others…”

“Keep it short!” Theodore interrupted.

“Other than Victor’s newly opened Resort in Golden Waterfall town, which is doing surprisingly well, our profits are down by 9%. I propose we follow Victor’s method and offer algae-based beauty treatment in our establishment to draw in new customers,” George said.

“Do it… Make sure to use only diluted products, though, I want the Algae beauty product to keep its exclusivity aura!” Theodore replied, finally finished preparing his Pipe!

“Understood!” George noted a few things on the side of the paper, then flipped it. “The rest of the business is doing fine at the moment, so I will skip those…” he said.

“...” Theodore nodded as George put an entire folder to the side and opened a new one.

“Next, let's discuss the young masters and mistresses…” George said. “Let’s start with Miss Alice!”

“What did that lass do this time?” Theodore asked. Alice had just returned with her master to the Heavenly sect, so technically, she couldn’t have had any time to cause any trouble yet.

“Nothing, just a betrothal request had arrived bearing her name!” George said.

“Why bother me about those? Throw them in the trash with the rest, sparing her the trouble of doing that herself!” Theodore spat. For the last 3 years, he got no less than 300 similar letters, all coming from different families who wanted to curry favor with Theodore. Those fools had no idea what they were getting into!

“This one is different; it came through the family, and Madam Ann had already agreed to it!”

“I… WHAT?” Theodore faintly lifted his head to look at George. “Agreed? Who is the groom?”

“It came from the Von Krone family, the other side is their patriarch's nephew!”

“Oh, Shit… Did he meet Alice in the Heavenly sect or something?"  The Von Krone were one of the old Oligarchs, a family so hidden and deep that even their Von Weise family had to keep wary around things involving them! Still, it was very rare to see any of their heirs.

“Surprisingly not! Do you remember that Guy Yulian you met at the wedding? The one who claimed to be Miss Alice’s boyfriend?” George quickly explained.

“Both of us know that he was a random guy whom she got from the wedding venue to scam her mother and me!” Theodore spat. “Wait, don’t tell me…”

“Yeah, he turned out to be a hidden Von Krone heir who was out to experience the world. And… According to the letter, he might have already slept with Miss Alice,” George replied in a bit of a glad tone.

“Him and another 100 Burly guys… Like that would make him qualified to marry her!” Theodore grumbled.

“No, according to his letter, the guy swore that Miss Alice was a virgin back then, so that’s why they are proposing to make her his main wife! Also, a similar letter seemed to have been sent to the Heavenly sect! George said. “Mistress Serina will probably be the one to make the final call!”

“...” Theodore opened his eyes in surprise. Their daughter… Was she playing them with those burly guys? Possible. She was his daughter after all! “Tell Elena about this…  She is about to give birth, so technically, she is in her naggy period. Let her release that energy on her daughter!” Theodore said after some thinking.

“Understood!” George shook his head as he took note of his master’s orders. He would need to censor a lot of info about Yulian before presenting it to Elena, but she would definitely be glad that he came from a prestigious family!

“What about Mike? It has been a while since I heard of him!” Theodore asked.

“Lady Ann arranged a job for him in the family’s headquarters; he is doing fine, preparing to lead the young misses and masters into the tournament!” George said. Mike, despite his strange fetish for prostitutes, was a very dependable young man. “Young master Victor, however…”

“What about Victor? Didn’t that pervert already leave to attend Gary Von Goldstadt's wedding? Is he already in trouble?” Theodore asked, quickly jumping to conclusions. “How long has it been? 2 Days?”

“Yes, as Master Theodore was ‘busy’ on a ‘fishing trip’, many things occurred!" George said.

“... What happened…” Theodore asked with a sigh. After Rosette left with her master, he felt so empty inside that he needed to go fish for some new girl… Hence, a fishing trip!

“First of all, young master Victor attended young master Gary's bachelor party on a yacht… The yacht was detonated, and master Gary went missing!”

“WHAT… Why didn't anyone tell me?” Theodore almost stood up.

“Master… Ehm… The last time I alerted you while you were on one of your trips, you ordered that unless something very important happens, you are not to be disturbed!”

“My fucking son was detonated! Isn’t that important enough!” Theodore asked.

“No, by the time the news came, it was all solved. As usual, young master Victor survived and was perfectly fine. The reports indicated that he was in the latrine when it happened and was just thrown into the water, but according to a private message that he sent me, he said that his eldest disciple brother was there to see him and he saved his life.” George said. “Apparently, it was targeted at Gary; someone wanted to switch the groom, but thankfully, due to the involvement of the said ‘Eldest disciple brother’, the plan failed!”

“Eldest disciple brother… Since when did Victor join a sect?”

“You remember when he reported getting a Master's in the other world?”

“Yeah! Right… Did you find anything about that guy?”

“Nothing at all. If not for Mistress Ariana, Lady Rosette, and Young Miss Aerith Reporting meeting him, I would have believed that he was just some fake guy that young master Victor invented to use as an excuse to do some shady stuff!” George reported.

“Oh… that would be absurd!" Theodore said and shook his head as he finally lit his pipe using a match. If Victor had such power to cross worlds, he would have long used it to gain favor with the family!

“Yeah… Anyways, at the wedding, someone attempted to assassinate master Harvey and many people died…”

“WHAT? AGAIN?” Theodore asked again in surprise. “IS HE HURT?”

“Master Harvey survived… Lady Valerie managed to valiantly defend her grandfather in the midst of chaos! A few attendants were harmed, but nothing…”

“I meant Victor!”

“Oh, no, I told you, young master Victor and his wives are fine. They hid under the table during the entire thing; they were safe!” George replied.

“Good! Did they catch the one behind this?”

“Not yet! ”

“Oh… Keep me informed on any news regarding this! Theodore sighed. “I swear whenever Victor goes, trouble follows…”

“Indeed, master, young master Victor had just left the mess at the wedding and got into the next one almost immediately… “

“What do you mean?” Theodore, who was about to put the pipe to his mouth, asked with a strange expression.

“After the wedding, young master Victor went to the Bloodflint Family to ask for their daughter’s hand…”

“WHAT?” Theodore asked again. “When, how dare that brat go seeking marriages on his own! Doesn’t he know that he already has 20 arranged marriages waiting for him?”

“19 Master… The girl from the Wiseman family ran away. She was last spotted at the Heavenly sect, so… And you were planning to wait another year until the news about his Mass wedding died down!”

“Right!” Theodore nodded.

“Anyway, that girl he is proposing to is someone Master has met; it was that cute Loli who hosted Young Master Victor’s wedding… “

“The one with the brown twintails?” Theodore asked. Remembering that girl, she was very lively back then. He didn’t pay much attention to her, though, due to all the chaos.

“Yes, apparently our reports about her were not thorough enough, she turned out to be Robin Bloodflint, the heiress of the Bloodflint family who fled home about a year ago!” George reported.

“Oh… Her background is not bad, but why the fuck is everyone around turning out to belong to some bigshot?” Theodore asked with an annoyed voice.

“This seems to be something to do with young master Victor...” George sighed; he had been wondering about this, too. “The young master seems to have something to him that attracts trouble!”

“Did he get himself involved in that Bloodflint family’s internal affairs, which led to a fight?”

“Not at all, the bloodflint patriarch seemed to be ok with Victor marrying his granddaughter. It was just during the meeting, some guy reported them for forcing a minor to get married, and a police officer arrived…”

“For some reason, I don’t feel surprised…” Theodore rolled his eyes. He always felt that Victor, with his Loli maids' shenanigans, was going to get his due retribution one day.

“Nothing like that, that police officer turned out to be some crazy guy who had an old grudge with the Bloodflint family, and began a massacre… “

“A player?”

“A very powerful one… Thankfully, young master Victor had a few of his Master’s protecting Talsimans and activating them, he managed to scare that guy away by acting invincible! George said. This was reported by their spies and by Victor, respectively. “He even proudly shouted, MY BALLS ARE MADE OF STEAL when that guy kicked his crotch!”

“That’s my son! Let me guess, now those Bloodflints owe him a favor!” Theodore said.

“Yeah, they agreed to wed Miss Robin to him, and that her firstborn would be able to enter the Bloodflint Patriarchal Hierarchy!” George said. “They seem to be wanting to use the Von Weise’s family power to their advantage…”

“When it’s time for that, we will let the young ones deal with the mess!” Theodreo said dismissively.

“Understood… Anyway, young master Victor is holing up in his hotel for now with the girls, apparently they seem to be trying some new rough play and had been going at it for 5 hours straight and disturbing all the guests... If it were not a family-run hotel, he would have been kicked out!” George sighed.

“It is nice to be young. What about his wives? I heard they were running his business for him…” Theodore asked with interest. Normally, he didn’t care about his son’s wives, but Victor’s girls were different.

“One moment…” George said as he switched to a certain thick folder and flipped it open. “Yes, Lady Margret has already built a sex toy factory on that piece of land Nick was using,”

“The one on the back mountain?” Theodore asked.

“Yes, but master, this is very suspicious if I may say so myself.”

“Putting a sex toy factory in such a remote place is logical, boys like to hide their porn!”

“Master, the one behind this is Lady Margret, and what I am afraid of is that they are using this to hide something else… Just lately, she hired a genius physics PhD student named Zolan, who has very unorthodox opinions on some stuff, which led to her professor technically kicking her out. I can’t believe this is just to design Sex toys…”

“It is for sex Robots, Margret told me all about it a while back when she was here… Apparently, Zolan’s theory might relate to Mana, so she is giving it a shot to create Mana powered Sex Robots! Theodore chuckled, shaking his head. “Young people these days and their wild imagination! I want this to be a lesson to her not to be scammed by those phony scientists!”

“Ah…. I see….” George sighed. He just felt that Margret was hiding something bigger there. Hiding a Porn magazine was normal, but the things one hid inside his porn magazine were the real screwed-up stuff! Still… Since his master didn’t want to delve into this, it was not his business!

“What else?”

“Miss Margret had been sponsoring quite a few orphanages around the world,” George said.

“To get more of those Loli maids?” Theodore asked, raising one eyebrow.

“No, only 1% of the ones there seem to qualify, the rest seemed to be normal charity!” George said. “Though I suspect the ones there will secretly form a secret force of Young master Victor in the future… The subjects they hire teachers for are strange. I can understand Math, foreign languages, and business administration, but why teach them storytelling, occultism, and psychology focusing on teen troubles?”

“Don’t ask me…. Maybe Victor wants to hire them to write materials for movies when they grow up!” Theodore shrugged.

"Indeed, they are also giving them lessons in acting and vocal performances..." George nodded.

“As long as he doesn’t do anything that would cause the family to make trouble with us, don’t bother with him!” Theodore sighed. This was his philosophy in raising his children. “How is little Aria doing?” he asked. Although it turned out she was not his real daughter, he still cared about her a lot.

“Lady Aria’s running of Horizon Media is going well! There were some hiccups regarding the rights of some movies, but their media department is covering for the losses. Lara’s albums are selling great… “

“Yeah, too bad the little lass had to leave with that old hag Serina,” Theodore sighed.

“It was for the best, Master. After her bloodline awakening, Lady Lara needs a better environment! Anyway, apparently they found a replacement for her idol band, but they are in training… In fact, those girls are not total strangers; apparently, they are young master Roy’s half-sisters…”

“Jewels' daughters?” Theodore got interested almost immediately.

“Yes!” George quickly replied.

“I almost forgot about that chick because of Rosette’s trouble… I was right about those thick thighs of hers; they were meant to carry a lot of children!” Theodore licked his lips. “Didn’t I tell Roy to arrange a meeting with his mother? What happened to that?”

“Apparently, Young master Roy chose to wisely ‘Forget’ all about it after seeing how Master was fawning all over Lady Rosette,” Gorge kept it brief. “I wouldn’t blame him!” he quickly added, to make sure his master wouldn’t punish the boy.

“Ah… Don’t worry, I get it. He…” Theodore chuckled drily. He really lost his self-composure there and embarrassed himself in front of his lads, but he couldn’t be blamed. Rosette was technically the love of his life. “Arrange for me to meet Jewel by ‘chance’ in the next week… Will do this behind Roy’s back!” he said.

“Will do…” George took his notebook and added his master’s request to it.

“How is that lad doing?”

“You mean Roy?”

“Yeah… I don’t want to admit it, but I like him!” Theodore confessed. That guy was, as Lara guessed, a very dependable young man!

“He is doing pretty fine, he managed to clear the conditions and will participate in the  Tournament along with Iris…” George said. “They should be heading there tomorrow with young master Mike!”

“Good… Good… What about Axel?”

“He is staying low, waiting for Victor to return and to switch places with him… Though he was not totally inactive, according to the rumors, he found a few girls and had been keeping himself busy!”

“Good for him! At least that would keep him away from Victor’s girls!” Theodore sighed. “Did Olaf contact him?”

“No, not yet… We still don’t know what that guy is after!”

“Then how about Max? I haven’t been hearing about that little piece of shit lately?” Theodore asked.

“Nothing, he is acting perfectly normal… Too normal if you ask me, but nothing suspicious… He will join the others at the tournament, so we will keep an eye on him!”

“You do that, and…”

“MASTER!” There was a knock on the door.

“Come in!” Theodore said, allowing Adel to walk right in.

“What’s wrong?” George asked as she bowed.

“Master Falcon had contacted us through the urgent channel and asked if we had any info about Miss Zoe,” Adel replied quickly. “Apparently, he took her to a Ruin run by one of his friends to train for the Tournament, but she came out ahead of schedule and wasn’t contacting him, so he is worried!”

“Oh… Well, tell him we don’t have any info, and to let the young ones live their lives! Being overprotective is not a good thing! Theodore said dismissively. "As long as they make it to the tournament, everything should be fine!"