The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 208: His Mother

The basement had a very deep stairway leading down, Down and down Lily went with her sisters.

Soon they reached the three stories below ground, where a white room with security cameras welcomed them… Those cameras were now recording only brown noise as the girls were using the latest family jamming technology.

 The room had one steel door and a security window where a now sleeping guard was supposed to stand… the door can only be opened from inside.

After a quick inspection, Lily used an explosive charge to blow the bulletproof window and the sleeping security guard behind it. Only idiots struggle against steel doors.

Behind the charred security booth, a dim corridor extended. It had locked steel doors to both its sides. Those doors didn’t have locks, so Lily presumed that they could only be opened by a central control room. The girls looked at each other, then carefully proceeded.

In the corridor, they could see hatches with auto machine guns behind them… Were those supposed to keep people out or some things in? Thankfully, they were turned off now as their operators soundly sleep.

The girls continued until they reached a gate guarded by four sleeping guards who became dead guards a few seconds later.

Lily performed an inspection and then nodded to her sister who opened the door carefully using one of the guard's security cards. Behind it was a big room with many monitors and computers… The main control room.

 It had a big glass window overlooking a warehouse where many big glass tanks were placed in rows with strange creatures mummified inside of them… Others had men and women… They seemed to be dead. This place looked like a lab from some horror movie.

The room had a few steel doors one of them leading to that tank's room … No girl dared to go there.

“What the hell is this place?” Assassin girl number 4, Gwen, asked. As she started butchering the sleeping scientists after taking their fingerprints, blood samples, and photos.

“Some kind of a lab.” Lily was uncertain. She proceeded to look through the monitors. They were broadcasting camera footage from many small cells with strange things inside… They were humans but had strange deformities… Most of them were dead, she could tell from the vital signs monitor in each room. Few were alive though, sleeping locked in chains. In each room monitor, the results were displayed… Failure, Failure,  Failure,  Failure  … Only six rooms didn’t have a result. Inside them, some men seemed to be sleeping naked with tubes connected to their bodies.

Suddenly one of the monitors to the side caught Lily’s attention, as the occupants of what seemed to be a warehouse were moving. They were human, but moved like zombies in movies…. A shiver ran through Lily's spine…. Those were zombies, and they were not affected by the soul poison as they were moving! No... Wait, this was not a monitor but a Tv. It was a movie… She knew that one.

Lily signed in relief then kicked the tv to the ground… This thing has just scared the sh*t out of her.

She took a deep breath again and then headed to the main computer where she used her phone to crack the security and get access to the data. After tinkering with the terminal for a while she was able to get an idea of this place. They were doing human experiments here.

Lily quickly started downloading the data as she checked around trying to figure out what Troy was planning.

“Ah… Lily…. This thing… Why does it look like a monster from a dungeon?” Eve suddenly asked, pointing to one tube, where the corpse of an octopus-like creature with a big gaping jaw and sharp teeth was floating.

“I don’t really get it, but if my guess is correct, Those guys have found a way to mass produce semi-players. They are using some technology to infuse the cells of dungeon monsters into living beings…. The procedure seems to be risky, but there is a 10% chance to turn humans into a semi-player… And granting them some of the monster's powers!” She said as she swallowed while looking at the data.

“Aren't dungeon monsters impossible to take out? They would disintegrate the moment you defeat them… You can’t even put them in the storage ring. I tried.” Ila asked with a frown.

“I don’t know how they did it either,” Lily said… “I finished downloading the data here. Let's go check on the cells and take some samples.” She added with some hesitation,

“Ah…Let’s go.” shouted a little encouraging herself. Her voice was louder than usual and seemed to have woken something up as one of the steel doors in the monitor room began shaking hard… This time it was real.

…

In Tetra Quad city’s Merchants Hall, the last part of the auction was about to begin.

“Now we move to the real good stuff. ” The auctioneer said proudly, “Things here can only be traded with COINs. We originally had 20 Items. But thanks to a generous donor we have 30. The new objects are not in the catalog, they will be revealed in time.”

“Let me remind you, If anyone dared to cause trouble, he would be kicked out immediately.” He added as he glared at Victor’s balcony… Truth be told, he really liked Victor, as he had been raising the prices all night. Too bad he had a very dirty mouth.

“The first Item is the light cutting sword, an AAA rank weapon!” The auctioneer said, then shot Victor a threatening glare, if he asked about it vibrating he would definitely kick him out…

Victor just chuckled and kept silent. As he inspected the grim-looking sword on the table. Nah, He was not interested in any of the following items… He didn’t even look at the auction’s catalog.

The sword was grabbed by none other than Troy, which made Victor wonder where did that guy get the Coins from, as Semi-players can’t enter dungeons…Someone was financing him. Anyway, eventually, this item will end up in his pocket, once Alpha kills Troy and grabs his stuff.

The next few Items were very normal for Victor. The guests almost lost their minds trying to get them… Hana on the other hand looked with hatred at the items. They belonged to her family. They were the items Victor gave Alpha to sell. Victor casually bet and kept his cool as Alpha bought the real useful stuff back… This was to fool Hana into believing he got these items at the auction.

“Now, we have the next lot. A bottle of rust blood… An SS ranked material of unknown origin.” The auctioneer said, making all the guests look at it with shining eyes. This is the highest ranking item in the auction until now, many of them had never seen an S-ranked item before, let alone a SS.

“We don’t know how this item can be used, so we will start with 100,000 COINs.” The auctioneer said,

“120.000,” Victor said, he also heard of this thing. He didn’t expect it to appear here.

“130.000” “140.000” “145.000” “150.000” “160.000” “170.000” “180.000”

Victor stopped bidding at this time as Toral, the dark Chamber agent he was stalking, began to bid on the orders of his lord… “Buy it at all costs!” He said,

In the end, Toral won the item for 550.000 COINs, not a small cost.

Soon enough an assistant brought the Rust Blood bottle to Toral’s room and took the payment using a special artifact that can store COINs.

“What is this for, Lord third?” Toral asked his master in the mirror as the assistant left.

“Some people had been searching for this without knowing its name… He he he… I will make them pay a heavy price for this. Now start the operation, Make sure to take the antidote first through….we will talk later.”  Lord Third told Toral as the auctioneer brought the last item to be sold.

“Yes sir,” Toral nodded, as he took a strange-looking jar from his ring…

That was the last thing Toral did before turning into a green goo… The mirror was swiftly stored in a ring to stop the shocked Lord from seeing anything.

A dark chamber conspiracy ended like that.

Victor casually grabbed the jar and cursed… This thing was so evil.

Giving the VIP room and balcony one last look, Victor returned to his own as the auctioneer began showing the next item with hesitation.

“Next, we have a troublesome item… This was given to us by a very strong master requesting to sell it… And we couldn’t refuse him. It is a copy of a certain book.” The old auctioneer said this book was given to him by Alpha who insisted that it should be sold if any of the other items were to be auctioned here.

This was a copy that Victor made, and his last money laundering scheme. That’s why he was acting like a pervert all night.

“We will accept trading for normal money for this item… “The auctioneer said as he revealed an untitled book with an expensive leather cover. The attendants watched as he opened the first few pages causing many young ladies in the audience to turn bright red and turn away or close their eyes. The book featured some very pretty women in very exotic positions.

“We will start with $1.000.000.” The auctioneer said while sweating, this was the agreed reserve price.

“2.000.000” Victor quickly bid as he licked his lips.

“3” “4” ….. “15” The price quickly increased by many bidding young masters in the crowd as the assistant kept flipping the pages.

Harvey, who was chuckling as he watched with his grandson on the top balcony, suddenly stood up and ran to the balcony rails and looked down when he saw one of the women on a certain page.

 She was his mother!

“DAMN IT.” He yelled, startling Gary,

“What?” Gary asked in shock… His grandfather completely ignored him as he bid directly “$50,000,000.”

Even he had to respect the auction rules that were engraved in his old bones.

Victor was surprised, he wanted to increase the price more, but decided not to do that. He didn’t want to mess with Harvey. He just opened the digital copy of the book on his phone and quickly flipped to that page where he read the label under the very erotic image.

Olivia Von Geldstadt.

Oh… Thankfully he erased the names in the sold copy. Just in case.

Some idiots were not sensible like Victor and bid against Harvey who quickly remembered their names as he raised the price to $100,100,000 and won the book undisputed because the auctioneer cheated a little and hastened the calling.

So the book quickly went to the top balcony, where Harvey began to leaf throw after kicking the assistant out… He didn’t see it clearly from above earlier, but most of those women were people he knew! They were his mother's friends and enemies! Who was the bastard who drew those? They were very life-like. Especially Venus Von Krone. The most beautiful woman in the world.

He froze at her page making Gary look at it with a frown… That woman was hot! He wanted to look more but his father was bent over it strangely while drooling. Gary didn’t dare to ask.

The truth was that Harvey always had fantasies about Venus after he saw her once when his mother took him to one of her gatherings… The photo made him remember his adolescence… How that woman spanked his butt when he acted naughty… Ah… The good memories.

Gary was disturbed as he watched his grandfather's perverted expression. Is this the same man who was lecturing him about the importance of his image earlier? WTF!

Victor didn’t know any of that, he was just happy with the extra amount of money he got for the book. He was considering publishing it… No, that might lead back to him. Maybe later when he find a suitable scapegoat.