The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 299: The Array (2)

After heading to the hotel’s back door where Mike was waiting, Victor, who was wondering why his brother was so secretive, was surprised to discover that his elder brother was not alone. Alice was with him! This was the first time Victor saw her after his return! And he really missed her.

Holy shit… This girl was strong! And her bloodline was awakened! This must be the benefit of being a student of a grand sect.

Victor didn't show his emotions, so he just acted cool as he hugged his sister tightly, before inviting both of his siblings inside.

…

“You have grown up!” Alice finally said while checking Victor from head to toe as they sat in an office on the top floor. She also didn’t display any emotions outside, trying to play her part of a dominatrix! But Victor knew that she was pleased to meet her little brother.

“Yeah… You did too…” Victor said. Alice was a total stunner. Ever since she was a small child, she was the beauty of the family! 

She had a top-grade pretty mature face coupled with Violet colored long hair. On her eyes, she wore a slime pair of glasses that had a purple jade rim, matching her iris’s color.

She was dressed in a black silky long dress that had a cut shoulder. And shiny black high-heeled shoes.

Her looks projected a sense of power.

As for Mike, he was just another handsome dude in a suit. Sitting to the side he was totally overshadowed by his sister’s domineering presence. Appearing more like a manservant.

“Weren’t you coming with your ‘entourage’?” Victor asked Alice as one of the girls brought them some extra premium coffee.

“They are here, but I didn’t want to draw attention, so I left them in the SUVs… They have grown to enjoy bondage in closed spaces…” She made a comment that no one really needed to hear as she grabbed a cup and gave the coffee a taste.

“That’s… good, I guess…” Victor said. Would Yulian be really ok with her? That’s his business.

“I see that you have expanded your wedding…” Mike asked to alleviate the awkward atmosphere.

“Yeah… I thought this was a good chance to do that… The family wanted me to marry a bitch, so I had to do it on my own terms…”

“You are really pushing them with this, but it would be fine as long as you don’t break any rules… I think it’s time to show those bastards our power…” Alice said.

“Yup!” Victor nodded, his sister really got him.

“Have you heard anything from the Von Rosens?” Mike sighed and asked. If he really became a patriarch one day those two would be a disaster.

“Yeah… Nova is still on the run, but they found a replacement girl… I told Kai—my butler— to keep an eye if the real one appeared anywhere near the hotel,” Victor said.

“So we are going on with this…” Mike was not convinced.

“I already informed Father…” Victor said.

“Yeah… He did call to grill me about what happened that day…” Mike replied. This didn’t make him at ease.

“So what’s your plan about Caspian? What do you want us to do?” Alice asked nervously. Caspian was one of the things that she had Zero confidence in. That guy didn’t play by the book, that’s why she had to come up with her crazy play to fool him.

“Nothing... I already prepared everything, and you will know what to do in time!”

“Oh, Why did you ask us to come here this early then?” she asked.

“Well… It’s about our mother… When I told her that you will be here, she decided that she didn't want to attend…”

“Oh…” Alice frowned as she looked down.

“So I made a little lie and told her that you found a boyfriend…”

“YOU SAID WHAT!” Alice asked angrily as she looked at him.

“Come on sis… It is just a little lie. And by having a boyfriend you would be able to divert some of Caspian’s attention…”

“I don’t have a boyfriend!” she spat coldly, changing her attitude completely and displaying her dominatrix side.

“I already found a good man… He is from a reputable family…” Victor said as Mike who knew better than to anger his sister shrank to the side.

“No way in hell!”

“He is a perfect fit for you!”

“I said NO!”

“But sis… Mother will…”

“I am not playing your game!” Alice said as she stood up angrily, “Don’t think I am a fool, I know you want to set me up with someone. I am not getting a boyfriend anytime soon!” she said as she turned and left the room.

“You really angered her there…” Mike said as he sipped on his coffee.

“Nah… she is just throwing a tantrum… She will return in time.” Victor said with an evil smile. 

“...” Mike didn’t know what to say, he was not that familiar with Alice, as she left home at a very young age after an elder from the heavenly sect chose her as a disciple.

"Brother… Can you follow her… Just to make sure she doesn't do anything stupid.." Victor suddenly said.

Mike nodded with a sigh then gulped his coffee in one go before chasing after his sister.

Yulian was supposed to be here last night, And Victor planned to convince him to be Alice's boyfriend for some money… As if he was hiring him.

Now the plan had to be abruptly changed, but it was still possible. Victor just needed to play a different game. He already had three backup plans for that.

He knew his sister better than anyone, and he knew exactly what she would do now.

…

After making an inspection tour around the wedding Venue, Victor headed to the roof, where a grand white tent made out of special material was erected.

It had many cables connected inside, where a myriad of screens projected every corner of the hotel. EVERY CORNER!!!

Victor walked inside and nodded after he eyed the massive array that Alpha had drawn according to his instructions. The jewel of Horas was in its center. It was transferred from the mansion two days ago… This was the reason that the dream worm demon was able to find its way inside last night.

Around it the jewel, there were more than 100 copper sheets with engravings of every one of the hotel's floors with the gardening outside. They were placed on the array lines using certain geometric shapes.

A keen-eyed person would notice that the wedding Venue had two versions of it.

This array was a multi-layered array, made from five different connected parts.

1. A concealment array to hide the array itself and the secret processing and control chambers.
2. A skill transfer array made of a network encompassing the entire Hotel. This was the critical part of the setup
3. A Monitoring array.
4. The Shards activation array.
5. A General Control Array

The arrays were connected in various parts so that the Shards would interact with the skill sharing and the Monitoring parts.

If someone from the future were to say this, their jaws would simply drop as it goes against every common sense in array building.

This array employed much of Victor’s expertise. He had to build a sparse wrapping array when he returned in time after all.

Although he couldn't claim that he was a master array builder, he could proudly say that he knew some secrets that no one did!

Even Alpha, who had sufficient knowledge to build this thing, had no idea how it worked!

She was at the moment, sitting around the array and waiting for her young master with two other girls. Yin and Camelia, whom Victor didn’t see in a while. She seemed more confident in herself. Her Analyst class would play a major role in the plan today.

They seemed to have just finished eating their breakfast when Victor walked in.

“Y…Young... Master…” Yin saluted as she swallowed. Camellia did the same. Alpha on the other hand just glared at her young master. She was holding a grudge. 

“Relax!” Victor said as he took out the four Edict shards and then began placing them on their spots in the array under the girls’ curious eyes.

“Now, Yin. Come here and apply your Demon Scene to this one…” he said after finishing.

“Apply it?”

“Just touch the stone and activate your skill!” Victor said casually.

Yin slowly jumped from her chair, wiped her hands with her jeans then carefully approached the stone and put her hand on it.

Victor could only choose D, paid 1000 points, and was now left with 311 points. The detection of demons was the most important thing to do now.

“Good!” he said.

For the second stone which already had Fire resistance, he added his disguise skill, at the F Rank costing him 200 orders. Now he has 111 points.

For a skill to be added to the shard, he just needed someone to use it on it.

For the last two, he couldn’t add any skills… He was out of order points, and they already had useful skills…. He didn’t like being poor at all, but money was meant to be spent!

“Now, with the array and the stone, your skill can be active all the time and would cost you nothing! You will be able to not only spy on everything. You will be able to get rid of any demons stealthily,” Victor explained as Alpha watched and said nothing.

“How to operate it?” Yin asked. She was nervous, but in a way looking forward to this.

“Let me show you…” Victor said as he carefully set and then began to show the girls what to do using his disguise skill to make one of the shards feel the presence of a demon.

The one that just got the demon sense skill suddenly shone and projected a light on one of the copper sheets, pointing to the upper floor where Victor was standing.

“Now, you can use the array to cast your skill Exorcism… Cast it on that iron rod. It will transfer your skill to the set point!” Victor explained pointing to an engraved Iron rod in the center of the array. “ Alpha will be here with you, if things get out of hand you will be able to dispatch the chicks to check on the situation…” He added.

“What are the rest of the stones for?”

“This one will have the skill to stop fire… Its normal range is a few feet, but you can control and expand its effect to put out any fire in the array’s range!” He said, “Only use it secretly, we don’t want to put off people's cigars!”

“Um..”

“It also has a disguise skill, use it to hide the chicks movements… It’s not strong, but with the effect of the Horas jewel, we should be able to get rid of the intruders secretly.”

“...”

“This next one will calm people down… I set it to be always in effect. Its second skill is to increase Libido… I may need you to cast it on a certain intruder… Alpha will tell you in time!” Victor said, pointing to the next shard.

“Ahh… Libido…” she blushed.

“Yeah… Anyway, the last one would disable curses and permanent skills, We will use it as needed.” He added “I don’t want to use too many active skills or reveal what we have here! Remember to act secretly, many of the guests will have keen eyes!”

“I understand!”

“Now… There would be some intruders whom we don’t have to act against immediately… Just let the receptionist move them with the extras to the duplicate wedding Venue and use the disguise shard to project the wedding on the fake stage. Camellia is responsible for managing this!”

“Shards?” Alpha asked.

“Never mind that… just be sure to act as planned!” Victor said just as his phone rang… It was Kai. 

“Did Yulian leave prison?” Victor asked, this was crucial.

“He is on his way out… I already prepared a car for him!” Kai said, “But that’s not what I am calling for… we have a problem!”

“Already? What?” Victor asked.

“The priest we arranged… He died yesterday….”

“WHAT? DEAD!” Victor yelled, scaring the girls.

“Yes… He used the money we gave him to go to a top-tier brothel… He couldn't handle the girls there. His heart just gave up after finishing the third round!”

“SH*T!” Victor cursed, startling Yin.

“The local temple had no other available priests, so the old head of the temple will come by himself…”

“Oh, I see,” Victor said as his eyes suddenly turned sharp. He knew that guy... This was how they were going to infiltrate this place then. 

“Regardless, tell them that I will send someone to drive the old man…” Victor said then hung up. This changed nothing, just some minor details that involved some very strong wine.