Chapter 161: Chapter 160 : Troubling News

Victor went to the basement where he started to adjust the array scanning for intruders…
Wah… There were 9 spies around his mansion… Were those all from the Von Krone?! Probably not… Charlotte would have some… and the family would have some too… And maybe others…. This is a big problem.

Victor didn't like his moves being watched… What should he do about them?
The first option would be to use the array to eliminate them, but that would reveal his cards… Should he do it by himself?... No, he had a better idea… Why not just use them to eliminate each other?
He needed to find good timing for that…

After quickly making some adjustments, He went upstairs where he got dressed handsomely then headed to the mansion's door as his mother and sister arrived… It was already 8.10 PM

George stepped out of the car and then saluted Victor with a nod as he professionally opened the door for Elena, and Lara to go down, followed by a sneaky-eyed hand maid… Rose. This one was his first stepmother’s spy…

“Mom..” Victor quickly ran and hugged his mother and little sister just as they stepped down…

“Victor… Your father told me that you were a little sick... So he said that I should come here to stay with you….Is everything ok?” his mother asked with concern, making Victor curse silently at his perverted father.

“Ahm…. I had a little cold, but I am fine now… Please come in.” He said as he held his curious little sister’s hand… She was looking around the house…. This was her first time outside of the island.

“Esteemed brother…. Is this all yours?” She asked,

“Yup… If you perform well in the ceremony, you will get one too.” He said with a smile,

“.. I want to live with you…” She said in a low voice, that he acted as if he didn’t hear.

He quickly invited them inside, where his harem… Servants were waiting…
They were standing in two lines to salute the new guests… headed by Hilda. All according to the family protocol.

“Madam…Young lady…. I am Hilda… The head servant here.” Hilda introduced herself, “ Allow us to transport your luggage to your rooms as you relax in the living room… Your journey must have been tiring.” Hilda professionally said as she dragged the handmaid who was beginning to sniff around away. She got Victor’s signal.

Elena nodded and then began to examine her son’s harem… Servants.
She knew Lily, who smiled politely at her… Next were two crimson-haired maids…twins… They were pretty… Did her son spend time with both of them? Maybe... After that there was a red-haired girl, that gave her a familiar air… She was a Slut. She met a lot of those when she first met Theodore… Like father, like son!
The other maids were pretty too… But three of them caught her attention…
A one-eyed Blond girl that had a noble air around her, A butler that was dressed in a maid uniform… He was not fooling no one.
And a little girl…. Was she a maid here too?
Her son’s dirty fetishes were showing… Should she take Lara and go find a hotel?

Elena said nothing but a sigh… She just nodded to the girls as she was guided by her son to a lavish living room… She decided to stay. Her son was obviously, like the rest of his family, a pervert. But he would not dare to do anything dirty while she was around… Probably.

Lara didn't have her mother’s insight…. She was just curious as she looked at the girls. They were pretty… “Were they really just servants or…… Bed warming maids as brother John said….” She wondered.

Victor smiled secretly as he could easily read his mother’s thoughts…

As they sat on a couch in the lavish living room, Mina and Mana quickly brought some refreshment, as the rest of the girls and Alex returned to their posts.

“How have you been doing? Lily kept telling me that you were busy for the last couple of weeks.” His mother asked as she looked at Lily who was standing politely behind her young master.

“Yes… You know that I have a lot of business... And school started a few days ago.” He nodded, they didn’t tell her about the coma.

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“Good... But you must take care of your health…. Having too many girls around is not healthy.” His mother added, making him fake a blush… Should he tell her that he didn’t touch any of them yet? Absolutely not.

“I know, mother.” He said,

“Don’t be like your brother Luke…. What a shame... He was promising..” She said with a sigh, making Victor look at her.

“What happened to Luke?” He asked. No one told him anything… Well, he was in a coma and the family was a mess….

“Your father didn’t tell you?.... Well… about a week ago, he was caught with Rex’s fiance… he seemed to have made her drunk then …” She paused as she looked at her daughter Lara….

“I already know, mother… I am not a child anymore…” Lara complained…. “Brother Luke … He……F….f….” The well-mannered girl couldn’t say that dirty word after all.

“He slept with her….” His mother explained using a neutral word, as she slapped the back of her daughter’s head… Getting Rex to teach her was a bad choice… He was filling her head with some unnecessary knowledge…But she could not do anything about it, as this was Theodore’s decision.

Victor was surprised… He knew why this happened… It was probably his fault.
Lily should have applied the aphrodisiac to the sword's handles… It shouldn’t be that effective being applied through the palm… Unless his brother had some very perverted hobbies….
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“Mother… Why does my esteemed brother have a weird look on his face?” Lara asked waking Victor out of his stun.

“What happened to Luke?” Victor quickly asked as Lily behind him got nervous… realizing that this should have something to do with what she did back then. Was it really this effective? She had diluted it ten times…

“The family guards took him…. He broke the family rules after all. And until his ceremony next year, he would have to live in some punishment camp… I couldn’t learn more… But I heard that Rex broke his leg before they shipped him off…. What a disgraceful act for brother’s to fight over a woman… a hooker, that’s what the background report said…” She said with a sigh, as Victor nodded… He always knew that she was a prostitute… As she was destined to marry his big brother Mike…

As for the punishment…This was not about Luke sleeping with someone, as this would only lower his chance of becoming a player… The orb must be already broken anyway….
It was about the rules. The family would never tolerate any rule-breaking behavior, especially on their turf… His father must have been very angry.
So that poor Luke would probably be spending the rest of childhood in a dungeon mine… Those are dungeons that were already cleared and were left to be mined by the family for rare minerals and plants.
Those are not happy places to be in, as the dungeon air was usually not healthy for non-players. So most of the miners would usually be criminals, disobedient slaves, and unawakened family members who broke the rules… so the social situation there was not something a spoiled brat like Luke could adapt to… Who knows he might be able to survive by using his hobbies….
Anyway, after coming out, Luke would probably be given a healing pill before attending his ceremony…. That’s if he was able to get a ceremony. That would depend completely on Rita, who was getting better at the soul arts he taught her.

“Esteemed brother… Why do you keep getting distracted…?” Lara asked him again, bringing him back to the present.

“I was just thinking about some irrelevant things…. “He said… “How is your training in family art?” He asked her as he appraised.

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