Chapter 396: Chapter 395: The Portal!

“So, are you finally horny enough to use this communication skill in its intended way?” Margret asked as soon as Victor contacted her, she was wearing her crimson bathrobe and relaxing in front of her computer. She had just finished her morning shower and was in the mood for some stock trading. This was the lifestyle she always wished for!

“Ah… I have not considered that yet…” Victor seemed tempted. “Sadly, it is not the right time…” he sighed.

“Oh… Do you have a girl on your side?” she immediately asked. That was the only reason Victor would not say yes immediately to any perverted act.

“Ah… Maybe…” he answered. He clearly had more than one.

“Oh... A new one?” Margret asked.

“Is there any other kind?” he replied with a frown.

“Good point…” Margret replied, feeling a little defeated. If she corrected him she would be calling herself ‘old’! “So, if not for having phone sex, where are you contacting this lonely housewife who was left alone to rot by her husband who went away to expand his collection?” she asked. That was a mouthful.

“I am going on a trip… “ he wanted to add that it was also to expand his collection, but she interrupted him.

“You are leaving, where? For how long?” Margret snapped immediately. This was not the right time for Victor to be absent.

“Look, I don't have much of a choice here. It is to another world…” he didn’t elaborate. Choosing not to tell Margret about the scheme in the family yet.

“WHAT?” Margret asked in surprise.

“It is called Ismeralia, a fantasy world of some sort, but don’t worry. I plan to return in a month or two. I will be leaving the girls in your care…” he said.

It took Margret a few seconds to fully comprehend what he just said.

“You are not kidding?” she asked, just to make sure.

“Nope… I just contracted Lily to confirm some things, and this is the best course of action I can take in the current situation…” Victor sounded serious. “The family might presume me dead though, so I wanted to remind you to act a little sad and tell the girls to do the same or my parents might really begin to hate you…”

“I know… I know… Will we be able to contact you?” she asked with a frown as she looked at the tightly packed schemes schedule on her computer screen. She would need to change a few of her plans involving Victor. Super Troublesome!

“I don’t know yet… But we will act on the presumption that it would not be possible,” he said. “Just be prepared to implement any of the backup plans, I have a feeling that the Dark Chamber would use this chance to replace me, I would have done it that way if I were them, so make sure to warn all the girls!” he explained. “I believe the fake one will act as if he had just experienced something horrific, and fake an amnesia…”

“Don’t worry… I know what to do!” she said as she stopped modifying the spreadsheet. Fake Victor was a Victor too, she could use him. “Shall we proceed with the current plans?” she asked.

“I don’t see a problem with that, just be careful… Did you meet with the other side yet?”

“No, it will be in three days, I need to give Abe some time to read all the files on the phone…” she said.

“Good, make sure to keep Lin nearby at all times, and to inform Elise of any updates…” he said. “I don’t want to come back and have to rescue some kidnapped wives…”

“Don’t worry… The only one to be kidnapped will be Abe…” she said.

“Perfect! Remember to just make them remove us from their suspicion list and to only try to find out their identity!… I don’t like it when I am in the limelight and my enemies are in the shadows, we need to flip the situation around!”

“I know…” Margret nodded. “In fact, your absence will close one of our loopholes…” she said, readjusting one of her schemes.

“Oh… About my relationship with Crimson Pearl?” he asked.

“Yes… Don’t worry, I will tie up everything neatly on my end,” she nodded. “Would the family trouble us after you are gone?” she suddenly asked.

“Some might try… There was a failed coup attempt lately, and after this, Titus might get released as a favor to stabilize his grandfather. You have Mike’s and Alice’s numbers, just call them if that guy shows up…” he said in a worried tone. He was not sure about the situation of the family. “Oh, and if Lily doesn’t contact you, don't worry about her…”

“I never do… “

“Just tell Hilda and my mother that she went on a mission somewhere if they asked…”

“Fine… Is there anything else?” Margret asked. She didn’t like Lily much and she knew that Lily didn’t like her. That would never stop them from working together though, they did wonders in bed when they cooperated, forcing poor Little Victor to work extra hard!

“Yes, just call Alpha and the girls and inform them about my trip, tell them to be careful too…” Victor replied.

“I understand…” Margret said. “One last thing, when you finish will you return here straight away?” she asked.

“... Probably not…” he said with a sigh. “I will contact you though,”

“Oh… Good,” Margret didn’t need more. “How about we try something before you go…” she suddenly said in a seductive voice.

“Well... I….. “ he paused all of a sudden. “Something happened, I will contact you again before I go through the gate…” he said in a hurry and disconnected.

“Take care then…” she said to herself, pouting a little as she relaxed on her chair and gazed at the ceiling.
She was wondering how she was going to spend the next few months without Victor… Although she refused to admit it, She had become a little addicted.

She needed to get a bigger toy, it seemed… No, she needed to order a custom-made one, carved out of obsidian.

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“Mistress… We found this under the rubble in a side tunnel… We think it was the artifact they were using to summon the Golems!” one agent said as they presented Ann golden cauldron.

“Did you try to activate it?” Ann, who was relaxing on a comfy sofa and observing the work around her in the tunnel while drinking a cocktail, asked glancing at the cauldron.

“There was no response… Our appraiser swears it is an artifact, but he says his rank is too low to see anything else…”

“Oh… Interesting…” Ann said. “Dust it for fingerprints and DNA samples, then send it to the vault… I will have a look at it later!” she said. She had more important things to take care of. And this vault would be a perfect trap… “Did you find Antonie’s corpse?” she asked.

“No… We believe he escaped somehow, as there was a broken part in our array that we presumed it was due to the shock earlier…” the agent answered nervously. For the last 5 hours that was the only explanation they could find.

“Oh… Find the party responsible for that part and question them…” she said just a man came running. It was Alfred who frowned looking at the cauldron then looked back at Ann.

“Is there news?” she asked. She was making him do the sensitive task instead of the injured Olaf, and although he was technically a supreme elder, he didn’t complain like the other snobby bastards.

“There are a lot of Golems at the left mine, they seem to be randomly patrolling the old chamber.” Alfred quickly reported. “The villages are all safe, as well as the miners who were locked in them…, The kids might be in trouble though…” He added.

“What?” Ann sat right up.

“The men I sent there reported that the tunnel they were in was one of the few who collapsed…“ he nervously explained.

“Continue…”

“Communications are not possible due to the nature of the minerals there, but the kids are alive, all of them, we checked their life jades… We believe that they are trapped in that chamber!” Alfred said, “I already sent the digging team but they are working very slowly clearing the rubble, but there seems to be a huge boulder that is blocking the tunnel…It is very strange as nothing is working against it…” he reported, looking at one paper in his hand.

“Did they take a sample?” she asked, relaxing a bit.

“We still need a thorough investigation, so we sent it to the surface, but the preliminary chemical analysis reported a 19.4% unknown material… The same one found in the mine in minute quantities…” he said.

“Oh…” Ann frowned. “Well, as long as the kids are fine, I guess we will have to wait… Hopefully, they will act responsibly and not make any…." She didn’t continue as an agent came running.

“What?” Alfred asked.

“Master… 30 Minutes ago... The... the life jade of Elite heir Jaiden Von Weise cracked… He is presumed dead…” the agent who came running from the communication office at the entrance said as he caught his breath.

“WHAT?” Ann frowned, she stood up and grabbed the report, taking a look at it.

“I thought you said the kids were fine?” she glared at Alfred.

“Ah… The chamber they were in is too close to the Volcano’s Magma chamber…” he suddenly remembered. “Could it be…” he didn’t continue as Ann suddenly stood up.

“Let’s go…” she said. It was not the time to lose the elite heirs now, as she was the one who chose that chamber and if anything bad happened to them, the family and the elders would definitely turn against her!

“Ahh… Where are you going?” Marcos, who was supervising the excavation by himself, asked as he noticed Ann leaving.

“To have a look at the kids!” she said in a hurry.

“The Golems are still loose down there… It is very dangerous!” Marcos said. He sounded worried. "What if Anonie still has some cards left..."

“The Golems are in the other direction… And I don't mind killing any idiot who appears before me! ” Ann said. although she might not look like it, she was an experienced player who conquered a lot of dungeons.

“Then let me quickly assemble a team and accompany you…” Marcos quickly said. “Just in case…”

“Suit yourself… But you better hurry…” she said. “Make sure to send any information about the kids directly to me!” she told Alfred as she hurried down the tunnel.

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“Was it poison after all?” Zoe asked nervously, looking at the young man who fell on the ground with black smoke going out of his mouth an hour earlier.

Instinctively, she hurried to Victor’s side as the few eldest heirs hurried to check on the ‘corpse’ that began to turn black very quickly.

At first, everyone thought that the guy who seemed a little sick for the last hour had a heart attack or something, but a few minutes later two other heirs, the dead guy’s friends who touched him when he fell, began to show the same symptoms as he did earlier. Everyone began to panic, especially as fingertips and lips were turning black a sign of poisoning.

This made Mike quickly give them antidote pills and then order all the low-level players to stay away from them and the corpse.

“Yes… Let’s be careful and not go near anyone…” Victor said, grabbing Zoe and Kuu to his side as he appraised everyone in the room, searching their abnormal status of whether they were positioned. He quickly found four… five…. Ten… Damn, more than half of the heirs here were poisoned!

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