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The scientist reappeared behind Wissian as he closed his pocket watch. "Is this eavesdropping I see?" Kreuger whispered into the magician's ear. "As long as you keep this a secret and keep Vincent safe, I have no problem with giving you information of my gadgets". His body was still lying infront of Vincent.
Vincent, upon spotting the ‘Kreuger’ inside his house, looked back at the body in front of him and scratched the back of his neck with confusion. He thought he knew what the clock did but apparently not. He went over to the window and opened it from his side.
”So, care explaining to me what the hell that did?”
"Of course my dear friend" Kreuger walked out of the house.
"So! When you open your pocket watch" The scientist flipped it open as the same thing happened, his body falling to the ground as the previous one disappears.
"You feign your death with an identical body and you go invisible for a period of time you desire" He appeared next to the body as he closed his pocket watch. "There are of course flaws to this device. If you run into anyone while invisible, you immediately become visible. There is also a period of time you are invisible, approximately 10 seconds of invisibility during a use which is indicated on the clock inside. This gadget needs recharging if it's ability is exhausted. Itcan be used for 15 seconds, I've already used it for 10 and a second will recharge every 5 minutes. Catch" He threw the clock over to Vincent.
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Vincent caught it with his left, his dominant, hand. He looked at it for a bit before keeping it in his pant’s pocket.
”Hey—“ the assassin looked at his own watch ”—shouldn’t you go back to the kingdom? It’s nearly time for the meeting, isn’t it?” he asked. He was worried that the scientist might get in trouble if someone found out that he’d given these equipment to him.
"I don't attend meetings anymore, they're bloody useless. I spend my time in the lab and that's why I've got these handy little toys for you" Kreuger explained, answering the assassin's question for how he made all these gadgets. "I'll stay here for a bit longer, I won't be seeing you back in the palace anytime soon and I hope so too. Cause that would mean you've been captured. Mara wanted to torture you"
Valerie had gotten the crystal message and began to move. She was beginning to regret her choice of letting the man go the first time, but she while she had complete trust in her ladies judgement. This was something she wasn't sure was the right thing to do. Taking a deep breath, Valerie opened her spell book and a map. She started to prepare a locator spell. All she had needed was Vincent's name and appearance, and she had both.
”Fair enough” Vincent nodded as he spoke. He had heard movement from behind him. Sounded like someone was spying on him and the scientist. He calmly walked pass Kreuger, went through his house’s front door, got his sniper… and vaulted through the open window to fire at the scout who was spying on him.
As he’d thought, there was a person watching him. One from the Cershestin barracks as well.
”I’m sorry if that was a little extra but you know me” he added after he had preformed the kill in his own fashion.
The forest was large enough that the locator would help only so slightly. However, it can possibly be thought that Vincent, a renowned Cershestin assassin, would set ‘home’ near Atruvianir nor near Setriutan. Those areas were most likely out of the list. Yet, about 90% of the forest remained and no one outside could know where he is.
Valerie took a deep breath and started to cast the spell. She watched as the sigil appeared on her arm and a small glowing dot appeared in the forest. But it was bigger than she had expected. At least she had a place to start looking.
After a sudden change of plan, Varsha’s now sitting in Vincent’s house. She was still kind of confused, over everything that had happened. While she was still Piecing together the things that happened, someone else came into the house, it was the Cershestin scientist that was in the meeting with her. Once, he entered the house he started talking to Vincent, ignoring her and the magician. She sat back and watched them talking, when she saw the scientist pushed Vincent down and raised his axe she just sat there, spectating them like she was watching a show, she just didn’t feel any killing intent from the man so she didn’t take action. After watching them for some time, she got bored so she went into Vincent’s bedroom, sat down on the bed and started meditating. She sensed some people outside the house, she opened her eyes and used her power to lock down the locations of the intruders.
If Wissian had received the crystal message, that would have meant Valerie would have gotten it too…
“I hate to break up this happy little reunion, but you have a woman who is currently honing in on your location with a spell.” He rose from the sofa, peering out of the nearby window. Valerie would only need a name and face to locate Vincent——and through her own stupidity, she had both. That prospect frightened Wissian, because I’m order to neutralise Valerie he would need to delve deep into the pit where his true powers lay. A very dangerous thing to do…
Valerie took a moment to find an area that she had a teleport sigil in the area. It was close to the glowing area but not as close as she would want. She frowned but grabbed the map and began to active her sigil. She would hear the assassin out first, as she had done the first time. Though in the end she would either kill him or take him back to the sorceress. The spell finished and she felt her body reapperate in the forest. She pulled the map out and quickly cast her shield spell to protect herself from any attacks that might come at her.
Vincent had turned to Wissian upon hearing those specific words. He sighed and went back inside the house.
”Alright, I guess I won’t be staying here for long. Thanks for the help so far” the assassin said to everyone, in this case Wissian and Kreuger. He wanted them to leave, not for privacy reasons but for safety reasons. If they were said to have found and to have let him go, they might as well get into trouble.
”Now… I might have to ask you guys to leave…” he was unaware of the royal guard who went inside his bedroom, thinking that she might have left already.
“I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Wissian shook his head slowly, a firm expression in his eyes. “I want to give you that future I showed you, so no way in hell am I leaving you to Valerie.”
The magician cringed when mentioning Valerie’s name. He had always hated that woman.
Valerie was making her way through the forest. She glanced at her map silently hoping the dot on the map would grow smaller, it didn't. She was careful to be quiet and kept an offensive spell at the ready though she hoped it didn't come down to that. After walking sometime she finally spotted a house, that had to be where Vincent was hiding. She took a deep breath and wiped the locating sigil while keeping the shield sigil.
”Huh… strange…” the assassin muttered under his voice. He would have attempted to invite the magician out again but decided that perhaps it was useless to try anyways. He sighed and walked into his bedroom, only to find Varsha in there, closing her eyes. He acted as if he’d seen nothing and turned to the living room: ”Give me a moment while I change, alright?”
He closed the door and locked it. True to his words, he took off his shirt and was about to get changed… when he turned to Varsha and a weird idea came into his mind. He shook his head, wanting to get rid of such a horrible… well, pleasurable idea.
He’d sensed something… perhaps someone outside the house. He knew it was a magic user judging from their flow of mana but he could not pinpoint who it was exactly.
When Valerie would come close to the house, one of the Cershestin scouts spotted her and came straight towards her.
”State your name” the scout would say. They had a knife as a weapon and was bold to say the least. Seldom do people have such courage and stupidity running through them.
Valerie was ready to attack the scout. She took one look and realized he was from Cershestin. Her posture immediately turned further hostile, "It is none of your business, I assure you."
The scout didn’t flinch ever so slightly at the words of the magician. He did, however, moved considerably closer to the magician.
”I do as my general say” the scout said, jumping up and coming down, attempting to attack the magician.
The attack did nothing merely stop the moment it hit the sheild around her. She wasted no time, "Missilius." A shot of pure magical energy left from her fingertips and straight through the scout's heart. She stepped around the body and made her way towards the front door.
Varsha had confirmed all the positions of the intruders in 2 kilometers radius around the house. Once she opened her eyes, what she saw was indescribable, a river of blood started flowing down from her nose. "W..w..what are you doing?" she asked the question, even though, she was still watching Vincent without a blink. "Oh..right, there are some annoying rats around the house you know?, I'll go finish them of real quick."
”Yeah, yeah—“ the assassin mentioned as he went to his closet ”—I just decide not to pay attention to them” he added as he got out his royal uniform and wore it, adjusting its accessories so that it can be well-dressed. He also got out a mask; a white and plain one with a red ‘X’ across it.
”Also, no need for that”
”Have you seen Wissian?” the Sorceress asked one of her arch magicians and as expected from the magician, the answer was no.
The Sorceress gave a long sigh before she turned to another magician.
”Send a crystal to get Wissian, I want to know where the hell he is” she ordered as a crustal shard flew out of the castle and towards the forest.
The scout was killed quite simply. However, the front door of the house was locked and from the look of the house itself, it wasn’t going to be a surprise if no one was inside. The window was fogged up so there was no peeking in.
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Wissian’s vision started to blur. It was happening again, and it couldn’t have picked a worse time. He stumbled away from the window and towards where he might have found water, possibly a bathroom but he couldn’t quite make out where he was.
His power was also a curse. Time, for Wissian, had stopped roughly 3 years ago. His body had just stopped one day. Meddling with time always has its consequences, and this one would eventually drive him insane.
A large swelling in his chest caused him to collapse, falling against the locked bedroom door. He needed to stay calm, he needed to remain the level headed one. But it was definitely easier said than done when he was a ticking bomb.
After Vincent rejected her offer she made a little pouting face. She was kind of disappointed because she hasn't had a serious fight for some time, so she got kinda bored. ”Anyway, Vincent… Now what…Do you have something in your mind”