13th February in the morning at the Mountain Forest,
When the gentleman materialized in the mountain forest after his journey to the another dimension, his entire body had shuddered with an unknown dread and a sense of alertness. For some moments, he couldn't believe what he had experienced within that crack. But, he realized one thing that his long forgotten past was about to be resurfaced once again very soon for sure.
Thinking about that, he became more determined towards his ultimate goal.
"I thought that time will come later. But now I guess I have to be ready more fastly. Hiding my golden scepter in that realm was a brilliant idea..." He thought in his mind.
After that, finally he looked at the surroundings. Then he couldn't find neither that little boy's numb body nor Miss Sunflower's. So, He realized that, he returned in that point when all events had already been ended and Miss Sunflower had already left that place. He understood that time moved at a different pace in two separate worlds.
He then slowly rubbed the crimson ring on his finger. Within a few seconds, he became invisible. In that state, he snapped his fingers.
"Replication..." He murmured gently.
With that said, a mummified body with an exact replication features of him, materialized in front of him. That body had no consciousness in it. Seeing that, he smiled and handed the spear to it.
"I bestow my shadow on you. I command you to work what I want..." While giving that, he commanded his replica.
Immediately, his shadow gradually began to fuse with that mummified body. Slowly it regained consciousness. After that, the body instantly bowed down before him, and nodded with agreement.
Seeing that, he smiled with a pride. In that instant, he gazed at the spear more profoundly for a second. Immediately, he ran his finger along the spear.
Within a moment, a shiny radiant red colored tiny seed slowly materialized in front of them, levitating in the mid air. Seeing that scene, he cunning smiled.
"Oh my master... You lost your aura... As well as, your ancient rotten greenish-gray, pale olive color... You have worsened in this stage... Shame on you master, shame on you..." He mocked that seed with an arrogant smile.
And he continued, "But don't worry master. I swear from now on, you will always be on my side. Ha-ha-ha..."
Saying that, he stopped talking and reached out his hand towards that seed. Shockingly, this time, that seed didn't even move a bit from it's spot, rather he very smoothly grabbed that seed, as if the inner soul of that seed had already surrendered before him.
After that, he allowed his replica to carry forward his pending tasks one by one. Hearing that, his replica dissapeared from its spot. He also finally set out for his destination to make the final preparation...
13th February at night in Birmingham Castle,
When the gentleman's replica reached at the castle, it noticed two more people were already standing at the gate. As being his shadow in that replica, he knew everything of his life, connections, influences, and memories. So, he was aware of them very much. They were Mr. Simon Caesar, the young master of the reputed Caesar family; and Mr. Rudd Nightingale, the young master of the reputed Nightingale family.
The three of them then entered the hall together. Even though the replica could mimic the gentleman, it couldn't mimic his personality as in that replica instead of him, his shadow was present. So, that entire time, it mostly remained silent.
When they entered into the dim, shadowy hall, they noticed one person had already seated one of the thrones. Without saying much more, they sat down other three thrones.
After that, the meeting started.
Shortly after the meeting began, the conversation between Rudd and Simon started. The replica was observing everything. Those conversations were regarding the conflicted situation among the headquarters, Voidryn family, and the south. Recently, some fights had happened among the inner council members of the Voidryn family. Regarding that matters, both of them were discussing. It didn't involve into their discussions, rather was listening their words with more concentrations.
After such useless conversations between Rudd and Simon, finally the organizer of the meeting put a deal on the table. It had been waiting for that moment for a quite while. That deal was one of the gentleman's plans.
The organizer's voice was so calm and profound, as if upon hearing that voice, anybody could lose their sanity in an instant and would become the devotee of that entity. The replica was mesmerised for a second, but then regained own composure. After that, it listened the deal carefully.
At that very moment, it suddenly sensed that, during that speech some event had been occurred in that room which it couldn't perceive in that state. The soul within that mummified body faintly trembled from its spot. But then, it didn't waste anymore time.
With a serious and concerned voice, it said, "I have one precious item with me. I want to wrap up your deal with my item..."
"Oh, really! So, what is your item?"
"Blue Devil Spear..."
Every movements, every voices, every chatterings paused for a second. The hall went complete silence for a moment.
"Hmm... Sounds like a very good product... Can you elaborate more, what is this..." Piercing the complete silence, the organizer said with a deep tone.
"Of course. Let me elaborate to you, what is this...
Blue Devil Spear is one of the strongest S grade magical item whose power is divided into three levels. The first and the very basic level is the 'Man level'. In this level, It can shatter any unrealistic and illogical phenomenons. Its user can use its evolution technique, 'Absolute Zero' at such a lower instance. At this level, the user can't control when it will appear or not.
The second and the intermediate level is called as 'Heaven level'. In this level, with increasing the previous characteristics up to twenty percent, its user can now control the spear's presence. In addition, now the spear can control the surroundings' weather and temperature into absolute zero level. But, in this level, only up to one kilometer area, it can use its power.
The name of its final and the most advanced level is 'Immortal level'. In this level, previous powers' will boost up to two hundred percents and the affected area will expand up to a hundred kilometers. In addition, now the spear can transform into any kinds of things of user. With that, it can now shatter the dimensions, spaces, and any kinds of calamities very efficiently.
The only side effect of using this spear is, its user will gradually lose every emotion and desires except extreme fury and extreme coldness.
So, I think it'll gonna be a good transaction between us..."
"Oh.. Sounds cool... Does anyone else have anything?"
The hall remained silent.
"Okay then... I can take your item instead of your pituitary gland..."
Upon saying that, suddenly on the wooden table, a pale and rotten grayish sheet of paper materialized. Seeing that, the replica also put the spear next to that paper.
"Let me describe something serious about this stardust...
This stardust is called as 'The Feather of the Blue Moon'. This has been discovered at the south province of the city, after a deep excavation for a month. I don't know anything about the quality and the powers of this paper. Only I came to know that, it belonged to Moon. And, here comes the horror. This sheet of paper is literally belonged to Moon... The white moon... Which illuminates the every night...
And that makes it special. A celestial treasure like this can't be evaluated by any kinds of materialistic treasures. That's why, I asked for the gland, a precious item for any mortals. But now, that spear can be considered in legendary level. So, it's a win-win situation for both of us..."
After that, the transaction was complete. Slowly, the spear disappeared from the table. The replica also took that paper into its pocket. With that, the meeting was also over.
Everyone except Mark gradually left the castle.
As the replica stepped out of the castle, it disappeared instantly from the place, as it had to do more pending task of the gentleman...