Jace looked at Sarah with sincerity; he shifted closer toward her, outstretched his hand toward her chest, and groped her breast softly.
"Why don't you let me take a closer look, and I'll tell you..." he said softly.
"..."
Sarah stared at Jace blankly...
"Really? If you're going to make moves on me, at least try harder," Sarah said, looking unimpressed at Jace's attempt to seduce her.
"Hehe..." Jace chuckled wryly. He removed his hand from her and rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry, I usually do a lot better..." Jace said.
"I feel like I'm off my game these days..." he muttered to himself.
Sarah sighed and slumped back on the couch while looking down sadly at her chest.
Jace patted her shoulder to comfort her...
"Seriously though, if you are serious about wanting bigger boobs, come to me. I can make that happen," Jace said to her in a serious tone.
Sarah's eyes immediately turned to Jace as she looked at him for a moment, but then she averted her gaze. "Whatever, I'm bored," she said as she stretched her arms.
Jace looked at Sarah's bored expression. "Hey, have you read my books?"
"Mm? Which ones? The Godfather 1 or 2? I've read them both," Sarah said as she perked up a little.
Jace smiled. "How about it? Do you want to see the story as I imagined it while writing?" he asked.
That got her attention. Sarah sat upright. "Yes," she said with an eager expression, as she had an idea of what Jace was going to do for her.
Jace immediately controlled his dreamscape; the room turned into a grand drama theater with elevated seats, and in the middle sat Jace and Sarah.
In front of them, a large screen appeared, where images started playing in a realistic manner...
For the next few hours, Jace showed Sarah the movie The Godfather, but it was a Victorian-era edition, so it looked even better and more dramatic.
Sarah loved the experience and said she would later show it to Natalie in the same manner (in a dream).
That was Jace's night.
While he was with Catherine physically, he was with Sarah in his dream—literally.
———
Next morning.
Jace walked in the busy streets of Cherwood; the day was new and alive.
But Jace, meanwhile, was a little lost. Now he could control two marionettes, but he still had only one.
Jace, of course, wanted another one, and he would not settle for anything other than a Sequence 5!
Soon enough, Jace was in his bungalow's study room, sitting at a table writing in a notebook.
He was contemplating which pathway's marionette he should acquire.
It was now absolutely decided that he would get a Sequence 5 marionette; finding one would be simple enough, as he could perform divinations as a Seer and perform astrological divinations through his marionette.
The only question was, which pathway?
There were so many pathways, each having peculiar Sequence 5s; it was really hard for Jace to choose!
Right at the top of his mind were the Sequence 5 of the Marauder pathway, Dream Stealer—being able to steal three powers, thoughts, intentions, and blessings—and the Sequence 5 Mentor of Disorder—the Sequence 5 Disciplinary Paladin was pretty good as well, being able to restrict all kinds of Beyonders...
There were just so many, across all fields and aspects.
Of course, there were some Sequence 5 Beyonders he wouldn't be able to make marionettes out of, like a Sequence 5 Desire Apostle from the Devil pathway. Jace likely would not be able to find one due to Malice Perception as well as the rarity of the pathway; he also couldn't make a marionette out of some particular pathways that the Churches controlled, for obvious reasons.
Though he liked the Sequence 5 of the Marauder pathway, he wasn't sure if it was wise to go near that pathway due to a particular existence...
There was the 'Shepheard' the most OP sequence 5, but that too was out of the question since, the only shepherds that existed were basically the Oracles of the Aurora Order.
'would i be able to find a independent shepherd?.....'
Jace kept thinking for about an hour. He had once decided to make a marionette out of every pathway there was—once he became a demigod, of course—but for now, he was just a Sequence 5; the number of marionettes he could make was limited.
The more he kept thinking about it, the more certain he became of what he had to do.
While he was thinking about all this, there was something that was always at the back of his mind, but he wasn't sure if he should do it.
But now Jace believed that he might as well.
He closed the notebook filled with his scribbles and stood up; soon, he walked into his basement and started rummaging through the drawers.
Soon enough, he pulled out a folded piece of paper. "Found it!"
Without wasting any time, he opened the paper; there were a few strands of hair in there.
Jace smiled as he looked at the hair. "Aaron Bleak, I'm coming for you—or rather, your book!"
Aaron Bleak was a guy Jace had run into when he was a Magician; at that time, this guy was a Clown. The last time Jace met him was when he was a Faceless, and at that time, Aaron was a Magician.
It was likely that this guy was now a Faceless, but that was not the most interesting thing about him.
It was the fact that he had a 'Black Book' which was basically a guide to the Beyonder world containing all kinds of Mysticism knowledge, and the most interesting thing was the fact that it had up to Sequence 5 potion formulas for the Seer pathway!
It was only through that book that Aaron was able to get so far on the Seer pathway.
Jace had once decided that he would divine and search for the origin of the book when he became a Sequence 5.
He believed that the guy who wrote this book was a Sequence 5 of the Seer pathway, perhaps even a demigod—but that was unlikely due to the difficulty of the ritual... Well, whatever it was, Jace hoped the guy was just a Marionettist.
Because it was time—'It's time for marionette inception, baby!'
Yes, if the man who wrote the Black Book was indeed a Marionettist, then it was Jace's plan to make the Marionettist his marionette—this was marionette inception!
Jace held the paper with the hair in it in his hand, spread out his arms, and laughed like an evil villain: "Muhahaha..."
'This is going to be legendary!'