New Discovery

Lotus City –

Velvet Org Headquarters

A man was sitting on a throne in a huge hall, with a gorgeous woman standing beside him in a respectful manner. The man was none other than Jacob Rothschild, the president of the Velvet Organization, and the woman at his side was his personal secretary, Daisy.

After reading the reports given by the woman, Jacob became frustrated and started shouting.

"...who the hell is this fucking Reaper!"

Grinding his teeth angrily, he continued,

"Knight Ferma will be visiting us in a week. He has finally seen the importance of our Alis project and has promised to confer me with an Energy Harnessor. If by any chance the news that some unknown assassin is causing us trouble reaches him then..."

After breathing heavily, the man controlled his anger and instructed the woman.

"Issue a 15 million bounty on him. Also, send some of our own agents after him. Make sure he understands what it means to be Velvet's enemy."

The assistant then asked, "Sir, I also suggest we declare a level one alert just in case."

The man shouted again,

"Shut up! That's as good as telling Lord Ferma we are in a pinch. In any case, cease transactions that are not necessary. Do whatever you can to maintain peace for the time being, because if anything happens and I don't get the Harnessor, then I might as well burn down the whole organization, and that includes you."

The woman shuddered and immediately started following the man's commands. She knew what possessing the Harnessor actually meant—an exponential increase in power.

Shipyard of Lotus City

Shiv was currently on a mission to escort a rich merchant. He was quite dissatisfied these days as his speculation that Lucious was going to harm Velvet had been proven wrong due to his inactivity for the past month.

Shiv, who once excitedly shared intel with this guy, had stopped doing so over the past week. But just a few hours earlier, he had received a message from Lucious's ID to meet him at De'levo Hotel at 2200 hours. Not long after calming his excitement, knowing that it was time to take action, he received another message.

Buzzz.

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VELVET

Emergency Report…

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Shiv was surprised and intrigued after reading the report, "Dealing Velvet huge losses, good enough to make it take a step back. Is this his doing?"

As soon as he connected the dots, his eyes shone brightly. He clenched his fists tightly and spoke in a low and frosty voice,

"Just wait, Velvet. I am going to burn you to cinders."

AZ's Palace

Lucious and Williams were standing in front of a black wedge, looking at it with tilted necks.

Williams was speechless right now, as Lucious had told him to assist him in calibrating a high-tech vehicle. What he was looking at resembled nothing like what he imagined it to be.

Lucious looked at the spanner in his hands and then at the wedge. Without turning his head, he spoke,

"Williams, you are also a level 3 engineer, right? Then take this spanner and help me open the wedge."

Williams almost choked after hearing this, but he still took the spanner and approached the wedge. He started tapping the wedge to check where it could be hollow.

Lucious never expected Williams to actually do anything. He was just testing how the vehicle reacted to contact with others. He then approached the vehicle and took out the master key found in Airatis's office room.

The car immediately became active and started floating 30 cm above the ground. Lucious opened the side panels and went in. Williams was startled. He also bent in to look at what was inside. He was immediately stunned by the screen displays and luxurious interior.

Being a butler, he had seen many luxurious cars and jets, but the interior of this thing was not only luxurious but seemed more refined and high-tech.

Lucious, on the other hand, was having a huge headache. He didn't even know how to dismantle the vehicle to see what was inside and experiment with it.

Lucious finally sighed, "Sorry, Airatis, but it seems like I have no other option but to open this car of yours forcefully."

Lucious then started working by first powering down the entire vehicle. He then used titanium saws to cut things down layer by layer. Although the process was slow, Lucious didn't give up.

Although the design and mechanism of the wedge vehicle were different, the fundamentals were the same, like the internal circuits being covered by metal frames, different parts assembled together with delicate-looking threads connecting them, and so on.

Finally, after scraping off the metal casings and frames, he could see the internal workings of the machine. He then started experimenting with them. Supplying current, voltage, changing temperatures, and all sorts of things.

The list went on and on.

4 hours later...

The garage was a total mess, with parts lying around here and there. The peculiar thing about all these parts was that they were all silvery white in color.

Lucious was sitting on a chair, sucking iced tea from a straw and looking at the mess he had made. After all the teardown process of the wedge, he did learn some things but not much. However, he did find something interesting.

A spherical red crystal was placed at the exact center, and there were some space distortions around it.

Lucious knew that the wedge required a huge amount of energy, which should be concentrated. The size of the energy source would matter too, but the law of thermodynamics states it's impossible to dissipate and distribute such a concentrated amount of energy.

But Lucious knew that the crystal in his hands was for sure the energy source, creating a contradiction to his own knowledge.

He immediately went to his lab and started making some calculations and theories.

5 hours later...

Lucious's hands were shivering. His eyes were wide open, looking at the final equation he came up with. He gulped down and murmured,

"If my equation is correct, then energy could be dispersed in space and then brought back to where it is required directly from space again. No wires, even the smallest of the small and biggest of the biggest things could run without maintenance whatsoever."

He then took a deep breath to calm himself and clear his mind.

"Seems like I should visit Alios again to learn more about their technology and knowledge."

He then turned around to leave before looking at the clumsy machines he had made, "Sigh, such a waste."