the book of introductions...

Meanwhile as these big shots planning on some "conspiracy".

The places hit by the storms and earthquakes were still in chaos.

Although it was just a few seconds, the damage left behind is actually significantly big money.

It just came and go. What a douche.

Emergency response teams suited up.

Somewhere along the beach of Miami

Rome threw the guy on the ground but magically, as when he will hit the ground.

Once again, the guy defied gravity. Just floated vertically with his iconic smile hanging on his face.

Its a freaking smile that tells that the guy has the biggest dicccc in the room and possibly also have the biggest balls.

Rome flinched.

"What the fukkk is this guy? Was he just pretending to faint? Shit. Am I being...no.." He covered his butt and looks at the guy suspiciously.

The two have staring contest again.

"Alright...Im Rome. Who are you?"

"Magnus Kane."

The feminine man with cat's eyes spoke.

"Magnus Kane?" Rome thot in his heart.

"U dont know me do u?" As if seeing thru his thoughts, Magnus asked in interest.

"U think?" Rome flatly interjected.

Out of nowhere, the guy already have a lit cigarette on his mouth.

He inhaled and the cigar automatically unplugged from his lips. It just floated there.

He looks at Rome and nodded.

"How long have u learned the craft? sorcery? magic or mystic art? A year or two?"

Rome is getting tensed now.

He dont know how the guy is looking at him strangely.

"About 5 years." Rome have to lie. No one wants to say ur weakness.

"We can agree that you just lied and you have learned magic in more than a year. My eyes are special boy. Do u not know me?"

Rome shook his head.

"I am just visiting. I have no angle coming to Miami. Just the beach."

He just wants to split away from this guy.

"This is why you attacked me. Fair enough. I will not kill you. As for who I am. Lets just say that Miami has been my territory for the last 200 years."

"The what? 200 years?" Rome exclaimed.

Magnus motioned to his face and smiled. "Beings at my level or urs will have long life span."

"And how old exactly are u?"

"Age is just a number boy." He flatly answered Rome.

Rome mind received the information and this guy is like thousands years old.

"With ur expressions, then my guess is correct. U are young magicians. Boy, if I didn't hold water back then, I could flatten u with a sneeze."

Rome smiled.

"Yeah. Can u explain, no. Are there any others?"

He wanted to know if there are other superhuman and supernaturals because the encounter with Magnus is really an eye opener.

"If I tell u now, it will take hours or days. Lets go to my office."

He waved his hand and the two of them disappeared.

Rome felt the space element invoked.

He looks at Magnus and knew what's he gonna do.

Space teleport.

Rome formed hand seals and quickly formed silver protective cover his body.

He dont know if this guy will throw him to a volcano.

The next moment, they really appeared in an office.

A simple office.

"Private Detective..Magnus Kane"

Reading it.

"Gotta make a living. Sit down, Ill get the brochures for newbies like u guys."

"Brochure?" Rome asked.

"Yeah. The counsel felt the need to produce these serials because like we are here for, introducing our World to newbies like u will take considerable hours and we old people have no patience. Irony. ooh. Here it is."

Magnus is quirky and has strange personality.

Maybe living for a long time made him just enjoy himself. Hehehe

"Book of Introduction to Middle Earth."

"Middle Earth?" Rome asked in doubt.

"Its what the old guys in the counsel decided. They were mostly having the times in the Middle Ages so they carried it today.

"Oh. U mentioned Counsel. What is it?" Rome skimmed the 100 pages more thick Introduction.

Magnus sat.

"Its like the Senate in the Roman Empire. They are the upholders of our Rules. And yeah. I'm also one of the 11 counselors. What? Arent u gonna call me Senator or Praetor? Cool right?"

"So ur like the high table?"

"Bingo." He pointed to Rome.

"Im sure u have lots of questions and all, ill just give u my number. I'm going home, my wife must be looking for me now."

"A wife?"

"Yeah. Whats wrong having a wife. All ur questions will answered there. And I hope u can minimize ur magic in this surface Earth. Or else..just read the damn book.."

The guy disappeared.

Rome left his office with lots on their mind.

"I sure wanna leave like this one day. With an attitude."

"So Middle Earth is a kind of separate dimension from the here, the Earth, the surface is what they call it." Rome read aloud.

"Unicorns. Dinosaurs and dragons. Giants and leprechauns. wow."

"Fukkk!" He closed the book after reading the Table of Content.

Scary names highlighted there.

He shivered and scared.

"I am never going there. Never. Fukkkkkk..."

He got afraid. haha

He is just a semi-half hearted ball player already lots of money. Why would he want to go there? He can just chill here and be happy.

Luckily for them Surface people.

Some kind of force prevents these beings to come in the Surface Earth.

There will always be exceptions to the rules.

One is Magnus.

Next day, he spent his time reading the book.

When he and Abby not so sticky and all over each other. Haha

Thats just them but the outside world, they still dealing with the damage last night.

Ring ring ring.

A call disturbed him.

An unfamiliar number.

"Hello?"

"Is this Rome Martinez-Smith? Its Bill Duffy, im an agent."

"Yeah. Ok. I know ur purpose. U want to represent me?"

"Yes Rome. Where are u now? Can I talk to u in person?"

"Im in Miami."

"Miami. Okay. Ill head over there now."

"Okay. Thanks. Call me whenever u here."

Dropping the call.

He got what Abby gave him with the names of agents and their clients.

"Yao Ming and Steve Nash. And he has trustworthy rep in the league. Okay. He is the first one to call anyway, so its u. As for betrayal like what Duncan's agent did to him, I can control his emotions. No one can cheat money from me.." He is not worried about betrayal or anything.

He is a mutant that can control emotions. Plus Bad Luck 100x. No one can escape his wrath.

Even Magnus cannot. In his imagination hehe.

At night.

He and Abby met Bill t at a seafood restaurant.

"Mr. Smith. Abby, nice to see u again."

"Bill. Ur getting richer again. hehe"

"Haha. Not enough. Me and Sarah planning to have a baby."

"Congrats in advance."

Rome looks at the two.

"U know him?" Rome said with a smile.

"He has atleast 3 Suns players in his agency. He and dad played together."

"Inaccurate. I was at the other side of the bench. But in this league, everybody knows everybody. Everybody ends up being friends with someone u wanna kill on court. Look at Larry and Magic. Players are as good as hollywood actors when they act."

"Like flopping." Rome laughed.

He played ball and knows how guys acts, even him acted to draw fouls.

Part of the game.

"Sure. Its okay. Mr Smith is my father. Im Rome."

"Good Rome. I will not beat round the bush. I would like to be ur agent."

Rome started his Empathy powers.

HAPPINESS, CONFIDENCE and TRUST.

Rome played these emotions right now.

With no suspense, the manner of Bill talking to him is like a friend of 10 years.

His sense of belonging and loyalty to Rome unconditionally conditioned in his brain.