Dynamics
Elder Lu strided in the room. Quietly and anxiously, everyone followed her with their eyes. She sat down at the only available chair and Lily stood behind her.
Everyone exchanged glances but no one said anything, Edward with an earnest smile, said" Elder Lu, welcome, how kind of you to join us. We were just talking about you."
"Welcome? it doesn't seem to be the case, how could it, when I wasn't invited." Elder Lu stared at Edward with a displeased look.
"What! I told a guard to go and call you for the meeting, that useless guy!" Edward plastered a playful smile.
"Anyway, now that your here, let's get back to the topic. Unless you haven't heard yet but I've found a technique that can help destroy the cocoon." Edward spoke loud and emphasised the last sentence.
"But I can't properly work unless me and my team get full control of the operation. So me and a few other board members have thought it wise to pass on the cocoon operation to a more fit faction, what do you think?." Edward cleared his throat and explain.
Silence filled the room, everyone waited for Elder Lu's answer. Elder Lu kept staring daggers at Edward, like she was staring at prey.
"Hmph, You want the other things that comes with the operation, like the slaves right? And who are these other board members?" Elder Lu scoffed and looked around the room but they didn't meet her gaze.
'This bastard knows that the war has ended! And the Erebus family will come to check on the operations. He wants to take my credit, I can't allow that.' Elder Lu thought.
"It doesn't matter who they are, what matters is what has to happen." Edward stated
"Have they grown so old that they can't speak for themselves and they need a brat like you." Elder Lu continued to look around the room.
Silence permiated the room until, an old bald man broke it, "We have not grown that old, Lu. The fact of the matter is, Edward is right. You know just as well as we do at the importance of that cocoon and it's urge-."
"It's Elder!" Elder Lu inturrupted, her expression turned cold.
"What!" The bald man had a puzzled expression.
"You will refere to me as Elder! I am not your friend nor your equal!" Elder Lu raised her voice. Suddenly she released a strong pressure that suffocated the bald man.
The man tried to resisted with his own pressure but his face ended up slamming on the table.
"C'mon now Elder Lu, this is no way to behave and if I remember correctly Sir Oswald is older then you, you should always respect your elders" with a relaxed smile and slow voice, Edward got up and placed his hand on the man's should and released a pressure of his own.
They both worked together to fight off the pressure, but it was clear that they were struggling.
'Respect my elders huh? what about you' Elder Lu boiled with anger
"Edward, you've forgotten your place! The cocoon is something that I oversee and you touched it, without my permission." Elder Lu slowly got up, and increased the pressure.
"Enough! Elder Lu, this organisation is still democratic, we all have every right to support his decision." A few others got up and also released their pressure on elder Lu
"Indeed, this is the last and only operation left, don't let your ego get in the way." Another person said.
Everyone around the table stood up, all of them staring at elder Lu. The others released their pressure and worked together, they were finally able to push back Elder Lu's pressure but not completely. The pressure went back and forth around the room.
'Ego huh! These bastard! I'll show them ego.' Elder Lu clutched her fists.
'Bastards you think I'm scared of you?'.Elder Lu thought as a crystal-black and ominous cane appeared in her hand.
When the cane came out, strong winds kicked up and sent papers and chairs flying in a chaotic manner around the room.
Everyone else took out their weapons and some took out colorful staffs, they all looked serious.
A small smile appeared on edwards face, he his it and shouted, "Elder Lu, it's ten against one, we don't have to resort to violence."
"I don't care, yo-." Elder retorted, she lifted up her cane and threatened to slam it on the ground but
"Enough." Suddenly, a calm voice of a young woman sounded. Elder Lu's expression changed to an ugly one.
Standing by the side was an alluring young woman, with titanium blond hair, ocean blue eyes and a seductive curvy body. The emotionless expression on her face only added to her beauty.
The interesting thing was she was weary heavy armour but still looked sexy. She gave people the feeling of a warrior princess, or a captain.
The men in the meeting room all gulped down, they all immidiatly dispelled any evil thoughts. Everyone else except Edwin had an ugly expression, they all put away their weapons.
'Just on time.' Edwin thought with a smile.
"Young miss! What are you doing here." Elder Lu walked up to the woman, her tone soften a lot.
"A guard told me to come here for a meeting. Why? Am I not allowed here." The young woman asked in annoyance.
"No, no I dare not say that! I'm just surprised is all." Elder Lu's face cracked a smile. Somewhere in the world pigs began to fly.
'It doesn't matter how strong you are, even you have listen to the Erebus family. Now I just have to convince this girl and everything is set.' Edwin also walked up towards the young woman and stood besides Elder Lu.
"Miss Nemisis, what a pleasant surprise, I wasn't informed of your arrival. Please forgive me for not personally welcoming you." Edward praised as he took a bow.
'This snake..!' Elder Lu screamed out in her head, as she saw through his schemes, but also bowed.
The board members had agreed to give her the cacoon, and no one wanted to challenge her. If someone could produce results, whereas she couldn't, she'd just have them hand over the method they used.
But now Edwards had openly challenged her, and had turned everyone against her. Now she couldn't use force because of the young miss.
The crystal-cacoon mountain was one of the biggest mountain and among the last mountains left in the tomb. Plus, it currently produce more resources then any other mountain thus far.
Even the mysterious cacoon that hasn't been fully explored is there.
The young Miss, Nemisis, ignored them. She walked past the table in the room, up some stairs towards a throne at the end of the room.
She took out a pillow, placed it on the throne and sat down with her legs crossed.
"Now, what is This meeting about?" Nemisis asked.
_Scene change_
Roland was laying on his bed, joking and talking with Artic when suddenly...
His door opened.
Roland was puzzled and a little nervous. He didn't want to get visited by that old lady.
A guard walked in.
"Ay Roland! You still there?" Artic's voice sounded through the vent.
"No!" The guard spoke out as he walked towards Roland.
"Let's go!" The guard said, he didn't give Roland the chance. He grabbed Roland by the shoulder and they both disappeared.
Roland felt even more uncomfortable, as his vision went dark, after a while, he regained his vision. Still dizzy from motion sickness he looked at the familiar place.
He was currently in front of the crystal wall What confused Roland was Why, according to the agreement he wasn't suppose to come here again.
Not that he was complaining but because his body hasn't yet fully healed, due to the restraints that Elder Lu placed on him.
"Why do you have restraints on?" The guard looked at Roland in confusion.
'Because they look nice on me! what do you think?' Roland didn't dare say that out loud. He then explained to the guard what happened.
'A new variable! I must inform sir Edwin of this information.' The guard rubbed his chin.
"Hmm I see that might be a problem." The guard mumbled. He snapped out of his daze and said, "Anyway, sir Edwin has told me to inform you that, starting from now, you will work extra hard on this task."
"When your done you'll be rewarded with your freedom and any wish you may have but if you fail to meet the desired expectations, you'll end up like that rock." The guard said as he pointed towards a rock far away.
He slashed his hand in mid air and a purple wave flew out and smashed into the rock, instantly turning it into dust.
"Are we clear?"
"Crystal."
"Uhmm sir, could you please remove the restrains, they limit my ability a lot."
The guard turned into a blur, he arrived in front of Roland and removed the restrains.
"Go on now, you don't have that much time." The guard walked towards the cave entrance and stood by the wall with his arms folded.
When the restrains were removed Roland felt healthy again, he felt energized, and his breathing got better. He quickly took his position and got to work.
[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 66.30%]
[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 66.31%]
[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 66.32%]
_An hour later_
Roland sat down to catch his breadth, he was breathing heavily, his clothes were drenched in sweat. His entire arms didn't feel like moving, they felt like he just finished an entire gym session.
"Are you done?" The guard walked up to him and asked.
"My body can't move no more but I'm sure if I could rest for a bit and get some energy, I could continued." Roland huffed and puffed, he was currently spread out on the floor with his eyes closed.
In the hour that passed, Roland was deep in thought. He realised that he was very valuable to these people but recently they seemed to be in a hurry and they needed him more so his life was somewhat guaranteed.
So he was a little less worried that the guard or anyone would kill him.
"Energy and rest huh? " The guard fell in thought for a while. He looked at the now five meter by five meter 'dent' that was four meter deep and had basically turned into a small door.
'I can't consult sir Edwin right now but it might be worth it, if I do what I think is best. This kid works impressively hard.' The guard looked at the panting Roland.
"Stay here, if you leave I'll kill you!" The guard commanded before he quickly disappeared.
'Where's he going?' Roland wondered. He struggled to sit himself up, he looked at the carpet of black sand in front of him. 'What do I do with this?'
He then looked at the small screen in his vision.
[System booting process at 69.80%]
'I'll just focus on this first.' Roland rested for a few minutes before he got up and sat in front of his 'masterpiece' and placed his hand.
The prompt rang and Roland accepted....
[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 69.80%]
[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 69.81%]
[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 69.82%]
_thirty minutes later_
Roland was balancing himself on the wall while absorbing it. When suddenly he heard someone behind him.
"Eat!"
Roland turned around and realised that the guard had returned. Right in front of the tunnel was a large steaming buffet, that actually looked appetizing.
"With this, you should be able to get some energy." The guard said, he looked at the recent work Roland had done and couldn't help but nod his head.
'The kid works hard.' The guard admired, as he walked back towards the cave entrance and stood by the wall.
'Finally! food!" Roland didn't stand on ceremony and just began to eat, the food was delicious, it was currently the best thing he has ever had since he arrived in this new world, it was slightly comparable to the food he ate back on earth.
The steaming food, consisted of what looked like a hug roasted chicken or bird, rice and greens that Roland didn't recognized. He figured, if it was brought to the party with the food, he would give it the same treatment as the food, getting eaten.
He ravaged the food, he forgot his manners and even licked his fingers with food still in his mouth. Roland was very quick, he didn't know, if he'd be able to finish the food but that wasn't currently on his mind.
The food repeatedly got stuck in his throat but he 'helped' it down with some milk, he even used honey to butter up some of the food so it didn't put up a struggle while going down.
*burp*
Roland rubbed his belly, this was one of the few times in both lives he had eaten his fill and there was still food left on some of the plates.
He felt energized again but still tired and fatigued. He knew what he had to do, he got up and continued his job.
His arms were still sore but after resting and eating for a bit, Roland could continue, plus he didn't want it to seem like he lied to the guard, so he told himself to endure.
_An hour and thirty minutes later_
[System booting process at 75.00%]
Roland hit the ground again, drenched in even more sweat, he picked himself up and slowly went back to the food.
"Can you still keep on going?" The guard arrived besides Roland.
"Yeah, I think I still got some left in the tank, let me just eat a bit!" Roland said as he began to 'slowly' eat, this time he wasn't stuffing his face like before.
_Two hours later_
Roland hit the ground again, this time he stayed the for a bit. Underneath his body was a puddle of sweat, his clothes hugged onto his skin.
"I think, I'm done" Roland panted hard
The guard arrived besides him, he looked at the ten meter deep crystal wall and repeatedly nodded, "hmm you did good, let's get you back to your room."
The previous door frame was tuned into a small hallway and right beneath it was a black carpet made with the black sand.
"Can I not put them on? They hinder my body from healing" Roland commented when he saw those restraints.
"..."
'If he heals, his body might perform better tommorow but there's a chance that Elder Lu might visit him again. If that happens Sir Edward's plans might get ruined, I can't let that happen.' The guard stood there for a while.
"No! I'll give you some time to rest, then we'll leave." The guard stated after a moment of silence.
*sigh*
'Worth a try I guess' Roland thought as he looked at the screen prompt.
_Sometime later_
In a cosy small study room, dimly-lit by candles, Edward stood in front of a large book case.
Marble sculptures, wooden expensive furniture that looked rare and antique, animal rug in the middle of the room and a fireplace. The room gave a welcoming feeling.
"Are the soundproof talismans turned on?" Edwards asked.
"Yes sir." The guard behind him answered.
"THAT BITCH! HOW DARE SHE! AS IF RUINING MY PLANS WASN'T ENOUGH, YOU DARE TO HUMILIATE ME LIKE THAT AHHH!." Edwards mood completely changed, he screamed out as he smashed some books out of the book case.
"Ahh!" He turned around and punched the table, the table got sent flying and in the air, turned into dust, instantly destroying it.
As if reacting to his emotions, the fire on the candles and the fire place, exploded with intensity.
The guard stood still and calmy, as the luxurious study got destroyed bit by bit. He would occasionally dodge some books or disembodied furniture.
A while later, Edward calmed down, most of the furniture were reduced to rubbles. The candles were finished and the only source of light left was the fire place.
"Looks like I may have to change my plans a bit." Edward pushed backed his hair and unbuttoned his shirt.
"Was the meeting that much of a failure?" The guard asked.
"*Sighs* That little girl, Nemisis won't give me the operation, not only that but she wants me to give them the method I used to destroy the wall."
"That old hag already bonded with that little girl and she's doing this in her favour, this was out of my expectations." Edward picked up a chair which was surprising intact.
"The worst thing is that all those old skeletons have decided to join that old hag. I haven't given them the method yet and have bought myself some time." Edward rubbed his eyes, he looked exhuasted.
"What do you plan to do now sir?" The guard also found a chair and sat down.
Normally a guard wouldn't do anything without permission, let alone, casually sit down.
"I'll try and convince Erebus himself, he calls all the shots afterall. I know he values results, so until then I'll wait."
"Anyway how did the session with the kid go." Edward changed the topic as the matter was annoying him.
"There might be a problem, you see...."
"..."