Sneaking in

Under the cover of the night, 3 figured in black made their way to the Naldir family main house.

"Shhh"

One of the figures in black placed his hand over his mouth, indicating that the others behind him should keep quiet. Right now, they were at the door of the mansion and about to go in.

"Queek,"

The figure in the lead slowly opened the door and walked in, and after a few seconds of looking around he stepped in front of a lit candle, revealing that he was in fact

Lance

The priestess Arian had finally stopped looking for Ember and Asher. What else could she do? If they didn't want to join, she couldn't do anything about it. She now mainly focused on her pursuit of the non-existent spirit.

However, as a result of this, she stopped coming to train Lance altogether. This was a good outcome for Lance because now he had the chance to enact his plan.

She thought She could paint Lance as lazy and untalented to his parents, so Lance decided to prove them wrong. And what better way to do that than showing them?

"Straight Up…"

Lance spoke in a hushed voice, but Ember and Asher could hear him clearly. Immediately, they followed him closely as they ascended the stairs.

And before long, they arrived at Lance's room door.

"You got the spare?"

Asher asked, in a hushed voice. Along the hallway, the sound of a woman being banged echoed loudly, causing Ashers Whispers to be drowned.

"Yh"

Lance pulled out the key and opened his room. One of the punishments he had gotten from his father was that he wasn't allowed into the main house until he gets his shit together, so Lance's keys were confiscated.

However, he had a spare, which enabled him to go in when he really needed to.

"Click"

The door slowly opened and all three of them disappeared inside, and closed the door behind them

"That's the entrance, Ember stay under the bed and keep a look-out for me"

Lance directed before proceeding to move a piece of wood laying directly on the wall. As soon as the wood was moved, a small compartment was revealed.

"Let's go"

Lance entered the compartment, and behind him Asher followed closely. The tunnel was small, crappy, and a bit dusty but not so campy that they couldn't move. it had been improved by Lance as time went on, so even though he was bigger now, they could still pass through to get to their target.

And their target was Escanor's library. When Lance was little, he would frequently sneak into the place to read, hence the existence of this tunnel.

But now, he was using it to steal spells from his very own father. He didn't have a choice, to grow stronger he needed high-level spells.

Lance crawled in the walls, trying as much as possible to remain quiet. They moved around his room and towards his parents' room, where they were bombarded with indecent sounds.

After a few minutes of crawling slowly, they came to a dead end.

"This is it?"

Asher looked at the end with a frown. There was supposed to be an entrance here according to lance, but this was clearly a dead end.

"Yup"

Lance positioned himself in a way where his back was against the wall, then he pushed forward using that leverage.

All of a sudden, light cascaded into the dark tunnel, revealing a room. Soon the path was cleared, Lance proceeded to crawl out of the tunnel.

"There we go…"

Lance looked around the library and sighed in relief, they had successfully made it without alerting anyone. It looked easy because this was not his first time.

From behind Lance, Asher crawled out of the tunnel and stood beside him while observing the surroundings. The library looked old and didn't really inspire Any awe.

The shelves were dusty, and the chairs were worn out. It looked old, it was a wonder why Lance thought that this place held anything special.

But Lance didn't seem to be bothered, he walked straight down the room and in-between a set of bookshelves and stopped

"There"

Lance pointed to a wall where a key was hung and walked over to pick it up.

"System I want to spend some lust points"

Lance's voice sounded in his mind, and almost immediately an interface appeared before him.

[Ding!!

System is at host's command.

]

"I need to break a restriction."

The only reason Lance had not snuck into the room where this key led to all these years was for one simple reason. He couldn't. The room was protected by layer after layer of restriction magic.

Even now, Lance didn't know how these restrictions worked. His magic couldn't break it, nor the keys. There was only one solution.

The system and, the only problem was the cost to unlock those restrictions was just too much.

He Soon arrived before a door placed just between two bookshelves.

[Ding

This will cost all of host's lust points.

Should the system proceed?

]

"Yes"

Lance nodded his head and not even a second later, the door that was previously locked, snapped revealing another room.

This room was not as big as the library, but it was very well-kept unlike the main library, every shelf was spotless, the books well arranged, even The ground even seemed like it had been freshly swept