The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 397: Stuck?

He flew from branch to branch, reaching the grand white oak tree where he knew they nested.

There, a group of pretty female crows looked at him with fervorous eyes. They jumped to his side as if in heat, then they began fluffing their butt feathers at him.

Looking at them, feeling their passion, he started drooling.

It was his day at last… Too bad their feathers were black and not purple, but he didn’t mind.

It was time to……. Then his crotch started to hurt…

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH… SHIT” he screamed as he sat right up, looking around he was in a lavish hotel room, and there were no crows… Why was he lusting over female crows? What was he thinking about?

“Ah…” every bone in his body hurt.

“So you are back… I thought I really lost you there…” his brutal sister who was sitting next to him with her trusty baseball bat said. How in hell did he ever imagine that a sister could be cute and lovely. This power-hungry bitch was a demon from hell!

“Why did you hit me like that?” he asked. What was that dream about? He already forgot.

“It was necessary when a player is still low leveled, he is like a baby, his skill acquisition is maximized, so training right now would get you the best results!” she explained.

“Do you hit a baby with a freaking iron bat!?” he scolded.

“If it is for his training, then YES!” Lily said. She was going to treat her offspring the same in the future!

“What kind of training leaves me half dead?” he asked. He could still taste the healing pill in his mouth. For the last two days, ever since he awakened, Lily had been beating the shit out of him for the silliest reasons, before giving him those to heal up before hitting him again.

“Not Half dead, You were pretty much gone…” she clarified. She had to use one of the SSS life-saving healing pills that Victor gave her to bring Yulian back this last time. She went a little overboard, she had to confess.

“AND? What’s your point!” Yulian asked.

“I already told you… This is for your self-regeneration and pain tolerance skills…” she said casually. “You will thank me later!” she added.

“Like hell, I would…” Yulian said in a low voice. He had been really considering running away from his demonic sister lately, but apparently, they were going to score something big pretty soon, so he decided to just endure and stick around.

“We will see… Now come on, put on that purple suit and the mask then follow me…” she said.

“Where are we? What are we going to do?” he asked, noticing the freshly bought purple pimp suit placed on the bed. His sister had some fine taste!

“We are in the kingdom of Orva, we are going to collect some debts and get some girls…” Lily said casually. It would be a waste to open a closed dungeon without turning some slaves into players.

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“Shit…” Elena, who was watching the gathering of more than 70 young men and women in the mansion’s front yard, finally cursed. She had finally realized how much a pervert her husband was.

“Mistress, those are only the ones the master found suitable to rejoin the family!” George who was overseeing the situation at the mansion as Theodore ran outside to collect his loose offspring, kindly commented.

“George, you are not helping…” Luna, who was sitting beside them on the balcony with a bulging stomach, said with a chuckle. She always knew that Theodore was a pervert, but this number exceeded her wildest imagination.

“I am just stating facts…”

“Are all of those really my esteemed brothers and sisters?” Lara who suddenly intruded asked as she looked out, she was followed by three girls, Yin, El, and Ren who, nowadays, acted as her friends and defacto bodyguards that she didn’t need.

“Don’t call them with honorifics… Just treat them casually, as you see, they don’t have purple hair, so their rank is beneath you in the family!” George quickly clarified, fearing that any of those bastards would take advantage of sweet Lara. Many of them are nice people, but others were not, especially those sons of bitches (Literally).

“Ah…But… Wouldn’t that be rude?” Lara blinked and asked.

“Just consider them your little brothers and sisters…” George explained. “According to seniority in the family, they can be considered that!”

“Oh…” Lara nodded, “Then I should probably go introduce myself…” she said, leaving the balcony, followed by her entourage.

“Will she be ok?” Elena asked George in a worried tone.

“... Lady Elena, it is not Lara that we should worry about…” George said, not explaining any further. To tell the truth, that girl scared the shit out of him when he first saw her demonstrating her strength in front of Master Theodore.

The problem was that she was completely thinking that this was natural!

WTF!

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Victor acted quickly!

His timing had to be impeccable.

After making sure that Rita got the cauldron back in the storage space, scaring the shit out of some family servants when she jumped out of it, He acted.

First, he took all his possessions and put them in his storage ring, then he used the fishing pole to tie the pebble, and then without waiting he jumped into the Portal while drawing the line at the same time.

As expected the portal quickly expanded, But Victor, using his levitation skill, kept with the portal border as one-half of him was in and the other half was out.

This was risky, as he could feel the power of space beginning to grind on his body, nearly tearing him apart. He almost let go of the pole.

He had no choice but to fully activate his bloodline, and strangely enough, the moment he did that, the pressure was gone.

The feeling around him at the moment was the opposite, It was as if he was in a hot sauna.

He had no time to contemplate this though.

It all took a second as the pebble reached his hand when he was 90% inside. He quickly stored the fishing pole in his storage space and then activated his Devour skill on the pebble before he let go, allowing the portal to suck him in.

The next moment the world turned black, and he was flying into oblivion.

What….

Wait, wasn’t portal transportation supposed to be instantaneous? He wondered?

Could it be that the devouring messed things up?

He quickly checked his log as he floated naked in space…

…

No... Things were good here.

This skill, although a little nerfed, is not bad at all. Too bad that damn cool-down time is too long.

Eh…

Why isn’t he reaching his destination? Although he had never traveled to another world before, he did use space travel before to go between the safe cities after the reckoning. He also read the records of hunters going to other worlds. There had never been a thing like this!

Could it be that devouring the gate made him stuck in space?

He frowned and began to look around…

Strangely enough, he could see bizarre shapes going in and out of existence… It was like he was watching a broken TV or something.

At first, the image was fuzzy and noisy but as time progressed he slowly became able to see things around.

He was not using his eyes as closing them made no difference. It was as if his entire existence had somehow received this info and sent it to his brain.

Strange…

It took him some time to figure things out around him, as things here didn’t look like anything he encountered before.

From the way things moved, he could tell one thing though, he was in a higher dimension, and his brain was strangely enough fastly adapting.

Was this the influence of his X-ranked bloodlines? Most likely.

After an hour or so, he finally got the entire image.

He was stuck in the space between worlds!

Behind him, there was a huge and strangely familiar ‘Blue’ Hyper-sphere bubble-like object, He instinctively knew that this was his original world.

So it was called Trilaria…

It had all kinds of pimples and stray strands of hair going out of it, like an unkempt ugly teenager.

Those pimple-like things were all around him. They were slowly drifting from afar, then sticking themselves to it.

Now he could see them, they were as if someone sneezed his cheese sandwich into a vacuum.

He used his Appraisal skills on one of them.

What about another?

SHIT… Those world fragments were like dungeons… No! They were dungeons!

Victor slowly observed. Some of those world fragments seemed to just dissolve in the world, like sugar in water, others seemed to get stuck on the surface…

Slowly he could figure things out!

The ones that got absorbed turned into Dead Ruins like the ruin on Blackrock Island, while the ones that stuck at the surface must be the ones the world does not approve of! They were the ones becoming dungeons.

Slowly as he thought about it, things began to become clearer and clearer… It was like his state of mind was what let him see things around.

Then what about those strands of hair… No, they looked like tunnels going out of his world, and disappearing in the either, probably crossing through some different dimension. He knew what those were, they were Active Ruins. ‘Fields’. He heard before that all of them connected to other worlds, but as one went deeper and deeper the world rules became too chaotic, so no one was able to confirm this, or at the very least, no one told him.

He turned and looked in the other direction, the one he was supposed to go… His destination.

Indeed… It was the closest world to his own, as Victor could see that in the distance, there were a myriad of worlds, like stars in the sky.

Now… How was he supposed to go there?

Thinking for a moment, Victor tried to activate his Flying skill. He was an all-powerful Chaos dragon or something. He should be able to swim in space.

…

He moved.

Slowly… Then slowly.

He stopped… His mana was completely depleted after moving 2.31 feet away.

SHIT…

Victor sighed…

Did this mean that he was going to spend his well-deserved otherworldly vacation stuck jerking off in space instead of hunting elf girls?

SHIT…

For another half an hour or so he kept trying, but nothing happened.

SHIT…

Did he have to wait until a month later to use his space-shifting skill to return empty-handed…

SHIT… SHIT… SHIT…

Thinking about it, Victor decided to try to connect with his girls… Maybe they could think of something. Lily knew many things after all.

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…

Strange…

He could feel the other side, but no communication was passing through.

Damn it… He couldn’t even use this skill’s ‘intended function’ as Margret phrased it.

What about his blood slaves?

He quickly connected to his favorite Toy, Tom…

Oh, he could see through their eyes, but he couldn’t communicate or use any skills… Strange. Maybe the space was corrupting certain types of data. No… That’s not it… He could see them after all.

Well…

Tom was on his way out of the sect on a mission… He took the chance to remove his disguise and go visit a local brothel in some village.

That idiot, the moment the system was gone, began messing around.

“Hopefully he won't be found out…” Victor cursed.

“No, Hopefully, he will be found out… Let him pay for his stupidity!” He quickly corrected himself then sighed, with Tom’s luck, he would definitely be ok.

Anyway…

Rita was at the moment escaping the family archipelago, she did as he told her, she left the mine island, and headed to his house on the family island where Kai helped her. Not bad… That fat butler sure acts fast. Giving him emergency instructions before entering the mines was a good choice!

Poe was still in the family. Wait, why was he on the main island?

Oh, Marcos seemed to have gathered all the family members on the main square to deliver the bad news.

Logan was with him, helping him cry… He seemed to know something. Well, both of them would be losing their heads pretty soon. Let them have his hour of glory…

Alex was in a grand public bath, getting ‘serviced’ by some maid, Jasmine. Victor couldn’t help smirking. That girl needed to be fixed somehow, after all, she was one of the young light lord’s future mistresses. Keeping her with Alex was a good idea, as according to her Problem-Magnet nature, that young light lord might actually reveal himself.

Next was Lin. She was just busy talking with Elise about their plan to find the other future traveler. Good girls! Doing their husband's job in his absence!

Was there anyone else? Ah yes, Danial, that brat.

He was in his room with a porn magazine, doing what every teenager would do in that situation. Victor was tempted to mess with him, but sadly, his skills didn’t pass through.

Did this have something to do with world causality? He had no idea.

Now…

He needed to find out why the hell he was stuck here!

Maybe the world wanted him to reflect on all his bad behavior?

Was he grounded in some sort for being naughty?

Possible…

Jokes aside… DAMN IT… Only if there was someone he could ask.

Wait… He had a way. He could use his RECORD SEARCH SKILL! Hopefully, that damn skill won't use the current circumstances to jack up its prices.

“WHY AM I STUCK HERE?” he asked. "AND NOT MOVING TOWARD THE DESTINATION WORLD..." he quickly added.

Cheap!

Victor quickly paid.

Oh… Was it because he activated his bloodline?

Victor quickly withdrew his bloodline, and in the next moment, he felt as if he was in hell as the entire world pressed on his chest and everything around him began to accelerate!

It only lasted less than a second and moments later he felt the hot sand smolder his naked butt.

Opening his eyes and looking around, he was in an endless desert! It was sunset and the sky had three moons.