Chapter 990: Nightingales and ravens (2)

However, he still has a few question to ask. Even though he is quite sure he would regret asking it, he still had to know.

'Did me activating the room inform you?' Loki knows Lukas was puzzled about it and he did not have the intention to hide it from him

'Bingo!' Loki said. But then he raised his hand and said

'Now, this is no time for me to describe the complication and intrigue behind all of my scheme'

Lukas however did not stop asking. He was determined to understand it. 

The moment Loki confirmed that him activating the room bring about this Trickster into Pandemonium, he regretted hearing it

But since he already regretted, it is better to know the full story.

'By opening the room and using the runes in the room, that is how you bypassed all of the protection formation, right?'

Loki nodded. Lukas sighed as he shook his head. His face pales a bit and he clench his fist. He is feeling frustrated now. 

If its anyone else that had done such a trick to him, Lukas would bury him in the ground of the Palace with no one would ever knowing that they exist.

But, the person in front of him is not a person that he could do as he pleased. So, he could only clench his fist. Expressing his frustration with a sigh.

This is the trouble of being too smart. 

His plan had backfired. 

He was too confident of his own deduction. 

However, mistake is something that is wonderful

It serves to taught him. 

It perfected a person. 

Someone who had never make mistake before had a flaw. The flaw is never making a mistake. Once you make mistake and acknowledge that mistake, one could grow

But that is that. This is this. And right now, he really felt anger and felt like he was fooled. He sighed again and then said

'Haish. You now landed me in a huge trouble, Loki' Lukas said. He finally understands what he had done. 

He had created a loophole in the formation of Pandemonium by leaving this room in Pandemonium

Even he himself did not realizes it.

If he was a normal official, just the charge of destabilizing the protection formation of Pandemonium would land him a spot in the execution field.

Of course, he is not a normal official. 

And the one that he brought is not exactly an enemy of Pandemonium. 

However that did not change the fact that he had unknowingly created something that could bring in people from the outside, free from the detection of the protection formation

It could be a big matter. 

Or it could be a small matter. It depends on what will happen after.

Of course, Lukas had never thought such a thing could be created in the first place. 

That the room he created could do such a thing to the protection formation of Pandemonium is unthinkable to Lukas.

It is not surprising why Lukas had such thought about the protection formation

After all, the one creating the protection formation is Death Monarch. 

Lukas however forget that Loki is a master in understanding runes and using runes to neutralize or strengthen protection formation.

As he could strengthen, he could also weaken. 

But, he didn't even think that Loki could even found such a flaw in the protection formation that Death Monarch had created

Underestimating the Trickster. 

When Lukas thought of this, he could only sigh. 

That is one of his mistake.

He also forgot that Loki was the Regent of Pandemonium and he probably had the full schematics of the protection formation of Pandemonium which would enables him probably to see some weak spot that he could manipulate.

Not only Loki the Trickster had been known to have deep understanding of the runes and array formation, he even got a cheat code in the form of the schematics of the protection formation. 

Considering that Death Monarch only strengthen the energy and the power that the protection could withstand and did not change the base of the formation, Loki truly could create some kind of backdoor formation that only he could use

In all of possibilities, this was the highest. 

Lukas sighed again as he rubs his forehead. 

First, it was Sasha. He thought he was already let off. Who knows there is a big problem ahead? He did not like entering into this type of muddy water

He is all too familiar with dark muddy water of the court. 

But the conflict between two brother who stand on top of the peak of the world, added with that the terrifying resources of the Shadow Guards, the merciless and efficient three Demonic Sister and the dark forces that Loki had in the criminal underworld, this is the type of dark and muddy water that Lukas is not familiar with

In that world, he had no capital and had no power or influence. He could not protect himself in that muddy water.

As such, he did not want to get involved too much. But now, he had gotten involved. And the taste on his mouth has never been this bitter.

'It is not a big trouble. Not yet.' Loki said, like he could guess what Lukas is thinking about

Lukas could only nod and then he said

'What do you want then? I doubt you come all the way just to chat with me' 

Loki come close to him. Lukas did not retreat as Loki lean on the side of his face and whisper to his ears

'Where is the house of the Broker?' Lukas frowns for a moment but then he did not hesitate as he whispers the answer to Loki

He knows now, that Loki probably had known that Lukas also keep a tab on the secret things that Shadow Guards had done. 

Hence, since Loki had known, there is no reason for him to delay and that play that game

And this room is probably more than just a place to hide from the Divine Sense of people. Loki is planning something that requires the participation of Sasha.

What that plan was is something that he did not know. And at this point, he is too scared to ask. He did not want to get pulled deeper into this game between Sasha and Loki.

It is enough. 

And the plans that Loki had outlined in his letter is not necessarily bad for Pandemonium. It is bad for Shadow Guards. 

But Shadow Guards is not Pandemonium

And while Lukas is the Head Keeper of the Palace, and he usually only cares about what happens inside the Palace, in the end, the Palace is still in Pandemonium

If he had to choose, he would choose Pandemonium. And he is probably the most objective one. 

Since he didn't have an agenda like Sasha or schemes like Loki.

So, he only frowned for a second before telling Loki where the house was.

Loki nodded and only smiles

'I like doing deals with smart people' he said before his body slowly dissipate like mist, leaving Lukas alone in that area.

Lukas is no longer smiling. Instead he sighed deeply. Loki had gone away as silently as the way he came.

Lukas is alone again in the hallway.  He looks left and right.  He really has to make sure that Loki has gone for sure.

His Divine Sense spread out and he could not sense anything.

'He is really gone…. just like that. The Trickster is really…tricky' he muttered to himself

'Phew. At least, I could calm down now' he then heaved a sigh of relief. The reason he checks his surrounding again this time is because he fears another person would appear.

His heart really couldn't take it if another person appears. Who knows? 

It might be Death Monarch that would appear next

If that were to happen, Lukas would probably suffer a heart attack. 

Even though Lukas had reached Disk Formation Peak realm, there is still many things that scare him

After all, he had arrived at that level not entirely by his own efforts. One could say that his Disk Formation peak realm level is flawed.

He had to polish his foundation and slowly refine each of his past foundation for him to be truly considered a true Disk Formation peak realm leveler.

But his cultivation level does a good thing to intimidate people. 

This itself did not mean that Lukas is weak. Only compared to the bigshot of the world, he is still pretty weak. 

Which among the great figures of the world had flawed foundation?

Some of them even found their Grand Path and is walking toward the end of that path. He sighed as he looks at his surroundings. 

The cold winds of the night breeze by his long robe as his long robe sways left and right. The hallway is deserted and dilapidated with cracks on its wall.

He had already stored the key back inside his hand sleeve.

He looks at the door in front of him. There is a thought in his mind

Should he destroy this door or not? He clicked his tongue as second passes and he shakes his head.

'I just need to remove the backdoor formation that Loki had used to piggyback the frequency of the formation. A room where it is free from the prying eyes of the Divine Sense is a very good room. It would be a waste to destroy it after all the resources I poured into it'

Clicking his tongue, he said to himself

'Though, there is a need to relocate this room. Sasha had seen it after all. Maybe, I could just say that Loki had uses it as a way to enter Pandemonium and said to her I destroy it. Would she believe that?' He then shakes his head

'Whether she believes it or not, that is her business. As long as she couldn't find evidence that I did not destroy the room, she could only believe me' 

And smiling like he had solved the problem, he already knows what to do later. He is ready to leave this area.

Then talking a deep breath, inhaling and exhaling he calms himself down 

'Now, I have to be a monkey' he thought to himself as he walks alone in that cold and lonely dark hallways, with that smile, not that different from that famous Trickster.

The moon shines brightly up above, the world is peaceful and everything seems to be in order.

As most night in the Palace was. 

What a beautiful night, with Nightingales flying in the sky alongside ravens, he thought to himself.

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