Chapter 440: Communication [Bonus]

Chapter 440: Communication [Bonus]



Lucius gave Sylas a deep look. He was already aware that he had been out-maneuvered. There was no getting out of this. The Quest was too important to him. So...

He smiled.

"I'm glad that we have been able to come to an understanding, and equally as glad that you managed to make it back from such a difficult Dungeon. We can iron out the details later."

Lucius looked over the wall and toward those manning the gates.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Open up the gates. Be prepared for battle."

The subtle words seemed to be a signal to everyone else. This, of course, wasn't a green light to attack Sylas, but rather implied that he was letting things go because they were in a precarious situation and needed to be a single unit without internal strife.

It wasn't long before Sylas was escorted into Lucius' city, and though he wasn't given any official positions just yet, judging by his accommodations, it was less because Lucius wouldn't and more that it just wasn't the right time.

His new living abode was simple, but it had the first instance of running water that Sylas had seen outside of System Cities on the Aether Plane, and it was almost too big for just a single person, being over 500 square feet.

Sylas had many things he wanted to do, but he chose to wait. And as expected, it wasn't long before he was escorted to see Lucius once more. This time... in a much more private setting.

The meeting was too surface-level to bother to recount. Lucius spent much of the time hedging and beating around the bush, but Sylas gave nothing away at all.

However, the two of them weren't naive men. They realized that this situation hardly made them allies, and it was likely that the both of them would be watching their backs from now

on.

For example, how would he pick out the system he wanted to connect to in a sea of people? This seemed to be a bit of a double-edged sword. Either he would fail to contact his family and that would be a positive for Lucius, not to mention an extra card. Or he would succeed and expose more of his strengths.

Right now though...

He didn't care because he simply didn't fear Lucius.

Although he hadn't scanned Lucius' stats... he felt next to no pressure standing before him, and he trusted his Will.

Once Sylas started using Rune Soul, the process was even easier than expected. All he had to do was sort by name.

The good thing about the system having everybody's name was that it likewise documented it all. On top of that, Grimblade was a unique family name tied to their Genes, making it so that there were only a few thousand people in the world with this name.

'So many Grimblades, huh... I guess their reserves run deeper than I even previously assumed...'

Soon, Sylas found the names of his family and double-checked that there was no one else who shared the same name. After some further thought, although it was a bit silly, he chose to connect with his little sister first.

His thought process was simple: she was probably the last person Lucius thought he would use this opportunity on... and Lucius also had no idea how smart his little sister was either.

She was far less disciplined than himself, but Sylas had a feeling that his little sister's raw IQ might be higher than his own.

Unfortunately, the little munchkin took the world even less seriously than her elder brother

did.

Soon, there was a flicker and an image formed in Sylas' eyes. Much like his notification pop- ups, he was fairly sure that he was the only one that could see it. In fact, he should be the only one that could hear it too.

"Sylas?" Elara's little face blinked in surprise and then her eyes lit up. "Sylas!"