7 Towards City DC!

Allen Wu was the real name of the Branch Head of NV HTC. He was an 80 year old man who lived in a posh villa near the HTC.

He was one of the most powerful people in the City of NV along with the branch heads of NV HTO and NV MDO.

Even though he was so powerful, he didn't realize a person was standing next to him holding a medicinal vial. He was indeed fast asleep but his perception didn't seem to locate the person well within his perception range. This was only possible if the person was either using a skill to block Allen's perception or the person was way more powerful than him.

The person was indeed the man in black suit, the Spencer Family's Butler's son. He was under the order of Prince Spencer, Theodore von Spencer to erase all incriminating traces towards the Prince. He opened Allen's jaw and shoved the liquid in the medicinal vial into Allen's mouth.

Before Allen could even realize what was happening, the man in black suit disappeared from the villa.

Allen woke up, seemingly by a nightmare. He felt his throat damp, he first chalked that upto his own saliva but soon realized he was losing a part of his memory. He was honestly quite freaked out by this. He looked at his Hunter Smart Watch and realised that he had consumed a Memory Loss Potion of term 1 day.

*****

Theo woke up the next day, seemingly refreshed. He was ready for the flight to City DC scheduled at 2:00PM that afternoon. He whistled in a specific way and a man in black suit materialized near him.

Theo turned towards the man and asked, "Is everything ready, Stan?"

The man in black suit, named Stan replied in a polite tone, " Yes, Prince. Everything you ordered has been taken care of. Everything is ready. We are prepared to leave this city."

Theo asked, "Did you prepare a ticket for the civilian flight to City DC today?"

"Yes, Prince. It is scheduled at 2:00PM. We have prepared tickets for you and all of my squad. They are also disguised as civilians to accompany you onto the plane. Can I ask why are you going to City DC on a civilian plane instead of your private jet or just teleport to City DC directly?"

Theo looked out the window and said in a profound way, "Stan, you have to learn to be low-profile. Being Low-Profile is the best way to not get into trouble while living your life. High-Profile is the worst enemy of living a slow life, without any unnecessary worries. Even though you are strong and you can kill most of the people around you, if you do that, the people behind them will come after you. If you kill them, the people behind those will come after you. It is a never ending process of trouble. Only authors with bad writing skills like this kind of life for their protagonists. Remember, even if we are in a novel, we have to be low-profile. I may be intelligent than most of the people on this planet, but I will always be as intelligent as the author writing about me. You have to remember my words and keep a low profile."

"Yes, I will keep all of that in mind, Prince." said Stan. Then he asked curiously, "Prince, by author, are you referring to God?"

Theo replied, "Yes" with an indifferent face. He continued, "The term author makes more sense to describe the person beyond all of this. Even though many churches, cults, temples and other religious institutions sprung around all over the world, who all believe in various 'Gods', I would like to use the term author to refer to them. The notion that the emergence of mana was due to a supreme being, way beyond our imagination is not far-fetched. Maybe Mana Emergence was due to this supreme being. Maybe this Supreme Being is not our ally. Or maybe all of this is false. We may only know all of this in future."

Stan instinctively frowned when he heard a 'hint' in Theo's words. But soon he shrugged it off. Maybe this was because of Stan's intelligence stat being only around 600, way lower than his other stats.

*****

Three 'couples' with forgettable faces, a scary looking man in casual clothes and one forgettable young man hoped onto Flight 370 flying from City NV to City DC at 2:00PM. Surprisingly, their seats were in close proximity with each other. The forgettable young man was Theo, the scary looking guy was Stan and the three couples were Stan's Subordinates.

If people knew that even the weakest one out of the bunch was, one of the strongest in the whole city, they would indeed be terrified. Other facts like they were the part of Royal Consortium and boarding a plane would make a small group people 'TERRORISTS!' on the top of their lungs.

But no one knew. Theo saw that one nasty looking woman was looking towards them, seemingly wanted to exchange seats. Using his skill of type Time Magic, Prediction Level 18, he had already predict how the conversation would turn out. Before anyone could start a conversation, Theo used a skill of type Reality Magic, he had created.

[ Skill: Psychedelic Illusion Level 20 used.

Duration: 10h

Cooldown: 4h. ]

[ Tricks the selected targets' brains to think whatever you want to them to feel/see/think ]

This was a skill he activates 24/7 to maintain his disguised face.

Theo selected everyone on the plane except his subordinates as targets for his skill. Even though it consumed mana continuously it was so little that his Mana Regeneration would take care of it.

Only Stan observed something weird happened to all the people around him. They were all smiling like idiots and fell into deep sleep, including the air hostesses. He peered into the cockpit and saw that the pilot and co-pilot were alright. Even though the automatic flight system is robust and almost never fails, a pilot and co-pilot were necessary in case anything went wrong.

He looked towards Theo and Theo reassured him, saying it was just to avoid any inconveniences.

Stan was stuck speechless by Theo's OCD. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Soon enough they arrived at the DC Airport. The flight just took 20min.

With Mana Emergence, impossible things had already become possible. Shoving trillions of transistors in 1um X 1um had become nothing difficult. Technology Industry had indeed sprung up to the apex of all industries. Well except hunting and mining. Never compare past and the present. Safety had become one of the most important factors in development of various technologies. Before, safety was just an after thought or a post production thing but now people realised that human life was indeed more important.

When Theo and the gang got out of the airport, he felt a familiar mana wave nearby. So familiar that he recognised it immediately.

He turned his head right to the direction from which he sensed the mana wave and found a young woman with average looks and figure, but what he saw was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.

He muttered, "How were my calculations wrong? According to the extrapolation I've done, she shouldn't have grown so much beautiful! This beauty is totally out of my dataset! It must be some skill she's using! Does she have a beauty stat which is also maxed out?"

He made a special hand sign and waved at her. She noticed this and came over quickly.

Stan and others were stunned to see that Theo was calling out to an unknown woman and were shell shocked when they saw that the prince was hugging the unknown woman for a moment and then, they couldn't believe what happened! Theo and the unknown girl were 2 feet away from each other, it happened instantly. It happened as if time stopped and played at a different moment!

They realised that Time Magic skill was used and also came to the conclusion that that the young woman might be the young princess from the Windsor Family.

The unknown young woman had used the skill:

[ Skill: Pause Time Level 12 used.

Duration: 10min

Cooldown: 5min. ]

And she was indeed, Grace von Windsor!