105 The End of the Attack

"Quick go to Universe Store! Ask Auto to sell it!" Master Rabbink shouted.

[#$%&!] Trevon cursed while using 'I Am A Customer' skill.

"Welcome to Universe Store!" Auto floated in Trevon's direction.

Trevon had never felt the seiyuu's voice as beautiful as today. He also saw the ball-shaped Auto more beautiful than Olivia or even his own grandmother, Issabella.

"Auto help me!" Trevon still felt burning pain on his face. His voice grew weaker.

"Yes. Auto can help Customer to purchase any products or sell any products on Customer's behalf." Auto said in a calm and melodious but slow voice. The most modern bot in Trevon universe could speak like a human.

[Gah!] Trevon felt desperate. "Help me sell this liquid on me!"

"Yes. Customer wanted to sell 'Unknown Liquid'. Please confirm!" Auto took her time to ask.

[GAH! No… Not with the procedure.] Trevon usually didn't nitpick Auto's question. He usually waited in the VIP room while the bot did the shopping for him. However, today he wanted the liquid to disappear as soon as possible.

"Yes. Yes. Really really yes."

"Affirmative. Please mention how much that Customer wanted to sell! Costumer can mention up to milliliter." Auto still spoke with a slow tempo that even senior citizen could listen.

"Grr… All. Please quickly!" Trevon wanted to cry. While the spiritual energy absorption was reduced in Universe Store, the pain was still there. He lost all his energy from the pain.

"Affirmative." The bot floated above Trevon. It opened a blue light that covered Trevon. Trevon felt the liquid on his body started to float towards Auto. The pain and absorption were gradually felt lesser and lesser.

The bot continued to use blue light on Trevon's body. "All items obtained. Customer could wait in the VIP room like usual." Auto floated into the mall.

Trevon felt his skin somewhat dried, but it was a heavenly feeling. He took a mirror and looked at himself.

[GGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!]

He saw a man who looked worse than a pig. All parts of his face were swollen.

"…" Trevon quickly used his spiritual energy to recover his injury.

"You can't do that here. Nothing you do here affect your real body." Master Rabbink told Trevon.

[…] Trevon felt a bit angry with the Rabbink. That was dangerous. [Is everything fine now?] Trevon asked the Rabbink.

"Yes. Wait! Somebody strong is coming. Go back! Go back!" Master Rabbink hurriedly told Trevon.

Trevon quickly used 'I Am A Customer' skill again to return. The young master found his body was sleeping on the floor. His hand still covered his swollen face, scratching it from pain.

[This must be what happened after I was hit with the liquid. I should pretend to fake my death.] He had seen that it would take some time before a person turned into a fallen body in Downbridge family.

Trevon still opened his eyes and forced himself to prevent a blink. Using his body control, he stopped his breathing. The spiritual energy could help him temporarily. He acted like a man who died on terror. Nevertheless, he bent his knee as a preparation to jump back into the tower in the emergency. However, he canceled his idea to actually jump when he saw the new people.

He saw a big fat uncle came brought another Debt Collector. They jumped from one tower into another until they reached Trevon's location.

[That Debt Collector?] Trevon felt frustrated with the opponent. [Don't tell me I fight a gang! Isn't a young master who usually brings helpers?]

The two looked into Trevon's before they didn't care about the pig-faced dead human in their eyes.

"Retreat!" The Debt Collector carried by The Lone World Killer shouted. That was still the same fake voice that Trevon heard from every Debt Collector that he had met.

[They spoke the same voice.] Trevon thought. He still pretended as a dead body. The young master knew he couldn't avoid a Rank 3 warrior aura pressure.

"Brother! We almost destroyed the Ironlaw family." The Debt Collector who splashed Trevon with liquid said.

"Do you disobey? The formation is broken. Do not worry! The Debt hasn't been collected. If we don't have to clear the fallen bodies from the city first, we would have enough time. Too bad… Uhuk…"

"Ah! You are injured. Let's go!" The Debt Collector who had fought with Trevon spoke some strange words and glowed with blue color.

"Flap… Flap… Flaps…"

[Gah! The crocodile isn't finished?] Trevon froze for real.

Both Debt Collectors quickly jumped into the flying Crocodile. Nevertheless, its flying was no longer smooth. Some parts of its wings were destroyed by Trevon.

Lone World Killer also jumped into the big crocodile and escaped together with the Debt Collectors.

"I have managed to kill a McArthur today. Our attack on the tournament would be glorious. Heoheoheo." The Debt Collector who had fought Trevon proudly reported to his brother.

"Yes. That would be our final attack." The other Debt Collector answered.

They still spoke but Trevon could no longer hear their words.

Trevon played dead for another five minutes. After he didn't hear any noise, he slowly pushed himself closer and closer toward the door. He pushed himself like a caterpillar until it was about three meters from the tower, then he suddenly rolled and ran using his fastest speed.

Trevon didn't care about anything and ran toward any door and hallway he could see. He slammed one door into another, one hallway into another.

"Gwahahaha! No need to panic. They are gone." Master Rabbink laughed seeing Trevon escaped faster than a mouse.

Trevon stopped his run. "GAAAAAAAAH!!! You… You… You…, Rabbink! So your plan is to make me become the bait? Do you want me to die?" He pointed his index finger to the Rabbink.

The young master almost died because of the mysterious liquid. He continued to rain the curses on the Rabbink.

"Hey! This Rabbink only helped you. I calculated it would work, and it worked. Gwahahaha. What a smart Rabbink, I am." Master Rabbink felt proud of its super accurate calculation.

"You! Remember, you have a clause not to put me in a danger intentionally!"

"This is not intentional. Any reward had its risk. No pain, no gain. This Rabbink helped you to get a treasure, you have the option to not do it. Besides, when against a weak child of God, your young master aura will work wonder. The young master always wins the first match. Gwahahaha." The Rabbink intentionally didn't talk about the revenge from a child of God. That would be ugly.

[I want the full plan next time.] Trevon managed to breathe a few times. He could feel some adrenaline was still on his blood vessel making his heart beat faster.

"Fine. You only need to ask me for the full plan next time. Gwahahaha. No need to be angry. It is better to go back to your family. I think the Debt Collectors have removed the fallen bodies in this castle."

[Removed?] Trevon realized something. The Debt Collector in Downbridge family made the fallen bodies disappeared.

"Yes. It is not worth for them to maintain the weaker fallen bodies. They had taken the Rank 3 fallen bodies and left this castle."

[Maintain?]

"Yes. Their fallen body needed some maintenances if you wanted to keep them. If not, after some time, the fallen body would disappear automatically. Their invincibility comes at a cost."

[Like the Crocodile?]

"Yes. There are two factors. That crocodile is maintained and also the Debt Collector used an undiluted liquid. This is why you could only get this thicker liquid from that Debt Collector."

"Brak…" Trevon suddenly felt a weakness in his legs. [Ah? Does something wrong with me?]

"No. It is just the adrenaline effect had started to disappear. I will tell you more about the liquid later. You should drink some potions to recover your spiritual energy. Even when it was only a short time, the liquid had absorbed some of your energy."

"Ah, Fine." Trevon took a vial from his storage rings. He had many varieties of potions, talismans, and pills on it.

Trevon drank a physical recovery potion. It tasted like strawberry juice with a bit electric buzz sparked on his mouth.

[This is strange.] The young master thought. He started to feel his body cells absorbed the potion. Trevon felt his cells were regenerated while at the same time some energy flow in his meridian.

Trevon continued to drink another. He looked for a hidden location and went into a meditation to recover his spiritual energy.

It took him fifteen minutes for him to recover. He went out from his hiding place.

[…] Trevon looked around. The palace hall where he ran into had several old furniture and paintings decorated the inner structure. Trevon remembered each hall in the castle had different paintings. The room was a spring season painting.

He found a broken mirror before he remembered something. [GAAAAAh!!]

[Why don't you remind me, Rabbink?] Trevon saw his pig-like face again. [What if a lady saw me like this?]

"That is only external appearance. What important is the fluffiness!" Master Rabbink said.

The young master quickly rotated his spiritual energy to make his face back to normal. It consumed some of his spiritual energy. Making him meditated for another five minutes to recover again.

He walked to another room. [Where is the stair?]

Trevon didn't know the map of the castle. It was unlike a pagoda. Ironlaw tower was like a maze for him. He tried to compare the room with his memory.

[Nope. I have never been in this room.] Trevon used the painting to recognize a room. The room had a painting of a night sky.

"Hey! What are you doing?" The Rabbink asked.

[I don't know where I am.] Trevon felt helpless. During the chase, he was following the smell and didn't care about the route. Right now, the room didn't have any special smell, it was only a common old room smell added with the smell of debris.

Trevon knew he couldn't use the portal. While the portal would allow him to move into his family pavilion, he wouldn't be able to explain how he suddenly disappeared from the castle.

Trevon tried his best to find a staircase down. He believed as long as he arrived at the first floor, he would meet someone.

"…" The Rabbink was speechless. "Just went outside and scream! Your family can find you that way."

[I have also thought of that, but I have some prestige to hold, Rabbink. Imagine if everyone knows that I lost in the castle! Tomorrow, Lost Boy Trevon will become my new nickname.]

"Then just try your luck inside the castle. I won't help you with the way out."

[Who needs your help?!]

Trevon followed by Master Rabbink walked around the castle.

"This is it… Nope."

"I believe this is the way…"

"Gah! I swear I have seen this painting on the way before." Trevon felt frustrated.

"I want to rest…" Trevon slept on one of the bedrooms. [Ah… Female perfume smells.]

"No. I must go." He walked again.

One hour later. Trevon found some elders from his family. They were patrolling the castle.

"Trevon?" They saw Trevon in disheveled robe.

"Grand Elder Lance?" Trevon had known this branch leader.

"Good, you are fine." Grand Elder Lance knew Trevon's value to the family. Nevertheless, the kid disappeared when they exited the room. "You should not chase unnecessary danger. I know you want to become a hero…"

Grand Elder Lance stopped his talk. "Fine. Forget it! As long as you are fine. That is good. Being brave is good. The family will note your bravery. I will take you to Grand Elder Pieter now."

[Hahaha.] Trevon enjoyed the miscommunication. He followed their elder toward another hall.

[Do you manage to follow the attackers?] Grand Elder Lance spoke using spiritual sense. His family and other families had never accepted the term Debt Collector. It would be an embarrassment for the cultivation family to admit the criminals were the Debt Collectors.

Trevon knew his Grand Elder wanted to know about the treasure, but he hadn't seen the treasure himself.

[I managed to chase them, but I saw him with the Lone World Killer and another attacker, Grand Elder. I hid and listened to their conversation.] Trevon knew how to trick his family. He believed his lying habits had already been read by this elder. All elder assembly report would be shared with all higher up.

[Hm… Please elaborate!] Grand Elder Lance turned serious.

Trevon told Lance the plan to attack the tournament. Grand Elder Lance asked more detail which made Trevon told about his chase. He told about his fight with the crocodile fallen body, but he didn't explain that he could damage the fallen bodies. He attributed his success to hide because Master Creator helped him.

[Good! Your safety is the most important.] Grand Elder Lance patted on Trevon's back. [The family will handle the rest. Thank you for your information. I will give extra contribution points for this information.]

[Thank you, Grand Elder.] Trevon bowed.

[Hahahaha. Contribution point.] He felt happy. [Those guys from the discipline department wouldn't be able to touch me for another year. Hahaha.]

They arrived at a large hall where many injured Ironlaw family warriors were being treated.

Grand Elder Lance left Trevon in the room and asked some elders to protect Trevon. The family branch leader knew Trevon was the last resort in case another formation appeared. He talked a bit with Trevon before he left the room again to search the castle for the attackers.

The situation had been recovered. Ironlaw family with the help of other cultivation families had retaken the castle again. Those rogue cultivators had been asked to leave the castle.

While waiting for the elders to complete their patrol, Trevon sat in a chair next to Roya and Homa. As a proper young master, he lent his shoulder to those beautiful twins. Their direct family didn't survive the attack.

They couldn't even cry to a dead body. Fallen bodies didn't leave their victim. Even the blood would disappear into dust. Only the mark of battle on the building would show some fights happened before.

Nevertheless, he didn't dare to touchy touchy the girls. The situation was improper.

Ramos also sat on another bench crying.

Most Ironlaw family members were crying. Only their family leader discussed with Bamboo Old Man and Grand Elder Lance. After the mission, the good wolves were trying to chew some advantages of the weakened family.

The survivors didn't have any big injuries. All were fine. Most were people like Roya, who smashed into the castle buildings. If they were injured because of the fallen body, they would turn into one of the fallen bodies and disappeared.

"There is no injury in our family." An elder reported to Grand Elder Lance. Grand Elder Lance nodded before he talked with Grand Elder Pieter using spiritual sense.

Grand Elder Pieter looked into Trevon. He and Lance had a little discussion before Trevon was taken by Pieter back into the family pavilion.

Trevon felt tired and pressed the troublemeter. It was already Dawn, but Goldcave had an eternal night.

After some fallen rock from the troublemeter, Trevon washed his body and slept. He was too tired to check his new treasure.

[If there is no tragedy, perhaps I had slept while hugging the beautiful twins.] Trevon thought before sleeping. He only hugged a pair of bolsters instead.

While Trevon took a comfy sleep, in a hidden room inside Imperial Family buildings.

The hidden location was a damp and dark room. Many hays covered the floor.

However, a cleaned location without hay located in the center of the room. In that place, a man was chained with an iron chain from his neck into the ceiling. Meanwhile, another chain linked his left foot into another side of the room. It was the same with his right foot into the opposite side of the room. His hand was put behind while some manacles locked those hands from moving.

He only wore simple shabby ivory clothes indicated his status as a prisoner.

A group of handsome people was in discussion outside the room. Only a thick stone door separated them from the chained man. However, a formation protected their discussion from being heard by the man.

"I think we need to request some help from the Capital. Those people are dangerous." A handsome and muscular man shouted. He was Ulrico Ironlaw, the family leader of Ironlaw family. During today attack, he had lost almost every descendant. Only around two thousand people survived. Most were powerful Grand Elder and family chosens.

"Do not worry, Brother Ironlaw." Bamboo Old Man said. "I have sent a courier with the fastest Fire Alogo to deliver the message. Nevertheless, with our distance to the capital, it would need some time for a response."

"You have my condolence, Brother Ironlaw. If you have any burden with the city that we could help, our McArthur family would do our best to help." Lance McArthur said.

[You must be laughing behind my back. You wish me to grant bigger responsibility in the city.] Ironlaw looked into the other family leaders in the room. His family also lost many treasures. He also would need to pay some of these old bandits for helping him.

"Thank you for that, Brother McArthur." Ulrico had to answer that. Everyone in this room was powerful people on almost the same stature. They could call each other brother for courtesy. However, they greeted using their family names to indicate the formality of the situation.

"Your problem is our problem too. Brother Ironlaw didn't need to worry. Our Goldroad family would offer our best help." Timote Goldroad said. He was following the McArthur family. Timote was a thin and scholarly man, however behind that, he was a Middle Rank 3 warrior.

"Our Silverarmy family also would offer our support for this case." A big man said. He might look fat from the outside, but Araton Silverarmy was made from trained muscle. The Silverarmy family leader was a Beginner Rank 3 warrior.

"I could represent our Coppernight family to declare our support." Aron Coppernight, the family leader of Coppernight said. Aron was a tall and thin man. He loved to wear a heavy armor to protect himself. While he looked like that, this family leader also another Beginner Rank 3 warrior.

Each these people represented the big powers in the city. Other than them, several smaller families who also declared their participation in the rebuilding of the city.

"Ironlaw family couldn't thank you, Brothers." Ulrico gave a fist and palm salute to every person in the room. [This is the world. When my family was at the peak these hyenas wouldn't dare to ask for my foods.] He thought.

"We should talk about that later." Bamboo Old Man said. "We will have our interrogation. Please come this way, Brothers." He took a key and opened a stone door.

Bamboo Old Man led the group of twenty people entered the room. He lighted the dark room with some Shinning Pearls.

The dark room was light with soft white radiance. Everyone could see the chained man in the center of the room.

"Even Peak Rank 3 warrior wouldn't be able to escape from this place." Bamboo Old Man proudly said. He clapped his hands.

"Yes, Milord." A burly man came from outside. He wore a hood that only allowed a pair of cruel and evil eyes shone.

"I want you to help us to get information about the attacking group. Do not let him die!"

"Yes, I will do it cleanly. This might be gruesome. I would invite Milords to leave if you couldn't stand cruelty. Hohoho."

"We all experienced warriors here." Bamboo Old Man said.

The burly man took some torture equipment. Some screams filled the hidden room. However, those family leaders didn't blink. Compared with a demon beast, these tortures were a kid's play. With the demon beasts, it would be good if you could experience torture. A weak person would become food for them. Often the victim would be eaten alive.

Some screamed echoed in the room, but no answer about the organization was answered.

"He is very tight-lipped." The burly man said.

"Hehehe. Ironlaw Family, my life already of no importance. Erg…" The man spoke slowly with agony. "Ever since I make this plan. Watching your crying face is my dream. God had given me my salvation. From your face, I saw your family destruction. Does it feel hurt? Hehehe."

"You!!!! Who are you? Why do you attack my family?" Ulrico screamed. While everyone in the room knew that was a stupid question to ask. The Ironlaw family leader couldn't avoid asking. He was emotionally and physically tired with what happened today.

"Why? Because we want to collect the debt. Hehehe."

The burly man wanted to slap the Debt Collector, but Bamboo Old Man gave the burly man a sharp gaze. Bamboo Old Man knew it was the chance to listen to the rambling speech.

"Everyone had different debt. However, your Ironlaw family destroyed my family. My wife and my daughter. Now, you could taste the feeling too. Isn't it painful? Hahaha. I am satisfied. Urgh…" The man vomited some blood.

"Give him a recovery pill! We won't allow him to die easily." Bamboo Old Man told the burly man.

"Yes, Milord." The burly man went and returned a few minutes later. He took an old vase and poured a pill from it then forcefully fed the pill into the captured Debt Collector's mouth.

"Is anyone had anything else to ask?" Bamboo Old Man asked.

"Who will you attack?" Timote asked. He was asked by his ally, Lance to ask this question.

"Many. Hahaha. Enjoy the terror. However, Ironlaw will disappear for sure. The Debt will be collected. Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha."

"Hmph… We couldn't ask him again for today." Bamboo Old Man said. He saw the man continued to laugh.

"Yes. We will need to find more information from him." Lance said. "I want to use our family's interrogation artifact. It is currently in Bluestar. We will need some time to move it here."

"Fine." Bamboo Old Man had agreed for McArthur family's chance to ask.

"…" Ulrico was still silent. The words of the attackers still haunted him. [Will they my family again?]

"About his identity? Is there anyone who recognized him?" Aron Coppernight asked.

"…" Everyone in the room looked into each other.

"We should make a drawing of this man." A family leader suggested.

"Fine. We will spread his face." All nodded in agreement.

Unfortunately, Trevon wasn't there. With his Scout skill, he could learn his real name with the panel. However, the young master wouldn't need to use his skill to recognize the captured man. He was Carmick, Rado's butler.

At the same time, somewhere in Goldcave.

"You are late." The same hoarse fake voice received a person. Next to the person were three other masked men and Lone World Killer.