Revelations (1)

Ben sits in the library looking at his interface.

Ben Allister

Age : 16 years

Lvl : 1 ( 0 / 100 exp )

Hero System [tap to open]

Heart cards 2/5 [tap to open]

Card deck 3/20 [tap to open]

Sidedeck [tap to open]

Maxwell kept his promise and gave Ben the three cards but all three don't work and Maxwell said it's probably because of the purification ritual. He suspects that his soul was damaged more severely than he thought. Maxwell himself does not have a card to check, as cards related to the soul are too rare, the old priest said. He trusts Maxwell less and less and his distrust grows every day. Less and less makes sense to Ben.

He sighs and leans back in his chair. When suddenly Maxwell appears, "Ben, would you be so kind as to come with me to the awakening chamber?" the priest asks. Maxwell looks even more disheveled than normal. His face looks sunken. Ben isn't sure if he should go along. He doesn't really trust Maxwell anymore.

Too many things don't make sense anymore. But something inside him says he should go with him. Ben nods hesitantly and the two walk to the chamber. Ben notices how Max is already almost running and Ben has to strain himself to keep up. Once inside the chamber, Maxwell locks it. He even uses a card to lock the door. Ben is perplexed when he realizes he is now trapped. Maxwell sees the panic in Ben's eyes and tries to calm him down but this doesn't work.

Maxwell starts yelling " Ben stop!" Ben looks at Maxwell with suspicion. Ben positions himself on the other side of the chamber and moves into attack position. Maxwell snorts " boy what are you doing? You think you can take me by surprise, I'm gonna have to disappoint you. Sit down we need to talk and we don't have too much time left."

"No I'm not sitting down. I've had enough of you since the day I was cleaned nothing makes sense anymore. Whatever you did to me that day changed me. I want answers and I want them now." Ben yells at the priest. The latter sighs and pulls up a chair and sits down.

"Fine as you like but don't interrupt me. As I said, we don't have much time left and I'll try to explain as best I can. It's your choice what you do, but I only want what's best for you." After a short pause, he begins. " My name is Maxwell, that's the truth. Likewise, I am a priest of the gods but not just any priest of the gods. I work as a spy and my task was to infiltrate the noble house Askai.

In this noble house I slowly worked my way up to the head butler of the current head of the noble house. His name is Chris Askai and he has long been rumored to be power hungry and without scruples and they were right. He is a cruel man who has only one thing in mind and that is power. He has so many lives on his conscience that I have forgotten how many there were but back to the essentials.

The noble house is involved in many illegal businesses, but until now no one has been able to trace these machinations. One of these illegal businesses is the trade with forbidden cards. Yes you heard right forbidden cards and they used these cards to push one of their "projects"."

These projects were to create soldiers, and not just any soldiers but sleepers. That is, soldiers who infiltrate different factions like agents and only act when they receive an order. That in itself would not be so bad as many factions have spies in other factions, but these sleepers are absolutely loyal and their only goal is to create absolute chaos.

Askai activated the sleepers over a year ago to protect his current project, because the various factions are on to him." Maxwell pauses and Ben wants to start asking a question but is again waved off by his opposite.