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The Archivist's Ploy: A Tale of One Against The World

Far above the horizon, beyond the clouds and the apocalyptic storms under it, hovered a yellow-haired old-looking man. His yellow eyes gave off a bright radiance, and countless books floated around him. Throughout history, the man was known by many names, (The Watcher - The Chronicler - The Historian - The Custodian - The Recordkeeper) But during this Era, he was known as The Archivist. The Archivist's perception inspected thousands of kilometers far and wide, Yet 'Nothing interesting is happening' His frustration grew 'What's the point of a worldwide perception if there's no apposite change to perceive?' 'The world has become mundane' 'And no one is doing anything about it' Ergo, The Archivist will take matters into his own hands 'I'll orchestrate a worldwide, All-embracing scheme against an oblivious individual' With a sinister smile on his face, he devised his plan 'Turn the entire world into a person's antagonist, Then enjoy the show' And he had the perfect plot for it 'First, Utter Despair that would cause immense Pain' 'Then, More Despair that would turn the Pain to Loathe' 'Then, As the Loathe grows, The Despair will transform into Rage' 'The Rage will make the Being Crave Revenge, and the intense Crave will result in Devotion to his goal' 'Finally, The Despair, Pain, Loathe, Crave, and Devotion will all be used as fuel for the Rage, Transforming it into an even extremer emotion' "WRATH" How would a single person unleash his Wrath against the entire world? 'That's what I'm going to find out' "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" The Archivist's maniacal laughter echoed loudly 'The world is about to be entertaining' He looked up and asked with a reverberating, Bleak voice "Who will be the unlucky one?"

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Fancy, Restaurant

Sure, Leus could've waited until they were inside his Domain

'The problem is that the radius of my Domain is too small'

The men were standing in front of the door and opening it to whoever was coming to the restaurant, so Leus wouldn't be able to stand and inspect them

'To get a better look, I want to evaluate them from here'

That's why he activated the Abstract of Concealment

'So I can use Advanced Mana Vision without having both my eyes glowing and catching a lot of attention.'

Sadly, it had the opposite effect.

The two men standing in front of the restaurant locked eyes on Leus, 3 men and a woman who were passing by stood suddenly and looked at Leus as well, and Blaze turned his face and looked at Leus.

Most of the people walking by didn't understand why these people abruptly stopped and all of them started looking in the same direction.

So naturally, that made them also look in the same direction, and as more people did it, even more people joined them, an endless cycle of glances at Leus.

Suddenly, so many people were looking at Leus without understanding why they were looking at Leus.

On the other hand, Leus was only focusing on evaluating the two men

'They both are Elites, it's interesting how they noticed my Abstract, this means that activating it while I'm in the person's Domain actually attracts unnecessary attention ... next time I should just activate it from the beginning.'

The people inspecting Leus had different expressions on their faces.

Some assumed that the attention was because of his hair color and were interested.

Some assumed that the attention was because of the Emblem and were impressed.

The six who noticed his Abstract had uncomfortable expressions on their faces.

He was meters away from the men in front of the restaurant, so they couldn't see his Emblem yet, but what they had in mind was

'That's a guy desperate for attention, otherwise, why would he suddenly do that?'

Blaze interrupted Leus' evaluation of the men and asked in a neutral tone

"Why did you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Suddenly disappearing from everyone's Domain, it's like you suddenly ceased to exist"

Viorica asked in confusion

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't worry about it, Mom, I was just trying something."

Blaze continued

"Don't do it too much, it makes you look like you are desperate for attention"

"Oh? Really? Is that why they were looking at me in that way, I didn't know."

Blaze just continued walking and said nonchalantly

"It doesn't matter, but avoid it if possible."

They reached the door and the men opened the glass door for them to enter while still throwing glances at Leus.

Leus walked inside, and the first thing that caught his attention was not the red theme of the restaurant and all the fancy red chairs and tables, but the glass.

'The entire front is glass, yet, I only saw red curtains from outside, but from inside I can see the outside just fine ... even the curtains are magical?'

As soon as they entered, a red-haired waiter dressed in a red suit came and greeted them

"Welcome to the Red Lobster, do you have a reservation?"

"Yes, We do"

Blaze took out the invitation and gave it to the waiter.

The waiter took out a pen and typed something on the invitation, then the number 21-V hovered on top of the invitation.

He opened a small notebook that was in his hand and checked something in it, and after doing that, he smiled and said

"Please, follow me, Mr. Blaze"

Then he proceeded to walk in a different direction than the front

'Hah?'

Leus was slightly confused, the entire restaurant was in front of them, seats, chairs, food, and people eating, yet, the waiter just walked into a narrow hall that led somewhere else.

Since Blaze and Viorica followed the waiter without complaining, Leus didn't ask anything and just followed them.

After exiting the narrow hall it looked like they entered a new restaurant, the lights were slightly dim and there were lit candles everywhere.

The place was mostly empty except for a couple of tables, the chairs and the tables looked much bigger, and the atmosphere as a whole was much more luxurious.

The waiter led them to a table that had two people sitting at it.

A red-haired man wearing a suit and a blue-haired female wearing a dark blue dress.

The table was on the right side of the VIP room, if you'd look to your right while sitting at it, you'd be able to see the Red Mansion in its full glory with nothing blocking your view.

As soon as the red-haired man in the suit saw Blaze coming toward him he stood up and extended his hand forward to greet him.

Blaze immediately got close and shook his hand

"Blaze, welcome, thank you for accepting my invite"

"Felix, please, the pleasure is all mine"

While Blaze was greeting Felix, Leus was looking around and seeing the place and the people sitting in it.

'Wow ... and I was worried about standing out, huh, funny ... '

Around Leus, a red-haired woman was wearing a very strange dress, the dress was red, and the ends of it were burning.

'Well, it's not really burning since the fire isn't going up, I think it's just a trick.'

Another woman was wearing a red dress and had a huge flower behind her head

'Like she's walking with a pillow attached to the back of her head'

It didn't look fancy, rather, it looked funny.

All the men were wearing suits, different suits, some wearing Tuxedos, some wearing suits with ties, some wearing without ties, but ultimately, they were all wearing suits.

Women, on the other hand, had very different designs, no two dresses looked the same.

No woman had an Emblem on her chest, but most men did, even Felix did.

On his suit's jacket, there was an image of a small, Crimson Library, but only half of it.

'It's like he has only the right half of my Emblem, interesting.'

Leus stopped looking around when he noticed that the blue-haired woman was trying to get up to greet them.