The Young Master in the Shadows

Sebastian didn’t expect Alex to kick his staff so quickly, but he prepared to cast another fireball when he felt a danger approaching, so he jumped back just in time to dodge a dagger that Alex threw at him. That was close! He didn’t fear that dagger, as his body was eternal. Normal weapons can’t hurt him and any injury would heal pretty fast, what he worried about was the black liquid dripping from it!

He quickly readied his staff again and prepared to cast a firestorm spell, but Alex took another dagger and moved toward him, forcing him to stop and cancel it and just launch a fireball to keep Alex at a safe distance.

Alex was dodging fireballs left and right, totally ignoring the Villa that caught fire and began to burn around him.

She quickly discovered that her current approach was useless, so she switched to the second tactic. She took out a large handgun and began firing at Sebastian who flinched first and then stood still as the bullets slid past his skin, not even injuring him. His eternal body was bulletproof! Only highly ranked artifacts can hurt it.

Soon, Sebastian noticed a problem. His eyes were not protected and that bastard was trying hard to hit them… And she was taking out a spear with her other hand!

“BASTARD.” Screamed Sebastian as he closed his eyes instinctively, to discover that his ears were useless too. Those bullets were extra loud. The echo made it almost impossible to find Alex’s location, But he could tell that she was getting nearer.

Feeling a sense of danger, Sebastian quickly began to cast fireballs around him especially toward the bullets' direction, allowing him to force Alex who was a few feet away from him to step back again but not before taking out a gasoline tank and throwing it at him.

Luckily or unluckily one of Sebastian’s fireballs hit it, just before it reached him, but the explosion still sent him a few feet away as his hair and eyebrows burnt along with the furniture. Giving Alex who was ready and waiting for a chance, an opportunity to hit him with her spear right in his crotch.

The reason she chose this target instead of his heart was simple, she remembered Victor’s instructions this afternoon, that Sebastian was a scion, almost impossible to kill.

That made her worried a lot, but he assured her again that although they can’t be killed, they can be defeated, as he did with Oliver. Didn’t Lily castrate that scion? She can castrate this one too! Scions are castratable!

“AHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Sebastian howled in pain, as the protection talisman he wore shattered saving him from spending the rest of his life as a eunuch. The talisman was given to him by his master when he left the sect! It was supposed to be a life-saving treasure. Not a manhood-saving one.

And although the spear didn’t penetrate his skin, he still felt the hit… A hit that sent his body staggering, and shook his very existence. Alex was using all her power!

Alex was intending to double down and castrate him for good. But a flaming beam that fell between them stopped her and forced her back a few steps.

Taking the chance, Sebastian jumped to his feet and retreated with difficulty, to be welcomed by a barrage of bullets again, causing him to protect his eyes with his hand this time as his staff fell away. DAMN IT. He could feel it, Alex was cornering him… And the wall behind him was already burning.

Having no other choice, Sebastian used his other hand to take out a black jade from his ring and then brake it after a moment of hesitation causing a shockwave that deflected the Silver Spear Alex threw a movement ago! It was aimed at his stomach, meant to nail him into the burning wall behind him!

Sebastian slowly put his hand down as his body began to puff up, his eyes now open were turning red… he gestured with his hand, making the staff that was on the ground float to his hand as Alex who was intending to fire at him again changed her mind and stepped away from him.

“I can’t believe you made me use this… You will have to pay the price… I will make you wish you were dead!” He said in a calm voice. That sent shivers down her spine. Especially when he began to cast a spell with some very strange language…. Alex’s instincts were telling her to run, so she tried but failed as chains extending from the ground constrained her… She couldn't move as she watched Sebastian utter a series of words that didn’t sound human as a wave of black smock formed above her drilling into her body. Alex could feel some dull pain in her… crotch and blood began to seep from there making Sebastian smile evilly.

“This is your punishment for trying to castrate me…. No, you are the eunuch…. Ha…..” He yelled and began to laugh like a maniac.

“YOUNGER BROTHER… HELP…. NOOOOOOOOOO…. MONSTER!” A girl's scream made Sebastian stop then frown for a moment as if he was having difficulty regaining some reason. But after a moment he succeeded, he took a deep breath he quickly looked at the destroyed room searching for something. The hole was now under a pile of flaming rubble the entire place was burning.

He quickly lifted a slab of wood ignoring the temperature, revealing the hole in the ground under the fireplace. Giving Alex one last look as if looking at a dead man, he jumped in without hesitation.

Alex tried to move but couldn’t… She just looked around as the flame approached her and her power was drained by something inside of her! That bastard didn’t spare her life! Those chains were not normal. Was she going to die here?

“You can’t get out of those… Chains of Tricast shadow. Some really nasty spell if you didn't know how to dispel it… You can only be lifted by losing consciousness...” Victor, who was covered in soot, stood beside her.

“Young… Master… How…” Alex struggled to speak as Victor stuck a pill in her mouth.

“Relax… just relax and you will be free. The caster is locked downstairs now, so you need to fall asleep for those things to break… Thankfully that idiot targeted your crouch instead of your heart… For revenge... I presume?” Victor spoke as Alex lost consciousness.

…

The moment the chains disappeared, Victor grabbed Alex and jumped out of the Villa into a stone cliff far away from the fire. Just in time before the roof completely collapsed.

He carefully laid Alex next to the unconscious Hana and then began to check her condition. The blood on her crouch was caused by that bastard intending to castrate her, but failing. Checking her pulse, Victor was sure, This was just her aunt coming early, nothing bad at all, Sebastian's spell had caused that. Thanks to it, he was fooled.

The problem was now those nasty things inside of her. Victor frowned as he took a dispelling talisman intending to use it then stopping after some thoughts. He quickly replaced it with a weaker one, then took the soul pearl and placed it on Alex’s stomach then activated the talisman on her head, causing the swarm of black gas that went in her to flow out, and instinctively enter the pearl. More food for him.

Noticing that Alex's completion became better, Victor slowly brushed her silky hair and then popped a healing pill in her mouth… She needed a reward, but he will delay that for later.

Victor looked back at the Villa which was now on fire…

Sebastian was now locked under the rabble, inside the vault that Victor found underground. A vault that was built from an otherworldly metal that can’t be broken easily or discovered.

After Victor entered that place he found it using the shifting ring. He discovered that it was a room-sized vault filled with all kinds of treasures, some really cool stuff, so he made sure to pack it all and check the walls for any hidden chambers, which he found one with an even better treasure that suited Alpha well.

By the time Hana unlocked it from the outside and entered. The vault was spotlessly clean. Causing her to stop in shock, giving Victor the chance to prick her with a needle… The first one failed due to a protection talisman, but he always prepares another one from the other side, so when she flinched and stepped back, the second needle struck her and rendered her unconscious.

After that, he quickly left as Sebastian was busy firing his fireballs indiscriminately around at Alex… Victor got hit once by a burning wooden slab that fell from above as a part roof collapsed when he was leaving.

He had to put Hana at a safe distance and then hide and wait for the right time after that. And a chance came when he cursed Alex, so he screamed for help using Hana’s voice, and waited for him to enter the vault that had the illusion of a collapsed Hana. He went straight after him and firmly closed the door that can only be opened by a von Richter bloodline… He also stuck a soul-repelling talisman on the door, just in case.

Victor rested for a few minutes and watched the Villa burn as the flame traveled from one room to another. Suddenly he frowned as he could hear sirens from afar. Time to leave.

Victor quickly grabbed the unconscious Hana and Alex like potato sacks, then made his way down to the town where he found an abandoned building to place them and sit down for some rest after texting Lily that he would not return tonight.

He was exhausted.

…

It was 9.00 in the morning when Alex woke up… She felt some pain in her stomach but it was not bad.

“You are awake!” Victor spoke, softly.

“Ahhh... Young master… What happened?” She asked as she looked at her blood-drenched pants.

“That bastard Sebastian had a stone of dark souls. I didn’t expect that… He should be suffering a big backlash right now.” Victor added.

“What is it?” She asked.

“Some really nasty stuff. Dark wizards collect tortured and evil souls and then weaponize them… They will only leave the target when he is dead. Thankfully I managed to lure Sebastian inside the vault and trap him underground before he realized how crazy his weapon really is. He only attacked you physically, probably intending to torture you. If he used it on your soul, you would have been dead.”

“Ohh…How did you save me?” She asked.

“I didn't, I just gave you one of my soul pills and made you enter a very deep coma. Then used a dispelling Talisman to kick those things out. Unfortunately, that bastard targeted your crotch with his attack, And when I arrived the damage was already done… I didn’t dare to check.” Victor said with a sorrowful sigh, making Alex look down with worries.

“There is a hospital near here, go check… I couldn’t tell for sure… Maybe there is hope.”Victor said as if he didn’t really believe his words, pointing to a white building adjacent to their unfinished apartment. He chose this place for that purpose. “I already gave you a healing pill, but you must ask the doctors, and prepare for the worst. ” He added with some worry.

“Then I will go…” Alex quickly took out clean clothes and then ran away, totally ignoring the unconscious girl on the ground whom Victor was looking at.

He never planned to kidnap her, he was preparing to fool her somehow, but he couldn't find a good way in time. So he decided to do this the simplest way possible, just kidnap her and then fool her later. Her Alchemist Class was very rare and very tempting for him.

Now... What to do with her? He had some thoughts... But she will have to suffer a little.