Chapter 427: 427
It had no known cure, a simple and instant method of transfer as well as activation, and its killing rate was absolute . This was basically the worst kind of plague imaginable and it just had to occur in the Merchant Guild's headquarters of all places!
This was what was going through the leader of the Merchant Guild – Guildmaster Borgious' - mind as he sat in his room while drinking wine . He sighed with frustration as he unbuttoned his shirt and released his huge paunch to the world .
The sofa he sat in was manufactured to fit him perfectly and had many functions to accommodate his physique, weight, and mannerisms with ease . He tapped the side of it, which raised the leg rest up for him .
The issue had started with Mind Mage Dawson and since then 15 guards had been infected through various means, most of them experimentation, all of whom had withered away quickly .
Mind Mage Dawson himself was holding out due to his superior mental defense and the careful treatment of his elder sister, Grandmaster Olivia .
(Author's Note: This is not a Rank, but a title . )
A part of Borgious suspected the siblings . Mind Mage Dawson had access to the Treasury, but couldn't take anything out because he would instantly become the number 1 suspect for obvious reasons .
So, what better way to forge a robbery than to self-inflict a Psychic Curse on himself, making it seem like someone else had come to steal, while he and his sister used that time to fence the goods?
Once everything settled down, Olivia could magically come up with an antidote or countermeasure that would wake her brother up, and everything would be fine and dandy as long as he claimed to have been attacked by a foreign entity .
A perfect heist .
However, there were a few problems with this theory . First of all, Mind Mage Dawson and Grandmaster Olivia had been hired by the guild through a very special contract, one which did not allow them to harm the guild in any way .
Similarly, there were no known methods to cancel or avoid said contracts . In fact, Borgious skepticism had grown large enough to not only check through the wording himself, but he had also paid a lot of money to let others try to find a loophole which he might have overlooked .
Secondly, Mind Mage Dawson was in a state where he could perish at any time, and it had only been a week since the theft . If the two had planned for the matter to blow over before he woke up, well… Olivia would have to enjoy that money or resources on her own .
Even getting Mind Mage Dawson to take up that post had been a headache, and she had only relented because it should have been extremely difficult to harm Mind Mage Dawson given the location .
Fourthly, Borgious doubted this matter as a whole . Mind Mages like Olivia and Dawson could not manufacture such a potent Psychic Curse . They were Mind Mages! While it sounded similar to a psychic, there was a world of difference between both parties .
Assuming that these contradictions did not actually stop the event from happening . What would push the duo so far as to risk this? When Borgious thought up to here, his troubled expression froze .
Could it be?
Had the Mind Mage duo conspired not for the mere trash-level wealth in this millennium's treasury but the wealth of their secret treasury?
(Author's Note: There was the equivalent of 55 million platinum and enough resources to create 3 prosperous continents in the 'dummy' treasury . )
If that was the case, then yes, it would make sense . Even to Borgious, what was located in there was enough to tempt him into betraying the Merchant Guild and run . Alas, the vows he had been forced to take to become the Guildmaster had also made such a thing impossible .
Nevertheless, for Olivia and Dawson, staging this mere play where even Dawson's life was at risk would be the bare minimum . They could just use their newfound great wealth to hire an Archpriest from the Church of Light to resurrect him .
(Author's Note: I've forgotten if I explained this before, but resurrecting players is different from resurrecting NPCs due to the Immortal Spirit . )
Truly, an insidious plan if true .
In truth, Borgious also suspected Umbra . It was far too coincidental for them to appear on the same day that they got robbed . There was that fellow Draco, who could likely have sent his seductive woman here to distract them while someone else would rob them and incapacitate Mind Mage Dawson .
Thinking about Zaine again, Borgious felt his whole body flare-up . As one of the richest men in the world, there was no woman he couldn't taste . He even had enjoyed the best of succubi purchased from The Bazaar, but none could move him like a Royal Devil .
Zaine had 3 sisters and she was the only succubus among them . One was a well-known Broker who abused her beauty to trick fellows into terrible deals, and the other was a Trickster Devil that basically integrated herself into places and deceived people for her amusement .
Zaine was the least popular of Mephisto's kids because of her laziness that made her almost invisible to the main plane while all his other kids had left their mark here and there, the most recent being Ratchet who got vanquished before he could bring about an age of terror by the same man who Zaine swore herself to .
…the irony was not lost on Borgious and was one of the reasons he secretly resented Draco .
He heard that the fellow even had a harem of beauties that surpassed any Emperor, and such that even Gods would feel envy . Looking at Zaine alone, Borgious could not understand how such a fellow could even look at other women .
With just Zaine, he would never be tired! The Draco fellow was just a horny fool who could not control his urges and always wanted more!
But Borgious was ignorant of the fact that Draco had the Horned Demon Inheritance affecting him . Previously, Draco would have been content to play with Zaine once and stick to Eva .
And then he was raped by a gang of Wood Elves with fat butts, then gang banged by a bunch of Dryads . If anything, it was only with Roma that he fully gave his consent during the Unique Quest, and he made it clear to her that she would only be a Mystic Servant, though that sort of changed as he grew fonder of her .
Up until the bloodline activation where he brought his Horned Demon to 70%, Draco could be described as mild . The slaves that were bought to become living breeding pens were purchased by Eva, Draco never asked for them nor had he touched them .
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