Chapter 22: Whammy!
Passion is never enough; Neither is skill.
If a skill could be gained just by watching, then every chicken would have become a butcher by now.
But these talks about skills only apply to a normal person, not to a person who can create his own skills.
Right now, In the Duel Fencer Academy an auction was taking place and on the second last seat of the first row, a man was sitting alone.
That man was none other than Liberi.
After Dreamer went backstage, Liberi was sitting alone and was waiting patiently for his lord to come back.
'My lord sure is taking time! I hope he is fine.' Liberi thought in his mind.
Liberi can still talk with Dreamer through his mind but he thought not to do so as he doesn't want to disturb Dreamer in whatever he is doing.
'No, I am just thinking too much. He will not do anything reckless. I know.' Liberi calmed himself down.
'Liberi!..'
'My lord!!!' Liberi was startled by Dreamer's sudden calling.
'Huh? Why are you freaking out? Anyway, listen I want you to tell me when the host will open the backstage door after the second last item is sold. Ok?' Dreamer ordered Liberi.
'Yes..my lord...no..my lord..I mean, have you completed the task for which you have gone backstage? Did you steal the sword!?' Liberi asked Dreamer a couple of questions.
'Just do what I asked you to do. You will get to know everything eventually!' Dreamer said and refused to answer Liberi's questions.
'As you wish, my lord.' Liberi replied in his usual tone and started waiting patiently for the second last item to get sold.
The second last item was a Divine Cloak, the name of this Divine Cloak was, The Mourning Wrap of Doom. The ability of this cloak was to make its wearer seem like a demonic entity. Whoever wears this cloak will be feared by everyone regardless of their ranks.
The starting bid value of this cloak was 25 million gold coins. It was the most expensive item that was shown in today's auction till now.
The people present at the auction were very eager to buy this item. So, when the bidding started no one was willing to back down, everyone wanted this cloak but in the end someone bidded 60 million gold coins and owned the cloak. Principal Vrama was very happy by all this but he still managed to keep his usual calm self in front of the people present at the auction.
So, after the second last item, The Mourning Wrap of Doom got sold. The Argonian host held the small cart, put the metal box on it and got ready to go backstage.
'My lord, the host is coming. Be ready, the door can be opened at any second now!' Liberi told Dreamer just like Dreamer ordered him to do.
'Ok!' Dreamer replied and got close to the door and started waiting for it to open.
After a few seconds the door opened and Dreamer saw the Argonian host in front of him.
But this didn't bother Dreamer, he just casually walked past the Argonian host and came out of backstage and again took his seat where he was sitting before and the Argonian host went backstage after closing the door.
'My lord, welcome back!' Liberi welcomed Dreamer.
'Yeah.' Dreamer replied short.
'My lord, if I may ask what exactly you did backstage?' Liberi curiously asked Dreamer.
'Just wait, Liberi, you will see everything. For now I can just say I did something related to this new skill of mine. Now don't ask further questions, your sword is making its appearance and you don't want to miss it!' Dreamer replied and ordered Liberi to shut up and then he focused his attention towards the stage.
After hearing Dreamer's reply Liberi didn't speak any further and started waiting for his sword to be shown, so he also focused his attention towards the stage.
"Now, the moment you all are waiting for. Hold your seats, calm your hearts as now I am presenting you today's auction main attraction, The myth, The legend, The S rank sword everyone!!!" Principal Vrama announced grandly, way more grandly from the items he had announced before.
Clap!
Clap!!
Clap!!!
The people also clapped way harder than before. They were showing their eagerness to get their hands on the S rank sword.
Eventually, the backstage door opened again but this time the Argonian host came with a long cart and instead of a metal box there was a box made of gold kept on top of the cart.
"Woahh!!"
"What a grand container!!"
"Looking by the cart and the golden box, I can imagine just how great the sword must be!"
"Indeed, it is a special attraction!"
The people present at the auction gave such reactions just after seeing the long cart and the golden box.
'Haha, Liberi don't even blink for a second now as the fun part is about to come.' Dreamer told Liberi with a smile.
Although Liberi didn't get what Dreamer meant to say, nevertheless he still obliged to Dreamer's command and started looking more intently.
"So, Ladies and Gentlemen, do you want to see it?" Principal Vrama asked the people present at the auction.
"Yes..!!" The people replied enthusiastically.
"I can't hear you! Do you all want to see it?" Principal Vrama asked more loudly than before.
"Yesss!!" The people also replied more loudly than before.
"That's better than before but still, I can't hear you all!!" Principal asked again.
"YESS!!Show us. We want to see!!" This time the people went mad and yelled as loudly as they could.
"That's the reaction I was looking for! So, let's show them all!!" Principal Vrama announced.
After principal Vrama's announcement, the Argonian host came forward and removed the golden box that was kept on the long cart.
After the Argonian host removed the golden box, everyone present in the auction was gobsmacked, shocked and surprised.
"What!!?"
"Is this some kind of joke!?"
"What is this!?"
People gave such reactions after the golden box was removed because when the golden box was removed there was nothing in the long cart. The long cart was empty, there was no sword at all.
But out of all these people only one person was not shocked and that was Dreamer.
He was just smiling peacefully.
'My lord! Did you...steal it!?' Liberi asked shockingly.
'I won't tell you about this. And I also have to pretend to be shocked because Vrama will call the halfling now and if I keep on smiling like this I will be caught. So, just keep on being shocked and I will try it too.' Dreamer ordered Liberi in a serious tone.
He didn't reveal anything to Liberi because if he did that then Liberi's shocked reaction will vanish and if that happened then the halfling John might get suspicious because if everyone present in the auction is shocked then Dreamer and Liberi also had to be shocked otherwise they will be easily caught by the halfling John.
So, after ordering Liberi Dreamer also put on a shocked expression and looked towards the stage.
"What!...where..how!?" Principal Vrama was very stunned; he didn't expect in his wildest dreams that something like this could happen while he was around.
"Where is the sword!? Tell me!!" Principal Vrama threw the mic and angrily asked the Argonian host about the sword while holding and shaking him. His voice was so loud that everyone could hear him clearly even without a mic
"I....don't...know...sir! I...swear. I…only... brought...the cartt….hereee…" The Argonian host replied, he was so afraid that he was sweating buckets and was stammering while talking.
"Ahhhnggh!! Useless!. John!..John!...John! come here…" Principal Vrama unhandled the Argonian host and called out to the halfling John.
After a few seconds the halfling John came from the outside of the academy and straight went to the stage.
The halfling John was outside the academy because the principal Vrama ordered him to do so as the principal thought that no one is brave enough to steal the sword in his presence. So that's why the halfling John was outside the academy and the principal was inside.
"What happened sir!? Why are you so angry and...shocked!?" The halfling John asked.
"The sword...it's missing..! I want you to find the culprit..only you can do that..tell me who stole it! Tell me now!!" Principal Vrama ordered halfling John while screaming like crazy, his calm self from before was nowhere to be seen.
"Yes sir. Right away. I will find that bastard for sure. Don't worry" The halfling John assured principal Vrama and started looking for someone.
The someone that the halfling John was looking for were none other than Dreamer and Liberi.
'Damn, everyone is shocked, no one is nervous at all. The only clue I can get is to find those two. I want to listen to their heartbeats. Come on!! Where are you both?..There! Found them.' The halfling John was talking to himself while looking for Dreamer and Liberi and eventually he found them.
But to his dissatisfaction, Both Dreamer and Liberi were shocked too.
When the halfling John was looking at them Dreamer just adjusted himself and acted shocked too. And he did it very well as now the halfling John is convinced that Dreamer really is shocked. And Liberi was already shocked so he was just showing his real expressions.
"Sir, I can't find the culprit. Everyone present here is shocked and by everyone I mean everyone including you and this host." The halfling John cleared himself to the principal.
"Ahhhhhhnnnghh!! Useless! All of you are useless!" Principal Vrama let out in a frustrated manner.
"What is happening!?"
"Someone stole the sword!?"
"Tell us!!"
The people present at the auction were getting restless; they were assuming different scenarios on their own, and the principal was getting angry.
"Mr. Vrama!! You can stop this little act of yours now!"
Amidst all the noises and commotion a loud voice came out from the crowd.
The voice was coming from the first row and from a boy.
"So, after all that story about how you can't use the sword, you still kept it for yourself, didn't you!?
And you even dared to make these people waste their precious time! Just how low can you get. Tch..tch..tch." The boy who was behind the voice was no one else but…..Dreamer himself.
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