Tell me, Mr. Grievius, what have you been doing all these days?"
Grievius simply gave a sarcastic laugh as he took another sip from his glass. He then began to look at the wine in it.
"It's been a busy week, to be honest brat"
"I doubt you know but a building caught fire and collapsed, I'm sure you'll say that's not weird but the problem is that that building was the base of a gang"
Adryan simply began to calmly drink from his glass and did not decide to speak for fear that he would reveal himself.
Seeing that the redhead didn't respond, Grievius simply shook his head.
"This gang was also special they were believers of an evil God and during one of their rituals something went wrong and ended in the death of all the members"
"All except a masked stranger who escaped using a shadow-related ability."
Adryan now looked at Grievius in surprise, the punishers of the Lord of Storm's church were supposed to be in charge of that event but why then did Grievius know about this.
Adryan's reaction made Grievius laugh again and he misunderstood the reason for the reaction.
"HAHAHA That face of yours is so funny and now with your new eyes it's even funnier HAHAHA!!!"
'If you want, I'll give you the recipe to have them, old bastard'-Adryan's eyebrow trembled slightly as he drank another bit of wine.
"The punishers originally took it upon themselves to keep this hidden and the biggest reason I knew anything is because I'm a good friend of the team captain who ran into the masked man"
"According to him, the masked man was quite injured and barely managed to escape, but when they checked all the remains of the fire they found a carnage and horribly mutated bodies"
"That was one of the reasons why they decided to keep this hidden but when they checked and what they found later forced them to reveal information to the other churches."
"Originally it was thought that the reason for what happened was due to a failed ritual performed by the head of the Blood Mark but it turned out that the True Creator used the statue that was revered as a mark to transfer his power and because he sent too much power to that statue caused this one to be destroyed"
"Because of all that power, all the people who were inside died or others mutated so much that they fused creating a horrible monster"
Saying that Grievius raised his hand with a clenched fist but kept one finger up.
"Everyone died except the masked man…"
When he said that he lowered his hand and went back to drink more wine....
"Because of this discovery they were forced to ask to notify the other churches and they asked for reinforcements to help"
"This is not the juiciest part brat, when the church of the Goddess of Evernight and the God of Steam and Machinery sent the Nighthawks and the Machinery Hivemind respectively, something very funny happened"
Taking another sip of the wine, Grievius couldn't help but let out a loud laugh at the memory.
"The captain of the Machinery Hivemind team brought a sealed artifact, it is a mirror that answers your questions that, in exchange for the answer, will require a punishment or to answer a question, the catch is that to use it you have to be surrounded by people"
"When the captain used the mirror to see what happened, they managed to see all the progress from how the statue broke until the building collapsed"
"The question the captain had to answer was if he ever wanted two teammates to grab him and do whatever they wanted to him..psss HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Grievius didn't hold back anymore and burst out laughing and Adryan did too because he already had an idea of who he was and would have loved to see poor Mr. Red Underwear's reaction.
When they calmed down a bit Grievius continued counting.
"The captain chose to punish and a somewhat strong ray came out of the mirror and hit him, leaving him with his hair standing and a face covered in smoke..."
When he said that he let out another laugh but this one was a little more forced.
Adryan noticed this and placed a hand on his shoulder.
Grievius nodded and after taking another sip of wine continued counting.
"But there was a problem in what the mirror showed and that was that at no time did it show the masked man and the punishers noticed and claimed that"
"Because of that the captain who had been punished offered them the mirror to ask."
"My friend decided to be the one to ask the question..."
"When he asked the mirror what the identity of the masked man was, the mirror simply remained silent, it did not show any image or any answer, and neither did it ask for the answer to a question nor did it punish..."
"He thought it had broken so he demanded an answer from the captain but he also didn't know what was happening because according to him it was the first time something like this had happened"
Grievius drank the last of the wine from his glass and placed it on the table, then turned to face Adryan.
"They failed to get any kind of information about this man as if he never existed"
Grievius's tone had turned dark and dangerous and even Adryan who was the man they were looking for was quite surprised.
Even with Klein, the mirror Arrodes showed at most his shadow but now it didn't even dare to look at him...
What was supposed to be the meaning of that?....
...
Quickly feeling that he shouldn't keep thinking about this, Adryan tried to change the topic of conversation.
"That sure is creepy but Mr. Grievius are you sure it's a good idea to talk about all of 'this' in here?"
At the question, Grievius smiled and took out a watch from his pocket.
The pocket watch that Grievius took out was quite a beautiful normal-sized one, it seemed to be made of matte black metal and silver details on the front.
When he showed it, Grievius opened it as well, allowing Adryan to see that the clock's hands were a wine-like burgundy color and its numbers were a rusty color.
Adryan was quite surprised and couldn't help but give Grievius a rare look.
"Is this what I think it is, Mr. Grievius?"
"Yes brat this is a sealed artifact, its serial number is 2-63 but I preferred to call it 'Hangover Time'"
Adryan raised an eyebrow at Grievius's naming ability, although he couldn't judge him too much either, he still had the Burnt Band in his pocket.
So he look curiously at the pocket watch in Grievius's hands.
"What are the abilities of this watch?"
"It has 2 quite useful abilities: if you turn the crown of the watch to the left you can use an ability called Distortion: By Distorting the target's words, actions, and intent, can formulate a certain order that provided an advantage, so as to achieve the goal of restraining and influencing their opponent.
If I turn the crown to the right I can use the last one being disorder: I can make the target or a specific location Disordered, such that enemies will easily make mistakes with their attacks, making them difficult to land or in this case disorder where we talk"
When he said that, he closed the watch again and put it in his pocket to drink more wine later, Adrian was quite surprised by the abilities of this artifact, if he was not mistaken, it should be made with the characteristics of sequence 5 Mentor of the Disorder of the path of the Black Emperor.
"But then what would be the negative effects of using this artifact?"
"he he"
Grievius gave a small laugh as he drank some more wine.
"It has two negative effects, the first would be that every time you use one of the two abilities of this watch, some perception of yours will be disordered for 5 hours, an example would be your sexuality and you will also want to drink a large amount of wine"
When he said that he went back to drink more wine but he choke....
Seeing this, Adryan simply shook his head and slapped Grievius on the back causing him to help him.
"How did you get this artifact, Mr. Grievius?
While asking this, Grievius cursed him between coughs but after calming down he began to think.
"Mmmm it was quite a while ago if I'm being honest, although I can remember buying it for 13,000 pounds from a friend in Bayam"
"You were in Bayam?"
"Brat, there's a lot you don't know about me"
Smiling at Grievius's words, the redhead shook his head as he drank the last of his wine.
Getting up from his place, Adryan said goodbye to his ex-shooting teacher.
After going down the stairs he tried to say goodbye to Robert but he stopped him.
"Adryan wait, I was wondering if you were free on Sunday"
Raising an eyebrow at this question, Adryan thought about his calendar and he was a little free in the afternoon so he told the blonde.
"Perfect then, would you like to come to my house for dinner?"
Taking him off guard, Adryan was quite surprised, he didn't expect Robert to have that confidence but it didn't bother him that much so he answered him smiling.
"I'm free so I'll be waiting for Sunday Robert, I would love to keep talking to you but I have things to do so take care of yourself"
Robert showed a big smile and didn't give much importance to the fact that Adryan had to leave so he dismissed him and continued to drink tea calmly.
Adryan was now at home eating while thinking about how to get the formula for sequence 7.
The potion should be digested no later than the first week of July so he had to think about how to get the formula but he would also have to look for the ingredients.
It was quite likely that he had no choice but to accumulate contribution points with the church until they gave him the formula after all formulas of sequence 7 were already hard to come by.
Although that could take a long time...
Leaving that aside, he began to think about Robert's invitation to dinner, and he couldn't help but let out a small laugh.
He was undoubtedly someone very nice and perhaps in the future Adryan would invite him to eat in a restaurant, although it would not be soon.
After all, he still had a broken rib and the effects of the potion were still going strong so he could only stay with Robert for dinner but he would have to leave early because he would have to eat more than the blond could cook.
Regretting that, Adryan finished his meal, and picking up the documents from under the table in his closet, put on his mask and cloak.
Sighing, he also put on the Burnt Band to use Shadow Leaps to get to the bar unnoticed.
After arriving with the secretary to deliver the documents, he told him that the person would be waiting for him in a room next door.
Nodding to that, Adryan went back out and went to the room and entered.
There was not much to say about the room, it was only a table and two chairs and in one of these, there was a figure covered in a tunic not allowing him to see any detail.
This figure placed the money on the table and Adryan could see that the person had delicate hands with red pedicures...