บท 83: Bluestar
Bluestar. This one word made Trevon felt so many beautiful things. He loved this city so much. No. The young master loved the girls in this city so much.
Bluestar had higher wall than Redwood with fifty meters tall. It wasn't strange since Bluestar was one of the largest cities in Heavenly Phoenix. Its size and population were ten times of Redwood. The family who founded the city already disappeared with the passing of time, but McArthur used the city as their base in Heavenly Phoenix.
The name Bluestar came from a song. In the past, the city had a different name. However, many bards visited other cities around the continent and sang about a beautiful city like a star on the edge of the blue lake, Bluestar.
The name then used by many merchants from other places. Therefore, they popularized the name to the local. A small beautiful fishing city turned into the Bluestar of the continent.
The city started as a small fishing settlement without any beast repelling crystal. It would be left during winter and fishermen would return during the fishing seasons and rebuild a temporary settlement.
Soon, the place turned into a temporary entertainment establishment for those fishermen. The small entertainment spot grew into a beautiful resort. Wandering bards visited the place to showcase their talent to the tired traveler.
After that, a small cultivation family built a defense tower. This marked the temporary establishment into a permanent village. While these small artists spread the village's name into other cities. Soon merchants came and filled the village. The small village turned into the trading hub for people near the lake.
With this huge number of merchants, the McArthur family came. As a family who specialized in providing protection service, they couldn't avoid building a branch on the merchant spot. The small branch turned into a juggernaut together with the growth of the city's trades.
While it wasn't the biggest branch of the McArthur family. Bluestar had become the main branch of McArthur family inside Heavenly Phoenix. It didn't take long before the family took the governing power from other families in the city.
After sometimes, the McArthur family obtained ninety percent shares of the city. Five percent of shares were obtained by some vassal families. While the last five percent was owned by the ancient families who had stayed in the Bluestar since long before McArthur.
Under McArthur family's governance, the city grew into a trading hub in the Heavenly Phoenix. While the capital was in the north near the sea, Bluestar was in the heart of Heavenly Phoenix's most fertile lands.
The area had many connecting rivers which allowed merchants to use small ships to transport goods to and from the city. Thanks for some generations of the kingdom who ruled the land. Bluestar was also connected to a good land route system to some bigger cities around it like Redwood.
A fertile land also brought many bandits and illegal groups. It was hard for the imperial families to control those small outlaw groups. Especially since many noble and cultivation families supported those groups from behind. This allowed a room for McArthur family and its protection service to grow.
Trevon jumped from his wagon. All wagons stopped outside a magnificent large complex of buildings. It was a city inside a city, the McArthur Bluestar Pavilion. If the pavilion in Redwood is extravagant, that extravaganza was only equal to a building in Bluestar pavilion.
"I really miss this city." Trevon thought. He smelled the sea and listened to the song of the wave calling the fisherman to the blue lake.
[This is my calling.] He felt the cold air caressed his skin. His family pavilion located on a small hill near the pier of Bluestar. The McArthur family who overseen the busy city. He rotated his spiritual energy and absorbed fresher energy than in Redwood.
[This city had better spiritual energy than Redwood.] Master Rabbink had to admit. While this wasn't important to rich cultivator with endless spirit stones. Poor rogue cultivators would prefer to stay in Bluestar than Redwood.
Trevon saw many tall buildings similar to Redwood. The building type made from formations that poor people could afford.
In front of those slums were the magnificent and glorious complex of the greatest family on the continent. This view had embedded in Trevon's memory. He had spent almost the entirety of his youth in this city. He only left this place for the Family Village with his father when he was a chosen, twice for the family tournament before, and finally to Redwood. Bluestar was his home.
The land price in Bluestar was even more expensive than Redwood. McArthur family was responsible for the protection and stationed several Peak Rank 3 warriors in the city. The family also upgraded the crystal barrier. Bluestar City had one hundred Defense Towers spread around the city. Not even Rank 3 demon beasts could directly enter the city. It was one of the top fortified cities in the continent. People would pay high to stay in a secure place.
"We will rest in Bluestar for one day. Tomorrow we will meet again in this same place at eight o'clock in the morning." The Rank 3 grand elder who led the caravan said. His name was Pieter McArthur.
In the public, Pieter McArthur was the protector of Trevon. Since he had a chosen treatment, that included a Rank 3 Grand Elder to protect his safety. Nevertheless, Trevon believed that Grand Elder Pieter was assigned to Redwood to watch him and Master Creator.
Pieter McArthur was a Top Rank 3 Grand Elder which was too powerful for a branch like Redwood. Trough Pieter, the family secretly purchased many artifacts from Trevon.
"Thank you for your protection, Grand Elder Pieter." Some merchants came to Pieter. Those merchants would separate in Bluestar while new merchants would join the journey to the north.
"It is our responsibility." He continued to speak with those merchants. Those merchants tried to make a connection with Pieter, he was a Top Rank 3 warrior. He was a high ranked person in the country. They would get a huge benefit as long as a rumor that Pieter closed to them appeared.
While Pieter handled those merchants, Trevon took his bodyguard into a luxury building a bit further. Trevon had his own pavilion in the city. His father, Alvaro lived on Bluestar. As one of the top talents in the family, he had huge prestige in the city.
His grandfather was even more famous. Nobody in Bluestar didn't know Douglas. This was, especially after his show off to one-hit-kill a Demon who appeared outside the city gate during a beast wave. Douglas was the current leader of the family Bluestar branch.
The position was a very strategic one since Bluestar generated a huge portion of McArthur family income. Come with the money were other huge benefits in family politics. Douglas, a former branch member had become a pillar of the McArthur family through his battle power and brilliant management.
Douglas's manor was similar to an imperial palace. Therefore, it wasn't hard for him to give a good pavilion for Alvaro and another for Trevon.
"I am HOME!!!" Trevon shouted after he entered a building.
The building was ten floors tall. While four huge words were engraved on a board above its front door. 'Eternal Night Pleasure House.'
"..." Master Rabbink and Trevon's bodyguards couldn't say anything. Their young master brought them to this place straight after they arrived at Bluestar.
Eternal Night Pleasure House was a very large pagoda-style building with ten eaves on each floor. Its exteriors were decorated based on the usual Heavenly Phoenix style luxury buildings. A phoenix sculpture perched on the tops of each eave while two large red pillars protected its entrance.
An empty courtyard located in the middle of the building with the building itself was a hexagon. Another special roof terrace was hidden on the highest floor.
"I am home!!! I am home!!!" Trevon shouted inside the lobby. Several tables full of people stopped their actions. They all looked to the strange person who shouted inside the building.
"It can't be." One of the patrons recognized Trevon.
"The demon returns." One of the patrons with a mohawk hairstyle whispered to his friend.
"I have to hide my daughters." The friend quickly answered.
A warrior quickly hid his treasures below the table. He quickly prayed that the Treasure Snatcher hadn't seen them.
"Disaster!" Another fat merchant suddenly drenched in the cold sweat.
Some young ladies turned pale. While they happily enjoyed the male courtesan, that didn't mean they hadn't heard the dangerous rumor of Trevon. He might make them pregnant with just his gaze. All froze in fear.
"We could say goodbye to those girls in the upper floors." Another patron felt bitter. Trevon would monopolize those girls.
His friend quickly drank his wine to drive the bitterness away. "Yeah! It is useless now. We can't compete with him in Bluestar."
"Welcome, Young Master Trevon!" A beautiful lady in a heavenly pink robe welcomed Trevon.
She looked thirty years old, but she had the right amount of mature beauty in her curves. Clear melancholy eyes, a pale pink lip, small and pointed nose, sharp feminine chin, added with perfect white jade skin would entice every male's gaze. Trevon couldn't stop to see through her thin robe. Some inner robe prevented him to see all her curves but his imagination ran wild from guessing.
"It has been two years, Elder Sister Sornatia. Does Margareth or Cecillia perform today?" He hugged the lady and smelled the beautiful rose perfume sprayed on the lady's body. They seemed to be very familiar.
Trevon was a VIP member of the Eternal Night Pleasure. He had known the rule. No girls in this pleasure house would give joining service to the quest. At the most, the patron could touch, but nothing more. Meanwhile, the girls also would at most touch the patron. More than that was wishing for a death sentence.
Where one could touch or be touched was based on the patron and the ladies. Rumor said hidden high ranked warriors protecting the establishment. Some said that even McArthur family was behind the establishment.
No one was stupid enough to force a lady or a gentleman from Eternal Night. There were words between brotherhood and sisterhood members, a single scream from the lady or the gentleman and you were gone.
[Name: Rimeri McArthur]
[Age: 803 Years]
[Sex: Female]
[Species: Human]
[Potential: 56/56]
[Determination: 71]
[Cultivation Speed: 76]
[Loyalty: 95]
[Decision Making: 74]
[Talent: Seducing, Information Gathering, Fighting – Hidden Weapon]
[Ability: The 5 Path of Saber 3rd Level (Sky), Iron Palm (Sky), Basic Saber Arts 1st Level (Sky), 100 McArthur Fist Combination Level 2 (Sky), Empty Hand and Kick Combat Technique Grandmaster (Sky), 10 Steps Illusion Dance (Sky), Earth Wall (Sky), Flame Punch (Earth), 100 Punch of Demon Killer 1st Level (Earth), Basic Saber Arts 2nd Level (Earth), Basic Sword Arts 1st Level (Earth), Basic Spear Arts 1st Level (Earth), 100 McArthur Fist Combination Level 3 (Earth), 10 Peaceful Mark (Earth), 100 Punch of Demon Killer 2nd Level (Man), Basic Sword Arts 2nd Level (Man), Basic Spear Arts 2nd Level (Man), Illusion Phoenix Eyes (Man)]
[Affiliation: Eternal Night Pleasure House, McArthur Family]
[Gagh! I am dead. I am dead. I am dead. This is really my home.] Trevon almost wanted to cry when he saw the tall panels that appeared above Sornatia or Rimeri. He hadn't even removed the ability panel. Who would believe this hidden seducer was a grand elder of McArthur family. She was even as old as his own grandmother.
Trevon new scout information was this Affiliation. It would tell an organization behind a person. As long as an organization had a name, he could see their affiliation. However, the panel had a weakness. He couldn't see a temporary organization. Else, he would see many strange relationships between people.
While he had heard about his family involvement behind the establishment, nobody had ever admitted about this. Every time he asked his grandfather, he always denied it. The young master felt cold sweat on his body.
[She must know all my secrets more than my real mother.] Trevon felt lucky he had Scout ability.
However, the lady knew what was his underwear size. She even knew more than his three sizes. Perhaps she had measured all that could be measured in Trevon's body. Trevon wanted to cry. He believed everything he did in Eternal Night had already been known by his grandfather.
[I am in a dead hole. I hope I hadn't shared any of the family secrets.] He tried to remember. While Trevon loved to brag, he always tried not to involve with the family matter. Therefore, the family secret that he should know should be a few. He didn't like with the politic and management of the family in the first place.
"What's wrong with your face, Young Master?" Sornatia started to wipe Trevon's cold sweats. "You have just returned to this humble place after that long. Don't you miss us here? Do the ladies in Redwood have served you better?" She acted alluringly.
Trevon could smell her soft and sexy rose perfume. It was a top brand from the capital. [Ugh... I couldn't stop my little brother's excitement from this temptress grandma.] Trevon tried to think about algebra. [This works!]
However, the attack hadn't stopped. She hooked her dainty hand to Trevon.
[NOOOOO!!!] Trevon could feel the softness on his arm. [I LOSE!!!] He admitted even before the fight.
"Why are you different today, Young Master?" She coyly asked Trevon.
Trevon sweated even more cold sweat. Normally, he would hug her and took some advantages here and there. However, he wouldn't ever dare to do that to Rank 3 warriors. That would equal looking for death.
"I think... I have changed in Redwood. Hahaha." Trevon awkwardly laughed.
"Young Master must already have a lover in Redwood. I heard the ladies was even braver in Redwood since they operated privately." She guided Trevon toward one of the VIP rooms. It was Trevon's exclusive room. He had made Jerry paid for the room rent.
"No. No way! I always studied with my uncle." Trevon tried to change the conversation.
"Then, this must be I am getting too old for Young Master. My beauty is no longer enough for Young Master Trevon." Sornatia lowered her head and slowly removed her smile from her face. It was hard to see her melancholy eyes when she acted like that.
"No way. Elder Sister Sornatia is always the most beautiful house mother in the entire Heavenly Phoenix. No in the entire world." Trevon always lost to this sad face trick from the lady.
"Then, Young Master should tell us the ladies of your stories in Redwood." She said. "I will call the ladies for you." She smiled.
Since they already arrived at the VIP room, some young maids prepared the room for Trevon while Sornatia left him to call other ladies.
Trevon's bodyguard was left in a special room for bodyguards outside the private room. Marcus, his fiancée, Aya, Qadr, and Noah asked for Trevon permission to stay in the pavilion. The young master, of course, preferred those ladies to go.
"Huff..." Trevon finally could freely breathe.
[This is dangerous. Should I move into another house?] He thought. [No. All top pleasures houses were rumored to have a connection with McArthur family. It isn't safe.]
"Good Evening, Young Master Trevon." A heavenly voice made Trevon forgot to run away. She was Cecillia, one of the top stars in Bluestar. "I heard young master Trevon came from a long journey. Please allow Cecillia to dance for Young Master. Cecillia wishes to lift your weary body!" She came together with a few other top ladies from Eternal Night.
Trevon threw all his worries to the back of the endless universes. "Oh, my beautiful Miss Cecillia. Your dance definitely will lift my spirit. Hwehwehwe." Trevon sat straightly on his jade pillow.
Cecillia smiled, bowed, and went to the small stage in the room for private performance. The other girls took some qin, pipa, flute, and other musical instruments.
Some young girls came and prepared some snacks for Trevon. Those were the maids who were usually the apprentices of a pleasure lady. They also wouldn't offer joining service to the patrons. This made the establishment had a higher standard than the cheaper places where the ladies blatantly sold their bodies.
Trevon was waiting while Mother Sornatia came into the room. She prepared a tea ceremony for Trevon. This ceremony was a service for a VIP member of the house. No common patron could experience the tea from Mother Sornatia.
Trevon started to enjoy the atmosphere. The VIP private room had a stage for the musicians to perform and a small table completed with spirit jade pillows for patrons to relax. While its decorations were the best, Trevon finally realized he had seen the name of Grand Master Vale. His idol's public persona had decorated some of the paintings in the room. Each was a painting of nature, Trevon used to enjoy those paintings.
[I can't believe this.] He looked into those familiar paintings.
The room started to enjoy the festive atmosphere after Cecillia started to dance. She was really one of the night goddesses of Bluestar.
A step from her mesmerized Trevon. Another step from her woke Trevon. Another step and Trevon felt he was in heaven. Her steps and shakes made Trevon forgot all his worries.
Master Rabbink happily tasted the foods and snacks. While Nana enjoyed her special spirit foods.
The Rabbink had only tasted Redwood's best restaurant. It had heard from Trevon that Eternal Night was one of the best restaurants in Bluestar during the day. Their night dinner was cooked by the same chef, with even better ingredients.
Most dishes were made from seafood. It was because the lake next to Bluestar was actually a freshwater sea inside the massive continent. Master Rabbink enjoyed plates of seafood. People in Bluestar ate a bit spicier than in Redwood. They used a special herb that gave a salty but spicy taste.
[This is good!] Master Rabbink put a strange prawn to its tiny mouth.
"Clap... Clap... Clap..." Trevon gave a standing ovation for Cecillia. "Miss Cecillia's dance always move my soul." Trevon didn't overpraise the lady.
"Hehehe. Cecillia could only accept Young Master Trevon's compliment." The girl bowed to the only audience of her performance.
"Where is Miss Margareth? I haven't met her for two years and she already forgot about her fan." Trevon asked.
"Ah. That young lady had paid her debt to the family. Let me introduce you to a future star in our house!" Sornatia was smart. She didn't want to speak the uncomfortable thing.
Paying a debt meant that a lady had returned to her family. More often the lady had found a gentleman who agreed to pay her debt to the house.
Trevon felt a bit shocked. He remembered Master Rabbink's words that his chance with Margareth was zero. [Is this what you mean that it is impossible?]
"Yup! You can still select the girl in front of you, but remember a warning from my main body. If you take her at this time, you will lose your fiancée."
Trevon looked into the smiling Cecillia before him. He wanted to purchase her debt and believed the girl wouldn't reject him. The young master had saved his margin from selling things to his family. Yet...
He had a feeling that he should meet the lady in the capital. She was the first lady who agreed to meet him in a marriage meeting. That meant even with the rumor around him, the lady picked him first that his other cousins.
[I am sorry, Cecillia.] Trevon said in his heart. He touched the beautiful black hair of the girls.
Trevon enjoyed the companion of Cecillia, Sornatia, and the new girl. He knew that Sornatia must have planned to dig some information from him. [She will regret. Hehehe.] The young master had the best skill to detect trickery.
"Young Master, Cecillia heard from an adventurer two years ago. From the young generation, Young Master Trevon got the highest score during the beast wave." Cecillia poured a cup of tea to Trevon.
[Name: Cicely]
[Age: 20 Years]
[Sex: Female]
[Species: Human]
[Potential: 10/12]
[Determination: 71]
[Cultivation Speed: 86]
[Loyalty: 75]
[Decision Making: 31]
[Talent: Dancing, Blacksmithing]
[Affiliation: Eternal Night Pleasure House, McArthur Family]
[So, Cicely is her real name. She is also a cultivator. Yeah, it isn't strange that a girl with a beauty which could topple kingdom is a cultivator.] He thought.
Trevon had checked those girls in his room. Most of them unrelated to McArthur family, but the top courtesans were definitely McArthur's spies. Those unrelated girls were already excused themselves to perform in another room.
"I am just lucky. Hahaha." Trevon tried to stay low profile. It was his method. The girls would ask him more after this.
"It can't be. How could luck make one had the highest score during a beast wave? Young Master must be a hidden hero of our generation." One of the accompanying girls coquettishly asked Trevon. She showered Trevon with praise.
"Yes. Should we call young master as a Young Hero Trevon?" Her friend also praised Trevon to the moon.
"Hahahaha." Trevon couldn't avoid blushing when he was called a young hero.
"Tell me your fight with those demon beasts! How do you drive them out of Redwood?" Another girl followed. Luckily Trevon had learned about his weakness. He could lie with a straight face at this time. [I am glad I have practiced.]
"Let me tell you! It was very frightening... RRRROOOOOAAAAARRRR!!!" Trevon mimicked the beast.
"Kya..." The girls were shocked by the sudden roar. "Young Master, you are a naughty hero." The girls coquettishly commented while slowly punched Trevon's chest.
"The city needed a naughty hero. Hahaha." He pinched in the wrong place. Those ladies were already intimate with Trevon. He knew where the girl had allowed him to touch.
"Kya..." The girl pouted, but she didn't complain.
If she didn't like Trevon's action, she would politely escape from the room. If a patron forced her to stay, at that time the hidden experts would appear. It was a common rule explained by a friend to another friend in the brotherhood and sisterhood.
Trevon acted that he didn't make a mistake. He continued his story. "As I stood on top the gate, I thought. This was impossible. Millions of demon beasts marched toward the city... They were this many." He opened both of his arms. "Everywhere you see were demon beasts. They..." He talked about his bravery and his effort to fight.
"I was running towards the city to protect some weak people..." Trevon had prepared a set of bragging for those girls. He made the impossible possible in his story.
"Then after I saved a young boy, I met a huge bear. It suddenly attacked me. However, this brave young master jumped backward. I saved another young girl before I confronted the bear."
Trevon continued to embellish his story. He acted like he was the hero. However, he intentionally removed the part of Plot Armor. If he said that he found a weak high ranked demon beast and smashed them with one hit. Nobody would believe that.
Trevon was known as a Middle Rank 1 warrior in public and family. Yet, Charles only spread the information recently. Both knew there was a mysterious danger for Trevon if some people in the family knew that he had become a Middle Rank 1 warrior two years ago.
However, the real Trevon had reached Lv 24 or a Peak Rank 1 warrior. That was thanks to the table pointing missions. Master Rabbink thought that Trevon could go higher, but it was hard for this young man. He needed someone or something to whip him.
[Does this Rabbink need to call beast waves to Bluestar?] Master Rabbink thought.
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MasterRabbink Chapter for 07 Sep 2018. This Rabbink changed Aya’s Affiliation to The Guardian of Trevon.
Thank you for PineHeinKyaw for his and her mistake in Chapter 81.
Thank you for likewise, Cowsep_Alpha, wilklenfy, darksoul00, Dontlookdown, Debby_chan, Jio23449, oMahesvara_, Arania, Owlseye, Jetax, donutoutlaw, louis_8988, Qweds, Chino4Rr, Leo1227, PineHeinKyaw, DaolordeDarkSky, Symbiocom, ZERO_PoP, alpa_cowsep, ShinRyu7788, tricerafi, shinleigh_06, dapenggaofei1, joooo, PhoQ, (cont)
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