I made my way towards the northern side of the Ares Mountains.
Arthur and the others followed closely behind, watching for any surprise attacks.
I had assured them ti and again that nothing of that sort would happen, but these guys just seed to get more paranoid.
I can’t really bla them.
If I didn’t know Alfred from the ga, I would have been equally hesitant to enter the base.
My mind would have preferred attacking them instead of going through so dialogue.
After all, at the end of the day, violence is the only thing that can ta your opponents.
The path was a little bumpy, having to jump here and there.
"Boss, but would that man agree to our terms... umm... your terms?"
Julien caught up to and began walking by my side.
"He would, don’t worry. Even his dad would!"
Not that I knew who it was.
Julien just nodded his head.
In the last three days, Julien had improved by quite a lot. Staying by my side had now made him more... normal.
It’s just that he didn’t act like a slum boy anymore.
Building confidence in him would still take so ti, but I know one thing for sure...
Once my boy gets into the ga, he would be an unstoppable force.
I wouldn’t be able to look after D.X. while in the academy. It would be up to Julien to handle everything.
I knew it was so much of a sudden weight on his shoulders, but he would be fine.
Arthur would be by his side.
Sigh.
Arthur’s presence is the only thing that always reassures in my crazy plans.
This isn’t Earth, where having a gun would save you. Here, power is needed—pure, hard power—if you want to survive and live on your own terms.
As for Alfred agreeing to my deal...
Though I had assured Julien of our success, honestly, I wasn’t sure about how things would go!
Alfred wasn’t the most sane person. And understanding people like him is a hassle.
All my calculations are based on the knowledge from the ga, but...
Only a stupid person would trust sothing like that.
What I had played was just a ga; this wasn’t a ga.
Here, the stakes were real and... lethal.
Till this mont, everything had been going according to what I had calculated based on my existing knowledge of this world, but that didn’t an things would go smoothly going forward.
Especially when dealing with a lunatic like Alfred Syr.
I couldn’t ss things up during the deal; otherwise, Alfred would take it as a weakness.
And once the scale in his mind shifts towards retaliation...
Even with Arthur by my side, I don’t think things would be good if sothing wrong does happen.
Right now, Alfred must have weighed fighting us as unfavourable and more resource-consuming than hearing what we had to say.
And any misplaced words by could have an undesiring result for us.
The only way to ta Alfred was to show dominance in the talks. I had to make him feel that the power behind was powerful enough to shrug off any petty tricks that he may try to pull off later.
Petty tricks in the sense of trying to kill us at the base if we do sothing to anger him.
Alfred was a man of his word, but anger can make any man lose his principles.
The risk was high...
But where there’s a risk, there is a reward.
And what’s the power behind ...
X.
The head of D.X., soone who is powerful enough to make a being like Arthur Dimitri work for him.
Technically, that omnipotent figure is , but...
Alfred doesn’t need to know that.
A wild, logical, and lunatic dog like him can only be tad by his logic.
His logic would make him understand the benefits he would derive from our deal, while also fearing the consequences of any form of betrayal.
Yes, fear.
I had to instill the seeds of fear in a madman.
It would be tough, but it wasn’t like I had to make him tremble in fear.
It’s like knowing what will happen when you put your hand in a pot of boiling oil.
You haven’t faced the results, but you still know them, and you subconsciously fear doing so stupid act that could very well make you suffer agonizing pain.
That’s what I always call...
A deterrent.
We had reached the gates of the facility, or what had been told to us as the location of the entrance.
But all I could see was a big-ass mountain before .
I an, there had to be so secret entrance here, but it was hidden from view.
Sigh.
Couldn’t those guys let the entrance be open already after informing us about it?
Did they want to show off their technological prowess?
No. 1!
That bastard must be behind this.
"Connect the channel and ask them to open the damn gates."
"Yes, sir!"
As the soldier pressed so buttons on the device, I waited in silence.
"Have you reached?"
No. 1 asked in a calm voice.
It irked .
That bastard must be watching us through the caras, and he had the audacity to ask us.
My displeasure could be seen as a slight frown appeared on my face.
That guy must have surely smirked seeing our reactions.
Was I angry?
No.
I wouldn’t lower myself to get upset over such petty reasons.
But I had to maintain the appearance of being disappointed and angry.
It was necessary to make the people on the other side feel that they were still in so control of the situation.
I had to boost their confidence a little, to lower their guard.
If I ca off as indifferent to their provocations, it would only make them more wary.
Humans truly are stupid.
"We indeed have arrived, so how about you open your damn doors before I—"
I put a hand on Julien’s shoulder.
He sure had caught on with . Can’t believe the docile little Julien had finally grown so balls.
I knew it was an act, and I had to comnd him for his skills...
It took nearly a second to see through him.
Just kidding.
His acting was—
Trash!
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