"I told you to wake me up early."
[No, you didn't. You told me to shut up and let you sleep.]
"And you let me sleep for nearly 10 hours. You useless AI."
[I would have woken you up before, but the last time I did that, you muted me for two days.]
"You deserve to be muted, you dumb, tiny, invisible, fucking robot in my head."
[...]
Rio cursed the system as he looked at the time on his phone and saw the messages of everyone.
Even Artemis had called him earlier and he was still sleeping, he could imagine the earful of scolding he'll get from her.
'Well looks like Amy and Esme didn't come across Leon and his tricks.' Rio thought, as he scrolled down the messages from both of them. Except asking him for some suggestions on what to give Artemis as a gift, or when will he be free and join them, there was nothing important. They did send one or two photos of the places they went, or where they'd be so he could find them if he was nearby, but that was all.
'Which heroine do you think Leon striked up with today?' Rio asked the system as he started getting ready to leave the academy and go meet some old friends.
[How would I know, but my money's on Katherine or Sunaina. Either he'd show off for Katherine or save Sunaina.]
[He might even pull both those stunts at once.]
Even though Rio had changed the fate of many characters and fooled up some heroines to be away from Leon. But there really were too many of them in the academy, and he was too lazy to care for vases or two times heroines, or those who played no important role or had something impressive which could help him a little - he didn't even try to stop them meeting up with Leon.
He left their future on fate and Leon's hands. If Leon can get them, good for him. And if he couldn't, well sucks to be you brother.
Maybe once Leon got enough girls, Rio can deal with all of them together, or use those vases to constantly create trouble for Leon.
Though changing their events would give him some points too, but it would be too troublesome to follow Leon all the time and stop him from showing off everyday.
'What about Seraphina? Do you think Leon will meet that little healer of his?' Rio said as he remembered about the plotline of a certain heroine from the novel.
[Hmmm it's very possible.] System thought and agreed with his line of thoughts.
Seraphina Starzl, the heroine known for her healing arts throughout the novel's story.
In the novel, after Rebecca's birthday event, where Leon failed his awakening and was in a coma - was taken to Circle of Renewals, to be healed. Where Rebecca asked king Maximus to use his connections to help him get treated too.
Leon was getting treatment from an elder of the Circle of Renewals, and that said elder had a little granddaughter who often visited Leon and became friends with him. Leon, who was grateful for the elder, swore that he'd pay back their care and would always remember them.
Years later, he meets with that little girl from the Circle of Renewals again at the Zenith Academy, and that girl is obviously another heroine who later joins the harem of hero - Seraphina Starzl.
But in reality, after Rio's several changes, Princess Rebecca wasn't wounded and she never visited the Circle of Renewals herself. Since she never went there, she never asked King Maximus to help Leon get treatment. According to what Rio learned after his investigation, someone from the Circle knew Baron and helped his son cross the queue and get treatment. It was probably one of Apollo's lackeys, if Rio was right.
Though Rio wasn't sure, he could guess that since Leon was admitted at the Circle of Renewals, there's a chance that he would've met with Seraphina and her plotline would've been the same.
'Well whatever it is, I'll deal with it later.' Rio said, as he ignored the system and left the dorms.
Even though the academy allowed students to leave their premises and respected their privacy, it still warned them not to take off their watches, so they could still track them and contact them at any time in case of any danger or unforeseen circumstances.
Since Rio didn't want his whereabouts to be known, he naturally couldn't do that. That's why he already had something which could fool this system.
He had read the plot and already knew some methods which he could use to trick the people at the academy; after all, many times Leon and other characters used such tricks to leave the academy in the novel - he had prepared them the last time he joined Zenith.
So Rio didn't care about these watches, and moved out. His first stop was obviously his company Angel. Cause even though he didn't care much about it since Esme was here, he still needed to know who was in charge of what, or if some new character of the novel popped up in his vicinity.
Who knows if some big traitor or troublesome character of the novel appeared near him - it would be bad for him.
After all, even until now no one besides Angel could produce the potions with similar effects and potency. Many companies and guilds have tried to learn and replicate the potion of Pura Corpus and Celestial Cleansing, but no one had been successful.
They made some copies which either had low effects on awakeners or had some side effects - that's why many still want to learn or steal the recipes of these potions. And since they couldn't attack Artemis who knew about them, their next best option was him. Who actually translated them from the Singular Books.
At first he was still a kid, so he always stayed in his mansion. Later he joined the academy and then he died - people would've cursed their lucks when they learned that he was dead and there was a chance that they would never learn about the recipes of those potions.
Now that he was back, there's a chance some of them might not want to wait for him to leave floating islands like they did last time.
Plus someone pulling the strings from behind had even released some rumors that he didn't learn those potions from Singular Books, but had found the legacy of some supreme alchemist. And every product Angel released was just a tip of all that knowledge he got from that legacy.
This made sense for many people too, because if those potions were so important and the only hole cards Blakes had, why would they release them to the whole world so early.
Wouldn't it be more wise to use these potions themselves for a decade or two, and create a super strong army of awakeners and then release them to the public.
In their eyes, it meant that Blake family didn't even take these potions seriously, that's why they shared it. But their might be other magical and more important gifts that only they're sharing among themselves and are hoarding it.
Rio's own supreme talent was even used as an explanation of that theory - and it fueled the rumors that Rio might've used other such high grade potions to enhance his talents and so on.
So overall, there are a lot of jealous eyes around him, but due to the constant security of Blake family they couldn't act out openly.
These rumors also played a part in the incident that happened two years ago in that dungeon.
Warzy, an organization which solely cares for war profits, wanted to kidnap him and steal the said book of that alchemy legacy.
After all, in wars no matter which world it is, two things are very necessary - people and products.
The more people you have on your side the better. The better resources and products you have on your side the better.
In Arcadia, the people here means awakeners, and the products are miraculous potions and healing elixirs. Rio's rumored legacy could help them get both of them.
With Pura Corpus potion in hand they have a chance to turn every kid into an awakener. And with Celestial Cleansing potion they could turn every unawakened into an aura user. Since there are too many unawakened duds living in Arcadia, Warzy could simply use these potions as advertisement and hire all of them. Plus that's just from the potions Blakes released, if they really had something else hidden, and they got it - that was even better.
That's why some idiot low minions from Warzy wanted to capture him alive, and learn everything about those potions from him during their attack. Sadly, their attack wasn't successful, and since Rio had already prepared some plans for these kinds of things, so he managed to survive their onslaught.
But then he was trapped in that dungeon for two years, and his father waged a war against Warzy as revenge.
Now that he was back safe and sound, one could guess how angry the people from Warzy would be. Since in all this fiasco they got nothing on their hands, but suffered loses throughout the world. Their main attack failed, their resources lost and they became enemy number one. That's why there was a chance that they might attack him as revenge in anger trying to kill him. Or if they have a brain , try to capture him alive again, because now is the time they most need those potions and other resources to strengthen themselves.
Obviously these were all the things low level minions might think and act upon,, the real leaders of Warzy and seat holders - might not even care about these little loses of lowlifes they hired for fun.
-Ding-.
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Rio read the message, and without asking anything else, just typed a reply and sent it
—I'm on my way. I'll handle it myself.
"Forget Angel. Your brother would send you his location, let's go there first." Rio said to the driver, laid back on his seat and closed his eyes. His hands empty as the watch of zenith was sitting in system storage.
"Yes boss" A girl with long hair, styled in several thin braids of different vibrant colors replied.
"Your previous hairstyle was much better by the way. This is just a mess." Rio said with his eyes still closed.
The girl, who was acting as his driver now, didn't say anything and smiled. She pressed her feet on the accelerator and raced towards the location marked on the map - "Club Desperado."
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