A Little Desire Of Anti - Hero

Arc I - Chapter 11: Living In Falsehood - 1

Out of the lab, Rion walked behind Seriana like a puppet, neither too far nor too close. He tried to adjust his gaze for too long in low light conditions.

Looking around, Rion realized that this was a giant fortress. Both the size and strength of this bull had exceeded the estimates he had once made, he now thought that this fortress was most likely used as a base of defense against the demi-humans.

Rion walked up and down the stairs, often he turned left and right to make him think that this fortress is like a labyrinth. Although it was indeed fitting to be pinned with a path that only fit for three people to walk side by side.

After a while, Rion arrived at a castle in the middle of the fortress, far from the previous nuances of this place is quite spacious with a landing field and a panoramic view of the multi-layered fortress wall as its protector.

Entering the castle, Rion feels he has entered a new world, far from the life he has known so far. Without speaking a word, Rion continued to tail behind Seriana.

Seriana stopped at the door of a room and looked at Rion. “this is where you live from now on, okay?”

“Ya, Master.”

“Sign in and rest, tomorrow you will start your life.”

Rion nodded then entered the room. Closing the door, Rion tried to observe the mana flow around him, checking whether there was any tapping magic or not.

After discovering which flow was abnormal, Rion walked towards the bed. Laying her body down, she breathed a sigh of relief along with the release of the fatigue accumulated all this time, she managed to escape the mind control plan.

‘For the time being I can relax for a while, betting on the antidote method I planned fortunately worked.’

[Interference: Re-Write], it's a pretty troublesome thing. In addition to including the type of mind control ability which is one of the most hated types of abilities many parties, the way this ability works is also quite complicated because it looks invisible.

Rion tried to put all his energy into his mind, to follow the ability. With Rion's current abilities, it was impossible to resist the effects of mind control.

Observation and his own reasoning power became the only clue for Rion to be able to overcome it.

After observing and time to think, Rion finally focused his attention on some clues he could find. This ability is always used after the creation of runes, besides this it is also in line with the word ‘write re-taped’. That was the key until Rion reached a conclusion, and this result came from the conclusion.

Rion chose to let the ability happen to him, then wrote down all the important things before it could be rewritten by the other party. Although this plan alone would not be able to go well if the creation of the runes was successful, but Rion had managed to prevent the creation of runes.

For the runes on his own back, Rion saw that this contract used blood as a medium. Which meant that as long as the other party's blood flowed in his body, then the contents of the contract would naturally apply. Ensure that the contract is successful, and there will be no problems in the future.

Rion overcame it with a simple form of performing healing magic on himself, and the use of magic without neatness was indispensable at this stage. As the blood came into direct contact on the shape of the rune carved wound on his back, the healing magic was activated.

The workings of this magic that refuses foreign objects to enter the body because it is considered as a bully, making foreign blood used as a medium become dispelled. Although Rion's healing magic is weak, it is more than enough to prevent this form of coercion.

As for the type of ability itself, when its memory was erased the way to fight it was to mark those memories. Rion put all the mana he had accumulated on the memories that were important to him, it was the day he made his decision. Making it a sign, after which he continued to strengthen the memory until it was forcibly entered on ‘writing’ the other party.

This method itself is at risk where he may still be affected by contact, or will go crazy because the forms of his memories are opposite each other which unfortunately both are considered true by him.

This method Rion had been thinking about for the past three years while looking for a way to obstruct the form of a forced contract. This is what causes Rion to dare to take this bet, not directly break through the front door when he is free because the odds reach 40:60 making it worth trying.

Rion closed his eyes with drowsiness that had not attacked him for a long time. He gave up on thinking longer this time, choosing to rest his mind that had never stopped for the past five years.

***

The morning dawned, the sunlight shining on Rion's face woke him from a deep sleep. The nuances he had not felt for a long time even he had almost forgotten how it felt.

Rion was wearing a servant's shirt that was located along with a small note on the table with a small mirror on it, probably prepared while he was asleep. Walking out of the room, Rion headed towards the dining room according to the information put into his head.

Seeing Seriana who was eating a meal by herself, Rion bowed while saying hello, “Good morning, Miss Seriana.”

Rion said calmly, holding all forms of killing intent on this girl in front of him so that it could no longer be felt.

Seriana nodded lightly at Rion, this was more than enough for her to respond to a ‘doll’, at least she ignored Rion.

After finishing the meal, Seriana finally opened her mouth. “Prepare for the exercises I have told you.”

“Good, Miss.”

This was another reason Rion did not immediately escape during the transfer of the tubes to a special room, besides avoiding facing the troops he also intended to strengthen himself.

After experiencing all these painful things, Rion realized this, weakness is a sin.

If Rion wanted to at least live a quiet life, he should be able to maintain that calm even by whatever path the way was taken. Besides Rion knew the fortress where a great Duke, like Duke Arcchild who was still a descendant of the Imperial family lived must have had precious books, and he wanted to get all that knowledge.

Information also includes power.

This proved how Rion could figure out the method of overcoming runes as well as the ability of mind control despite having limited information. If only Rion knew more, perhaps he could try a safer method without the greatest risk before.

Rion smiled sinisterly in his heart at this moment. In his mind he planned a lot of things that he would do in the future, starting the way to get stronger and most importantly escape from this fortress.

Seriana stood up, starting to lead Rion to his training ground, unaware of what Rion was thinking.

‘Everything has just begun, all of you prepare for the worst treatment you can't imagine ..!’