The Path of Ruin

Chapter 88 - 88: A Stupid Plan

The person who came in... looked skinny. His brown hair had gray spots in places, he must have been over forty. His clothes were not pajamas or the clothes of someone who had just woken up. He looked more like... a butler.

The man let his dull yellow eyes roam the room for a while. Then, he closed the door without a sound and approached the baron's office.

He passed Kael standing in the middle of the room, not noticing him at all... Or rather, unable to notice him.

'He... He didn't see me... I did it.'

Kael had used his follower ability as soon as he realized the door had opened. Apparently, he had managed to erase himself from the man's line of sight before he saw him.

'That was close... too close.'

He calmed himself, slowed his breathing and his heart. Then he studied the man who had entered.

'Who... is this, though?'

While he was in these thoughts, the man finally reached the table and then bent down under it. He took out what looked like a key from his pocket, then... pointed it at a spot on the floor.

As Kael continued to watch everything carefully, there was a 'click' at the spot where the man extended the key, then that part of the floor sank slightly, revealing a hole.

The man inserted the key into the hole, turning it a single turn. Then he pulled the hole aside like a trapdoor and opened it.

The secret compartment was completely filled with what looked like letters.

'Letters...?'

Kael's eyes widened.

'Letters!'

The man was shuffling through the letters, pulling most of them to the side, almost as if he was looking for something specific.

Kael approached him as he continued to

His lips involuntarily curled upwards at the thought. But it wasn't because of excitement or happiness, or because he had come up with the perfect plan.

'I am an idiot...'

He took a deep breath, then slowly stood up.

He was completely exposed, anyone could see him now... But he didn't care.

'I'm really stupid to do this...'

He really was.

But in the end... all he had to do was to keep his identity a secret.

Was it really a problem if someone found out that someone had infiltrated the mansion, or even... that he had walked out in front of them?

He just needed to keep his intentions and the fact that he had the letters secret.

'Fuck this shit, but...'

He looked at the sky, the stars, and the moon for the last time. As his smile widened, he let himself fall off the roof.

'Let's go!'

Meanwhile, just below him, a few guards were walking around, chatting.

But as soon as they saw the figure descending towards them in the darkness of the night, they all stopped chatting and turned towards him.

They didn't have a chance to see the face, to understand who he was, nor to understand what this figure actually was.

Because the figure, Kael, without a care in the world, pumped eon all over his body and suddenly started running at an explosive speed.

"Ah..."

The eyes of one of the guards widened as he looked at Kael's figure moving away at tremendous speed. And then...

"G- get him! Someone has infiltrated the mansion!"

The whole mansion was suddenly alerted by this shout in the middle of the night.