"What's the mission?" Kael asked Feng Yuan, his head down.
"Glad you're on board, Kael." Feng Yuan replied his a smile, responding with a smirk.
"It's rather difficult this time, you see, I need you to steal something for me. Baron Vale recently purchased a certain crystal from an auction. I need you to infiltrate his mansion and get it for me."
Kael's eyes widened. This was a death trap; breaking into the house of a baron was nigh impossible. Not only were they located in the inner sanctum, but it was also bound to be heavily guarded by first-stage awakeners, not to mention Baron Vale himself was at the second stage, knight tier, just like Feng Yuan. As a non-awakener, he was bound to die.
"That's impossible," Kael responded to Feng Yuan
"In normal circumstances, you would be correct, but the baron is attending a banquet held by the City Lord, so he'll be away, and he'd be taking some security leaving the premises wide open."
"Still, how I can't get into the inner sanctum, let alone the mansion."
"Don't worry about that, I need to know whether you are going to go." Feng Yuan asked.
Going meant death for Kael, but staying here, he was bound to never be free; he would be under this man, and that he refused to accept. He couldn't deny this mission; Feng Yuan had control over him, he was his property, thanks to the slave brand on his back. A painful reminder of his past.
"I'll go, but sign the contract first."
Feng-Yuan's eyes contracted as he gazed upon Kael, but Kael refused to falter. He had made a promise to his late mother and himself to never be weak again.
Feng-Yuan snapped his finger, and a scroll appeared in his hand. It was a blank piece of parchment, but it carried a lingering feeling of power.
"I, Feng-Yuan, declare to set Kael free on the delivery of the Alginite crystal." As these words were said, the parchment began to glow with a red aura, words forming on the parchment, and chains materialized and bound Feng Yuan.
"It's done." Feng Yuan said, his skin a shade paler than earlier.
"Now, the banquet is tomorrow, I've arranged for a guard to let you into the sanctum, you will find your way to the mansion, and a contact of mine will let you inside, they will show you the direction to the treasury, and you will get me the crystal."
Kael nodded in agreement to the plan, but a plan had already begun to form in his mind.
"Alright, Tron, take him away." The machine man grabbed Kael by the hand and escorted him away.
After a while, Tron returned to Feng Yuan.
"Boss, I gotta question," Tron asked
"Oh, and what is it?"
"That mission is too dangerous, you've already spent quite a significant amount of resources to get into the good books of the noble houses, why are you planning to ruin it now? He's not going to succeed, not with him there." Tron said
"I don't need him to succeed, I want him to get caught." Feng Yuan said with a devilish smile
"I don't understand, boss, why would you want that? He's quite useful." Tron said with a confused tone.
"Ah, but you see, I had warned the baron that someone would have eyes on the crystal, and who would have eyes on the crystal but the tiger gang?"
Tron's eyes shot wide open with understanding. With the boy being caught, the baron would think it the tiger gang's fault and they would rush to eradicate them, and even by the grace of the gods the boy succeeds the baron would think the tiger gang is to fault and would seek their eradication. It was a win no matter what for the Feng-Yuan
"Wait boss, what if the boy says u sent him."
"Whom, would the Baron believe me or that rat?"