Marina was the name of the suicidal maid.

Although the dream world seemed inspired by reality and they were living in modern society, Luo nation was still a country where monarchs ruled.

There was much class, from commoners to nobles.

As someone from noble-born, the prince Djebal never ever called a commoner by his name. The only one whose name he knew was the butler who was an illegitimate son from a noble family.

When Tommy met her again, there was an embarrassing silence in the room. It continued until the prince started to talk.

" so, what is your name?"

Tommy was not a great talker but he was so curious that he could not help but ask her all kinds of questions.

How did her body regenerate?

Why, did her hair turn white like his?

Although she did not know, she helped Tommy clear some doubts.

It was the fact that using his power on people's bodies caused side effects.

As soon as he had this tough, he wanted to try it.

" no Tommy, you can not do this! Even though you need power, you can not go around carrying experiments on innocent people" he was sighing when he suddenly remembered the assailant of that day.

Were they innocent? were they even human to begin with?

Thinking like this, Tommy turned toward the maid next to him.

" go and call the butler," he asked gently.

Soon after the old butler arrived and saluted him.

" My prince, I'm assured to see that you are going well. Had I know that you were already awake, I will have come sooner. May I know why you need me for?" the butler showed a sincerely reassured expression.

" the few assailants that assaulted me last night. What is their current state?" the prince asked calmy.

Remembering that event, and the power that the prince showed the butler gaze became even more worshiping.

" my prince, yesterday there were four assailants. Other than the one that the prince killed..." saying this the butler gulped remembering the bloody frozen sculpture.

" the other who was burned survived. We locked him in the dungeons. But he is really strange and seems to be recovering fast.."

"fast?" asked the prince curiously.

Strangely, facing this question the butler paused in embarrassment.

" although he did not recover as fast as the prince or Miss Marina. He still recovers faster than normal human beings" while saying this the butler avoided the prince's gaze.

He was an ordinary person after all. Apart from legends and myths he heard about, he never made contact with the mystical world. There was a particular legend about the Elsan, people of the royal family.

The legend said that every generation or so, an unordinary man will be born among them.

He was even more fearful of the prince now than he had been of the king.

Another thing was that he was now more politely addressing the suicidal maid who likes the prince seemed to have mystical power.

They even have the same hair color!

After calming himself the butler finally said:

" the other two are locked each in a cell in our dungeon. One of them was holding a gun but was neutralized by Miss Sarey fortunately before anything too bad happened. The other tried to use a dagger but was stopped.

We also captured the traitors and did not let a single of them escape" the butler finished his report.

Miss Sarey was the woman that Tommy liked to call Book maiden. She was calm most of the time but was also fast to react.

" you did well" the prince complimented absentmindedly. He was thinking about a critical question after all.

" so we have a dungeon?"

Luckily enough the butler did not have super hearing power.

*******

Tommy was following the old butler along a bad lited tunnel.

" it seems like this tunnel was constructed long ago, much longer than the rest of the castle.

Now I remember that the castle is very old. It is one of the most ancient buildings in the country" Tommy thought silently.

"I can now understand why there is a dungeon. The dungeon was already there when the place was renovated"

They walked for some time before arriving in front of a metallic door.

The butler opened the door and was amazed by its thickness.

" We did not know fully what he was able to do so we tough about the worst situation and did what we could to prevent it" explained to the butler while inspecting the interior of the cell.

Tommy was amazed by what he saw. Wrapped in multiple layers of the chain was a man.

Tommy did not clearly remember him, but he knew who he was: the man with incredible strength. Tommy mentally decided to call him Ms. Muscle.

The man remained silent when they entered. Although his appearance looked miserable, he did not look that bad considering that he was burned, crushed by the tenfold gravity, and did not receive any treatment after that.

When the man's eyes met the butler, they were menacing like those of a hunter looking at his prey. But when he saw the prince, he became agitated.

" so you survived," the prince asked calmly, his eyes deeper than the darkness around them.

" so did you" Ms. Muscle answered with a growl.

"I have an offer for you.

You tell me who send you and what they are after. And I will not do anything too painful to you" the prince insincerely said.

The man did not answer but it did not make the prince angry on the contrary he séemed interested.

" It has to be expected from people like you.

You are the strongest man I have ever faced. As for your friend he was the fastest one.

Despite all of this I managed to beat the two of you.

I don't know who your employer is, but he must be disappointed.

You could have taken people hostage, you could have done many things.

But not only you did not manage to kill me, you were not even able to protect yourself" the prince paused in his monologue.

" it is because I'm too strong. I don't think so.

You were certainly trained to face people like me but you still screwed badly" the prince continued like this trying to provoke the man.

T

At the start, he was not thinking about what he said. But soon he fell into it.

' this feeling of superiority... It is so good'

" don't think that being an evolver makes you great. You are just a puppet in their hand for them to play with" the man suddenly roared.

As soon as he said that he regained his spirit and shut his mouth looking at the prince in horror and thinking:

" what did he do to me?"

Like many people in the military, he was prepared to face moments like this. The smartest thing to do was to stay calm and remain silent.

It is what he did all this while, but while the prince talked he felt a wave of incredible and uncontrollable anger rising in him.

What he did not know was that as soon as Tommy entered his cell he used a 'spell' appropriated for the situation: the interrogation spell.

Humans are emotional beings and even the most trained soldier possess emotions. Some people are just able to keep their emotions in check better than others.

Joy, anger, fear were emotions. But how did a spell control emotions?

It was another flawed concept. Emotions are the byproduct of the hormones that the brain produces. Saying this was not true because cause and effect were reversed. But did it matter?

When Tommy saw the man staying calm in this kind of condition. He started to think about which emotions could destroy the man's composure.

Could a cold-blooded killer feel sadness, Tommy did not know. Could he feel joy, Tommy did not want to amuse him. So Tommy decided to 'use' anger...

Under the power of the spell, the man's brain produced more catecholamines. He became more sensitive to insults until he exploded.

He did not say much. Perhaps Tommy's level of mastery was to law.

But he managed to gain a direction for his next research.

Who were the people the man was referring to?

What was an evolver?

"I'm going to be busy again" Tommy sighed to himself.

Live seemed willing to work him to death.

Alternative title: directions