《My Hermit Life》Chapter 47
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Inside of an underground compound personally created by a certain Legendary Beast.
Right now Solomon is going through his catalog of treasures which has been his weekly ritual since his first heist over half a year ago. Solomon has had to expand his compound three times over the past half year. His previous book count of eight thousand or so has since expanded to nearly seventeen thousand. His plant room is now the size of a tiny wooded area. His Treasurey could now fit seven casino vaults. His heist planning room wasnt expanded. While his formation room basically looks like a room filled with countless runes and symbols covering the walls, floor, and ceiling.
Solomon has long since gained a beyond infamous reputation thanks to his robbing dozens of manors; from nobles, to farmers, merchants, he even robbed a side family of the royal family. When he robbed the royal side family Solomon added formations to all kinds of stuff in preperation for the side family visiting the main royal family. Which turned out well, thanks to his preperations Solomon was close to being able to rob the royal family.
He was so confident in being able to rob the royal family clean that he was already planning on which country to go to next. Apart from Solomon, Loretta and the rest of the gang were doing great as well.
Loretta had already destroyed the she had been going against half a year ago. She had also aquired enough un-dead to rival an average sized mortal country, seven hundred thousand or so to be more accurate.
Deam had an army of one hundred thousand or so, she controlled fifty thousand while her five personally trained generals controlled ten thousand each. Deam would usually attack from the front is a semi-defense semi-offense manner. While she was controlling an enemies attention her generals would attack using odd techniques and from different angles.
Gabbrielle had infiltrated a country and made a large organization with dealings in light and dark matters. She played the role of a high level mage while secretly controlling drug dens, hit men squads, brothels, even slave trade. Her good dealings involved a massive library, her mage tower, a school, and various merchant buisnesses. Some would think that it would be imposible for her to have such a large organization so quickly but she already had contacts in the country she was residing in; she also had frequent contact with Solomon who sold her stuff he had to much of I.E. seeds, books, clothes, spices, among other things.
After he was done going over inventory Solomon decided to visit the plant room to study the Dao.
The inside of the plant room was of course covered but Solomon had layed hundreds of Dao totems he had created around the room. Thanks to the totems a large amount of contained Dao aura permeated and evolved the plants. The skeleton and tree had grown to be shorter and stockier as opposed to the normal taller and girthier. Along with his Strength Dao and Lightning Dao Solomon also started comprehending the Tree Life Dao. The Tree Life Dao is the Dao of someone who lives by wood. Wood Worker, Lumberjack, Aborist. Solomon comprehended this Dao around four months after his first heist. When he comprehended the Dao he focused on the Wood Worker, Lumberjack, and the tree cultivator aspect as opposed to the others. This lead to him creating a specific axe just for cutting trees, a technique just for growing trees, and of course hes a wood worker.
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Solomon spent around two days comprehending his Lightning Dao before he decided to take a break out of boredom. When he was done studying his Dao Solomon went to his formation room to peep on the royal family. He had been studying the royal family for nearly a month and he was confident he new the families patterns as well as the guards. The first person he decided to watch was the royal guard captain who was talking with some of the younger soldiers.
" Captain what do you think about the recent string of heists happening all over Yumei? "
" Honestly Im kind of happy, those greedy sons of bitched deserved to be robbed. I just hope whoever is doing this doesnt target the lords, Im not confident we could stop whoever is doing this.
After that the guard captain and the soldiers started talking about boring and miscellaneous topics so Solo changed who he was peeping on. He decided to watch one of the pricesses who Solomon found interesting.
He found her interesting not because she was entertaining but because she was a snake, litterally. From what Solo could tell the real pricess was killed by a snake enchantess who took over her identity. Solomon only discovered about the enchantress because she likes to transform into her snake for while bathing, one day Solo accidently checked in at the perfect time to see.
When Solo checked on her the enchantress was talking with some of the few female nobles who Solomon hadnt robbed blind. Despite her laughing smiling attitude Solomon could see the hidden indifference deep within her eyes. She didnt care about the nobles she just used them to keep up appearences so that no one would now she wasnt the real princess.
He watched the snake for and hour before he caught her sending away the female nobles. After she sent them away the enchantress pulled out a diary she kept hidden. She kept it hidden because it recorded everything from the time she killed the pricess along with all the schemes she thought up and performed. She wrote down some new thoughts and ideas as well as a new money scheme she wanted to try out. She also wrote down some notes about the female nobles along with Solos recent heists. After that she started to prepare for her bath.
Seeing her start to strip Solomon turned off his formation, despite the fact that he would only see a large diamond pattern snake as opposed to the naked body of a woman.
After that Solo spent another three hours peeping on the various memebers of the royal household. When he was finally done with that Solo started to refine his plan to rob the royal household. He decided that to be on the safeside he would use his ghost transformation skill, though if he could help it he wouldnt.
While keeping up such a lifestyle Solomon spent one month before he decided he was ready.
At exactly four A.M. is a tall skinny figure decked out in dark blue clothes that completely conceal him during the non light polluted night. This hidden figure moving about on the mid-winters night was of course Solomon who had changed his normal body type with 72 Transformations. He was currently moving through the royal compound that belonged to the royal family of Yumei. He was finally ready to rob them after months of preperations.
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He had already snuck past dozens of guards sometimes coming within three feet of them. Each time Solomon would be more tense than an amateur bomb squad trainee suddenly thrown out into the field. Each time he would have a small hatchet ready to kill the guards in one way or another.
In order to get to the vault Solomon would have to not only go through five acres worth of property but he would also have to go through various buildings holding hundreds of guards. Solomon was moving through the yard at a steady pace of moving ten feet with every step; he wasnt moving so fast because of speed but because he was shrinking the space from ten feet in front to be directly in front. He was only moving ten feet per step because any further and fluctuations from space moving could be felt. Eventually Solomon crossed the 2,500' distence from the gate to the buildings of the royal compound, now Solo only had to get past the buildings and he would reach the vault.
Solomon decided to transform into an animal that looks like a snake with legs, he did this for peak silence, flexibiliy, and speed since he couldnt use his ground shrinking so close to other people.
With his transformation Solo started to walk the path he had decided on a week ago. The path would use mole holes and mouse holes to traverse user ground, this way he wouldnt have to actually go inside of the buildings. Though using the holes would take longer than directly going through the buildings Solomon felt that he would rather be safe than sorry.
After an hour of traversing complicated tunnels Solomon finally reacked the building holding the vault and what he saw surprised him.
Surrounding the building was hundreds of guards, dozens of guard animals, the level thirty person from the royal family, the royal gurad captain, the king, and even the snake enchantress. Somehow the residents of the compound found out he was coming since they hadnt done something like that during the entire two months Solo was watching them. Instead of leaving Solo decided to get closer to see what they were saying.
" Daughter are you sure that that damn theif is coming today? "
" Yes father, I definitely had the feeling that he was watching me so I asked uncle Ronston to check for formations and well you know the rest. "
" Shes right brother, I found thousands of viewing formations inside as well around the royal household. Sadly whoever layed them is way rediculously better than me at formations and I couldnt trace them. "
That was the conversation Solo heard between the king, the snake, and the level thirty. It seemed the enchantress cought on somehow, maybe she even knew she was being watched the whole time and was just laying a trap for Solomon.
After watching for awhile longer Solo just sighed mentally and transformed into a ghost version of himself. After that he flew straight through the guards, snake, and the vault until he reached the treasures.
Inside of the royal vault isnt anything special in the ways of plants, books, skills, or even weapons. Inside was just a rediculous amount of Mana minerals. If someone were to add up all the Mana minerals Solomon had gotten from robbing the other nobles and were to compare it to the royal families wealth it might barely be equal. Barely.
Solomon was expecting this though since he had seen the royal family do nothing except sale, sale, sale the crops and live stock tax they get from the thousands of farmers living in their country. This lead to them having just enough food for themselves while having enough money to last four generations of royals.
Solomon just sighed again and swept up all the money into his and Lorettas world before he flew out of the vault. The entire sequence of events of getting to the vault took Solomon a few hours but the actual robbing took seconds. When he flew out of the vault the king and snake had left leaving the soldiers, royal guard captain, guard animals, and level thirty to guard the vault.
After that Solomon just flew back to his base, swept up everything from the building above fround, to all the foramtions, the plants, the library, and everything else. He only left a single book. The book contained all his plans for robbing the nobles and royals, along with how the heist went, and everything he got from his heist. He did this to tease the inhabitants of the city who would find the book.
Not long after he left the level thirty showed up to investigate the space fluctuations he felt. When he found and read the book he was so angry that a portion of the slums was turned into a flat mess of broken houses and things that previously lived. After he calmed down he called some people to make sure his rampage seemed like it was the theifs fault and not his.
The whole time the man was rageing Solomon had already flown hundreds of miles away in his swallow form, though he did watch everything that happened using a formation he set up. He also used that formation to record everything that happened which he spread around the city, this was a last little " fuck you " to the royal family.
Solomon eventually learned that he caused a rebellion by spreading the recording of the mans rampage around. The fact that someone whose family died in the slums that day leveled up and got revenge helps as well.
After nearly a week of flying Solomon reached a new country, this one completely inhabited by treants and elves. The country itself was in the shape of a tree and the walls surrounding it were made of world tree that died and was hollowed out.
According to legend the world tree was actually a treant ancestor who was powerful enough to spread his roots throughout the universe. But he died one day to unknown reason, thats why the country looks like a tree and why it has a dead tree guarding it. Honestly though nobody truly knows if the legend is true, though the treant royal family says it is and they claim to be the descendents of the world treant.
Thanks to their clamins the treant royal family is stronger than the elven royal family, the treant royals have three level thirtyies and one level forty. While the elves only have four level forties. The only reason the elves can contend is thanks to their wealth and their skill with magics.
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