《My Hermit Life》Chapter 55
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It was about one month after Solomon met up with Gabrielle that something slightly interesting happened. Two of the princesses and two of the princes decided to visit Gabby out of the blue.
They just walked right in through a set path through the formations that Gabby had told them to use. Luckily for them they hadn't come by the day Solomon set the formations or they would have been locked in an illusion formation that would make them feel a million tortures before dying a misserable and slow death. Though Gabby soon informed Solomon of the path so that he could fix it.
When the four young royals walked in they instantly clocked in on Solomon who was meditating the Dao while sitting on Gabbies couch, as you do. All four of the twenty or so year olds showed different reactions. The first princess had an infatuated in her eyes, the first prince looked curious but arrogant. The second princess looked at Solo as though she was looking at a worthless idiot, and the second prince had a look that screamed he wanted to fight.
" Hey Nico ( Gabrielle's fake name ), whose your friend? "
" This is Alphonse ( Solomon's fake name ), he's from the same clan as me. He recently came by to check up on me and make sure I'm not having a hard time out in the world. "
Solomon thought of the fake identity that Loretta had created for him. He was Alphonse Widower, he was from the same clan as her and despite being more talented he had a worse posistion since her father was an elder while his father was a minial task worker. This is the excuse Solomon is going to use to convince Nath that he is legit about betraying Gabrielle. Of course it wouldn't be that simple, but for the most part that is Solomon's plan.
" Alphonse these are Brittany, Liliania, Ezekiel, and Fanton. These are some of my royal friends from next door, say hello. "
" Hello. "
When the four royals and Gabby heard Solomon's dry reply they all had the same expression, a wry smile. The royals couldn't help but think " rude " while Gabby was thinking about how anti-social Solomon was in the past. She forgot during the few months away from him, but she remebered all the excuses he would use to not meet the other youngsters during the million year training camp. She thought about the one time he even pretended that he died to avoid a party that had been set up by all of the youngsters. In the end he was forcefully dragged along by Loretta and ended up standing in a corner eating a bunch of meat provided by Loretta.
" Sorry guys, he isn't really used to being around people, plus he was never taught proper etiquette. "
When Alphonse heard that he pretended to send Gabby a hidden death glare. The reason being that Gabby was nearly one hundered percent positive that one of the young royals was in cahoots with Nath, she just didn't know who. So, she decided that instead of worrying about it she would just use them to set her and Solomon's act in stone.
" Anyway girls, don't worry about him how about we go try out some new tea I picked up from a merchant recently? "
" Yeesss! I don't know how but you always have the best tea. "
" Let's go. "
Of course Gabby couldn't say that she got her tea from her dragon and monkey cousin and his undead centaurion wife's world.
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When the girls left Solomon kept his Divine Sense trained on them while the two princes sat down on the couch across from Solomon. When the girls reached the tea room that was basically a room with thousands of types of tea's lining the walls they sat down and started gossiping. The first topic was a bit of a surprise for Solomon.
" So tell me Nico, is that hunk out there single and ready to mingle, cause I want to break off a peice of that bronze adonis. I mean he looks like he's picked weights up and down billions of times. "
" Yeah, come on tell us all about him. "
Both of the girls spoke in soft and sneaky voices that always accompanies gossiping women. Gabby didn't really share the same love that most noble girls or Loretta and Solomon for that matter held towards gossiping so she just answered in a boring and dry voice.
" He has an arranged partner from an ally clan. So hands off ladies, sorry. "
" Damn, it's not everyday you get to meet a man that can bend the metal armour covering him just by flexing his beheamoth muscles. "
Gabby just slightly smirked while sipping her tea, she was ammused at the fact that if Loretta had heard the princess talking like that about her man she wouldn't hesitate to invade the country. Though that might not be entirely true, Loretta would instead beat Solomon up until he changed into a less appealing appearence.
Eventually Solomon stopped peeping on the girls and instead continued meditating on the couch. At least he wanted to, but the talky douche that was Fanton wouldn't leave him alone.
" So why don't you tell us about your's and Niko's clan? "
Solomon just stared at him before rudely sighing out loud without even trying to hide it.
" ' Sigh ' It's a small clan near the Forest of Giants, we focus mainly on out merchant buisness, but we also have a militia for hire. "
The two interested princes thought Solomon was going to keep talking but he once again closed his eyes to think about the Dao some more. Sadly Fanton didn't sjut up and kept perstering Solomon.
" Are you part of the merchant or mercernary buisness. You look like a mercernary, but looks can be decieving. "
It seemed the prince thought Solomon had been rude and tried slipping some pars into his sentence. Like saying that Solomon was a mercernary could be seen as a look that he was of low status. While saying looks could be decieving meant that even though Solomon looked strong he could actually be weak. Solomon just looked at the prince before he spoke.
" I'm actually part of the brothel part of the buisness, I'm one of the most popular male prostitutes. Why do you think Nicole hired me. "
Hearing Solomon both of the princes looked at him in shock, at around that moment Gabby and the girls walked in.
" Why did I hire you? "
Solomon just stared at her with a small smirk while the princes kept looking back and forth between the cousins. They seemed to think that Solomon's smirk was a type of code between the Solo and Gabby.
Gabby just had a confuse look as well as the princesses, the princes just had the sucked in with a sour look. Eventually Solomon was the one to break the silence.
" Alright Nico, I'm going to the bedroom, I'll be waiting. "
Hearing him all of the people in the room seemed to have perverted thoughts. Of course Solomon wanted to tease them, that's why he said what he said.
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One Week Later
Solomon was on a " mission " that he had been given by Gabby. It was one of the first missions that Solomon was going to start dropping hints towards Nath's gang about betrayal. The mission he was on was a drop off mission that Gabby had intentionally leaked to Nath.
( Next part isn't really important and can be skipped )
A drop off mission is where one where someone has drugs, weapons, or anything else illegal. Solomon has to drop off a hallucinogenic drug that is a mix between an alchemy master and a formation master. When ingested the drug will affect the brain while the formation affects the body. Usually when taken in low doses the drug will just make one feel like the monarch of a country that stands above Gods and kings alike. Sadly though one cannot simply take the drug in low doses. Instead people will take two, three, maybe even four pills.
With such a dosage a person would feel like a dragon flying through the skies. Once or twice wouldn't really affect someone to horribly bad, headaches, insomnia, small mental health defects, even depression. When such high dosages are taken multiple times though they will cause brain bleeding, mental breaks, and of course death.
Despite that fact though many high level nobles would take the drug at parties or even in private use. Thanks to that the royal family had to ban the drug, which of course didn't work. This did leave to massive buisness oppurtunities for Gabrielle though.
( Skippable part end )
The mission was to deliver the drug to the butler of a noble family. The family was one which was suspected to be working with Nath. With such thoughts Gabby leaked the fact that she had a new formation master who was one of her new secret weapons. She also leaked the fact that she had one of her family members in the group. Of course she was very discreet about leaking the information, she had dropped it during a party when she was pretending to be drunk.
Solomon was waiting in an alleyway for the butler to come, he was occumpying his time by using Divine Sense to observe a massive war between to ant clans. When Solomon discovered the scene he was kind of surprised by the war since he had never heard of ants battling. He just chalked it up to Mana.
Right when he was getting into the fight and was pumped up over his favorite soldier, Solomon heard foot steps coming his way. Around three seconds later the fifty year old butler came aroud the corner. Solomon then entered professional mode.
" Do you have the stuff? "
Solomon didn't say anything and instead brought out the space bag full of drugs. The space bag is basically a bag with a hole bunch of space. The use of the space bag was because the noble had ordered the drug in bulk since Gabby offered a deal when her product are bought in bulk.
When the butler saw the bag he noticably started to breathe heavier, clearly he was addicted to the drug and couldn't wait to go and get high. Right when the butler was about to grab the bag Solomon pulled it back and spoke.
" Wheres the payment. "
" Ah yes, sorry, I forgot please excuse my poor behavior. "
Saying that the butler pulled out a different space bag holding the ingredients to make the drug. In all actuality the ingredients for the drug were what was banned and not the drug itself. This was because some of the royals were actually taking the drug and the royal family couldn't lock up one of their own.
Thanks to this it was getting harder and harder for Gabby to get the ingredients so that her people could make the drug. That's why Gabby would usually make the ingredients the payment for some of her jobs.
When Solomon saw the bag he nodded his head and he and the butler started to reach for the bags in each others hand.
When the deal was completed the butler walked away, and so did Solomon.
When he was halfway to the hideout Solomon started to wonder whether or not he was going to jumped. Before the thought was even over though multiple clothed figures jumped out of multiple hiding spots. They threw out three formation plates that were made to seal Solomon. Of course it didn't work but Solomon pretended to be trapped.
" Knock him out and bring him back to the base. "
" Wait wait wait wait! Please, I have been waiting for this oppurtunity. Please let me work for your boss. "
" Do you think we're idiots? Your boss has tried multiple times to infiltrate our gang, did she think this time was going to be different? "
" No I swear, I hate that bitch, I'm from the same clan as her and she always treats me like trash. This is despite me being more talented than that whore. Please, I want nothing more than for your boss to win. I even nabbed some of the formation blueprints from her new formation master. "
Hearing that, the person in the lead seemed to think for a bit before he whispered into one of the lackeys ears.
" We will wait here for our bosses second in command, if you can convince him you can live if not . . . . "
The leader made a cutting motion across his throat.
" I am more than happy to wait, but it might be suspicous if I take to long. "
" If you leave then you'll have to make an excuse. "
After that Solomon nervously gulped while pretending to hide it. After that they waited ten minutes for a a twenty or so year old man with brown hair to show up. The young man was Nath's right hand man Cobe. He was the one who usually managed the people while Nath did all of the really difficult plans.
" Show me who you're talking about, I'm busy ever since that bitch( Gabby ) got a new formation master. "
" This is him sir. "
Cobe looked at Solomon examining him a little before he spoke out.
" Alright explain why it's worth it for us to not kill you. "
" I can be an inside man, plus I can get you some of the formation blueprints from her new formation master. Also she trusts me, and last but not least I hate her and I am more than willing to do whatever it takes to kill her. "
Solomon of course went into more detail that took around twenty minutes to explain. ( I was to lazy to right much more. Plus I didn't want to repeat to much information. Ya'll are smart I'm sure you guys can come up with something good. )
After Solomon stopped explaining Cobe looked at him shortly before he nodded his head and walked off. Solomon thought that he was going to have to fight out, but the lackey's pulled the formation plates off of him. Solomon knew then that he was accepted. Before Cobe fully left he spoke.
" Keep going about your normal routine, we'll get back to you. "
After that Cobe, the leader, and the lackey's left. When they left Solomon gave an excited fist pump, this was to make sure that anybody who might of been still watching didn't get suspicous. After that Solomon walked off with an excited gait.
Eventually Solomon got back to the mansion and gave Gabby the ingredients for the drugs.
" How'd it go? "
" I was accepted. "
" Nice. "
That was the only conversation between Gabby and Solomon before both went to their seperate rooms, and started meditating their seperate Daos.
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