*Bang*I did not bother to raise my head to see who had slammed the door shut.
"Your highness." I moved my left arm away from my face as I looked upon the face of an angry Archer.
"They did not approve?" I asked.
Archer shook his head. "They want to take custody of all the individuals we captured along with the handling of the case in return for the translator."
"What about Steven? What did he say?" I inquired knowing full well the reply.
"Roughly the same as well, except he just wants full custody and transference of Miss Sophia. Which practically means her execution." Archer replied with much less anger.
"Tell me, Archer, why the h.e.l.l do we not have a translator in our faction?" I asked Archer just to waste some time, as I wanted to delay as much time possible before I started working.
Procrastination is heavenly!
"Usually threats outside of the empire means unification of the whole faction against the common threat. This meant everyone pools all their resource to uncover the truth against a spy from outside the empire without any prejudice.
But now, all the forces outside of the empire is so focused on you, and only you and nothing else.
So this is not a threat against the empire but rather against you.
There has never been a case like this, your highness, hence the reason there aren"t many translators in our faction." I could barely hear Archer babbling in the background as I slowly drifted off to sleep.
"*Ahem*Your highness?" Archer tried to wake me as politely as possible with an annoyed face.
I could easily read what he was thinking "You are the b.l.o.o.d.y person in danger. Stop, slacking and get to work before you die!"
"Fine. You guys are so annoying. Proceed to feed them all with truth pills." I ordered as I stood up lazily.
"Your highness..." Archer started
"Yeah, yeah I know, they don"t speak our language." I said as I looked at several of the people sitting inside the separated interrogation room.
I could see them, but they could not see me, through the one-way gla.s.s.
Alister Bright, Dan Stands, Lawson Fowler, Sophia and her puppets were all captured and stopped from leaving the building as soon as the agents had rounded up the building after my "attempted a.s.sa.s.sination".
After capturing and leading them to the interrogation room, each of them was questioned separately by an agent with me monitoring each interrogation.
Lawson easily confessed that Sophia had forced him to take her along after she had threatened his friends and family.
Sophia seeing, she had no escape easily agreed to force Lawson and wanting to manipulate me using her award. Seeing her arrogance, I was pretty sure Albert and the emperor will soon use a variety of way to free her.
The problem was Alister Bright and Dan Stand.
The moment they were captured both refused to open their mouths.
They refused to tell the truth as they did not expect to be recognised and captured so quickly.
Both were soon fed truth pills.
However, soon an even bigger problem cropped up as they both started talking nonsense.
I kind of figured out that whoever sent both of them there must have been behind this countermeasure.
Their respective backer must have been prepared for this kind of situation.
What was the best way to evade saying the truth? It was to either make sure not be capable of speaking the truth or to say the truth without anyone recognising.
That is exactly what was happening to these two.
I had figured these two were speaking an unrecognisable language after noticing certain words in their babble crop up more than twice.
Along with that when they were asked the same question twice the way they answered with the weird sounds was extremely similar when asked the first time.
This was not an easy feat to notice without an extremely fabulous memory and recall ability.
Both of these two must have some kind of trigger spell mechanism in them so that when forced to say the truth they would forget the common language of the empire and revert to their first language.
Very quickly I had ordered a translator who had learned most of the languages outside the empire, but that kind of backfired very quickly as well.
This is going to be very annoying.
Motioning to Archer I walked to the first person on my list Dan Stands.
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Ez walked into the room of Dan Stands with Archer next to him.
As soon as both sat down Archer placed a pill in front of the smirking Dan.
Dan without a hint of worry took the truth pill and swallowed it.
"Start asking him the usual." Ez told him while leaning back in the chair while closing his eyes.
Seeing Ez, Archer furrowed his brows, before he shrugged his shoulders.
"Name?" Archer asked.
"Ve niop ypi kva jera; bre pu mu fritnam?" Dan smirked while answering.
"Where are you from?" Archer used to hearing the same nonsense just carried on asking.
"Ve niop ypi kva jera; bre pu mu fritnam?" Dan answered with a glow of reverence in his eyes.
"Why were you sent here?" The strange language was slowly getting on the nerves of Archer.
"Ve niop ypi kva jera; bre pu mu fritnam?" Dan said while shifting his glance toward Ez who was still in his sleeping motion.
For the next 10 minutes questions of such were asked by Archer and in return was answered by a sneering Dan, who was confident in his ability to cover the truth.
As soon as the last question was answered Ez opened his eyes and looked at confident Dan.
"Took me a while but I am ready." Ez said while grinning towards Dan.
"I am sorry if I took so long, but shall we go again?" Ez spoke to the confused Dan.
"First question- what is your name?" Hearing the words coming out of Ez mouth confused Archer.
"I can"t understand you; can you speak in my language please?" Dan answered while still smiling, but this time Ez understood what he was saying.
"Lop di urmak?" Suddenly Ez started speaking in an unknown language to Archer.
"Urmak frit ul ni Dan Stands." As if an automatic response Dan started answering to Ez.
"Looks like I was right." Ez smiled towards Dan while speaking in the common language of the empire.
"How?! You didn"t know the language just a moment ago!" Dan cried in his language.
"There are still books on the topic of Almighty one and his church inside the imperial library. Along with that, is your country"s language as well. Took me a while to recognise the language and learn it from the memory of reading the book." Ez answered back in his language to the astonishment of Dan.
After a while, Dan sagged his shoulders in defeat. "Our holy land is not a country, so please don"t mention the sacred land as a country."
"Very well, now let us get this over with so that I can go back to sleep. Who sent you here?" Ez asked while shrugging his shoulder and talked in the unfamiliar language to Dan, while Archer looked between the two.
"The most Holy One of the Almighty send me here." Dan replied.
"Why did the holy one of the Almighty send you here?" Ez asked.
Ez could see Dan trying to struggle against the truth pill, but his overconfidence in no one recognising the language was his downfall.
"Father hear me and grant me salvation." Dan started to pray but that could not stop the answer spewing from his mouth.
"To look for the chosen one." Dan answered without any control after a while.
"Hmm." Ez became silent for a few seconds hearing his answer, while Dan kept on murmuring his prayers.
"Why did your teammates separate with you, while you stayed back for the exam?" Ez spoke after his silence.
"Father hear me and grant me salvation." Dan kept murmuring, but after a while, he was forced to answer.
"To look for any other clues pointing towards the chosen one."
"That means there is already a candidate for you in the exam. Who is it?"
"Father hear me and grant me salvation." Dan desperately tried to stop talking.
"You, your highness." Dan replied.
Suddenly Dan started to glow faintly in white light.
Guessing what was about to happen Ez quickly asked, while moving back with Archer. "What is the role of the chosen one?"
"Father you have heard my prayer... and have granted me salvation ...for this ..." Both Ez and Archer could see Dan was struggling to not answer.
"To save and ..." Dan quickly lost control of his tongue.
"...for this I thank you." The glow expanding from his body which intensified very quickly, while he took control of his tongue.
Ez quickly dived to the floor while Archer laid on top of Ez covering him from any possible harm.
After a few seconds, the light died down, Archer stood up followed by Ez.
The first thing Ez looked was at the back of Archer, whose skin looked as if it was melted and was very quickly healing and replacing the lost/molten skin.
Ez looked back at where Dan sat only to see some ashes.
"Looks like I don"t have to give him the full set of rewards for the 2nd rank." Ez started speaking in the language understood by Archer, whose eyebrows were slowly twitching, while thinking "That is what you are concerned about?".
"Let us move to the next one Archer?" Ez walked towards the door, while Archer was looking at him strangely.
"Not now man, I will explain it with everyone together, I don"t want to repeat what I am going to say." Ez said as he walked out of the door followed by Archer.
They both walked to the next room and sat down in front of Alister Bright who was smiling towards both of them.
"Zih stu crant kil om ti." Alister spoke before we even sat down.
Archer sighed as he pa.s.sed the truth pill forward.
Seeing this Alister smiled while shrugging his shoulders before swallowing the pill, just like the overconfident Dan.
And just like before Archer started asking questions, while Ez was sat back relaxed with his eyes closed.
After the 10 questions, Ez opened his eyes in confusion.
"His language isn"t a recorded one, found in the books or notes of the imperial library. That means he is from a place, that the empire hasn"t been or seen before." Ez explained to Archer.
"That is impossible. We have records and annals of every kingdom and countries that have risen and fallen since the beginning of the empire, even the "holy land" of the deities. Maybe you missed a book or forgot about it, your highness." Archer tried to convince him.
"This thing of mine won"t forget Archer. Something is wrong here." Ez pointed to his temple.
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Either this guy is from a secret and long lineage of organisation/family, or he is from a well-hidden/ inaccessible site if the empire cannot acquire any language book retaining to his language.
*Bzzz*
Suddenly I could hear something change in the frequency of air around the boy in front of me.
Tuning in to that particular frequency, with my ability to control and adjust hearing different frequencies, I started listening.
"...hwat stoz rawe lir pi! Sti! Fri! Tish!" There is some kind of communication device in his ears.
"Archer, did you guys or gals check for any communication device on him when we took him in?" I quickly asked while the smile on the Alister grew as he rested his face on his right palm was supporting on the table.
It seems what I heard was some kind of countdown.
"We did. There was nothing on him. Why?" Archer replied.
Quickly I stood up and ran towards the right side of the boy from where I heard the particular change in frequency.
Alister turned his head to me wondering what I was up to, before being forced by my hand to turn to the side.
Coming closer to his ear I noticed there was nothing there.
"Krif! Qen! Tup!" The voice was much clearer this time also what seemed to be the countdown seemed to be getting closer to its end.
Very quickly I ran out while motioning for the same to Archer.
Slamming the door s.h.i.t after we both came out, I looked through the one-way window- I could see some kind of surprise and shock registering on Alister"s face.
Suddenly a blue beam of light shrouded Alister for a second before he to disappeared.
However, unlike Dan Stands, there were no ashes.
There was nothing left behind, not even the fabric of his clothes.
"What the h.e.l.l is up with all the spies starting to prefer disintegration!?" Archer howled in annoyance while looking at the spot where Alister last was.
I slowly opened the door and walked in.
Very quickly I could feel something in the air was different. I could feel something inside the air going through me. I could feel some of it occasionally meeting some cells in me and rapidly altering it. It was almost like I was developing cancer...
s.h.i.t radiation!
And that too extremely active radiation.
So, what just happened before was no magi or award ability, but rather the wonder of technology.
That beam just then must have been some kind of disintegration beam then.
Thinking so I looked up to the ceiling expecting to see the sky only to be met with the intact ceiling.
"You have got to be kidding me!" I spoke out loud.
f.u.c.king teleportation! Are you kidding me, G.o.d!? What kind of world did you send me to?
Archer said they checked for any sort of communication device on him and did not see anything, that means the communication device inside his ears was extremely tiny to the point of being invisible to the naked eye.
Along with that the teleportation as well.
This all leads to one conclusion, not only is this world reliant on magi and award but there is a group out there that are advanced enough with technology to fu*king teleport people around while producing communication device smaller than the size of nanometres.
This all meant one thing for me.
I am going to go all out from now on!
No more relaxing and taking everything easy. At least not until I am on equal standing with all these big and hidden jacka*ses!