Lord Shadow

It is the fact that she said Loki is coming.

Not many people know the Broker real name. 

The real name of the Broker is Nathan Ford. And Riana knows his real name because these two are lovers.

Yes, in the six years since his disappearance, the wont they, would they routine between them had changed as Riana and Nathan had become more than just friend. There is an age gap between them but they truly love each other.

Nathan then frowned and said

‘Why is he coming here?’ Riana shakes her head and she said

‘To get the Book of Secrets. And to kill you’ And Nathan face become pale

‘Then why are you here!’ Nathan almost shouted.

‘Go. Quickly. Take….’ and he was heisting before he said

‘Take our precious treasure with you.’

‘You…what are you saying? You want me to leave you alone?’

Sighing Nathan let go of the plank he was holding and said

‘I can negotiate with him’ Riana took a step towards him and shakes her head.

‘No, you can’t’ 

Gritting her teeth, she said

‘Sasha told me what my teacher is planning to do. He is planning to take over you. The Book of Secret is only the first part of that step. You understand what I am saying right? He could not take over your place unless you are truly dead’

Nathan finally understand. 

‘Shit’ he cursed

‘You understand where I am going with this right?’ Riana said

Nathan look at Riana and she was pale in the face. He had known this woman for years and he had never seen her so scared.

She would not hesitate to even plot and scheme against the most notorious criminal and serial killer as she caught them and throw them to that Nowhere Land 

But just the thought of her teacher, her lord coming for him, it made her drained of all blood. 

‘Let me think for a moment’

She nodded as she said

‘I’ll check-‘ Nathan nodded and Riana quickly went to the basement. 

Creak! BOOM!

One of the part of the ceiling broke down and fall a few meters away from him. Nathan was not even startled. 

Right now he could not think about anything else other than how to deal with Loki

That is how his mind work. He is called the Broker for the reason. He brokers deals and he negotiate promises.

He traded information for more information. Information that the supercomputer in the secret labs of the great powers have no access to

He prefers manual and the analog way of doing this. He did not trust the network that was established by the great powers.

And because of that, he is the keeper of secret. And he kept a lot of it. He is trying to think of what he could bargain with Loki

‘Tch’ he clicks his tongue as he reached a conclusion

There is nothing to negotiate about this. 

This is something Nathan quite understand. It is just something he did not want to acknowledge and admit.

If Loki is not intending to simply take the Book of Secret and also wanting to take over his place, it is only logical for Loki to truly kill him.

‘A proof to the criminal underworld that he had changed sides’ Nathan got the answer

‘He wanted to convince the world’ 

Unlike others in the world who believe in Hirate announcement a few hours ago, Nathan knew that Loki is not the culprit that causes the Multiversal Convergence. 

His information is very extensive and with his ability expanding after he step into Disk Formation level, there were more thing that he could know

He knew that Loki did not do it because he has his eyes and ears on the Island of Peace when it all went down.

He did not see the race of the Golden Speedster and Death Monarch. He did not see Jean the Time Monarch trying to stop Azief.

He did not see all of that. But he is quiet sure that the culprit of all this disaster and calamity is the handiwork of “that person” sitting on his dark throne in the Central Palace of Pandemonium.

Because other than the fact “that person” is definitely capable of tearing space and time, he is also the only one that would be able to make Loki the Trickster to take the blame of the world upon himself.

‘The Book of Secret…. I could see where you are going with this, Loki. Corruption abhors a vacuum after all.’

He smiles bitterly. 

‘The creation that would one day doom me. That wandering seer was really right’ Nathan once met a wandering seer. He allowed her to see his possible fate.

She told him of a dreadful warning that one day, his creation would doom him. because of that encounter, the Broker never wanted to meet the Great oracle Erika. 

That wandering seer is probably not as powerful as the famous Great Oracle. 

If he met the Oracle, he fears all of his secret would be uncovered. This is the reason why even the closest ally had never known his true name

He had aliases. Sometimes, he is John. Other time he is Jason. 

He knows that certain people had abilities to divine a certain knowledge about a person just by knowing their name

Unless he possesses power like Death Monarch, he would never dare reveal his name.

He once thought that the creation that the seer had mentioned would refer to Void. 

Nathan created Void prestige and elevated him to the position of power, ruling the disorganized criminal world.

Maybe, the creation that the seer had mentioned is actually the Book of Secret. Seers with their vague words and metaphors, he complained underneath his breath

The Book of Secret is like the Book of Death that was rumored to be the creation of Death Monarch before he left Pandemonium and went to the starry skies six years ago.

But the Broker knew that the Book of Death and the Death List is merely the creation of Loki to protect and at the same time pressure Sasha.

Loki told the world that Sasha had a book that have the list of all the spies in the Great Powers. Their locations, their safe houses, and many more confidential information.

That information painted a big red target on Sasha. 

But it also made her even more valuable. Some people if they knew that Loki had crafted such a lie and pin it toward Sasha, they might think that Loki was trying to harm her.

Instead, Loki crafted that lie to give a layer of protection toward Sasha and at the same time pressure her to return to Pandemonium. 

Of course, Loki being Loki, also have his own interest tied to all of this

Nathan might have been living the life of a carefree middle age man who is quite peaceful this couple of years, but he still has ears and eyes everywhere. 

It is these ears and eyes that made Sasha, the very blade of Death Monarch to shelter him

And while the Book of Death and the Death List is merely a fiction of Loki lies, his Book of Secrets is not a fiction.

It is very real. And like the name of the Book, it is a book full of secrets

Secrets that if revealed, would shake the world and unleashed a great chaos. He shakes his head and he reach to a decision

‘I need to get out of Pandemonium right now. If Loki knows I’m here, and if my guess is correct about what he is trying to do, then I’m a sitting duck here. This place is no longer sanctuary’

As he was about to go to the basement to check on Sasha, he felt something. He felt a presence covering the entire house and the surrounding area

He furrowed his eyebrows.

Swish!

The sound of wind outside the house become disturbed. A fast gust of wind passes by the house before becoming calm all of a sudden 

Nathan gulped.

‘This is not good’ he thought to himself. Then he saw a magical sight. Outside the countless of corpses of the Seresian demons and the Otherworlds suddenly become blurry

A green mist slowly covers the four corners of the house. In a circular manner, a green mist circles the house.

There is a trace of great power and the beast nearby all went away. The mist is coming closer to the house and Nathan clench his fist

His eyes are full of determination. He could guess who is coming. This does not seem at all like Sasha way of coming.

But he did not shout out for Riana. Instead, in his heart he prayed that Riana did not notice. He prays that she would run away with their precious treasure.

He immediately tenses up and shouted

‘Who is there?’ In the basement, Riana put back down their precious treasure as her eyebrows furrowed.

‘He’s here’ she thought. 

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