Life Of A Nobody - as a Villain

Ignoring Saisha, Rio turned his eyes at Amelia who was eating her food with a frowning face, each bite of hers was getting smaller and smaller in size, while the time difference between those bites kept increasing.

'So she noticed it too huh. Was it some of Gauri's blessing or just cause she's a foody.' Rio thought in his heart with a smile.

Amelia looked up at him with questioning eyes, and he shook his head in response.

"Stop talking and finish your food first. It's already getting late." He said while looking at Ayla, who was happily telling Rubina and Saisha about her apprenticeship.

Amelia nodded her head and focused on her food too. Though if anyone who knew her enthusiasm with food enough, looked at her expression, they'd know something was wrong.

'She really needs some acting lessons.' Rio thought and made a mental note.

Rio looked outside of the restaurant, and at the crowd which was dining at the outside open hall, nothing seemed to be suspicious about anything and it all looked normal.

Yet he was sure, that an attack from Warzy was about to happen here. After all, the poison which he could taste in his mouth was something only people from Warzy used. He had gotten a sample of it when Warzy used this same trick to poison the staff members near the dungeon two years ago. And he secured another stash of it after he looted the corpses of their minions he killed inside the dungeon.

Mystic Hush, a poison whose recipe is only known to the higher ups of the Warzy organization. This poison once ingested can dull the mana sense of awakeners. Making it hard for them to feel, channel or control their mana.

While Evil's Scion had Nether Cards and Cursed Mana, Warzy had Mystic Hush as their trump card for killing awakeners.

All these things are only accessible to higher ups of these organizations in a limited amount. They can use these things however they want. And since no one else could copy these methods or recreate them - the organization had no worries showing these cards in the open.

Cursed mana was something only vampires and Evil's Scion could use without getting killed by it. While Mystic Hush was a poison potion made by a concoction of 32 different kinds of deadly poisons. All mixed in a way that it only worked against mana.

Mystic Hush poison has no threat to life directly, as all those 32 poisons negated each other's effects perfectly. So if one wanted to kill someone using this poison, they'd need to do the job themselves after the poison takes effect.

But what it lacked in direct threat to life it made up for it in its potency.

This poison is tasteless, colorless and odorless. And if one didn't have any high level poison resistance blessing, even S rankers would have a hard time suppressing the effects of this poison.

So Rio could guess that if the food for everyone was poisoned, then many people from Warzy must be here to finish their job.

Now that he knew who the enemy was, he just needed to know at what scale of attack it was, and what was their goal? After all, being the profit hungry organization Warzy is, they wouldn't move a muscle if they don't get a profit out of it. And he couldn't guess what kind of profit they'd earn after infiltrating and attacking at Dorsia.

This attack not only would make them enemies of Neisah, but also the world association. Along with his father who's been on a crusade against them, and all the other rich guys who've been sitting in this restaurant at this time - with so many negative points, why would Warzy attack here, and what do they plan to get out of it, that's what's concerning him.

'Is it all happening just so fate can make Leon shine, cause other than that there's no logical reason for an attack here.' Rio wondered.

Finding nothing strange, Rio wiped his hands and mouth, and laid back on his chair. He opened his phone and started to check some news, while opening the system panel and checking up the quest which was issued to him.

[Quests.]

[Quest 1. - A Minion's Menace

A side villain of the novel whose destiny was altered by your actions, had sent his trusted minion to claim your life and take back his honor.

Survive and solve this threat to your life.

Quest reward - 25000 points.]

'So someone's here for me huh.' Rio said in his heart and smiled that he wasted so much time thinking about their purpose, and in the end it turned out to be him.

He accepted the quest message and closed his eyes. His mind went through all the people of Warzy whom he fought against two years ago on that dungeon attack. After removing the ones who were killed by him, and those who died in the dungeon crash, he started arranging the ones who ran away or went missing after their fight. And soon enough he found the guy he was looking for.

'Virgil Graves - the man whom he fought against inside the dungeon, and got the technique of Rebound Art from.'

In the novel, Virgil was the one who had mastered Rebound art, and fought against Leon before Emergence phase 2 had started. But two years ago, Warzy attacked the academy and Virgil came across Rio.

Seeing the chance to get a defensive technique that this cheap villain came to deliver to the door, how could Rio let him go. So he fought with Virgil, until Virgil gave him the technique along with his hand.

[Ahh, the guy whose hands you chopped off so you could steal his storage ring.]

'I would've killed him too, if not for that bastard Alfred, and his group of other weaklings.'

Rio cursed as he remembered about all the shit Alfred pulled in that dungeon. If not for that guy, he would've killed Virgil that day, and now this chain event kind of trouble wouldn't be happening to him.

[Why don't you expose him. That'll be a nice punishment for a prince charming.]

'I didn't unmute you so you can play around again. So stop chit - chatting and help me deal with whatever happens next.' Rio said to the system as he felt the mana getting thinner in the air, and the background noise of the crowd disappearing slowly.

'Buy a few antidotes and keep them ready. Also send one of them directly into Amy's storage ring just in case.' Rio gave out his orders and closed the system panel.

After the system came back online, he had bought a pair of rings with a common storage space inside. He gave one of them to Amelia when they joined the academy, while the other was with himself. This way he didn't had to worry about anything and could just directly pass her anything through the ring.

Since he had his own private system inventory upgraded till level 3 , he didn't really need any other storage items. And with the help of system he could just buy anything according to the situation and throw it into that sharing ring, so Amy can just take care of herself.

'Though since she noticed it was poisoned and yet she's still eating it, I guess she won't need it. But whatever.' Rio thought and ignored it.

One antidote of this poison costed him 250 points, and this bastard system bought 10 without asking him cause he didn't soecify the number himself.

'Why do I need 10 potions, I just needed 5.' Rio asked the system, but the answer he got was that [10 is a lucky number, and counting price times ten is easy.]

'Just cause I have so many points doesn't mean they're for you waste, you spendthrift.' Rio cursed, feeling that he should never give free reign of shopping to this system again. Cause even though the system started to speak like a robotic AI now, but it seems it still has all the habits of whoever that girl Kajal was. It's like a bug had affected some software and now that glitch is the new norm for this version.

'Why aren't these bastards attacking me already, if they came for me.' Rio thought as he looked at the time and the night outside. He saw someone yawning outside, and now he did it too.

'Seriously people from Warzy never get their timings right. Now I look like I need sleep when I haven't eaten anything besides this fucked up dish since yesterday night.'

'I should call up Tanya to bring me some dishes she prepared next week. She must've learned a lot of recipes from earth that I gave her.'

Recipes of earth with the style & ingredients of arcadia, personally made by the disciple of Annapurna - I'm looking forward to it.

Rio, who was getting bored thinking about useless stuff while waiting for someone to come and slash at his neck, finally smiled as heard the sound of footsteps outside his room.

'It's finally here. I've been waiting to kill you Warzy minions for two whole years now.'

[Nyx nods at your excitement to kill your enemies.]

[Hela says she needs a better show than the one you put on in that club as your other persona.]

[She also says her father is watching the scene from some corner too. This might be your chance to impress him.]

'Can't she choose some better words.'

-slash boom-