The Great Demon System
Chapter 451: Home at Last

It had now been several hours since Moby had left the virtual space and returned back to the real world.

After being escorted to his quarters to grab all his personal belongings, he made his way back to earth where he was transported to the Country Z central military place of operations where he was questioned by General Ryker.

The interrogation itself was relatively brief, a few simple questions on a lie detector that Moby had answered with no care.

The rest of his time was simply spent waiting for them to complete the appropriate paperwork and security measures before allowing him to leave.

The main questions of note were that if the book was indeed filled with family techniques, and if the Mammon was in fact dead, the answer being yes to both. It was nothing that Moby could not deal with.

In the interrogation room, Moby waited, and the passersby made the situation even clearer in his head. The military was plainly distraught over the loss of the book, but due to the laws preventing them from spying and stealing family secrets, their hands were tied.

Of course, Moby was well aware of this prior to his antics. He would have never done anything so reckless without the reassurance.

"Kane! You're free to go!" A woman dressed in military attire entered the room and bowed. "Thank you for your patience, your storage rings are with me," She presented him with two rings, the one that he personally owned, and the won he had won for receiving first place.

"It's okay, I should be the one thanking you for the great treatment." Moby bowed towards her and smiled, grabbing the rings and walking straight towards the entrance through the gray, blank hallways.

On his way, he checked the contents of both his rings, making sure that all was there. And, of course, the mammon's book was missing.

He had destroyed the book in VR, but its actual contents had also disintegrated from the real world. This was due to a new feature that was recently implemented into virtual reality. One was now permitted to link a storage ring onto a pod, allowing them to materialize those very items in the virtual space with a multitude of customization features.

One of those was to link the condition of an item, so if it were destroyed in VR, it would also be destroyed within the ring.

Initially, this option was only conceived to give people the opportunity to further mimic true realism, but instead, Moby used it to further his own goals.

Of course, the mammon was not dead, and nor he did ever care about helping his classmates. This was all a ploy to gain the favour of not only the common folk, but the rich and nobles as well.

The only people he had angered in the process was the military, however, that was a small price to pay for a nearly perfect public reception.

Everything was going just as planned, and it was all possible due to the mammon's hard work.

In a way, Moby did not lie, the old mammon was dead. The new mammon had long abandoned schemes like his den of gambling and had moved on to much greater things.

He had siphoned all these points in order for Moby to purchase sensitive information about the military so he could replace out what had happened to his parents, but now that there was no use for them, it made for a perfect excuse to seem like the hero.

When the mammon had handed him that book, he could almost not believe his eyes. So many people were bribed and deceived by a single man, all due to his newfound doppelganger abilities. Every man had a price, if one man would not crack, their most trusted friend would. That was what the mammon did.

He broke his way through the social ladder and dismantled it with lies and deception.

As a person, Moby could not care less about him, but as a servant, he was exceptional. He was proud of himself for turning him into his slave. His current and only fear pertaining to him was that he would gain so much influence to get things mixed in his head and try to usurp him. He doubted it would ever happen, but in the case it did, he was certain of himself to handle it.

As Moby turned the corner, the exit was finally in view. He took a deep breath and snapped himself out of his internal thoughts before dawning both rings on his fingers and opening the swinging doors.

He was greeted by a dim, orange light shining from the horizon, beaming through the tall skyscrapers. He had been in that military base for so long that the sun had begun to rise on a new day, the first day of his adult life. The mere thought of it all brought a grin on his face.

He knew that war with the shalkers was soon, that the angels may be notified of Avilia's actions in around a year, but despite it all, all that was on his mind was the tingly anticipation to see the fruits of his labor and the plans that he had been working towards for the past year finally unfold.

But that was when a sound pierced his self-contained bubble, and his attention was diverted downwards.

"HEY!! MOBY!! What the hell are you smiling there for huh!?" Without a doubt, that Jayden's voice, but when he looked down, hers was not the only face he saw.

There were an entire group of people waiting at the bottom of the long, winding steps leading to where he stood.

Jayden, Abby, Artorias, Mason, Ray, Nags, and even Alex's parents were all there to greet him after they had not seen each other for over a year…

"You said you'd be back soon, and then you go ahead and get your ass arrested!?"

'Heh…' Moby could not help but chuckle. 'I really am back home, aren't I?'