After a few minutes of negotiating, the agents left saying that they would be back at around four in the afternoon to get Mark and his retinue to a location where he could do his spell demonstration.
David told Mark that most of his requests would be accommodated by the agency and the rest would need further negotiation based on the situation. The lawyer then left with the statement that he would need to do a lot of paperwork to make sure that all negotiations would be on paper and signed. He also said that he would need to manage the security details. Mark thought of the fact that the main purpose of the security assignment that he arranged was to make sure that the government would not do any questionable things.
Mark thought that he was being paranoid, unfortunately, he was basing that paranoia on the T.V. shows that he had seen which was a very wrong resource to base on what he thought the government would do but he got nothing else and the time that he tried to ask question on the internet anonymously, he was bombarded by a lot of conspiracy theories and joke memes.
Since it would take several hours before the agents would come back, Mark decided to do some work on his villa on the 11th floor and based on how it looked, it would probably take a week before it was complete. Since he was using his prodigious strength and spells, the work was considerably faster compared to several someone working on the villa by hand.
At around three in the afternoon, Mark went outside the dungeon to prepare himself and have a meal and when he did, he received a text message from Sam that the laptops and hard drives were in his room. He texted Sam back and requested him to bring the devices to his room. When he received the devices from Sam, he brought it inside his room for privacy, destroyed the previous copies he made and made a copy of the devices with the latest downloaded content. Mark also reviewed what his friend had downloaded so far, and he was content with the number of games, movies, animes, manga and web novels that had been downloaded.
Mark returned the devices to Sam and gave him a list of equipment that he asked his friend to purchase to put in the basement. The list included the most advance equipment desktop that he could customized, projection equipment for a home theater and accompanying equipment like its speaker and screen, heavy duty generators and solar panel with video and paper instruction on how to set up an advance off grid house with full electricity cover, air conditioner and heaters, top of the line kitchen equipment and living room equipment like top of the line wide screen T.V., audio equipment and more. Even the small devices were not spared like humidifiers, emergency lights and others.
Mark also told Sam to enlist the help of Armina and Enleed and to spare no expense in getting the devices. He also told his friend to purchase anything that he could think of that could make a villa fully automated and high tech. Even if he thought that the modern device was redundant, as long as it’s modern enough and high tech enough, he should purchase it and informed Sam that his spending should reach around ten million dollars. Sam gaped at the amount and asked Mark what he would do with the equipment to which Mark replied.
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“Of course, to build a hidden magical house that only I can enter.”
Mark assured his Sam that he, Enleed and Armina would be compensated since this second project would be quite big as well. Sam said to him that the basement would not be able to hold all the devices they would purchase, and Mark assured him that he would be moved the purchased things once the basement was full. He would just need to inform Mark when that situation arises.
Mark waited in the living room playing on his laptop while waiting for the agents to arrive. David and his security personnel arrived first. The lawyer then introduced the head of the security team to Mark and informed him that the security team already knew the details of their assignment.
Mark decided to compensate Donald by giving the invisibility ring to him instead of to Melissa and would just compensate her with another item which he sent to the gang by group message, and everyone just replied that they were okay with it, including Melissa.
At exactly five in the afternoon, the agents arrived and invited Mark, together with his retinue, to follow them. They followed the government agents and Mark and David were surprised when they were brought to the nearest hospital instead of somewhere remote as they were expecting.
When they arrived at the hospital, Agent Harper informed him of the personnel who would be watching the demonstration and the identities of the people who would be cured which unsurprisingly, comprised of relatives of politicians and some of the diseases were not even life threatening.
Mark just shrugged and informed the agent that he didn’t need to know the identities of the people he would cure and the politicians or scientists who would be watching. Agent Harper then asked Mark if he were willing to provide body specimens that the scientist could study like his blood and other bodily fluids and Mark agreed. He could tell that the agents were happy that he was very cooperative with them.
Agent Danielle Harper and her retinue brought Mark, David, and his guard to a room with a large mirror on one of the wall and they could actually see a large room on the other side filled with sick people. Mark counted and there were fifty of them. He also saw some recording devices and as stated on one of their negotiation, Mark wore a mask to prevent his identity to be recorded which he thought of as a little absurd since he did agree for the doctors to get his blood and other body samples but the mask would prevent any recording of him casting spells to be leaked to the media.
When everyone was ready, Agent Harper gestured at Mark and without further ado, he cast his Dryad’s Circle spell at the center of the sick people. Illusionary Trees grew and the Dryad came out from the trees and laughed at the sick people. All the people on the other side gasped in awe and after a minute, when the trees were gone and the dryad disappeared, Mark and the agents saw the expressions of the people on the other side of the room. Suddenly, their pale faces were flushed and almost all of them tried to stand up. Once a particularly verbose person shouted that he was cured.
The doctors and nurses and other attendants entered the room and took the patients one by one, which Mark assumed each one would receive thorough tests to make sure that the spell really cured them of their specific sickness. Mark and his retinue were then led to a room with a lounge and table filled with snacks and drinks so they could wait for the results.