At a certain uneventful morning in Carnova city shocking news spread throughout all the tv channels 9am news,

"A family of seven hanged themselves last night. According to the authority it seems to indicate group suicide case at their initial investigation but there may be foul play involved."

News continued that the family had three adults who were all unawakened and one teenager and three childrens. A suicide note was found. It was apparently written by the head of the family, a middle aged man who used to run a pharmacy. In the note he expressed how much his life was difficult and he wanted to end his life but didn't want to die alone so he got the whole family to "accompany him."

Truly an insidious person, the first thought almost everyone had who watched the news at this point. In another case which is suspected to be related, a middle aged man with receding hairline was seen coming from the same direction of the crime scene last night. It was witnessed by several pedestrians.

Police are searching for that man's whereabouts. The last known destination of that suspect was the direction of the beach. Unfortunately the surveillance cameras didn't cover the beach area. A sketch of the man was then shown on the television and news anchors politely asked the viewers to inform the authorities if they saw this man or learned any related information about his whereabouts. His family was then shown on the tv who were unwilling to show their faces and told the journalist that all of this was a frame-up and police should search for the real culprit.

Most of the viewers scoffed at that point. If with such obvious signs of that suspect being the murderer was felt even by the unrelated outsiders then which murder's family wouldn't want to drive the attention away.

Though the relatively peaceful Carnova city was stirred because of this incident it didn't manage to alarm the real administrators of this city, The local guilds and the awakened players. So it was considered just a small wave in the ever vibrant city. Matters of the unawakened are always handled by their own group.

So adding to the misfortune of that suspect's family, the awakened ones never cared about their matters.

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Blue woke up from his deep slumber in the evening as he sensed commotion outside.

Last night he learned about the real reason why the original owner was killed. That chef's student was apparently jealous that he would have been adopted tomorrow so he killed the pushover to vent his frustration. The killer was about 14 years of age so Blue could guess how he ended up leaving behind so many glaring clues.

Not that he cared much, so he got the director to bury the guy alive at the second floor of the basement. He then had his dinner and later went to the director's private room to sleep on the plushy bed. As for that old director he was left in the office to do his work.

After about three hours of sleep, he finally felt that some of the mental burden had been lifted because of the nourishment from last night's copious dinner which had been thoroughly digested in his weakened body. Though he healed the injuries and regained the lost bloods, the body actually consumed a lot of nutrients and vitality along with the main ingredient, lust desire from the depths of his soul. Because the body itself hadn't entered puberty thus not having any residue for him to use which made him more vulnerable. He was truly gambling with his life throughout the night.

Anyways, he decided to deal with the locked up kids of his dorm room and the killer's dorm room. He had already learned from the director that the staff members responsible to check the attendance during the curfew or any staff last night hadn't seen the original owner leave the building with that kid.

So less trouble for him.

So at eight in the morning, he used bloodline ability Cognitive Distortion and Memory Shifting to fix them up so that they get their stories right.

At nine in the morning, the expected couple to adopt him arrived. He then used Perception Dissonance to appear invisible, inaudible and scentless from their perception as they conversed with the director who was under Mind Corruption and Soul Corruption. He then used his favorite combo of Cognitive Distortion, Memory Shifting. Their cognition was distorted to allow the ease in acceptance of any changes they might perceive and feel for the next few moments and then their memory of yesterday's visit with the selection of child they wanted to adopt was shifted to the image of a different child entirely.

They didn't think anything was out of place when the director brought in the new kid who was actually one of Blue's dorm mates. The couple introduced themselves to the kid and after completing some procedures they left happily from the building.

After finishing all the immediate matters needing his intervention, Blue then acted naturally among the kids who gathered at the canteen for their breakfast. Many kids were surprised at the sudden news of adoption a staff member announced during their breakfast.

Usually only the director, the chosen kid and the adopters knew about who would leave the orphanage soon. So the fact that the original Blue actually revealed it to that killer who he apparently treated as his best friend was quite surprising since the director would always warn the chosen kid to be quiet about the matter till they left the premise lest others felt bad about themselves.

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Sure enough, disaster struck the original and a fake appeared in his body.

Anyways, after chatting with the other kids who would greet him from time to time about trivial nonsense he made his way back to his dorm room. The other three, or two of them from today, were ordered by him not to enter the room till he woke up. They were told to play around with others while covertly preventing any mischievous idiot who was snooping around his room outside. The director and the chef also acted as usual while following the same set of commands albeit the "playing" part.

Thus he fell asleep in the same manner he slept earlier.

An abyss spawn doesn't need to sleep and sometimes when they were possessing a body they would either pretend to sleep to fool others or cut off the connection temporarily to tend to their more important matters.

When Blue first slept in this body to test the limit of this illusion world, which he was 80% sure that it was not a illusion world but that 20% still prevented him from putting his mind to rest, he actually was able fall into a deep slumber which was only possible if someone used a slumbering-type ability on him. But during that unexpected result, no attack came. He was genuinely caught off guard since he wasn't expecting to instantly enter into a deep sleeping state as soon as he rested his weakened body.

He thus further increased his confirmation from 80% to 90% at that time.

This time he had decided to take a gamble, which he truly hated, and check to see if Memory Palace could be used when falling asleep. If his hypothesis is correct then he wouldn't be in a vulnerable state even when sleeping and he would have found a method to directly replenish his mental strength and strengthen the limit further.

He decided to review the consequent actions and last scenes in his "real" world stored in the Memory Palace that might reveal the crucial clue needed for understanding his current predicament. Thus further increasing his survival chances in this "illusory" world. From the gathered information, this world seemed to be related to a certain empire he knew of.

He drifted into his slumber as he accessed the Memory Palace to craft a dream for himself.

He was back in the Abyss. He was born through the natural condensation of aether in the abyssal environment. A rare case which falls under "natural birth" of their abyss spawn race. It was rare but there were many such cases so he didn't garner much attention.

As a natural born, he was already an adult at birth and had all the common bloodline abilities unlocked without having to go through any hardship. On top of that, he had a weird "instinct" since birth which would either give him the feeling to escape from the scene even before any danger arrived or urge him to do certain things which were significantly beneficial for himself.

This "instinct" had proven to himself time and again by saving his life or leading him to fortuitous encounters. From the backwater periphery bordering the Outer Area to the aristocratic circles bordering the Core Area, along with his cautious nature he was able to propel himself to such progress in the Inner Area of Abyss in just over 3 million years.

And all that without even attracting powerful factions significant attention towards him until it was too late for them. He always maintained a low profile and had a passing relationship with his peers which wouldn't leave behind a significant impression of him and neither too obscure to make him be harassed by narrow-minded people. He always made sure to have a backer behind him to prevent any worst case scenario or control any random variable taking a chance to test his patience.

How to have a backer? Well he was a lust incubating abyss spawn so he made sure to use his "expertise" to get the strongest or most influential female in the region to either have a favorable opinion of him or be deeply pleased by him. He would then use their name in an offhand manner to not to stir up any waves and get his objectives done before spending some more time to bond and then naturally part with them on good terms. There were many partings but all the ladies had a smile on their faces and he never got into any ugly arguments with them. Well, he would choose those with a tolerable character after all.

He would still moderately visit them to keep the flame burning. This prevented them from properly thinking of taking a new step towards a committed relationship or even a fling. Why was such a hopelessly optimistic case able to unfold in reality?

There were naturally many other men trying to woo them but his superiority in handling women and the constant memories of wild styles in bed battle plus certain actions performed during the relationship would help develop a natural resistance towards other male's advances and not to mention he still spends time with them without missing any appointment. All those ladies definitely did not have a personality where they were only faithful to himself or anything like that.

They were all astute individuals renowned in a region, already having gone through numerous hardships in life. So how could they be a single minded gullible young girl? Thus to keep them bonded with him he would need to do something unique that resonated with each of them.

As for what he did and how ended up with one of the most powerful factions in the Inner Area, that would be too long of a story for him to see in this dream and would probably take up all the time in his sleep so he skipped it.

No matter how much he kept a low profile or tried being obscure in the background his "expertise" would always leave behind victims, such as those man who got cucked or those admirers who got their heart broken, potential suitors who wanted to court the girl who was either their crush or considered necessary for their self-interest but was indefinitely ignored and zealous followers who felt that he was "misleading" their shining star.

There were many such individuals who couldn't wait to skin him alive, crush his bones, rip out his tendons and shred him to pieces. Now that he was reviewing his potential enemies specifically, weren't there a bit too… many of them!? After all, not all the girls were antisocial solitary types with self-made status. No, more than 90% were either from a special background with powerful families, had plenty of suitors and admirers, some were in a relationship or worst, married!

He truly was a carefree soul.

In retrospect, those close to two hundred girls were a bunch of hot potatoes. But the fact that he was still able to navigate all the way up to his current position showed his excellency. However, his enemies were too many and they even had a secret coalition, apparently dedicated to murder him in the worst possible way, whose information he was able to acquire after paying a heavy price but for him it was worth it. Knowing your enemy and yourself clears the path to your triumph. Since he still lacked the conclusive clue, he couldn't just identify them as the culprit for his predicament.

So by the process of elimination, he decided to review the last moments of his life back in the Abyss.