Eternal Villain: I can enslave Reality!

"Y-you want to work with us?" The Inn Owner asked, stuttering in disbelief. Firstly, he didn't understand why Xu Shan knew about their plan.

Even if he knew, it was surprising that wanted to work with them instead of exposing them to the Royal Guards and getting rewarded?

"Who are you?" he asked.

"You don't need to know who I am," Xu Shan replied, as a knowing smile appeared on his face. "What you need to know is that I like your plan. I won't expose you. Instead, I'll help you. So move forward with your plan! And let this city burn!"

The inn owner's skepticism began to fade as Xu Shan's confident demeanor began to win him over. He was even more convinced that Xu Shan wasn't bluffing. From the young man's last sentence, it was clear that he really knew their plan.

The Inn Owner nodded. To work with Xu Shan was better than dying.

"Since we're on the same page, you can drag your friends back. I won't see you out." Resting one leg over the other, Xu Shan laid on the bed comfortably.

The Inn Owner didn't reply. He simply stood up, and carried the unconscious men out of the room, one after the other.

"Oh, and one last thing before you leave..."As the man shifted the last unconscious man outside, he heard Xu Shan's voice again.

"You have one day only. If you can't put your plan in motion before midnight tomorrow, then I'll go to the Queen and expose everything. So don't waste your time."

"Just one day, but..." The Inn Owner grew stunned. "The preparations can't be completed in one day. It takes at least five days after all the 'ingredients' are collected."

"That's why we needed a person who didn't have any family in the city, to not raise any suspicions when they went missing for five days."

"Isn't your only problem the source for energy that takes five days to gather? Use this."

Xu Shan tossed a small scale to the Inn Owner.

The Inn Owner caught the thing and then looked at Xu Shan, stunned. "Dragon Source...? Where did you find it?"

However, seeing Xu Shan's expressions, he closed his mouth. It was clear that the man wasn't going to answer.

"With this, we should be able to finish it by tomorrow! No, we definitely will!" The Inn Owner had excitement in his eyes. He didn't have to be that careful anymore in his selection.

With the Dragon Source at hand, their plan could be executed in a short time. He felt grateful to Xu Shan, thanking him repeatedly before closing the door. 𝚋𝚎ｄｎｏ𝚟𝚎ｌ.ｎ𝚎𝚝

The man then helped the other Assassins wake up.

"Where are we? What happened to the battle?" The Inn Owner's brother woke up, prepared to fight, only to find no signs of Xu Shan.

The Inn Owner told his brother and the other Assassins everything after they woke up.

"A dragon source?" The men looked at the scale in the Inn Owner's hands, realizing that it wasn't a dream or a lie. This was a real dragon stone! All of them felt greatly excited.

With no time constraints, they all got to work. Instead of Xu Shan's room, they invaded every room at the inn, and kidnapped the sleeping guests.

It was unclear how they did it, but they transferred all the people to the outer part of the City, in an underground hall.

The place wasn't far from the House where Xu Shan found them and heard their plan. But what was more surprising was that this place was underground.

The underground hall was huge. Over five hundred people were lying on the ground at some strange formation points that covered the entire place. All of them were alive, yet kept unconscious.

The men only needed one more person to fill all the nodes, not instead of one, they got many more. At some nodes, they placed two people. Finally, all the nodes were filled and the only thing that was left was to activate the formation, which was usually going to take five days even with all their strength, but with the Dragon Source, things were different.

With shine in his eyes, the Inn Owner placed the Dragon Source at the core of the formation and activated it.

"We have waited so long for this moment. Finally it's here!" The Inn Owner spoke, looking at the strange formation starting to shine.

As soon as the formation activated, a Demonic Energy rushed out of the formation, slowly invading all the unconscious people.

With more and more Demonic energy entering their bodies, the bodies started changing. They became bigger. Scales started appearing on their skin, and at times bones should be seen coming out of their bodies.

It was a gruesome sight, yet no one was screaming, as if the unconscious people couldn't even feel anything.

****

"Tomorrow will be quite explosive. What a time to be in this city," Xu Shan commented, lying on his bed with his eyes closed. At the moment, he was the only person in the entire inn.

"Do you think they would succeed? Shouldn't you have followed them to make sure they didn't mess up?" Sitting next to him, Xun asked.

"If I was to follow them, they would've been even more suspicious of my purpose. I'll leave it to them. I have a feeling that they won't fail. More than me, they want to succeed," Xu Shan answered.

When he arrived in this city, he didn't expect there to be rebel forces who supported the Previous King and hated the current Queen. Let alone him, even the Second Princess didn't know about this. It was a good discovery.

He didn't really think about helping these people. At the end of the day, his goal was only the Queen's formation. But to get to that, he needed a distraction. And these rebels were the pawns for him.

While the Rebel forces looked forward to the future where they would kill the evil Queen, Xu Shan comfortably fell asleep.