"Mr. Harold, the Master asked me to show you to a meeting room."

Harold turned around with a grateful look on his face when he heard a soft voice speaking from behind him, and he saw one of the most beautiful women he had ever laid eyes on standing there! She looked like something that fell straight out of a modelling magazine, and Harold was stunned for a few seconds! Even the woman who had been speaking to Harold was shocked when she laid eyes on Risa, and she eventually scowled when she saw how Harold was also staring at Risa in awe! Harold remembered Risa from Dante's speech earlier. She had only been in the background, so almost no one had noticed her, but Harold had definitely noticed! Risa had been watching the crowd of partygoers with hawk-like eyes that seemed to take in everything about her. Harold knew that even though she looked delicate and beautiful, this woman was not ordinary. She wasn't a Djinn, but she was probably one of the most dangerous humans you could go up against.

'It's a good thing I don't have to fear anything from humans.'

Harold shook his head a few seconds later, and he turned and said goodbye to the woman who had been talking to him. The woman smiled and offered to give him her phone number, but Harold just gave her an empty smile in return and told her that he would consider it before turning to leave with Risa. Harold was led towards a meeting room on the opposite side of the mansion, and when he entered the room, he saw that it had been designed more like a lounge than an actual meeting room. The room was dimly lit, and the only source of light was a fireplace that provided warmth from the opposite side of the room. There were two chairs arranged at an angle in front of the fire with a table between them, and there was a minibar with some alcohol on one side. Dante was already sitting in one of the chairs in the room, and his brother Fredrick was standing behind Dante with his hands behind his back. Harold was a little surprised to see Fredrick there.

From what Harold had seen earlier, it didn't look like Fredrick was happy about Dante being the boss. In fact, Harold had thought that Fredrick was angry at Dante for taking the position from him! But now it didn't look like Fredrick was angry at all, and their position seemed to show that Fredrick was on Dante's side as one of his right-hand men. Did Dante really manage to convince Fredrick to come to his side in only that short time since he saw him? That was extraordinary skill! There weren't a lot of people with such powerful powers of persuasion, especially without relying on a magical ability, so Harold was impressed!

"Mr. Harold. I hear you've been waiting for me. It's a pleasure to finally meet you."

Dante stood up and extended a hand to Harold, and Harold shook it with a smile.

"No, no, the pleasure is all mine. Can we sit and talk? There's a lot we need to discuss."

Dante nodded and guided Harold towards one of the chairs in front of the fire, and they both sat down on either side of the table. Once they were seated, Dante felt his eyes narrow slightly when he felt something strange from Harold. Dante hadn't met a lot of Djinn, but for some reason, Dante had a feeling that Harold wasn't a regular human. There was an aura around Harold that attacked his senses, and Dante quickly activated the [Analysis] skill while looking above Harold's head to read what was there.

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Name: Harold Rogue [Excommunicado]

Affiliations: Nil

Title(s): Master of Coercion

General Skills: Business Proficiency, Vehicular Proficiency.

Loyalty Progression: 10%

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[Due to repeated action, the user has gained the special skill [Magical Analysis - C] under the General Skill [Analysis].]

[Magical Analysis: This skill grants the user a wider perspective while using the Analysis skill, and the user will now be able to view the magical stats of any Djinn he comes in contact with.]

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Name: Harold Rogue [Excommunicado]

Affiliations: Nil

Title(s): Master of Coercion

General Skills: Business Proficiency, Vehicular Proficiency.

Magical Skill: [Coercion – B]

Loyalty Progression: 10%

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'He's a Djinn.'

Dante felt shock pass through his body when he saw the magical skill that Harold had. The term coercion left a bad taste in Dante's mouth, and Dante immediately knew that this meeting was not going to be a normal one. It was obvious that Harold had come here with ulterior motives, and Dante quickly schooled his features to make sure that Harold didn't notice he knew what was really going on. Dante was going to hear out Harold's request first to find out what Harold wanted from him. There was a chance that this was an attack from one of the associations that the system had told Dante about, so Dante knew he had to be careful.

Dante leaned back and spoke.

"So, why is a member of the Rogue family so far away from home? I can only imagine what was so important that you needed to travel all the way from London just to come see me."

Harold chuckled slightly, and he put his hand into his coat calmly. Risa twitched from the side when she saw him reaching for something, but she quickly calmed herself when she saw that it was only some documents. Harold placed them on the table while speaking.

"I've been doing a lot of research recently, especially into the Lucas family business, and it's come to my notice that things aren't exactly going as well as you claim them to be in your books. There are some... discrepancies that just didn't make any sense to me, especially when it came to the percentage valuation of your company over the last few years. I think you understand what I'm talking about?"

Dante's eyes immediately narrowed when he heard this from Harold, and the tension in the room seemed to increase as Dante looked towards the documents on the table. Dante reached for them and began to look through them slowly, and he saw that they were company data files that were available to the public. There were various areas highlighted in the documents, and it showed how the company stock had continued to rise in valuation even though there were no recent purchases or investments done over the years. Anyone else who saw a document like this would immediately think that it was nothing much, after all, a company's valuation rising was normal, so long as investors believed in the company. But Dante wasn't just anyone, and from the looks of things, neither was Harold. Dante gave Harold an intense look from over the paper, and he spoke seriously.

"What exactly are you trying to say here?"

Harold's eyes glowed with a red light as he stared Dante in the eye.

"What I am trying to say is that I know your company's stocks are currently in a bubble, and you need someone to buy you out of it. Let me just get straight to the point. I am offering you an excess of ten billion dollars for a majority of your company shares."

Shock passed through the entire room, and Dante immediately narrowed his eyes in anger! Behind Dante, Fredrick looked completely shell-shocked, and even Risa couldn't stop her brows from rising after hearing the amount. Harold was still smiling, and his glowing red eyes sent his magic power towards Dante to try to convince him to take this deal. Harold was a Djinn with a very simple power. Unlike many combat Djinns who had the ability to create flashy explosions or use telekinesis in their fights, Harold had a more subtle power that he could use to get out of almost any situation he found himself in. Harold's power allowed him to apply compulsion magic to the minds of others and convince them to follow his orders! But it was not that simple.

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