The villainess shall be mine

"I am not your servant for you to boss around. What the hell are you trying to make me wear?" Blanca complained.

"Are you sure that you want me to explain the plan in detail?" I replied, and Blanca nodded hesitantly after hearing my words. "Okay, sit there."

Hearing the tone of my voice, Blanca didn't argue back even though she was a little displeased. After she sat down, I began to talk about our goals and what we needed to do to reach them.

There were three main objectives that we needed to achieve as fast as possible. First, we needed to locate the tree fragments that were surely somewhere within the Empire. Second, we needed to learn about the ones who control the Empire from the shadows, and lastly, we needed to take care of the villains which should be related to the previous individual.

However, there were a lot of smaller objectives that needed to be achieved to reach the main ones. I also needed to choose the best method to take based on the information that I knew and my strength.

Nevertheless, if I were to put it simply for Blanca, we needed to choose between a direct approach where I show off my power in contrast to an indirect approach where I hid it.

"Here we have the indirect approach in which the acting would be something like a mob character or a perfectly average guy. And here, there is the direct approach if we want to adopt this approach we need to decide between acting like an arrogant young Lord and his maid or the elite of the elite," I said presenting my palms in front of Blanca, and of course, I didn't expect her to understand something from what I said from just that, so I continued the explanation.

There were of course a lot of other options, but considering that I would be attending the Holy Academy as a student, he became a little bit unrealistic and would draw unwanted attention.

Nonetheless, I had also discarded the indirect approach after considering various things. First of all, there was a certain degree of difference in the effect of acting like an average guy and a complete mob character to the plan.

The indirect approach would indeed favor our ability to act undercover, but because of my standing, acting like an average guy would bring shame to the Raizel family and I would be probably subjected to a lot of discrimination.

That was indeed taken into consideration and it could even be the perfect way to hide my true intentions, but I just didn't like the idea and there was also another problem. Being able to act undercover didn't mean that we would be able to access a lot of information all of sudden, so consequently, the plan itself would progress rather slowly depending on how things work in the Empire.

There was Crystal, of course, and also Blanca who was a talented individual despite how she look when she wore a maid outfit, and I could also threaten some Lords or just impress them by showing off my power in secret, but the process itself would be troublesome. It would take a lot of time for us to achieve our main goal that way.

After all, it would end up as a failure if I accidentally pulverize one of the arrogant young Lords who would certainly try to bully me to assert their dominance.

Apart from that, it was also a question of pride, because I didn't want my family's name to be insulted after what happened.

Of course, there were also other reasons, but most of them were related to my personal preference so I didn't mention them. All of that brought me to the young Lord act.

The young Lord act was me acting above the average. A prideful young boy who had a lot of potentials but had a problematic character. Some people would indeed take advantage of me, but in my turn, I would take advantage of them to achieve my goals.

The problem with this was, however, the fact that I would never be involved deeply with the Empire's dark side, at least directly. I would be taken as an apprentice of one of the Guardians but since I couldn't show off my power, I would be not able to surpass them, making them lose interest in me, and that was the plan.

Still, that would give me access to not only some important information but also an opportunity to create some connections. I theorized that there was a faction that planned to overthrow the Emperor within it or some people who discovered the dark side of the Empire. Organizations like those always exist and I was convinced of that after thinking about how those hunters that visited our planet acted. And then, I would show off my power to force them to work with me.

The difference between this approach and the average guy approach was just of course my standing on the surface, and also the fact that I would be able to access some information and some places more quickly. As long as I could go find those important locations, Cristal would be able to do a good job of collecting what I need.

"Well, that's what we were about to if I put it simply. I didn't tell about the other details about the details of course, because they would change depending on the circumstances. And now, for example, we need to change the approach to the most difficult one. The elite of the elite," I continued, but Blanca looked at me as if she was an agriculturist that attended Einstein's lecture about quantum physics.

I began to explain the higher degree of direct approach. I could of course come to the Empire and force whoever was pulling the strings in the shadow to come out and destroy them, resolving this whole mess, but that would be just temporary and I would need a lot of power to do that.

Still, the fragments that would give me this power were somewhere within the Empire, at least, that was what I thought because there was someone who could destroy the world roaming around freely in there.

Thus, I couldn't choose this easiest method, but it was not like I couldn't show off my power and take advantage of it.

However, doing so would be difficult as I would be the center of the attention, or to be precise I needed to be the center of attention.

I needed to show the Empire that they needed my strength, whether because they feared or they wanted to know more about it, but I shouldn't antagonize them. That was why it was a little bit tricky, but if I manage to do things right, it would save me a lot of time.

The acting needed to be real, and when people looked at me they needed to acknowledge that I was in another dimension than them. It was not just my strength, but my attitude, my look, charisma, voice, and intelligence.

I needed to appear like someone that people couldn't hate because they couldn't find anything that they could hate about me.

This would of course stir up a lot of theories, rumors, and a lot of attention but as long as I could show that I wasn't the Empire's enemy, it would be advantageous to mask my true attentions. After all, my background was already an advantage in itself, and also the existence of this so-called platinum generation. Thus, people would certainly be focused on the fact that I was one those new generations of gift holders, or to be precise their leader.

The reason why I didn't choose this approach first was of course because the high risk of failure which could lead to a lot other troublesome things. However, knowing that in theory, based on Lord Tylliard's words, the Guardians were not just the Empire's dogs, the advantages outweighed the drawbacks.

Moreover, I didn't know what the Raizel family expected from me but this approach would certainly give me a certain level of control over them, giving me the backup I needed to secure the seat of a guardian. Then, I would begin to scrutinize the Empire from its core.

"That's the goal, and of course, you will get closer to your goal too while helping me. There's this fragment in the Empire but we don't know how did it get here, thus it will be the key to finding a way for your sister. You know what I am talking about, right? You haven't told me everything yet so I am just guessing," I said, but Blanca looked like she had a hard time keeping up with my explanation. She just looked like she was asking me why the hell was I doing all of that.

Of course, she didn't know about the threat posed by the villains, my desires, or the battle of gods that was still going on, and her goal was simply to find her sister, but she looked like she thought that I was just picking on her when I asked her to change her clothes so I just showed her that her clothes were part of the more complicated plan.

Of course, the final goal for this was for me to be able to create a world in which I could finally focus on finding a good woman and also a world where my family and the people that I care about could live happily.

After all, even if I didn't do anything and just stayed put and tried to live a peaceful life, I would still be pulled inside of this mess. And there was also the fact that I liked the feeling of having overwhelming power, but of course, peaceful life and the path to the ultimate strength didn't go well together.

Thus, I needed to become strong first, to the point that I can create my own peaceful life. In the end, it was as simple as that.

"Now, put this on," I said, and Blanca didn't argue back anymore.

I also adjusted my look and my posture. I made sure that every time I used my power, my hair would turn platinum and my eyes into something similar to a crystal. It had taken me a lot of time to be able to control the Antimatter, but the monsters' core helped. Now, when my nullification power got an upgrade and I was able to do this.

At least, there were some good things that I managed to acquire from that incident. Well, I would always use everything and anything to my benefit even though I didn't show it.