“ What is the invitation about?” l asked pretty confidently that it was a facade.

  “ I know what you are thinking. You are probably thinking about the validity of the invitation and about the sudden mentioning of a secret council of Depraves and whatnot. Aren’t you?” Tuz responded with a reasoning that could not be refuted.

  “ Depraves have an administrative branch and here I thought you were just kidding.” l half joked about it as I never heard about it once so it was hard to believe.

  “ It is true even if it is hard to make sense.” Butler said with a lot of confidence. His name was Zayn but l jokingly called him “ The Butler ” as he never left Tuz side and was always there to heavy lift in any type of situation. Zayn wiped his mouth as it was bleeding from the injury that l just made. “ Do you have to be so ruthless all the time? You could have asked me and I would have given you a sample.” Zayn complained about the injury like he was a baby.

  “ Oh! Sorry. Next time I would be more careful to take out an assailant when he attacks my home.” I answered as he was the one who was wrong. He was the one who had entered my dimensional domain without permission.

  “ By the way, how did you enter?” I asked as I was confused as to how he had entered the domain. It was not possible by normal means to enter a dimensional domain. There was always a danger of becoming lost in the space time continuum and being ejaculated somewhere or someplace you have never visited. Dimensional jump despite its various uses was never taken without precise coordinates and dimensional domains always were turbulent continuously changing it’s coordinates.

  “ I used my own means.” Zayn was not reliant and replied with a smug face.

  “ Oh! Really.” It appeared to me that he had forgotten his dose and wanted a resample of what transpired before.

  “ OK. I came in with this.”

  He pointed toward a piece of equipment that he was holding onto. It felt familiar. Suddenly, l remembered what it was. About fifty or sixty years ago, Tuz had requested me to provide it with a self-propellent dimensional crack opener that could allow it to come into my dimensional domain once without my permission. I usually never gave out my home address that readily because it was a personal rule of mine to keep the public traffic close to minimum when it came to my dimensional zone as I was not very fond of guests. Tuz was making frequent requests so I made one for him with the universal variable of the dimensional zone installed inside. It was a consumable item so I had forgotten about it as after using it once, it was impossible to use it again. It was a one-time usable item and now it has been used. No doubt, Zayn was able to come in despite the defenses and the turbulent phase shift.

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  “ Oh! So you used it. Then what about the fighting? Can you please explain why you were in your Deprave form when we entered?” I asked with a serious expression.

  “ That.” Zayn knew that I had asked a very critical question. He was going to answer when Ellaya butted in.

  “ Yashir! Why did you meddle in the fight? I was so close to winning.” Ellaya complained about my untold interference.

  “ You were not close to winning. It was most like a stalemate so I came in at the right time to finish off this squabble of a fight.” I answered with a firm attitude.

  “ Yeah! Squabble.” Zayn said with a mouthful of blood that he spewed out. “ You must have taken the fight as a lesson for her. Didn’t you?”

  Zayn’s analogy was spot on. I would like to congratulate him on being such an attentive individual.

  “ Wow! You are spot on. How did you know?” l asked inquiringly.

  “ That is what is usually on your mind. It is all about Ellaya and as when you entered in the dimensional domain about half an hour. You did not do anything so it would mean that you knew that she was not in any danger but took your time to finish off it as a training course or something.” Zayn emptied all that he could infer from my actions.

  “ OK, you are right but let’s get to the main point. You both are Depraves and not only simple ones but advanced ones of whom I only had the pleasure of hunting about a couple so what should l do with you?” I asked a looming question with my hand on the emergency control system of the dimensional zone in one hand.

  “ We are not your enemy and we only made all these arrangements to get your attention.” Tuz said with a shaking voice.

  “ For what reason, did you want my attention and now that you have it tell me what it is all about?” I asked with my finger aiming for the safety protocol button to take care of both the Depraves with an easy hand as I had fought with advanced Depraves and l had to admit that it was very difficult to kill one but as long as it was in my territory, I was confident in my overall battle capability.

  “ It was all under the council's orders.” Tuz said with a calming tone. “ All the assignments and the requests since three hundred years, all had been made for the simple reason of finding individuals that can fulfill the requests from the council side.”

  I was unconvinced and was about to get serious about fighting them when Amir cut me off. He had been examining the invitation for any dubious signs of tracking as he was a Deprave and with his metamorphosis skill, he was keen in investigating things.