Versatile System Online

Meeting Room,

Ray sat on the chair as his fingers continuously tapped the table. The room was eerily silent as only the sound of his fingers tapping the table echoed throughout.

There was still time before the meeting started and Ray was waiting for everyone to arrive. He had formed the plans and was ready to put everything in order. For he had realized that there was no time left.

After a few minutes,

The doors opened as students started flooding in. One after another, they came into the meeting room and took their seats.

"What happened? Why did you call us this late at night?" Hailey asked in anger. It was apparent from her expression that she was pissed off and if the meeting wasn't something important, Ray knew for sure that a tantrum would be thrown by her.

Well, as if he cared. Ray simply ignored Hailey and waited for everyone to arrive. All this while, the meeting room stayed silent.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, he clapped his hands and brought everyone's attention to himself, "First of all, I would like to thank everyone for reaching here on such a short notice and that too at this time," He said and thanked everyone. After all, diplomacy was of utmost importance.

The other nodded, they felt that his apology was quite needed while some also understood why he did so. Also, they had an idea if the overall situation and that was why they didn't jump to conclusions. Instead, they waited for Ray to give a justification for his actions.

"Now, to the reason why I called you all here. As many of you may have guessed by the strange time of the meeting. The reason is something of extreme importance and it was judged so by the head nurse and I as we agreed on the fact that it could not wait till tomorrow so as to avoid more of such events from occurring,, Ray started speaking as he took some time to deviate everyone from the topic to ease them all.

After all, getting straight to the topic; some might get pissed off or would be too shocked to concentrate on more important information.

"Just get to the topic already. We don't have all night to waste," Hailey interjected and proved to everyone yet again that she didn't respect Ray's position one bit and all she cared was about herself.

Ray ignored her yet again. The frown on his face got deeper as a vein popped up on his forehead, indicating the anger he felt at the moment. However, he restrained himself. Clenching his fist to calm himself down, he spoke,

"The thing is that, we have enemies inside the infirmary," As he spoke, his tone was solemn as it indicated the gravity of the situation.

"What? Enemies inside here? Trolls or something else?" Asked Adrian in shock. His eyes were wide open as they showed his apparent shock.

"No, they aren't trolls. Well, let me explain the whole situation. So it is like this, just an hour ago; our team member and dear friend, a second year student "Emma" was attacked by an unknown assailant as there was an assassination attempt on her," Said Ray.

After speaking, he took a few seconds and stopped to look at everyone sitting here. He observed everyone's reaction to see if there was a change in their expression. After all, who knew if someone sitting here was also involved in the assassination attempt.

"Okay. Now let's move onto the next topic. Which is to make sure that no one else suffers from another attack yet again," Continued Ray. He made everyone think that he was thinking about then but what he really was doing was to make everyone dependent on him. This way, many would think before betraying him and would even start to work together with him in hopes of getting stronger and getting benefits.

Luring them with benefits and hopes of getting stronger to keep them on your side.

This was the tactic Ray played and for now, it was the most efficient and perfect one as this was the time when everyone was worried about themselves and hoped to get stronger.

"Okay, what do we do? You tell us," John asked. After getting appreciated by Ray, John seemed to have opened up even more and participated in a much more active way during the meeting.

In fact, during the meetings; most students remained passive. They rarely showed their opinions and only nodded to what Ray and some others proposed. Therefore, during the past couple of meetings, John, Adrian, Hailey and a couple more students shone and displayed their qualities as many students formed groups around them and joined them.

While all this happened, Hailey remained silent. She simply listened to everyone's opinion and the discussions being held. Right now, a plan brewed in her mind.

Having some sort of idea of the assassination attempt, she thought if a way to milk out most of the profit from it. After all, Hailey was very different from how everyone perceived her.

To the normal observer, although she looked like an arrogant, short tempered, pampered little girl. In reality, she was a shrewd woman who always weighed her actions before doing anything. For her, benefits mattered the most and all that others saw was a façade to hide her real self. This way, most would underestimate her capabilities; hence giving her an upper hand over most of them.

As the plan was formed, she smiled slightly. An evil glint shone in her eyes as she tapped the table thrice and raised her hands. Her contour seemed to be the same as everyone thought it would be. The arrogant smirk still remained on her face as she harrumphed and interjected in between the conversation that currently ensued,

"I suggest that we all look for the culprit the first thing. After all, everything else could wait," That was it. That was all she said, and after that she turned silent.

"Is she a fool?" Everyone had the thought running in their minds as after all, only a fool would highlight the main reason that was being discussed.

But was she? Because right after she chimed in with her opinion, another student who sat right besides her spoke,

"I agree with her. I say we do this right away. We form teams and start to search for the culprit the first thing in the morning," Along with the student many, others nodded and showed their agreement.

Seeing the series of events, Ray felt rather amused. He knew of Hailey's real nature. Aliya had informed him about most nobles and their real natures and with Aurora's help, he was able to read the micro expressions on her face and judge her state of mind.

He knew that Hailey planned to do something and it wasn't something good. He was sure that whatever she planned, it ought to be in her benefit. Along with the suspicion he had on her, he assumed her to work in benefit of the betrayers.

"I do agree with what you have proposed and that is why, I arranged for it already. Tomorrow morning, Sirius and Tim will lead a team to search for culprit and catch him/her as fast as possible. Mind I remind you all, both of them are the best and strongest warriors we have. With Sirius having excellent tracking capabilities and Tim's immense strength and unbreakable defense, I reckon that there is a force better than both of them," Said Ray as he played a card of his.

Everyone agreed with him. They had seen Sirius and Tim in action and knew of their strength. Therefore, they had enough trust in them. However, not everyone was assured and Hailey took benefit of this as she smirked and spoke,

"Well, you said that a team is being formed. Therefore, I suggest that a couple members from the meeting board to be added to the team,"

"I agree," The student besides her chimed in. Another few also agreed while some bold ones directly introduced their strengths so they could join the team first hand.

"I can not deny that," Ray allowed them to. He knew that right now, it was the initial phase of his plan and that he needed to gain their trust to be able to make them follow his commands later on.

Also, their requests weren't unreasonable. He could allow a few to join the team and ask Sirius to keep an eye on them. This way, he might as well catch some betrayers and extract some information from them.

Seeing that Ray agreed with their requests, Hailey raised her hands and smirked. She asked, "Can I join the team as well? After all, Emma being my senior, it is my responsibility to help in finding the culprit,"

"So that's what you wanted," Ray thought as he smiled internally. He agreed with Hailey's request as plan formed in his mind as well. Now, it was his time to play her and make her feel his strength.