*City lord Viyani's Estate*

Following the elven butler, Brando and his group were led into a series of hallways.

After going around the series of hallways, Brando then asked,

"We've been walking down a couple of hallways now. May i know where are we exactly going?"

Without stopping, the butler replied.

"You will know soon."

Hearing this, Brando no longer asked.

Time passed, Brando and his group have just continouesly passed through different areas, different hallways.

It seemed like they were walking through a never ending maze.

Time passed, and Brando suddenly stops walking.

Due to this, the rest of Brando's team have also stopped as well, looking at him.

Noticing that the group of people behind him have stopped walking, the butler then looked back at them.

There, Brando was seen with his eyes closed, nose high, and then,

"Achoo!!"

"Woah. Uhhh that was a strong one."

"So-sorry about that. Just have an itchy nose. Let's continue."

Seeing Brando scratching his nose, the butler then began to walk once more with Brando and his group following him.

This time however, there was a certain change in Brando's group.

Some looks to be in a daze, some were looking around like a curious individual, while some, had dead pan eyes.

Seeing everyone else cooperating, with a small smirk, Brando watch as streams and streams of data arrives on his Nanolens.

Time passed, continuously walking, disregarding a few breaks, Brando soon had that small smirk turn into a small grin.

"Excuse me but, we have been already walking for quite a long time now. And as people that has no idea where we are being led to, do we not have the right to know where our destined location would be?"

Stopping, the butler looked at Brando blankly and said,

"Please have some patience Sir. Brando. We will soon arrive at our location."

Seeing the butler stare at him blankly, Brando couldn't help but shake his head inwardly.

Giving a short glance at Nievas who was at his right, and then at Tala who was at his left. Brando then said,

"Well, if you say so."

Seeing Brando shrug his shoulders, the butler then turned his back at them,

However, before the butler could fully turn his back at them, He suddenly heard something he never expected to hear from a human.

"I'm amazed to see a torus in play,"

Once Brando said this, the butler looked at Brando in utmost shock.

"Actually implementing the strominger-yau-zaslow-conjecture in a hallway. Unbelievable."

"Ho-How di-did yo-"

"Although, it is such a good implementation, it has not changed from that theory. It still has that 24 bad points."

"Okay so now, from i know. is that there is a union of infinite circles inside a torus. But, from what i can see, we've only been passing through ten circles over and over again no?"

"So, instead of an infinite, it's just a loop set to continuously go back to the first circle."

"Wha!!!"

"So for short, a good implementation, but an imperfect model. And this model will soon crumble."

"Such a pity."

After Brando said this, the space around them began to distort.

The walls started to melt, the floor began turning into liquid, and the air started to look blurry.

However, despite the changes in the surroundings, none of them seemed to be fazed.

Soon, the hallway they were once in soon turned into some sort of a lounge.

There, people wearing shiny armor, presumably to be the elven knights, and some cloaked people, were looking at them in shock.

Followed by that were loud murmurs from the crowd.

Whilst the commotion, the double doors from the lounge opened wide, and came in Viyani and other young elder elves.

Looking at them, Brando simply shook his head.

Their faces were plastered with shock, clearly they have seen what had just happened.

"Commander... Don't you think that we went a bit overboard?" Asked Nievas.

"No. This is fine." Replied Brando confidently.

"We've been inside the torus for nearly an hour. More so, from the looks of it, they were testing us,"

Hearing this, Nievas simply shook her head. But, it wasn't for Brando. Instead, it was for the elves.

The Tri-star regiment is more of a group of straightforward people.

Don't give us the willy-nillies. Get to the point, was the motto of most people in the regiment.

However, if there was one thing that most people doesn't like, then it would be being tested.

Most would have their nose get broken when they try and test the people from the regiment.

Although that was only inside the military. As a specially trained regiment, one must also have absolute control to their own logic and emotions when the they are outside the field.

With shock still evident on her face, stuttering, Viyani then said.

"Th-the emperor and emp-empress wishes to se-see you."

Smiling and scratching his head, Brando then replied,

"Lead the way. Although this time, can you do it honestly?"

"Uu-unn." Said Viyani while nodding meekly.

Right after Brando's group have left with Viyani, the whole lounge, which have been filled with murmurs, have then bursted into a loud commotion.

Although it was the knights making the loud commotion whilst the cloaked ones simply grouped up and left the lounge.

"What in the world has been happening??? How come those hyumans know about the torus illusionary dimension???"

"Only a select few hyumans knows of this from what I've been told. And those hyumans have been studying it for years now. And not once have they found any clues on how it was done."

"So how the hell did the hyumans knew about it. When there's so few to know about it from them???"

"More so, they even know about it's legendary creator, Master Strominger, Master Yau, and Master Zaslow. The names of these master's have been hidden greatly by our Empire's officials. How could the hyumans have known of it??"

Whilst the commotion was ongoing,  a cloaked figure left the lounge silently.

Watching the cloaked figure leave, the butler simply shook his head sideways, with an image of an exhausted person.

"I'll just hope that she won't make a mess."

******

"Please... Over there."

Leading them to the estate's wide garden, there, it is seen that the elven man and the elven woman, who arrived to the estate just earlier, are having tea.

The place also had knights in patrol, knights that are in stationary guard, and some knights that seems to be just relaxing down.

Walking over to the elven man and woman, Brando suddenly felt a warm feeling on his shoulder.

Glancing over at his right shoulder, a bright red light greeted his eyes.

"That little one likes you huh."

"Yeah well, it just happened."

Snapping his fingers, the normal looking tea table set, immediately transformed to that of an roman style patio with a huge pergola over it.

The elven man then said,

"Have a sit. All of you."

Hearing this, Brando then put his right hand at the back and spread out his fingers.

After doing this, he then asked,

"Would it be fine for you if some of us just stands?"

After Brando asked this, the elven man then looked at the woman, the woman on the other hand, after showing an expression of thought, nodded her head.

"You may." Said the elven man.

Hearing this, Brando gave an amicable smile and sat on the seats made by the elven man.

Likewise, some of Brando's people sat while some stood.

After this, the elven man then said,

"Let's begin our introductions shall we."

"My name is Amir v'i Visenth. The Emperor of the United Elven Empire."

"And, the woman opposite of me is my wife, Miryana s'i Visenth. And she is the Empress of the United Elven Empire."

"Now, might we know what's your name, adventurer?"

"Brando, Brando lauron."

After Brando introduced himself, the elven man, Emperor Amir, looked beside him, and indicated that she could also introduced herself.

"Nievas. You can just call me Nievas."

The Emperor nodded right after Nievas introduced herself. After this he then looked to the other people from Brando's group.

However, they simply waved their hands in front of them. Indicating that they didn't want to introduce themselves.

Understanding this, Emperor Amir them looked at Brando.

"I'll be straight with you is that fine?"

Brando nodded.

"Our original schedule was to visit the elf and dwarf city for a private and hidden inspection. However, we received news that hyumans have entered the city." With them was their both of unknown classifications."

"In correspondence to this, me and my wife had decided to meet you here. To avoid further troubles."

Raising his head, Brando then asked,

"Troubles?"

"Elven nobles." Said Emperor Amir with a bit of an troubled tone.

Noticing this, Brando then said in realization.

"Is this a case for a fight for the throne?"

Hearing this, Emperor Amir looked at Brando in surprise.

"How did you know?"

"Pretty obvious. It's written on your face."

After Brando said this, Emperor Amir then showed a troubled expression while rubbing his temples.

"I'm really old now."

After Emperor Amir said this, no longer having his amicable smile, Brando then asked with a blank tone. 

"With all due respect, please get to the point."

"You wouldn't have called us here for nothing no?"

*Shink* *Shhing*

"You dare talk like that to the Emperor?!"

The knights that were close to the pergola immediately had their swords drawn towards, not just Brando, but to Brando's people as well.

Seeing this, the people that were with Brando immediately showed alarmed expressions.

Now, as for Brando himself, he had a sword pointed right at his neck, with Nievas having the same situation.

Not even turning his head around, Brando then said coldly.

"You know, in my country, it's always advisable to have a great grip on your weapons."

Brando then raised both of his hands.

"Because if you don't..."

And clapped it once.

"It'll cost you your life."

Right after Brando said this, a loud crisp warping sound was immediately heard within the area.

Followed by this, were the sounds of metal, grinding each other. Creating a very sharp and painful noise. Not pleasant to the ear.

After this small event, a loud bang was heard.

Just in front of Brando, which was just a tea table, now had its place exchanged with a large black metallic ball.

After this, the men and women from Brando's groups all raised their weapons, be it either knives or handguns, then pointed all at the elven knights.

And this all happened within 5 short seconds.

Brando then looked behind him, and staring blankly at the Knight, who was now gawking at him, and said,

"Do you understand that?"