I need to keep working. Work, work, work, so much has to be done. It all seems like so much, but I'll have the easy job of staying in my base while everyone else does the hard stuff.

I know what I need, I have the power to take it, but it'll have to be subtle. Silent. I can't be like all of the fools that have fallen because of their arrogance, no one can know what we're planning to do. I have observed them, found out their weaknesses and done everything else necessary for the plans, but direct confrontation, that's my absolute last resort.

This place that I have made for myself shows my desperation. The thing that amazes me isn't the sheer size of it, but the fact that I built it. No machines, no tools, not even molds or stencils for all of the intricate pictures and designs on the walls.

I've been walking through this place trying to calm myself down. It has to be done, it's a necessary evil. The end goal is worth it.

That's what I keep telling myself, but I wonder if I'm even doing this for what I'll… possibly receive at the end of this. Maybe I was just that desperate to find a new purpose in my life.

…Can I really go through with this? Why am I so much more important than- no! Don't doubt yourself! You have to do this! If it's the last thing I do, then so be it! At least I won't have to go on living this sham of a life!

I enter the Lab of my base and begin pressing buttons and pulling levers in specific patterns. It's so complicated that I had to give each and everything that did something a specific sound made whenever it was touched. Now it's much easier for me to remember what needs to be used after each, I just have to know the rhythm.

A large screen lowers into the room to reveal a figure wearing a black top hat. He has short, dark gray, wispy hair and very tanned skin. His face is obscured as always and as usual I can't tell how he's feeling. I can imagine him being slightly annoyed because of how difficult it is for him to find all of the light he's using so that I can see him.

"Ah, good to hear from you friend. How is everything going?"

"…"

"Well?"

*Ahem* "Oh-ah-well! Good! Everything's going good! Rain shape! Right as ship!" I sputter out. Man, I am so nervous about this.

"I think you mean, 'ship shape' and right as rain.' You seem nervous. You're not having second thoughts are you?"

"Second thoughts… no, I wasn't, I was just thinking-"

"Don't think, that's for me to do. You just need to follow my orders. Am I understood?" His voice is so intimidating sometimes that I can't even speak. No… it's impossible for me to be scared of him, I'm sure it's just my nerves.

"S-sure…"

"Good." He says, pleased at my obedience. "There is much to be done in many places. I've found a few individuals that will be able to assist you, and possibly more to come. Good luck, and may everything be rain shape, and right as ship as you put it so eloquently, hehehe." His laugh always creeps me out the most, it's just so rough and scratchy. Makes me wonder what my laugh sounds like. I can't remember, I haven't been able to find a reason to laugh in years.

I hit the same series of buttons backwards, following the rhythm, some sort of silent rhythm that I have to pay close attention to hear, and just as I'm about to hit the last lever, He tells me,

"Can you tell me the law in your first area?" I freeze and starting searching every part of my brain for it. This guy is scary when he's angry, and he doesn't even try to be! I am not disappointing him!

Let's see… come on… is it five… three… is it… aha!

"One is one, and all is all!"

"…" I feel his eyes on me, and the silence tells me that He's angry. He's the type who loves conversation, so this is completely unnatural for him.

"I-I mean, One is… all of one… no, I mean... all for one and one for… no, not the three musketeers… one… one is all-"

"…and all is one. Repeat it to me, that is one of the most basic laws you learn in that world, and since you'll be leading my subordinates, I need you to tell it to them."

"One is all, and all is one."

"Very good, dismissed!"

"Sir!" I shout before pulling down the lever and turning the monitor off. Then I let out a sigh of relief.

No point in drawing this out, I had better do this now. I walk out of the room and go into my room to meet whoever he managed to send to me.

The sooner I start, the sooner I finish.