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Under the heavy, fog-choked cover of the London night, the entrance to the Savoy Hotel on the Strand was a chaotic explosion of popping flashbulbs and roaring engines.
This historic, unparalleled luxury hotel was the undisputed haven for the English royal family, elite politicians, and the globally wealthy. A closer look at the hotel's more than one-hundred-year history revealed a staggering collection of private files on the most powerful people of each era. Claude Monet had painted the Thames from its balconies. Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, and Marilyn Monroe had walked its halls. Winston Churchill had taken his cabinet meetings in its dining rooms.
Directly next door to this stylish monolith stood the Savoy Theatre of the same name. Yet, it was a long-standing, whispered joke among the London elite: In the century since the hotel's construction, you've seen more famous faces drinking in the Savoy's Beaufort Bar than you have on the stage next door, and the secrets whispered in these hallways are infinitely more captivating than any written play.
Tonight was no exception. Pushing open the gilded revolving doors of the Savoy meant stepping into a concentrated room of the world's absolute elite.
A sleek, black Bentley pulled up to the velvet ropes, and Marvin stepped out into the blinding storm of paparazzi flashes.
He looked devastating. Dressed in a bespoke, midnight-blue velvet tuxedo jacket with black satin lapels, he moved with the unhurried, terrifying grace of a prince. The flashing lights didn't make him blink. His aura was tightly coiled but pulsing just beneath the surface, ensuring that every camera lens instinctively tracked his movement.
He turned back to the car, offering his hand.
Nancy stepped out first, looking formidable and entirely in her element in a beautiful, deep plum evening gown, waving to the press with a polished Hollywood smile.
Then, Amy stepped out into the London night.
She took Marvin's hand, her breath hitching as the wall of photographers screamed for her attention. She was wearing the dress she had insisted on paying for—a breathtaking, floor-length emerald silk gown that clung perfectly to her figure, making her pale skin and auburn hair look absolutely radiant.
Internally, Amy was experiencing a profound, Midwestern panic attack. Just weeks ago, she was serving beer in Minnesota. Now, she was walking the red carpet at the Savoy Hotel as an invited guest by Diana herself. Naturally, she understood that the invitation was meant for this delightful little man, not herself. Still the sheer, overwhelming wealth and power radiating from the building threatened to crush her.
Marvin felt the slight tremble in her fingers. He didn't let go of her hand. Instead, he channeled a very specific, highly concentrated wave of his magic directly into her palm. It wasn't the magic of seduction; it was the magic of confidence.
The paralyzing anxiety in Amy's chest instantly evaporated. Her spine straightened. The blinding lights suddenly seemed less terrifying and more like stage lights.
"You look spectacular, Amy," Marvin murmured, his voice cutting through the roar of the crowd, meant only for her. "Walk into that room like you own the building. Because tonight, we essentially do."
Amy looked down at the little man in the velvet tuxedo. She felt a fierce, undeniable surge of loyalty. She offered him a stunning, confident smile. "Lead the way, Boss."
The trio bypassed the press line and stepped into the sprawling, breathtaking Lancaster Ballroom.
The scale of the wealth in the room was staggering. Crystal chandeliers the size of small cars cast a warm, golden light over the crowd. Waiters in white gloves drifted through the room balancing towers of vintage champagne. Prominent political figures, renowned European artists, and A-list movie stars mingled freely.
Marvin accepted a flute of sparkling cider from a passing tray, his ocean-blue eyes scanning the chessboard of the room with analytical precision.
He spotted a young, twenty-one-year-old David Beckham standing near the ice sculpture. The rising star of Manchester United was still in the raw, handsome throes of youth, looking slightly uncomfortable in his tuxedo, completely unaware of the global fashion icon he was about to become.
Across the room, holding court near the grand piano, was Isabella Adjani. The legendary French actress was over forty, yet she retained a haunting mature charm that made the younger starlets around her look entirely inadequate.
Near the private VIP alcoves, Marvin spotted the true masters of the universe—the quiet, casually dressed billionaires. He recognized the heirs of the Ferrero chocolate empire, the notoriously private Ruben brothers, and the German Otto family, quietly sipping scotch and determining the fate of the European economy.
And then, standing somewhat awkwardly near a velvet-roped staircase leading to the private mezzanine, Marvin spotted two very familiar faces.
They were young boys, dressed in stiff, immaculate suits. One was fourteen, looking tall and carrying the heavy, solemn weight of his future on his shoulders. The other was twelve, slightly shorter, with a mischievous glint in his eye that his formal attire couldn't quite suppress.
It was Prince William and Prince Harry.
Marvin stopped, taking a slow sip of his cider. A dark, deeply amused smile spread across his impossibly handsome face. The memory of his private joke with Diana in the Dorchester suite—the joke about being the young princes' new "uncle"—flashed in his mind.
The Incubus soul within him practically purred with anticipation. The sheer amount of pure, unfiltered psychological mana he could harvest from the future King of England was entirely too tempting to pass up.
"Aunt Nancy. Amy," Marvin said smoothly, handing his half-empty glass to a passing waiter. "I see a few young men my own age. Please, excuse me for a moment. I believe it is time I went over and introduced myself to my nephews."
Before Nancy could ask what on earth he was talking about, Marvin slipped flawlessly through the crowd of billionaires and movie stars, walking directly toward the heirs to the British throne.
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The sweeping, velvet-roped staircase leading to the Savoy's private mezzanine offered a perfect vantage point over the Lancaster Ballroom. It was also the designated sanctuary for the two boys who were currently the most photographed, scrutinized, and pitied teenagers on the face of the earth.
Marvin slipped past a cluster of German banking heirs and stepped into the quiet alcove. He didn't hesitate or show the slightest hint of intimidation.
"Good evening, Prince William. Prince Harry."
Marvin greeted the two young princes, who hadn't yet grown into their adult features, with a smooth, perfectly calibrated London accent. It wasn't just a generic British inflection; it was flawless Received Pronunciation (RP)—the crisp, melodic, and hyper-educated dialect of the upper aristocracy.
As is well known to anyone navigating British high society, there is an unspoken, brutal hierarchy of English accents. At the absolute apex sits the elite London RP, followed closely by the polished Home Counties. Below that, the ladder descends rapidly through the working-class Birmingham drawl, the harsh Northern vowels, the colonial offshoots of Canadian, American, Australian, and New Zealand English, down through the thick Scottish brogues and Irish lilts, all the way to the heavily colonized rhythmic cadences of Singaporean and Indian English.
The power of a voice in England is absolute. It is a historical fact that before Margaret Thatcher became the formidable Prime Minister known as the "Iron Lady," she hired a professional broadcaster and a speech professor from the National Theatre to thoroughly and ruthlessly correct her pronunciation. After two years of grueling vocal training, her shrill, ordinary voice was dismantled.
Her tone became mellow, deep, commanding, and infinitely more pleasant to the aristocratic ear. She herself later admitted that it was this carefully manufactured "voice image" that subconsciously won over the elite voters and secured her the keys to Downing Street.
In a setting as steeped in generational wealth and snobbery as the Savoy, if Marvin had approached the heirs to the British throne speaking with his flat, sunny Californian American English, the surrounding aristocrats might not have shown it on their meticulously botoxed faces, but they would have definitely laughed at him in their hearts. They would have dismissed him instantly as a country bumpkin from America with new money and no class.
But Marvin's Incubus vocal cords were weapons. The accent was a masterkey.
William and Harry looked up from the mahogany railing, startled by the sudden intrusion. They saw a boy dressed in a midnight-blue velvet tuxedo, standing with an impossible, terrifyingly perfect posture.
"Who are you?" William demanded. At fourteen, the older prince was already feeling the crushing, claustrophobic weight of his destiny. He glanced at Marvin's tailored suit, taking in the sheer confidence radiating from the younger boy, and immediately offered a cold, defensive, and entirely dismissive look.
Harry was even more direct. He was twelve, fiercely protective of his brother, and possessed a famously short fuse. "Get out of here," Harry snapped, his face flushing with irritation. "We don't want to talk to anyone right now. Leave us alone."
The two boys were currently trapped in the absolute worst throes of their rebellious phase.
But it wasn't just hormones; the emotional trauma of their parents' highly publicized, vicious, and humiliatingly public divorce had left them raw and bleeding in front of the global press. They hated the cameras, they hated the gala, and above all, they hated strangers trying to leverage their tragedy for a handshake.
Marvin didn't flinch. He didn't offer a sycophantic apology, nor did he bow. An ancient, apex predator trapped in a mortal shell, Marvin found the temper tantrums of human royalty mildly amusing at best. He wasn't the type to fawn over the powerful and wealthy—he intended to buy them out entirely before he turned eighteen. Besides, the English royal family had absolutely zero jurisdictional say in his burgeoning American empire.
Marvin simply offered a graceful, indifferent shrug. "As you wish, gentlemen. Enjoy the champagne." He turned on his heel, fully intending to walk away.
But just as the velvet tails of his jacket swept around, William suddenly pushed off the railing.
"Stop right there!" William shouted, his voice cracking slightly with adolescent adrenaline.
Marvin stopped. He turned his head, looking over his shoulder with an expression of mild, polite surprise. He turned fully around, his hands casually clasped behind his back, and calmly asked, "What is it?"
"Where did you get that ring?"
As William spoke, he darted forward, closing the distance between them. He raised his head, his face twisting into a fierce, intensely protective expression, and glared directly into Marvin's eyes.
It was a stark physical contrast. William, who was already fourteen years old, was surprisingly half a head shorter than Marvin.
History and genetics dictated that the future King of England would eventually grow to a towering 1.91 meters (6'3"). He would definitely end up taller than Marvin's final adult form. But Marvin was playing a much longer, much more precise biological game.
Because Marvin had already mapped out the exact body blueprints for his own physical maturation, he had consciously capped his future height. He would not exceed 1.86 meters (roughly 6'1"). He wasn't aiming to be a towering giant; he was aiming for absolute, flawless mathematical perfection. His entire physical form—the proportions of his facial features, the breadth of his shoulders, the length of his limbs—was being actively sculpted by his mana to align perfectly with the Golden Ratio.
Although many modern human experts and contrarian art historians love to deny that the Golden Ratio is a universal standard of perfection, the undeniable truth is that biological structures conforming to this specific mathematical constant—represented by the irrational number \phi = \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}—are universally, instinctively perceived by the human brain as breathtakingly beautiful.
From the microscopic arrangement of DNA to the cosmic spiral of the Milky Way, from the arrangement of petals on a rose to the curve of a nautilus seashell, the universe is built on the foundation of
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