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Ludger headed to the entrance of a secret laboratory that was decorated with a large wastewater pipe.
The wastewater pipe, which was rusting everywhere and full of odors, seed real, but when he went a little deeper, the scenery changed right away.
The inner wall of the wastewater pipe neatly changed, and even the odor that used to reek disappeared.
Ziiiing.
From beyond that place, a sound was heard with subtle scarlet light.
Ludger imdiately advanced with caution while trying to show as little sense of presence as possible.
Hah. Im so bored. How much longer do we have to stay?
I dont know. We still have more than two days to spare, so shouldnt we wait a little longer?
Why did those damn experints escape anyway?
Were not going to get caught yet, so it might be okay. We are cleaning this place up and going to leave to prepare for the worst possibilities.
But Id rather be guarding like this. Its a ss inside currently, as they are organizing the equipnt.
Its ti to switch shifts soon anyway.
Argh. If only those sh*tty experints hadnt escaped.
Ludger leaned his back against the wall and listened to their conversation.
The two, who were bored due to having to stand on guard for a long ti at the entrance, did not stop chatting.
I was outside at the ti. How did that happen? Did the managent make a mistake?
There must have been a mistake. I heard that the kid who was kidnapped didnt take dicine often, so he didnt turn more Cryptid-like. Maybe its because hes still young.
So?
Why do you even ask? So when I tried to pull him out to inject more drugs into his body, he resisted.
I heard its really painful to be injected with the drugs. Is it true?
Im sure its painful because they scream loudly. But the problem is that his parents made a ruckus there.
What? His parents? They had already beco werewolves, yet they were still trying to protect their kid?
Yes. The scientists didnt know that they still had so reasoning. They were angrier than we expected, and the inside the laboratory was a ss.
Damn it. So thats why they escaped? Isnt it a bit dangerous then?
Hahah! Dangerous, my ass. Dont worry. I heard that we asked a reliable person to take care of the werewolves. Anyway, Id have stepped on the werewolf pup until he died if I were there. He made us suffer like this.
I see.
Ludger felt that he no longer needed to eavesdrop on their conversation.
Because he had already found out about everything and how things were turning out.
Splash.
As Ludger stepped on the water that was puddled on the ground, the two people who were chattering imdiately closed their mouths and stared at him.
What? Whos that?
Isnt it just a rat?
Magical lights were shining around the entrance, but the place where Ludger stood was relatively dark, so he couldnt be seen.
The two n pulled guns from their waistlines.
But before that, two beams of light flew out of the darkness and penetrated the middle of their forehead faster.
Bam! Bam!
Without even being able to scream, the two n who were guarding the entrance collapsed right on the spot.
It happened in the blink of an eye.
Ludger walked slowly out of the darkness.
He was wearing shin-length leather boots, black pants, a gray vest full of pockets, and a shabby brown coat over it.
His face was covered with a black hood that was drooping down to his nose, and he wore a hood that covered up to his forehead.
Ludger walked past the corpses and went into the secret laboratory with ghostly silent steps.
And not long after he entered
A scream rang out from the inside.
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Aaaaaaah! Help !
The man who was patrolling near the entrance appeared from the dark and ran away desperately from a monster that had killed all of his colleagues.
He didnt know from where the monster had suddenly appeared.
Like a mirage, the monster had suddenly appeared and killed his patrolling colleagues in a flash.
What did the guys who guarded the entrance do?
At the mont he thought so, his sight turned upside down.
Oh?
His body swayed, then he fell forward. He couldnt move his legs below the shins..
Why why on earth?
He looked down at his legs and finally realized why.
His legs were cut off under his shin.
The mont he recognized it, the pain ca belatedly.
Urk!
He gritted his teeth and glared at the darkness behind his back.
Beyond the wide passage was a darkness where all the lights had gone out.
He heard footsteps from there.
His spine beca cold, and every hair on his body stood on end.
It was a guy.
The intruder who had suddenly appeared and killed all his colleagues
He is already coming after him.
Step.
The intruder slowly erged from the darkness.
He covered his whole face as he appeared from the darkness, so he could not be identified.
However, based on his sturdy build, it was clear that he was a man.
He warned the man in a trembling voice.
You, you. You thought youd be able to get away after ssing with us? I dont think you know whos in there, but youre already done.
The man didnt respond.
Rather, the mans eyes that were seen beyond the shadow of his hood beca sharper.
His lips and throat beca dry.
As soon as he wondered if he should rather beg for help, a large number of people flocked from beyond the passage.
Here! There was a noise here!
In the distance, he saw rcenaries approaching the place where with magical lights.
All of them were packed with guns; one of them especially stood out, as he was heavily ard.
The man shouted as he discovered his colleagues had co to his rescue.
Here! This way! Here! Hahaha! You are dead now! You will turn into a honeycomb in this narrow passage Urk!
Ludger thrusted a dagger into the mouth of that noisy man. When the dagger was pulled out, blood splattered, and his body fell sideways.
It was then that the troops who arrived just in ti discovered Ludger.
There! Shoot him!
They aid their guns right away without asking who Ludger was, perhaps because they were well-trained soldiers,
anwhile, Ludger stood still as if he were stuck on his spot.
Shoot!
They pulled the trigger right away, but there was no gunfire.
Oh?
Wh-what?
Clack. Clack.
No matter how strongly they pulled their triggers, the bullets didnt erge. Their guns were not broken, but the gunpowder was frozen.
A stream of cold sweat flowed down their leaders cheek, who had instructed them to shoot Ludger.
In this case, he understood from his own experience.
Silence of Fire! Hes a wizard!
It had been a long ti since weapons based on gunpowder erged as the world had evolved.
Nevertheless, wizards and knights still kept their positions of being those who held the most power in the world.
There was only one reason for that:
It was because guns were not threatening at all to knights and wizards.
Knights with superhuman physical abilities could easily avoid or cut down ordinary bullets.
On the contrary, wizards didnt have to do that.
The Silence of Fire spell that they used made it possible to prevent the incoming gunshot.
Silence of Fire
It was literally a spell that suppressed the performance of gunpowders that was targetted at the wizard within a certain range.
The spell made it possible to neutralize even machine guns if used by a third-rank wizard.
If a 5th-rank wizard used the spell, they could even neutralize a cannon.
If a 6th-rank Lexure wizard used it, the flow of the war would change from then on.
Thats why wizards and knights could maintain their powerful spots even when the era of guns and gunpowder had already co.
But the spell that Ludger used ended in the third tier.
So Ludger realized that he couldnt go beyond that and made up for his lack of power by strengthening the casted spell.
When a common third-rank wizard used Silence of Fire, their effective range was within a radius of 20 ters.
And the effective range of the Silence of Fire that Ludger used
Was within a radius of 200 ters.
Darn it! Everyone, pull out your weapons!
The people affiliated with the Shamsus school were quick to make a move.
They threw away their aningless guns and imdiately took out their swords and clubs.
Zzzzt.
An electric current flowed all over the clubs.
Ludger raised his hands at such a sight.
Each of his hands held a revolver.
Idiot! When youre using Silence of Fire, even your guns are useless!
Shoo!
The man who was laughing at Ludger fell backward as his forehead sprayed blood.
Everyone watched the scene with a pale complexion.
What just happened?
Wh-what?
How the hell?
Ludger had obviously shot his gun, but it wasnt a bullet that he fired
Magic.
It was actually mana which had the shape of a bullet.
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Therefore, there was no sound when he shot, and the Silence of Fire spell itself wouldnt be affected.
You you!
Did you want to fight in an equal battle?
Ludger laughed at the soldiers and shot bullets of his mana randomly.
Ratatata!
However, even though he seed to shoot randomly, the bullets hit their foreheads precisely.
In an instant, blood and screams were rampant.
These idiots! Everyone, get out of my way!
A big man dressed in massive armor stepped forward. His reinforced armor, made of black synthetic tal, easily deflected the mana bullets that Ludger fired.
It was an armor suit that had been reinforced and made with recent engineering developnt.
Its movent was slow but very sturdy, and it required trendous strengthit was used exclusively for great knights.
That will be a bit of a bother.
Die!
The big man in reinforced armor rushed toward Ludger with his arms wide open.
His stomping steps gave off a sense of intimidation as if he was a rushing tank.
Ludger was not panicking or frightened at all.
After withdrawing his revolvers, he took out two Karambit daggerswhich had the form of crescent moonsfrom his waist and held them tightly.
Youre going to have a close-up battle as a wizard?
As soon as he reached out his arm to grab Ludger by the collar, Ludgers figure distorted and disappeared.
What? Where did he disappear to?
The mont the man in the reinforced armor was dumbfounded by his disappearance, a terrible pain punctured his forearm.
Blood gushed from the gap in between his armor.
Aaaaaargh! Wh-what?!
A dagger pierced in between the joints of his armor.
How the hell? No, more than that, hes so fast that I cant even see
As soon as he tried to move his left arm, there wasnt any strength left in his left arm.
It was because sothing cold and sharp had pierced down his armpit.
Wh-what?
Next was both of his ankles.
Before he could co to his senses, the tendons of his legs were cut off, and he knelt down on the spot.
And lastly
He felt a cold touch on his neck.
H-help
Slash!
Ludger cut his throat with a Karambit dagger without listening.
Damn it! Gabe was defeated!
Get out of the way! Im gonna fight him!
That ti, it was soone with a slightly different type of reinforced armor who stood in the front.
He was wearing brass armor, which was not black but yellowish, and white steam spewed out from behind his shoulders.
It was a reinforced exoskeleton made with steam engines.
Both of his hands held onto a huge gun barrel, and the end of the gun barrel was connected to a large Tesla coil hanging from his back.
Die!
Zzzzzzzt!
A purple current engulfed the passage. The high-voltage current of the Tesla gun, which wouldnt be affected by the Silence of Fire, spread in all directions and splashed sparks of electricity.
Bwahahahaha! What could you do?
But he had no choice but to stop laughing.
The high-voltage current that he fired was not moving forward; it was as if it had been blocked right in front of Ludger.
Wh-what?
No, to be exact, the electric current was seeping into a tal that had popped up in front of him and was perating it.
Is that a tal magic based on alchemy?
No way, he was a guy who specialized in tal among the elental properties?
He was dood. A Tesla gun that shot high-voltage current did not work against wizards who used tal elental magic as their attribute.
He realized it, but it was too late.
Ludger pulled out his revolver again and fired his mana.
It hit exactly at the Teslas gun port and made it explode.
Zzzzzt!
The electricity spread all over the place, and all the people nearby burned into ashes.
The only one who managed to survive leaned his back against the wall and stared at Ludger, who was slowly approaching him.
Half of his body was already charred, and he was barely breathing.
Gasp. Gasp. Cr-crazy bastard. Why the hell are you doing this to us?
He felt it was unfair for so reason, but Ludger didnt even reply and just walked past him.
He didnt kill him.
He couldnt survive in that state anyway, so Ludger was going to leave him in pain a little bit longer.
How many people have I dealt with so far?
About 20 people.
There were still about half of the troops that were left inside the laboratory.
And seeing that they werent approaching him, it was clear that they were preparing to encounter him from the inside of the laboratory.
Most of all, he could feel that gaze
The gazes that aid at him from the gaps of the pipes that covered the wall.
Eyes that were glaring at Ludger.
Is it black magic that utilizes insects?
Hans had said that there were two black wizards inside.
He had heard that so of the black wizards could also explore areas that were difficult for others to discover by utilizing insects vision.
Maybe it was him who was watching Ludger.
Pheew.
Ludger exhaled lightly while swinging his right foot and walked lightly on the ground.
Clang.
The noise of the floor as his boots stomped on it.
It beca an echo and spread wide and deep to the inside of the laboratory.
***
The inside of the laboratory
The scientists there were bound to be very anxious.
Are you sure this is all right? We need to destroy the data right now and pack the experints drugs
Oh, its all right.
It was the blonde man with a tattoo on his neck that stopped the feeble scientist.
The blonde mans outfit was also quite light, and he didnt look like he possessed any weapons, so it seed as if he had co out just for a trip.
But everyone knew that the man was the most influential black wizard in the laboratory.
The sa went for the giant bald man who was sitting quietly next to him.
The bald mans na was Veron.
The blonde mans na was Bruno.
Although they werent related by blood, the two were black magicians who had their own reputations in the underworldthey were called the insect brothers.
Because theres only one opponent.
The younger brother, Bruno, stated the information that he had confird through an insect.
Yeah.
Surprisingly, there was only one intruder.
He couldnt believe that it was only one guy who had wiped out two people with reinforced armor and one troop that was ard with guns all by himself.
Who who on earth?
We dont know that either. Maybe the Empires security departnt has discovered us.
Sec-security departnt!
Security departnt.
An organization that consisted of only of the most elite troops within the Empire.
Among them, there was one Knight Order affiliated with the security departnt.
The Nightcrawler Knight Order
Of course, they were a little different from the ordinary Knights.
The scary thing about them was not only that each of them had brutal individual power but also that they would use any ans necessary to achieve their goal.
They were Knights, but they didnt act as square as the other Knights.
Rather, they killed their enemies by thoroughly prying into their opponents weaknesses, then piercing into those weaknesses and killing them.
They were Knights who could kill even a three-year-old child without rcy if the child was judged to be harmful to the Empire.
It was no wonder that they were called the devils of the underworld.
But the way he fights is a little strange.
He wanted to identify his appearance a little bit more through insects, but he didnt know what trick that intruder was doing because all the signals were cut off from the insects that he sent.
Did he notice that they were watching him?
He was not an ordinary person either, considering the fact that he was coming alone.
Brother, we need to get ready.
Yeah.
The older brother, Veron, stood up. The laboratorys guards were also very nervous and held up their shields and weapons.
The passage from the entrance that was heading to the center of the laboratory
It was when they were all prepared while staring intensely at the passage to encounter the intruder
A strange wavelength swept through the interior of the laboratory, and soon all the lights went out, and darkness engulfed that place.
Wh-what?! Hurry and turn on the lights!
Turn the backup power on!
Looking at his n, who were moving in a hurry, the younger brother Bruno looked at his older brother.
Brother. I think hes playing tricks on us, though?
Brother?
There was no answer from Veron.
Bruno looked back at Veron. Even in the dark, his large size could be clearly distinguished among the silhouettes.
The silhouette of Veron
His head was cut off, and his corpse rolled on the floor.
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