Chapter 229
Stellar Force (Lv 20) scoffs at the very idea, laughing at the attempt to control the body of a Stellar Force user.
It was a ridiculous notion, but I decided to put my acting skills to the test.
I stared at the man with a dazed look.
“Speak.”
I was montarily flustered by the man's abrupt words, but.
Know-It-All (Master) deduces the direction of the question. Narrows down the options to 7. Selects the most likely ones. Leaves the rest to the realm of intuition.
Wild Instinct (Master) has a hunch. He is asking for the purpose of coming to the lawless zone.
Thinking this was the only way, I rambled on.
“We were tenant farrs living in the southern kingdom of Chetra, but we were oppressed and escaped because we couldn't pay the taxes, and then we heard about the lawless zone at the black market at the foot of Mount Kuil….”
When I recited the script Luri had given , he nodded.
“Good, now go and work.”
“Understood.”
After coming out, I swallowed hard.
The simple task of coming to the workshop, taking a shovel, and scooping and transferring the black powder was easy on the mind.
But my heart was in turmoil.
Angel dic was not just a simple disguise drug.
It was one thing for it to contain chaos.
But the shocking thing was the result.
‘Angel dic was a ans for Chaos to control people's minds.’
A thought suddenly flashed through my mind.
I understood why the surveillance had suddenly been drastically reduced as soon as I took Angel dic in the bathroom.
‘This is actually a good thing.’
I didn't know about the others, but the surveillance on had completely disappeared.
‘Now I can move a bit.’
This operation was a blitzkrieg.
To borrow Luri's words, it was an operation that had to be finished in two days, at most three.
Today was the second day, so in reality, today was the last day to finish it safely.
‘Let's see this through.’
After the work was over, people received their daily wages and Angel dic.
This process was handled by the ‘distributor,’ and this person's position was quite high.
From what I had seen over the past two days, he seed to be the top person in charge of the production facility.
“Line up properly!”
Watching the addicts flock to buy drugs with their daily wages, the distributor turned and headed sowhere.
‘Let's go.’
I draped a nearby piece of burlap over myself like a mask and followed him.
The distributor went up a staircase guarded by a single guard.
‘The second floor, as expected.’
The Angel dic factory had two floors.
Since the first floor was the production facility, the second floor was expected to be the administrative area.
It seed I had to infiltrate after all.
“Good work.”
“Thank you, sir distributor!”
The guard's voice was booming.
‘It would be convenient to wear the Peacemaker robe, but.’
I couldn't use it rashly since I didn't know where the Apostle of Chaos might be.
I silently went to the drug dealer, spent all my daily wages to buy Angel dic, and then looked around.
I saw junkies who were angry because they still weren't satisfied even after buying drugs with their wages.
With hands faster than the eye, I sprinkled Angel dic everywhere.
“Hey! That's mine!”
“What nonsense are you talking about, I saw it!”
“You son of a…!”
A commotion soon broke out.
As the junkies started a fistfight and then began swinging tools, the factory equipnt started to break.
Taking advantage of the guards rushing in, I went up the stairs.
‘There it is.’
A door on the second floor opened and the distributor ca out, then bowed his head towards the inside.
At the very least, there must be the distributor's superior.
‘I want to see inside there.’
But there were guards in the hallway, so a frontal approach was not an option.
‘A way….’
Know-It-All instantly began to draw a blueprint of the factory.
Using the structure of the factory I had seen so far as a prir, I slowly drew it, and I found a good option called a ventilation duct.
I imdiately opened the ventilation duct cover and squeezed my body in.
‘I can see.’
A middle-aged man was sitting at a rather large office desk, busy with paperwork, and several more people ca and went while I waited.
People called the middle-aged man ‘President.’
‘That guy seems to be in charge of this factory, but he's not the person I'm looking for.’
The King of the Underworld, Vistavern, Frohadin.
He didn't belong to any of the three.
“Ahem.”
The president stood up and moved.
He touched the office wall a few tis, and soon a secret passage opened.
As soon as he entered, the door was about to close, so I quickly kicked open the ventilation duct door and followed him in.
‘Phew.’
It was dark, but Wild Instinct pierced through the darkness.
I went down the stairs.
‘Isn’t this the basent?’
It was too low to have gone down to the first floor.
This was the basent!
‘The basent of a factory operating in the underground of the lawless zone.’
When I went down, my brow furrowed automatically.
The most common sight was bars.
People were cramd together in narrow iron-barred cages.
There were over a hundred of them.
‘…Slaves?’
I had to sneak behind the president, hiding between the iron bars.
There was even a young child, but most of them were either high on drugs or asleep.
Thanks to that, although I was startled when I t the vacant eyes of the people who had been captured as slaves, the slaves didn't scream or anything.
“Oh my, President! It's good to see you!”
“Good to see you too.”
Here, the president t a group of slave traders.
I watched as he received dozens of people and paid for them.
‘So many slaves.’
What was this for?
Why were so many slaves needed?
They weren't being put to work, and if they were just being kept locked up here…, it was as if…, as if they were resources.
After finishing his business with the slave traders, the president soon entered a room, and looking through the crack in the door, it was a huge party room.
‘Is the only way to get in there through the ventilation duct again?’
No building could be without a ventilation duct.
Especially not a basent where people were kept.
‘Sigh.’
I found the ventilation duct easily.
The ventilation duct in the basent was completely unmanaged, full of dust and insects.
A mouse looked at and squeaked.
‘How dare you.’
I glared at it.
‘Get lost.’
[Squeak!]
The startled mouse scurried away.
The insects also died on the spot or escaped from the ventilation duct.
‘Tsk.’
When I crawled through the ventilation duct and entered the party room, the president was giving various instructions.
“What are you doing! Hurry up! I said move quickly! No, put that over there!”
Chefs brought out so much food that the table legs were about to break, and beautiful people, regardless of gender, ca in and assud a submissive posture.
After the preparations were finished, the people waited in that posture for a long ti.
Soon, a man opened the door and ca in.
“Ah! Welco! Educator!”
‘Found him.’
Vistavern.
The man who opened the door and ca in was him.
‘Hoo.’
I suppressed the urge to sneer.
It was pathetic for to have crawled through a filthy ventilation duct, but.
“Ed-Educator, your legs…?”
“Don't mind them.”
Vistavern, moving in a wheelchair, was much more pathetic.
‘How satisfying.’
The legs that had been pierced by the bullets of Stellar Force on the train must not have healed.
Considering he had walked, run, and even climbed stairs in that condition, it wouldn't have been strange if he had beco paralyzed from the waist down.
“I saw the slaves outside, President.”
“Oh, no, sir. It was all gathered thanks to your grace, Educator. I only made use of what you gave .”
“Excellent materials.”
“I am just grateful that you see them that way.”
Listening to their conversation, a thought occurred to .
‘Go down and kill him now?’
Not yet.
Let's watch a little more.
It hadn't been revealed why Vistavern had gathered the people and what he intended to do with them.
“The food is delicious.”
“Yes. We have also brought in so warm-hearted children for your viewing pleasure.”
“Alright. Bring them in.”
Vistavern and the handso n and beautiful won at the head of the party room table.
And what did they do, they didn't just have a normal al and exchange pleasantries.
It was mostly Vistavern who spoke, and the rest listened and agreed.
“So it's a noble hobby. It has to be noble.”
“Oh, yes. That's right!”
“A noble is not a noble just because soone says so. A noble is one who is born of a noble bloodline and wields a fitting ability. They are the ones who reign over and rule the people. The commoners and the lower class should naturally sacrifice and devote themselves to that lofty rule.”
“Yes! Of course!”
After listening to the boring story for a while, Vistavern began to move his wheelchair.
“Shall we go see the raw stones.”
“Yes, understood.”
At the president's gesture, the handso n and beautiful won flocked over and began to push Vistavern's wheelchair.
“Hoho, everyone is so polite.”
At the president's gesture, a secret space in the party room wall opened.
It was a secret passage leading to the second basent floor of the factory.
The bittersweet scent that wafted from the place we arrived at next was enough to make my head spin.
‘What is that.’
People were contained in transparent square containers.
There were six such containers.
Each container held ten people, and none of them were normal.
Their eyes were vacant, and they were excreting all sorts of bodily fluids.
They were more than just junkies.
At that point, you had to assu their sanity was broken.
“Alright, let's begin.”
Vistavern gestured.
Black smoke rose from the bodies of the people in the containers, and then.
‘…Crazy.’
They soon turned into black gems.
‘…You’re crazy.’
“Oh! It's amazing! So much raw material!”
“Wow!”
People turning into black stones… a disaster.
This was a disaster.
“Hmm, the quality is good.”
When Vistavern reached out his hand, a thumb-sized black gem floated up and was caught in his hand.
“This is worthy of being presented. Set it aside.”
“Only the best should be presented to him. The rest ca out pretty well, should we make them all into Angel dic?”
“Let's do that. They'll co out in pretty good quality.”
The raw material, the main ingredient of Angel dic.
The black ore powder I had been carrying with a shovel all day.
That was a human whose mind had been broken by Angel dic.
‘Should I kill him? Now?’
Anger welled up.
“Ah, you've worked hard too, so take a few. Ho ho. Then let's be on our way. Is the carriage to the border ready?”
“Yes, of course.”
“You are always so well-prepared. Prepare more people next ti.”
“Understood.”
Now?
Go out?
Kill him?
‘Should I kill him? I have to kill him, right? Kill him?’
The reason I hesitated to the very end was because I wasn't the only one who had infiltrated the lawless zone.
Adela, Luri, Anette, Lilac.
Four of them were here.
If I made a wrong move and sothing bad happened….
“Excuse , President….”
Just then, a person approached.
He had a look of soone who didn't know what to do, like a puppy that needed to poop.
The president frowned deeply and quietly expressed his anger.
“What is it, the Educator is here…! Later, tell later.”
“Hmm hmm, no. Let's hear it now. There is no deposed duke or king here.”
The deposed duke was Frohadin, and the king… must have been referring to the King of the Underworld.
“Is the king busy?”
“Yes. He is in charge of all the businesses on the street and commands the presidents….”
“Hmm, as expected. He did serve as a chancellor.”
Vistavern said, taking a sip of wine.
“So what is it?”
“Well…, there's been a disturbance on the surface of the lawless zone. The Crow Empress, who has recently taken over the capital's slums, has appeared and attacked a drug transport vehicle! We even dispatched the guards protecting the underground, but….”
Ah, good.
“Hmm, good. President, if it's that woman, she'll be perfect to draw to our side.”
“Oh, oh, are you going to step in yourself, Educator?!”
“Yes, since I'm here anyway….”
I can kill him.
“No, because I'm here.”
I kicked the ventilation duct open, bam!, jumped out, and walked towards Vistavern.
“You bastard! Who, ugh!”
I casually slapped the president who had fearlessly blocked my path, and he flew into the wall and died on the spot.
The people he had gathered began to flee in terror.
“Y-you bastards! You….”
“You're not going anywhere.”
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