Chapter 230
“Huk…!”
Startled, Vistavern hastily tried to maneuver his wheelchair, but the wheels slipped and he fell over.
“Whoa?!”
“You're not going anywhere.”
I took out my shotgun and was about to aim at Vistavern's forehead, but as expected, the protection of Chaos appeared and blocked the way.
I knew the durability of this black smoke was considerable, but.
“Vistavern. Have you thought of your last words?”
Bang!
I fired with a loud noise.
As the bullet imbued with Stellar Force was blocked by the protection and ricocheted off, the protection also noticeably weakened.
Soon, after reloading and aiming the muzzle again, Vistavern began to shout urgently.
“S-save , Martin, w-we were once master and disciple, weren't we? Do you rember…?!”
“No.”
The shotgun fired again, and the protection of Chaos wavered greatly.
The once-solid defensive barrier of black smoke beca noticeably faint.
Vistavern, covered in a cold sweat, opened his mouth with a pale complexion.
“P-please! Stop! Martin! I-I have sothing to say! It will be helpful!”
“…Speak.”
Vistavern swallowed hard.
“Frohadin is currently preparing a terrorist attack on the imperial capital. I'll help you, so….”
Wild Instinct (Master) senses that it is definitely a lie.
Bang!
The shotgun fired again.
Having withstood the flashing Stellar Force in succession, the protection of Chaos beca unstable.
“Don't lie.”
I opened the chamber and loaded a piercing round.
A piercing round was more than enough to deal with soone like Vistavern.
“Save , please! I, I will be of help! Save ! I will help you with my mind control ability! The fact that it doesn't work on you is a rare exception! I will put everyone on the continent under you! All n and won will serve you! They will fight if you say fight! They will strip if you say strip! I will satisfy your every desire! Let's enjoy it together! Our noble hobby! Desire! Humans! Such things are in the palm of my hand…!”
“Vistavern.”
I called his na softly.
“Look at yourself.”
His eyes were bloodshot.
He was crying and sniffling, crushed by desperation.
Spit flew from the corner of his mouth as he hastily babbled on.
“You are not noble at all right now.”
I smirked and pulled the trigger.
***
The night Martin took Angel dic and fell asleep.
The four of them had drawn the curtains, turned off the lights, and were communicating by writing on paper.
It was a thod of sharing information by passing the paper around.
[I have grasped the general structure of the surface and underground of the lawless zone. It's not just a drug factory. I saw an arena, a large-scale brothel, a slave market, an organ trafficking den, and a place where human flesh was sold.]
Adela had scouted the entire lawless zone using the Desert Hierophant.
With birds, insects, field mice, and cats made of golden sand.
[It's surprising how large and complex it is beyond imagination, and I discovered a waterway and a port leading to the border deep underground.]
This was not a simple lawless zone.
There was a city of pleasure underground, and there were even illegal smuggling routes to the border.
Naturally, Adela was not the only one who had made achievents.
If Adela was the exterior, Luri was the interior.
[It's Luri. I have figured out the flow of money in the lawless zone. There was sothing strange. There were almost no financial records in the drug factory that produces Angel dic. It would be natural to ‘buy’ the raw materials for the drug and ‘sell’ the drug. We should have been suspicious, wondering if there wasn't enough money even if it was pouring in like a waterfall, but the amount of goods being circulated was very small. It was like a non-profit public enterprise supported by the state. The other rchants were also hush-hush about the Angel dic factory. There is definitely a backer. There is soone who is shaking the entire black market of the lawless zone.]
Seeing the flow of money was a virtue of Elidore.
Although she had noticed the suspiciousness of the Angel dic factory, there was a limit to how much an outsider could find out about the internal affairs.
She couldn't dig up the mastermind behind it.
Adela used her authority, and Luri used her skills.
Anette went in, pretending to be familiar with the place.
[I blended in with the poor of the lawless zone.]
It should be seen as her taking advantage of her strength as the leader of the slum's self-governing body, ‘Extra.’
However.
[It was strange. None of them were normal. They weren't poor or beggars, but they were organized as if they belonged to a group called ‘the poor and the beggars.’ I was sure there was a mastermind, so I tried to detect them, and it seems they are related to the underground ‘King,’ ‘Educator,’ and ‘Deposed Duke.’ They are said to have several ‘presidents’ under them.]
Just as each of them had investigated using their individual strengths, Lilac was the sa.
As a shooter who had honed the skills of the Hunter constellation, she discovered a peculiarity through high-level observation.
[This is Maid Lilac. The people are strange. Most of the people on the street are monitoring one group of people. So I also observed them carefully, and the only commonality is that they are ‘non-users of Angel dic.’ Then I was able to confirm that the surveillance was cut off when they gave in to persuasion and took it.]
It was a chilling truth, enough to make one feel as if they were standing on a spiderweb.
[Drug users would sotis change their behavior completely, as if they were a different person, even in the middle of an action. Like soone who has been hypnotized.]
The lawless zone was just an illusion on the surface.
The reality was the underground city of pleasure.
And its center was the ‘Angel dic factory.’
And the existence of the ‘Chairman.’
[This Chairman guy must be important. Is there no way to contact him?]
[I apologize. I could not find the Chairman's whereabouts.]
At Anette's question, Lilac bowed her head as if she was ashad.
Even so, her elegant writing style remained.
[Then my thought is this. We must infiltrate the Angel dic factory, but from what I've seen, the security is unusually tight. In the first place, female laborers rarely enter.]
If not won, then it must be n.
The four of them turned their heads to look at Martin, who was sleeping soundly.
[And coincidentally, it seems Martin has gotten a job as a laborer at the Angel dic factory today.]
The other three were impressed by Adela's words.
‘As expected of Master! He’s amazing!’
‘I want to learn Martin’s intuitive way of handling things.’
‘Amazing. To infiltrate the enemy's territory in just one day.’
In any case, they had identified the enemy's territory in just one day, and an ally had infiltrated the key facility.
[We'll have to provide support. Let's support Martin so he can move freely.]
The person closest to the current mission was Martin.
Although he had taken Angel dic, the people gathered here naturally assud that Martin would not succumb to sothing like drugs.
When Adela spread her hand, the golden sand beca a small button and was attached to the inside of her sleeve.
[I have attached an eye to Martin. I will take charge of reporting his situation.]
The next morning.
Leaving the soundly sleeping Martin behind, the four of them went outside to prepare for the big event.
Lilac and Anette waited in the pre-discussed operation area, while Luri and Adela monitored Martin's situation near the Angel dic factory.
“Your Highness, how is Martin?”
“He's still impertinently handso.”
“…No, not that….”
“Don't worry. He's doing fine on his own.”
“…More importantly, Your Highness, can't you share the screen?”
“Even if I could, I wouldn't show you.”
“Tsk!”
And then.
“Martin has found Vistavern. And it seems the factory's secrets have all been revealed. Vistavern seems to be leaving for the border soon. I can see from his expression that Martin is anxious and doesn't know what to do. He's like a hunting dog waiting for its master's command. Hmm, that fierce expression full of killing intent. I like it no matter when I see it.”
They had reached a turning point.
“What will you do, you Elidore wench.”
“Let's begin. Please send a signal to Miss Lilac and Her Majesty Anette.”
“I will.”
When Adela gave the signal, the golden buttons attached to Lilac and Anette vibrated.
“Signal confird.”
“The signal has co.”
Lilac and Anette, who had been waiting in an abandoned shack in the lawless zone, walked out.
Lilac imdiately found a tall building and climbed it.
She imdiately loaded a piercing round and fired.
A thunderous roar echoed.
“Aargh!”
“Huk! The President! The brothel president has been shot!”
“It's an assassination!”
Lilac did not rest and turned her muzzle to the next target.
Her purple eyes, imbued with pure white Stellar Force, sparkled beautifully, and the anti-materiel sniper rifle roared like thunder.
The large-caliber bullet that was fired showed off a beautiful lody as it gently opened the arena president's skull and invaded.
Lilac, satisfied with the commotion erupting from all sides, muttered.
“Do your best, Master.”
anwhile, Anette.
“Now… I've been waiting for this mont.”
She made a grand entrance, her cloak full of crow feathers trailing behind her.
Crimson lightning crackled around her.
The place the Crow Empress' footsteps were headed was the Angel dic transport warehouse.
It was a little far from the factory, but it was the most important facility with the second-most guards after the factory.
“Intruder!”
“Kill her!”
The guards, forr criminals who had so experience with a blade, rushed at her.
Crackle!
They were all sent flying with a single sword strike that was a whirlwind of red lightning.
Was their body cut?
No.
Even the swords and axes they held were cut.
The cross-section was even glowing red.
“You despicable, hideous junkies. The judgnt of the Crow Empress begins now.”
Anette rushed into the drug warehouse, her cloak fluttering.
Soon, a chain of lightning strikes occurred.
Red lightning swept through the warehouse.
The drugs burned up and turned to ash.
The guards fell like dead leaves.
No one could stop Anette.
“Hmm, this is really. Is this a grace bestowed by Chaos? I know it's his arrangent, but is it really this perfect.”
“Hmm?!”
Anette swung her sword at the sudden appearance of a suspicious aura.
The crimson lightning advanced, then disintegrated in mid-air.
“What!”
It wasn't crushed, but Anette had withdrawn it.
“What in the world are you doing?!”
The civilians who were running around were pulled like kites on a string and blocked the path of the sword strike.
But they seed to be happily accepting that role as if it were natural.
“Oh, King.”
“We will be used for you.”
It was a sight like watching religious fanaticism.
Anette quickly traced the ‘puppet strings’ connected to the people's bodies and found the master.
“It's been a while, Anette.”
“…Lies, you are….”
***
Bang!
It wasn't the sound of Vistavern's head flying off.
‘What was that.’
Should I review what just happened?
I was just about to peel off the damn protection of Chaos surrounding that bastard Vistavern and smash his head in.
…If it weren't for these guys who suddenly barged in.
Could I have handled them?
Yes.
The six in front of certainly looked strong, but they were by no ans unbeatable.
But… my emotional turmoil stopped it.
“…What am I seeing right now.”
Even if I gave them a hundred passes, the six who had ‘rescued’ Vistavern were wearing robes.
Very black, murky robes.
But perhaps, no.
It must have been.
“What are you.”
It must have been a flawless pure white.
“Hahahaha! Chaos has saved !”
One of them helped Vistavern up in his wheelchair and hurriedly fled.
I imdiately raised my shotgun to intercept them, but five of them in robes rushed at .
That robe was a familiar sight to my eyes.
It was different from mine, but it resembled the Star Child's.
No, even more so.
The one belonging to the Cosmos Papacy's special forces, the ‘Holy Assassins.’
And above all, although their main weapons varied, such as swords and spears… they all commonly carried a pistol.
“…?!”
Gunshots rang out, and bullets were fired with the intent to turn into a beehive.
Bullets of chaos.
If I hadn't fought against the Martin of the apocalypse, I might have been greatly flustered.
…No, even so, it was flustering.
Because the people in front of were the ‘warriors of the Cosmos Empire’ who had been devoured by a Ti Chaos Dungeon more than 100 years ago.
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