After the spring break began, the amount of disposable free ti increased significantly.
Using a random excuse, Eiji left the apartnt building and arrived at Adelard Abbey behind Saikai Academy.
At this ti, almost no students or teachers could be seen around Saikai Academy, allowing Eiji to co and go freely without worrying about being spotted and exposing the abbey.
"It's you?"
In the front yard, the down-on-her-luck brunette young lady poured cat food and freeze-dried treats from a packaging bag. After more than half a month of practice, her cat-feeding skills had improved considerably.
Fluffy creatures were clearly popular among won, and both she and Number Two and Number Nine couldn't help but indulge in petting the cats.
It wasn't until Eiji arrived that she exclaid in surprise.
She recognized this outfit - the person who claid to be Kojou Akatsuki's classmate was quite powerful and had a grudge against the Lion King Organization!
After the two of them entered the MAR Research Institute together back then, they had separated and never seen each other again. She never expected to encounter him here!
"Is there sothing I can help you with?"
Veldiana stood up, brushed off her maid uniform's skirt, and smiled with neither humility nor arrogance.
Hmph.
Now I have backup!
With the armored person and the abbey director supporting her, Veldiana felt she was getting carried away!
This guy was no longer enough to make her afraid!
The down-on-her-luck young lady who hadn't yet grasped the situation thought excitedly.
Eiji looked at her with confusion.
The sky has cleared, the rain has stopped, and you think you're capable again?
"I'm here to visit the director."
"Ahem, I can relay your ssage, but our director is very busy and might not have ti to see you!"
Veldiana cleared her throat, putting on airs.
Last ti she suffered a hidden loss from Eiji, but today with backup, she was determined to get even!
Veldiana, lost in her pride, clearly didn't notice the pity-filled gaze Number Nine was directing at her from beside her.
"Oh? Is Nina that busy?"
Eiji asked with feigned curiosity.
"That's right! But I can easily see the director. If you beg properly, I'll help you announce your visit, how about that?"
Veldiana said triumphantly.
No matter how powerful this Kojou Akatsuki's classmate was, he couldn't be stronger than the great alchemist Nina Adelard and that armored person who instantly defeated the Fourth True Ancestor's familiars, right?
"Sigh."
Number Nine sighed helplessly.
Veldiana gave her a strange look, feeling like her gaze was looking at an idiot. Was it just her imagination?
"Thump!"
Suddenly, a bright silver hamr materialized out of thin air behind her head and struck the back of her skull!
Veldiana went flying with a "Duang" sound, twitched a couple of tis after hitting the ground, and then stopped moving.
She didn't even have ti to shout "It hurts!"
Number Nine silently walked forward and silently gasped.
The strike was truly rciless - half of the back of her head was crushed.
Even for a vampire, such injuries would take several hours to recover from.
What if she wakes up and becos an idiot?
Number Nine felt inexplicably worried.
"Master!"
The gleaming silver hamr dissolved like liquid, then coalesced into a buxom golden-haired beauty who knelt respectfully before Eiji, unable to resist glaring at the unconscious Veldiana.
Utterly useless!
Anyone unfortunate enough to have such a subordinate would surely die of frustration!
"Let's continue inside."
Eiji nodded and walked toward the backyard.
Unlike Veldiana's shabby and impoverished guest room, Nina had decorated her own quarters beautifully. The simple cot had been replaced with a Simmons mattress, and feminine stickers adorned every surface—though so depicted wild beasts rather than cute creatures, giving off a slightly odd vibe. Overall, the room felt fresh and adorable.
"How are the other vessels progressing?"
Eiji settled onto the soft bed and beckoned to Nina.
"Yes, Master!"
Nina obediently approached and sat on his lap.
"All parties remain stable with basically no abnormal occurrences. No news has co from Nilepussy, the Extinction Dynasty, or the Chaos Realm... ah!"
She glanced at him with shy embarrassnt, enjoying his wandering hands.
"But your clones can't stray too far from your main body, right?"
Eiji asked curiously.
Though a liquid tal lifeform, Nina's mimicry was so perfect she was nearly indistinguishable from a real human—with curvaceous proportions and dewy, supple skin that felt even better than normal human flesh.
"Correct! That's why I established several clone bases as control hubs to forcibly unify the mories of all distant clones!"
Nina flushed with pride, puffing out her chest.
Making certain features suddenly prominent.
Her clones were created from her own mories. If they strayed too far, they'd easily lose control—or in simpler terms, the "signal" would degrade, requiring constant mory synchronization with her main body.
This was manageable on Itogami Island where she could easily control all clones, but expanding the range to the mainland or other continents made information transmission extrely challenging.
After much contemplation, inspired by network signal towers, she devised the control hub thod: maintaining mory flow between clones and hubs while she only needed to control the hubs directly.
This allowed her to monitor the entire globe.
However, this approach drastically diluted clone density, preventing comprehensive coverage. She could only purposefully deploy clones to specific targets for pinpoint surveillance.
Yet this still constituted terrifying surveillance capabilities!
In terms of intelligence gathering, perhaps no one surpassed Nina!
She had deployed clones to the Ninth Prince's territory in the Extinction Dynasty, the Nilepussy Autonomous Region, and the Chaos Realm, effectively monitoring all vessels' statuses.
The Ninth Prince of the Extinction Dynasty, Iblis Bel-Agiz, possessed the Seventh and Eleventh Vessels granted by the Eyes of Extinction. He was currently embroiled in wars with neighboring lords in his territory—the Extinction Dynasty was a night empire plagued by severe internal conflicts, with even True Ancestor heirs constantly at war.
In the Nilepussy Autonomous Region, a mysterious masked youth secretly hoarded the First and Eighth Vessels while scheming so unknown plot.
On the side of the Chaos Realm, the Sixth and the Tenth were hidden. Due to the absence of the Third True Ancestor, Giada, these two vessels were in a dormant state, and no one dared to touch them.
Nina sat facing Eiji on his lap, her clothes half-removed at so point. While murmuring incoherently, she also reported the intelligence gathered by her various clones to Eiji.
The other vessels, including the Second and the Ninth in the monastery, as well as the Twelfth by Kojou Akatsuki's side, were all under control.
"All that remains are the Third, the Fourth, and the Fifth..."
Eiji's expression darkened slightly.
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