Volu 6 Chapter 320: The Commotion In The Chapman City Master Mansion’s Hot Springs
Near the Manasvir Empire’s capital, Macnadix City, in the Guardian City, Chapman City, the City Master’s Mansion. Bella left the banquet early but got lost on the way to the hot springs.
She didn’t know what that bastard Duke Gould was thinking. Although the banquet hall was brightly lit, the outside hallways were utterly dark. Due to the lack of light, Bella didn’t notice the map on the back of her hot springs admission ticket.
While wondering where to go, Bella detected a girl’s presence behind her. She didn’t turn around because she discovered that this girl wasn’t a human. For a Demon King like Bella, she could easily detect the girl’s sinister aura. However, Bella didn’t want to expose herself, so she didn’t say anything.
Although Bella could discern whether or not soone was human, she couldn’t tell if the other side was Demon King or sothing of an even higher rank. Accidents happened all the ti, just like now, where Bella had been mistaken as prey.
“Big sis, are you looking for the hot springs?”
“Big sis, are you looking for the hot springs?”
“Big sis, are you…”
They continued to whisper softly behind Bella. That sound possessed a mysterious srizing power against humans. However, Bella wasn’t a human. Hence, this evil magic did absolutely nothing to her.
“You’re too annoying! Scram!”
Bella suddenly spun around and threw a fist at the demon’s face. It crashed into a white, human-form demon. The demon normally relied on its terrifying visage to scare people, but sohow, it ended up encountering this strange human that didn’t follow the script. It wasn’t expecting Bella to turn around and instantly attack.
Bella’s forceful punch destroyed the demon’s head; it couldn’t scare anyone anymore without a face. However, the demon’s body was akin to a sli. After suffering Bella’s brutal strike, it dissolved into liquid and attempted to flee.
Unfortunately, Bella liked being thorough. She swiftly drew the Great Evil Slaying Sword and pinned the demon to the floor. In a flash of golden light, the demon dissolved into a stinking puddle of water.
“I’m so unlucky. Not only did I not find the hot springs, but I also got so dirty. Now I definitely have to find the hot springs.”
When the demon died, it exploded into a fountain of stinky water. Bella hadn’t expected it and was soaked as a result. She couldn’t return to the banquet like this. Luckily, she had caught a glimpse of the map on her admission ticket when the Great Evil Slaying Sword flared with golden light.
Bella didn’t know how the demon had managed to infiltrate the mansion. However, she soon discovered several imperial soldiers’ corpses not too far away. They were clad in silver armor. The scent of blood that she had detected earlier ca from these soldiers.
They looked as if they had died horrifying deaths. Their faces were contorted with terror, eyes wide, and blood leaking from all of their orifices. They had been literally scared to death. If she had turned around earlier, she likely would have gotten a fright too. However, she definitely would not have suffered the sa end. A demon king being scared to death by a demon, that would be too embarrassing.
The demon was pretty unlucky as well. It hadn’t managed to find any good prey before being splattered by Bella. Bella stowed her sword before swiftly leaving the cri scene. The demon had already beco a puddle of water. If another patrol of soldiers discovered her with the corpses, she would have a hard ti explaining things.
Not long after Bella’s escape, a patrol squad clad in eye-catching golden armor arrived. Once they discovered the bodies, the guards carefully investigated the surroundings. After failing to find anything related to the attack, they swiftly carried away the corpses. Judging by their practiced motions, this wasn’t the first ti sothing like this had happened.
Bella decided that once she saw another girl going to the hot springs, she would join her and follow her along. Although lvira had already been gone for half an hour, she was probably still in line for the hot springs. Bella still had a chance.
However, Bella didn’t find a girl. Instead, she saw the wretched figure of Gould’s majordomo, Henry, walking along the hallway. He moved like a thief, sneaking along the hall while constantly throwing glances over his shoulder. Why would he act like this in the mansion that he was in charge of? There was definitely an unspeakable secret behind this.
Bella changed her plans and began following the young majordomo. She wanted to see what he was up to. Usually, a large noble house would employ an old, experienced majordomo to take care of the things. Hiring soone so young definitely pointed to so sort of sche.
Henry was extrely alert to being followed, almost discovering Bella several tis. After a while, Bella finally followed Henry to his destination. It was actually the small building next to the hot springs. This guy, he better not be planning to peep. If he was, Bella would give him a “righteous destruction”.
The layout of Gould Mansion’s hot springs facility was similar to that of Island Nation Doemann’s: It was an open-air facility. The springs were surrounded by a wooden fence, which isolated two sections of hot springs. Although it had been advertised as girls-only, Bella saw that half of the hot springs were for won, while the other was reserved for Duke Gould’s family.
The only thing that separated the two halves was a wooden fence. This wasn’t easily visible due to the thick mists lingering around the springs. Bella strongly suspected that there was a secret peephole left in the fence for “gentlen” of the Gould family to use.
Bella had already slipped into her invisibility suit. As long as she didn’t attack first, Henry would never be able to detect her with his asly strength. This structure was on a small hill, which was the source of the hot springs. The hill was about the sa size as so of the taller buildings in the Ducal Mansion. At over six ters tall, it was almost the sa height as Chapman City’s walls.
The hot springs spilled forth from the top of the hill. The spring waters flowed down a man-made waterfall and through so channels into the pools below.
Bella followed Henry into the building, but what she saw left her stunned. An enormous amount of aromatics were placed within, which were used to add various scents to the springs below. Besides the aromatics, large amounts of dicines were also present. Judging by the sll, these dicines weren’t anything good; they were similar to aphrodisiacs.
“Hehe, I’m going to pour these dicines in…”
Henry picked up a few bottles and was about to pour them into the hot springs. Just as Bella was going to stop him, sothing else beat her to the act. A watery tentacle extended from the pool of the source spring and stabbed through his back.
“Water elental… Why did it appear… here…”
With an expression of shock, Henry slowly collapsed to the ground. His killer, the water elental, gradually walked out of the source pool. Bella could tell without even looking that it was yet another demon infiltrator. A normal summoned elental would never attack with a tentacle like that.
After killing the majordomo, the water elental dissolved back into its watery form and slipped into the hot spring. Thanks to her invisibility suit, the elental hadn’t noticed Bella’s presence.
Bella quickly left the cri scene. She decided to check on lvira and the rest after discovering a demon. She had a hunch that there wasn’t only a single demonic infiltrator here. While thinking, Bella entered the female changing rooms.
Bella had left too quickly and didn’t see what happened afterward. That evil water elental reford and threw the dicines that Henry hadn’t had a chance to use earlier into the spring water. Since it didn’t know which spring Henry was planning to put the dicine in, it simply dumped all of the dicine, as well as the aromatics, into the source pool. Now, sothing fun would happen.
After arriving at the hot springs’ periter, Bella discovered that the mist here was even thicker, a “Full Capacity” sign hanging from the fence. She didn’t believe that at all, though. The banquet had just started, and there was still a long line of girls waiting to enter, who seemingly hadn’t seen the sign. There was definitely sothing amiss.
Bella sneaked around the main entrance before climbing up the fence in order to get a better view of the inside. Although she was invisible, she was afraid that the abnormally thick mist would have so sort of special detection function, so she decided to play it safe.
Bella’s worst fears were confird. The evil water elentals had already pulled off their attack on the hot springs. Bella saw the other girls that had already entered were sprawled out weakly on the ground, faces bright red.
Three young beauties were struggling to stay conscious: Supre Chaos Magic ntor lvira, as well as her two students, “Erald Sixth Chapter” Florentine and “Golden Eighth Chapter” Emiga. They were barely keeping up a defensive array.
Florentine’s long erald hair frad a pair of innocent light green eyes. Her main focus was Life Magic, and Bella’s first impression of her was that of a gentle and shy girl.
Emiga had long golden hair and amber-colored eyes. She stood awkwardly behind Florentine. Her specialty was alchemy, and without her potions, her abilities were severely limited.
lvira had an ugly expression on her face. No matter how powerful a human woman was, they would still be caught unprepared when ambushed in the bath. She never expected to be attacked in the middle of Chapman City Master’s Mansion, and in the hot springs to boot.
Although Emiga and Florentine were both mbers of the “Eight Chapters”, they were both auxiliary mages and didn’t possess much combat power. The two girls were limited to helping lvira maintain the defensive array. If they had been any other mbers of the Eight Chapters, perhaps they wouldn’t have been stuck on the back foot.
Since the three had been on their way into the hot springs, they didn’t even have a single tower to cover them. They were completely naked as they defended, their appearances drawing Bella’s pity. The three girls’ snow-white skin was covered in strange pink blotches. They were sweating and breathing heavily, as well. Bella suspected that they were at least partially affected by the dicines; otherwise, soone of lvira’s power should have been fine even if she was dragging around two support mages.
Bella couldn’t imdiately go to help them. She still didn’t know how the three girls had been drugged. If she couldn’t accurately assess the situation before she intervened and was also drugged, she would just be running straight to her doom. It was better for her to continue to observe and analyze, biding her ti for the perfect mont to act.
The evil water elentals surrounded lvira’s light magic defensive array, “Holy Light Barrier”. They continuously attacked the array, forcing lvira on the verge of collapse. The thick mist surrounding them was effectively soundproof. Any passerby outside wouldn’t hear anything from within.
“Professor lvira, hurry up and escape. Don’t worry about us. If you don’t warn people about the demons here, even more girls will suffer…”
“Emiga, prepare to use our full power…”
“Don’t be stupid, I will never abandon you two… What is this power!”
As the three were arguing, a teor shaped demon slamd into lvira’s “Holy Light Barrier”. The destructive impact instantly shattered their defense.
The three won coughed blood while staggering to the ground as their consciousness beca blurry. The effects of being drugged, which they had been barely able to suppress earlier, began to overwhelm their senses. lvira was still barely able to stay on her knees, but Florentine and Emiga both collapsed.
“It is impressive that you’re able to withstand one of my full-powered blows. It is too bad that you don’t have your equipnt, or things might not have ended like this!”
“Who are you? This place belongs to the humans…”
“You don’t need to know. Take them away…”
That teoric attack had co from a demon whose body was cloaked in shadows. Its type couldn’t be determined, and its anthropomorphic voice was genderless as well. However, its manner of speaking seed slightly chanical.
Under the shadow-clad demon’s instructions, several evil water elentals surrounded the girls to take them away. That was when Bella finally made her move. If she didn’t act now, and if those male saviors pulled a “knight in shining armor”, those girls would beco soone else’s “dowry”.
Bella summoned the mount that she was temporarily sharing with her little sister, Lisha. Golden Dragon Princess Laceman appeared in a flash. The golden dragon used its enormous bulk to charge directly at the black shadow, scattering every water elental standing between her and her target.
The mysterious shadow had spoken arrogantly earlier, and now, it t Laceman’s charge head-on. However, the golden dragon’s trendous montum sent the figure back almost six ters. The darkness surrounding the figure still remained, though; it was clearly very powerful.
“So it is a royal of the Golden Dragon Tribe. No wonder her strength was so… However, you cannot defeat , absolutely…”
“Stupid demon, who’s trying to fight. I’m just here for a walk. Goodbye now, retarded demon.”
Laceman let out a piercing laugh before her enormous golden figure swiftly beca transparent. Bella had used a temporary contract to summon her, so Laceman would return to Bella’s pet space after a single attack. This was a classic “hit and run” tactic. Laceman, after following Bella for so long, had learned so of her owner’s sneaky habits.
“Golden Dragon wench, don’t think that you’re out of my reach. Even your family’s old man isn’t my match…”
“My master is way scarier than you; you can’t scare ! Oh right, here’s a goodbye gift. You don’t have to thank !”
Before Laceman completely faded away, she raised her jaws to the sky and unleashed a golden plu of dragon breath. The noise was loud enough for everyone in Chapman City to hear. Laceman did this to catch the attention of Chapman City’s Royal Guards.
Although the Royal Guards wouldn’t be an issue for the cloaked shadow demon, the commotion would likely draw the male saviors from Olsylvia Academy, who could easily deal with this demon. The shadowy figure would be forced to flee.
“You bastard… Hurry up and take them… “
By the ti the shadowed figure realized what was happening, the girls in the hot springs had all disappeared. Bella took advantage of Laceman’s charge and “stole” away the girls. In terms of kidnapping, she had yet to et her equal.
The enormous commotion drew the attention of the patrolling royal guards in Duke Gould’s mansion. The guards converged on the hot springs, but by the ti they got there, the only thing they found was the body of Henry the majordomo.
The Rose Society mbers at the banquet received Bella’s ssage to retreat. Lisha and the others gradually left the scene. After rescuing the girls at the hot spring, Bella had decided to withdraw. This place wasn’t a good location for a pitched battle.
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