Chapter 318: The Chaos Inside the Capital is Over
Chapter 318: The Chaos Inside the Capital is Over
Now what?
Since the orphans has been delivered to Russell, I guess it's time to kill the cult members who tried to escape.
I have told Shelia to relay a message to the Werewolves, but I don't know if they can handle all the cult members or not.
I guess before that, I need to check on the situation first.
I'm on top of princess Julia's mansion. And inside the house, under where I am, I can see princess Julia and her siblings are discussing something. Probably princess Julia is telling the others about what happened. I just hope that she won't leak too much secrets.
And there are some who are much younger than her. Probably they are old man Henry's grandchildren.
…he already has grandchildren, but he's unable to pass on the throne because his heirs are unfit, huh? Let's hope that he picked someone good in the near future. Although he's healthy, he's still too old to stay in the throne for too long.
That's enough of his family. They are safe under princess Julia's protection. Next is Kayla and the others.
They are joining Angela and other hunters to fight monsters that appear from the houses of cult members hiding in the capital. How did those monsters enter here? Don't tell me that the cult's lab where they did many kinds of vile experiment is nearby? I want to check on the area, but I need to go to Arturo first. I guess I'll return here after going to Arturo.
Kayla helped everyone by healing them when they are injured. But when there's someone whom is getting healed by Kayla and used that chance to flirt with her, Kayla just strikes at their legs with Earth Spikes. Scary.
Now, those people have no hope in continuing their hunter life with their legs disabled. This is not the moment for her to be flirted, huh? Then, someone's friends decided to fight Kayla, but they are too weak despite one of them used advanced level magic. Kayla is too strong against average hunters.
After that, unless they are extremely injured, they don't want to get near Kayla anymore. Though she ended up being popular with girls.
Why is she attacking them so quickly? Don't tell me that she's still angry about me keeping a secret? That I even thought of killing children? No matter what's the case, I should never made Kayla or other girls angry anymore.
Jewel also joined the fight. She was in hiding before, but I guess she fights now because she knows Kayla and the others are safe. That is a good thinking. Without knowing if the other can survive or not, there need to be at least someone who can relay a message to me, and that's why Jewel stayed in hiding until recently. I'm such a good master for my disciple to do what I taught her.
Candy, well, she returned to her old job. Doing some espionage stuffs and entered some rich people's houses to find some evidence of the cult doing bad things in the kingdom.
How do I know? Well, I can see her searching for documents inside someone house, while there's another agent inside that house as well. Seems like they meet with each other as soon as I left her.
And there are also some people other than the spies that I brought from Albert's place. They must be old man Henry's men. I don't see any explosive devices in their mouth, so I guess they are fine and old man can truly trust them.
Angela… she's enjoying fighting so much. At least she's good enough to not destroy people's houses.
There are some men trying to approach her, but seeing how powerful she is, they rejected that idea. I think she used to say that she wanted to fall in love with someone in a romantic way. How will she meet a good man if she's like this?
Veronica and Celestine also captivated the men. I forgot to tell them to wear the flattening underwear. Though when those people realized that they are expert level mages, no one dares to approach them. But they must be thinking that the city is safe with two expert level mages here.
Lina is in my room at the inn Celestine and I stayed. Elsie is there with her. She must be using Elsie to watch the surrounding, and then tell Sonia to relay a message to the others of where to go and who has explosive devices in their mouth.
Oh? Lina is looking this way, smiled and waved. I waved back to her. She can't see me but Elsie can. She must have noticed that I'm looking at her.
Shirley is evacuating the citizens who are outside to somewhere safe. She received the news of where to go from Lina.
There are some people with explosive devices among the civilian she helped, and Shirley is watching them from time to time. Lina must have told her already. Since those people have no interest in escaping the capital, I can take care of them later.
Shelia and the Werewolves did as I ordered. They transformed into their wolf form, and attacked only those whom have explosive devices in their mouth. Their sense of smell is so great. And when there are other people saw them, the Werewolves would only target the cult members.
And those who tried to escape were killed. They split in two teams it seems. Just like before. One in the capital, and the other is outside.
I guess everyone is doing well.
After seeing the situation, I think it's best to make sure that no one escaped. But this capital is too big. Let's have Spot help this time then.
"Spot, are you awake?"
"What is it? Do you have something for me to do?" Spot asked excitedly.
I thought he was sleeping while wrapping himself around my waist. Seems like he wanted to have more actions.
"I want us both to cover the outside perimeter. The Werewolves were helping by killing anyone who tries to escape, but I don't know if that's everyone. We will fly around toward the opposite direction, and kill anyone, except for the Werewolves and the children." I said.
"That's easy. I will go now if that's all."
"That's all. You can go."
After getting my permission, he leaves and flew to the right. I guess I will go left and we will meet on the other side. Though he's faster so he should have covered more distance than me.
I want to go as well, but I need to tell Sonia to not let anyone leaves the capital.
"Sonia, tell the others to not leave the capital. Spot, I, and the Werewolves will kill anyone who tries to leave."
"Even if they are innocent?"
"Let's hope Shirley can bring them to safety instead of having them escape instead." I said.
After that, Sonia disappears.
I also run as fast as I could while looking for anyone who seems to be escaping, or anyone suspicious outside.
I should also refrain from using portals and running in the air anymore. I have used portals too many times, and I think my mana is almost empty. I still need to return old man Henry back here. And the girls might also need to return back to Cassau. They have classes.
My usual sneak mission turns into this after asking the others to help. Although the result is not as good as when I'm taking care of things alone, and there are many casualties, I like it this way better. It's faster this way. And the girls also learned more about how I do things as well.
Now, they know about how difficult it is what I'm trying to do. Alone.
I keep telling them that I'm going to do some clean up, but they never asked how troublesome it is. They just believed me that I will do well. That is fine, but that will hold back their growth.
Should I bring them to Arturo?
Hmm… maybe not. That place seems to be much more dangerous than here. Spot will be important for me to sneak into the kingdom. With his camouflage ability, the only people who can notice me should be expert level mages or higher. I doubt there's a master level mage there, but maybe there's also some magic tools for detecting enemy as well. I need to be careful there.
Let's not think about that place now and focus on killing people here.
During the first lap around the capital, I found no one escaping. But when I passed Spot, I shouted the number of people I found.
"I found no one!" I shouted.
"One for me!" Spot shouted.
Seems like he found the guy first.
Then the second lap, I killed one man. And shouted the number I killed.
"One for me!"
"Three including the one before!"
…is that a challenge? He's faster than me, but if I'm lucky, I can kill more people than him.
Each time we passed each other, we shouted the numbers of people we killed. It's also a good way to pass time. And we're not the only ones defeating anyone trying to escape. The Werewolves did that as well.
Some Werewolves even try to keep up with us, but they failed. I have grown much faster than average Werewolves.
The battle continues until dawn when everything is over. I killed sixteen, and Spot killed forty.
Okay, I lost.
Before the sun rise, Old man contacted me through Sonia telling that he should return once the battle is over. So, I brought him over at the empty castle.
"…now, it's my problem." Old man said.
"I'll go meet the girls. They might want to return to Cassau. And I'm already tired, so I'll leave everything to you." I said.
"…it's me who've left everything to you. Thank you very much for saving my kingdom."
This is the first time I've seen old man acted so… kingly. He bowed down with respect toward me, a commoner from another kingdom.
"…just prepare a hell of a feast after I wake up. We can celebrate it later."
After saying that, I reunited with the girls who have regrouped, and thanked them for helping me here.
They said that they want to rest so I return them to Cassau. Leaving Celestine, Victoria, Spot, and I behind. I guess Celestine will keep staying with me to Arturo.
Now… I'll sleep. Good night.