037 – Operation (1)
next day.
Charlotte, Irene and Linia went out after a long time.
It was to see the play we had promised before.
“greatness! Then shall I go too?!”
Logan smiled kindly and naturally tried to intervene, but Charlotte wrinkled her face.
“Why are you following Daddy?”
“No, it’s been a while since I haven’t seen a play with my daughter. Can’t this dad go with me too?”
“no! no way! And now lunch is over, so why don’t you go back! Aren’t you busy?”
“Did you talk about breakfast? I’m leaving tomorrow morning.”
“Oh my head…!”
Then, Tigris opened his mouth.
“Charlotte.”
“why. Do you want to follow the instructor too? Instructor is fine…”
“It’s a musical ticket I got a while ago. Take it.”
“···Eh?”
What Tigris gave him was ‘Love Meets on the Bridge’, the playwright’s next work, who wrote ‘The Count of the Beggar and the Rich Servant’.
It was a very difficult ticket to get because it was fully booked until July.
“Besides, it’s a VVIP seat…. How did you get this?”
“The Norverd family is the most patronizing family of the Golden Hall, where the musical is held. Thanks for making it easy to get tickets. I can’t see it because of work, so you guys should see it.”
There were a total of four tickets Tigris handed over.
“Wait a minute, we’re three, so there’s only one left…”
Logan chuckled.
“Then I can go!”
“Tell me honestly about this. The two of them were weaving together.”
Charlotte clasped her head in pain.
“What···. I can’t help it. Instead, if Daddy sleeps again saying it’s not as fun as last time, I’ll be angry.”
“cancer! Never sleep.”
“Then come quickly. We’re going to shop in our spare time, so buy me some clothes.”
Logan smiled softly and sent a message to Tigris.
[Thank you.]
It wasn’t Logan that Tigris got the vote for.
It was because they needed someone to protect Charlotte, Irene, and Linia.
If this operation goes in a direction that Tigris did not expect, at least the three of them will be protected by Logan.
“Then I’ll see you later.”
“Yes.”
Logan and the four of them left the house.
After a while, Tigris put on light armor and went outside.
“Lenny.”
“Yes. Tigris.”
“No matter what happens today, please stay at home. Do you understand?”
Lenny immediately responded to Tigris’s unusual words.
“Yes. All right.”
“Jane, if anything happens, report it to me right away.”
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Jane said with her eyes wide open.“…what’s going on today? That musical ticket was bought by Baiton in a hurry last night.”
“If you don’t get out of this building, nothing will happen. So, let’s keep the door closed.”
“Okay. I’m a guardian spirit, so I’m afraid I won’t be able to do one of them?”
Tigris got into the elevator.
“I won’t eat dinner, so don’t prepare it.”
As the elevator door closed, Lenny held her hands tightly, feeling anxious.
“…are you okay?”
* * *
The operation name ‘Mole Hunting’ started with deceiving the enemy.
“This is the road that His Majesty the Emperor is inspecting! Take a close look!”
The Golden Knights as well as the Iron-Blood Magical Corps were dressed in flashy outfits and inspected the roadside.
– What’s going on?
– Didn’t you hear me? His Majesty the Emperor said he would personally inspect the disappearance.
– Your Majesty the Emperor, this filthy place?
– Since a few nobles and knights have died, the Emperor seems to have noticed too. I heard from the intelligence guild that the Inquisitors had been scouring the area for a week or so.
-But what will your Majesty the Emperor come here and do?
– Well, isn’t that a political reason?
Hundreds of Golden Knights and Iron-Blood Magical Troops were scattered all over the place, and they searched every nook and cranny.
Even the carriages were controlled, so the roadside temporarily stopped traffic.
Meanwhile, some members of the Iron-Blood Magic Corps secretly enchanted the manhole cover.
It was a fixed magic specially created by ‘Hydra’, the head of the Inquisitor.
As a result of the experiment, even a 5-star knight could not open the manhole, so if the chimeras were forcibly opened, their nails and bones would be shattered.
The chimera lab also reacted to this riot from the morning breeze.
“What’s going on out there right now?”
The researcher quickly opened his mouth at the words of the head of the lab.
“Didn’t you tell me about it a while ago? It is said that the emperor will inspect the area tomorrow in connection with this disappearance case.”
“Aren’t you going to check the sewers too?”
“It didn’t go down the drain. Looking at the operational plan we got, it was decided to investigate only the surrounding buildings and the roadside.”
The head of the lab said, chewing the pen.
“Something feels strange…? The Inquisitors have also been wandering around here recently.”
“I think it was because of the disappearance investigation.”
“Hmm···.”
The head of the lab took out a communication marble from his arms and fiddled with it.
It was a communication orb directly connected to Schwyz, the chief sponsor of this Chimera Lab.
“Are you planning to report to Schwitz-sama…?”
The head of the lab was worried.
If you report now, Schwitz-sama could have come here right away.
‘…then I am dead.’
Recently, the experiment did not go smoothly because it was not possible to obtain a specimen.
As a result, research on ‘The Horned Knight’ was standing still.
The head of the research department put a communication bead in his arms.
“no. watch it once Make sure not one chimera escapes into the sewer.”
“All right. Oh, by the way, what about ‘that guy’?”
The head of the research department pondered for a moment when he said that he was that guy.
That guy was the head of the research department of the former squadron, and he turned into a monster after getting out of Schwitz’s eyes.
The chimeras were controlled by the researchers, but the guy was different.
It was because he only followed the orders that Schwitz gave him.
“Where is he now?”
“I’m running through the sewers.”
“···shit.”
He was wandering the sewers alone, because Schwitz had instructed him to search the sewers before he left.
“Leave it for now. As long as the knights and wizards don’t get into the sewers for nothing, it won’t be a big deal.”
“All right.”
“However, if there is such a thing, stop the experiment and arrange teleport scrolls and research data in advance.”
“Yes. All right.”
* * *
As long as the location of the laboratory had already been discovered, victory was a known fact.
Even if the number of Chimeras were large and the Horned Knights were strong, there was no defeat when the Golden Knights, the Black Meister Bergang, the Iron-Blood Magic Corps, the Inquisitors and their leader, codenamed Hydra, were put into operation.
There was only one problem.
how much less damage
There is no operation that does not shed a single drop of blood.
It was important whether the blood was the blood of knights and wizards who were ready to die, or the blood of civilians.
“It’s ready.”
At the liaison officer’s words, Bergang sent a message.
[All ready for battle.]
The Golden Knights drew their swords.
A total of 381 people drew swords at the same time, but only the sound of the rubbing of clothes was heard, but the sharp sound of the sword being pulled was not heard at all.
All gathered here were the most elite knights with 4 or more rings.
Afterwards, the Iron-Blood Magic Corps also took out their wands.
The iron-blooded magic corps began to plant their own magic on their wands, muttering a little.
The black wand was dyed red like blood, waiting for the magician’s command like an arrow drawn with a string.
Berggan checked his pocket watch.
It was 10 seconds before the execution time of the operation.
[To the power position.]
The knights and wizards quickly headed for the sewer they were in charge of.
The knights in the 27th, 29th, and 35th sewers vomiting up filth did not change their expressions.
Bergang stood in front of Sewer 29.
3 seconds before the operation time.
[Wear power mask.]
All were wearing oxygen masks at the same time.
Berggan answered in a loud voice.
“enter!”
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The two knights standing in the front made a sword and cut the iron bars blocking the sewers.
And they entered without looking back.
Even if the filth got up to his ankles and wet his socks, he moved forward without hesitation.
The alarm magic placed at the entrance to the sewer worked.
Wow-!
Even with the warning sound that echoed throughout the sewer, his expression did not change.
It was only moving forward.
– Kie hey hey!
The footsteps and shouts of unknown chimeras echoed through the sewers.
The sewers were cramped and dark, so I couldn’t tell how far they were running.
met a fork in the road.
They entered in half as part of the operation.
When it meets a fork, it splits in half, and when it meets another fork, it splits.
The fear that the number of colleagues who would protect him would decrease slowly lifted his head, but it shattered and disappeared in front of his loyalty to the emperor and his strong conviction to protect the people.
Eventually, Bergang encountered the Chimera.
A saber tiger, a goblin, a monstrous mole, all mixed together, not one of them had the same shape.
The knights and wizards did not furrow an eyebrow, even though they looked like they had come out of hell.
Bergang, who was at the forefront, put the Auror into his sword.
Then a thin dark blue aura was overlaid on the sword.
The Auror did not vibrate like a flame, but was as hard as steel.
It was a sword river that could be obtained by those who put images on the sword.
The chimeras fell while rushing.
The desire to survive was castrated, but the muscles of the chimeras were twisted due to the concentrated life of Bergang.
The body became tangled with the chimeras following behind and became a wall.
Some of the guys at the bottom were crushed and killed.
-Ke-e-e-e-e! Keek!
Bergang held the sword parallel to the ground and raised the sword above his head.
And it reminded me of the cliff of the storm, where typhoons often strike.
The typhoon was full of mana from the water, so water droplets gathered in the middle of the typhoon’s eyes.
The water droplets acted as a convex lens, gathering light into a single point, and the light turned everything it encountered into dust.
Berggan read the sword instead of fear in the overwhelming and violent natural disaster.
Bergang’s image is ‘nature’
Bergang was a sword master who reached a point where he could express the natural phenomena he had seen and understood with his sword.
In the cold and dark typhoon, Bergang pierced his sword, recalling the light that crushed everything.
The straight light emitted from the sword burned the bodies of the Chimeras.
It happened so quickly that there was no scream.
All were just swallowed up by the cry of light.
The knights who were following the amazing miracle that could even be called the dragon’s breath opened their mouths involuntarily.
All kinds of toxic substances were vaporized in the scorching heat, but they were all filtered out by the mask he was wearing beforehand.
Bergang said while stirring the red-hot blade once.
“Move forward.”
An open large sewer.
Bergang took the vanguard and ordered only to advance.
Until all the garbage of the ecliptic disappears.
* * *
The lab was in turmoil.
Suddenly, hundreds of knights tried to enter the entrance to the sewer.
“What a dog!”
The head of the research team quickly gathered the research materials.
“Chief! The knights are advancing too fast!”
“Are you telling me to watch it! is this kid?! Of course, you must have prepared a lot, so it would be quick! In the time to report something like that, quickly organize the subjects and collect the research data!”
The head of the lab bit his lip until it bled.
Obviously, not only the Water Bureau, but also the National Police Agency and even the eunuchs of the Imperial Palace had paid bribes, but no one told them that they were invading this place.
Even if he asked through the communication channel, he just repeated that he did not know.
“Chief! We’ve gathered all the research data!”
Fortunately, I felt a strange feeling a while ago and prepared to escape.
“Escape. Everyone, take out the teleport scrolls!”
The chief and other researchers took out the teleport scroll.
Each piece cost as much as 10 gold, but it was not more expensive than life.
Woo Woo Woo-!
The chief and other researchers tore the teleport scroll.
The light flickered on the scroll and disappeared as it turned into dust.
However, the teleport didn’t work.
“···uh? What is this…”
The head of the lab tore off the extra scrolls, but the same flashes briefly.
“Damn…!”
It looked like the Empire had prepared well.
Since the teleport scroll didn’t work, it looked like anti-scroll magic was scattered around this area.
As the head of the lab and the researchers panicked, the lab door swung open.
“You… you!”
A man in a white robe, stained with blood and dirt, staggered like a zombie and approached the head of the lab.
He was the head of the former research lab and a monster created by Schwitz.
Instead of skin, the monster had millions of tiny, white horns like the bones of a king lizard, and two huge horns reminiscent of a cow’s horn soared high into the sky.
Researchers, including the head of the lab, were unable to move until the monster slowly came in front of them.
His body froze at the ferocious energy he felt from the monster.
The monster opened its mouth.
-No…is there a problem…?
The head of the lab as well as other researchers were bewildered.
It was because that mysterious monster had never spoken a word before.
It was just a bizarre appearance, but like other chimeras, he was like a puppet who only obeyed orders, losing his mind.
“Yeah, how are you…!”
-No problem. If there is a problem… Report it to Schwitz-sama… Ah….
The boy’s eyes widened.
Then he began to tremble, and his body stopped like a machine that suddenly stopped.
And his eyes returned.
The squashed pupil was the same, but his gaze was straight on the head of the lab, and his posture was also straight.
– There seems to be a problem.
The head of the lab immediately recognized that the monster was Schwitz.
I couldn’t understand, neither magically nor alchemy, how Schwitz’s mind could possess the monster’s body, but the phenomenon was certain.
The head of the lab immediately fell flat on his face.
“Sorry, sorry! Schwitz-sama, that’s…”
Schwitz closed his eyes and spread the energy.
Knights were going to arrive here soon.
There was little time for conversation.
-Before making excuses, is there any way to escape with the research data?
“sorry···. You can’t escape because of the anti-scroll magic.”
– It’s useless.
At Schwitz’s dry words, the research director trembled.
-Then I have no choice but to die worthwhile.
“Shuvi… ahhh!”
Schwitz grabbed the head of the lab by the neck.
Schwitz’s fingernails stretched out and pierced the head of the lab.
Then, horns began to grow on the head of the laboratory, like cordyceps, and began to pierce nearby researchers like tentacles.
“Uh-huh!”
“Run away!”
The researchers were all scattered, but the horns pierced through them like a living creature.
And the horns absorbed all their vitality.
The researchers, who were left with nothing else, fluttered to the floor and fell.
Eventually, the head of the research room was also absorbed, leaving nothing but a monster.
The skin made of white horns turned dark red, and the only two horns were changed to four.
– Ha ha ha ha!
Schwitz burst out laughing at the boiling power.
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Just like laughter when burning a tickle, I was drunk with a powerful force and burst into laughter.Schwitz closed his eyes and traced his memory.
While absorbing the vitality, it also absorbed the memories of the researchers.
Schwitz muttered as he looked at the subjects scattered on the floor.
-…it was just one step before it was completed.
If there had been a little more time, ‘The Horned Knight’ would have been completed, but it was sooner than the people of the Empire noticed.
– Still, I’m satisfied with this.
If he transferred the knowledge contained in this body’s head to another laboratory, he would be able to make a horn knight in no time.
There is no reason to be here now.
Schwitz bent his knees.
And I rolled my feet
The new one soared into the sky.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
It pierced the ground vertically from the laboratory and protruded.
A blood-red sunset tickled Schwitz’s eyes.
Schwyz came down to the ground.
The streets were full of evacuated citizens.
“Everyone run away! A monster!”
“Ahhh!”
There was a chaos around him, and saliva dripped from Schwitz’s mouth.
Schwitz couldn’t come to his senses because of the various hormones that this body was releasing.
Like a wolf who met a flock of sheep, I wanted to bite and kill them all and devour them.
-…it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go play for a while.
It was almost impossible to suppress this desire with reason.
I had to relieve myself to some extent.
Schwyz reached out to the fleeing citizens.
-Engrave the Horror Horror into the soul!
The horns protruding from Schwitz’s fingers flew towards the Revolution Bridge.
The idea was to collapse the bridge so that people could not escape.
At that time, a beautiful silver wire cut off all ten horns.
The monster stared at the man who had his horns cut off.
The man who was dripping with blue ears was pointing towards the man with the sharp edge of his flesh that made his spine shiver.
It was Tigris.
“I was waiting. Schwitz.”
-how···!
Schwitz was astonished that he knew his name.
Tigris sharpened the Auror and put it on his sword.
Instead of silver, which is Tigris’ unique auror color, blue spirits flowed down.
“Today, I will carve pain in your soul.”