98 – Crown Hall Hypnosis App Raid -6
Crown Hall is a vast city, and at its center is the space where the royal bloodline resides. Just as modern land prices are heavily influenced by transportation and amenities, various factors influence this area as well.
Here, the land is generally more valuable the it is to the city center—the Imperial Palace. Therefore, it is said that one can roughly estimate one’s authority simply by knowing where their mansion or villa is located.
This is a simple map.
The area near the inner wall protecting the Imperial district, also known as the ‘Golden Wall’, is called the ‘Golden Ring’, and only those who are favored by the Emperor are permitted to reside there.
It is not a place that one can enter simply by having money, and it is said to be the target of many ambitious nobles because it is a place that only the most powerful can even set foot in.
The boy knight who almost halved the purple-colored Demon Tower apparently has a residence here.
Outside the ‘Golden Ring’, there is a virtual concentric circle that divides the inside and outside, and the difference between the inside and outside is whether or not it is ‘included in the patrol route of the Imperial Direct Capital Knights’.
Since it is a knightly order formed by gathering the elite of the Empire, it is said that security is very secure. It is said that even petty thieves are rare on the inside. It was a wealthy village in name and reality.
Most of the high-ranking nobles and wealthy wealthy people live there, and it seems that even the territorial nobles who manage their territories far away have a villa there.
Therefore, it seems that some nobles distinguish between the real and the fake among themselves, saying, ‘This is where the real Crown Hall begins’, and ‘How can it be Crown Hall if it is not protected by the Capital Knights’.
And from there to the outer wall, we have been enjoying and walking around Crown Hall.
The Viscount’s mansion was built right on the border. This is also because the Viscount is originally in a difficult position to overlook, but thanks to the support of the Duke, he was able to enter as a chin-up, explained Pinkbales.
And added.
“The Capital Knights are an organization under the Imperial Palace, like the Imperial Defense Agency, but they act with the suppression of disturbances in Crown Hall as their first priority. Because of that, we sometimes clash with them. Do you know what I mean ?”
“If we drag it out, the Capital Knights will come to catch us?”
“Yes. Viscount Dompel’s mansion is in an ambiguous place whether it is within or outside the sphere of influence of the Capital Knights, but if they appear, it is said that things will get worse.”
“It’s a quick battle.”
I understood it to mean that we should rob everything before the police arrive.
—- —-
We quickly approached the Viscount’s mansion. The exterior of the mansion was decorated with all sorts of ornaments, but it looked hideous because it felt more like a blatant attempt to show off his wealth than anything aesthetic.
Why are you hanging a jeweled necklace outside the mansion? It doesn’t seem to be an artifact.
Two guards were guarding the front gate surrounded by a fence.
Trespassing into the mansion itself needed to be done quietly. There must be more guards inside, and if a fight breaks out outside, it will be difficult for two reasons.
The fact that the Capital Knights will catch us quickly, and the fact that the outdoors, which is open to us, is disadvantageous in battle.
So, if possible, it was best to have the fight inside the mansion even if it happened. It would be even better if it was in the form of infiltration. I also needed to check whether the Viscount was the criminal or the victim in this case.
I met the eyes of my soul partner, Pinkbales.
“Should we say that a delivery has arrived?”
“No, I was a farmer, but I sold all my land and entered the path of commerce, and I’m here to bribe you because I’m in trouble with the Viscount’s business partner. I brought a bribe as a sign of mercy ⋯⋯.”
As we were making up the setting on the spot, one of the guards pointed to the senior with the facial scar and approached us. What the. Should I just break through with hypnosis magic?
The guard bowed his head and said to the senior.
“You came quickly this time. The master has been waiting for you.”
“…?”
“Are these slaves under hypnosis? The master will like it. If there are any left over, can I have one…”
“…!!”
Pinkbales and I immediately relaxed our eyes and opened our pupils. This is a wave that we have to ride.
I looked at my reflection in Pinkbales’ eyes. No matter how I looked at it, I looked like I had been caught in the hypnosis app and had lost my will.
And he covered the Demon Tower Lord, who was alone and unable to follow the situation, with his body.
The senior with the facial scar also seemed to be quick-witted, and he quickly calmed down his confusion and joined the situation. The senior took it all in stride. “But it doesn’t look like he’ll stay this time. Just by looking at his face, he’s all S-rank, would you like the Viscount to stay? Ah. If this guy is here, he might stay.”
“hahahaha, it’s okay. I’m not in a position to hide it…”
Holy sh*t.
Goosebumps run down his spine. You have to cover your gender, you bastard.
The face scar senior led us into the mansion. Looking at the guard talking to me in a friendly manner, it seemed like we had only seen each other once or twice, but it seems that the culprit was using the face of a senior with facial scars to make people come here and there.
Impersonation like this is scary. If we had conducted a step-by-step investigation among ourselves instead of directly calling our seniors to explain, wouldn’t it be a situation where we couldn’t help but raise suspicion?
The senior with the facial scar must have noticed this, too, and he tapped my shoulder with gratitude. Yes, I saved someone’s life.
“Well, have a good time.”
The guard walked us to the front of the building and returned to his original position. The senior made brief eye contact with us. Shall we go? Let’s go. It’s really you, Loray, isn’t it? No.
The senior opened the door to the mansion.
A red carpet decorated the entire long hallway, and all kinds of crafts, such as pottery and paintings, decorated the sides. And several maids passed by.
The number of maids was greater than expected. A mansion of this size could be managed by about five people, but I counted more than ten maids.
And all the maids were wearing leashes similar to those worn on pet dogs, and their pupils were all open. I was hypnotized.
The purple magic tower trembled and muttered.
“…I feel bad.”
I definitely felt bad. Because the idea that people were not viewed as people was clearly revealed. I grabbed the wrist of a maid passing by.
There is no sign of resistance, and the pulse is weak. My overall physical condition was weak. Aren’t they being sincere in the minimum management of eating and drinking? I tried talking to him.
“Name is?”
“This is Eleanora, my lord.”
“Are you even listening to my orders? It’s my first time here.”
“I have been ordered to serve all guests who visit the mansion as my master.”
That’s worth knowing.
I opened a random door next to the hallway. There was no one inside, and there was a space that appeared to be a guest room. I ordered.
“All maids who can hear my voice, please go inside this room and rest. Be careful not to step on or press each other.”
“Yes, master.”
The maids in the hallway rushed into the room. Since I couldn’t let these people out of the mansion right now, I planned to keep them in quarantine here for now.
The once busy hallway suddenly became empty.
The senior with the facial scar gasped once and walked to the end of the hallway. We followed along, pretending to be hypnotized. When I pushed open the large, ornate door that opened on both sides, I saw a large space, a long table , and a pig sitting at the head table.
If you look at him wearing a lot of jewels, is that a Viscount? He persistently glanced at Pingvalez and the Mage Tower with his sinister gaze, and opened his thick lips to speak to his senior.
“They said the next visit would take three months, but you came early.”
“That’s it.”
“We’ve already filled half of our quota. In just a little while… The snails from the east will be able to eat it too. hehehe… The promised reward is being prepared, right?”
“You mean compensation?”
Viscount Pig pounded the armrest of his chair as if he was displeased. The vibration made my cheeks flutter. Then he took out a small stone statue from his arms and echoed.
“Hey, you said you would strengthen the hypnotic statue! So it can work on even noble b*tches!”
“Oh, I’m sure I did. Don’t worry, I’m ready.”
“The commoners are sick of it. After all, this noble body needs noble slaves. Anyway… I need to make it clear to Cycilia, who dared to make fun of this body by calling me half a penny, that this body is not the kind of person to be treated like that!”
The Viscount suddenly burst out in anger and yelled until his spit his his his his flew out. There is no culture, and the only things that shine in the oily eyes are greed and a sense of inferiority.
He appears to have been cooperating closely with the criminal. Did they use their wealth and power to take over a slum and install a statue of ‘Big Brother’?
And what I received as compensation was that hypnosis app.
That Viscount Pig was a very typical mean nobleman. For someone who owns a hypnosis app, it must be said that this is an appropriate choice. So the criminal must have approached the author as well.
Pingvalez’s hidden hand clenched into a fist, and his face-scarred senior cracked his fingers. As long as there was evidence that they were in a relationship with the criminal, there was no reason to hesitate in attacking. When I try to create my own magic.
Purple Magic Tower Lord Yuna quietly opened her mouth.
“…You, you. “You have money and power.”
“Huh?””You could have just hired people with your money and treated them normally. You’re not a nobody. If you wanted to, you could have done it, so why are you hypnotizing and exploiting the unfortunate?”
“That b*tch doesn’t seem to be hypnotized. Why isn’t she doing her job properly?”
The pig baron scolded his senior and licked his lips. Then, as if stating an obvious truth, he replied in a confident voice.
“Do you think I’m doing this because I’m short on money? Not a chance! I could hire ten or a hundred of these commoners as servants. But if I even touch their butts, they scream and shout. If I call them to my bedroom, they threaten to quit their jobs.”
“……….”
“But how loyal are these maids? No matter what I do, they don’t make a peep and don’t even look at me with a dog’s eyes. Like this!”
Smack!
The pig baron slapped the cheek of the maid standing next to him.
Smack, smack, smack.
Repeatedly.
The maid’s cheek swelled up instantly, and blood trickled from the corner of her mouth. However, her body and mind were controlled by hypnosis, so she couldn’t even put up the slightest resistance. The baron gasped for breath.
“Heh, heh. It’s great to be able to play with them like this.”
“……….”
It’s unpleasant to meet a human being who doesn’t see people as people. The author must be a human being like me.
He must have been born screaming into the world, crawled on all fours, walked on two legs, and lived his life interacting with many people. How could he have become so different? If I ask that question with my mouth full of water,
A very bitter taste and sadness will come out together.
The pig baron proudly held out a small statue and said to Pinkballez and Matopju.
“If you weren’t hypnotized, I’ll do it for you. Now, look this way! Keh heh heh… And everyone, become my s*x slaves!”
A pattern flashed on the statue, which was small enough to fit in one hand, and a strong hypnotic wave emanated from it. The expressions of the group changed hazily.
We were hypnotized and lost our will, becoming the baron’s playthings. The pig baron laughed and gestured.
“Yes, you there with the pink hair. Come here first. Take off that stuffy suit right now! You, heh heh, you will be my concubine…”
Pinkballez, still under hypnosis, slowly took off her suit jacket, revealing her voluptuous body in its entirety, and approached the baron──
—- —-
“Yes… Very good… Come, serve this body…”
Can you do it?
Bam!
I hit the pig baron on the back of the head. He snapped his head back and forth and smiled broadly, as if it felt good. It seems that he is having a happy dream because of the reflected hypnotic wave.
Pinkballez said, twisting her wrist.
“Crazy wizard, can I hit him too?”
“If you hit him too hard, the hypnosis might break… No, if you gather that much magic power and hit him, he’ll die.”
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I snatched the statue from the baron’s hand.
The small statue seemed to be made with more care than the large one. The output of the hypnotic wave is stronger than I thought.
Without a mental barrier, we would have become slaves in an instant, just like the maids. If we had a weak mental barrier, we would have become slaves after being exposed to it repeatedly.
It’s a good thing we’re the top in this industry, or we might have been defeated if we were students at the academy. When I think about it that way, I feel a sense of mission as an educator.
The world is vast and there are many dangers. In order to prevent our students from falling prey to hypnosis apps, we will have to be stricter in the future. We need to create a mental barrier as strong as Mount Tai.
“Now then, I’ve neutralized the baron… Let’s clean him out.”
We need to gather as much evidence as possible. If we can find evidence, we will not be criminals who broke into the baron’s mansion, but righteous people who have risen up to punish a criminal.
I believe that if we just secure the justification, our Second Prince will take care of the rest.
“……….”
“Senior, what’s wrong?”
Senior Scarface seemed to be bothered by something, and he was holding his hand to his mouth and thinking. Did he get hit by the hypnotic wave a little while ago?
“Junior. It’s not that… It’s the baron. Isn’t he more of an idiot than we thought?”
“He did seem like an idiot…”
Certainly, we managed to pass the guards, but the baron didn’t suspect a thing even though so many people were coming at him… He’s so naive.
“If I were him, I wouldn’t have put an idiot in charge. The baron may be more capable than we thought, but if not…”
“There must be a real power behind the pants president?”
“That’s exactly it.”I understood it all at once. Even if I were the mastermind, I wouldn’t have wanted to entrust this viscount with the job. I would have wanted to entrust it to someone more intelligent and capable…
“From what the piggish viscount said, they were in the process of spreading ‘Big Brother’ throughout Crown Hall from here. There must be someone acting as the commander who’s leading the operation.”
I thought of a classic cliché.
The butler who’s attached to the incompetent noble is actually the mastermind who’s devising all the plans. It was that kind of feeling.
In that case, this isn’t the time to be at ease because we’ve captured the viscount──.
“Mage, above you-!”
Pingvallez gave a sharp warning. I reflexively looked up and stared at the ceiling.
Viscount Zhozaza-! Urr!
The ceiling was cut into dozens of pieces and collapsed, and three people fell down while aiming their weapons. One had a broadsword, one had a pair of swords, and one had a bow. Are they aiming for me… no, for the viscount? Are they trying to kill him to shut him up?
“Protect the viscount!”
I hurriedly cast a spell. A flash of light burst from the palm of the mage, the sound of chains rattling could be heard, and the scarred senior drew his dagger.
Clang-!!
Dirt and dust flew up along with the sound of metal scraping against metal.