Chapter 228

RMSBS – Episode 228 . A Subsurface War (5)

Swan had noticed something peculiar, and fired her shot at the base of the tower, instead of at Crow Mask . She had effectively thrown away the battle, as well as her life . All on a hunch .

Crow Mask murmured .

“I can’t believe you broke through a wall of Blankšum . ”

The tower was built out of Blankšum, considered the strongest metal . The value of the Blankšum used here alone amounted to an entire country’s annual budget .

This was an abnormal architectural decision no matter who looked at it . And that became the decisive root of the uneasy feeling that perverted Swan’s mind .

She didn’t think it was necessary to build an entire tower out of Blankšum simply to manufacture chimera, and then wondered what they actually built this for .

And the conclusion she reached: somewhere in this tower, something was hidden, and the entire tower was built out of Blankšum to hide it .

Swan’s reasoning was correct . But in the end, her sacrifice amounted to nothing . It was all for nothing if she could not share the truth that she uncovered .

‘I wish I could go down to check right now, but… ’

Of course, Crow Mask was also aware that the tower contained something far more elusive than a facility for manufacturing chimeras . And that purpose may be the reason why Skull Mask joined the Outsiders .

Even though Crow Mask worked with him day-in and day-out, he didn’t really know anything about him .

Swan’s actions were, as a result, indirectly helping him .

“I’ll have to finish this up first . ”

Crow Mask walked toward Swan, leaving behind his desire to grasp the purpose of Skull Mask .

With a light swipe of his hand, the debris piled up everywhere was pushed to the side . A moment later, he found Swan lying in tatters .

She was still breathing .

“Your struggle has been in vain . ”

Swan’s breath was so uneven and forced that it threatened to give out at any moment . Not only were her injuries serious, they were also worsened by the excessive aura she gathered by burning her very life force .

[Gravity Control]

“This is the end . ”

As Crow Mask said that, he sensed a great deal of heat surging towards himself .

An unbelievably powerful wave of flame flooded the tower . Purified fire licked over every inch of his body and incinerated everything on the floor .

*Booom*

The fire storm abated and Crow Mask appeared a little away from where it passed . His cape crumbled apart into ashes, the sacrifice for his survival . .

When he noticed a huge amount of mana moving, he hurriedly invoked space-movement magic, but he was just a little bit too late . He could only rely on using a spell he had pre-cast in Memorize . Only one spell remained in it now .

“What the hell was… ?”

Crow Mask muttered after finding himself subject to such an unexpected situation .

He was able to find the uninvited guest, aiming his next spell at him .

Now that he thought about it, why did he ever question what that attack was? It was the one who had interfered with him many times . And a figure who shouldn’t have been able to make it this far . His detestable existence was now here, glaring at him with contempt .

“Desir Arman . ”

“You can’t afford to lose here . ”

As soon as Crow Mask returned to his senses at Desir’s voice, a terrible cold poured against him, contrary to the previous wave of heat .

Adjest, who had already invoked her imagery magic, now approached him .

[Distraction Area]

Crow Mask hurriedly reached to block Adjest’s advance .

Desir invoked a spell, waiting for the gap to appear when Crow Mask responded to Adjest’s attack .

[Parie Arund]

Compressed air raged and buffeted Crow Mask .

The body of Crow Mask was bent backwards and buried under tower rubble .

* * *

The sword, coated in a bluish energy, sliced off the head of the masked man .

The man who neatly cut off the enemy’s neck, Letris, shook the blood off his sword .

Letris was one of the Side Guard who entered the tower with Swan . He was the squad leader for this mission .

The enemy had just been slain, but there was no time to rest . There were still more than a hundred enemies before his eyes .

On the other hand, the number of Side Guard present was a mere few dozen .

Watching the constant influx of enemies, Letris breathed deeply without realizing it .

There was no sign of improvement in this battle . It was the Side Guard that was falling deeper and deeper into disadvantage over time .

*Crash*

He leaned back to avoid the flames flying towards him .

The overwhelming difference in numbers caused the Side Guards to gradually collapse . It no longer seemed possible to confront the Outsiders head-on .

‘Are we going to die like this?’

The sound of a shockwave reached their ears, and shortly afterwards, the tower rumbled and shook . They could no longer feel the dense ball of aura above them, and what that fact meant was all too clear to them .

Royal Guard Swan Katarina had been defeated .

The morale of the Side Guard plummeted .

‘Was this just meaningless resistance now?’

From the moment the operation was discovered, they had been fighting a losing battle . At least Swan had a history of pushing ahead with operations doomed to fail, but now that she had lost, their odds were close to zero .

There was no way to reverse this situation .

By the time Letris returned to his senses, it was after the Side Guard, including himself, had already been backed into a corner . A wall composed of swords, spears, and spell arrays was aimed at them .

It was a brief lull in what had been an uninterrupted battle .

This was the end of the line for the Side Guard .

An Outsider gave the order .

“Leave only two or so alive . ”

The rest moved in accordance with the order .

Letris grabbed his sword and tried to step forward to resist desperately .

*Beep*

A loud warning sounded deafeningly . Everyone in the tower looked up at the noise .

“What is it?”

Why does the warning sound, which was not heard in the midst of a fierce battle thus far, sound now? The question on everyone’s mind was soon solved .

A pale figure popped out of nowhere and snatched away the Outsider’s head . With a chilling sound, blood rose from his neck like a fountain, and the body soon fell to the floor .

Everyone was rooted to the spot . They looked up at the source of the attack without a single word and were able to recognize the outline of the figure before them .

They could make out the wings of a bat as well as the head of a lion .

The thorns all over its body added a layer of disgust to the figure .

“A chimera?”

The Outsiders muttered incredulously .

Inside the tower, there were many such chimeras that could do battle . One such chimera must have escaped .

It took a moment for the Outsiders to calm themselves and conceal their embarrassment . They calmly reaped the chimera’s last breath .

“Arghhhhhh!”

Terrible cries resounded from all sides . At the same time, the tower shook once again .

It was questionable how the closely monitored chimera escaped, but now was not the right time to focus on such trivialities .

The escaped chimera was not important right now . The Side Guard and Outsiders shouted at the same time .

“All units ready for battle!”

At that moment, the chimeras literally began to pour out like a waterfall .

The shapes of the chimeras were varied, but they had one thing in common . They attacked anyone they encountered, Outsider or not .

“Argh!”

The chimeras began to run wild .

There was no feeling that someone was in control of them . There was no reason behind the madness that were the chimeras . They had all been artificially created through experiments . If they were not under the tight control of someone, then they were no better than wild monsters .

Blood and flesh splattered in all directions . The man who appeared to be the commander of Outsiders shouted in an urgent voice .

“Operate the control device!”

“It’s impossible! We can’t even access the control device!”

The current situation seemed to be unintentional, even for the Outsiders .

Letris cut off the leg of a chimera approaching him . The chimeras had gone wild and were attacking everyone indiscriminately .

Amongst the new found chaos, the advantage had subtly shifted in favor of the Side Guard .

The Side Guard had been backed into a corner by the Outsiders, so the chimeras had to go through the Outsiders to face them .

The Side Guards were relatively comfortable in carry on with the battle .

It was a golden opportunity .

At the time when Letris was singing merrily inside, his communication pad rang . It was contact from Desir’s communication pad .

[-I’m a member of the Starling Party, Romantica . I’ll cover you from now on, so please focus on retreating while the Outsiders deal with the chimeras . ]

Until now, communication had been disabled within the tower, yet the jamming spell had evidently disappeared at some point .

‘They inverted the jamming spell!’

A seemingly impossible chimera rampage as well as the restoration of vital communication equipment, which had been rendered useless until now .

Letris did not think that this series of events was accidental .

He assumed that they were all caused by Desir .

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