6kv Chapter 801: They're Still Around
Chapter 801: They're Still Around
I turned towards the Queen, "It can't be a case of you forgetting to close it, right?"
Levianne shook her head, "That's not possible."
Then that could only mean one thing...
I pulled out my Light Sword and called up Eins, Zwei and Drei while making sure the rest were ready to pop out from my shadow at any time.
If this guy was able to sneak all the way inside the palace and open the vault without anyone noticing, I wasn't going to take any chances.
Levianne seemed to have the same idea as well since the aura around her suddenly changed and she was no longer smiling either.
I took the lead and slowly pushed open the door that led to the vault.
The well oiled hinges made no sound as the door swung inwards, allowing us to step inside.
The first thing I noticed was that the room was in a complete mess. Things had been thrown all around the room like a tornado had blown through the room.
The next thing I noticed was the fact that there was a hooded guy currently tossing things around and making an even bigger mess of the place.
There was no doubt this guy was responsible for the state of the room so I immediately called my Shadow Guards to rush towards him while I shot a [Static Bolt] at him.
I would think that Levianne preferred capturing him alive to interrogate him so that's why I was using a non-lethal spell against him.
However, the thief noticed my spell heading towards him and he quickly dodged it by stepping to the side.
My Shadow Guards quickly fired their own [Static Bolt] at him as well, their magic spells flying towards him from different directions.
The thief didn't even panic as he deftly avoided all three shots by dodging and weaving through them.
I took that opportunity to try and use [Screened] on him, only to frown when I saw what was displayed in front of me.
[Name: Error
Title: Error
Race: Error
Gender: Error...]
I shut off the screen since the rest of it was pretty much the same.
This guy managed to either find a way to render [Screened] ineffective or that he has some kind of artefact that hides it.
Whatever, let's just beat him up first.
The only reason why this guy is still standing is only because I needed to capture him alive while he had no qualms in killing me.
That... And also I was fighting him one on one of course.
I'm still surprised that he is able to match me though, which means that this guy is pretty strong.
"Are you gonna talk?" I asked, trying to see if I could get something out of him.
Unfortunately, it does not look like he was interested in talking as he leapt into the air with his sword raised above his head.
I jumped back to avoid the attack which seemed to have been the right move as earthen spikes shot out from the ground the moment he smashed at where I had been moments ago.
I'm guessing he wasn't talking because he was busy chanting.
While he was still recovering from the earlier attack, I charged in and stabbed my sword towards his side, aiming to impale him with my blade.
He swung his sword in an arc to deflect my blade away and I tried to punch him again.
As I had expected him to do, he caught my fist in his hands to block the blow but that was where he made the mistake.
"[Static Shock]," I whispered, pretending I had been chanting a spell this entire time.
His body tensed up as he tried to pull back from me but that was too late as the spell was activated through my fist and the electrical current jumped from me to him, paralysing him for that short moment.
That moment was enough for me to pull back and spin myself three hundred and sixty degrees to smash the flat of my blade against the side of his head.
The thief was sent flying through the air but I still wasn't taking any chances so I shot a [Static Bolt] after him, the projectile hitting him right as he landed back down on the ground and paralysing him again.
I leapt towards him and raised up my sword before smashing my pommel to his face, only to hear a loud crack that did not sound like what a bone breaking would make.
The hood finally fell away to reveal a male Mahun looking at me with a confused expression on his face.
I was just about to question him when I realised that my blow had broken something that had rolled off to the back of his hood.
I snatched up the things that were broken to inspect it and I felt irritation welling up within me when I realised just what I had broken.
It was the same mask that that stupid brainrot Off-Worlder had used to control other people to do his bidding back at the border of our kingdom.
God damn it... That means there's actually more than one of that stupid artefact and this break in was perpetrated by the same group that I had thought I had dealt with...
Does this mean there is someone else that is also part of the group within the capital city itself?
Or... Maybe the leader himself is actually right under our very noses?
Either way... It looks like my work isn't over yet.
Fuck...