Lily and her sisters slowly stood up and dusted the dirt that covered their bodies as they looked back with shocked eyes at the mess they made.
“Isn’t this too much? Wasn’t this supposed to be a contained explosion? The entire hill had been vaporized!” Ivy asked as she looked around.
Luckily they vacated that area fast fearing that they would be traced by satellites if they waited for the explosion… This was a close call.
If Lily didn’t activate that Talisman in time after the explosion flash, they would have been very hurt right now due to the aftershock.
“Maybe a little,” Lily said as she silently cursed at her young master… He only told her that this would make a huge explosion… He never mentioned anything about a nuclear bomb scale… She was sure she did the calculations correctly.
The poor girl had no idea that below the control room, at the center of the base there was a hidden safe full of GEMs that Troy was keeping to operate his soul-suppressing formation.
Although the diffusion was not optimal because the GEMs' positions were not following the formation, the sheer number of them made that detail irrelevant.
“Where to now?” Ivy asked.
Lily frowned as she tried to call Victor’s phone, but failed to get a signal.
“Let’s go to our new base… The candidate’s test should finish soon.” Lily said after some hesitation. She had just realized that all of the Von Krone agents who were following her were nowhere to be found. This was a rare chance!
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Alpha frowned as she looked at Sebastian and Evan. She never expected that those two would be in the same car with Troy.
Now, she could easily figure out who the ones behind Troy were. It was none other than her mortal enemy, the von Zwei family.
“Do you know her?” Evan asked Sebastian.
“Yes master, she…. She was with the one who locked me in that vault.” Sebastian said after some hesitation, mentioning nothing about a certain arachne.
“Oh…” Evan's eyes twinkled as he looked at Alpha. He activated his inspection ability… This time it worked, making him smile in a very perverted way. She was a Von Richter… At last, he found one.
“A Von Richter… I didn’t expect you to come to my side by yourself.” He said, making her step back a little.
“A Von Richter?” Sebastian frowned… he didn’t hear this name before.
Alpha hesitated, Didn’t Victor tell her that she was safe? How did this guy find out?
No matter what, she was stronger than him. Even with Sebastian here, she will be able to kill him. But first, she must get rid of the distractions.
“Escape now… I will find you later.” She told the girls who got out of the car behind her and stepped back as they looked at Evan who was licking his lips as he looked at them.
She couldn't guarantee their safety, as she could see the survivors of Troy’s men begin to gather while preparing their guns as they looked at their master’s corpse…. Strangely enough, those men didn’t appear sad… As if Troy was not their boss.
The girls didn’t hesitate and ran away. No one followed them. Once Alpha was dead, they would use the contracts in Troy’s ring to get them back.
“Dear Sebastian, it seems like we are destined to be a master and an apprentice. This woman’s family massacred mine 20 years ago.” Evan lied, making Sebastian shocked.
“You were hurt by that young master Alex too?” He asked, making Sebastian freeze.
“Alex?”
“Yes… She works for Alex of the Thunder sect,” Sebastian said,
“Oh…… Something like that….” Evan said as he remembered that name…Alex. Sebastian was reluctant to say it earlier, he kept telling him it was a masked man… It seemed like he was still wary of him. This was expected though, taming a scion would take some time. That’s what the incomplete memories he had told him.
Suddenly Evan felt a sense of danger, he quickly dodged to the left, as Alpha who was standing a few feet away seemed to have decided to attack out of nowhere and threw a dagger at him.
“AHHHH….” A man who was standing behind Evan fell to the ground as he held his throat where the dagger landed.
“Idiot… Idiots, you would die if she attacked you like this. Transform quickly!” He ordered as Alpha dodged a fireball thrown by Sebastian and beheaded another man while wondering what Evan meant.
She knew the answer seconds later as the men began to change slowly… Some began to grow horns and some began to have extra hands.
“Master, what are those?” Sebastian asked as he looked at the men.
“Genetically modified warriors… The future!” Evan explained as he watched proudly. “They are all semi-players with supernatural powers that can rival any normal player.” He added. He didn’t attack straight away for two reasons. Alpha was way more powerful than him, and he wanted to test his men’s strength.
Alpha was horrified as she tried to decapitate the man as he transformed…. Too bad She missed because of a fireball by Sebastian. She could only cut his arm, which began to regrow at a visible spread…. She struck again, this time cutting his head. He finally died.
“Stop! It’s over.” Evan said as quickly realized that his men were rubbish in front of a true Von Richter.
Alpha didn’t care, she just turned to face the others. She wanted to throw another dagger but suddenly a strange sense of weakness took over her as she nearly fell to one leg.
“Do you like that?” Evan, who was watching her earlier, seemed to have taken out some kind of orb.
“This artifact reactivates your family seals…” He said, “We found it at .” He paused as he felt an earthquake. It was a light one but it made the entire mountain shake… This was not natural, probably caused by an explosion.
He frowned then looked again at Alpha who took the opportunity to take out a haste talisman and activated it, as she jumped and began to run at a very fast speed toward the forest… She kept burning talismans as she ran away… She was very decisive.
“Damn it! Why can she still use her strength? Why didn’t you stop her!” Evan asked in surprise, not realizing that Alpha’s lock was broken and could only lock 90% of her energy if activated. Alpha was only hidden from his family earlier due to Victor’s skills.
“Follow her quickly,” Evan ordered the men as he watched Sebastian run after her too… It made him curious what that young master Alex did to him to make him this spiteful.
Evan decided to follow quickly, he must get to her and eat her flesh as soon as she died, but he needed to do something first.
He quickly approached Troy’s corpse to take his ring which contained many important things…. It was gone! Troy’s entire hand was cut off cleanly. Damn it, that girl must have done it while she was attacking them.
Evan yelled angrily then began to run after them… After taking two steps he suddenly stopped as a strange sense of pain began to spread through his body.
“Ahhhh” He screamed as he fell to the ground… What was wrong with him? What is this pain?
He quickly took a healing pill… The pain dulled a little, then struck again, 10 times stronger.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” Evan screamed, “WHAT DID THAT B*TCH DO TO ME?” He asked as he growled in pain, not realizing that he was cursing at the wrong girl. His excited state when he saw Alpha seemed to have made Hana’s poison touch curse activate.
He had touched her earlier when he took her pulse… And now it was time for him to feel the curse’s pain.
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Alpha ran… She ran and ran again.
She didn’t like that, but she knew better than anyone that with her current state she can’t fight those men combined, let alone Evan.
Her power was locked to 10%... So she had about 50 points on every attribute.
5 times the strength of a normal man, but far away from Evan’s strength.
Didn’t Victor tell her that her lock was fixed by him? Why the hell was that man using it against her now… Didn’t he tell her that her identity would be hidden?
If she survived this, she will make sure to castrate that pervert Victor for revenge.
Thankfully, this place was near one of the four mountains surrounding Tetraquad city. That’s where she headed, intending to hide in the mountain’s lush forest.
Those monster men were on her track. Sebastian was too, she could hear his angry shouts every once in a while among the men’s howling.
Reaching the forest, she decided to start her counterattack using the darkness of the night. If her intuition was to be trusted, the artifact in Evan’s hand might be able to track her…
She didn’t know why he was not after her with the others, and that made her uneasy. But it also got her a chance. But she needed to kill as many of those men as possible before he arrived if she wanted to have a chance to escape.
She used her sky eye as she activated a hiding talisman blending with a tree. The men were spreading apart as they searched for her.
The first one to approach her was a man with three horns, he seemed to have good night vision as he stupidly stood below the tree she was at and began to look around.
He died a moment later when Alpha descended upon him, pushing her spear in his skull between his horns and then swirling it as she pulled back making sure he was dead.
She quickly climbed the tree again using a hook she prepared then jumped to another one as the man fell into a bloody pool alerting one of his friends who began to shout.
Alpha was tempted to shoot them with her gun, but chose not to do that as she could see that the men had strange shimmer-like scales on their bodies… She could tell that bullets were not powerful enough, only artifacts like the S-ranked Spear she took from Victor could work.
And a gun, even with a silencer would surly reveal her position to others.
She sneaked to another location and started waiting for another prey.
This time it was a man with two strange feelers on the top of his head.
Like with the other one, she descended upon him with her spear and he was dead in seconds, but this time she made a huge mistake.
She didn’t notice that this one had a tail with a barbed spike on its end coiled around his waist as a belt. The moment she descended, the tail coiled back and the spike struck her in her lower abdomen making her fall to the ground with her target’s corpse.
Alpha hissed and quickly tried to take the spike out, but failed, this damn thing seemed to have some protrusions that made taking it out without cutting half of her stomach impossible.
“Damn it.” She cursed as she heard the sound of approaching men. She quickly cut the tail with her spear and then struggled away with a poison-dripping spike, piercing her stomach.
That’s what she gets for being overly confident.
yup didn't listen now suffer
People are attributing Alpha's disobedience to Victor's incompetence... He clearly asked for her to use a rocket or a bomb but she was greedy and decided to do things on her own... What I see here is the author's way of disciplining Alpha or that what I hope it to be.
In a way... She will learn who is really the boss pretty soon. She is a good girl though.
@Akaichi mc is not the the boss yet , at this point he is just a bigger fish, so he also should learn from this expirience
@Akaichi she is also the ONLY one of Victor's girls who hasn't seen through him, despite all the times he pulled back the curtain for her. She isn't the swiftest, it seems.
@Akaichi but I thought she was a naughty girl.
@H-GO Eh, I feel like the big mistake was Alpha not using her immortal eye to confirm which vehicle her target was in as well as the other vehicle occupants as any proper assassin would. Amateur mistake that. Considering her lack of info and want to rescue the girls, I think she made the right choices. If only she kept running instead of trying to kill people when there is a scion chasing her. Again, amateur mistake.
@Akaichi How come the artifact affected Alpha though? Didn't Victor use his authority to unlock the bloodline? Both his authority and level are higher than Evan's, so I feel like the artifact shouldn't have worked. Just because he went unconscious doesn't mean his authority disappears, right? Also, I believe Victor mentioned Alpha needs to keep a certain distance away from Evan to avoid discovery. I don't know why she is surprised he found out she is a von Richter when she didn't keep her distance.
@ReadingAdict she tried and couldn't see through, I believe
@Blizzisme I meant she should have been watching the vehicles while parked until the occupants got in using her sky eye from a distance. I think it didn't even occur to her to check which one Troy was in until she was about to attack. I mean, for all she knew, Troy wasn't in any of them because she never confirmed her target got in the vehicles.
@ReadingAdict Victor didn't remove the lock, just opened it. Evan locked it again when Victor was asleep.
Victor was supposed to cover for her... That what he said. He didn't.
@Akaichi I know he didn't remove it, but using the blood slave status he set the lock to unlocked. Considering when Victor removed the curse from Alex he needed to use his authority and when he removed the curse from the soul gem he needed higher authority than the artifact creator, I would have thought changing the settings of a blood slave would require higher authority than the master since a blood slave is basically a cursed status. This obviously wouldn't prevent poisoning or something, but changing his blood slave's settings I would have thought needed to overcome his authority.
From chapter 204 this was said:
Victor said, "Don't worry about your safety, I will be using my skill to mask your bloodline. And as long as you don't use your skills and stay more than 10 feet away from him his detection skill will not pick you up." Victor reassured as her hand involuntarily shook.
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"I will be taking care of many idiots tonight, so I will leave Troy to you. He is in room 7, make sure to follow him when he leaves, you must kill him on his way back and not at the auction site… Nora is probably here following him too, she can help you."
We have seen Victor's disguise skill protect Hana right next to Evan, so that 10 feet limit must refer to the Horas' jewel rather than a skill as written (if she is going assassinating with her bloodline unlocked she would need this to mask her since she would be way outside the range of Victor's disguise skill). It also sounds to me like she is on her own (other than Nova who has been conspicuously absent) once she leaves the auction house to assassinate Troy. It just seems kind of inconsistent. The bloodline locking artifact was able to work on Alpha whose status is set by the SS rank skill Master seal, but the Horas' jewel (SS rank) is unable to defend against Evan's B level detection and identification skills.
@ReadingAdict the Horas' jewel is in the mansion, powering the array.
Victor only told her that because he feared that Evan's fake bloodline might react in an unexpected way if a real heir Like alpha was next to him. That's why he was on his toes when Evan approached Hana... Nothing happened in the end.
@Akaichi Uhh, you're telling me that Victor unlocked Alpha's bloodline and then sent her outside of the range of his disguise skill to kill someone without the Horas' Jewel to hide her? Wouldn't every von Richter sensor in the world go off immediately as soon as she left Victor's range? I seem to remember when her bloodline awoke at 5 years old she was tracked within an hour by the player's council. Why in the world would he send her out unprotected like that? His disguise skill still has limited range doesn't it?
@ReadingAdict Alpha is Victor's Blood Slave and some time back he gained the ability to use his skills through his blood slave, so Alpha is never actually out of range.
@Darkness_rave Doesn't he always sit down and close his eyes to focus on his blood slaves when he communicates with or uses abilities through them? It didn't seem like something he could do while multitasking.
@ReadingAdict She in not out of range... he is in a coma....
All of his skills were stoped as his system is restarting...
@ReadingAdict She has an eye power? I don't remember it thoug... but if she has this immortal eye then what the function of it?
@H-GO It's the sky eye she tried to use last chapter to figure out which car Troy was in. It failed though due to tinted windows, which is why she should have been watching the occupants get in the vehicle rather than hoping she could see inside a vehicle with an artifact that can only look down at something. Not really sure how it worked in the auction house when she was using it to look at Sebas and Evan though. There must need to be a certain clearance distance above something before hitting a ceiling for the sky eye to be able to work. She got it at the end of ch 189 gifts.