Chapter 1353 Decoy Party and Luring
Chapter 1353 Decoy Party and Luring
News about the peril on the other side of the Elpida Alliance reached even Ratmawati City.
President Sebrof received the news through a private communication line, he was sitting in his office, and waved away the holographic interface in front of him. He had read the entire message and what the higher-ups of the Elpida Alliance wanted him to do.
At the end of it, he exhaled roughly before tapping on a holographic button on his table.
Once he did, his secretary came inside.
"You need me, president?"
"Bring Richard here, it's an emergency"
"I'll contact his people right away"
Several minutes passed as the secretary went to do her task.
President Sebrof calmed his stress by lighting up a cigarette while viewing the cityscape.
But the door was once again knocked before the cigarette wasn't half-done, his secretary came back and quickly informed, "His people said Sir Richard is busy and could not come, they are suggesting a meeting next morning"
"God damn it!" President Sebrof cursed, his patience thinning. "Call him here right now!"
Startled, the secretary quickly called once again.
President Sebrof very rarely burst like this so she was flustered.
Each ring in her earpiece made her heart pounded harder, she was praying that the person on the other side would answer. But the rings continued for a bit longer, until it was cut off, the call was not answered.
Slowly, the secretary turned towards the impatient president and hesitantly shook her head.
It was only then did the veins of fury rose to President Sebrof's face.
He instantly grabbed his suit—and headed to the door with wide strides, storming out of the office and even slamming the door behind him. From the outside of the building—a streak of red lightning shot from the rooftop, disappearing into the night sky.
Nearby, in the business district of sector 2, outside of a six-star hotel.
Several platoons of soldiers—clad in Elpida Alliance's advanced combat armor could be seen all around the hotel, protecting and keeping the surroundings safe. All of their weapons were poised in their hands to shoot anything they deemed threats.
Even then, the place was crowded, there was a party at the top-most floor of the hotel.
Expecting another uneventful night, the soldiers were at ease.
But that quickly changed when their radar spotted a surge of mana nearby, a blinking red dot flashed on the screen as something was approaching them at near-high hypersonic speed, it sliced through the sky in an instant.
Realizing this, two powerful soldiers channeled their mana and flew skywards.
Both of them were aiming to intercept this approaching figure.
Considering the lack of ninth-rank realms of this caliber in Ratmawati City, there were only a few individuals who could be moving at such a speed. Both of them are Cessation Knights—the red color of their combat armor shows their high-rank status.
Peering at the approaching red lightning in the distance, the two frowned.
It was definitely President Sebrof.
"What should we do? We can't possibly stop him from barging inside"
"No, we could. Sebrof wouldn't have the guts to go through us, Cessation Knights"
Confident, the Cessation Knight on the right moved, using a water surf to glide in the air, and stood in the path, between President Sebrof—and the hotel. His aura exploded, showing that he was also of the ninth-rank realm.
"Stop right there!" He shouted, pointing his gun toward the streak of red lightning.
Despite his display, the red lightning didn't slow down.
Realizing this, the Cessation Knight sweated a little but he stood his ground.
"President Sebrof! Stop! Or else I'll be forced to shoot!" He shouted again, this time louder.
But as opposed to achieving what he wanted, he received the opposite instead.
"Out of my way!!"
Blitz!
President Sebrof roared and charged through the Cessation Knight, his momentum crashed against the poor soldier and sent him crashing down like a shooting star. His water surf was destroyed by the red lightning.
Fueled with nothing but anger, President Sebrof blasted his way through the hotel.
He shattered the window walls of the topmost floor and landed inside.
Not expecting his sudden, violent appearance, the people who were partying and drinking to their hearts' content yelped and screamed in surprise, those who were near where President Sebrif landed got blasted away, slamming onto other people.
Most of them were Awakened so none of them died from the crash.
Even if they were, President Sebrof didn't care.
"Richard! Come out, right now!" He thundered, sweeping his wrathful gaze at the crowd.
Realizing that the music was still playing—President Sebrof pointed at the DJ, and shot a red lightning strike from his index finger, destroying the entire deck and shutting down the music—highlighting the dead silence of the entire floor.
Once again, he swept his furious gaze to the crowd, causing them to shudder.
President Sebrof's eyes were crackling with red lightning viciously.
He was so furious that his element was going on a rampage.
It had long, deadly quills and was as big as a house.
Swoosh!
Just then, his eyes widened when the hedgehog's quills erected and fired to the sky.
Like missiles, the rock-like quills flew to the sky before descending down again.
"Incoming!" He shouted, telling the other Dark Elf as the two made a sharp turn, separating.
Each time the rock quill landed, the ground quaked from its devastating weight.
"We are going to die!" the other Dark Elf shouted from the other side.
He was completely fine but he was exaggerating.
Hearing this—the Dark Elf Captain roared, "Shut up and focus! I don't really want to die here! Let's get this thing to the rally point!"
Several miles from their location.
Another Dark Elf captain could be seen at the steep edge behind a waterfall, the other Dark Elves were a distance away from him—helping him suppress his aura to sneak inside a cave right behind the waterfall.
Peeking inside, he created a hand made of dark nature energy.
He elongates it and grabs ahold of something inside the cave, right beside a creature.
Upon firming his grip on it, he immediately yanked it.
Hugging a massive egg the size of his own body, the thing that he pulled, the captain didn't waste even a single second and sprinted outside. He leaped through the waterfall and went into the water.
"Fire! Fire! Now!" He shouted desperately.
HISS!!
A hissing sound thundered as a mutated snake with a skin of rock emerged.
Seeing this, the other Dark Elves stationed outside fired their arrows to buy the captain time.
Despite the barrage of arrows, none of them were able to pierce—the mutated snake's skin, not even its eyes were harmed by an arrow, directly striking them. All arrows bounced off of its body.
Nevertheless, the captain reached the edge before the snake submerged in the water.
It was furious from having its egg taken from it like this.
Just like the two locations, another mutated animal was also disturbed by the Dark Elves.
Iris was the one who led the last location and she was in a way worst situation.
On her back was a mutated plant, heaving with electricity.
A mutated plan that exudes an intense amount of lightning aura.
Her mutated black panther was galloping hard underneath her, the battalion she was leading was following her from behind—closely. Glancing to her behind, she gritted her teeth, as she viewed the sight of a streak of lightning bouncing from tree to tree.
From the brief moment of pauses, the streak of lightning was a mutated animal.
A mutated hare to be exact and it was extremely fast.
Unlike the other Knights who were handled by the other battalions, this one is the strongest.
Even the surrounding trees were already influenced by its power, turning into lightning trees.
Despite their increased speed in the forest, the mutated hare picked—the other Dark Elves one by one, striking with great precision. Its favorite mutated plant was taken, and it wasn't going to let the Dark Elves go.
Iris, in particular, was its target.
"Your Majesty, I hope this is really enough or we're all doomed..." She whispered.
Three pseudo-tenth-rank realm Knights were coming to the rally point.
A glade, an opening of the forest that stretched wide.
Standing there were two figures, one restrained while the other was not.
Rex was standing there with his arms stretched to the side, looking at the darkening sky.
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