Chapter 562 – Attraction
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Dark city.
The streetlight that was softly illuminating the quiet back alley blinks.
A faint spark sprang from his back. And the electric current flowing from there fell to the floor, creating the shape of a beautiful girl.
The beautiful girl’s black outfit clung to her body, exposing her picturesque figure.
Sunni looked around.
Because it was an unpopular back alley, no one seemed to have seen her.
Suni’s body soon turned transparent and disappeared.
She turned invisible and headed upward, stepping on the wall of the building next to her.
Suni climbed up to the roof of the building without difficulty and was able to see the cityscape.
“Is this Meridian?”
It was a city with a unique atmosphere.
I don’t know if it’s a retro concept, but it gives off the feel of a 1940s American city.
Meridian was an underground city in Zephyria with a long history of nearly 10,000 years.
So is it like this?
That’s probably not it.
Even though it is old, it has enough technology to create an underground city. The technology itself would have been developed incomparably with the modern Earth.
However, looking at the fact that this style of city was created, I wonder if architecture with this atmosphere was popular at the time.
Suni worked hard to develop her abilities while staying in Zephiria.
Her owner, Unho, didn’t say anything, but it was because she was unfairly treated as an incompetent bitch by Chaos.
Now, as Zephyria’s system is being interfered with, the abilities on Earth are coming out little by little.
What if you can continue to grow here and interfere in the depths of the Zephyria archive?
If that happens, she will be able to demonstrate her absolute power in ‘Link’, which can be called Zephyria’s online.
‘Then Chaos, you could flatten this cheeky nympho’s nose…’
Unfortunately, it is still only possible to interfere at a low security level.
But with that alone, a lot could be done.
Being able to move around the city in an instant in this way is one of its abilities.
If you were simply moving around the city, there was no need for such a high level of security intervention.
The reason Sunni came to Meridian was to lift the blockade of Selby.
She originally thought about attacking a military facility. But that seemed like a too blatant goal, so she changed her direction to targeting where Helena’s information was located.
To that end, Suni first asked Veronica where other clues about Helena were located.
Veronica, who had opened up somewhat to the Bark family, told her about a few cities that only she knew about that were believed to contain important information about Helena.
So, the target was Meridian.
The reason why Suni chose this place is that the party’s next target was Trancon, the city where ‘Rudel’ is expected to be located.
Meridian was so far away from Trancon that it could be said to be on the other side of the planet.
Veronica, a Helena fan, also assumed that information about Helena was located in a city called Meridian, but did not know the exact location.
Sunni wasn’t too worried about that.
He knew that the military was controlling Helena’s information. And it is likely that the place has a high level of security that she cannot interfere with.
Then the story becomes simple.
Because of the high security level, you only need to search for places you cannot see, so the search range is dramatically reduced.
This world has some similarities with Earth.
That means that everything on Earth is connected through ‘links’ called the Internet.
Sunni took out one of his earrings from his inventory.
This is something that can be called Zephyria’s smartphone.
This too was a ‘link’.
In Zephyria, whether it is the Internet or a smartphone, it is collectively called a ‘link’.
Part of Suni’s consciousness is sucked into the link.
The city’s network security cameras, vehicle black boxes, and police drones became her eyes.
Her consciousness travels through the city on a link.
Of course, I couldn’t see places with high security levels.
It is understandable that you cannot see inside a building that appears to be a corporate headquarters. But I can’t see a place that looks like nothing?
It’s quite suspicious.
Putting her earring link back into her inventory, Suni maintained her invisibility and began to quickly run across the rooftop of the building, heading towards the suspicious area that she could not see.
She realized that the height of the building was lowered, and at some point there were no cars or people on the street.
It is not a slum.
The streets were neatly organized.
As she walked down the street, she found a large mansion.
The mansion, with its high security level, seemed quite suspicious to her.
Suni jumped over her fence and entered the grounds of her mansion.
As soon as she entered, she realized that there were quite a few high-level security measures in place that she could not interfere with.
‘Transparency won’t have much of an effect…’
Nevertheless, Suni crossed her garden and headed to the main gate of the mansion.
The door to the mansion was locked.
-Usik!
She just broke her handle and went in.
It was dark inside her mansion, but it didn’t matter whether it was bright or dark to her as she wasn’t human.
I didn’t feel like I was popular.
She had a vague feeling from the garden, but the inside was also clean, probably because she cleaned it regularly.
Although it wasn’t ordinary, it looked like a rich man’s mansion with nothing special.
If you leave out the blatant sense of surveillance.
Sunni pretended not to notice the gaze, and leisurely walked around her mansion, looking for information about Helena.
As Suni was wandering around the mansion, she came across a family photo hanging on the wall in a large room.
“Hmm? What about this?”
She thought it was a photo at first… But it was a painting. When I looked closely, I could see traces of paint.
Suni put the picture hanging on the wall into the inventory. And the moment I try to look around again.
-Slap!
The door was opened and eight soldiers in military suits came in and pointed their guns.
In her invisible state, Sunni could not see her, but their guns were pointed precisely at her.
『You trespassed into a restricted area. I warn you. Kneel quietly and show yourself.』
Sunni, of course, had no intention of doing so and threw her body through her window. She was on the second floor, but that wasn’t a big deal to Suni.
Pulses erupt from the muzzles of the soldiers who saw it.
-Passy!!
Her non-lethal gauss gun couldn’t hit her.
-Click!!
Sunni broke her window and jumped out of her mansion.
Soldiers were also waiting outside the mansion.
Her black magic bloomed from her body and created a large and heavy armored figure.
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Belger was experiencing difficulties in the investigation of unidentified reinforced armor guys.
It has been determined that the group that was put in the suspect list is almost certainly not the group.
There was almost no evidence to pursue.
Belger had no choice but to wait for them to appear again. This is because it was unlikely that a group with such force would remain silent.
However, the unidentified group of colorful reinforced armor never appeared after that.
“Chief! This is a response to an intruder at Meridian’s mansion.”
“If it’s Meridian…”
There was also a mansion there managed by the Helena Intelligence Department.
There were troops permanently stationed nearby, and they blocked humans from approaching the mansion in advance. Naturally, thanks to such blatant management, few people approached.
Belger could barely remember when the alarm sounded in Meridian.
“How many are there?”
“It’s one guy. It looks like he’s cloaked.”
“These bastards are missing. Just one of them is breaking in, and you can’t even stop it? I need to go and enforce some discipline.”
Cloaking is not a special technique.
There was a security system in operation there that could not be penetrated by cloaking.
The fact that a signal came here also meant that only one person was allowed to enter the mansion.
“What about the guards?”
“We have already been dispatched to subdue the intruder.”
Belger thought he would soon receive a report that the intruder had been subdued.
“Boo, boss!”
“… What is it?”
Adjutant Langco’s call was unusual.
A holographic screen appears in front of Belger.
“This is…”
A black reinforced armor that looks like something you’ve seen somewhere.
“It’s finally arrived. The city has been ordered to be completely blocked. All troops in the city must be deployed to capture it. Are there other cities close to Meridian?”
“There is a mother and a redden.”
“Deploy all the troops there. And tell the mayor of Meridian. If there is even one hole that couldn’t be plugged this time, be prepared.”
“Oh, I understand.”
Belger’s eyes were shining coldly.
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『There is a chase between the military and black reinforced armor in Meridian. The time of the incident is estimated to be around 02:00… Looking at the route…』
“That… Chaos Black… Is salty.”
This was Chaos’s assessment after seeing the breaking news.
Chaos Black, the black reinforced armor that appeared on the news, was running through the city. And the military forces and drones chasing after them rain down attacks that are close to bombing attacks on Chaos Black.
Sunni, posing as Chaos Black, was nimbly avoiding the military’s fierce offensive, adding to the damage to the city.
It was a splendid escape.
It was being broadcast live throughout Zephyria.
“No, it’s ridiculous that they can’t even hit a single one of those. Zephyria’s abilities are truly pathetic. Even if I aim with my feet, it’ll be better than that.”
“Hey… Didn’t you say that the reinforced armor is Suni?”
Veronica asks in bewilderment when Chaos looks disappointed.
“Chairman, what are you misunderstanding? I was just cursing Zephyria-kun’s patheticness.”
Sunni wasn’t worried.
If it was just about running away, Suni had far superior abilities than me.
Sunni was originally a formless being.
It is said that she obtained the spirit seed and took on the form of a woman, but that is her body made of her magic.
Suni was a being close to the mental body made up of only soul and magic power. So, running away here wasn’t a problem.
As expected, the Zephyria army left only significant damage to the city and ultimately missed Sunni’s whereabouts.
And within a few days, Selby’s blockade was lifted.
Instead, Meridian was blockaded.
Sunni’s plan was successful.
