Chapter 327 – 327. The Exposed Breeding Grounds (1)
A scene of violence where buildings were shattered with fists and the remains of buildings kicked by legs flew through the air.
Federica had no choice but to watch her building collapse with a dazed expression.
“Oops, it looks like they didn’t install barriers or barriers to block external shocks.”
Originally, it was common sense to use a wide-area protective barrier for the entire territory to block attacks from the outside and invasion of monsters, and to protect the people.
But this is inside the manor.
Federica did not set up a separate protective barrier to protect her casino building.
Anyway, all the elements threatening his building exist outside the territory, and no one dared to openly fight against him from inside the territory.
Because she was a maniacal obsession with money, she didn’t have the desire to set up her own private barrier by paying expensive maintenance costs.
In fact, she ran the casino for five years, and had not encountered any problems, so it had been neglected until now, and now it has acted as a big ambush.
“Yeah, the protective equipment should have been installed properly.”
“This…”
“Or did you do some poor construction?”
“This bitch XXXXaaaaa!”
Federica’s rationality was finally cut off by Eun-hyeon’s behavior as she continued to speak and scratched at her own temper.
She immediately raised her hand and pointed at her sage.
“Kill!”
“Oohhh!”
As soon as the boss gave the order in a rough voice, the subordinates who were glaring at Eun-hyeon while holding weapons rushed at them in unison.
Eun-hyeon pulled back his waist and upper body, and slashed the dagger that pierced his neck.
After spinning the dagger in his palm and holding it in reverse, the dagger cut off the subordinate’s wrist.
“Cheak!”
Even if you hold a ‘weapon that reproduces history’ in your hand, it is still burdensome to face an attack that is swung head-on based on physical abilities enhanced by magical power.
‘A weapon is just a weapon.’
Even if the gap in each other’s physical abilities will be narrowed, it is impossible to equal or surpass them.
Eun-hyeon evaded dozens of blades that were being swung at her, aiming at a vital point and knocked out an incoming attack with her dagger, twisting the trajectory of the attack and letting it flow.
Skillfully covering the gap in physical ability with skill and experience, he responded to all incoming attacks and stabbed fiercely without missing a chance for a counterattack.
“Ah!”
He bent his upper body into the thug’s arms, stabbed him in the side, and twisted his wrist holding the dagger.
Powering the blade, he cut the flesh from his side and kicked the gangster in the leg, knocking him down.
“… Hmm.”
Eun-hyeon defeated all the gangsters inside the abandoned building and stared at the entrance where Federica had been until just before.
[Is it okay to send it like that?]
“Well, if there was a problem, I wouldn’t have sent it.”
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“Shit!”
Federica, who left the abandoned building to take care of Eun-hyeon to his subordinates and headed straight for the casino hotel, spat out disgust.
As we entered the city, the situation became even more confusing.
The villagers and the audience, who were selling food and products at the stalls, were in a state of panic to get as far away from the destroyed casino building as possible.
In the meantime, a gangster found Federica and a vacant seat heading toward the collapsed casino hotel, and hurriedly approached and talked to them.
“Bo, Boss!”
“What happened!”
“That, that… ! At the entrance of the hotel, a blue carriage made of iron suddenly jumped out of the ground, and the carriage turned into a golem…”
“What?”
“The wagon turned into a golem and suddenly raised its fists and started smashing through the hotel!”
“What bullshit are you talking about!”
Federica burst into a roar at the explanation of the subordinate who did not know the reason.
The story of the wagon suddenly protruding from the floor, or the wagon turning into a golem, was like a cloud that I couldn’t understand at all.
However, the incomprehensible part of the story described by the subordinate has something in common with the scene that Federica, who was in a distant place, had also witnessed.
“Whoa… Good. Yes I think you are right Then where is the golem that destroyed my casino hotel?”
“That, that…”
The subordinate hesitated and hesitated to say something.
Annoyed by her hesitant attitude, Federica continued her words with a frown on her face.
“Tell me quickly.”
“After destroying the building, it disappeared into the ground again…”
“…”
Federica, who had heard her subordinate’s explanation, moved her steps without letting go of her bitter expression.
“Boss! It is dangerous to go now.”
“Leave this! What happened, I’ll have to check it myself!”
The vacancy officer tried to dissuade her from going to the dangerous area where the building collapsed on her own feet, but Federica was not calm enough to hear that.
“… All right.”
In the end, the vacancy could not stop the boss’s stubbornness.
Her stubbornness to carry out a decision once she made it was already famous within the organization.
And so again, when Federica reached the casino hotel with the number of vacancies following her.
“More than this approach is impossible!”
A young soldier, who had been setting up a round perimeter around the collapsed casino hotel to prevent and control people from entering, stepped out in front of Federica and the vacancy to block them both.
“What. You?”
“Yes?”
“Do you know who I am?”
“That, that…”
Of course I knew.
Even among the soldiers guarding the territory, it is an unspoken rule to avoid conflict with her and her mafia members.
However, the young soldier who was tasked to control the situation by dispatching to the scene of the incident took precedence over the given role and manual rather than the tacit rule.
There was nothing wrong with that, but it was a handshake in that it offended Federica.
“Get out of the way right now. That’s my building Of course I have the right to find out what happened!”
“I’m sorry, Federica Brodia. From now on, no further entry is possible except for soldiers and knights.”
A middle-aged voice stopped Federica from trying to force her way inside the perimeter, pushing the young soldier who stood in her way.
“… Who?”
When a middle-aged knight with a shaggy beard broke into the scuffle between Federica and the soldiers, Federica narrowed her eyes and glared at him.
“I am the vice-captain of the Saviros Knights, and I am in charge of the current situation.”
“What on earth did you guys do until my building collapsed?”
“I can’t even give you an excuse for that, and I’m really sorry.”
“The golem that destroyed my casino hotel?”
“That is…”
The vice-captain explained everything, starting with the story of how the steel golem suddenly appeared and suddenly disappeared.
The vice-captain answered Federica’s protests, asking how the knights and soldiers tasked with keeping the duchy safe until their own building collapsed let go of the golem instead of defeating it.
“It seems that a very high level of magic barrier was imprinted on it.”
It is said that the strength was at a level that a normal soldier’s sword could not even scratch, let alone hit the hard armor.
“In the end, they succeeded in making the blue steel golem stagger by pouring fire-type magic from the mages, but the moment the knights tried to attack the staggered golem, the golem was suddenly sucked into the magic circle that developed from the floor, and in an instant They are said to have disappeared.”
“… Tsk.”
After hearing the explanation so far from the vice-captain, Federica clicked her tongue and did not let go of her frown.
“Have you been able to figure out the identity of the magic circle?”
Although Federica was just a commoner,
The vice-captain didn’t care at all about the middle-aged man who was almost 20 years younger than him, talking inappropriately.
He knew of Federica’s father’s friendship with Duke Xaviros, the lord of this place in the past.
Because she knew that the arrogant attitude of inheriting her father’s position and now being seen as the boss of the mafia that controlled the underworld was already in place by default.
The vice-captain calmly nodded and answered Federica’s question.
“At that time, according to the wizards who were there… It is said that it is highly likely that it was an unknown skill imprinted with a high-ranking, possibly high-ranking spell that could not be interpreted at his own level.”
“…”
The more I listened to the story, the more absurd I felt.
It was because it sounded like the dukedom had to invest an enormous amount of effort and time just to deal with the golem.
And circumstantially, the owner of the golem is a man with white hair who he kidnapped and dragged to the abandoned building.
Federica was properly aware of her sense of incongruity that came to her mind belatedly.
‘Perhaps…’
Couldn’t that man have been acting like a double-headed thief up until now in order to be caught by him on purpose?
“And there is one oddity.”
“Strange thing?”
“Not a single death has been reported.”
“… What?”
“No, let alone deaths, there are only a few seriously injured people, and most of the victims are minor injuries. Not a single fatality occurred in the collapse of this building.”
At his own casino hotel, the number of employees working there is roughly over 700 people.
If you consider the number of customers who were playing games at the casino, it is well over 1,500 and even close to 2,000.
Can those thousands of people survive safely without a single death in the wreckage of falling ceilings as the building collapses?
Absolutely impossible.
If so, I couldn’t help but think that someone had encouraged this situation by some means.
The fact that he destroyed only the building called the casino hotel while minimizing the damage to life that many people might have sacrificed is like a challenge to himself, the owner of that building.
The goal of the silver-haired man who owns the golem that destroyed the building is unmistakably revenge against himself.
“Dare… Me…”
Federica’s fists trembled at the fact that she had demolished the building that was the symbol of the Brodia mafia, which her father had planned, built, and spent time and effort on.
“Seoksu. Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
“Where are you going?”
“To Duke Saviros. I know who the owner of the golem that destroyed my building is.”
To touch oneself means to touch all members of this mafia, and furthermore, to touch this dukedom.
Besides, it was Eun-hyeon who had carried out the attack that was like a terrorist attack in the middle of the city.
There was enough justification to motivate the knights of the duchy.
Now, after preserving his face and body intact, he gave up the idea of selling them to male prostitutes.
He was seized by a strong urge to bury Eun-hyeon alive in the ground by mobilizing all of his wealth and personal connections.
“Wait. It’s this dog.”
Leaving behind the rubble of the collapsed casino hotel building, Federica gnashed her teeth as she tried to move her steps toward the mansion of the Duke of Xaviros.
“Boo, vice-captain! It’s a big deal!”
“What’s going on!”
While digging through the rubble of the casino hotel building and searching for possible survivors, a soldier jumped out and found the vice-captain.
At the urgent soldier’s voice, Federica stopped her steps and looked back at her.
“No way… ?”
An ominous thought popping up in my head again.
“In a secret underground facility discovered… A large number of monsters are rising to the ground!”
Ooh oh oh!
The knights and soldiers who were controlling the situation on the ground began to flinch and stiffen at the sound of the monster’s roar that shook the ground.
“This, this…”
“Mino… Tauros?”
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The ground vibrates with every step forward.
A lot of people fell into a state of panic at the appearance of the beast that lifted, kicked, and shattered the wreckage of the building and slowly revealed itself to the ground.
A soldier got tired of contemplation and couldn’t help but shout out the question that came to his mind.
“Why is there a demon inside the territory!”
