Chapter 659 – Release
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Commander Karaz, Basmore was watching the video of the black masked woman escaping.
Her appearance was unstoppable as she broke through the military’s siege in an instant, ignored the drone attacks, and headed toward the central palace.
Looking at the white skin above the mask, she looked like a Pantheran resident.
However, it is unlikely that she is a native Pantheran.
There is no way a resident of Panteran could have a suit with such high performance, and her abilities make even less sense.
Pantheran residents live in a world where information is tightly controlled. The culture and knowledge they enjoy was provided entirely through the military.
The military neither provides combat training to residents nor provides such information or knowledge.
They cannot have the same magic rank as the Masked Woman, and even if an Irregular is born, they will be immediately excluded from the city.
Bessmore did not believe what the masked woman said was that she was doing it for the peace of the city. It makes no sense for her to be a hero in a city where there is no crime in the first place.
She clearly thought there was another purpose.
But I don’t know that.
“What came out of the comprehensive investigation?”
Beth More asked her lieutenant.
“No.”
“What about interrogation of prisoners?”
I knew they had been interrogated once before coming to Karaz, but an interrogation officer with strong mental abilities was called in to re-interrogate the prisoners.
High-intensity interrogation that interferes with the mind can cause mental abnormalities, so even the military refrained from using it except in extreme situations, but still enforced it.
“There was no information that could be considered unusual during the interrogation.”
“Rebellion guys too?”
She thought that the humans of Rebellion were the strongest motive for the crime.
They had sympathy for the Pantheran citizens, and they were people who would have taken action if they had known what Laurent was doing.
“Yes, the alibi is clear… They say they haven’t even made a clear plan yet.”
There is an unusual organization operating secretly within Zephyria… Gregory’s story becomes more realistic.
‘But how did we get here?’
This is a military area that is quite far from Zephyria’s residence. It was also a place of great secrecy, with few people, even high-ranking military officers, knowing its exact location.
Moreover, Karaz cannot be entered unless it is a designated route. Hellion is probably the only one that can sneak in without being detected.
Karaz has never allowed an intruder since it was created.
But it was broken.
“Is it a coincidence that you went to Bongin?”
“It is unlikely that he knew what was inside the palace. I think it would be fair to say he used it to elude the military.”
What the adjutant said made sense.
Nevertheless, Basmore’s discomfort did not go away.
Karaz is a very old region that dates back to the days when Helena ruled. It is true that it was originally created to imprison vicious criminals who could not be rehabilitated.
However, Helena was sealed, and the first task became protecting Helena’s seal.
Of course, that was long before Basmore sat in command,
Helena’s seal has not been touched by a single person in over 8,000 years.
Given that situation… I don’t know what it was like in the early days of the sealing, but now there is no Commander Karaz who cares about Helena’s sealing.
However, I don’t know if it was by chance or intentional, but an entity appeared that invaded even close to Helena Bonge.
Basmore was troubled as to what to do with this matter.
“For Gregory…”
The adjutant carefully asks about Besmore’s intentions.
Gregory had said that if there was anything strange among the prisoners, he should report it to him.
‘Insolent…’
Besmore didn’t like the way Gregory acted like a superior.
“It’s done. It’s still okay.”
There was something, but no major problems actually occurred. The inmate did not escape, nor was there a problem with Helena’s seal.
Bassmore believed that it was still a problem he could solve on his own.
He is already acting as a commander in a remote area called Karaz for disciplinary purposes, and the biggest reason was that he did not know what kind of negative impact this incident would have on his personnel.
Bassmore thought of a being that had deceived his senses and escaped.
‘Space movement?’
There were no signs of spatial movement.
If there was enough energy to move through space, there is no way he wouldn’t notice.
“I don’t know.”
I think there’s a sharp robber hiding in the house…
Should I say that I feel like I can’t find where I am?
I don’t know when that intensity will come out, so I can’t help but be concerned.
‘No way… ? Was it Helena’s doing?
Because he is under unexpected stress, he has strange thoughts.
I know that Helena is the woman who ruled Zephyria before Hellion.
Being the ruler of the planet Zephyria is not just a simple position. He is a position that can only be ascended with absolute power.
It is something that Basmore cannot dare to look up to.
The fact that such a being was sealed is itself a miracle.
I couldn’t even imagine how they sealed her.
‘It would be fair to say that Hellion is that great.’
Since it was such a monster, it could have had an impact on the outside world even when it was sealed.
“What is the status of the seal?”
The adjutant said while manipulating the hologram.
“Nothing wrong.”
Nothing is certain.
“The only thing that is certain is…”
She says that the suspicious masked woman seems to have a grudge against Laurent.
Laurent is the starting point of everything.
Other soldiers touched the Pantheran women, but the masked woman showed no special reaction.
Both the first and the second appeared solely targeting Laurent.
‘I don’t understand why they even infiltrated Karaz just because of a grudge…’
Her masked woman’s abilities were such that even Beth More could not easily see them.
If she had the ability, it would be much easier to get revenge when she was in Zefia than in Karaz, and it was a reasonable decision.
Even though security in Zephia is strictly managed, it is much easier to operate than Karaz, which is a military zone.
“…”
It’s not that I didn’t have questions, but… I didn’t have a choice.
If it’s not Laurent, she doesn’t see any connection.
Beth More, who was lost in thought for a moment, opened her mouth.
“What happened to that guy named Laurent?”
“My lower body was completely crushed, and I am receiving treatment.”
Even though the black masked woman was running away, she still went out of her way to kill Laurent. Even if there were some unresolved questions, it was right to think that she had something to do with him.
Beth More decided to try her lure, Laurent, once more.
This time she was caught openly setting her trap, so she didn’t think the chances of her getting caught were high. But since she didn’t have anything to do, she couldn’t think of any other sharp moves.
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When Laurent opened her eyes, it was a pure white hospital room.
She remembered participating in a military operation and feeling the pain of her lower body being crushed by the masked woman’s sledgehammer and losing consciousness.
“Damn… I never thought it would be such a monster…”
Laurent unconsciously looked at his lower body. And she noticed that there was a feeling of foreignness.
This is because her own feet, exposed outside of her patient gown, were made of metal.
“What is this…”
While Laurent was talking, the door to her hospital room opened and a military doctor and a military investigator she had seen once came in.
“How did this happen?!”
Laurent questioned the military doctor with a devastated face.
“It was completely shattered from the hips down. I thought it would take quite some time for regenerative treatment, so I cut it off in a hurry and made artificial organs and a lower body and attached it. There will be no discomfort in moving.”
The military doctor explained the treatment situation calmly.
“Are you saying that? Shouldn’t we have done regenerative treatment from the beginning?!”
“Unfortunately, we said we didn’t have time, so we took this action.”
“Time?! What time do you mean?”
The investigator next to the military doctor opened his mouth with a cold face.
“We believe that the suspicious woman holds a bitter grudge against you. The commander wants the operation to be carried out quickly. She cannot afford to take her time and use regenerative therapy.”
“Are you telling me to take part in the operation again after seeing what happened to me?!”
Laurent expressed her anger by rolling up her shiny metal legs.
“You can be angry at me, but I can’t help it. As I said before, this is not a recommendation. It’s an order from above. You have no right to refuse.”
“Fuck! Don’t do it!!”
Even when Laurent was lying on his stomach, the investigator’s eyes were cold.
The very next day, Laurent was tasked with handling Karaz’s waste.
Resistance was useless.
Laurent, who suffered miserably from being whipped, begged her to participate in the operation in less than two days.
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It was about a month after the Sunni trap investigation incident.
Prisoners who had been captured by the military were released.
I headed to Nora’s clinic to see her face after being released from prison.