Fredrick the Third walks through the underground passageway beneath the Heller residence. As he slowly travels through, he takes note of his surroundings, he flashes the pendant around his neck to the guards patrolling the area. The area surrounding him was a dark corridor with torches along the side. He covers his eyes as he enter an bright room. He then enters – as his partners call it – the 'Love Lair' only to have music fill his ears.
The room has glowing floating lights, revealing plenty of women clad in very scant outfits. Each one of them is marked by a number. He passes several Nobles as they gradually put down an Auction Paddle when their newly bought pleasure walks up to them so that they can proceed to their rooms to begin to service them.
He walks past several rooms ignoring the noises emanating from them, only stopping once he makes it to his destination, which has several guards on each side.
Behind them is a heavily decorated door that he pays little attention to as he approaches the men.
"Sir Heller, Sir Fredrick the Third is requesting an audience."
A Butler states staring at the door.
He hears a muffled groan"Let him in" before he is allowed to enter the room.
He sees the back of a man's head. This man is the oldest of the Heller household, Albert Heller, but of course, the man was not the only one in the room, he had his harem with him. The moaning and groaning only stopping once he enters the room.
"Welcome Fredrick, sorry for the wait. I was just unwinding a little bit."
The old man says as he tightens his robe's belt, turning his attention to the man behind him.
"It's no problem at all, we all have to unwind …"
"Fredrick, you know how I tire of the game of honorifics and beating around the bush that we nobles partake in. Just tell me what you want."
"Sorry about that, I am just so used to the roundabout way I have to talk to Raeven and the like. I just wanted to express my concern about having these types of events especially after they took down Coco Doll."
"I understand your worry, but I have increased the security tenfold since our previous event, as well as ran another party to cover it up. I assume you have heard of my hiring of a former member of the Slane Theocracy as a mercenary?"
"Indeed, I have heard the rumor, so it's true?"
Albert does not answer choosing to walk up to the door
"Bring Maxim to the door."
After waiting for a couple of seconds a large knock echoes from behind the door. A larger-than-life figure then comes into room, his face is wrinkled and covered with scars from the ages spent fighting on the battlefield.
This figure was frankly ridiculous, basing him on his appearance alone, he looked like he could take down this entire mansion if he wanted to. His body is covered with shiny quartz-like armor, and on his back is a strange-looking giant spear. His ember eyes had a pressure to them…
"You called for me?"
His gruff voice echoes throughout the room.
As the infiltration team walked along, Evil Eye bore into the back of Momon's black helmet.
"Is something wrong?" Momon asked
"Uh … no."
Evil Eye's face brightened red as she looked away. Her body was nudged forward by Lakyus. Giving Lakyus a look, she sees her just gesture to start a conversation.
Ever since they met Momon, Lakyus and company have been constantly trying to set them up together. Evil Eye, of course, would love to be in a relationship with Momon, but she does not want to force it on him, or risk being embarrassed by her lack of "social graces" that Lakyus constantly reminds her about.
Evil Eye's gears turn in her brain as she tries to think of something, anything they could talk about.
Wait ... what do I really know about him? Let's see … only thing I really know about him is that he is an adamantine level warrior with a female companion. Who comes from a far-off land…? Who is incredibly strong and handsome?
She bumped into the back of Momon.
"Ow!"
She looks ahead; their path splits into two; it is time to execute plan Pincers.
Maxim sighs as he walks out of the meeting he just had with his employer, he dislikes the fact that he is constantly being paraded in front of others like a pet or more accurately a brand-new tool. But that is basically what he is, that is how he was treated in the Theocracy and what he is as a mercenary.
Though none of that really matters to him, his only goal is to gain enough wealth to retire in a home of his own. He will buy a house and lounge around in his own world until he dies. Instead of living for a god, he is going to live for himself.
After this job he would have everything ready for his retirement.
He walks down the halls; several guards suddenly stand to attention, typical. The passage underneath the manor is quite long, it is the length of the entire property, with several safe rooms, and has enough food stored to last for months in case of an emergency.
Due to the large size of the passageways, it requires numerous guards patrolling during each event.
Each patrol has a specific amount of time to do their patrol and be able to return to report any news to him. If a patrol of guards does not return or is taking longer than they should, they will send in extra forces in order to check on them prepared detain the likely intruders.
A guard approaches him.
"Sir Maxim, sorry to bother you. But several of our guards haven't come back from their patrols. We have already sent some reinforcements to first hall, but now we have the same issue with second hall. Do you want us to send more, or to set up a 'greeting party' for the intruder."
"Don't bother. I will deal with them myself."
He sighs, as he walks down the hall.
Lakyus yawns as she stretches out her arms, they haven't encountered any guards yet since they split up. Lakyus shakes her head as if to shake away her complacency, as much as she is confident in her own and her allies' abilities, she still has a job to do. She glances at Nabe whom is by her side and clearly does not seem worried either.
They were able to gain access to a map of the underground portion of the mansion. She is not fully sure how Tina managed to get her hands on it. Not that it matters, she thinks this as team 2 moves throughout the halls.
"Hey, what are you girls doing here?"
Her thoughts are interrupted by two identical looking guards. They are wearing brown helmets and armor hiding all their individual traits.
They approach cautiously with spear in hand, she quickly pulls out her mallet, it extends in between the guards. She swings it pounding one of the guard's head into wall. The other guard spent no time preparing to pierce Lakyus' body but was interrupted by a [Magic Arrow]. The arrow whizzed into his shoulder causing him to drop the spear only to be finished off by her mallet.
They quickly run past the unconscious bodies of the two guards, knowing that it is only a matter of time before more guards come. After traveling ahead in the tunnel, something flies into the wall in front of her. She prepares her mallet aiming it towards the object in the dust. Her eyes widen as the dust clears; it is Tina.
Tina is clutching her shoulder as she staggers out of the crater in the wall.
"LOOK OUT!"
Tina calls as she tackles Lakyus out of way as something flashes by crashing into wall.
All three of them get up preparing to fight. What had dug deep into the wall was a strange 'lance'?
The back of the object is a cylinder-like item which is pouring out smoke. She can hear a grunt as a towering figure takes out the rest of the item. As the drill-like bit was taken out of the wall, she recognizes it. It is a Rocket Lance, a Theocracy weapon apparently brought over by the six gods. It has a drill head with a bar in between it and magic Runes inscribed on the cylinder part.
It was an astounding work of Runes making it a heavy army destruction weapon.
This is going to be tough fight.
-To Be Continued-
Thank you for Reading! This took longer than I wanted, I was struggling with EvilEye X Momon interactions. Since I want to somewhat evolve their relationship since they are just acquaintances in the actual Novels. If you enjoyed this chapter please leave a review, so I know that people like my work and it motivates me to make more chapters. I would appreciate it if you'd follow in order to get notified when I post new chapters since the next chapter should be quite interesting. The BEGINING OF MAXIM VS BLUE ROSE & Nabe. (Repost since the first one repeated the paragraph twice, for some reason. I don't know why :( )