Chapter 83 Simple Plan
In the administrative building at the center of Hannes City, everyone had gathered after yet another night of violent killings. The atmosphere was depressing, to say the least.
If earlier people hadn't realized, now they were gradually beginning to. The vampire spawns that they'd been killing for the last few weeks were actually the residents of Hannes City!
Although at the beginning everyone knew that there might be a possibility that this might be true, they refused to accept it.
But when they were forced to kill their own friends, family, and acquaintances who had been turned into vampire spawns, they had no choice but to accept the harsh truth.
One of the city guards, who had just killed his best friend an hour ago, gathered the courage and asked the Count with reddened eyes, "My Lord… how long will this continue?"
The Count looked at the young man's heartbroken expression and sighed. To be honest, he didn't know the answer to his question as well.
In the past few weeks, no matter how much they tried, they weren't able to find out the whereabouts of the abducted residents of the city.
After a lot of conjectures, they concluded that some sort of magical interference prevented them from finding the Vampire Magus' hideout. They speculated that the vampire spawns possessed something that allowed them covert passage to the hideout.
But this theory was very soon disproved. After all, from the corpses of these undead creatures, they weren't able to find any item that served as a key that would unlock passage to their hideout.
Even the vast network of sewer tunnels running underneath the city was carefully explored several times. But no clues were found.
The Count remained silent, trying to come up with an answer. When he looked into the young city guard's eyes that were looking at him with hope, he couldn't find it in himself to lie to the youth.
"I have a solution."
Suddenly, Adam's voice reverberated in the room, causing everyone to simultaneously turn their heads in his direction, their expression displaying shock, disbelief, but more than that, hope.
Magus Emory, who was sitting closest to Adam, looked him in the eye and muttered in astonishment, "W-What? Magus Adam, what did you just say?!"
Adam, who was sitting casually with his feet on the table and hands behind his head, replied with a laid-back attitude, "You heard it. I have a plan that can help us locate the whereabouts of the Vampire bastard."
Count Hannes shot up to his feet, looking at the youth with incredulous eyes. "Magus Adam, is that true?!"
Adam rolled his eyes. "Why would I lie?"
Magus Karl looked at him and asked in a trembling voice, "W-What is your plan? How can we find that son of a bitch who terrorized our city?"
"It's simple." Adam's lips curled up into a smirk. "I act as the bait."
"I refuse!"
"Absolutely not!"
Edward and Lisa got up from their seats and intensely glared at Adam. Not to mention Lisa, even Edward couldn't believe that Adam would come up with such a suicidal plan.
Seeing both of them have similar reactions, Adam's lips twitched as he thought, Truly made for each other.
Then, he lowered his legs from the table and tried to convince them. "Relax, guys. Trust me, my plan is foolproof."
Edward snorted. "If you're crazy enough to think your plan is foolproof, then that proves you're a fool."
"Wait, what?" Adam was befuddled by his friend's words.
"To hell with your plan!" Lisa, on the other hand, was extremely angry and screamed at the top of her lungs.
"How can you be so foolish to even think of acting as bait? Do you even have concrete details about our enemy? Do you know how many spawns he has created? Do you know how strong he is? What if he's a Rank 2 Magus, what're you gonna do then?"
The series of questions fired by Lisa brutally pierced Adam's eardrums. However, he knew that what she just said made complete sense.
He too had thought of all these questions when he came to his decision. If he didn't have a proper solution, he wouldn't have decided to act as bait in the first place.
And so, the youth got up from his seat and walked toward the door. On his way, he looked at the Count, who was still in a dumbstruck state after listening to Adam's solution, and nodded.
"Count Hannes, me and my team are going to talk about… some stuff. We'll be back in a few minutes."
He then looked at Edward and Lisa and beckoned them outside the room.
After the kids had left the room, Magus Emory looked at the Count and asked him in a daze, "Did I hear him right? Did he say he was going to act as bait?"
Magus Karl, on the other hand, had tears flowing down his face. He was moved by Adam's sense of sacrifice and duty. "Oh, I misjudge him. I thought he was a money-hungry, cunning fox."
Snot threatened to drop from his nostrils as he sniffled hard. "But to think that he's so selfless!"
Count Hannes completely ignored the two. He was still in a state of shock as he thought to himself, That kid, an outsider, wants to put his life at risk for the safety of the residents…
The Count was extremely conflicted. On one hand, he didn't want Adam to act as bait and put his own life at risk. But on the one hand, he knew that if this plan succeeded, they might very well be able to find the vampire's whereabouts.
Faced with such a dilemma, he didn't know what to do. Suddenly, the doors to the room opened and the three kids walked in. The Count snapped out of his daze and turned to look at them.
But he was stunned.
Lisa and Edward, who had left the room fuming with irritation and anger, now looked very calm. In fact, they actually looked very optimistic!
Just what did they talk about? The Count couldn't help but wonder.
After Edward and Lisa and taken their seats, Adam walked to the other end of the long table, directly across from the Count, and sat down.
Then, he interlocked his fingers and rested his chin on them, his lips curling up into a smirk.
"So, here's what we're gonna do."
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