"I know you’ll act like this." Ivan grinned evilly. There was no way he could win against Clovis, but at this distance, he would be able to press the button before Clovis’ sword reached him.
"NO!" Both the boss and Captain Han shouted in panic. They never thought that Clovis would choose something this risky.
Clack!
Boom!
All the bombs exploded at once, shaking the building.
"I’ll be waiting for you in hell!" Ivan said with a smile, accepting his death. Clovis would definitely kill him with a single slash, but it didn’t matter. Even if he couldn’t see it, the building would collapse, and Clovis would fall like the others.
However, Clovis actually slashed his arm first.
"Aaaaggghhhh!" Ivan screamed in pain and fell on his knees, clutching his arm. While the pain was unbearable, there was a question that appeared in his mind. Why did Clovis target his arm instead of his life?
"What?" Captain Han was stunned, thinking that they had failed. To his surprise, the building didn’t collapse.
"Eh? The sound earlier…" As a person with brain affinity, Sherry was the first to realize this and said, "Most of them came from outside the building. There are probably only two of them exploding inside."
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"!!!" Captain Han and Rain looked shocked. Even though the building was damaged, it shouldn’t collapse with only two explosions.
"Huh?" Ivan’s face turned pale as he came to a realization.
Instead of Clovis’ panicked expression, he actually found a big smile, as though everything had gone according to plan.
…
15 minutes ago.
While climbing, Clovis abruptly stopped when Melody suddenly said, "Clovis. Enter the building and hide."
"!!!" Clovis didn’t understand what she was saying, but he followed his instructions, infiltrating the eighth floor. Since they were still stopping Captain Han and the others on the second floor, the eighth floor was completely empty.
"What happens?" Clovis asked while hiding behind a pillar, remaining vigilant to his surroundings.
"Look at the radar."
Clovis couldn’t help but furrow his eyebrows, noticing that one dot. He hurriedly rushed to the opposite side of the building, sneakily checking who this person was.
It was the woman who had been manipulating Ivan this whole time, Elina.
"Seriously?" Clovis squinted his eyes, staring at the bag on her back.
"Should we capture her?" Melody asked.
Clovis paused for a moment. There should be a reason for Elina to get involved. It took him half a minute to figure out her plan. Instead of panicking, Clovis actually smiled. "I’ve got an idea. Connect me to only group B.
Don’t tell anyone about her yet."
Melody didn’t understand why he didn’t want to tell anyone about this, but she still connected him with group B, which consisted of the other three people from the SWD Team.
"Hello, this is Clovis. I have a favor to ask you three. I want you three to halt your steps for a bit because there is another enemy sneaking around. It seems that she is planning to blow up the building. Once I give the signal, one of you will chase after that person and capture her. She will play an important part in resolving this incident.
"I want two of you to remove the explosives. You can just hide it in other buildings. If it’s a timed explosive, just make sure to do it before the time runs out. I’m no expert in building demolition, but it should be fine as long as we can remove half of the explosives, I guess. If it’s not, I’ll give you a second signal to go to a safe spot.
"This is the most important thing. Don’t tell anyone about it. It’s a bit risky, but if we are able to do it, we can surprise the enemies and take them down in one fell swoop."
Clovis took a bit longer to reach the rooftop because of this, but it was worth it. It was a bit hard to convince them, but they ultimately agreed with Clovis’ plan.
…
Now that the explosives were gone and the building remained standing, Clovis smiled and stabbed Ivan in the shoulder.
"Aahhh!" Ivan’s expression was distorted.
However, Clovis went one step further by rotating his sword and twisting his flesh.
"Aaaaaggghhhh!" Ivan screamed even louder, tears were streaming down his eyes.
"I might not be the smartest man, but I’m not a fool. Do you think you can kill me with this simple trick?" Clovis harrumphed. He stabbed Ivan’s thigh and twisted it again.
"Aaaagggghh!" Ivan’s body was convulsing. Ivan couldn’t even open his eyes because of the pain. "You—Ahhhh!"
"You what?" Clovis asked again while moving his blade a little bit, cutting more of his flesh.
Ivan gnashed his teeth, but before he could say it, the answer came from behind.
"You die!"
Clovis turned his head around, finding that the Tier 4 boss was coming for his life. He almost reached him, so even if Clovis spun his body, he wouldn’t be fast enough to avoid this attack. If he could severely injure him with a punch and blow him out of the building, Clovis would definitely die.
Both Ivan and the boss had the same expression, implying that Clovis was a fool to focus on an insignificant ant like Ivan.
Clovis was surely facing his impending doom. Yet, he just smiled.
"!!!" The boss widened his eyes in shock, feeling chills down his spine. "Shit!"
Just like Clovis, the boss had also focused so much on Ivan and Clovis that he didn’t see the man who would cut down all of Clovis’ enemies.
The boss spun his body, but it was too late. Jay was already before his eyes and slashed him, his blade running through from the shoulder all the way to the left waist.
After that, Jay kicked the boss away, blowing him to the wall.
Who didn’t see who? The only reason Clovis focused on Ivan was to lure the boss. He believed that Jay would know his actions, and Melody even told him the secret plan. Clovis knew that without his perfect state, it would be hard to kill the boss in a short period of time, even with Jay’s help. And he didn’t really want to rely on the perfect state too much.
Hence, he chose to use risky tactics to take the boss down.
The boss clutched his chest before raising his head, finding Jay already pointing his blade at his neck.