"Hyah!! Throw the dynamites!"
"Wizards, use your spells!"
"Guards! Where are the guards?"
Spells and screams flew alike in the middle of the cave as the supervisors and the workers engaged in battles forlorn, all of them bound to die.
With their screams of pain and terror as background music, Irina and I flipped over all the rooms and offices they had built in the cave system. Records of what they had brought in and what they had sent out were detailed well in the shelves.
"Won't this kinda ruin the point?" Asked Titania and Irina and I took out some more documents. "Didn't you want to avoid being pointed at. Someone will find things odd if they don't find their books."
"Hm, it'll be a problem if they don't find the books, huh?"
When I repeated Titania's words, Irina spoke up.
"Can't you commit them to memory?"
"I don't need to. Just bag everything."
Both of them looked at me with slight confusion, but I only smiled wide.
With a snap of my fingers, books and documents filled the place that came straight out of my spatial dimension.
"I had been, stocking up."
From the east to documents telling how to crack languages. It was all already in my head, and all of this was simply trash compared to how many volumes of tomes I still had on me.
"No suspicion?" Titania asked.
"Not if they only find the remains of their books."
Goodbye, forbidden BL. I did read you, and I won't say I disliked you, but not my jam.
With that, Irina and I switched over the books and the documents with our own stuff, and as we left each office, set all of it to fire.
"Huh? Who are you!" Someone screamed when they saw us outside the offices, and we simply ignored them. Just for good measure, Irina had blocked up all the exits of the caves with giant statues of frogs.
The groups around us kept screaming, some even tried to mow us down, but with the war going in the background, we only had to tap them away.
"I don't think we should leave any witnesses," I mentioned as I opened the doors to another office.
"I don't think it matters. We set them up against each other well," followed Irina, passing through the door as well.
This last one seemed to be the office of the boss of this entire shebang.
Closing the door behind us, we dived inside and flipped the spot once more. The lavish couch and the desks brought deep inside the cave told us more than we needed to know about the treatment of the workers and bosses here.
Pinned on the walls was a map of the cave system below. I rushed up to it and searched for any other exit we might have missed, but thankfully, there was none of it.
It was then.
A rattle sounded from the door.
Both Irina and I turned back and stared at the gate that was pried open. Standing on the other side, a man in a suit with tight wrinkles and a tighter tie stood.
"My… I have never seen you two before."
It seemed the big boss of the drug gang was here. And he was no one to take lightly. If I had to gauge his strength, then he was no one that even Gold-Ranked adventurers could face against.
"Funny, I have never seen you either."
"Haha, you're quick with your tongue! It's more fun than the previous intruders…" the man stepped inside and shut the door behind him. "Did you rile up my workers with that tongue of yours too?"
"Nah, I thought it was frustration at the work environment, but now I think they couldn't live with themselves, working under a ugly snob like you."
The boss laughed and I laughed too.
Irina stared at me with a mouth agape.
"Do you bite as you bark, mutt?"
The man grunted.
Dozen spears of flames manifested around me, all of them coming straight for my neck.
"Modo Difesa."
Before they could touch me, Catene buzzed and then turned into a long cloak, wrapping itself around me in a protective cover.
As I pushed the cloak away, a golem of pure fire had formed in front of me, it's punch already coming my way.
I took a simple step back and evaded. The agile golem followed with a sweep that I dodged with a hop.
I neared the walls.
And then, spikes emerged from the back like bullets.
The spikes broke with a single swing of my arm.
"Not bad…" I muttered.
"You too…"
The golem shot forward once more. New spikes formed again, this time from the bottom and the top as well.
"Modo Attacio."
As I swung my hand back, the cloak turned into a blade of pitch black. I slashed ahead and tore the golem in half.
With another swing, I gouged out the ground ahead and trimmed off all the stalactites.
"What?"
The man yelped.
He snapped his fingers and formed yet another dozen of flaming spears, but I was already in front of him.
"Y-you…"
With a smirk, I drove the hilt of my blade into his stomach. The man narrowly blocked with his staff, but couldn't do it completely.
Next, I kicked his foot
He tumbled back, and a punch launched square to his jaw.
Killing him right away was wasteful. I wanted to extract everything from him.
I punched and kicked the man over and over, shaving off his will to fight.
All of a sudden, he shook his coat, and a flask fell.
Smoke covered the place in an instant.
"[Gust]"
And disappeared that very instant too.
"Such attacks won't work on me," I said.
Beyond the smoke, the man was holding another flask to his mouth.
"You bastard!" He screamed. "I will show you judgement!"
I thought of swinging and chopping his head off before he could transform.
But the flask in his hand.
Was similar to the one in this facility.
This man was drinking his own drugs, in the middle of a fight.
It was time to see what it was worth.
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