Chapter 68: Trap

The cloud raged in lightning, and the wind rose swirling above. It was one of those days that civilians fear to even staying out of their homes. The gathering clouds showed it would shower any time with a heavy showered and with the help of the mad wind, a storm was not far away.

Even though it was just afternoon, the path was vacant, with all the vehicles, trains, shops and everything else being stopped. The federation announced a curfew until the storm stops, though there was no break for the guardians. This was one of the times when most of the chaos fiends got mad and attack the rings.

A man wearing leather jerkins and breastplates stormed onto the vacant path. The wind did not stop him, nor the raging lightning or thunder that lit up the surrounding now and then. He was running for his life, his legs were almost numbed as he was rushing away for half an hour, yet the foreboding feeling did not leave him.

Like few guardians or apprentices, he has an innate ability. Though that ability did not help in any combat, it does help him in knowing danger before its arrival. His ability has been giving him goosebumps for about an hour now.

From the time he got to work, he felt that someone was watching him. There was a rumour that some rogue guardian in the black and white mask was murdering guardian apprentice for the last two weeks, but he was too deep in the mud to know this was not just a rumour. This masked vigilante only after the men of the secret group he was in, and just when he felt the gazes, he reported to the others.

The higher up of the secret organization already found a way to deal with the killer, but they needed someone to play as bait to bring him in. It turned out he was the bait.

He thought he would be safe with the artifact they had given him, but then he saw the grim reaper mask of the killer, he thought otherwise. He barely got to run away, using the illusionary artifact. Now he had to bring this man to the trap before he could kill him. That was why he was storming for half an hour, and it appeared the vigilante had swallowed the bait.

He just had to move a kilometre more and he would be safe, yet his legs were cramping up and his mana was almost at the limit of exhaustion. His mind was ringing with the thunder and his own heartbeat. He could still feel the foreboding feeling behind him, watching him, waiting for him to stop.

Mana burned inside his body as he barely made it to the closed gate of an abandoned factory. Gasping heaving, he knocked on the entrance in a rhythmic way. He waited and looked on his back. In the dark, he could not see much and with the heartbeat rising after he stopped, it became even harder for him to see anything fast. 

Abruptly, a flash of long lightning fell on earth and with came a horrifying thunder. But the thunder or lightning was not as frightening as the masked figure he saw twenty yards away, walking towards him. The clouds showered just then.

A small window opened in the front gate, and he got inside immediately. There were a couple of masked men there with large rifles, but he sighed in relief at seeing them. They were with him and they were here to keep him safe. At least their job was to take care of the masked killer behind him.

"He's here," he said with a large gasp.

The masked figure exchanged glances with each other as one of them said, "Let's go."

The masked men took him even further inside. On the walk, they heard the gate breaking and with the explosives they put it bombarded instantly, yet none of them sigh in relief. They knew the killer they were up against would not go down so easily. He had easily invaded so many of the fortress, watchtowers to kill the men of their secret organization.

All the news they got on him was that it was a man wearing a mask, a master at stealth, and using rapiers and knives as his weapons. Other than that, he was super fast at his job. Nobody knows when he will appear and disappear. It was like the wind. You could feel it coming, yet you could not stop it.

Knowing all this, they had not planned to assassinate this person with their own hands, but their superior gave them a special item with a plan. All they had to do was bring in the vigilante in the designated place and the superior will take care of him.

The path was dark and only after some distance there was the dim bulb for the direction. They were about to arrive before the spot when they felt an upheaval. The earth moved in a quake and they found a masked man waiting for them below a dim bulb.

"Fu*k!" cursed the man and the two masked men bombarded the vigilante with the bullets.

They looked back and wanted to run away when he heard the voice of the man. Nothing happened to the man as if a formless barrier before him, stopping all the bullets to pierce him.

"I want a few answers," the masked vigilante said with a filtered out voice.

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"You want an answer?" one of the mask figures asked. "Suck my balls."

The masked vigilante stood straight and looked at them. That phrase only earned that.

"Do you think I was running just to save my life?" the other man said maniacally, as if he had lost it. "You are fucked. So, what's good if you kill us? Hahaha, you fell into our fucking trap! You will die here."

The masked vigilante was about to say something, but then felt another upheaval. It was not the natural one, but a supernatural one. The mana density in this place just rose by at least thrice, and it was still climbing. A dungeon break.

The masked vigilante looked at the three before him with a vacant, empty look. "You won't talk?" he said and lifted his right arm and aimed with his right index finger.

The two masked figures fired their rifles again, screaming again until there was nothing left. The smoke cleared and the masked figure was still standing there.

One Shockwave after another shot from his finger and pierced right at the forehead of the three men as they fell on the cold floor, lifeless. But the damage was already done. They had brought in the vigilante right where they wanted. For their sacrifice, their family would get a better life than even the security of the Safe Haven.

Elior shook his head. He thought this was a trap, but still walked in as it could be a lead to his findings. Now he had to stop a dungeon break before the guardian came.

He brought out a mobile phone and dialled 111—the guardian helpline. The call rang as he moved swiftly towards the centre of the upheaval.

With the storm, the service seemed to be jammed, as his call did not connect. He called again as he approached the huge dungeon gate that could explode out at any moment. There were actually a couple of men with similar masks as the men he had just killed. They were pumping the dungeon with extra mana with some mana reserve equipment, so that it would explode even earlier.

They did not attack Elior the moment they saw him, but collected their items and ran away.

Elior did throw a few attacks at them, though it was not helpful, as he was a long-distance away. He did not go after them as even a bigger problem before him. It would not take even a quarter of an hour to the explosion.

[Hello, this Guardian helpline. How could we help you?] The call finally connected.

"Hello, I want to report a dungeon break. The sign it was showing it would explode within ten minutes, or so, and the mana density was just below a third-grade dungeon," Elior said at once with the monotonic voice and left the phone on the floor, not cutting off the call.

It was a few of the disposable goods he made Shin buy from the dark web. They would be able to find this location soon with the help of the call, but before that, he had to stop the monster from attacking the surrounding areas.

It was going to be a difficult task to hold on to the thousands of chaos fiends swarming inside the dungeon, but Elior still went in, bringing out his twin rapiers. 

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