Time-Line 3th April 2007
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3:10 PM
Change of POV: Morgan Le Fay
I checked my current balance. A fine amount indeed.
[Gold: 892,320]
Yeah, I'm saving up for another S-Rank. But this time it will be a random one, not choosen one since that would require additional 250,000 Gold.
Then my vision moved to another function, as I clicked it with my 'mind's order'.
Then I checked [Faction-Stats].
[Faction-Stats] is a new function that I achieved by summoning appropriate number of Hunters. I can moderate this function, add ranks. New classes, change classes from 'S-Rank into Satan-Class' for example or similar.
It's quite interesting and fun option to play with, honestly.
But right now, it's still in it's usual first stage, without alterations. I will of course alter it once, later on. Currently there is no need for me to do so.
[Faction Name: Human Faction] [Change]
[Race: Humans] [Change]
[Leader: Morgan Le Fay]
[S-Rank Hunters: 7]
[A-Rank Hunters: 17]
[B-Rank Hunters: 21]
[C-Rank Hunters: 50]
[D-Rank Hunters: 100]
[Continents of Influence: Asia]
I hummed, I got lucky for one of S-Ranks a month ago, I got [Random Rank-Ticket] and won some American guy, Jeremy Jones. He is Mid-Ultimate Class. So about average S-Rank.
He is sufficient and will do nicely for future 'plan' we plan to take.
"He is cool guy though." I mumbled to myself remembering him.
In future he is going to be very important individual, I would require of him to find 'Holy Sword Project' base of operations, but unfortunately, no matter how you look at it currently, with our resources it would be very difficult to find where that 'Project' was operated in, especially when even Heaven didn't know about it in anime till Church confessed their 'sins'.
And Project was abolished and it's results were still used to continue further development for 'artificial Holy Sword wielders'.
"But considering who was head of research department and Yuuto Kiba's name before Rias gave him current one was Isaiah, I would bet it's in Italy, especially since since that man is named Valper Galilei." I murmured to myself, I still have some time before my grandmother comes to home after work.
But at first, I'm glad I wrote 'EVERYTHING' I remembered from Solo Leveling and DXD respectively, otherwise I would have forgotten even names of character, let alone their personalities, the actions they took in their life and similar.
I will cherish that book!
I moved my vision somewhere else.
I looked at my watch I'm wearing on my left hand.
3:17 PM
"So about 43 minutes more or less." I sighed to myself.
Then I glanced at [Faction-Stats]
It's still too early to reveal ourselves, we first need one National-Level Hunter before anything big, someone as a backing faction for us so other factions like Shinto Faction or Devil's Faction would not simply want to crush us.
This is real world now, we are not in 'Anime'. Other forces would certainly want to crush a Human faction that's rising up, before they could become a threat.
Then I brought my left hand to my chin and rubbed it lightly, in though.
" It took us almost two years to get to this level, and each summon made Gold Progression faster. So in three years, our forces should at bare minimum be triple times larger." I mussed to myself, what I said is true, if I did not receive 2,000,000 Gold from that Wheel of Fortune I would not have been able to obtain so many Hunters right now, forces would have been at very least two times smaller.
Lennart Niermann was a formidable Chess Piece I obtained early on in my journey. And my luck was biggest then.
So, I should start preparing a special unit, unit specifically made to go for Italy or wherever 'Holy Sword Project' is operated, Jeremy Jones will act as leader, a Mid-Ultimate Class should be enough and several High-Class level Hunters along with him.
A small yet capable squad. It should be enough.
'And for them to succeed such operation, they would need the best equipment they can.' I thought before I opened my [Knowledge-Shop] first, entered [Skills-Section] and brought four [Stealth] Skill Rune Stones, a 5,000 Gold per one.
While for now, 5,000 Gold seems very 'costly'. Eventually, in future when we have millions of Gold, the 5,000 will be nothing, but these Skills like [Stealth] will save a lot of people's lives, especially when they need to escape,
Coincidentally, Rune Stones and skills they give might, might as well be one of the fastest ways for me to get stronger or at least gain enormous amount of Skills.
But once again, Human body has a limit to how many Skills they can contain. One example would be Woo Jin-Chul from restarted timeline, he became Chairman of Korea's Hunter Association as A-Rank, one of the stronger A-Ranks and he certainly used his knowledge of the future to obtain a decent number of Rune Stones to absorb. To fix his weakness as A-Rank, and come closer to S-Rank, as much as he can that is.
And due to his over-use of Rune Stones, his body is constantly degrading and he is slowly dying due to his body not being strong enough to endure the excess amount of Skills.
These [Stealth] Rune Stones will be for Jeremy and his squad, thankfully Jeremy just so happens to be Assassin-Type Hunter, meaning he is perfect for this job. +With this skill he should certainly prove enough for this mission.
Though, due to his lack of money and the late time since he got awakened, he did not accumulate enough money to buy such Rune Stone sadly, but this Rune Stone will prove enough.
Of course if Church doesn't have stationed Ultimate-Class exorcist or Angels at 'Holy Sword Project' base which certainly they do not, when Valper Galilei was excommunicated from the Chruch once they found what he did to children and the testing grounds of the project.
But their orders is to retreat anyway if they encounter such situation.
"And now, they would need formidable armor and weapons. A dagger, a poisoned dagger should do just fine." I told myself before I closed [Knowledge-Shop] for the moment.
I just knew the perfect weapon for Assassins like them, indeed a perfect weapon.
Then opened usual [Shop] windows and searched for [Kasaka's Venom Fang].
[ [Kasaka's Venom Fang] C-Rank = 5,000 Gold]
[Description: A dagger made from Kasaka's venomous fang it has effects: Attack+ 25, 1s/1% Drain]
"This should be decent weapon for them, especially since they will be going against Humans and maybe Angels at most." Without further ado I brought four of them too.
And I hardly think that basic Human Exorcist would be able to endure Kasaka's Venom.
Four [Stealth] and four [Kasaka's Venom Fang]'s cost me total of 40,000 Gold. A some-what costly, but I hope this will prove.
But as for armor, I bought them some light D-Rank Armors in our bases, they should work splendidly after all. Weapons and Skills are what wins the fight.
After all, what is the point of wearing an Armor if you don't plan on getting hit?
Is the question, was it not?
Main goal would be to destroy whole project, save and get kids on our side. Especially since Isaiah would be powerful enough on his own to reach High-Class or Ultimate-Class eventually, and there are few more Sacred Gear users in that group.
All in all, the small amount of resources we are using to save them would prove itself worthy eventually in time, in time that is.
And of course, take any and all data about projects this accumulated till now. It's a waste to leave such data to corrupt Church, was it not?
" I remember that Valper developed something like badge that allows normal people to wield Holy Swords, that gadget would certainly be good addition to our ranks, especially since our main enemies are evil-like creatures which Holy Element thus Holy Swords work against very well, like Devils, evil spirits and Vampires.." I muttered to myself as always, so I'm the only one who can hear my own mumbling.
But then I heard it, someone is ringing the bell on the doors.
Then I checked the time on my watch.
It's 3:37 PM.
" She should arrive by now, it must be her.." I thought out loud before I jumped from the chair as I walked towards the door. " I'm opening, wait a for moment!" I exclaimed as I walked towards the doors.
I walked towards door, but I noticed something is weird.
Grandmother would have said something by now, or commented. Something is fishy here, and what about this smell?
Gross!
With wariness, I just opened the doors slightly. Just barely so I could peak from them.
But it was mistake. The smell alarmed me enough and I did not trust it, I should have trusted my gut!
~Crack!
Doors were pushed back, thus pushing me back. And a man entered, middle-aged man. With gray hair, ugly scar on his face and tall body. A wide one too, probably worked out.
An unfamiliar man with disgusting smell.
"Hey! What do you think you are doing, entering my home un-announced !" I told him immediately, I don't recognize this man. And he opened the doors like that, pushing me back. Aggressive man too.
Could it be?
My eyes widened in realization.
This couldn't be! This guy knew that only a little girl is inside the house! Could he have been spying on this house for some time, some way?
Is he..
Then this middle-aged man looked at me, his eyes glowing with red glow. As he smirked. A mana was released from his body, a small amount.
"Ah! I knew It! I smelled something delicious! But I didn't expect to see such a beautiful little girl." He added before he took one step towards me, my body reacted on instinct as I turned around and run. " Don't worry~ We'll have a bit of fun before I EAT YOU!" His face distorted, from human one into something un-recognizable.
Didn't this turn around too fast! Just a moment ago I was enjoying in my free time, and now this disgusting freak of nature want to ear me?!
His face turned into plant-like one before it separated into multiple 'flower' like parts, each one full of razor sharp teeth.
I turned my head slightly, just so I could grasp his face slightly, just slightly.
But I didn't have time to comment on his beauty since I was too busy to run. I need to keep my life, you know.
'Shit!This is too bad, did my magical presence somehow cause this thing to track me down?!' I questioned myself as I run towards the stairs, and in several seconds I was already on second floor, the plant like thing trailing behind me. Playing with me, since I was pretty sure it would have been able to catch up with me by now otherwise.
Now you might be asking, where are my guards?
They are right here with me, running in tandem with me but are using [Stealth] to go invincible. Now you might be asking me, why don't they simply kill this thing? Well, the answer is rather simple.
I forbade them from killing anything or anyone in my home. I want to first get this thing from my home while acting as it's bait, then once we are outside in our gardens my Guards will finish it off.
It must be dealt like this otherwise smell of blood would be too noticeable in my home. And none of them have skills required to mask the smell of iron. Not to mention we'll need to throw the carpet away too, and since my grandmother will arrive any moment, how was I supposed to explain why I threw carpet away and why does house smell of blood?
"Kyahahhaha~ I love trailing behind little kittens like you!" The Thing behind me screeched, just as it's hand was about to grab me, the thing 'somehow' fell to the floor. A hard too with resounding 'Thud'.
'Somehow' isn't a coincidence, my intuition tells me that one of my guards kicked his leg causing him to fall. I could almost felt that someone is giving me 'ok sign' with their thumbs up.
Nevertheless I did not waste this chance at all, I continued running up to my room. Thankfully second floor does not have useless accessories like pictures, vases or glasses or anything similar. It's just a halfway with doors.
Perfect for running, but sadly there is nothing for me to use as a weapon to replicate 'Home Alone' movie, sadly.
" Get your ass here!" It shrieked.
As if! In your dreams only!
"Hahahahha! You must first catch me for it!" I run off while laughing my ass off as I rushed into my room just in time, I can hear it speeding off quickly by the stairs.
I jumped on my bed, since my bed is literally next to window I had no choice but to open the window in question.
And I quickly started my exit.
One leg outside, arm outside.
Almost there! Just as I exited from the window, the plant like thing rushed into my room with all it's velocity and anger.
It leaped at me from the doors at the window.
I instinctively widened my eyes before ducking down. Causing the thing to fall from the roof into our garden rather than directly into me, should I be happy that this thing does not have wings? Or is simply too dumb to use them?
I slowly directed my gaze at the disgusting thing below on my precious garden.
That thing must have eaten countless children, murdered and destroyed many families, leaving them in sadness. And if I did not have [System] I might have even joined them. But unfortunately for it, it tried it on wrong house.
My stoic face slowly split into a small smile.
"Kill it, but first silence it." Was my sentence, it was as if a judge from hell itself announced it's judgement.
"Wait, brat!" The thing stood up from ground and growled, But unknown to it, it will be the last sound it would ever fell.
~Crunch.
A knife first sliced it's neck, the thing felt it. It was shocked, surprised. And most of all, confused. Why would it not be, it was just moments away from jumping to the roof after all.
But then, a figure revealed itself in front of it.
No, it would be more appropriate to say 'Figures'.
All four figures revealed themselves, completely surrounding him on all sides.
Coincidentally, those figures actually resemble Ninjas. Their bodies clad in complete black clothes. Each one of them holding a small dagger at their side, and their faces are simply enveloped in bandages with only one straight line for eyes, to work as their vision of outside world.
And the front Ninja, the Ultimate-Class one, the leader of them was in front of the monster who attempted to take their leader's life, his Dagger soaked in blue hot blood.
Blue blood.
Certainly not Human, even if you ignore it's appearance by all means.
Humans only have red blood after all.
"You attempted a great crime tonight." Leader started, his voice gruff and full with barely contained and hot rage underneath his tone. " And for judgement, you will pay with your life. And your remains will be used for fields as fertilizer." He added his sentence before he plunged his blade straight into Monster's brain.
Other three Ninjas followed with same testament, striking Monster's vital points. Brain, Neck, Heart and last but not least... Groin.
If Monster was alive, it would certainly attempted the most antagonizing scream it could once Assassin's Dagger plunged into it's groin.
It's certainly was too much..
It was too much!
Even for a murdered!
And what's worse, Assassin who did it was a woman. Causing all four of them, including three man and even previous man, Morgan herself to flinch and wince at the pain. Almost grabbing their groins in panic.
"Wait! Get rid of the body as fast as you can, grandmother should arrive any second. I don't want her to even smell a whiff of that disgusting blood here> Sh Sh!" I 'shooed' them away as I jumped back into my room.
I don't feel remorse at all.
Why should I feel remorse at killing animal?
Animal like Devils
I only ordered it's demise after all.
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