19 Infiltration

The mice guided us in direction to the guard I previously greeted, the guy was guiding a group of twenty half-sleeping people through the alleyways as if it was the most normal thing to do in the world.

Fei Xue and I were following them from a good distance since we both had excellent sight, it wasn´t a problem at all.

After a while of walking through the alleyways, the guard stopped at a building that seemed like a bar, the lights were off and there was a sign that said "Closed" hanging in the door.

The guard knocked on the door in a concrete rhythm and after some seconds someone received him along with the flock of people.

I waited until everyone got inside and used Life Detection once again to know the number of people inside the bar.

The building was divided on a central, upper, and lower floor with a back warehouse.

There were three people in the upper part watching the alleyways through the windows, two in the central part behind the door, and twenty-five in the lower floor.

-Fei Xue.

-Yes?

-Go to the castle, enter my room and bring me a quadrangular object of the size of my hand, the back part is blue and the front black, it should be in the deepest part of the backpack alongside the bed.

-Understood, I´ll call you if I have any doubt.

-Good, now go.

With the orders received, Fei Xue flew off to the castle for my cellphone.

Something tells me I´ll need to show this to Fardan.

With Life Detection I was able to see how five people on the lower floor were giving a kind of sermon to the twenty static people in front of them.

The kingdom of Lafonía had some kinds of magic considered illegal, mind control along with necromancy was the worst, so I would only need a pair of photos showing the controlled victims and the mage to make the guard of the royal capital be over them.

Ugh, shit, they started to kill them, goodbye to negotiation.

Besides the man giving a sermon, the other four started to pull the people in front to kill them.

Their process was that two held the victim, another stab or slice the throat and the last one seemed to fill some kind of container with its blood.

Life Detection only showed me living beings, so I couldn´t distinguish the interior of the building or the objects that the lookouts and killers were using.

Among the victims were humans, dwarves, and beastman, however, all the killers seemed to be humans.

In any case, it didn´t matter, if they happened to be the assassins that were stalking Victoria and her family, I would kill them all.

-Master, I have the object, I´ll be there shortly.

-Good, Any problem?

-A pair of griffon rides saw me fly out from your room, they might come here.

-Mmm, doesn´t matter, it could even be beneficial.

I let go of the mice from my globe and wash it with the item Lea gave me, since the magic circle had disappeared I supposed that it was sure to wear it again.

-Thanks for the help, now go before I kill you, small nuisances.

-Squeak?! *

Catching my message, the mice ran back to darkness.

After five minutes, Fei Xue returned with my cellphone.

-Good job, I'm going to infiltrate in there, wait here and kill any armed human that tries to escape, if it doesn´t have any weapon just knock it out.

-As you wish.

I turned on my phone and put the camera, making sure that the flash and sound were disabled, then I grabbed the handkerchief of my shirt and covered my face.

-Master, wait a second.

-What is it?

Before I could move, Fei Xue extended her hand to stop me.

-The building is covered by an alarm barrier, if you carelessly get close you will alert the mage that put it.

-Shit, Can you deal with that?

-Kukuku, of course, something of this level doesn't represent an issue, however, if I completely get rid of the barrier we will anyway alert the mage, so I´ll make a hole where you can enter without anyone noticing, but you'll have to do it in the exact moment or we will be detected.

-Perfect, no problem at all.

-Good, please prepare yourself.

I climbed a nearby building and arrived at its roof, I was a bit higher than the bar so they wouldn´t notice me with ease.

-To my count.

I looked at the building.

-Three.

There was a window without the safe put, I just need to push it to enter.

-Two.

I prepared my legs and hands.

-One.

I ran to the window.

-Now!

A wall I couldn´t see before showed itself, a hole expanded enough to let me pass through it.

I safely pass and hanged from the mark of the window, after opening it I entered the building and quietly close it again.

I quickly hide below a table and used the nearby chairs to block the field of view of the men looking through the windows.

-Fuck, I also wanted to kill some.

-You´ll get your turn, for now, our job is to watch that nobody comes.

-I can´t wait to see what kind of monster the priest summon with so many sacrifices! Gahahahaha! I bet it will be a very fun carnage!

-This world belongs to the demons, the other races should accept that fact and let themselves be calmly killed.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! *

The people inside were having a quite dangerous conversation, I still wasn´t sure if they were supremacists or demon fanatics, but it was dangerous to let them live.

-Freezing feather, four feathers.

I made feathers of ice inspired in Fei Xue's and put them inside my suit pocket, I pulled out my penknife and started to get closer to one of the lookouts from the shadows.

My steps were noiseless, my breath controlled, and my movements smooth and fluent.

All of this was thanks to my passive skill of Essence assimilation.

I discover it when I fought against the bandits of that alleyway.

Essence assimilation was more than just obtaining strength and skills.

It also gave me the muscular memory of the corpses.

When I was in the back of the first lookout, I sliced his throat with my penknife and covered his mouth with my free hand.

-HMGHM?!

When his eyes lost the life, I put his body on the floor and looked at the two remaining men, none of them noticed what just happened, so I grabbed two of the feathers of my suit and threw them to their necks with professional precision.

Fuuuuuuum*

-Agh?!

-Ah!

The moment the feathers stuck in their necks, immediately after their heads got frozen, drowning any possible scream they could have made.

Thump*

The null sound of their bodies hitting the floor was captured by the guardians of the door.

-Hey, Everything all right over there?

....

-Tch, What the hell is going on with you?

Both guards started to walk to the steps leading to the upper floor.

I put away my knife and grabbed the last two feathers with both hands, I went to the steps and waited for the arrival of the guards at the entrance.

-Hey! Why aren´t you answering?! Do you think it´s a good time to- Ah!

When the guards passed through the entrance of the upper floor, I stuck the ice feathers in their necks and with my bare hands, I pulled their bodies to the floor in a way they didn´t make a sound.

This is the first time I kill someone in this world, I wonder what will happen.

Every time I killed a man, I immediately absorbed their threads, it was curious how there was no ghost, but instead of complying I just accepted reality and inspected the body of my victims in search of the tattoo.

It seems like I wasn´t wrong at all.

Two out of five had the tattoo of the winged snake in the shoulder and the arm, apart from the ears and tails of beastman made collars.

Guess openly show these things would be a great problem.

I destroyed the frozen heads with my foot and put my hands over the corpses, then, I used Putrefaction.

Since the fanatics were too busy sacrificing people they wouldn´t notice the sound of the ice and bones crushing.

-Ho?

Normally, the skill just rotten the zone my hand covers, but this time the effect was expanding from the affected area, the process was slow and I could stop it if I wanted to.

Nice.

I left the corpses to rotten and walked to where the sacrifices were being made.

There was a door separating the central part from the inferior, the closer I got, the babbling of an ecstatic voice got clearer along with the smell of blood.

I pulled out my cellphone and prepared myself to take the photos as I half-open the door in silence.

-From the flesh of the invaders the true owners will be reborn!

At the moment he concluded his canticle, the throat of another person turned into a fountain, the other hooded men used a humanoid skull to fill it with the blood of the victim.

There were already seven, their corpses were piled one over another without the minor care in a corner.

I pointed the camera to the carnage and took the photos.

Shit, this won´t help much if I can´t take a picture of his face.

The place had several torches sparkling in the walls, a huge crimson magic circle increased its intensity with each skull of blood that was stamped on it.

A feeling of insecurity flooded my back, something told me that it was best to stop them before that circle absorbed more blood.