Chapter 24: Kat...Kathryn Bel

When Sunset arrived, Haru was finally done with selling items he got from the mission. By the time he was done, He was about 210 gold richer, this made most of the other adventurers green with envy.

Now he was headed towards The Inn with quick strides.

He watched as a few Traders began closing up shop and the patrolling guards seemed to be Much more organized with their numbers appearing to be more than necessary.

Haru began to wonder if all this was happening because of his clone.

while thinking of things he would do next before the Escort mission in a few days, he made his way to the Inn. As soon as he stepped through the door, everyone stopped what they were doing to look at the new comer. The men quickly recovered and went back to whatever they were doing while the ladies began to whisper to themselves.

Haru stayed in character and slowly glanced at the Surrounding customers while he went straight to his room while waving at the inn keeper.

He then spent about 30 minutes thinking about new ways to get system points before going to take his Bath after a little cultivation. By the time he was done, He couldn't help spreading himself over the Bed before drifting off to the dream world.

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Meanwhile, That same Night The trees surrounded castle "Vnord" like great armies defending their citadel. Their armoured trunks reached out in the air protectively. This great expanse of green enhanced the castles eerieness and beauty as its porticullos made out of hard iron guarded the passage. Senitels silently walked the walls keep two eyes watched. The circle towers had a spiralling stair case. The stair case made it awkward for invaders to fight upwards. The steps were also uneven so the defenders had an advantage. Great mighty pride trebutchets stood with legs on towers ready to unleash their hinged fury. The grey stone seemed eerie in the night as it enhanced its beauty with the radiant moon shining down guiding it by its face. The keep drew attention but No one dares walk into those woods, not to mention sneak into the castle.

This Castle housed Lord Ordis, a King class Ice Beserker. Apparently, he was a Noble kicked to the outskirts of the Kingdom by the King, due to schemes.

Everyone knows that the Capital was one tough place to succeed in anything, The schemes between all Nobles, the Church breathing down your neck to make things hard for you once they find out you were not serving Alchrod you reach King Class.

Within the Study on the Eastern wing of the castle sat Ordis as he replayed what he had Just heard from Jnog. Honestly, if wasn't Jnog telling him this and what he saw from Rollo's memories, he would have doubted it all.

Knock* Knock*

「Enter.」

「My Lord, I've received the report.」

「Ah, Kat. You came at a good time.」

It was Kathryn, who entered Ordis's Study in full leather armor. Recently since there were many people who had been hitting Invictus supply route without any provocation, Kat went "Hunting" for an answer, they seem to have forgotten that Invictus had 3 Kings.

In this aspect, Kat enjoys giving a lesson or two.

「Please, sit.」

「mmm.」

「Thank you for your hard work. There seem to have been various irregularities this time around, but…」

「There were many times that I almost died this time around...I think Manos City's Zealots are causing a ruckus again and this time they have a king who uses the Claw as a weapon on their side... a Good one too, too bad he escaped at the end.」Kat said through clenched teeth while subconsciously rubbing her neck as she glared at the mahogany table.

「My Lord, about this batch of Blue dust…」She continued.

「Yes. I figured it was the first thing he attacked, I believe I might know this king... that trickster Alsund. But why now?」Ordis said while relaxing on the Chair.

"Actually, one of Alsund's subordinates had confessed about a certain ploy. That is, the smuggling of Magic Ore using The abandoned cyral mine on the southeast of Malos and Primux but why are they attacking our blue dust supplies." Ordis Thought as he began to go through all the information he has presently.

"Sure enough, they were unable to get past Kat's team, forcing them to turn back. As it turned out, however, they must have used that opportunity to set up something, judging from Alsund's character." Ordis muttered while standing up from his chair, adjusting his robe he made a decision.

"I will have to conduct a personal investigation later, but nothing has caught "His" attention yet. Most likely, because he's on the verge of a breakthrough. Anyways, it was after He went into closed doors that irregularities began to occur. Could this "Devil" be one of them?" Thinking upto this point, he turned towards Kat who was waiting patiently for his orders.

He then walked closer to her with his hands behind his back 「I'll be giving you a bonus for the danger you were subjected to. But I need you to do something for me, will you take my Order?. 」

「Please do.」Kat responded immediately with a bow.

「There has been a serious interference with business within the town, something or someone has been an obstruction but this is not an assassination request, invite him to join us!...」Ordis stated Slowly like he wanted it to sink in but was interrupted mid sentence.

「and should he refuse? .」Kat asked icily.

Ordis liked her reaction to things such as this, so he thought with a smirk"The was one of the reasons I had called for Kat, because any request I give to her personally are taken as law."

But it was only for a few seconds before he answered her question,「Then, you have my permission to use force to bring him here...] Kat began walking out of the room only to be stopped by Ordis's next sentence,

[but at the first sight of danger, you are to abort」

This made her greatly surprised as this was the first time something in Primux Town was deemed too dangerous for her.

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11:43pm (A/N: Play "Halsey: Gasoline"...Why? lol Idk)

A grand fallen temple in a gloomy marsh marks laid a twisted Rocky entrance. Beyond the fallen temple lies a grand, damp room. It's covered in large bones, large bones and broken stone.

a shadowy figure made it's way through rows of tombs and several statues, long lost and consumed by time itself. The figure's glowing red eyes scanned the surrounding from behind his spiral shaped Mask before noticing the two paths Further ahead before taking the right. a twisted trail leads him passed several empty rooms and soon he entered a dusty area. It was littered with skeletons, but no weaponry in sight.

"What happened in this place?" Haru's clone thought

He pressed onwards, deeper into the Ruined structure's expanse. he then passed various different rooms and countless passages, most lead to nowhere or back to this same path. He eventually made it to what was likely the final room. An enormous wooden door blocked his path.

Intricate carvings are all over it, somehow untouched by time and the elements. he then stepped closer to inspect it and.. "wait.." He was sure he could hear a whisper coming from behind the door.

『Through my judgement, I could not see a wicked heart on the Priest. In fact, it has been a while since I saw someone with such little malice towards others.』

[.....] An inaudible voice responded but He couldn't pick what it said even when using chakra to enhance his hearing.

『Ah. now I'm somewhat curious.』

「....?」

『Umu. When the Priest caused a commotion, the others reacted with anger and irritation… But that wasn't the case for that .... On the contrary, whenever the priest caused trouble, .... found it rather interesting.』

Boom!

Immediately a cold chilly air pushed open the doors while knocking our masked friend back into the air, But The clone twisted it's body in the air before landing lightly like a feather.

The akatsuki robes still fluttering in the Air as an eerie moan sounded around the Large Hall. He looked into the Hall but found nothing but bowing skeletons which he believes were priests and a huge throne on the other end of the room with a beautiful female statue donned in Light looking armor.

It had a grim atmosphere around it as it stared down at the bowing figures.

After waiting for a minute nothing happened, so he began walking through the wooden doors.

Thud!... Thud!... Thud!...

His footsteps echoed through the Hall as he stepped in, when he finally got close to the bowing priests there was a "Bang!" which forced him to turn around abruptly.

The massive doors were now closed and barred by something...

grrr.... Grrrr.... Grrrr!

Low pitched growls began to sound from behind him as he felt strong energy from each of the undead monks behind him. With a serious expression behind his mask, he slowly turned around only to find the Monk looking back at him with different weapons in hand.

The clone cussed was speechless due to the numbers. "How did I get into this!? "

9 Hours earlier...