Premonition

The area for the contaminated ground is all a little foggy. So, the cameraman backed off as soon as the fire squad arrived. Then, he found a higher ground on a nearby apartment roof. He used all the drone cameras he had to film the scene from various angles. 

At this point, the live stream does not matter ! All this footage he acquires today is going to be sold to news channels. This is money he gets a major share of ! so, he forgot all about Zion, and concentrated on shooting as comprehensively as possible. 

The sheng guards were the same. In an event of this scale, they can't create any disturbance, so they retreat a distance, waiting for the time Zion comes back out. 

Zion walked out of the fog. First thing he did was find the cameraman. After all, he was set up in the style of an assassin sniper on the parapet of the apartment roof. On top of that, he was jumping up and down gesturing to various drones. 

Zion sat down beside him to take a breather. 

He felt fatigue in a way he never felt to date. The muscles he did not know existed in his body stung because they are overworked. He had no idea how his body could be so tired when he had not moved a step, yet, his entire body felt like he ran a hundred mile marathon. 

Zion laid down on the cold hard ground, raised up his mobile to check the time. 

Eight o'clock. 

That's one hour more than the time he expected Cerise to come out of the dungeon. 

E-54 , that was the dungeon name. 

Zion checked out the dungeon. 

[ E-54 is an anomalous dungeon with a very predictable pattern. It's a gladiator type , with a bicorn , usually of fire type. Every four times the dungeon is cleared, the beast type is upgraded by a level. Only, there is a ten percent chance the beast tier is upgraded along with level. There is an additional ten percent chance that this phenomenon could occur at three clearings of the dungeon. It is advised to never attempt this dungeon with less than a B - Rank party. ] 

' What the F*** ? ' Zion cursed inside his head. 

The bas*ards of the silversword guild sent his wife to such a skewed dungeon for the first clear ? Are they kidding ? 

Zion felt like rushing into the dungeon straight up, but he controlled himself. 

The surrounding guys looked up at him when he sat up all of a sudden exclaiming, but then immediately focused on their work. 

Zion opened all the other footage, then watched the video at 10x speed. Then he realized.. The woman who was the orientation officer was the same woman who confirmed the mission completion for the raiders in the first guild. 

Their entire scamming structure is multilayered, where you can only see the full story when put together, but never alone. Worse yet, they can not directly accuse them using the law, unless you have legally filmed video evidence. Only, now, Zion does. 

The bicorn dungeon should have a Vine Ram, a sheep type monster. If it's upgraded, it would be a flaming horse monster, with two horns on its head. No matter which one it is, Cerise has many gas cylinders with her. It should have died long ago. 

The clearance time for Bicorn Dungeon is seven days. With each day, the monster grows stronger. If it had started out just today, then Cerise would definitely have blown it up by now. After all, she knows one minute delay in killing the dungeon boss means one point extra health added to the dungeon boss. So, she definitely would have killed the boss as soon as possible. Say, if all mines are to be used at the same time, then she had to dig ten holes. 

Even if he assumed she did this part very slowly, it still won't take six hours. 

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Those bastards ! 

' They are deliberately delaying rescue. ' 

To act in this kind of situation is why Cerise flash married me. Zion thought. I can not fail her at this point. At this time, reporters started arriving at the scene in droves. 

Zion caught a taxi, running as fast as he could. He needs to get to Cerise immediately. The cameraman got separated from Zion just like that. 

Once Zion gave the taxi driver the address, he organized the evidence videos, then sent them to the awakener's association, reporting silversword for violating guild laws, by not calling rescue. 

Hopefully, a rescue team arrives. If not, he is just going to barge into the dungeon to get her back. 

He thought for a moment, then called nine-eleven as well, reporting a medical emergency. 

Zion reached the location of the dungeon, only to hear the sirens of the ambulance. 

He kept his eye on the video. So he knew Cerise stumbled out of the dungeon burned all over her body. He touched his ring and desperately called her using telepathy. There was no response. 

' We were too foolish to have thought that dungeon conditions would remain the same. ' Zion regretted. 

" Follow the ambulance. " Zion told the taxi driver, as he kept an eye on Cerise through the camera. 

The medical staff placed Cerise in the observation room, then …  silence. They did not even look twice at her. 

She had third degree burns. They did not check her skin, they did not check her breathing, they just placed her in a room, then covered her head off, like she was a dead person. 

From the camera, Zion could see the shallow breath still happening, but … the white cover covered all over her head anyway. 

Zion had the horrible realization that no matter what happens, the silversword guild was going to insist that Cerise died. 

Zion had always been even tempered. His life sucked from day one, and the battering he received in the name of training at Sheng's tempered him even further. 

However, for the first time, he felt rage. 

A feeling of tingling starting from the toes of his body to making hair standup in his hair .. a minute bitter taste in his mouth.. His brain automatically analyzed the best points to swing a sword through so that he could hack the silversword guild officers into thousand pieces. 

" Oh ! You are Zion, DDA's guild master. " The taxi driver recognized him, as he looked at the back mirror when he stopped at the redlight. 

" How do you know ? " Zion asked before he could stop himself. Taxi driver could not be watching the live stream. He was just a normal citizen. 

" You are on the news. " The taxi driver answered him, gesturing to the advertising tower that is showing the local news channel. 

At that moment, a light bulb went off in Zion's head. Even if he sent off the evidence to the guild management office, he is not satisfied. 

If there's no attention on the Cerise, the corrupt guild officers are going to kill her in the dark. 

The only weapon in his hand at the moment is the public opinion. It is a double edged sword, but he had no choice. 

Zion immediately turned on his phone and connected to the live stream. 

" Everyone ! It is Zion, greeting you all once again. I am asking for your help, because in the process of recording this episode, I have come across a heinous injustice. The guild officials of SilverSword guild are killing children to steal their parent's property. Please spread the word. A life will be lost if we act any later. Please, I beg all of you for help. " Zion said, bowing his head. 

The barrage went bonkers. 

[ Stormcloud:  Is he lying ? ] 

[ Separata : SilverSword is a famous guild, is it not ? ] 

[ Vincenzooo : What the ? ] 

[ NewyorkTimesIntern : Are you for real ? ] 

Zion continued after watching the barrage. 

" I know, many of you doubt me. As such, I decided to make my sources open. The video evidence I collected is now available at the link below. Live stream screen three will play the current situation of the new player, who had been taken to emergency. Please keep an eye on it. The screen four will alternate between the sources from witness cameras we have. These are numbered from XXXX01 to XXXX10. As these are the evidence recording cameras from the government, you can access their current status using the government CCTV page. I have made them all public. Please, keep an eye on the situation, let me know if you think any of the people in there are plotting to harm the injured player. " 

Zion knew this would cause all types of problems for him later, but he would think about it then. 

At this moment, the taxi stopped, and Zion rushed into the hospital after paying. 

There's no one at the reception. There's not even minimum security in the place. He went to the elevator, and the elevator did not have the power.

[ BeastBoss : Master ! Run ! There's someone trying to kill the injured player ! Run ! ] 

[ BeastBoss : (Vibrate.jpg) ( vibrate ) …. ] 

[ BeastBoss : Player in 11th floor, 1103 ] 

Zion looked at his phone, then immediately started running. He entered the stairs. He had no idea he had it in his body to move this fast. 

When he opened the door to the room, a person was holding a pillow to Cerise's face. 

' Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep ' 

The vital's monitor had flatlined.