Curse the Mainframe! 302 Meister vs Meister

Both Kieran and Alec had a modicum of stealth skills, but Blanche didn't have that word in her dictionary at all.

Of course, she was also strong enough not to need it, which was why the two males were following in her footsteps silently as she walked down the hallways elegantly.

The place was designed in such a way that they had to cross the entire hallway full of prisoners before they could descend to a lower level.

It was designed with two things in mind. One, to make it harder for whatever prisoners they had currently in here to escape, and two, to slow down anyone who was here that got any ideas about 'rescuing' people.

It was a rather smart thing to do, because the people that did successfully manage to break into here would have been disturbed by the prisoner's states and would have stopped to help them.

If they weren't careful, they would activate the alarm on the bars, and even if they were, could they really call themselves human if they just ignored these people in front of them?

Of the three in the rescuing party, Kieran was the only one grinding his teeth as he passed by the prisoners on every level.

Unlike him, Blanche and Alec had no problem compartmentalizing. They knew that if they didn't manage to get the 'mastermind' so to speak, then these prisoners wouldn't be able to escape safely anyway.

It wasn't that Kieran didn't know this as well, but he was more affected by the begging and pleading from the people inside the cells, and his emotions were directly affecting him.

While they had killed off the guards each time they descended a level, the security got tighter as they went further down.

However, since they had Blanche on their side, they didn't have much worries about it. Unless there was another Meister in this place, Blanche would be able to take care of any potential problems.

Alec had actually been rather shocked when he realized what realm Blanche was in. Previously, he had been so weak that he hadn't been able to tell anything other than the fact that she was stronger than he was.

If he thought about it, however, it made sense. Why else would both Kieran and Dietrich tremble when they thought about their mother's training sessions?

But, how in the world had Blanche become so strong while she was hiding it? Was it just natural ability, combined with training? Why didn't he advance as quickly as she did, when he was fighting monsters while she didn't usually?

Did it have something to do with his Magitype?

He placed the thought aside.

Right now, he was more surprised that they had yet to come across Bunbun and Fenrir. He could feel that they were further down, deeper than they were.

Since they didn't bother killing the guards, they were able to slip by unnoticed.

Whatever they injected him with had slowly started to wear off, and he could sense much further now, even though he wasn't fully recovered.

Suddenly, Blanche furrowed her brows and stopped, causing them to stop as well.

"What is it?" Kieran whispered to Blanche.

"There's a Meister here," she said with a dark face.

Instantly, Kieran was alarmed. "What? It's already hard to meet a single Meister, but there's actually one in this place? That doesn't make any sense!"

Alec nodded, agreeing. Why would a Meister fund an operation like this?

For money?

Nonsense!

Meisters were usually rolling in gold, especially if they put their minds to it. They didn't need to do something as despicable as human trade to make money.

Every country or continent was willing to pay an exorbitant to keep a Meister for themselves. However, most Meisters were either living a low-key life or were already under someone.

Those that had ambition started their own sects, and others founded a clan of their own.

There were even people that were willing to send their sons and daughters as concubines so that they could connect their families.

It was clear from this how much prestige and power being a Meister had, yet there was actually a Meister in this kind of place?

Meisters were supposed to be rare and meeting them wasn't an everyday thing.

…Come to think of it, Alec had actually met a rather large number of Meisters.

Blanche breathed out. "We've already made contact. You two move to the side. Now," she commanded.

Kieran frowned, but before he could say anything, Alec dragged his hand back, raising an eyebrow at him. They would just get in the way of a true Meister's fight. If they didn't want to worry Blanche, then they could only get out of the way.

Blanche nodded in thanks at Alec.

"Big sister, be safe."

Kieran made up his mind resolutely, nodding at his mother. Since she was going to be in the most danger, then the two of them should go and look for the list and more evidence about what this place was doing.

He'd take down the branch family members while he could. He didn't believe that his mother would lose.

Alec and Kieran hid, and Blanche darted back upstairs in a flash. Another flash passed by the two of them quickly, and they knew that it was the other Meister that had been downstairs.

Alec frowned inwardly. He was seriously meeting too many Meisters nowadays for it to be circumstantial. Were things going to be heating up soon?

He had to quickly advance himself.

Anyway, it wasn't so easy for a Meister to kill another Meister. Most of the time, unless one was newly advanced and the other was a veteran, there wouldn't be a large difference.

Usually, Meisters couldn't go all out either, lest they destroy the country. Most attacks were probes, and made so as not to damage their surroundings too much.

With that in mind, Kieran felt more settled.

The two split up quickly as they looked around for incriminating evidence.

There was no way that the Meister previously didn't notice them while they were hiding, but he was also busy fighting Blanche.

Their fight had already started in earnest, and the entire place shook from time to time, sending dust down from above as the lights shook.

There were various cries of shock from the prisoners in their cells, which helped hide their movements.

Alec went deeper down and finally found Bunbun and Fenrir, who were running around carrying various scrolls.

He stared at them blankly. Did they forget that they could also use the interspatial dimension?

Seemingly hearing Alec's thoughts, Fenrir whacked Bunbun on the head with a paw, sending the bunny rolling onto the ground.

Alec held back a snort at their antics. Even in a place like this, his two familiars were still messing around.

Suddenly, the two familiars became aware of Alec's eyes, and they obediently straightened up.

Bunbun secretly put a paw on the scroll and sent it into the interspatial dimension.

Alec rolled his eyes, holding a hand out to them. "Show me what you've gotten."

They obediently placed a few scrolls onto Alec's hand.

The System quickly looked through it, and his face darkened. There were so many names that were listed here, and just as many that had been crossed out.

Whether they were dead or alive, it wasn't stated clearly.

However, he almost froze in shock when he saw two names that he recognized.

The first was 'Mason Woods', whom he had been looking for a long time. Mason Woods was the son of Stanley and Lorraine Woods, who had put up Elias and himself in their home for a few weeks.

He had always been trying to track down this son of theirs, who was supposedly kidnapped and dragged off to become a slave, but he had scoured the whole of the Kaoriht continent without any success.

So, he had ended up in another continent altogether.

But why would they bother to kidnap someone all the way across the continent and bring him here?

He had more questions than answers at this point.

The second name he recognized was also very familiar to him. Lily Cierra, the girl who he taught a bit of how to use her Magitype.

They even managed to kidnap a Main Character?

Alec was confused. How had they managed to do that? Did she also willingly get captured like he did?

His brows furrowed a little. Wait… wasn't Mason Woods also an Awakening type?

But… they why would they capture Lucielle Hartknight? She was a Bright.

Something wasn't adding up with his deduction.

Chapter end

Report