Chapter 33 - C33 Success!

Plague's poison was not lethal, it only made the executive fall asleep and sealed their spiritual energy preventing them from using their ability.

Plague had more plans for them.

"Take them and bring them to the temple," he said to the members of the Plague River Church.

Then, he took out his hovercar and started chasing after Arthur.

He knew that Arthur was still not too far away from him

Besides, the poison, by that time, would have already acted and made him fall asleep.

...

It was indeed as what he expected, after a few minutes of driving, he saw Arthur's body lying limply on a street while being surrounded by a crowd.

Plague parked his hovercar and walked towards Arthur's body

"Is that the Plague Master?"

"No, he is the Plague Priest."

"Aren't they the same person?"

"Well, yes…"

"Isn't he a slave?"

"Yes, but who cares, rumors said that he served a divine."

"Divine? Is that a rank higher than a general?"

"Not sure, but I think it is."

"Whoaaa, I think, it is worth it being a slave if you serve a powerful individual."

The crowd gossiped as Plague walked towards Arthur's body.

He was a notorious assassin. Many times in the past he was on the news.

But, because of the tacit understanding of the military and the factions, he was not arrested or penalized.

Most of the persons that he assassinated were members of a faction.

"This is the outcome of those who annoy my Lord," Plague declared, which scared the crowd.

Then, he took Arthur's body and went back to the temple.

…

Arthur woke up in a dimly lit room that has a strange sacred aura.

He looked around and saw most of his executives shackled by chains coated with strange energy.

He tried to move but he noticed that he was also shackled. Not only physically but also spiritually.

For some reason, his spiritual energy felt sluggish and heavy. Every time he tried to move it, he felt as if his soul would be torn apart.

"It's useless, you are sealed by the divine energy of our Lord, the Divine Spirit of Life and Death."

He saw a familiar figure that flashed in the news many times for being a notorious assassin in Base 355.

It was none other than the Plague Priest.

Arthur Gulped a mouthful of saliva when he heard Plague say 'our Lord, the Divine Spirit of Life and Death.'

His subordinate told him of the existence of the Plague Priest's master, but he did not think much of it.

"What do you want, I don't think I have opposed your...your...whoever he is. I don't even know him."

"Hehe," Plague chuckled and said, "you don't know him, but he knows you."

Arthur felt chills on his back.

*click*

The door opened and Dexter entered.

"I've already transferred their Credits to our account."

Dexter hacked their watch/devices to transfer their Credits.

"Priest, we're rich now, we can renovate the church and make it grander," Dexter said with fervent expression.

"We'll wait for the plan of the Lord," Plague replied.

"What do we do to them?" Dexter asked.

"We'll sacrifice them to our Lord," Plague replied with a thick death intent.

He planned to torture them and make them wish for death. This way the divine mark could collect divine energy from them.

When Artur heard what Plague said, his heart faltered. He did not want to die.

…

On the same night after the Plague Rive Church left, General Harm arrived at the headquarters of the Azure Blazing Faction.

He looked around then called someone with his watch.

"The Azure Blazing Faction was destroyed."

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"I don't know, but I already commanded the A.I. to look at it."

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"F***! Is it my fault that they were too arrogant?"

General Harm was furious by what the other person at the end of the line said.

From his perspective, Arthur and the person on the end of the line were arrogant.

He also thanked, deep inside him, whoever killed Arthur.

But still, he will look for the culprit. And, it is not yet sure if Arthur was killed.

After a few moments, General Harm received the information regarding the incident.

For some reason, the security cameras in the surrounding area were tampered with and were playing a looped video.

General Harm's eyebrows met as he realized that this would be hard.

If the A.I. cannot find a clue, then, it would also be difficult for them.

At the same time, he admired whoever hacked the cameras. The A.I. of the Base would react whenever it detected that its peripheral devices were being hacked.

General Harm checked the footage taken by the security cameras of Azure Blazing Faction's headquarter but as he expected, the footage was also tampered with.

But this did not mean that the eyes of the people were tampered with.

He called some of his agents and tasked them to investigate the incident.

After that, he went back to his residence and relaxed as he waited for the result.

The tampering of the security cameras was to prevent the Azure Blazing Faction from receiving help. It was not meant to hide their actions.

…

Meanwhile, Allen created more eyes of the spirit for surveillance.

Then he called Elioenai and the others to check on them.

He was planning to 'personally' see their progress. His commander's divine mark only has too little divine energy.

He took the seal and injected divine energy into it along with his three bearers.

After a few moments, they were depleted of their divine energy.

Of course, Allen was not depleted dryly. He still has some divine energy. But he was on the verge of collapsing.

He closed his eyes and entered his inner world to gather divine energy faster.

The divine energy from Plague's mark was more than the three of the other bearers. After all, Plague was Allen's first bearer but Elioenai's divine mark was generating more divine energy.. If not for the Plague River Church or his distance to Allen, he might be the one who has the most divine energy.