Before the five of them separated into four directions, Chris once asked Sofony what she would do if she finds out that there was actually someone at a higher level than her in that place.
The woman only smiled back then.
In reality, she was hoping that the luck stats she raised for three years would be helpful in today's operation.
No matter how confident she was in her skills and schemes, it would prove futile in front of absolute strength. Even now, she has no idea what abilities a Level 6 user possessed.
It shouldn't be exorcism, no? Once she levels up, she would have to purchase that skill due to Wendy's condition. However, she was sure that this was not the case for the other immoral hosts.
'... It's not nice having to pray that no level 6 would pop out of nowhere to beat the heck out of me...'
Sofony laughed and then fixed her hair and made sure that she looked presentable. Why was she doing so?
Behind her were ten or so triad men armed with guns and knives, their eyes looking a bit glassy and unfocused.
However, their steps were not shaky at all. If anything, their gaits and ways of walking were full of momentum, testifying that they were really part of the local mafia.
In front of these rough-looking men, oddly, the short-haired woman armed with nothing but the clothes on her back did not look out of place.
As they marched under the dark and cloudy night skies toward an uninhabited village in the city outskirts, Sofony was like the queen of the underworld.
But in reality, she was not part of any gang or mafia.
"Hello, everyone. My name is... Oops, I can't say. But I'm now here in a creepy place, live streaming my journey and adventure to all of you."
In her head, after she said her poorly scripted opening line, boisterous laughter rang.
Sofony merely directed a smile to one of the virtual cameras the system had set up on the sides. The men behind her didn't react when she began talking to herself. Of course, it was all thanks to the hypnosis.
"So... this is the backstory of our first livestream today. In the glorious C Empire, the government who is very dedicated to their duties and loves the citizens more than anything else made a very important decision. They decided that it's now time to create super people who would stand guard for the empire! It's their countermeasure for if ever it hits its toughest time!"
Eerie sounds of the wind graced the video that had suddenly popped up in the major livesteaming sites. Out of nowhere, it topped every nation's ranking within Utube, the world's largest video-sharing app and website.
Of course, the initial hype was done by the system.
But later on, due to the amazing quality of the video plus the intriguing content and title, people all over the world couldn't be bothered to click the x button. In fact, they all shared it to their friends and family, thus the view count jumped by thousands ever passing second.
It had been almost half a minute since the beautiful eastern woman serving as the main protagonist spoke.
While everyone else clamored and praised the short-haired lady's charm that overflowed their screens, a few curious others checked and realized that there was something more intriguing about her than being a mafia queen escorted by her followers!
'This pretty girl looks like an Easterner but she's speaking our E language so fluently. Very good! *insert rows of thumbs up*'
'Upstairs, you dumb? She just spoke my country's tongue. You're most probably hearing things. If not, this is probably dubbed already.'
'Lols, you're dumber, whoever you are. The upper part of the screen shows this is a livestream. How can there be dubbing? By the way, even though I'm speaking your language, I'm from B Empire.'
'+19,876 *insert rows of stupidly grinning yellow balls*
'+19,877 *insert rows of stupidly puzzled yellow balls*
'People, what's happening? Can someone explain to me what the previous commenter wrote above? G translate is not keeping up properly!'
'Believe me, he said this is horror. But in my very honest opinion, maybe my new wife is leading us into a real underworld where she'll show us a live group fight. Bloody. Exciting. Blood boiling. Damn. I'm from Country Y. Who's with me?'
Within two minutes, people had verified that she was speaking their own language.
However, at the same time, she had sounded the same to the citizens of the other nations! How was that possible?
Was everyone watching the same live footage? Or was this pre-edited? What was with the spoken languages then?
In short, the chat room on the right side of the video exploded!
Yet the next curious thing that happened was despite the millions or perhaps tens of millions of people typing at the same time, the platform didn't freeze or lag at all, not even for a second!
A few opportunists wailed as their money flew away. They were the ones who betted about the video-sharing sites and apps all over the world shutting down in a few minutes.
Well, putting that betting issue aside, overall, people relished in the goosebumps that crawled onto their skin as they glued their eyes to the mysterious woman.
The 'two miracles' were enough to make them focus their attention on her and not stray to any other sites or streams.
Sofony felt satisfied when this got reported to her by the system. It was a pity though.
'This is the first time for me to be the center of everybody's attention. And this time, it's not only countrywide, but worldwide. I feel sad, for all of them. All they would see and remember after this operation is my fake face, not the real one... I'm sad, this could have been a solid proof to show to Gio.'
'I'm only being one good leader.'
The nasty being was obviously disdainful of her move and questioning her IQ, like always. But in her opinion, she was only doing something for fun while also providing help to her allies who would be making their moves at the same time as her.
Still, Sofony hated the robotic laugh at the end so she ignored it and then signaled the guys behind her to be as discreet and quiet as possible while they sneaked into the underground passage. It was something they found after lifting a manhole near the sole big water tank in the village.
Maybe due to her mission being the extermination of a huge force, the system decided to be malicious, or rather, helpful enough to provide her of clues where the hidden bases could be found.
Sofony suspected that unlike what the system used to say before, its main brain actually wanted to pit each host against one another.
She looked at the reactions of the viewers and found that most of them were praising the video quality that captured everything in the dim surroundings.
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This made her smile.
She shrugged and opened her mouth to continue what she was saying earlier.
"This is a tightly guarded secret. But probably due to the undercurrents that most of humanity didn't know, the empire chose to partner up with a local terrible crime syndicate to experiment and test something. The test subjects, sadly, are people from the other countries kidnapped by this organization."
She paused for a while. Her sensitive hearing picked up some muffled noises from the northern side. A smile once again appeared on her lips as she and her companions picked up their pace.
"People, it seems you would only need to wait for a minute or so to understand what I mean. I dare all of you to not be surprised later by what you will see."
After leaving this statement, she ran along the corridor and left the men behind.
Sofony had felt it from the entrance, but there was no way to teleport around the area. The realization, of course, sent chills to her heart. Nonetheless, she continued walking down the unlit, dark corridor.
'I have a feeling the folks of the place employed countermeasures against poisons and hordes of insects.'
Even this path that had just been created was suffused with something that smelled toxic.
It was not hard to guess that whoever was managing this base knew what had destroyed the desert branch.
'Why is this hidden passage not exempted from whatever they applied to the air and soil?'
Even though the audience only saw a charming, easy-going lady that was so a contrast to the oppressive and spine-chilling atmosphere of the place, inwardly, Sofony was getting annoyed.
A few hundred thousand points were paid just to create this safe passageway leading straight into the dungeon part of the enemy's main headquarters. This was why she found its answer so unacceptable and irritating.
'I badly hate that there's nothing I can do to you, devil!'
After she shouted this in her mind, the woman temporarily stopped in her tracks, staring with absolute solemness at the view before her.
Sofony finally reached the end of the damp, dark, and chilly corridor. Because she stopped, the hypnotized mafia men managed to catch up with her, also halting their steps and alertly standing by behind her.
The smell of something rotten and festering assaulted their noses. Low guttural noises sometimes drifted to their ears together with heavy sounds of footsteps.
As the camera focused on the scene in front, almost everyone watching shouted and asked, 'What the f*ck is that!?' Of course, there were some variations in the phrase depending on the language and intensity of the shock. However, what was sure that for the next minutes that passed, the chat room was filled with profanities and expression of disbelief. Not few left a whole text of prayers.
As for the short-haired lady...
After narrowing her eyes at the creatures that could be seen wandering about the corridor below, she absent-mindedly muttered a puzzling question under her breath,
"Are these monster the product of that five hundred thousand points item, or the five million one?"
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