Chapter 618 Night Of The Sabotage

The three of us logged out for a bit to have some rest before we returned to the game. I prepared most of the items we needed to prepare for the sabotage. Thankfully, Sigma and Harmless Sparrow purchased some explosives while they were still staying in the City of the Clouds. It's much better to have more explosives but we are going just to use them to escape as we don't want to use them while stealing the harvest as that is the main goal here, to take the yield and return safely without damaging it.

Since it will be tomorrow, that the cargo will be delivered, I decided to take this chance and scout the area where we will be doing our sabotage. Sigma made a rule to lower the casualties as much as possible and if necessary, just incapacitate them instead of fully killing them. This way, the enemies will not reinforce the security after seeing the deaths of their comrades and that would lessen their chances of pursuing the cargo as they will have to try and see the situation of their fellow members.

I take note of that as I literally meant I am not fit in sabotage since the most efficient way I will always do is to kill all of the guards and just be done with it. As for Sigma, she is against my tactic as that would ruin the next missions especially since we still don't know whether we will have to repeat the sabotage runs or not, and if we do, the sabotage run will be harder due to the increased security after someone died since she experienced it first hand and are talking to experience.

So our plan is to disable the security, lessen any of the incoming threats and take advantage of the chaos to take the product in which Sigma will be the one assigned to take it while Sparrow and I will be the ones who will be going to disable the security, preventing the reinforcements and covering for Sigma's escape with the cargo. The hardest parts of the plan fall under us but since I have the Saboteur class with me, I am confident we will be able to do so.

Before we take the mission, I created a gadget which is a blowdart. Since we are going to incapacitate the guards instead of killing them, I made two of them, one for me and one for Sparrow.

Usually, blowdarts are used to fire a dart that is dipped into a poison that usually is fatal and can kill immediately but this time around, it's not poison but something that can knock people out but not kill them as a result.

[Creation successful]

[Sleeping Pin Dart]

Type: Consumable

Info: An item created by an adventurer with the intent to incapacitate its target. Due to the type of liquid used to coat the whole pin, anyone who gets shot by the pin will immediately fall asleep. Anyone who has a high sleep resistance will still feel the effects and will be drowsy for quite a while. Adding more doses will effectively knock out the target.

Note: A one-way ticket to dreamland that is.

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I made sure to create lots of it because it will take a while to easily target anyone and sometimes, it might miss so in short, and just like what the info said, some targets have the innate resistance to sleep debuff so there is a chance they won't get afflicted to it. However, I made sure to use the strongest ingredient that can cause extreme drowsiness to a person, creature, or entity with it even those who have a resistance to it. The only ones who will not be affected by it are those who are immune to the debuff and that will be a big problem that is where we will have to incapacitate them and thankfully, I also stock up on some smoke bombs as well.

Once the gadget is done, our next move is to gather intel from the enemy. We can't just blindly enter the place without any sort of intel we can use to our advantage. Since my new class has the easiest way to spy on the enemies, I summoned a Shikigami and shared the view with the three so that they will know what I am seeing. Thankfully, it was easily done as it was also one of the features of the Shikigamis as well.

And with that, it took us the whole day to formulate the plan and discuss what we will be doing for the sabotage.

And so, a day has passed and the night of the sabotage is finally here. The three of us are wearing all-black robes and all three of us wears a mask of different animals. For me, I didn't wear the wolf mask as that is my signature mask but instead used the monkey mask. As for Harmless Sparrow, she used an Eagle mask since she requested a bird mask. Her mask looks very similar to how a plague doctor mask works. As for Sigma, she got the Lion mask but that is enough for us to know who is who in this operation.

We are waiting for the time dusk falls. While the people are preparing to depart, Sparrow and I already snuck inside while Sigma waited outside with the shikigami that I summoned currently with her so that she will receive our signal to go in.

Sparrow and I immediately went to our separate areas so that we can begin our task. I slowly creep on the walls and whenever I see a guard, I will shoot the guy with the sleeping pin dart and causes them to immediately fall asleep.

The cargo is not heavily guarded but they are still pretty much guarded enough to ensure that no interference will stop the cargo like bandits that usually ruins the delivery. But before the delivery begins, we will be ruining its transporting process already.

I spotted a few guards in the area. Each of them is totally isolated to the point that shooting them is pretty much guaranteed to be undetected though one of them is roaming around and seems like checking out the hiding spots of the area. However, that is not the main problem. The distance is. The farther the distance of the target, the less accurate my shots will be.

Taking notes on where all of the guards are standing and walking around, I already have an idea of which guard I will be shooting at first.

FWOOP!

The moment the dart struck one of the guards, the roaming guard took notice of the fallen guard and slowly approaches him, immediately isolating him from the rest of the guards. As soon as he was about to inspect the fallen guard, I immediately blow the blowdart and shoot his neck with the sleeping dart.

FWOOP!

The dart landed on his neck. Unlike the first guy, he didn't immediately fall asleep but grabbed his neck for what landed on it. I was ready to blow another one but he slowly fall to the ground and fell asleep. TWO down.

The rest are much easier and thankfully, the side I was in has no one fully resistant to it. However, it wasn't the case in Sparrow's case. Before I can react, a smoke bomb exploded in the area where Sparrow was doing her job. Since the smoke bomb was used, there was someone who is completely immune to the dart as it didn't incapacitate the guy with it.

Due to the commotion, most of the active guards are immediately drawn to the side where Sparrow was. I took advantage of the commotion and drop another smoke bomb at the location of the cargo and alerted Sigma.

"It's time!"

"Roger!"

Once I gave out the signal, Sigma rushes in, drops another smoke bomb, and infiltrated the area. Because she was strong enough, she easily took the cargo out and started running. As Sigma passes by, I dropped the Flash Bang I created using the Saboteur ability. Anyone who is following her will be blinded by the sudden flash bang.

Sigma easily outruns the people and all that is left is to go and escape. I immediately saw Sparrow escape by using the [Scroll of Haste] that I gave her for escape before she drops a smoke bomb below her and started running away from them.

Because our job is done here, I entered stealth and was about to escape when I saw the castellan walking out of the area to check out what is happening but due to the smoke, all he can do is wait for the smoke to dissipate before he makes his action.

I left a shikigami in the area before I escaped. Regardless of why Sparrow decided to use the smoke, it didn't happen to be that hard and easily escaped. And so, our first mission as rebels is complete.