206 Victory (2/2)

This city-wide barrier was so expensive that it was worth 2 years of the annual profit of the city. One could just imagine how important this is.

With all that explained, no one bothered to take on a mission to protect the building of a security company.

They had only explained that more members will come from nearby cities and they will assign many members of the force to help them. But the Golden Trident Group couldn't accept it as it will be too late for them. They could only beg and even offered them a deal about their cores to make them agree.

They know that the Lucent Force was eyeing their cores as well after they learned their origins, probably through the person that Wallace had captured. It was just due to the law protecting them, the Lucent Force couldn't force their company to hand over its assets.

At the moment, the headquarters had already turned lively as many people tried to clean the mess caused by the battle within the building.

Aaron was only staring blankly while he was getting treated by the doctors.

On the other hand, the President was supervising the doctors that were treating him to ensure that nothing goes wrong. She really admired this man who was not only young and strong but couldn't easily be moved by her beauty.

She'll ensure that their company had close ties with this young master of the Lucent Force.

Aaron blinked his eyes as he saw the eye bags of the doctors with him and remembered something.

'I wonder if I can complete the quest if I played 16 hours per day... Having a portable Freya around seems to be livelier than just by traveling alone, right?...'

Aaron was seriously pondering about this.

'Sigh~ I hope that the creator made the quest a little easier though...'

***

The aim of the terrorist attack was to acquire the Solidified Celestial Bloods. Unfortunately, due to the unexpected reinforcements from the City forces, they failed miserably.

The mysterious shot coming out of nowhere, Aaron's show of strength, and Avery's disappearance with the Headmaster of Leonhearts Academy was something they couldn't take.

Even the 12th Phantom Squad had only succeeded in killing the double of the City Mayor and the real Mayor was only injured.

The remaining members of the squad were even killed by an unknown Steel Knight as per the words of the witnesses.

A couple of Lucent Force members who were pursuing the remaining members of the squad to stop them from causing more havoc within the city had witnessed a huge explosion in the southern direction of the city. It was hard not to notice such a powerful explosion in a quiet city. After all, the civilians had all hidden at the shelters underground and in other similarly magic enhanced structures.

The couple saw a silhouette of a large humanoid machine that was similar to the standards of the Steel Knight but it has a different model design. It was highly likely a customized Steel Knight from a private company they are unaware of and this new model had a form of instantaneous movement that had easily defeated the remaining members of the Phantom Squad without letting them detonate themselves.

It was an impressive feat as their understanding about Steel Knight was that it was supposedly slower and Adept Mages should still be more agile than the humanoid machine but...

”It was still prohibited to create a Steel Knights without approval from us!”

Yumi exclaimed after reading the complete and detailed reports of her subordinate. The creation of Steel Knights must be registered to the government and this was being handled by NMTI.

She only had the time of reading this report due to her mission in Stella Region involving the Seed Holdings. And after reviewing the report, she realized that the Steel Knight had only appeared after a house of a certain individual was targeted by the improvised missile.

”Did that guy--”

Yumi kept her mouth shut at this. She already had a suspicion about the young man's identity and this only made her suspicion grown.

In the end, it was a victory for Tanza City as the terrorist withdrew after suffering heavy casualties on their side. The Hallowed Eye's wielder had even escaped by himself after suffering grievous wounds, leaving the other terrorists behind to get killed.

”Eh? Did he really disappeared?”

Yumi was talking to herself. Unfortunately, it was reported that the wielder of the Heart's Grimoire, Avery Marshall, had disappeared together with the Percival, her cousin, due to some unknown reason.

With this unexpected situation, the Leonhearts Academy was left with no Headmaster.

But this problem had not affected their Academy heavily since most of the time, Percival was absent and the Academy was being run by the Deputy Headmaster.