Chapter 36 Hangover 7 (1/2)
”Why does it seems like I had seen this guy before...” Jevil stared at the holovision of the dim lightened bar.
At the holovision it showed John slowly walking up at the Arena.
The Arena was a big circle with 10 meters radius. The floor was made of a somewhat soft material so that in can allow for the fighters to perform more radical and dangerous moves, and also so that they can fight without any shoes.
There is no way to fall from the Arena, the only way to win is by knocking the other opponent out, or by making them admit defeat.
”That's John Connor, sir.” The captain guard that John met by the entrance was at the bar with Jevil.
”Oh... The Protector that was able to kill a Erchius Horror...” Jevil became suddenly very interested in the coming battle at the Arena 6.
”It's not unheard of someone killing a Erchius Horror, why would you, sir, became interested in him?”
”Simple.” Jevil smirked, ”The existence of the Erchius Horror and Moontants are a close and classified information by the Letheia Corporation. Anyone apart from the upper echelon know nothing about it. To actually meet something that resistant and hard to kill, and actually eliminate it, without prior understanding about what he was facing, it is something very admirable.”
”From the reports we received, he used the Mining Laser Cannon to destroy it...” The guard was still unconvinced.
”Would you think of something like that in the heat of the moment, when facing something that is able to completely destroy even Tier 4 armors? One slight hit from that thing is extremely deadly.” Jevil sat more relaxedly in the spacious sofa, ”Of course if it was by luck or skill, we don't know, and we have no way to know it.”
The captain stared at the young man in the holovision, ”Are you going to... Use him?”
”I don't know, yet. The Central Ocean Faction is very interested in him, and I want to know why.” Jevil casually pulled up his glasses in a skillful way, ”Of all the Protectors around the universe that survived the red tentacle monster's onslaught, they chose to focus on this specific Protector. He has a connection with Esther Bright, that's confirmed by the spies, but they only met each other recently.”
”Should we do something?”
”No. I don't want the Letheia Corporation setting its sight on me, Asra wouldn't like it...”
”Asra... I really don't get it... Why would you work with those radicals...”
”The Occasus Cult is evil, a necessary evil, so to speak. The Letheia Corporation had started to make extremely big moves now. The Occasus Cult is a force that is able to stop them from growing too much, too fast. It give us time... To prepare...”
”But... The Occasus is a double edge sword. It can be used to cut down the enemy, but it can also kill the wielder. To sponsor them so much... It's dangerous... You know how fanatic they are. They simply kill any non-human at sight, whatever they are bad, good, or young, old.”
”I know... That's why I'm using Ferris. I need to slowly make the Occasus Cult angrier with the Letheia Corporation. They won't sit idle as they watch hundreds of Human workers die in the Lunar Base 12. I indirectly made the Erchius Horror incident happen there so that they start to set their eyes on the Letheia's actions. I didn't expect them to actually go there and investigate on themselves, they even kidnapped the Overseer of the facility, Clark. This shows that they don't actually believe in my words. It doesn't matter, after all. I just need to the Occasus Cult and the Letheia Corporation to go against each other, they will weaken one another, and then... Then we cleanly eliminate this two evil things from the face of this universe.”
”Now I understand...” The guard looked with eyes filled with worship toward Jevil, ”Pardon my uselessness.”
Jevil dismissed with a wave of his hand, ”Don't worry so much, just make sure that the deal with Ferris is perfectly completed. Once we help her make the deal with the Syndicate, we will have proofs of the horrendous actions that the Letheia Corporation do against Humans, how they enslave Humans, using debt-enslavements. We give the proofs to Asra and watch from the sidelines the two devils killing each other.”