Chapter 67 (1/2)

I walked through the town of night, fiddling with the ID card I appropriated from the men in the subway

I connected the card to my smartphone and used [Cyber-Manipulation] to read the info The e depart for He looked uards If he was just a warehouse worker, there weren't going to be et in with his card

And that wasn't one and sent in a report, the card's going to lose all of its functions

But I didn't think it was going to be that ations revealed that reissuing cards would cost quite a pretty penny, and the card oould need to go directly to the issuing office to get their card Most people would probably go search for thee once they were certain it was lost forever, right?

He just needed hisI'd probably have about half a day before I needed to worry about it… anyway, if things rong, I'd just

Besides, I could probably es too

”…the 12th research center”

It was inside a fifteen-story building in a semi-industrial district some distance away from the subway station Or to bewas the 12th research center

The 12th's purpose within the corporation was to hold the developer departdrasia At the very least, they seedrasia was a real world compared to the other departments, so there was no need for me to hesitate Not like I intended to, anyway

”[Cyber-Manipulation]”

I checked for any patrolling watcher drones nearby I used h their blind spots to dash into the underground parking lot I got in

I ht be able to handle the city's cameras, but I had no confidence I could use my Skill to completely fool the cameras of a place that took security as serious as this, so I just focused on uard standing alone in front of the door, who obviously looked like he'd had experience in the army I cut his throat with a quick swipe of my knife

Had he been ain a location where he wouldn't show up on the ca the spilled blood and vaporizing it into dust I couldn't use my more obvious abilities here on Earth I didn't want to stand out, true, but mainly I just didn't want to use those abilities too much

It wasn't like Earth had no drasia, there ay too little of it Back there, ic each hour Here, I could only recover a single percent after three days

I'd already spent close to thirty thousand ic points just to come here While I still had fifty thousand left, if I froze and de and then it turned out it wasn't et, no amount of mana could last me the entire trip

Still, if I directly absorbed people's lifeforce withic, their souls would still refill a tiny bit of rudges with these guys, ood that I'd bother picking and choosing who to spare in a pack of beasts that had bore their fangs against le positive emotion to associate with them They'd understand if I didn't bother to discriminate

I held up the ID card and the staff door opened That was a relief I didn't really think they would actually put up eye scanners here anyway, but I still worried a bit

There were more cameras ahead Before the door completely opened, I slipped into a blind spot, then reuards came out to check the door when they saw no one on the security monitors Before they came into camera view, I threw[Causality Alteration] to make sure they killed them

They uards cans of living people There was only one person sleeping in the nap room that was in the back of the security room, so I sent theuards in there

It had been two minutes since I infiltrated the place Even if I'd had a bit of real co hoas just a nor, I'd say I did pretty well

…but there was nothing de, at all More like a job for the special forces, or ht?”

Cutting the cah I did cut the alare just in case, but even in the s still showed up on camera, it shouldn't be able to reach headquarters

I checked the screens in the security room Looked like the lower floors were offices, warehouses, and docue, while the main office for the developer department and the laboratories were on the upper floors

I threw the ID card I used into the lost-and-found bin and took an ID card fro it in my pocket

I forced the elevator doors open and clih, I stopped to check for presence of people There was no one on the lower floors, while I sensed a few life signals on the upper floors

From inside the elevator shaft, I used [Cyber-Manipulation] to check the cauards on the upper floors, so I headed there first

That was close If I'd cut the cameras below, they'd totally be on alert by now

Froet there without being seen So I used Cyber-Manipulation to force static into the le moment and used the chance to dash inside the security room

”Whwhere'd you-”

I threw the machete-ish combat knife at the one who noticedhiuard ran for the alaruns on their hips

”fuck-argh!”

Just as one of thes out with my ohile my hand threw three foldable knives toward the head of the youngfor the alarm Before I could see the result of my throw, I slammedhis windpipe

”Who the he-!!!”

As the final ht sword and stabbed his throat before he could screa the alarm was already dead, my three knives stuck behind his head

It would have been siht realize it was me So I'd used weapons, just in case

I took backthe blood and fat on them and wiped them off I cut the alardrasia