An hour before midnight Debauchery was ready to start operation "headache prevention" as dubbed by Bai while discussing how to proceed with the mission. As per habit Debauchery sat together around a meal to make the final plan with Lucian leading the talk.
"I found some interesting stuff while scouting, all the nobles who planned to harm us were warned by the same person about us leaving the academy and vanishing, the man almost sniffed me out so i did not dare to eavesdrop but i found out where he came from, the one and only enemy we ever had, as for the 8 families, well, they are too well guarded for my liking, they are hiding something big or are baiting us, either way i can promise you kids some fun".
"We have an enemy? Since when?" Asked Dustan bewildered. "Remember that old Duke who wanted us to get him a throne and spent two thousand lvl 10 soldiers on us" Balin reminded the orc "oh the one who kept spouting things like "if you refuse me you will be my enemies something something you will pay for killing my men", how is that old man doing? i miss his food, i loved how his daughter played around trying to seduce us all even ugly me" stated Dustan with nostalgia and longing.
"Yeah that old guy, and he seems to have gotten his throne and quite a number of level 15 adventurers around him" replied Lucian "I think he got burned a few times with level 20 guys so he downgraded his expectations, according to some idle chatter there were about a 500 of them, i reckon it would take us about 15 minutes to clean up their place but we can not do it silently so i'm gonna need you dear Bai to head there first and do your thing, help them sleep tighter, get a confession or three, mark those who need to die. I need you to pull all the stops and just cover all the bases."
"All the bases? How long do i have?" Asked Bai, "4 hours i'd wager" Lucian said "so we will take confessions from those we clean up and you my capable rogue can take your time covering all the bases, oh and please make sure to cover even those base none in this party can think or even know about, okey?" Bai looked at Lucian with a bit of disgust, it seems Bai was planning on taking it easy and slack of but now he could only stare at Lucian with a mumbled "tcheh, shifty bastard"
"Does Bai know more bases than other rogues?" As usual curiosity took over Reina mid conversation "i can only sleep when Bai is covering up our bases, we have never been infiltrated and we can catch all those who try well before they can even start acting out their plans, the guy is a genius when it comes to shifty sneaky stuff" Fae dutily replied. She knew she was feeding a bad habit by answering a question that interrupted a conversation, but who cares, not Debauchery for sure.
"Any way, Bai has to leave a bit before us and make sure everything is in order when we arrive around 4 hours later, the kids have earned the right to follow us and watch so Leader is on guard duty, Balin will call the shots i will sneak and deal with the hidden ones and Dustan can cut down all those i marked at your leisure, Fae make sure no noise is leaked. One last point Leader, any orders?" Said Lucian. "Total annihilation, no mercy, no prisoners" replied Leader with a commanding tone.
Bai was the first to leave the villa and into the battle, soon after, Debauchery put on some plain armors, one can tell they felt so comfortable wearing those armors, what most untrained eyes would miss would be the battle intent that was emanating from the armors. Those armors had seen some tough battles and have been repaired so many times they lost all the luster such good armors must have had. As for their weapons, one would be amazed at them. Aside from the daunting dragon claws Dustan had, all the rest had extremely simple weapons, Lucian's daggers looked like cooking knives, Balins hammer looked like a short sledgehammer, his shield looked like a plank of wood, Fae had a meter long tree branch for her staff while Leader had a 2 meter long walking stick.
At first Yunan was bewildered but then remembered something, these guys are going all out, "total annihilation" were not just fancy words, they seriously are going to do it, and they geared up for a fight in the 20th floor and they are using full power. Yunan and Reina were excited to see the full power of Debauchery, but leol was a bit comprehensive, these guys scared a level 1 nest by walking inside, just walking, and all the power they showed during training was at level 1 and what scared him most was that Dustan had bad control over his strength, if he could cause havok by not trying to use force, how much damage can he do when he tries. Leol would know the answer very soon.
When everyone was geared up and ready, Bai showed up at the door, and punched Lucian square in the jaw "you said 500 lvl 15, why are there 50 level 20 in there? Gimme your shoes" and while Lucian was still falling Bai was already taking off his shoes "if something goes wrong i will cut off your tail, ptui" and just like that Bai left.
Leader was upset "talk" she ordered Lucian who was putting on new shoes " he is a king, schemes with other kings and organisations is in the job description, why else would a group of level 20s arrive at this time, less than an hour after i left, him trying to harm Debauchery is laughable at best, something stinks and I would like to get confessions instead of making speculation, but if i am right and them going against us is a diversion i think we must thank the lucky bastard for the sweet reward on its way after we end this"
And with that the party stepped out of the villa and into the night, before stepping into the teleportation portal, the all subconsciously touched Yunan to get some of his luck.