"And done." Zeroll said finally killing the giant who was leading the other monsters to attack Livania. Everyone, except for the elite vampires, Kayla, and Leroy were shocked at the display of power Zeroll had shown. Even though he was alone fighting against countless monsters he turned it around into an one-sided massacre! Their lord was indeed one of the most powerful beings on the planet right now. No wonder he dared to travel alone outside the safety of the impregnable fortress.
Zeroll casually walked back into the city after successfully defending it, but he couldn't shake off the feeling that the attack was only a distraction, because Livania was never attacked by monsters before, the city itself was impregnable and to think a retarded giant would cause such a ruckus seemed absurd. He immediately walked towards Kayla and Leroy, and told them to search the entire city for any intruders.
After giving the orders each and every soldier present in the city was summoned and was instructed to report even minor discrepancies and problem back to the superiors. The city way under curfew, every resident was advised to stay indoors until further notice. Although the citizens were confused about why was this happening, they didn't asked any question as they trusted the authority completely.
Around thirty thousand soldiers were divided into 3000 units, each unit had around 10 soldiers, even Zeroll's summons were called upon for help. Zeroll tried using the system to scan the entire city but the system remained unresponsive just like the time when he was inside the dungeon. Even Xorzorud wasn't responding to his thoughts. Zeroll had a bad feeling about all this and wanted to get this over with.
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One whole day passed since the curfew was declared and yet not a single clue was found about the identities of the invaders, the only thing they were sure about was that Zeroll's hunch was true someone had indeed managed to snuck into the city. This was confirmed by two factors, one, someone forcefully opened a sealed backdoor leading into the city, and second was, the mysterious death of 17 units out of initial 3000 units.
No one saw anything, the security grid always went offline before any units were attacked, all the units which were attacked had something in common, only the units which didn't have Zeroll's summons were attacked and hence at least one of his summons were added to all the remaining units. And then all of a sudden the attacks stopped. Everyone was perplexed and frustrated after the attacks, even Zeroll was having a hard time controlling himself, he was desperately looking for clues but there was nothing. Even Lawrence and his forensic team couldn't find any clues whatsoever. It was like they were fighting an invisible enemy! The vampires and Bruno, both of them who were supposed to have excellent abilities to track the enemies down, were useless against the new-found enemy. Laksah was busy hovering above the ground scouting locations of possible hideouts while Iobra, was searching in the underground sewers for hints, but it was all in vain.
"Damn it!" Zeroll shouted in frustration as both the system and Xorzorud remained unresponsive.
Just as Zeroll had lost all hope on finding these intruders, an ogre appeared in front of him.
"My lord! Three mysterious being have been spotted near the main entrance." The ogre said kneeling before Zeroll.
"Assemble everyone there and tell them to be vigilant, we don't know who the enemy is." Zeroll said and rushed towards the entrance, equipping his armour and god slayer swords.
The streets were awfully quite, quieter than a ghost town.
"Where the hell are the patrolling forces!" Something felt terribly wrong, he tried contacting everyone he could think of, Kayla, Leroy, Lawrence but no one answered his calls. He could only rush towards the main entrance and hope for the best.
But when he got there... only blood and bodies of his dead comrades were scattered there... Leroy, Lawrence, Nissa, they were all dead, their lifeless faces were full of pain and agony.
"Zer...oll..."
He heard a feeble cry and ran towards the voice of... Kayla. She was barely alive, there were innumerable wounds on her body, both of her hands had been ripped apart, her beautiful eyes had been gauged out. Seeing the once bold and strong woman, in such a pitiful state was too much, even for Zeroll.
"WHO DID THIS!" Zeroll shouted at the top of his lungs.
"She... bet... betrayed us..."
"Who!?"
"That would be me." A voice replied.
As Zeroll turned around he saw three hooded figures, slowing walking towards him. "I didn't want to resort to such measures, after all she was a friend but my subordinate here," She pointed at the person standing at her right, "Has a particular weird fetish when it comes to beautiful females..."
"WHO THE F*CK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!" Zeroll snapped back at the hooded creature.
"I'm disappointed you have forgotten my voice." The female said lifting her hood up. "Surprise!"
"No way... Why would you do something like this!" Zeroll was petrified.