Chapter 72 - Raid

They started to gather the hotel's employees and customers into the hotel's lobby. Three people opened Boden's door with a hard kick and entered. But these three men who burst in were killed before they knew what had happened. Boden took the corpses to his room and closed his door. Immediately he knocked on Della's door.

Della opened the door and just as she was about to say something, Boden put his finger to his lip and made a hush sign. Della immediately followed Boden and they returned to Boden's room. Boden examined the bodies. There was no link to the Green Wind Trading Company on the bodies.

"Boden, I think these guys were sent to us by the client representative who sold the pills. This gang must be following every foreign customer like us. They must have agreed with the employees to organize the attack. An insider definitely has a hand in this."

Boden nodded in agreement when he realized that Della was also thinking the same thing as him. He told Della to cremate the corpses of the three men after taking the several hundred mana crystals from the men's rings. The two secretly hid in one of the other rooms.

After a few minutes, the leader of the gang was furious when he realized that the duo he had asked to be brought down and the three men he had sent for this job had not landed in the lobby. He told the other five men next to him to go upstairs and bring everyone here.

When the five men came and looked into the room, they could not see anyone, including the corpses. There was no trace of blood around. The five men quickly returned. The leader of the gang immediately took his men out of the hotel and they started searching around the hotel from four directions.

Boden went downstairs, guessing that the men were temporarily gone. Everyone in the hotel gathered in the lobby and two people were on guard. After quickly killing two people, Boden looked at the waiting people and signalled them to remain silent.

One of the customers started yelling because he thought he might be killed because of Boden. Boden tossed a grade-2 knife he had pulled out of his ring into the shouting man's head. Before the man could understand what was happening, the knife hit his head between his two eyes.

Boden quickly confiscated the rings of the men he had killed, after stopping the shouting of the people waiting. With Della's sign at the exit, he retreated and shrank behind the door. When three of the gang members who heard the voices rushed inside, Boden killed two and Della killed the third.

After collecting the rings of the men, the two quickly went back to the first floor facing the back of the building and entered one of the rooms there and looked out the window. They noticed that two of the gang members were watching around. With their backs turned to the building, the gang members stared at the streets and surrounding buildings hoping to find activity. Boden jumped from the first floor of the building and came behind them and killed the two of them unnoticed. After taking the men's rings, he entered the building through the window again.

He and Della came to the opposite window and saw the three men examining the area. They also turned their backs to the hotel. Boden and Della sneaked out of the window. Della killed one and Boden two other people close to each other. Boden and Della quickly entered the road that connected to the square and mixed with the crowd.

The gang leader was completely insane when he learned that his men had been killed unnoticed. He came with twenty men but lost thirteen of them. The enraged gang leader quickly made his way to the city's security chief's office.

On the way, Boden grabbed someone and turned them around. "Hey, if you answer my question correctly, I'll give you three mana crystals." The person he was holding nodded his head in fear. "Someone killed a friend of mine here. To whom and where should I complain?"

The man after a few seconds of thought described the city's security chiefs and the location of the office. After Boden gave the man three crystals, he quickly started walking towards there. Della was quickly following Boden in black clothes. Boden wore grey beggar clothes. Della wore her slightly worn black clothes. They had a poor and unobtrusive appearance.

Boden came in front of the security chief's office and after scouring around the office "Della I'll infiltrate the office. If you see someone rushing from inside, running away, you must kill at the exit. Don't let anyone escape. I will wait for the gang to come inside."

Boden then quickly moved to the back of the building and saw gang members coming from the other end of the street. He quickly climbed into the building and entered through an open window. He was quietly waiting behind the wall at the entrance to the security chief's office. Boden had become one with the wall, and his location was hardly noticed because of the darkness.

The gang leader entered after passing Boden. Boden noticed that the Gang leader did not close the door after entering. The gang leader was obviously going to keep his speech short.

"Alvaro, our hunt today made us lose thirteen men. You have to catch that guy now. These are the pictures. I want to torture him in prison all day tomorrow. Lift your ass!"

Alvaro, after looking at Boden and Della in the picture and snorted "Forty percent."

The gang leader hit the door in anger. "Okay, Forty!"

Alvaro smiled slyly.

As the gang leader stepped out of the room, he felt his neck cut as he passed through the darkness. After a few seconds, his head was separated from his body. After receiving the ring of the gang leader, Boden quickly entered the room and threw a dagger in his hand at the security chief. Before the security chief knew what was happening, the dagger went through his eye and stuck into his skull.

Boden immediately took the photos of himself and Della from the table and removed the security chief's ring from his finger and placed it inside his own ring. He then searched the office and hijacked reports of several incidents in the town. Boden's aim was to make the murders look like someone wanted for other crimes.

The dagger on Alvaro's eye belonged to the gang leader. He threw the gang leader's body down from where he entered the building, and then Boden himself jumped. He pointed to Della after walking away a little. Della burned the body to ashes.

Other members of the gang waited in front of the building for a long time, but no one came out. When one of the soldiers entered the security chief's room, he saw that he had been killed. City guards immediately informed the leaders on watch and sent a messenger bird to the defence minister.

The gang members saw that their leader was not coming, and heard that the security chief was killed, they quickly started to move somewhere. Boden and Della followed these six men. When two of the six people started going in one direction and four in the other direction, Boden told Della to follow the four and meet an hour later at a renowned bar on the city's well-known road.

Boden was following the two. Unaware of being followed, they came to the large walls of the Palace. However, there was no gate around. They somehow reached in front of wall and entered the palace through a secret passage at the back door of the palace.

Ten seconds after the pair passed through the pass, Boden also came to the secret passage and continued to follow them within the walls of the palace. When he got out of the secret passage, he saw the men moving towards a campus with small houses where the palace staff stayed. He continued to follow the men, using the shadows of the buildings.

The men finally came to a small house and stopped at the door. A man at the soul formation level came out from inside. After glaring at the two, he signalled them to come inside. Boden did not sit idly by the moment the men were going in and went to the back of the building and sneaked in through the window.

Boden entered the dark room right next to the lit room and saw that the woman, who was the sales representative who previously dealt with them in the store, was sleeping in the room. Boden became truly angry when he realized that he was being used.

He came to the door. He opened the door slightly and tried to hear the conversation in the next room. When the three men entered, a young man who was waiting quietly for them looked at them, and the two of them knelt down.