// Hugo P.O.V //
"he... he... he~ we will definitely win, How about I go and ask the prince for your leave, you have done enough I think you now need a long Rest!" I said to my subordinate, he is also second in command after me. He is the one who launched that 'Environ Net' to break the werewolf's Invisible Defensive wall. He is looking very exhausted and worn out to the point that, he no more can breathe properly like he is breathing his last air in the moment of Death. "Thank you! Capta~ ark..kak... arh~". I killed him before he could thank me, I am not doing you any favor, why were you taking so much trouble to just say thank you?... when you are about to die!
"Rest in Peace", I said as his eyes lose their shine. He was still resisting until his last moment, so much endurance. I wouldn't have killed him if he was not in the way of my mission. It wasn't an easy task to kill him, he was also very strong just like me. The coincidental fact was that he was also hiding his true Power just like me. What was his reason? I was also ignorant till last month and I was just making a guess that he must be up to something, maybe a conspiracy against the King! But I was completely wrong, it was the complete opposite of what I thought. He is doing two Tasks at the same time, he is actually a Secret Spy of King himself. who would have thought about it? It was his top secrete which I found during this 'Mission Outpost', it was the fault on his part when he was meeting a messenger of the king dressed as a commoner secretly.
I was secretly following him from behind at that time, he was not aware of me. He thought it was a nice distraction to sneak secretly with an excuse of peeing, but one thing he forgot or maybe overlooked that I am also a Spy who has experience of nearly twenty years. He is just a newbie compared to me, you can say "His greatest secrets are my general knowledge.". The location of the meeting was not so far from the camp, around three hundred meters far from it. It was a direct message from the king about today's event, to bring the prince in this live battle to show him how it is fought. So the messenger also asked him to confirm the plan of attack while giving him the information about the latest Invention of the astrologers of Daemon land. I already guessed it because he was becoming more precise in gathering intel about enemies' from the day he meets that messenger. Also, he grabbed the function and mechanics of the 'Environ Net' way more quickly than us when it was introduced to us by a Troop.
A cloud of black smoke came out of his throat when his lifeless body fell to the ground. I killed him by choking him with my hand coupled with my mana to make it stronger. He didn't retaliate when I did that, not because he was shocked due to the sudden attack, cause his mana was completely drained. I had to plan very carefully for this, he wasn't easy to deal with. I had made a little change in the 'Mana Crystal' he was going to use as a Fuel for Mortar Launcher. The change was that, once its mana depletes after use it will refill itself very quickly by sucking mana from nearby, he was holding it in his hand so the first thing that crystal did was to absorb his remaining mana. I have made quite a lot of effort in finding the exact proportion of mineral to reverse the function of that 'Mana Crystal', the mineral is very common' that is a Silicon but the exact proportion that should be added is still not known to me. I have only heard about its use by the powerful Kingdoms' Spies to make the guards sleep temporally but making a successful one was purely coincidental, though its function isn't like the original one, but anyway it works for me. I didn't make it during this Outpost mission, it was accidentally made during a seemingly failed experiment one year ago. So what I actually did is to secretly replace the original Mana Crystal with the altered one.
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It is already the time when the sun rises, I have to make it quick. I grabbed his chest and buried him under the Earth, as he sinks inside the ground I recall that I still haven't checked his body, "Ah! How can I overlook such crucial things~" I said as my hand touched the ground as his body was completely under the earth by now. I was so much distracted that I nearly forgot about even retrieving my 'Mana Crystal' from his hand. But now it seems much easier for me to search him, as I don't have to touch his dead body to Investigate. He is now a part of Mother Earth, I just need to use my Geomancy to take out his belongingness. I pulled my hand out of his breast and along with my hands' movement, several pieces of papers and Mana Crystal came out of the Seemingly plane Soil.
I am not surprised by what he was owning but as I continued to use my Magic, a Black Ring appeared before my eyes'. "It is~ what's inside this..." I tried to open that Ring, but it is Sealed. It is a type of 'Storage Ring' that is generally used to store or hide anything by a person of higher Status and Wealth. I am more surprised by the fact that he owes one and I am not able to break its Seal! The Ring must be of some high Quality, as looking at the ruins engraved in it I can feel the energy it is giving of. So anyway I took it, otherwise, I would have broken it even though I couldn't open it and have access to the portal. I carried all the stuff together with my 'Mana Crystal' without any second thoughts' as I don't want to delay my Task, I'll see all those things later.
// Don't get confused by the definition, It is not a Sumeru Ring. //
// It's function may sounds' alike but the 'Storage Ring' is not its original name, the Humans' of this kingdom are not so knowledgeable and are kind of Isolated from the rest of the Human World. This is due to the location of their kingdom in the Extreme Northern Hemisphere. The Ring is actually a 'Runic Portal' which have a various function like storage that was in that persons' hand, Travelling and Storing Mana of High volatility. //
I left from the site and approached my other subordinates. The next target is 'Red', he is the one who was responsible for Identifying the Werewolves' Troop's and report me the detail of their Captain. It's not his code name as I don't like to use them because once you get yourself caught, you aren't going to be alive. Being dead without leaking the details is impossible, the enemies' will Interrogate you with so many cruel methods that you will not be able to hold the urge to Spit out the Details. Even after that, you will die and there will be no revenge for your soul, especially if you have no family.