About 200 meters away from the kidnapper's base, Faust, Angra, and Eleora are currently discussing their plan on how to deal with the task that Mark had given them, well actually it's more like Faust and Angra talking telepathically while Eleora is just standing there looking at the two masked kids that seemed to be only standing still without talking or doing anything.
'So what is the plan, Captain Faust?'
'It's been a while since someone called me captain, I wonder what are those two doing right now.'
'If they are still alive then they must have opened their little shop in the countryside like they wanted, if they are caught up in that incident, then they should be even happier than ever living together in the afterlife.'
'Wow you actually remembered what they said, do you actually care about them?'
'They have been our teammates for 10 years. Faust. Even I will remember something about them, although just a little.'
'Alright let's focus back on our mission this time.'
'The most efficient way of dealing with this is to clear the ground floor without the 'dangerous' people in the basement noticing right? I think we can borrow the hyenas' strategy a little.'
'Oh, the zombie crew?'
'Well, the zombie crew still haven't got their former skills, although they have other strengths for now. So I think it's more appropriate to call this the hyenas' strategy.'
'So what should I do, Faust?'
After explaining their plan for today's mission, Faust then asked
"Alright, we're all good then."
"Guys, I'm sorry, but am I missing something here? What's the plan? What do I do? When did you guys talk about the plan?"
"Don't worry Eleora, all you have to do is to stay behind me and if in any case, you feel like you're in danger, just yell. Simple enough right?" Faust asked Eleora
"That's all? Don't I get to do anything like hitting the bad guys or something?"
"Yup, that's all. And don't worry about that, we'll give you someone for you to slap and hit when we've done with the big bad guys."
Although Eleora wanted to do more, she knows that she is already selfish enough to request to come along with them, so she just accepts Faust's plan. The important thing for her is that she didn't run away from her responsibilities and is now facing them, even though not by herself.
'Faust before we start, can you give the human souls to me? It is almost impossible for me now to gain attributes from consuming the low-rank magic beasts souls.'
'Sure, I don't plan on adding any more undead to my army yet, so they're all yours.'
'Thank you'
After making sure that everyone is ready and don't have any more questions, Faust then said
"Alright, let's go, team!"
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Inside the organization base, on the upper floor.
"Did Alvin and Given really just failed their mission?" A new member of the organization asked.
"Yes, even if it's unbelievable, it is already confirmed that they just failed their mission." Another member who has been in the organization for a longer time replied.
"Maybe they are not as good as what you guys said?"
"Watch your mouth newbie! I've seen their skills with my own eyes, and it is real! Even if there are 5 of you, you still stand no chance of beating even one of them."
"If they are that great then how can they fail? This is just a little village in the corner of the kingdom, we usually operate in bigger towns or cities, how can they fail here?"
"We don't know how, they are probably reporting the full story on why they fail to boss right now, but I can guess that if Alvin and Given failed their mission, is not because of something crucial or their fault, it must have been because they encountered someone stronger than them or in this case, it is something that they didn't expect."
The newbie then looked at his senior in awe.
"With that kind of intelligence, you should definitely rank higher in this organization sir!"
Embarrassed because of his junior's face he said humbly "I'm just gathering the pieces together and guessing the probability. Everyone here can do that, you should learn more, newbie!"
"Yes Sir!"
At this moment, someone walked out of the stairs leading downstairs.
"Sir Alvin, sir Given how is it?"
"Luckily the boss didn't get mad, oh and by the way, where is Matt? The boss told us to get healed."
"He's in the backroom as usual sir!"
"Alright, thank you, keep up the good work."
"Professionals certainly have different charisma around them." muttered the newbie.
1 minute later, a knock was heard on the front door of the house.
"Get that door newbie and see who it is, if it's a beggar just tell them to go away, if it's the villagers just ask them what they want and tell them off politely."
The newbie then went to the door and opened it. What he sees in front of him seems to be a child who is wearing something that looks like a stone mask that covers all the front parts of the face.
"Don't play around here kid, quickly go back home!"
"I'm sorry sir, I'm very hungry and haven't eaten for a while, do you have any leftover bread? A piece of stale bread is also alright if that's what you have sir."
The newbie knew that life in the streets is very cruel and hard, he decided to join the organization in the first place because he wanted to escape that kind of life where even eating once a day is a luxury, he pitied the kid so he decided to go back and find some stale bread to give to the kid.
"Who is it, newbie?"
"Ah, it's just some street kids asking for stale bread. I'm going to give him some because we have them."
"Didn't I tell you to just kick the beggars away?"
"But, he is just a kid, sir, we all know how life is out there, isn't at least giving them stale bread is already a blessing for…."
Before he could finish his sentence, suddenly he felt that his body is very light, that he hasn't felt this good for a long time. But it is weird that the words that he wanted to say didn't come out of his mouth, and it seems that his vision is falling down to the ground. He wondered what happened, and before his world turned dark, he saw a headless body was still standing before him and a kid with a stone mask was behind that body.
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Angra used wind fusion to swiftly and cleanly slash the neck of the kidnappers in front of him, although calling them just a kidnapper at this point is kind of weird because it looks like they are a full complete organization, not just some petty kidnappers.
With Angra's body even more attuned to fusion magic since the white lion incident, his body is now more able to fuse with the characteristics of the element that he fused with. That being said, his speed when using the wind fusion is now double than before the white lion incident.
His movement when using wind fusion is already very hard for ordinary people to follow with their eyes, and although doable, it is quite hard for the common people with only their first job to do it. Now that his speed is doubled, his earlier attack only seemed to be a blur to the other people inside the room, while the person who is attacked can't even feel what's happening to him before he loses his life.
Looking at their now headless comrade's body is now lying limply on the ground, the people inside readied their weapon and started coming at the invader which turned out to be the little kid who is wearing a stone mask.
Even though the invader is just a little kid, the headless corpse in front of them says that this situation is dangerous and they need to hurry and report to the boss, with the iron door being the door for the basement floor, their yelling will only be heard as a commotion, so they needed to go to him directly about this urgent situation.
When the others were engaging the little kid directly, one person decided to sneakily go into the stairs leading downstairs, but when he neared the base of the stairs, his body suddenly floated from the floor and he was carried away from the stairs.
"No, no, no you can't do that."
He heard the voice who was talking to him and saw 2 other kids were entering from the front door, one of them is another kid with a mask while the other is a girl with long blonde hair and white skin which looked very familiar to him.
"Now before anything else, let's make this place soundproof from downstairs shall we?"
Faust then made a wind dome covering the entire upper floor and that room to isolate the sound from going downstairs.
"Since you're the naughty one, you will let me test something on you won't you?"
Before he could ask what was the meaning of that, he suddenly lost his ability to breathe, he tried to suck in air to his nose, but he could feel nothing entering his lungs. When he started to realize that he couldn't breathe, he started to panic.
"Don't panic and move your body around too much, it takes more magic to keep you up floating, and panicking only quickens your death."
After a minute, the man finally lost his life and is confirmed by Faust seeing his soul being consumed by Angra.
'Killing someone by making a vacuum zone on their face is clearly cleaner than slicing their head off, but it takes too long, can I somehow make it faster?' Faust pondered on his head.
Faust looked at his surroundings and also found that Angra had also finished dealing with his enemies and had already consumed their souls.
'Is there any problems Gra?'
'Not really, there are 2 guys who can block 3 of my strikes but the rest are not special, and shouldn't you should be more worried about that?' Angra said while pointing at the puking Eleora who is currently sitting on the floor facing the wall away from all the blood and cuts of body parts that are all over the floor from Angra's fight.
Faust wanted to properly comfort her since a battlefield is not somewhere a kid should be, but she insisted on her own and he didn't want to waste time completing the mission, so he said
"Can you still continue Eleora? No one forces you to come, you know? You can wait outside if you want." Faust said while pointing at the front door of the house.
"No, I will continue." Eleora said while forcing her body to stand up, grabbing the wall for support. Faust slightly helped her with attributeless magic to help her up then they continued downstairs.
In front of them right now is a solid and hard door made of iron that separates them from the basement room where his dad said there are 'dangerous' people.
"Gra do you want to try something?"
Angra was curious what Faust was trying to do since he didn't use telepathy to talk to him this time.
"What?"
"Just do this" While he faked whispering to Angra, but talked with telepathy instead.
'Do you remember that iconic horror movie that came out in 1980?'
'Ah, the one with the door and the axe? What's with that?'
'Maybe some change in the mood can help improve Eleora's mood a little.'
'...?'
'Please? I just felt bad a little for her.'
Angra then sighed as a way to show that he's willing to do it.
"Do it when I say the sentence Gra!"
Angra then used earth fusion so that he was able to strike the iron door open using only his bare hand then he waited for Faust's signal.
"Look at this Eleora, from where we come from, this is how we open the door when we are ambushing someone in a room."
Faust inhaled the air to his lungs before he yelled,
"HERE'S JOHNNY!"
And the heavy iron door went flying towards the room.