[ ~ Chapter • Start ~ ]
Inside the Leazas Castle at night, where the waning crescent's light washed through the windows, two Helmanian Soldiers wandered around with light expressions.
"Damn, the women in the castle were pretty great!" One of them spoke, and the other was pretty disappointed.
"Shame we didn't get to have some fun with the Princess of Leazas, heard she was being tortured by some noble who hated here for information." He replied, becoming nonchalant the more he spoke.
Their talk eventually turned into mild banter to ease each other's boredom, until one of the guards noticed something from behind him.
"Hm?"
Said guard tried to look behind, but all he felt and heard was his neck dislocating and him losing control over his body.
His vision was upside down and soon enough he is dead.
"What the-"
*Crack!*
Another neck had been snapped, and the one who snapped their necks was none other than Rance, who has unequipped his armor that will make unnecessary sounds and put them into a pocket dimension he controls before he even teleported here.
That also means he was now in his tracksuit.
He was very displeased at the sort of events that led to this moment as he, by mistake, had distractedly thought of the balcony that he wanted to visit while he teleported to this location. And, his immediate displeasement was an effect of almost being caught by two hundred of more Helmanian Soldiers down below.
"The Prison is merely down below, and I have no other choice but to begin sneaking down to it." Rance told himself, taking off his boots and replacing them with a pair of modified Crime Boots, boots that muffle sound while increasing the speed of the wearer.
Of course, small infodump away, Rance had to do espionage work, or maybe even assassination work to cull out even a few hundred, maybe even thousands of Helmanian Soldiers.
But..... that is not his intention.
Saving Lia and Maris had always been his main intention ever since he arrived here, and the fact that he definitely knew that three Fiends were somewhere around the castle had been something very, very horrible.
There was Noce, whose true intention was to unseal an extremely powerful Archfiend from over 1000 years ago while using everyone else, including his own allies, as his puppets.
It's surprising how devoted that Fiend was to Jill, and he was certainly strong - stronger than both Aizel and Satella. Encounters with that Fiend is not advised, until much later.
So, right now Rance had hid the bodies of the guards safely, before casually creating a magic circle on the floor that contained an unactivated spell inside of it then completely hiding it with proper, high level wards designed to make it imperceptible unless he activated it.
There was a possibility that either one of the Fiends might have noticed a fluctuation of magic from around this floor and might be investigating it, but although that might be the case, the Fiends are minding their own business, just as how he expected it to be.
So he took the very logical choice of putting the magic circles with different sets of magic contained within them around the castle, avoiding the sight of any Helmanian Soldiers.
But, when a very dangerous entity was 30 feet away, he blended into the shadows.
The ground lightly rumbled as a 9, maybe 10 feet tall bearded man in a priest-like robe almost passed by him, until be stopped and looked around.
"Hm? I was sure I felt a rat hiding near me..." Noce muttered out his thoughts, before calmly grumbling in disappointment.
".... Must be my imagination, so it matters not, I need to keep trying to get through the seal created by those cur from hundreds of years ago. Soon enough, you shall be released from your seal, Lady Jill and you shall soon enslave this world!"
A cryptic chuckle was let out of Noce's lips as he calmly left, and after a long while, Rance left the shadows and sighed deeply, clicking his tongue from almost being discovered yet again.
But, a smile left his lips.
He'd already placed enough fun traps that were part of his pranks which would surely make enough chaos he wouldn't be able to see here do.
Using a teleportation spell, he had arrived on Paris Academy, traversing through the caverns underground until he arrived to a hallway that was pretty familiar to him.
"Pretty sure I could've just walked to here from upstairs, but...." A small smirk adorned his face as he unsheathed the [Hyper Sword], it's malicious, evil energy immediately came bursting out of it's crossguard to power up the blade.
".... A little less attention is fine, too."
Said the man as the Helmanian Soldiers stationed in this place began to feel very uneasy just as they noticed an intruder.
"S-sound the alarm, w-we have an intruder!"
[ ~ Chapter • End ~ ]
Extra Note:
• Fiends = Dark Lords, Archfiends = Demon Kings
• Aizel = Ithere
• Jill = Gele
Extra Note II: Why is my other Rance appearing on Google?