"Now, the most complicated thing is to know how to bring our master's sister while remaining in the shadows."
"...Take care of knocking out the guards with your magic of torpor, I will take care of the rest." Cindy mumbles.
"W-wait! We must first think about...??
Before she finishes her sentence, Cindy flashes in front of her, leaving her behind.
"...Still in such a hurry, huh? However, it has only been one day since we left the master. But hey, I'm not qualified to blame her, I'm as in a hurry as she is, after all." She smiled before pursuing Cindy.
...
To the east of the country, a large city, similar to the Maria plantation, cause of its mixed structures of medieval, and modern, was there.
Looking more closely, the entire city was guarded by players, soldiers, and above all, many steel golems.
As with Maria's plantation, this large city was also protected by a magic shield held by four towers and a large one in the center.
Five hundred meters from the plantation, Cindy was standing on a dilapidated building, scrutinizing the city with her dark purple pupils.
"So it's in this city that our master's sis is?" Rendy lands behind Cindy and then hides her wings and draconian horns.
Cindy didn't even bother to look behind her when she heard Rendy's voice sound. "Yes."
"How can you be sure of that? You had never met our master's sister, let alone know her appearance."
"...Her smell, blood, and soul color; I have enough information about her to locate. If my powers were not sealed, I could teleport her here by using my shadow."
Hearing her explanations, Rendy raises her eyebrows. "It's surprising, I never thought you had calculated so far."
"..."
"Then? What's your plan? If possible, I would like you to leave me a role to play in it." Rendy adds by seeing Cindy silent and observant like a cheetah hidden in the woods.
Her purplish eyes seemed to have crackling of lightning in them as she scanned the surrounding fields with them.
But when she heard Rendy's words, she looked up at her with a confused air. "Isn't up to you that the master entrusted this mission? I'm only here to support you, nothing more."
"Don't worry, the master gave me this responsibility only because I had insisted on completing this mission alone; I was even convinced that I could do it without too much effort. But I now realize that I had underestimated the importance of this mission." She said, peeking up at the twilight sky, and sighing with anguish.
"..." Cindy just glanced at her briefly before acting as if nothing had happened.
'Master's sis is not like him, she is as fragile as a glass. A human; as senseless as this seems, she's a frail human who does not have the slightest magical power. How can that be!?' Cindy's brain was slightly overloaded, busy to deal with the new information she was constantly receiving.
After half an hour of inactivity and observation, Cindy finally begins to move. "The sky has darkened now, it's time to go and get our... our master's sister." She said, taking her two daggers out of her shadow.
Rendy frowns when she sees the little smile on her lips and her sudden enthusiasm. "You must not kill."
"The master only forbade us to touch people related to the members of his guild, so I can do whatever with others without—
"Think for a second, do you think she will believe you and follow if she sees the carnage you will leave behind?"
Following Rendy's warnings, she stops for a few seconds to think.
"...I didn't intend to convince her, but to send her directly into my shadow before she even realized it." She said with a devil smile.
Rendy's eyes widen with disbelief. "What are you going to do!?" She shrieks at her.
"Keep out, dear sister, you will point out to us if you keep roaring like that." As if she didn't see the surprise in Rendy's eyes, she ignored her question, pretending to be deaf.
"Listen to me, Cindy. I understand that you are in a hurry, but don't do anything that can make our...-
Cindy cut her off. "I'm not in the mood to waste my time with the weak just cos they have links with our master. Family, feelings, and any other useless things like these are obstacles that slow down our master."
"Cindy, what the hell are you talking about!?" Rendy's face darkens after hearing such unexpected comments from her sister. "Our role is to protect the master, support him, and bow to his whims, whoever they are."
Cindy's eyes squinted with wildness. "You're wrong, sister. Or should I say, you misinterpret these words?" She replied, without taking a look at Rendy, despite feeling her aura on her.
"...So what? Are you going to get rid of the annoyances just for your whims?"
"It's not a whim, but it's my role. I am the shadow, a shadow created from the feelings and emotions of my master. I exist for this purpose, to rid it of the chains that will hinder its evolution. I understood it the moment I saw the current state of my master."
She then faces her sister, fiercely staring at her with her eyes that didn't no longer glow, just darkness.
Rendy instantly stood on her guard just feeling her bloodthirsty.
But she didn't care about her sister's reaction. She pointed one of her daggers at Rendy and continued. "If you try to dissuade me from accomplishing my mission, be sure that you will become my enemy. And if you become my enemy, I would kill you; because that's what I've always done." She growled in a low voice, staring at her sister like a prey.
However, Rendy couldn't help but smile sneakily when she saw Cindy's actions towards her. "Do you think you have a chance to defeat me?"
"To find out, you just have to try to prevent me from accomplishing my mission." She replied, while her pupils became purpler.
"..." At that moment, Rendy was sure that she was not joking. But as crazy as Cindy's words were, Rendy had a hard time making a decision, not for fear of fighting against her, but for another reason.
"...Our master's orders are as follows: Bring back his family to him without a scratch, doing it without harming the relatives of the other guild members, and discreetly." She made this reminder to her sister who seems forgot these words.
Her purpose was to help her understand certain things. And since the other was not an idiot, she understood what she wanted her to understand.
"Don't worry, I would only kill when necessary, as the master ordered us." She then puts away her daggers, then focuses on her target behind her, the plantation where Zoe was.
"Very good, then wait for my instructions. I'm going first—
"Is my ears pranked me or did I hear you say that I was the one to lead this operation?" She cut Rendy off while making this reminder with a sadist smile.
"No, not anymore; especially after hearing you say such bullshit." She replies as if she were waiting for this question from Cindy.
The latter frowns but says nothing.
Seeing that she was ready to follow her instructions, Rendy sighed with relief. 'Fighting against her is tempting, but even so, the damage will risk killing all life in the vicinity. Her goal is probably to push me to fight against her to kill others for her so-called mission of which I had no idea; I must have to inform the master about her mindset. I'm also lost, all this news prevents me from thinking calmly.' She said to herself, walking towards the city.
As for Cindy, as her sister just ordered, she stayed behind, waiting for her instructions.
'Why was she so surprised by my words? However, I thought we had the same goal in mind. Would it be the work of the master, creating us in such a different way?' Just like Rendy, she also seemed to be concerned about this misunderstanding between them.
But she was quite the opposite when it came to expressing her emotions.
However, Rendy keeps on her way towards the city.
Meanwhile, the players who were on the plantation were all unwell, after feeling Rendy and Cindy's bloodthirsty aura, which were five hundred meters from the city.
More precisely in the central tower.
This plantation did not belong to a guild, but to the army, supposed to protect influential people.
"Major Gilbert, it seems you also felt it, this wicked energy?" A blonde, with three stars on her braid, questions a man with brown hair and a scar on his forehead.
The man was slightly surprised to see the overactive soldiers, running in all directions as they were preparing to face a threat hovering over them.
But he nods to the woman and responds in a deep voice. "Affirmative, ma'am! I think we will have to inform HQ of this threat."
Being the base close to this plantation, Colonel Jana and her soldiers present were all under Leon's orders.
"I know it well, and I have already sent a distress message; hope we could resist long enough while waiting for the reinforcements." She said before looking at the other soldiers who had already finished preparing.
They had already formed a battalion, armed to the teeth, waiting for the orders of their colonel.
Colonel Jana then crosses her hands behind her back, sticks out her chest, and finally gives her instructions to the troops. "Soldiers, your mission is to keep the door to the south! The other players will be behind you to strengthen your back." Her voice was authoritarian and full of confidence.
"Yes, ma'am!!" The soldiers yell together.
She then looks at Major Gilbert next to her. "Major Gilbert! You will be with them to guide them!"
The latter also puts his right fist on his chest. "Yes, ma'am!"
Subsequently, her oceanic blue pupils switched up to another man who was in the same rank as Major Gilbert. "Major Alfred, give the curfew alert; take ten armored vehicles and patrol over the whole city, I don't want to see any citizen on the street within three minutes!"
"At your command, Colonel!" The latter immediately left them to carry out his mission, taking his troops with him.
"The others will stay with me to ensure the safety of the VIPs!"