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Chapter 34 - The Fall of Arm

Zephyrus crouched in the shadowy alley across from the imposing headquarters of the notorious organization known as ARM. Under the pale moonlight, she surveyed the building. Standing tall, it symbolized everything she despised: corruption, oppression, and the abuse of power.

"Such a fancy building is useless to you evildoers." Zephyrus' anger kept rising as she stood staring at the headquarters.

The contents of her bag shifted slightly as Zephyrus checked the supplies within. Smoke bombs, a recovery potion (for herself, obvi), and a small canister labeled "Inferno—Zephyrus had prepared meticulously for this moment. She watched the armed guards patrolling the premises, ensuring that any potential intruders were kept at bay.

No longer able to tolerate the organization, Zephyrus finally decided to hasten her plan of destroying ARM to end their reign of terror once and for all. She had witnessed their atrocities firsthand—innocent lives destroyed, families torn apart, and entire communities left in ruin, and that includes her fairy kin.

Reaching the rooftop, Zephyrus took a few deep breaths, steadying her resolve. With a glance towards the heavens, she whispered, "Forgive me, but this must be done." Zephyrus knew that she was impossible to redeem, but even though she had done so many misdeeds, she vowed to herself that she would atone for everything after she hunted everyone that was involved in the destruction of the fairies.

Unleashing a barrage of smoke bombs, Zephyrus kept on dodging past alarmed guards as she stealthily maneuvered through the corridors, relying on months of her undercover work in ARM to know every crook and nook of the place. Zephyrus has also used enchantments on the doors of the offices of every executive, making it hard to escape unless they know where the weak spot is so as to dispel it.

Zephyrus finally arrived at the heart of the ARM headquarters, the control room where their nefarious plans came to life. The room buzzed with activity, with monitors displaying surveillance footage and classified documents strewn across the desks. Targeting the central console, she connected her laptop, hacking the system so that it would cripple ARM's security codes.

As sirens wailed and lights flashed, chaos engulfed the headquarters. Zephyrus made her way through the panic-stricken corridors, igniting smoke-filled canisters as she went, transforming the building into a veritable inferno. Flames danced and crackled, consuming everything in their path, as if the structure itself sought to purge the evil residing within.

MWAHAHAHAHA! " Zephyrus crackled madly as she kept throwing the canisters. "YOU ALL SHALL FACE THE WRATH OF ALL YOUR VICTIMS."

The guards attempted to quell the uprising but were no match for Zephyrus. She swiftly killed them, leaving them with no knowledge of how they died. With every corridor she passed, the intensity of the blaze escalated, reducing the organization's stronghold to ashes. Zephyrus then reached the exit and was able to escape unnoticed. While doing so, she noticed her ex-comrades running around trying to make sense of the situation.

Earlier, before all of this, Zephyrus contacted a necromancer and paid a massive amount of money for a corpse similar enough to herself to be called "Vainglory". She has placed that dummy corpse in her office, making it seem she was unable to escape and eventually faced her demise.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?" Wrath bellowed out as he escaped his office. 'Everything is going to shit ever since Pride died fuck if I didn't possess the ability of seeing auras. I wouldn't have been able to escape." Wrath was suddenly caught off guard as someone pulled his collar, and to his surprise, it was Lust.

"Shut up Wrath and START searching." Lust reprimanded Wrath before letting go of him. Lust was lucky she wasn't at her office when everything happened, so she wasn't trapped. Before finding Wrath, Lust had already searched for the rest of the executives, and to her dismay, Vainglory died, Gluttony is nowhere to be found, Sloth is currently injured, Envy'is alive, unfortunately, and Greed... "That beast—he was probably the one who was behind all this." Lust seethed in fury as she thought about Greed.

Wrath started to round up the remaining members of the arm and had the mages extinguish the fire. Lust, on the other hand, was running around when she spotted a shadow; unfamiliar with it, she followed it.

As Zephyrus reached the exit, triumphant and smudged with soot, she smirked at the sight of the chaos left in her wake. The ARM headquarters, once the epitome of power, now crumble. Zephyrus, taking one final look at the inferno she unleashed as she went to a spacious field waiting for someone,