The moment they saw this man, both Freya and Euphemia were stunned, then immediately showed a vigilant expression, because this guy gave them a feeling very similar to Jerome, both had red hair, walked in a stiff and formal manner, and had a strong military style.
But the problem was, there couldn’t be two General Jeromes, right?
Freya and Euphemia slowed their pace, but after all, they were walking toward each other, and the distance between them closed quickly until they were about to pass each other.
However, before the two could breathe a sigh of relief, a flash of a blade flashed by, and the red-haired man actually unexpectedly drew a scimitar from his waist and swung it in their direction.
“Rip.”
The Invisibility Cloak that had protected them for so long was directly slashed with a small cut, and along with it, Freya, who was a little closer to this man, had her right arm cut, drawing a streak of blood.
“We’ve been discovered!?
How can this be?” Euphemia couldn’t help but widen her eyes, showing an expression of shock and horror, but at the same time, Freya clearly saw that the man’s face also had a surprised look, as if he hadn’t expected there to actually be someone beside him.
After the brief shock passed for both sides, Freya quickly acted, and dense green vines grew from the ground, winding toward the red-haired man’s feet.
She had already used this move to deal with countless Demon Pathway Beyonders; it almost always bound them one by one, but the man before her was completely different.
His reaction was incredibly fast, no, more accurately, it was as if he were precognitive, jumping back to widen the distance just as the vines sprouted.
During the backward jump, the red-haired man held the knife in one hand while drawing a pistol from his waist with the other, aiming in their direction and decisively pulling the trigger.
“Bang!”
Accompanying the spark from the muzzle, a bronze-colored bullet shot toward them.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye.
Although Freya saw it clearly, she was currently using her ‘Plant Growth Stimulation’ Beyonder ability and didn’t have time to react.
As for Euphemia, she was still in a state of shock from the attack.
However, just as the bullet was about a meter away from them, the earring on Euphemia’s right ear suddenly emitted a soft white light.
Immediately after, a thin film of light appeared in front of her, and with a light “ding,” it blocked the bullet.
On this white film, only faint ripples appeared in concentric circles, showing no sign of being affected at all.
Only then did Euphemia belatedly react.
While hurriedly rummaging through her shoulder bag, she said, “We have to run fast!
We can’t fight this guy here!”
Although she didn’t know how the man before her had discovered them, that was no longer important.
The key point was that the Rank 5 General Jerome was nearby.
Once a battle broke out here, the general would arrive for backup in no time, and then the two of them would definitely be finished.
Euphemia said, “Help me stall for some time!
Just a moment!”
Actually, without Euphemia’s request, Freya had already acted again.
She closed her eyes, raised her right hand, and a soft white energy gathered at her fingertips.
This was the “Life Energy Manipulation” ability Freya had obtained at Rank 4.
Since it was linked to the word “life,” many might assume this energy should be green.
But in fact, it was white, or rather, colorless.
At this moment, following Freya’s will, this life energy burst forth in the form of a beam of light, crossing a distance of thirty meters in the blink of an eye.
This was already her strongest attack method at her current level, using her ultimate skill right from the start!
“Buzz~!”
Accompanying this roaring sound, a trench at least one meter wide was ploughed into the ground along this street, with crushed stones and soil chunks blasting everywhere.
From any angle, this move was not just a little bit, but significantly more powerful than the red-haired man’s gunshot just now, and this was the effect of Freya firing instantly without even charging, otherwise the power could have been even stronger.
But…
no matter how powerful the technique, it was useless if it didn’t hit.
Just like before, just as Freya raised her hand and was about to attack, the red-haired man, as if possessing precognition, moved to a safe position to the side in advance, raised his gun to aim, and…
Spirituality began to condense.
Freya had just entered the Heart Sense state.
In her “God’s Eye View,” the red-haired man had originally appeared as a black-haired ordinary worker, but the moment he used his Spirituality, it was as if a sealed durian had been unwrapped, and the “aura” inside leaked out directly.
This was a very pungent smell of iron and blood.
Just smelling it made Freya frown deeply.
She now seemed to understand why, in the previous simulation, she had been kicked out of the Church of the Earth when using the “War Freya” save slot.
And besides this pungent smell, Freya also directly sensed the opponent’s level.
Rank 4 War Pathway!”
“Bang!”
Another gunshot rang out, but unlike the previous one, this bullet glowed with a hint of red.
After hitting the shield in front of Euphemia, it exploded directly like a cannonball!
“Boom!!!”
A huge shockwave spread to both sides, instantly blasting a semicircular crater with a radius of over two meters into the ground.
The reason it was semicircular was that the barrier in front of Euphemia had still completely blocked this attack, showing no sign of wavering.
Just then, Euphemia finally found what she was looking for in her shoulder bag: a thumb-sized blue gemstone.
As she shouted “Hold on to me!”, she poured Spirituality into the gem.
In the next second, the two of them vanished from the spot without warning.
The red-haired man still held his gun, staring at the empty space before him, his expression gradually turning grave.
As for Freya, she felt as if she had been stuffed into a washing machine.
After a dizzying whirl, when she opened her eyes again, she found herself lying on the floor of Euphemia’s rented apartment.
Euphemia slowly climbed up from beside her, looking completely dazed.
After a long moment, she said, “It’s a good thing I changed the forced teleportation destination to this apartment a few days ago, otherwise we would have been in real trouble.”
Because before that, her forced teleportation destination was her own home, which was right next to General Jerome’s.
If they had teleported there, how could they escape?
Wouldn’t that be like delivering themselves on a silver platter?
After a pause, she added, “For the Rank 4 War Pathway, besides the [General], the other two class advancements are [Warrior] and [Hunter].
And that guy is most likely a [Hunter].”
Freya said, “So, General Jerome isn’t acting alone.
He actually has help!”
Actually, on second thought, it wasn’t surprising.
A general who had served in the military for a long time would certainly have some subordinates who were extremely loyal to him.
No matter what the general did, even if it was treason, these subordinates would follow.
As for the red-haired man, because of his Rank 4 strength, Freya guessed that this person was most likely an adjutant under General Jerome.
And for the two of them, the current situation was undoubtedly bad to the extreme.
Not only was there more than one enemy, but they had also been discovered!
Freya said, “Let’s go.
We need to go to the Special Operations Division right now.”
Originally she had planned to play it safe, waiting for the ‘Mobile Squad’ to arrive, for the Special Operations Division and the people of the Church of the Earth to be ready, or even waiting until she completed the ritual to promote to Rank 5, and then everyone would act together to take down General Jerome, but now the plan had been completely disrupted.
Freya and Euphemia resolutely left the apartment.
On the way, Freya couldn’t help but think, hadn’t the Mobile Squad already killed General Jerome once in the previous simulation?
But in that encirclement and suppression action, why hadn’t this adjutant appeared?
Could it be possible that they discovered him but didn’t tell her?
Just like how the Mobile Squad deliberately concealed General Jerome’s identity and suppressed the matter?
After all, he was a general of their own country.
If such a thing happened, it would naturally be better to keep it hidden.
But at the time, it wasn’t just the Mobile Squad that went out for the encirclement and suppression; there were also several Special Operations Division squads.
Theoretically, if that adjutant had really appeared, it would be impossible for there to be no word of it at all.
Moreover, the pursuit operation at the time lasted for a whole day.
The adjutant couldn’t have not known.
So, could Freya understand it as: in the previous simulation, this adjutant deliberately didn’t appear?
While thinking, Freya and Euphemia had already arrived at the nearest Police Station.
As soon as they entered, Euphemia spoke very decisively, “I am a registered Beyonder.
“Ah…
ah?” The guard on duty at the door was clearly stunned for a moment.
His gaze swept over Euphemia and Freya, lingering on Freya for a moment in particular, before he suddenly reacted, “Wait a moment!”
The guard spoke while quickly heading upstairs.
Soon, accompanied by a burst of footsteps, five official Beyonders descended.
This wasn’t the police station near Freya’s home, so the one who came down of course wasn’t Nolan’s Squad, but another squad Freya had never seen before.
The captain of this squad was a bespectacled woman who looked very serious.
She frowned slightly, looked at Freya and Euphemia, and said, “Someone from the Church of the Earth, and a little girl from the Holmes Family?”
Euphemia took a step forward, took out her grandfather’s letter and the Occult Magic Circle she had just copied, and explained, “The matter is like this…”
Euphemia’s explanation was very concise and easy to understand, but beneath her simple words lay a staggering amount of information.
Among the five official Beyonders, someone couldn’t help but exclaim:
“What?
The mastermind behind Obsidian is a Rank 5!?”
“And he’s a general of the Tarapaca Kingdom!?”
“An Occult Magic Circle that can incinerate the entire Auxerre City in an instant!
Are you serious?”
“Holy shit, no way!”
As for the bespectacled female captain, she frowned throughout the entire time as she looked over the two pieces of evidence Euphemia handed over.
It had to be said, the case Euphemia described was simply too exaggerated, too ridiculous!
If she hadn’t seen the two pieces of conclusive evidence, she never would have believed it.
Before this, the ever-emerging Demon Pathway Beyonders who were causing trouble all over the place had indeed left the Special Operations Division quite overwhelmed, but ultimately, the Obsidian Case was merely a thorny problem.
It was like a serial killer who hadn’t been caught yet.
Dangerous?
Indeed very dangerous, but that was all.
But now the situation was completely different.
Under Euphemia’s account, this serial killer had instantly transformed into a super terrorist wielding a “nuclear bomb,” going from killing a few people in minor skirmishes to wanting to detonate the entire city!
The bespectacled female captain looked at a member beside her and said, “Go use the radio immediately.
In my name, call for Mobile Squad support!
No time to waste!”
Then, she looked at the other members.
“You few, go to the other Special Operations Divisions immediately and gather all squads here!”
Only after giving these orders did the bespectacled female captain look back at the two of them, saying seriously, “So, you two, after collecting this intelligence and just as you were leaving, were accidentally discovered by a Rank 4 War Pathway Beyonder, suspected to be that General’s Adjutant?”
Freya glanced down at her forearm, the place where she had been sliced by the adjutant’s scimitar.
Of course, she had already treated herself, and the wound had long since healed.
She nodded.
“Yes.”
“Sigh.” The bespectacled female captain couldn’t help but sigh.
She didn’t even know how to describe the current situation.
These two little ones in front of her had uncovered such a massive conspiracy on their own, which was absolutely a great merit.
But being discovered at the last moment…
No one knew what that General would do after his plan was exposed, which also made the situation instantly tense.
This inevitably gave people a feeling like, “success and failure are both caused by the same person.”
Setting aside other things, before the Mobile Squad arrived, a Rank 5 and a Rank 4 of the War Pathway, with Auxerre City’s current Beyonder strength, no one could possibly stop that General if he went mad.
Euphemia said at this time, “Look on the bright side, if that General isn’t stupid, he’ll know the Mobile Squad will arrive soon, and now is his last chance to escape.
Maybe he’ll just run away directly?”
Although it sounded like a very terrifying thing to have such a terrorist hiding within the country, at least Auxerre City would be safe for the next few days, right?
However, Freya said with absolute certainty, “Impossible, that guy will definitely not run away.”