<h4>Chapter 264: Dhuja''s Desperation</h4>


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    A few seconds ago, as Zero and her squad got rid of the guards outside, Frank and Gwendolyn flew around the territory breaking apart the detection artifacts one by one, and after that, they finally decided to break into the property.


    By using Divine Sense, Frank kept scanning the area around him, especially therge manor and its depths, which lied therge underground where most of the organization actually was, while the manor was simply a fa?ade.


    Dhuja wasn''t even in the manor, as she was several rooms down below, within arge room where she was currently assessing a lot of paperwork and transactions of her organization,pletely unaware that someone hade to ruin her leisure life.


    Seeing how Zero and her squad were easily getting rid of the guards around the manor, Frank and Gwendolyn rushed through the shadows of the manor.


    Frank scanned more than 30 Magus inside the Manor and many more down below, although the majority were Rank 2.


    However, there were 12 of them that were Rank 3, nheless, Frank had no time to deal with them, so he left them for Zero to handle, while also dropping Nezhit''s and part of the Undead Army here through his shadow.


    "You guys take care of here," he said.


    "Should we leave some alive, my lord?" asked Nezhit.


    Frank had considered leaving some alive, but found it to be worthless to a certain extent, as these Magus had allmitted rather big crimes, with all of them being former bandits… Although some Adventurers strived from the path of righteousness, Frank had grown rather apathetic with certain types of people, and he couldn''t help but not care at all about these people.


    "No, they are better off as Dead Spirits. Although I could convert them into more Undeadter," said Frank without any second of doubt, Gwendolyn felt the same, and she had grown rather merciless against bandits or criminal organization members, just like the Thief Guild, which had been almostpletely ughtered by her and the rest of the family while Frank was still in aa.


    She and Frank believed that it was better to simply kill these people than to leave them alive, only for them toe back for revenge or escape from prison at some point. Brainwashing them so they could do good deeds was way too much of an annoyance for someone like Frank, so he decided to simply convince them to serve him and change their ways after they were dead and as Souls.


    As someone very close to death, Frank didn''t felt much of a difference from living people or dead people, as the soul would always remain, and so would most of their memories and personality, he could even give them new lives as Undead or other types of beings, or simply let them reincarnate into better people, starting over with their memories cleansed.


    "Very well, my lord! Everyone, march!" roared Nezhit, jumping out of Frank''s shadow like a beheaded undead knight, as his undead horse galloped while releasing blue and cold mes and a phantasmagoric presence.


    He raised his de as many Undead of all shapes and sizes emerged from Frank''s shadows as well, rushing through the corridors of the manor as chaos unfoldedpletely!


    "Eh?"


    "What are these things?!"


    "GYAAAA…!"


    The cries of the many guards around the manor resonated around, but Frank ignored them as he tightly grabbed Gwendolyn''s waist and began to charge his power and aura all around him!


    FLASH!


    Like a zing me of dark colors, his aura epassed his body and that of Gwendolyn, as he simply decided to skip the stairs!


    "Alright let''s go!"


    "You seem pretty pumped up!"


    Gwendolyn charged her zing aura at his side, and the two roared, crashing into the ground and destroying anything through their path, descending through the floors and reaching the underground in a second!


    CLASH!


    CLASH!


    CLASH!


    BOOM!!!


    Many more guards cried in surprise and horror as two zing figures descended from above as many debris fell from above them, making argemotion all around!


    Frank and Gwendolyn found themselves in arge hall with many merchandises that the organization produced and sold inrge batches, the hall was made of ck bricks covered in mold, and the ce seemed cold andcking a lot of light.


    "Hm, wended just where we wanted," said Frank rather carefreely.


    "This is the room right before the snake?" asked Gwendolyn.


    "Indeed, that''s where she is. She''s freaking out about now… Oh? She''s trying to run away!"ughed Frank.


    "Who are you?!"


    "T-They descended from above and arepletely fine?!"


    "T-Those Auras…! Rank 4 and…!"


    "RANK 5?!"


    "F-FUCK!"


    "Don''t run away, we have to stop them! They probably came after the boss!"


    "Attack them!"


    Frank and Gwendolyn found themselves surrounded by over twenty Rank 2 Magus and 8 Rank 3 Magus, the ones residing within the underground who was managing most of the merchandise like any other day,pletely unaware that they should have note to work today…


    They quickly readied their magic weapons, asrge Fireballs, Thunder Shocks, Icicle Spears, Shadow Bullets, Light Rays, Boulders, Wind Arrows, and more attacks showered over them!


    BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!


    Like fireworks, explosions of all colors fell over Frank and Gwendolyn continuously, as the Magus depleted their Mana reserves in a few seconds!


    All of them watched eagerly, hoping that they could see their bodies turned into a pulp…


    But the only thing they found was the two unfazed, while Gwendolyn and Frank were being protected by arge barrier that seemed to be made of brown-colored semi-transparent dragon scales.


    "The Tiamat''s Bracelet you gifted me is amazing, look how easy it blocked their attacks…" said Gwendolyn.


    "Indeed, I don''t regret giving it to you at all," said Frank.


    The guards around them were left dumbfounded!


    Even if they were of higher Rank… they shouldn''t have been able to block dozens of magic attacks falling over them continuously like that!


    "T-This…"


    "Impossible… Even as highly ranked Magus… you should at least have a damn scratch…!"


    "It''s… hopeless…"


    sh, sh!


    Suddenly, Frank and Gwendolyn stopped talking as they covered themselves into their auras, and darted towards the soldiers around them!


    Gwendolyn raised her zing de, as she shed through the Rank 2 and Rank 3 Magus as if it were a field trip, mercilessly shing them in half while burning them alive at the same time!


    sh! sh! sh!


    "GRRRYAAAAAAHH…!"


    "UNGGHHHHAAAAAHH…!"


    "It burns….! UNNGGAAAGH…!"


    Frank did the same, transforming into a Dracolich Progenitor as his entire body was covered into an armor of bones, his ws grewrger and coated in miasma-like poisonous secretion, which he coated into ck mes and used to sh and tear apart anyone he came across!


    SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!


    Pieces of corpses started to fall over the ground into bloody puddles, as Frank and Gwendolyn finished massacring the bandits at the time record!


    "Not bad 20 seconds," said Frank.


    "Oh? We have really be quite the monsters!"ughed Gwendolyn, as the two didn''t waste any second more and rushed towards Dhuja''s room, breaking apart therge door made of stone and covered on magic runes sealing the room, as they found the Lamia surrounded by manyrge beasts, all exuding the power of Peak Stage Rank 4 Monsters!


    BOOM!


    "Y-You are here…!" she said while being startled.


    "Oh, it seems that you got us quite the party…" said Frank.


    "Fufu, interesting beasts…" said Gwendolyn.


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