Chapter 246: Not A Hit-and-Run Protester (5)

After establishing our base camp at a lodge on Pattaya Island, Yun Hye-ra and I made our option to Coral Island.

A pointy sound pierced the silence.

The coast was abandoned, with solely the echo of our presence.

Regardless of our nighttime arrival, meant to defend us with darkness, the chilly air and the whispering wind lent the island an eerie, deserted really feel.

“Actually now. Only a second. Flip off the engine, and I’ll steer manually.”

“How about we strategy alongside the waves?”

“Let’s assess the scenario first.”

Involved that the boat’s motor would possibly betray our presence, I switched to utilizing a baseball bat as a paddle, steering us manually towards the coast as quickly because the succubus island got here into view.

“Do you sense any presence across the island?”

“No, nothing in any respect. That’s what makes it much more unsettling.”

Clutching Yun Hye-ra, we dashed towards the sandy seaside.

A little bit of sand clinging to our sneakers was the least of our worries.

The actual concern was the absence of any traces that ought to have been on the succubus’s island.

“…There are not any indicators of anybody attempting to flee the island.”

“It appears it’s not simply right here. We’ve scoured the whole island. Nothing anyplace.”

There was nothing.

Completely no hint of something.

Earlier than setting foot on the sandy seaside, we had circled Coral Island by boat, inspecting the coast, however discovered no indicators.

“The traces weren’t erased, had been they?”

“Sure. It hasn’t been that lengthy because the incident. After all, two days could be sufficient time…”

“If it had been human intervention, it could have concerned large-scale actions that the Secret Society’s surveillance would have caught. And if it had been erased with the ability of talents, we’d have detected residual magical vitality.”

However neither situation utilized.

Thus, we needed to examine for ourselves.

“Let’s head inside.”

Yun Hye-ra and I ventured deeper into the island.

“Do you see something?”

“No, nothing in any respect. There’s no signal of anybody, nor any magical reactions, no less than not on the floor.”

We would have liked to scan deeper inside, however no less than close to the coast the place we approached by boat, there was no signal of anybody.

“There may very well be a being able to evading our detection, or maybe one thing else. However there’s something I can really feel.”

Yun Hye-ra swept the grime floor together with her hand.

“Brother. Take a look at this.”

“……It appears we had been nearer to the reply.”

Beneath a mound of grime, I sighed at one thing that appeared moist.

That mark was a crimson bloodstain.

It was a hint of blood that appeared to have flowed simply two days in the past, seeping into the soil.

“It doesn’t appear to be the blood of a capability person; fairly, it appears like common human blood.”

“That’s much more problematic. We will’t pinpoint whose it’s.”

Whose blood may or not it’s?

From the quantity of blood, it appeared like a extreme harm, however I couldn’t inform.

“Contemplating their tendencies, they in all probability already escaped.”

“Sure. Possibly Hyangdan took measures. If not… it looks like the scenario was settled concurrently once we attacked God’s resting place.”

We meant to raid one place and sequentially test others.

Laplace was useless, Hyangdan had fled, and Normal Jeokrang had dedicated suicide, so there ought to have been some leeway.

What may presumably go fallacious in simply two days?

Whereas we had been recovering magic energy to take care of the potential look of Hyangdan, may something vital occur?

I naively hoped so.

We had been already remodeled, apart from the masks, and nobody had seen our faces.

However what if we had been sporting masks?

“There are others inside.”

Increase!

I instantly ran in direction of the principle entrance and kicked the door with my foot.

The thick iron door fell inside together with its hinges immediately.

The lodge foyer was utterly darkish and eerie.

It felt like taking a look at a long-abandoned haunted home, and upon getting into, Yun Hye-ra pointed to the central staircase proper in entrance of the principle entrance.

“It looks like there’s a barrier magician right here, proper? Looks like the constructing is product of a fabric that blocks magic?”

“Daring ones. Even two S-class needed to enter the constructing to really feel how totally they’ve hidden the magic.”

I prolonged the Goblin Bat ahead.

With the tip of the bat down, I grasped the deal with the other way up and infused the bat with magic energy.

“Heavy Gravity Drop.”

Increase!

The bat dropped to the ground as if it weighed tons.

It didn’t simply fall and roll sideways; it shattered the marble ground immediately and fell via.

And the bat stored falling.

All the way down to the basement ranges of the lodge foyer.

Rumble.

After a short vibration.

Crash!

The lodge foyer the place Yun Hye-ra and I stood collapsed downwards.

Earlier than it utterly fell aside, we each jumped upwards, pushed the mud away with magic, and landed inside evenly.

“Chain Heavy Gravity Drop.”

I stood over the fallen bat, urgent down exhausting with the magic of my complete physique, pushing the embedded bat deeper, shattering the ceiling of the basement stage.

“Add one feather.”

“Oh, what are you saying?”

Increase!

As I reached out to Yun Hye-ra and she or he grabbed my hand, the area under us plunged down nearly to the fourth basement stage.

After which it appeared.

It was like using an elevator down, on the finish of a hall forward, a bunch of individuals.

“I’m unsure if it’s lucky they’re alive.”

They appeared.

The frightened ones.

Girls who had been extra frightened of encountering the Goblin than of being found by folks.

All of them gave the impression to be of their early twenties.

Nobody else was seen.

That’s as a result of all right here had been ‘capacity customers’.

“…Sure, that is actuality.”

A grimy, sordid actuality.

Utilizing the wishes of those that wished to patriotically make use of capacity customers, a top-secret patriotism program concocted by the strongest of the Hero Affiliation and the navy’s high brass.

The succubus’s island.

Right here, ‘succubus’ was a slang for capacity customers with E-grade or decrease magic energy.

Feminine.

…When everybody was advised to stroll the trail of a HERO, those that selected the trail of H and ERO had been right here.