Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 437: The upcoming explosion?

The smooth infiltration ends here.

The main hall of the Froze Castle is long and narrow, with twenty-eight marble load-bearing columns rising from the ground, supporting a spire-shaped vault that is over thirty-six meters high, creating a solemn and profound feeling. Under the load-bearing columns, there should be two rows of nanmu benches extending to the high platform at the end, with a crimson carpet in the middle, which looks a bit like the prayer seats for worship ceremonies in classical churches. But now all these benches are scattered on the ground, and corpses are piled everywhere in their fragmented remains, including those of werewolves and magic knights. The coagulated blood under the corpses merges with the crimson carpet, and it looks like the carpet has its own life, expanding outwards, intending to devour the cold flesh and blood and strengthen its own existence.

The bloody moonlight shone into the room through the large vertical colored glass windows, refracting into colorful lights, which further set off a magical and weird atmosphere. Figures walked silently under the moonlight, walking back and forth without making any sound. Only the slight and harsh metal sound of armor rubbing against each other could be heard, just like silent monsters, which was creepy.

Leticia carefully poked her head out from the corner and looked at these guys who were busy working, with confusion and anxiety in her eyes.

Ten minutes ago, a fierce battle broke out between the Magic Knights of the Balance of Order and the Werewolves of the Silver Moon for control of the main hall. This place is located in the central area of ​​the Forloze Castle, leading to the core areas such as the armory, library, magic material warehouse and defense array center. It is a strategic location that cannot be lost for both sides, so the battle was extremely brutal. To this day, the pungent smell of blood still lingers in the heavy air, almost condensing into mist.

Leticia also needed to go through the main hall and go deep into the castle to find her grandmother. She originally wanted to sneak through while the two sides were fighting fiercely, but she didn't expect that the werewolves of Silver Moon were too fragile, and the battle ended after only ten minutes. After that, the magic knights took over the control of the main hall and continuously transported in various mysterious magic devices, as if they wanted to transform it into a temporary command center.

Leticia, who was halfway into the infiltration, was caught in the middle and was in an awkward situation. Fortunately, the magic knights were busy installing magic devices, and no one noticed that there was a vampire hiding in the corner. Although there were many of them, if Leticia used the method she used to deal with the grassland hyenas before, luring them out one by one and attacking them by surprise, clearing a safe path and leaving quietly, it would not be a big trouble.

The problem is that she can't!

It was not known whether these guys were simply well-trained or could see the warning circles on themselves, but they were standing in a very concentrated position, basically three people in a group, and their warning circles overlapped each other, which meant that if Leticia attacked one of them, she would also attract the attention of the remaining two. No matter how skilled she was in assassination, she could not kill three people at the same time, but would expose herself and fall into an even worse situation.

Leticia huddled behind a broken nanmu bench, watching teams of magic knights walking by with all kinds of magic devices in their arms that she didn't understand the purpose of. At this moment, she missed those simple-minded night watchers and prairie hyenas very much.

Do I look like I'm just watching the fun?
Leticia was speechless: "It's not that I don't want to leave, but how can I leave? There are mad dogs of the Balance of Order everywhere. Do you want me to die?"

"Oh, so I hate game rookies like you the most. When you encounter difficulties, don't just complain. Take a look at your skill bar. Who knows, there may be some solution."

"What can be done?"

All we can say is that regular troops and guerrillas are different after all, and the difference is huge.

Leticia muttered to herself, but still looked through the skill bar as she was told. There were only five skills in total, and three of them had already been used before. They were obviously not of much help in the current situation. Leticia fixed her eyes on the skill called [Low-key Posture].

"Why don't you leave, Leticia?" Alice urged, "Don't just watch the fun, there's nothing to see. Completing the main mission is the most important thing!"

It is described as follows -

[Low-key attitude: restrain your power, conceal your breath, restrain your hostility, hide your existence, walk among your enemies, and you will become a shadow that can be seen everywhere in the sun. ]

It sounded like a skill that enhanced stealth ability, but the description was too vague. Leticia asked in a low voice, "How do I use this skill?" "It's very simple." Alice said as a matter of course, "Just pretend to be timid, sneak into a team of Balance of Order, follow them, and walk to the exit of the hall."

Well, it does sound simple...did you think I would say that?

In fact, the expression on Leticia's face should have been "You're teasing me again."

If the previous skills, whether it is the control method of inexplicably releasing intense bright light from the body to blind the enemy, or the mysterious backstab that can kill the enemy with one blow by attacking from behind, or the terrifying climbing ability that can make ibexes and goats bow down... can barely be explained by the power of magic, then this skill has obviously exceeded the scope of magic and is an outrageous setting that even novel authors dare not use, right?
“Oh my.” Alice was used to it. Leticia could even imagine the nonchalant expression on her face when she said this: “We assassins are like this.”

What a joke!
If you walk past in a cowardly manner, the enemy will ignore you and treat you as a companion. Is this weird skill a standard for assassins? What dimension did you assassins come from? Don't be ridiculous!
Leticia couldn't suppress the burning desire in her heart to complain, but no matter how much she complained, it couldn't change the fact that this skill was the only one that could help her escape from danger. So, when the next team of the Balance of Order passed by, under Alice's repeated urging, the vampire girl gritted her teeth and walked out of her hiding place openly.

She remembered the key points of the skill, lowered her body center of gravity, breathed through her mouth and nose, and restrained her hostility and murderous intent. She tried to pretend to be a passerby who happened to pass by here, or even a pillar, a wall or a stone nearby. She bit the bullet and mixed into the team, hanging on the edge of the other party's sight, following them step by step. At the same time, in a place where no one could see, the shadow of Saint Shallia suddenly flashed behind the girl, gently pulling the golden thread in her hand, as if changing a predetermined fate.

So, in Leticia's eyes, the red warning circles under the feet of the magic knights gradually turned into green, which symbolized harmlessness and safety. They didn't even look back at the vampire following them, as if she didn't exist. The other magic knights were still busy with their tasks, ignoring Leticia passing by, as if the one following their companions was not a living alien, but dust, air, or a tiny thing that didn't need to be paid attention to at all.

It actually worked! ?

Until she stood at the exit of the hall and the stairs leading to the upper floor, looking back at the path she had walked, Leticia's face was still full of disbelief and confusion: How did she get through when she didn't even react?

This so-called game magic seems to be more magical than my own power of immortality?

“Hey, stop being in a daze.” Seeing her dazed look, Alice urged her, “Do you still want to save your grandma? Let’s go!”

"Oh……"

Leticia shook her head, no longer thinking about these things that were too complicated for her, turned around and ran up the stairs, heading towards the higher floors of the castle. Her intuition told her that her grandmother should be right in front.

Her figure quickly disappeared into the darkness, gradually going away. But if she had left later, perhaps she would have been able to hear the following conversation -

"Captain, the transmission magic bomb in area B-34 has been installed and is being connected to the blasting network. It is expected to destroy the east tower and square area of ​​​​Fort Froze, and cause 50%-70% damage to its side support structure. At the same time, I would like to convey to you the latest instructions from Commander Elviro. He requires that the blasting preparations for the current area be completed within five minutes, that all personnel be evacuated within fifteen minutes, and that all installed bombs be detonated after thirty minutes."

"Copy that, thank you for your hard work."

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)