[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 121: Asterisk Attention! (2)

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Back to a moment ago.

–Main office area city security department.

Lucia who was wearing a nun suit was walking quietly past everyone who was wandering the night streets. Some of them seemed to be staggering, and had a very pungent smell of alcohol from their mouths.

Despite that, Lucia seemed unaffected and continued walking past all of them. With a small smile on his lips, he stopped walking when he saw a large building with several towers and a large stone wall before him.

The black mask with the golden complexion Ethan gave him before was not used, only casually attached to his waist.

After all, there was almost no reason for Lucia to use that mask. From the beginning, Lucia had no intention of covering up her identity, and also, using a mask would be troublesome for her abilities later on.

The fabric that usually covers the top of the head to the waist is now invisible, making large flax-colored braids with a bronze mixture that can reach the waist so clearly visible.

Accompanied by a black cloth that closed both of her eyes, Lucia's cross-section was enough to make her emit an extremely strong presence. However, strangely no one cared about his presence.

Lucia simply smiled and walked into the building that appeared to be the security department's main office.

"Excuse me … "

Once Lucia opened the great gate that blocked her entrance, her presence grew stronger and began to attract the attention of everyone there, both those outside and those inside.

"?! Whoareyou?! "

One of the men in a full military suit who first noticed Lucia's presence shouted with great anticipation at him. Even so, Lucia looked unsurprised and continued to walk into the building, until she finally arrived before the man who shouted.

"I'm sorry for being a little sudden, but .. Can you die? "

His sudden remark was enough to make all the guards present instantly take out their weapons with anticipation.

Despite being surrounded by extremely strong killing intent from all sides, Lucia seemed to be not panicking and continued to smile while slowly untangling the cloth that covered her eyes.

"What are you doing here asshole?! Hey, guys! Get rid of this freak! "

"Y-yeah! "

As soon as the man shouted in anger, several armed soldiers came straight at Lucia by pointing their spearheads at him.

But it's free. Already late.

The head of the man who gave the order immediately exploded as he looked into Lucia's eyes which had slipped off the black cloth.

Air freezes. Everyone there, except Lucia was confused by what had just happened. None of them understood what kind of situation they were in right now.

"One of the most influential contributors to the creation of the angel weapon, Lord Viscount Marcus sera Choda. Target's been wiped out."

Lucia's constant toneless voice was enough to give a dangerous vibe about her.

A moment later, one of the guards finally realized what was going on, and began to shout, "Fuck! What did you do to the master! You people! Finish that bitch! "

Once the order was given, the remaining soldiers finally regained their senses, and began to attack Lucia with the weapons they had.

But it's all free too. Their heads instantly exploded before even the tip of their weapon reached Lucia's body.

A warning alarm immediately went off, and dozens of other guards who seemed to be clueless about the situation began to arrive.

Lucia's smile grew wider. He turned around and looked at everyone with the 'god eyes' he had.

Apparently, behind the black cloth that had been covering her eyes, there was a pair of eyes that looked very beautiful.

Eyes with a beautiful light golden color, and having millions of magic circles with different patterns and sigils it had overlapping micro sizes. It was the so-called 'God's Eye'.

At first his eyes were the same as most humans. However, thanks to the abilities of the god's eyes that grew stronger as time went on, one by one strange magic circles began to form in his eyes. The number could not be counted again since a year after the pattern appeared.

Lucia widened her eyes and looked at everyone there with a strange smile. Instantly, a row of strange sigils with unknown patterns instantly appeared in the air, creating something like a cage that completely shut down the security department's office.

It was one of the abilities that Lucia gained when the 'god's eyes began to develop.

"《Sentinia》"

Rows of strange sigils flowed out from the golden magic circle that appeared around Lucia. The row of sigils then floated towards the line of soldiers who intended to attack him.

The row of sigils disappeared the moment it touched the heads of the soldiers, sinking into their heads.

"W-what's this?! "

"N-no! Just stop! My head! "

"A-what ... This information?!! "

Countless rows of information began to enter their brains, and made them feel an overwhelming pain.

Some of the people there were already driven mad by the rows of information flowing into their brains, and it didn't take long for their heads to explode like balloons.

This was the strongest type of psychological attack Lucia had. This ability he obtained as a result of the development that his god eyes experienced.

Just by saying a single word of a spell, countless rows of information would instantly enter his target's head at once.

Naturally, a normal human brain could not withstand the sudden array of information entering their brain. In certain cases, there will be people who manage to survive it, although in the end he may have to go into a long coma and lose all his memories.

The worst condition that one would achieve when receiving all that information is not madness, but death. Their heads would instantly explode just like the ones experienced by the few people there.

Although this ability was extremely powerful, there remained a requirement that Lucia would have to meet in order to use it. That is, he must look directly at the eyes of his target. If not, the ability will not be active.

"Hmm? Looks like this is still not enough to finish you all off at once, huh? "

Lucia made a thoughtful gesture for a moment, then flicked her finger.

"《Petrilapus》"

Black smoke started to pour out from his right palm, along with a small magic circle that appeared before his eyes. Immediately, the black smoke enveloped the bodies of all those who were shouting in madness.

Slowly, their bodies began to stop moving and remained petrified in a standing position.

"It's a little too easy … "

Lucia did not remove her smile, and walked out of the building by leaving dozens of people who had already frozen to stone there.

"Now … "

Lucia swung her arm slightly, and threw something small tube-shaped into the building.

Instantly, a huge explosion occurred from the inside of the building, creating an unusually strong blaze.

The shockwave produced by the explosion was enough to push Lucia a little, and almost lost her balance, but she was somehow able to maintain her position, and turn around backwards.

Right behind him, there was a figure that he had expected would come here.

"For a long time no see, fourth Voyager, Olpus. How's it going? "

The man—Olpus, frowned, and looked at Lucia with a look of hatred.

"Lucia Khora .. Did you betray us? "

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Noelle ran down a long hallway filled with armed troops. He easily threw one of his twin swords, and let it spin like a propeller towards the enemy.

The twin blades he threw easily pierced through the defenses and cut off the necks of everyone he was wielding.

Noelle seized the opportunity, and turned the sword back into a blood form that she eventually solidified again into dozens of sharp thorns.

The blood thorn easily flew and pierced through the necks of everyone it touched, then regrouped into the same sword as before.

The sword then returned towards Noelle like there was a thread connecting the two.

"Si-shit! Finish him!! "

One of the guards who managed to survive the attack cried out in panic. He threw a few sharp daggers right at Noelle, but Noelle easily dodged some of them, and caught one of them, before he finally threw it back at its original owner.

The dagger Noelle threw was easily pierced through the skull of the guard who had previously shouted in panic.

"You guys are too stupid. Why don't you just run? My business is not with you guys."

A cold voice that sounded like emotionless from Noelle was echoing in the long hallway filled with corpses and pools of blood.

All the people who managed to survive there were also in a state that was not worth seeing. Each of them seemed to be trembling while holding their respective weapons, and their pants were also wet from the panic they were experiencing.

The mask that Noelle was using now had plenty of dried blood spots, and fresh blood all over, making it appear to be soiling that beautiful violet color pattern.

On the other hand, Noelle's hair also looked stained with a disgusting blood red color.

"I hate this smell … "

Saying that, Noelle immediately faced one of the walls covered by metal plates, and directly kicked it with all her might.

Thanks to the physical strength he had as a vampire, the walls coated using metal plates were easily shattered and formed a way out of this endless long passageway.

"I know you're there."

Noelle calmly and unhurriedly walked into that 'room', and saw the rest of it.

There's only a messy office. Destroyed tables and chairs, document papers were strewn all over the place, as well as other walls that appeared to be coated with metal plates as well.

Noelle tried to kick that part of the wall. However, no matter how many times he tried to kick, the wall was still not destroyed.

Noelle looked around uneasily, and found no one around. That's a good situation.

Dark light particles began to gather in his hand, and formed a pitch-black long sword adorned with a small pendant on its handle.

It was Langen. Noelle had just retrieved it from her spatial storage.

Noelle swung the sword, and slashed right at the metal plate. Easily, the sword's sharp blade pierced through the metal plate that he couldn't even break with his own physical strength.

"It's pretty thick … "

Noelle increasingly stuck out her sword, and swung it with various patterns.

The wall was instantly shattered following the pattern of slashes Noelle made. Noelle immediately put Langen back into the spatial warehouse, then entered the room behind the wall.

"The underground passage, huh? "

There was a very long descending ladder in front of him at this moment. The few pieces of wood and stone left on the stairs became the traces of life that were in this place just a moment ago.

From her position, Noelle could feel some air of presence emanating from down there. Which means, the chances of the target being there are quite high.

Noelle walked down the stairs without feeling anything in her heart. Or at least that was the case, right before his body felt such an overwhelming impact that it made him bounce far back, piercing through and destroying all the buildings that had been hit by his back.

Blood and air clots from his lungs forced themselves to slip out of his mouth as soon as he felt the flat plane of a huge metal wall stopping his body from bouncing any further.

Noelle's normally fast thinking ability is strangely unable to scan her current situation. Noelle widened her eyes in bewilderment and tried to improve her position on the ground, and looked towards the front, to the figure that was her obstacle.

The metal wall he had hit earlier had been dented, and looked to be destroyed at any moment, but Noelle looked like she had received nothing but a shockwave tickling her internal organs.

"Geez, I just left this place for a while, but I didn't expect that anyone would dare to go this far."

Although the distance of origin of the voice was already quite far from her position, Noelle could still hear it very clearly as if the voice was coming directly from her side.

"Should I welcome you? Then ... Welcome, Mr. strange masked intruder. May this lowly Knight of Round: Lucius Roux be a good host to you."

He, who stood haughtily, and had a huge sword on his back, looked at Noelle with a cold smile on his face.

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—Branch office of Department of Public Administration.

This place has a distance that is not so far from the location of Noelle. However, the difference in atmosphere flowing in the air was completely different.

Not a single voice appeared here. There was only complete silence.

No one could be seen at that location. Of course, with Colyn as an exception.

His large sloth pillow floated in the air quietly, while the person lying on it only stared at the large building before him with lazy eyes.

Colyn whose body seemed to shiver a few times it tightly squeezed the robe Asher gave her.

On the side of his head, there is a white mask with a pink color that looks beautiful. Colyn deliberately did not use the mask Ethan gave her to cover her face. Anyway, it's free.

His face was already seen very clearly when he visited Eisen as reinforcements.

Colyn showed a melancholy expression as she stared at the huge building. There was no sign of life coming from there.

It was of course, after all, all the people who had previously been in that place, had he annihilated completely without a remnant.

When compared to his fight against Nix Regina, fighting the crowd of armed humans was not a problem at all for Colyn.

He only needed to stare at them a little, and their figure would soon disappear from before him.

"Now … "

Colyn let out a tired sigh, and changed positions to sit on her pillow.

"I think I should get rid of this one too."

Saying that, Colyn started waving her hands.

With just that one small move, the large administrative building that could previously accommodate a human with over 100 people instantly vanished from its place.

Completely vanished without a remnant. As if the building had never been there in the first place.

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—Head office Department of Public Administration.

The childish-looking figure stood alone on top of the pile of corpses that were killed in various ways.

Ethan let out a bright smile hidden behind his mask, and turned his head towards the remaining armed soldiers before him.

"Now ... Let's have fun longer! "

Ethan widens both hands, and dozens of playing cards with each of the spade, heart, clover, and diamond symbols come out of his sleeves, and fly by heading directly towards the remaining soldiers.

Although what Ethan took out only looked like ordinary playing cards, all of the soldiers looked terrified and looked like they had their own trauma to the cards.

It was no wonder, after all, all of their comrades who fought alongside them before, died instantly the moment the card Ethan issued touched them.

"T-no! Just stop! Oh, and don't come after me again! Please! "

One of the soldiers fell down and pleaded with Ethan with a frightened face. However, Ethan's expression hidden behind his mask was still smiling widely.

"That's impossible! Once my card is thrown, I won't be able to stop it! "

And as if to be the cover for Ethan's speech, one of the cards spun and flew straight towards the soldier's neck, easily piercing through his neck.

"A good bartender should be able to play some cool tricks to entertain customers! Because that! I'll cheer you up! "

Ethan leaps from the pile of corpses, and chases the remaining soldier with a short stick in his hand.

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—Area production factory, building A-1.

Tania threw her scythe horizontally towards the row of golems that continued to work tirelessly in the middle of the night.

The scythe easily pierced through and cut through all the magic crystals that were at the core of their source of life.

In an instant, a line of stone golems that had been relentlessly working to sort things, was now lying on the floor with body parts scattered.

『I have never visited the Capital of the kingdom before, but .. I did not expect that this place would be managed by the golems day and night.』

The voice with a tone of wonder, as well as admiration came from Navi who was paying attention to the surrounding situation with Tania's eyes.

"It's .. Easy."

『Don't let your guard down, Tania. How many times do I have to warn you, you must not let your guard down when you are in enemy territory.』

Navi is still noisy as usual. His attitude was very incompatible with Tania who did not want to talk much. However, Tania had somehow been able to persist with that difference in attitude for many years.

As he turned his face to check on the situation elsewhere, Navi spoke again, 『Yahh, this is indeed a little too easy. This place only had a few guards, and the production officers here were just a bunch of brainless stupid golems who did not care about the situation around them. We can finish this quickly.』

" ……… "

Tania again prepared her scythe, before she finally threw it towards the other row of golems that were still working nonstop.

All the guards who were watching the production process were already lying on the floor covered in blood. Of course, it was because Tania had already killed them first.

The scythe he had thrown was back in his hands, and Tania immediately turned around, intending to leave this building, and continued executing another building.

Of course, after he destroyed all the means of production previously used by the golems.

Navi knows everything Tania does, but still she feels confused about one thing.

『Seeing from anywhere, they only produce food. How could this place possibly be one of the locations that would be a source of disaster in the future? 』

" … Angel's weapon … "

『Sure I know that. I know everything you know. Merely, I still can't believe in the strange plan to create that 'angel weapon'.』

—Angel guns. It was the code name for a weapon that would bring great disaster in the lives of all Asterisk members in the future.

Thanks to the prophecy that the crystal gave them, they ended up working together to destroy all traces of the weapon's creation.

『Despite it being called a weapon .. We still don't even know what it looks like. The picture of the future that that crystal gave you all is too little.』

After all, what they all saw back then was a very simple thing. That is, their own death, with those closest to them.

In Tania's case, he saw himself lying on the ground with a body that was almost crushed by something very heavy.

Neither Tania, nor Navi herself knew what 'something' was, but they vaguely knew its form based on the sensations they felt.

It was a huge humanoid. That's all they know.

『?! Tania!!! 』

As Tania was silently pondering in her mind, Navi's panicked voice suddenly appeared and warned her.

However, Tania's reflexes do not work properly.

Even so, his body seemed to move very naturally, and readied his scythe in a defensive position to receive the impending great blow.

Without Tania noticing, once again, Navi took over her body by force.

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(AN: Lucia: Aponia from Honkai Impact 3.)