Versatile: Alternate World

To make sure that she won't be able to do any kind of things that would cause us to be killed by her, especially the four, I made Tina restrain her from being able to do anything using her body and I disarmed her from most of the weapons she had in possession by asking Lucia to detect the weapons hidden in her body. She tried to protest but that is inevitable since she wanted to assassinate us and the only way to restrain her is by taking all of the weapons in her possession and having her movements also restrained.

"This is too much! I don't need to get restrained to the point I can't freely move any more!" the bunny girl is protesting.

"I don't trust you enough for me to let go of your restraints. You should be grateful that I didn't put a shackle on your hands, legs, and neck. This is just a preemptive measure for me unless you do something that shouldn't have been done. The only way for you to do is just watch."

"..." the bunny girl is frowning but she has no choice but to follow with all her weapons with us and her restraints are controlled by Tina. One wrong move and I will have to put the shackles I mentioned to her as a method to ultimately stop her movements.

Now, back to the targets. With us now in the city, I finally confirmed that the trackers are indeed tracking the three targets correctly in one location, meaning they are together. This means, that killing all three of them will finally finish the quest and just in one go.

I know that the progress of the kills has been smooth so far but since they are all together, attacking one of them will result in the other two retaliating as a result. Perhaps this might be the reason they are together. To at least defend themselves from the enemies that are killing them, they decided to band together.

As soon as we entered the gates of the city, I can smell the foul stench of rotten flesh. It was so pungent that I am surprised that the guards seem to be oblivious to it. Even the four and the bunny girl could not help but cover their noses.

"What the heck? What is this disgusting smell? It was like something is decaying in the distance," Yna covered her nose as she was about to puke just from the smell alone.

"More like a smell of a corpse being left alone and was not buried properly. It smells disgusting to the point I can puke all of what I ate right now," Koji seems to be holding out not to puke what he was eating while we are still coming into this city.

"Master, the moment we entered the gates, I immediately detected a large amount of Dark Mana encircling all around the city. It was like it is about to be devoured by the dark mana at any moment right now," Lucia reported.

"Can you perhaps pinpoint the source of that dark mana you are detecting?" I asked.

"I already tried earlier, Master but it was not easy. It swirls all around and I can't properly detect it due to what I said earlier. Not to mention, it is pretty much chaotic to feel that I feel mushy just by trying to trace the origin. So I apologize," Lucia sighed.

"Master, I think I also need to add something," Atlas then pointed to the two guards that we just passed by.

"What about them, Atlas? Something wrong with them?"

"Yes. I just took a glance at their eyes and I realized that they seemed to look really soulless. They were like in a trance and I don't think a person who was just in a trance by themselves would look like that. I am having suspicions myself but it seems they are being controlled by something in here."

No wonder their movement seems kind of weird to me. The guards here seem so lifeless and it seems like their movements are so animated they felt like dummies that know how to move. But we don't know if they are indeed under control so we decided to push on to the city.

I have been to this city before in the past and although it was not as lively as the Capital, it is still quite a thriving place. But now, it seems like something happened here that it made the whole city similar to a ghost town. It is quiet and despite the fact that we are still far from the evening, the streets are devoid of townspeople and I don't even see any players walking around either, making it very strange indeed.

"This place is just too creepy, man. I don't know if it was just me or if this place is definitely some sort of haunted," Gin who is usually on the chill side is rubbing his arms, perhaps he is getting quite some goosebumps.

I tried to recall if there is some sort of event or a quest that would cause the whole city to turn like this. It's obviously not a Halloween event since we are still far from Halloween, and a Halloween event is quite lively compared to the situation in the city where almost every nook and cranny of the place looked like it was abandoned for how many months.

Then, it went to me...

Do the targets that we are currently hunting is currently the ones causing this kind of event? I already know that the first target has the knowledge and power to use dark magic and even dark element skills. So there is no doubt that these guys will also have the same power.

I can't confirm it on the second target as I have killed him before he can even do something to show off, but perhaps, this incident might be linked to the targets themselves. If so, that only means one thing, these enemies are not to be underestimated.