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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.

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

Dhuja wasn't even in the manor, as she was several rooms down below, within a large room where she was currently assessing a lot of paperwork and transactions of her organization, completely unaware that someone had come 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, nonetheless, 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 all committed 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 Undead later," 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 almost completely slaughtered by her and the rest of the family while Frank was still in a coma.

She and Frank believed that it was better to simply kill these people than to leave them alive, only for them to come 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 flames and a phantasmagoric presence.

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

"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 blazing flame of dark colors, his aura encompassed 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 blazing 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 blazing figures descended from above as many debris fell from above them, making a large commotion all around!

Frank and Gwendolyn found themselves in a large hall with many merchandises that the organization produced and sold in large batches, the hall was made of black bricks covered in mold, and the place seemed cold and lacking a lot of light.

"Hm, we landed 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!" laughed Frank.

"Who are you?!"

"T-They descended from above and are completely 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, completely unaware that they should have not come to work today…

They quickly readied their magic weapons, as large 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 a large 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…"

Flash, flash!

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

Gwendolyn raised her blazing blade, as she slashed through the Rank 2 and Rank 3 Magus as if it were a field trip, mercilessly slashing them in half while burning them alive at the same time!

Slash! Slash! Slash!

"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 claws grew larger and coated in miasma-like poisonous secretion, which he coated into black flames and used to slash 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 become quite the monsters!" laughed Gwendolyn, as the two didn't waste any second more and rushed towards Dhuja's room, breaking apart the large door made of stone and covered on magic runes sealing the room, as they found the Lamia surrounded by many large 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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