May Soul Dissonance Bow Before Me

Chapter 87

"No, sir! Assassins!"
"...What?"
The black mage continued to speak. A message was still coming through the video communication device. He could feel the desperation in the other party's voice.
"Apparently, there are assassins and mercenaries! The assassins seemed to be from the Eastern continent's underworld households of the past! They are using their techniques!"

TBOAH!Ron's eyes widened fractionally and his head snapped toward TCF!Ron, who instantly schooled his expression back into calm innocence in order to pretend like he also didn't know what was happening on the Palantír. TBOAH!Ron squashed the annoyance he felt toward his counterpart and with a racing heart returned his gaze to the Palantír in order to figure out what was going on.

The intruders were using the assassin techniques used by the old assassin households that had been destroyed by Arm in the past.
"There is supposedly a highest-grade mage as well! Ah! That person is...!" The black mage quickly received the next message. "...That person is Glenn, the Mercenaries Guild's highest-grade mage!"
He was a pretty famous mage. He was famous for his abilities as well as for being the Mercenary King's close friend. Sayeru started to speak.
"If Glenn is there-"
The black mage shouted as if to finish his sentence. "The person leading the intruders is said to be Mercenary King Bud!"

"Oh?!" TBOAH!Glenn gasped as TBOAH!Bud's jaw popped open. TCF!Glenn and TCF!Bud grinned deviously, quietly sharing a toast with the glasses of fruit juice that the goddess provided them. They were celebrating their victories over Arm and leaving it to their counterparts to figure out the strategy and plan that was being pulled off in these records. The surprise discoveries would be even more satisfying for them that way.

The White Star turned his head and looked back after hearing that message. He could see Mary and Eruhaben landing on the Dubori territory's city walls. The invisible Dragon should be there as well. He could not see Raon nor the expression on the hooded Mary's face. However, he could see the smiling ancient Dragon.

"Senior-nim looks very happy!" TCF!Mila teased and TBOAH!Mila nodded with a chuckle of her own.
"Yeah, Goldie Gramps sure was happy! We gave that White Radish a good beating twice!" Raon whooped excitedly, his wings fluttering behind him and causing Cale's hair to catch on the wind it created. The TBOAH!Black Dragon ended up getting the long strands of Cale's hair tangled around his horns, the red contrasting strongly against his black scales. TCF!Alberu chuckled quietly as Raon apologized to his counterpart and then with Rok Soo's help they quietly freed the TBOAH!Black Dragon from Cale's hair while the Palantír continued playing the record.

He had a gaze that seemed to be asking, 'what are you going to do about it?'. The White Star started to frown. Eruhaben cast a gold shield around the city walls before landing on the desert and asking the White Star a question.
"How does it feel to be surrounded on all sides?"

"Oh you do seem to be having fun there..." TBOAH!Eruhaben teased his counterpart with a sneaky smirk.
"Of course, wherever my children go, there's always bound to be some interesting and fun things to do." TCF!Eruhaben replied with a fond twinkle in his eyes and a rather arrogant smirk upon his lips. His beautiful, younger appearance made TBOAH!Eruhaben feel even more annoyed for some reason and TBOAH!Eruhaben had to fight hard in order to resist the urge to hit his younger-looking counterpart in the face. TCF!Eruhaben chuckled as if he knew exactly what his counterpart was thinking.

Cale was planning on cutting off three of the White Star's right arms. Sayeru's right arm. One of the White Star's arms. And now, Arm was being attacked.

"Confusing..." TBOAH!Lily mumbled. Cale who heard her glanced toward her and clarified for her and the others who didn't understand.
"We cut off Sayeru's arm and the White Star's arm literally." Cale said and then gestured toward TCF!Ron, TCF!Bud, and TCF!Glenn before continuing. "And now we were going to attack their secret base."
"Ohhh! That makes sense!" TBOAH!Lily replied, a delighted brightness upon her face showing that she really did understand what Cale was talking about now. Cale nodded in approval - not at all thinking that it was strange that he had just clarified the fact that he'd viciously severed the limbs of two of their enemies and was going to attack them some more to his youngest sister. The fact that he'd said something he ordinarily wouldn't have flew right over his head. TCF!Alberu sighed softly pitying his dense Dongsaeng who looked like he had earned himself yet another talk with his parental figures during the next break.

What would the White Star be thinking about right now? Would he go to protect Arm in his current condition? Or would he go to look for the earth attribute ancient power?
- Human! Are we going to the Eastern continent now?
Raon was still launching black arrows as if he remained on the city walls but he was actually with Cale.
"What we do will change based on the White Star's action-"

"What would you have done if the White Radish had decided to go after the earth attribute Ancient Power?" TBOAH!Rosalyn asked. TCF!Rosalyn gestured toward Cale.
"The Young Master would have gone ahead and given him a good beating again." TCF!Rosalyn replied with an impish grin of mischief.
TBOAH!Choi Han looked around the hall and decided that they had all gone a little crazy in order to effectively fight against the White Star.
"The most probable reason we weren't able to beat him too was because I wasn't crazy enough to do the same. These types of strategies would never have even occurred to me!" He frowns in thought but returns his gaze to the Palantír when he felt the Goddess' gaze looking his way.

The video communication device's alarm started to go off. Raon took out the video communication device.
- Young master-nim.
He could hear Ron's benign voice.
- May I go hunting?

"Ho..." TBOAH!Ron mused finding it rather amusing to see his counterpart asking permission from the Young Master. However he reserved his commenting any further because there was still a lot of information he didn't have. He still didn't know where Arm's first secret was and who his counterpart, TCF!Ron, wanted to hunt.

The Mercenary King had started to move to attack Arm but the true attack had yet to start. Raon started to shout.
"Human! Gramps said the White Star headed toward the desert! Gramps and good Mary are chasing after him! Gramps said good Mary sent the Dark Elves a signal!"
Cale started to speak.
"Ron, is the Dragon half-blood next to you?"
- Yes, young master-nim.
"See you in five minutes." Cale then started to speak to Choi Han and Raon. "We will head near Arm's first secret base."

TBOAH!World felt that Cale's ability to hop from one continent to the other with help of the dragons teleportation power was a huge cheat and they wanted to complain about the unfairness, but a single glance from TCF!Rasheel - who was merely looking around the room to find a refreshment table that still had his favourite snack, something called 'popcorn', because he'd eaten all of cardboard boxes of the stuff from every nearby table - was enough to warn them to keep their childish complaints to themselves.

The first of Arm's two secret bases. That was the location of the old Molan residence.

A second icy chill ran through the room, and a cold steel blade seemed more than enough to slice the suddenly thick tension that fixed everyone in their places. However, the power that was upon them did not belong to Grigori - no, it was the powerful bloodlust and frigid wrath of an overqualified assassin and his torture-expert son from the TBOAH!World.

A moment later, Grigori smiled, and her divine aura devoured TBOAH!Ron's malicious anger. She pointed toward the Palantír as if asking TBOAH!Ron and TCF!Ron if they wished to continue. Both of them paused for a moment in order to decide whether they would be able to keep their composure or not and then decided that they would. TBOAH!Ron also felt that delaying any further would drive him out of his mind, so he nodded - both of them granting the goddess permission to continue with her records.