He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 30

I Became the Unrivaled Mad Emperor – Episode 30

“Hey, sounds like a ruckus downstairs. What’s going on?”

“Sounds like something else happened after they found the body.”

Even after Hendrik and I left the warehouse, the external security didn’t seem to increase much.

Eavesdropping on the thugs’ conversation, it seemed they didn’t even know what was happening beyond the gate.

“No orders came down?”

“None. Just to stand guard properly. Well, they did find a body earlier, didn’t they?”

“The intruder still hasn’t been caught? But that means this hideout’s been exposed, right?”

“Looks like it. Shouldn’t we leave, too, then?”

Once a secret hideout is discovered, it’s no longer a secret.

Even though their reaction is strangely slow, considering they’re aware of the intruder, they’ll probably start thinking about changing hideouts if we get through today.

Or they’ll reinforce their defenses two or three times more.

So, it has to be resolved today.

“Well, we just need to do what we’re told–”

Thud.

“Huh? What was–”

Stab.

The squad leader and I, having secretly approached the two chattering guards, stabbed and slashed them, respectively, killing them.

“Hurry. We need to clear this out as quickly as possible.”

Before anyone goes to the basement gate to report the intrusion, all external personnel must be eliminated.

As soon as my order was given, Thomas, a close aide who had followed Hendrik and Stella, rushed out with a warhammer and mace, respectively.

Thwack! Pow!

The sounds of the two men beating someone to death were heard.

“W-Who is it!”

“You don’t need to know who we are, just die!”

Slash!

Not to be outdone, the squad leader and I also killed the thugs around us indiscriminately.

They were helpless because their martial prowess was insignificant, and they were caught by surprise.

“Keep advancing; we must seize the basement.”

The ground floor of the warehouse was quickly subdued. All that remained was the basement with the portal.

“What’s going on outside?”

Thud!

“Ugh!”

I stabbed the neck of the guy who was opening the basement door. He rolled down the stairs as he was.

This wasn’t intentional, but it’s gotten noisy.

“What!”

“Who is it!”

The guys in the basement immediately turned around when they heard the commotion.

Some were unarmed, but those with swords immediately drew them.

I rushed down the stairs as if flying and extended my shadow blades.

Shushushushuk!

“Aaaagh!”

“I-It’s an enemy!”

The shadow blades that stretched out in all directions pierced, grazed, or slashed them.

In an instant, most of those in the basement were dead.

“Ugh, ughaa!”

Whirlick, Thud!

The last remaining guy screamed and tried to go over to the portal, but I threw a dagger at him.

The dagger lodged in the back of his head, and he collapsed right in front of the portal.

“That’s it for the outside.”

“Are you going to enter right away?”

“No, first, all three of you disguise yourselves.”

There are several types of portals or gates.

Some are completely isolated from the outside, so they have no idea what’s going on outside, like this one.

“The guys inside don’t know what we’ve done yet.”

So, if we disguise ourselves and go in, we can delay their response.

“The evidence we want will be in the deepest part.”

Probably on the 3rd floor, somewhere we couldn’t go earlier.

The key is to break through and secure it before they destroy the data.

“So, we need to break through as quickly as possible.”

If we disguise ourselves and pass by for a moment, it will be faster than killing them all one by one.

“Bear with it, Stella, even if it’s a little disgusting to wear dead people’s clothes.”

“I-It’s okay to this extent.”

Stella frowned for a moment, probably because she was uncomfortable wearing someone else’s clothes, especially men’s clothes, from a dead body.

But fortunately, it wasn’t too noticeable if she just changed her robe, so she seemed less reluctant.

“Then let’s go in now.”

Everyone passed through the portal, ready to draw their weapons at any time, just in case.

I thought we might be attacked as soon as we entered, but contrary to expectations, nothing happened.

“No, it’s too quiet, isn’t it?”

It was beyond quiet; it was desolate.

When Hendrik and I first infiltrated, someone was guarding beyond the portal.

Now, without those people, the cultists on the first floor of the gate were wandering around in a very chaotic state.

“We need more support! You guys come quickly, too!”

“Move the injured!”

Listening to the commotion among them, something was wrong.

“Could it be that they still haven’t suppressed the guys we released when we escaped earlier?”

I nodded at Hendrik’s opinion.

Judging from the circumstances, these guys are fighting something on the 2nd floor.

If it wasn’t a riot or rebellion in their hideout, the only thing we could assume was what Hendrik and I had done.

“Are those freaks threatening?”

The squad leader and Stella hadn’t seen the freaks in person, so they asked me about them.

“They weren’t ordinary when I saw them briefly. I think they’re related to the secret army Karshstein is creating.”

The military power that Karshstein was secretly creating, as Hendrik had said.

The freaks we saw on the 2nd floor were all crazy, so it would be difficult to use them as soldiers.

But if they could be trained in a way that eliminates or reduces those side effects, they would be quite a considerable force.

“If we deal with them in advance, it will help when we strike Karshstein.”

Because it will be an opportunity to gauge the combat power of the enhanced soldiers he has.

After exchanging opinions, we continued past the 1st floor.

The area was so noisy that almost half of us walked by without anyone suspecting us.

But that luck didn’t last forever.

“Hey, you guys over there? I’ve never seen you before. Take off your hoods–”

Stab.

“Run.”

We had already assumed that we might be caught.

Because of that, as soon as a cultist called out to us, we cut him down without asking and ran forward with everyone.

“H-Huh? Why are you guys doing this? Ugh!”

“I-Intruders! More intruders!”

The cultists, who were already on edge about the 2nd floor, began to panic at the sudden event.

In that state, it was impossible for anyone to respond properly.

“Don’t stop, break through!”

Stab, Slash, Thwack!

The squad leader, Hendrik, and I took the lead, slashing and hammering as we went.

There was no need to kill all the cultists on the 1st floor.

The primary goal was the entrance to the 2nd floor.

It was a good place to defend against a large number of people, as we had seen when we infiltrated earlier.

“Don’t let those guys get away!”

“Attack! Don’t spare your curses!”

The cultists, of course, didn’t just stand by and get beaten.

Most of them were armed with swords, but before we knew it, they began to attack, spewing arrows or lightning made of black magic.

Magical attacks that were more difficult than physical attacks.

Among them, curses were especially annoying.

“Kugh, my body is heavy.”

As soon as I felt like a black mist was enveloping me, my physical abilities were decreasing as if they were restrained.

“I’ll dispel [remove] it for you!”

But we had Stella, who specialized in divine spells.

In particular, the priests of the Purification Order specialize in divine spells related to healing and curse purification.

Stella immediately unleashed a watery divine power and dispelled the curse on me.

In addition, she blocked the incoming attack magic with a shield made of divine spells.

“It’s up ahead! We have to secure that place!”

Before long, we reached the narrow staircase leading down to the 2nd floor.

In front of it, there were many cultists gathered like a bottleneck.

But they didn’t know we were coming.

The breakthrough speed was so fast that they were in a disheveled state with incomplete responses.

I had to wipe them out all at once, so I immediately infused the sword with a lot of aura.

Sharrararak!

Stab, Slash! Thudududuk-

I sent aura into the sword wind that swung and advanced.

The blade wind lacerated the cultists in front of me.

Many cultists were dismembered or cut in half and died.

“The enemies are retreating for now, but they will soon reorganize and attack.”

The cultists on the 1st floor had their momentum broken by our fierce surprise attack.

But as the squad leader said, they will try to break through again.

I already knew that, so I was trying to secure this entrance as quickly as possible.

“Hendrik, you wanted to prove yourself, didn’t you? I’m entrusting this place to you. Block this place with Priest Thomas.”

Hold out until I come back from finishing my work.

If you do it, I’ll acknowledge your contribution.

“As long as I’m alive, they won’t be able to pass through here, not even one step.”

Hendrik held up a large battle hammer, burning with enthusiasm.

“I like that. Then squad leader, Stella, we continue to advance forward.”

“It’s better to be careful. The atmosphere ahead is not good.”

As the squad leader said, the atmosphere ahead was a bit suspicious.

Not because I heard something, but because it was too quiet, on the contrary.

Clearly, the cultists should have been fighting because of what happened on the 2nd basement floor, but, on the contrary, I didn’t hear any noise from the front.

“It might be because of us.”

We caused a commotion on the 1st floor and broke through, and soon seized the only entrance leading down to the 2nd floor.

That means that the 1st floor, where support troops should have come down to suppress the cultists, was blocked.

“As expected. They’re all dead.”

“They all just died.”

As soon as we came down to the 2nd floor, we saw traces of a desperate battle.

Corpses that looked like they had been torn apart and eaten by beasts rather than fighting people.

“It’s too dark. All the torches are off.”

This subspace is formed in the form of an underground space.

So, it’s as dark as pitch without lighting such as torches.

Unlike the 1st floor, it was like that from the 2nd floor.

The cultists couldn’t have turned them off, and it seemed that the people they were fighting had roughly broken them and turned them off.

“Light, illuminate our path.”

Stella immediately unleashed a divine power that created a pure white light, replacing the lighting.

The surroundings became a little brighter, and at the same time, I felt the presence of those hiding beyond the darkness quickly concealing themselves.

“Do you know how to hide in the dark? You’re cunning.”

The lighting created by Stella had limitations, so if we relied on it alone, we could be ambushed by them.

But I had a way to sense them by other means.

[Watcher’s Web Activated]

I immediately stretched out the web of aura in all directions.

Those who were confidently hiding in the darkness were all caught in my sight.

“Squad leader, protect Stella!”

I immediately ran forward and swung the silver holy sword at the guys hiding in the darkness.

Slash!

-Kyaaaaaaa!

The holy sword drew a pure white silver trajectory and cleaved the existence in the darkness.

As expected, the freaks I had released were the identity.