Chapter 109: CHAPTER 109 – Luna’s Situation and Old Memories.
Chapter 109: CHAPTER 109 – Luna’s Situation and Old Memories.
In the Orange Country's Raider Association headquarters.
"Ma'am, I have the reports," A girl with light blonde hair spoke as she faced the person who was the leader of the Raider Association of the Orange country.
"Tell me the most important ones," The lady sitting on the Association leader's seat spoke even without looking up at the girl.
The lady had pink hair, pink eyes, and a nice figure, she was a war-causing beauty, but right now, she looked like she had a whole mountain over her shoulders as they were slumped.
It was Luna and she had been working really hard to make things better for the Association.
The Association was even standing because of her, or it would not even have made it so far after Stephan's death.
It was Luna who came up with an idea that saved the Association from falling.
She came up with the idea of using Stephan's death to attract sympathy, and then she turned that sympathy into hatred towards the guilds that were causing trouble, by showing the videos of their crimes.
After that, the guilds in question had to compensate the association while also apologizing to the public, after all, they knew better than to anger the public as it would just make them fall.
But the Association was facing the same public right now.
Well, not like they were being hated, but the Association was walking on a delicate thread, it could break with a single mistake.
They tried shifting blame, but in the end, they were the ones who were blamed.
Still, Luna used this chance to get rid of the problem makers in the Association which included Somer Knox, and some higher-ups in the Association.
Right now, the Association was completely under control, but the Association was not producing much profit since it had to look after the public that was still facing problems after the disasters, and that cost a lot of money.
The light blond girl nodded her head and spoke.
"All the drops from the special S-rank gate had been collected," The girl spoke, and looking at Luna nod she continued.
"The supplies for the refugee camps are about to deplete, so they need to be filled.
Some guilds are trying to instigate the public to act against us, but it was taken care of by our agents in those guilds."
The girl spoke and Luna nodded.
Luna had placed some of their agents in almost every guild after the incidents that happened after Stephan's death.
All those agents had a single task and that was to record anything they found suspicious or some kind of dirt on the guild they were in.
So, whenever the guilds tried to do something against the association, Luna would just forward those things to the news channels, the rest of the work was done by the news channels, after all, they were experts in these fields.
The guild in question would have its image turned bad in the public's eye, making the public not trust the said guild.
That's how the Association works now.
"Go on," Luna gestured for the girl to continue, and the girl did just that.
"The Green Country had invited the Crimson Lotus guild to help them with the famous E-ranked gate that had swallowed 3 S-ranked raiders already.
The Crimson Lotus had accepted the request, but the details about the deal were not disclosed," The girl finished the most important things, so she waited for Luna to give her the order to leave.
But Luna was not even focusing on the girl as the moment she heard the Crimson Lotus's name, she remembered Alex's face.
She still remembered his strange destructive power, and she had a hunch that it was thanks to Alex that the Crimson Lotus could clear that gate, but it was just a hunch.
She wondered whether she was strong enough to defeat him now, after all, she had turned SS-ranked when the shockwave hit her.
But the information of there being a rank above S-rank was something only the higher-ups of every guild and Association were privy to.
They knew it wouldn't be hidden for long as there was already an SS-ranked gate spotted and they knew it would not be the last. But they were going to keep it a secret from the public for as long as they could, after all, they didn't want to cause panic.
If the public knew that there were raiders with rank above S then it would not be hard for them to conclude that there would be monsters above S-rank as well, and that would definitely cause chaos among the public.
Just as she thought about the monsters, Monarch's masked face flashed in her mind, the same guy she had been searching for till now but found no clue he was or where he came from.
Now why would she remember him by the term monster?
Well, because she came to realize that there are people so powerful that monsters looked tamer in front of them.
One such guy was Monarch.
A month ago, when the Association had calmed down and things were going fine he came right through the main gate. But the main thing was that he came alone, and he came without using his disguise skill.
His actions caused the Association to go on full alert as they knew who he was.
Luna had been searching for him everywhere so they would of course know who he was, and there was the thing about his mana core as well.
They didn't want to fight since Luna had already told them that he was very powerful, but they still placed 4 S-rankers around the building, ready to take action if needed.
Luna waited for Monarch to arrive and after a while, Monarch was sitting there in front of her.
"How much did the mana core auction for?"
Luna didn't know what to say. She could feel the pressure around Monarch, and she knew he was not in the mood for a joke.
But what could she say, she knew that he came here knowing that the mana core was stolen, so if he was still asking meant that she needed to pay him no matter what.
"It was sold for 10 billion credits," Luna spoke the best price she could think of but Monarch didn't seem satisfied as he spoke.
"Hmm, just because I like being chill, people now think that I am a pushover."
Luna could feel the pressure rising in the air, it was like the air was getting heavier every second.
Monarch then stood up, causing the bodies of Luna and the other four S-rankers who were listening to the conversation to tense up.
Then Luna saw Monarch slashing his empty hand downward and became confused before she heard a loud scream.
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!"
She could hear the scream from her earpiece, which meant that the owner of the voice was one of the S-rankers standing outside the building.
Whatever attack Monarch did, it harmed the raider that was standing quite far away with many walls in between.
'Space-type skill!!!!' It didn't take Luna much time to realize what it was.
But then she saw that Monarch was about to wave his hand again.
"Please tell me what you want!!!!"
She shouted hurriedly, but then....
*Boom**Crack*
"Don't raise your voice in front of me, woman."
Like a large mountain pressing over the whole building, a colossal pressure was released from Monarch.
Luna wasn't able to breathe, and she could see blood falling from her eyes, nose, and ears.
She felt like she was about to die, but it was not just her who felt that huge pressure.
The building cracked due to the sheer pressure that Monarch was releasing. It was the same building that was designed to withstand some stacks from S-rankers.
It was at that moment she realized that the monster in front of her was much stronger than she could ever hope to be.
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