Chapter 796: The Pioneer Team's First Operation
The high-level witches' worries and doubts lasted only about a day before they were completely dispelled by the subsequent news.
What Phyllis said was all true.
Third Border City was completely boiling.
In this situation, even if Er'xia was unwilling, she could not stop everyone's yearning for the Dream World. At this point, it was obvious what Taqila should do.
Pasha held a meeting with Roland about the alliance through the illusion instrument.
The God's Punishment Witches who remained on the ground walked through the light curtain one by one, giving the elbow-to-chest salute to the Lord of Neverwinter and the King of Graycastle, acknowledging him as the sole leader of the unified front. After them came the high-level witches who had transformed into primal carriers, and they lowered their main tendrils towards him to show their loyalty—this was a courtesy that only the three members of the Union Council could receive, and it represented that after more than four hundred years, Taqila had a mortal ruler.
Er'xia was the last to appear in front of the light curtain.
Regarding this high-level promoted who joined the Holy Guard at the age of twenty, and fought bloody battles with demons for more than ten years to defend Taqila's glory, Pasha had always worried that she would do something unexpected. But in the end, she still put the War of Divine Will and the expectations of her companions first, and bent her main tendrils to Roland. No matter how unwilling she was at this moment, Pasha was still greatly relieved by her decision that put the overall situation first.
If it were in the Taqila era, this would definitely be an incredible scene.
However, more than four hundred years of long time was enough to change many things. Those ambitions and firm beliefs that "all mankind will defeat the demons under the leadership of the witches" were gradually smoothed out. When a mortal showed his amazing potential and had the grace of salvation for the survivors of Taqila, some meaningless insistence was obviously no longer so important.
Moreover, Pasha believed in the unanimous view of the three members of the Union Council, that witches would eventually stand out from the human group. Mortals like Roland were only a minority after all, and witches would one day return to the position of leader. However, by then, the relationship between the two must be much more harmonious than in the Taqila era. After all, if they could safely get through the Third War of Divine Will, the idea that witches and mortals could cooperate with each other to exert the greatest power would undoubtedly be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
She didn't mind seeing such a future.
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It was three days later when Roland truly implemented his plundering plan.
In order to ensure that Jie Luo wouldn't notice anything unusual, he rented a warehouse near the cylinder building to serve as a temporary "landing point" for the witches to connect to the Dream World. As long as the witches gathered here before he disconnected from the Dream World, they would still appear in the warehouse the next time they entered.
Of course, the first connection would inevitably appear in Apartment 0825 of the cylinder building... Roland was also puzzled by this. It was probably due to Jie Luo that this room had become a key node connecting the outside world and the Dream World. Therefore, whenever new people entered, he had to calculate the time and wait until Jie Luo left for school before letting the witches connect to the Dream World.
During these three days, Roland selected four God's Punishment Witches, including Phyllis, as the first pioneers. For the first two days, he could still buy some fast food and drinks to satisfy their extremely strong desire to eat and drink, but on the third day, he could only buy instant noodles and mineral water. But even so, they still ate with relish, and it seemed like they were about to turn the seasoning packets over and lick them again.
In fact, they had thought of such an idea, but Roland stopped them.
Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing for the unified front.
As the savings in his hand were getting less and less, the plan had reached a moment where he had to act.
When night fell, Roland told Jie Luo that he would be late because he was working overtime, and then took the four of them in two taxis, one after the other, towards the villa area outside the Third Ring Road.
These days, everyone was naturally not just staying in the warehouse to eat and drink. Faldi, who used to be a member of the Mystery Exploration Society, had extremely strong reconnaissance abilities. She could create a magic insect nest, allowing the attracted moths, bees and other insects to connect with her consciousness. Then, the released flying insects would spontaneously look for other sources of magic power. This trick was extremely effective in preventing demon attacks, and it
could also be used to search for areas that ordinary people could not easily enter.
Although they could not provide Faldi with a field of vision, they could allow her to sense the type and size of magic power, and natural power was no exception.
After three days of searching, she discovered more than a dozen sources of magic power reactions, including Garcia who lived in 0827.
Excluding the ones of the same type, there were six left.
And among the six targets, the one living in the villa area was obviously the most valuable to rob.
This was Roland's plan—to search for those Fallen Ones through extremely efficient magic power reconnaissance, and then take their natural power and property for himself. These mutated monsters would not easily leave their place of residence, so even if they were eliminated, it would be difficult to attract the attention of the surrounding neighbors, not to mention that even if the corpses were discovered by the police, the case would be transferred to the Martial Artist Association. And by then, the association would only think that this case was committed by another group of awakening people with ulterior motives, and would not think that there were suddenly a group of super-powered robbers in the city.
After getting out of the car, a group of people came to a dark corner and surrounded Tongen. The latter summoned the "Curtain of No Light" to wrap everyone up.
This kind of divine ability can make companions within the coverage of the curtain disappear without a trace, looking like they are invisible, but its actual effect is far more than that. Not only the sense of sight, but also the sense of smell and magic power aura can be isolated together. Except for direct contact, it is almost impossible to detect the existence of the hiders. If you want to achieve the effect of a surprise attack, Tongen is undoubtedly a key figure.
Under Faldi's guidance, the five people openly walked through the front door and went all the way towards the foothills behind the villa area.
This is considered the residence of the city's rich. Most of the villas are built against the mountain, with extremely large gardens. There are basically no active figures at night, which is really an excellent place to start.
"We're here, the target is inside," Faldi stopped and pointed to a large detached courtyard next to the road. The area of the front yard alone was almost the size of an apartment in the cylinder building.
These damn rich people, it's really envious... Roland glanced at the surveillance camera flashing red light at the entrance of the courtyard, and turned to look at the robbery team—no, the last member of the pioneer team, Ling, "The infiltration mission is entrusted to you, do as you practiced before."
Ling nodded, and like sinking, slowly disappeared into the shadows.
Although the survivors of Taqila did not have witches like Nightingale or Maggie who could regard any obstacles as nothing, Ling's ability could basically meet the requirements. As long as there is a shadow, she can integrate into it and act as freely as water. Especially at night, large shadows are connected into an endless piece, and the entire front yard has become her territory where she can come and go freely, and passing through door seams and window gaps is naturally easy.
With a soft click, the door of the house opened a gap for everyone.