Chapter 99 The Last Dark Element tushumi.cc
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Strangely, this dark wind was sometimes rough and sometimes low, as if it were drifting from a mountain cave.
It drifted slowly through the sky, looking down more than once, as if it couldn't find a landing spot.
This couldn't be the wind; it could be a cursed cloud, darker than the night, with something inside stirring up the air.
Billis lit the brazier beside him, and the four people's faces were made incredibly rosy by the light, while the ghostly thing in the sky absorbed the excess light like a black hole.
Lisa was hostile to anything that disturbed her research. Just as she spread her wings to take down the black mass, it obediently descended from the sky.
It's safe to say that when it made those familiar footsteps on the ground, Billis already knew it was that intelligence agent who was good at arming himself with flashy elemental forms.
Mr. Richie.
A snow eagle swept past at an astonishing speed, dropping a feather that drifted slowly into the darkness of the night, sinking into the even darker elemental body.
Mr. Richie seems to be different from before; he's become less talkative.
“Your Stand is getting heavier and heavier. I’m curious, what would happen if you tried every elemental body in the world?” Billis asked.
Richie became as gloomy as the dark elemental.
He first looked at the equipment on the table, then at the tracker that Lisa had casually assembled, and still didn't say a word.
Billy suspects that Richie is calculating something.
"Hey, don't be so upset. What new mission do you have this time?"
"You guessed it, I'm in a bad mood."
"Because you used dark elements that were also in a bad mood?"
"That's one reason. On the other hand, I've completed the tasks I assigned you, so why are you still here?"
"Why? Because the satellite sabotage wasn't done by just a few people, but by an entire heretical organization. The leader of the organization is called Mora, and we're almost at Mora's location."
"Stop tracking immediately."
"What!"
"Agents must obey the Alliance's arrangements. Since no such order has been issued from above, they are not allowed to carry out missions on their own."
"Hey! If we hadn't acted on our own, the other world would have been destroyed long ago, like with Leviathan!"
"I'm talking about this time. If you still don't understand, you can open your ears a little wider and stop tracking immediately!"
The four agents all doubted they had misheard, but that was the arrangement from above, so there was nothing they could do.
Before leaving, Richie called Mia to his side.
What are you doing here?
"I like Billis's way of doing things, that's none of your business."
"Oh! So you're planning to be with him from now on, right?"
Despite Richie's use of dark elements, Mia could still see the infatuated look in his eyes.
Mia and Richie were agents who joined the alliance around the same time. In some ways, their friendship was a level above that of others. But ever since Billy joined the alliance, Mia has completely changed.
From being cautious to being bold and unrestrained.
This made Richie quickly recall someone else, but he only thought about it for a short while before stopping.
At that moment, the tracker's signal was successfully connected.
The footage shows the female servant seemingly locked in a cage with the cage door open, revealing a pile of greenish, disgusting stuff inside, resembling food scraps left over from someone's meal, along with some hair curled into small circles.
The cage was in an empty room with holes in the walls, but the door was clean. There was a rather large stove in the room, which was no longer stained with soot, but was covered with insect droppings. The insects must have flown in from outside to keep warm while the stove was burning.
This shows that people used to live here.
Richie also took the opportunity to come over and look at the footage, without offering any comments.
Suddenly, a shadow about three meters tall appeared, with an unusually flat chest and loose hair that cascaded down to its waist like a waterfall. It looked like a woman, yet also like a man.
The shadow getting shorter and shorter indicates that it is approaching from a distance, near the candlelight.
At the same time, another shadow appeared, also of indistinguishable gender.
The other shadow, which had been sitting, immediately stood up as if a fire had been lit under its buttocks.
Ultimately, the maid chose to reveal what had happened that morning with a horrified expression.
“Your Excellency Mora, we have been discovered by an agent posing as a follower, who is likely also tracking you.”
The two shadows uttered a series of incomprehensible whispers, but it was certain that one of them was Mora.
The maidservant listened intently to Mora's speech, and as she listened, she suddenly grabbed a fallen feather, put it in her mouth, and swallowed it, an action like a priest drinking holy soup.
Then, the tracking footage abruptly changed, turning eerily black.
Lisa quickly traced the source of the signal and found that something wriggling was lazily lying on the camera, obscuring the view.
This thing greedily sucked every part of the servant's body, from head to toe, and even his brain.
Soon, the room became very quiet.
The female attendant is likely still alive, as the video is still moving forward, but her pace and rhythm are completely different from before.
Finally, a mirror appeared ahead. The servant in the mirror had the face of a petite woman, but a wild beard grew on his chin.
She shouted in front of a door engraved with a pentagram: "Paris, Nopoona, Canalit."
It's impossible to confirm if this is the name of a celestial being; in any case, the signal was completely cut off after she entered that door.
Lisa has already written down these three names.
Throughout the entire tracking process, Richie did not interfere, as if he himself wanted to see what was going on.
Billy grabbed the trench coat he had thrown on the chair, wrapped it around himself, and said to Lisa, “Darling, I think we still have to make a trip to Hyperion. There’s a good chance Mora will be there.”
Lisa gave a look, indicating that Richie was still there.
Of course, Billy knew that Richie hadn't left yet; he deliberately wanted Richie to know that a determined agent wouldn't back down halfway.
Mia also put on a trench coat.
Needless to say, Lisa and Elsa would naturally follow wherever the head of the family went.
As for Richie, he almost immediately realized that he could never convince this group. He found a booklet on the table, wrote in black ink on the first page, turned to the next page and drew a few more lines, and finally, after thinking for a moment, added a few words on the third page.
After finishing writing, not wanting to say goodbye to the four of them, I quietly left the arrow tower.
Mia discovered the handwritten booklet, recognizing Richie's handwriting, which she knew best.
"Look, this is what Richie left behind!"
"Oh, that's strange. Did he eat a leftover burger today? He didn't even say goodbye when he left."
There's a reason he doesn't want to talk to us!
Something was definitely off about this. Billy grabbed the booklet, flipped through a couple of pages, and suddenly realized what was going on.
The first page reads: "There is a mole within the alliance. Someone is preventing me from informing you. My stand-in workbench has been bugged. If you insist on taking action, please be careful."
The second page reads: If you encounter any difficulties, look for Irencel.
The third page reads: Also, beware of those in high positions.