Chapter 624: Entering enemy territory
Although the elders were in shock, wondering what she was supposed to have meant, they could do nothing but wait, for Sophia was nowhere to be seen in front of them.
Or maybe she was, but she was using their blind spots to walk.
.
They weren’t wrong to think so. Sophia was simply... making Art with her clairvoyance ability.
An ability that allows her to see one or a few seconds into the future when used in combat, but which can also predict, through dreams and visions, various situations far into the future.
That is her clairvoyance.
Sequential Clairvoyance.
With it, she only needed to see a small glimpse of the future to guess where the elders and the people in front of her would look. Then, she moved at high speed to where their gaze would not fall, thus making herself, in a way, invisible to their eyes.
Although they should actually be able to sense it, she finally managed to exceed 100,000 power a day ago, after killing numerous people on this border. Thanks to that, she finally obtained her last skill, the combat skill.
Some say that Heirs usually obtain their final ability at 60,000, others say at 90,000, and they are not wrong. Several Heirs obtain them when they reach those power milestones, but some, slightly special ones, do not obtain them until 100,000.
A perfect example of this is Sophia Murphy. Her new skill, combat, was amazing, allowing her to play with her clairvoyance and create art.
Thanks to that, she went unnoticed even though she was walking in front of a large army, in a wasteland where most of the terrain was a large dry plain with scattered rocks and a distant forest.
She moved across the plain for a while, playing with her opponents’ vision, not only with her skill, but also with the rocks on the ground. As she did so, she also moved toward the distant forest, and after an hour of fast walking, she reached the forest.
This allowed her to move more nimbly, and in less than 15 minutes, she had crossed the forest, which several people were monitoring. Suddenly, she was walking through a huge camp of many soldiers.
The chatter echoed in her ears, allowing her to see the future of many people in a short time and move accordingly at great speed without being noticed.
Among ordinary, high-ranking, powerful lieutenants, colonels, and even generals of these numerous armed forces, Sophia soon reached the main area, a huge border construction.
As the Blacksmith Kingdom had always remained neutral in every way, growing in wealth and technology, there was no need to build border walls or border towns for territorial defense, so they only had one enormous structure.
Perhaps they never thought they would ever use it, but it was where the leaders of this place were currently located. Generals and high-ranking military officers, including a Bloody Vampire General and several wealthy nobles.
When she arrived, Sophia couldn’t enter through the main gate; there were too many people, and she wasn’t really invisible.
’I’ll have to try to get in another way...’ She looked up at the walls and windows. It would be a good idea, but it would be difficult to know if she would be tracked.
’Buildings like this always have secret passageways. I’ll have to check it out, maybe I’ll get lucky.’ She decided to leave the windows for later, when she could check for secret passageways.
To do that, she needed to walk around the building and, since she had a hack, use it. She just needed to see a few seconds into the future of those who looked like they were trying to get in, in order to see if they would enter through special places, such as passageways or something other than the main door.
She had no luck in the first hour.
Nor in the second.
The third was even worse.
The fourth...
"Oh?" She saw something strange in the future, just three seconds ahead of her, involving a man who was near her.
The man didn’t notice her because she had put on a dark hood to hide herself and was playing with the darkness, and some shadows made by artificial light.
The man walked past her and entered a tent that had been standing next to her for quite some time. Only two people had come out of it, and they had gone back in. They were guards.
Sophia entered behind him, hiding behind him, and quickly hid between the curtains.
"Mr. Envoy-2, are you coming back in? I thought you had left for the capital." A man sitting at a desk was surprised by the new man’s arrival, who was dressed like a nobleman.
"I received new information while I was on my way. I’ve come to report."
"I see. Please come in." The man sitting, another standing, and one lying down all stood up, gently lifted the desk where the previous man had been working, and a tunnel, covered with a metal door, was below.
Sophia frowned. ’That desk is made of Ocul. Tsk, as expected of the richest and largest exporter of Ocul. They have so much Ocul that they can even make tables to hide secret places. No wonder I couldn’t find anything.’
Ocul is a special metal with slightly strange attributes. It is cold, created underwater in the depths, and has the peculiarity of being able to hide things from magical, spiritual, or any other type of perception that exists. Basically, its attribute is that any form of perception cannot perceive it.
It is a metal that, just by existing, is already hidden.
It has many uses, but because it is so difficult to obtain (since it is found deep underground beneath the water), not many people can afford it. However, places such as the treasure halls of kingdoms or clans are often covered with thin plates of this metal behind rock walls, making them imperceptible to the naked eye to a certain extent.
However, it is difficult to obtain and extremely expensive to purchase, so even the wealthiest clans do not have it in large quantities, making it uncommon. Seeing such a large desk made of that metal is ridiculous, even for Sophia.
Sophia soon saw the man entering through that tunnel.
Then they lowered the desk again to return to their "work." But then Sophia’s figure glowed behind them, and her sword glowed deep red from the blood of her victims as she decapitated them with a single blow, without making a sound.
She stuffed the corpses into her ring and grabbed the desk just before it hit the floor. The desk’s weight pulled her hand down slightly because that was another thing this metal had. It is said to be a metal that hates the strong, and when one of them grabs it, the weight of the metal increases unrealistically.
"Tsk." She had to put it away quickly to avoid injuring herself, as the weight was becoming unreal. While it had a limit on how much the weight would increase, she didn’t want to know that limit, as she wasn’t here for that.
After putting the desk away, she looked at the door below her and immediately launched herself into the tunnel.