Chapter 164 - ROGUE MASTER (2)

Terms used in this chapter:

Lulupi, Lulupang, Luluyap?– a reference to Saint Tail again, but only for the Korean dub. These are the lines Saint Tail says when she magically transforms in the Korean dub. The English and Japanese dubs have Saint Tail only saying ‘one, two, three.’

Mission Clear?– a line usually seen in games when you’ve completed a given mission or goal.

Lloyd, a 23 year old man working as a guard for the royal capital, stared at the night sky in a daze.

He had no choice but to do that.

The moonlight illuminated the night sky.

And an angel descended as she headed for the roof.

The angel was real and not a metaphor.

A beautiful and pretty woman who could only be seen in fantasies and dreams had widely spread her wings of light.

Therefore, Lloyd and the other 40 members of the Royal Capital Guard, the 30 private guards of Count Macan, and the 30 armed personnel sent by the Black Moon, all looked at the angel.

None of them thought of sounding the alarm or shouting.

A few seconds passed.

The angel finally landed on the roof and brightly smiled, and even though half of her face was covered by a black butterfly mask, Lloyd unknowingly blushed and was entranced.

And it wasn’t just Lloyd.

Everyone present regardless of age or sex were fascinated by the beauty of the angel for some time.

‘Wha-what’s wrong with them?’

Cordelia was rather embarrassed and blinked her eyes, and the only one who could answer her, Jude, was hugging her from behind so she couldn’t make eye contact with him.

So Cordelia decided to just act instead of worrying about it.

“Lulupi, Lulupang.”

As she recited the strange chant Jude taught her, Cordelia widely spread out her arms and transformed into a witch instead of an angel. She used her telekinetic power to scatter dozens of pink dynamite in the air.

The dynamite flew in all directions.

Only then did Lloyd and the guards came to their senses.

“Eh?”

“Ah?”

“Ah?!”

They belatedly screamed, but it was too late. Cordelia cheerfully smiled and said the last chant.

“Lulu~yap!”

And she flicked her fingers.

The dynamites ignited at the same time.

“Dodge!”

“Get down!”

Some of the royal capital guards who had guarded the mansion of the first victim, Viscountess Venus, shouted as quick as lightning. And the sound of a real lightning swallowed up all their cries.

Babababababang!

A series of explosions rang as one.

Pink smoke engulfed the entire mansion of Count Macan.

And a huge bang sounded again.

The roar this time was created by Jude’s skill and not from the dynamites.

Baaaaaaaaaang!

When Jude’s fist hit the roof, dozens of cracks appeared like a spider’s web.

Cordelia jumped back and Jude clenched his fist again. He struck the center of the cracks!

Baaang!

There was a roar.

The cracks broke and a hole of with a diameter of 3 meters was created on the roof, but it did not stop there.

The energy of the black dragon from Jude’s fist pierced through the 4th?floor.

Baaaang! Baaaaang! Baaaang!

It pierced through the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st floors!

After the energy of the black dragon broke through the floors, Jude and Cordelia passed through the 4th?floor and landed on the 3rd?floor.

They raised their heads and widely smiled.

“Good evening?”

“Nice to meet you.”

They greeted those who stood on the third floor.

Nine knights equipped with splendid armor were with a typical potbellied noble dressed in very luxurious clothes.

“Get them!”

The potbellied noble, Count Macan, cried out, and the knights drew their swords at once. But Jude created a golden whirlwind.

Twenty-Four Gale Steps.

The whirlwind formed.

Bang!

Jude disappeared.

He became a gale that swept through the knights, and thunderous sounds filled the room.

Babababang!

Thunder roared.

Seven knights collapsed in one lightning strike. The two remaining knights failed to properly respond to the scene that happened so quickly, and Jude disappeared again. In an instant, he was behind the knights and poured out attacks on them.

“Ack!”

The two knights fell without even being able to scream properly.

Count Macan was so surprised that he stepped back, and Cordelia opened the door with telekinesis.

She threw dynamites as she looked at the large hallway and the guards there.

And Luluyap.

Baaang! Baaaang! Baaang!

The dynamites this time had explosive power unlike the previous ones that were close to smoke bombs.

The ceiling and walls of the hallway collapsed at the force of the terrifying explosion, and left the room with Count Macan in it isolated from the mansion.

“Problem solved.”

Reinforcements would never come through the hallway since the hallway was now gone.

The satisfied Cordelia made a V-sign while Jude thought that Cordelia was right.

“You’re a real rogue. Not a thief.”

An armed robbery.

No, he thought that she was a terrorist at this point.

“Hello, Count Macan.”

“Eeek! Eek!”

As Cordelia waved her hand to say hello, Count Macan stepped back and fell on his butt. And Jude spoke.

“He’s an imposter.”

“He is?”

A double who pretended to be Count Macan.

The real Count Macan was elsewhere, and Jude knew where that place was.

“Praise be to JudeWiki.”

When Cordelia cheerfully said that, Jude smiled and then punched the stomach of the trembling Count Macan imposter to knock him out.

“See you later.”

“Take care of yourself.”

“You too.”

Jude grinned as he carried the Count Macan imposter on his shoulders and then went out of the window.

It was to give Cordelia enough time.

“The count has been kidnapped!”

“Get him!”

“Shoot the arrows! The arrows!”

Cordelia ignored the loud sounds outside the window and moved the books on the bookshelf as Jude had told her.

Pull the red book at the top and the blue book in the middle.

“Bingo.”

Cordelia suddenly spoke what Jude habitually said, and she took a step back as the bookshelf opened with a mechanical sound, revealing a secret door.

“Count Macan! I came to pick up the things that I notified you about!”

Cordelia loudly shouted towards the inside of the room before she stepped in. As soon as she entered the dark room, she left everything to her instincts.

Gale Steps.

The Bayer family’s footwork techniques that she learned from Jude.

Cordelia’s body seemed to lean sideways as if she was falling, but she moved like the wind. She easily dodged the sword aiming for the top of her head and threw the detonating cord from her waist at the same time.

Shwaaak!

The detonating cord moved like a living snake and wrapped itself around the neck and torso of the man who had slashed at her.

The man was probably an assassin from the Black Moon.

Dressed in black clothes, the man moved his hand to remove the detonating cord, but Cordelia pushed away the man with telekinesis and shook her head. She pulled out a short detonating cord and threw it high so that the man could see it before she triggered the ignition spell.

Baaang!

The detonating cord exploded in the air.

The firepower was not that strong, but it was still an explosion.

Cordelia looked at the detonating cord around the man’s neck and torso, and the man understood it. He calmly put down his sword and knocked himself out by hitting his head against the wall.

“I like smart men.”

Cordelia quietly spoke before she turned around and threw a detonating cord at the same time.

Shwaaak!

Like a living snake again.

The detonating cord moved across the air and wrapped around the neck of a man who was about to ambush her. Cordelia then pulled the detonating cord and threw the man to the floor.

And she stared again.

Bang!

The man knocked himself out by slamming his head on the floor, and Cordelia began to think about the training of the Black Moon’s assassins.

But it was only for a moment.

The last secret door, located beyond the secret passage, burst open and a big man appeared.

“Kuoooo!”

The man loudly shouted and charged at Cordelia without saying anything else. Cordelia hurriedly tried to pull a new detonating cord, but the man was quicker than she expected.

He immediately lowered his posture as if he was crawling on the floor, and attempted a powerful tackle towards Cordelia’s slender waist.

Bang!

The man crashed into the wall with a loud sound.

Cordelia should have originally been caught by the man and slammed into the wall, screaming and vomiting blood, but that did not happen.

“Who are you trying to hug?!”

Having avoided the man’s tackle with Fairy Steps, Cordelia turned around and fired her magic while using the Spell’s Echo and Double Casting at the same time.

“4 consecutive <Freeze>!”

Shaa! Shaa! Shaa! Shaa!

Two <Freeze> spells froze both legs of the man to the floor and made his feet be bound to the floor.

This alone completely stopped the man’s movement, but Cordelia remained vigilant.

She had an expression of extreme disgust, but she couldn’t help it, so she clenched her fist and exerted her telekinetic power on a specific body part of the man.

“Aaaah!”

A body part where no amount of training could build up its defense.

The man fainted after screaming once, and the extremely disgusted Cordelia wiped her hands with her clothes before she stepped inside the secret door.

“Hello, Count Macan. This is Rogue Master, Pink Bomb.”

Cordelia slightly grabbed the hem of her skirt and bowed, and the real Count Macan stepped back and cursed.

“What Rogue Master bullsh*t! You’re not a thief! You’re a bombing wizard!”

“Well, it actually is like what you said.”

Cordelia shrugged before she moved her hands and threw the detonating cord. The detonating cord that was like a living snake moved with her telekinetic power and wrapped around Count Macan.

“Hey! Do you know who’s behind me?! The Lord Protector will not forgive you!”

“Yes, I know.”

“Yeah what?! Do my words sound ridiculous?!”

“Well…you don’t need to be awake because I know everything anyway, okay?”

“What?”

Cordelia kicked Count Macan in ‘that place’ instead of answering him, and Count Macan passed out without even being able to scream.

“Well…anyway, problem solved.”

She was a bit uncomfortable, but she still solved the problem.

Cordelia shrugged and began to pack the necessary items into the expansion bag.

Dangerous drugs and artworks that were known to be stolen or disappeared.

And even a secret ledger handwritten by Count Macan.

‘Did he say that this was the most important?’

She honestly questioned where and how they would use the ledger, but she took it because Jude was knowledgeable in this.

I did well on my own.

“Shall we go then?”

Cordelia lightly moved her hand as she took the bag and left the secret room.

Hearing that there were still loud sounds outside the window, she thought that Jude seemed to be doing well.

‘I have to quickly join him.’

Jude could have gotten hurt because of a mistake.

Cordelia urgently moved as she spread her angel wings and flew up. She stepped out of the 4th?floor’s roof and looked at the ground.

The Count Macan imposter was hang like laundry on the wall, and most of the guards were gathered on the sides of the wall.

And a black wind blew from behind her.

“You’re here?”

“Oh, I’m here.”

Cordelia thought that she was worried for nothing, and felt a strange sense of relief before she immediately took out the Moon Crystal.

“I took the treasures of Count Macan!”

As if to match Cordelia’s cry, Jude took out several paintings from the bag and displayed it to everyone.

These were the treasures that they had informed in advance in their notice card.

“I thank Selene for allowing me to be a righteous thief again.”

Jude and Cordelia simultaneously bowed in a theatrical manner, and the moonlight shone like a spotlight to them.

Once the moonlight disappeared, it would be Mission Clear.

The second heist of the Rogue Master would be a huge success too.

But it was at that moment.

Cordelia suddenly turned her head to the side. Jude also noticed it a step later. He looked at the same place as Cordelia, and at that moment, an iron whip flew in with a snake-like movement.

At that moment.

Cordelia felt it with her senses.

Jude made his calculation.

So the two moved instead of relying on the Moon Crystal’s space leap.

Shwaaaaak!

Cordelia used her telekinetic power to twist the trajectory of the iron whip.

However, the iron whip flew too fast, and its power was also strong. She couldn’t twist it completely.

But that was enough. Jude grabbed Cordelia by the waist and moved forward. His Black Dragon’s Ascent further shook the already twisted trajectory of the iron whip.

Bababang!

The tip of the iron whip hit the roof.

Since it was filled with a strong energy, an explosion occurred, and the roof was broken. Cordelia then saw the owner of the iron whip – no, a very long and plain sword.

She was a beautiful woman with red hair the color of blood.

Cordelia knew her.

And so did Jude.

“Scarlet?!”

One of the future four great swordmasters.

She was the great granddaughter of the 5th?Rogue Master and aimed to be the contemporary Rogue Master, but whichever route the player took, she would become a fierce enemy that they had to fight in the middle to late stages of the game.

She kicked the ground.

Thanks to the Rogue Master’s treasure, Wings of Speed, she narrowed the distance within a moment.

And Jude moved forward. He released a move from the Supreme Sun Divine Art instead of attacking or flying.

“The Sun’s Sphere!”

Jude had called it that even though it had a separate official name, and the attack’s effect was clear.

A tremendous amount of light flashed from Jude’s forehead in an instant.

The light was so intense that even the guards who saw it from a distance were blinded too.

“Ugh!”

Scarlet screamed as she rolled on the roof because she had faced the light from the front and was within a short distance from it.

Right after that.

Jude thought.

Why is Scarlet here?

Wasn’t she in the empire now?

And why did she attack us?

Did the appearance of a new Rogue Master provoke her?

In any case, those were questions for later.

It was not something he should think about for now.

“Don’t run away!”

Scarlet loudly shouted as she stood up. She immediately opened her eyes and looked straight ahead to verify if that attack was from magic.

She met eyes with Jude.

Not with Jude and Cordelia, but with Jude only.

“We’re not running away.”

A voice came from nearby right after she opened her eyes.

Scarlet hurriedly looked behind her but it was too late.

Cordelia used Gale Steps to get behind Scarlet as she wrapped the detonating bomb on Scarlet’s neck and whispered again.

“Why should we run away?”

We’re stronger than you.

You’re going to be one of the four great swordmasters in the future, but you’re not a great swordmaster now.

Moreover, this is a chance to get the remaining treasures of the Rogue Master!

Cordelia gazed at Scarlet’s red eyes with her blue eyes before she smiled. She pulled the detonating cord which choked Scarlet.