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Beating Mastermind to Pulp

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Cardinal Lorenzo Salvatori was an event boss that appears in the main scenario of Christia. His true identity was a dark-element vampire, skilled in abilities related to his species. With the immense SP typical of top-class event bosses, he utilized dark-element skills such as Shadow Tail, Doppelgänger, Blind, and Rusven Mist, which he just demonstrated. However, he didn’t possess any truly powerful one-hit kill skills. Instead, his abilities primarily focus on debuffs and buffs through status changes, making the battles lengthy and quite troublesome.

“I anticipated you might try to escape by turning into mist. That’s why I asked Monica to block off all possible escape routes in advance.” (Harold)

“This Monica Ashton did an excellent job.” (Monica)

Monica stepped forward and gave a deep, respectful bow with a very smug look on her face.

She’s really good at provoking people.

“Of course, I also took various other countermeasures. So… what remains for you now is only despair.” (Harold)

I gave Christia, who was watching with great enjoyment, a knowing glance.

“Hehe, what’s wrong?” (Christia)

“No. Would you prefer him captured alive, or… dealt with here and now?” (Harold)

“That’s your choice, Your Highness Harold.” (Christia)

Good, I’ve got a verbal agreement, so I’ll do as I please. Since he only uses annoying status effect skills, I want to get rid of him quickly.

“…I want to ask Your Highness Harold.” (Lorenzo)

“Yes?” (Harold)

“I asked you to bring the Saintess to this warehouse this morning. How could you have prepared so thoroughly? Moreover, knowing even my secret skills, which no one should know, is strange, don’t you think?” (Lorenzo)

“Do I need to answer that? Just disappear already.” (Harold)

At my signal, Xandra, Monica, and Carla moved in unison to finish him off before he could use any more unnecessary skills.

“Damn it! [Blind]!” (Lorenzo)

The warehouse was instantly plunged into darkness by Lorenzo’s skill, but for an assassin like Monica, it was nothing. From the sounds, it seemed he was struck by Monica’s attack.

“Damn it!? It’s disadvantageous to be in the dark!” (??)

So, Lorenzo quickly dispelled the effect of Blind. I didn’t expect that activating the skill would make even Lorenzo himself invisible.

What a useless skill. Oh, but thinking it over, in Enhaz, using Blind also lowered Lorenzo’s hit rate. So that’s what it was.

“Then! [Doppelgänger]!” (Lorenzo)

Lorenzo tried to counter by creating shadow copies of himself.

“Hehe… Are you stupid? There are three of us, you know?” (Alexandra)

“What!?” (Lorenzo)

“[Direct Drive]!” (Carla)

“Wha!? Gwaaaahhh!?” (Lorenzo)

Distracted by Xandra’s chuckles, Lorenzo was hit from behind by Carla’s ultimate move, [Direct Drive], and was blasted into the wall along with his shadow copies.

“Ugh… Ungh… How could I, of all people, be so thoroughly outmatched…!?” (Lorenzo)

“Of course. The moment you presented your plan, everything was already in His Highness Harold’s hands.” (Alexandra)

“G… gah…!” (Lorenzo)

Xandra stomped on Lorenzo and delivered a fatal thrust with Balmung to his neck. Despite being a powerful event boss, Lorenzo was utterly crushed and turned to ash. It was quite tragic, really.

“…We didn’t get to do anything.” (Casparleague)

“Don’t say that.” (Harold)

We, in the form of the Jet-Black Shield Casparleague, had been ready to protect Christia but ended up just watching.

“Your Highness Harold, thank you. Thanks to you, we managed to eliminate the pests infesting the Holy Kingdom.” (Christia)

“Oh, no trouble at all.” (Harold)

I waved off Christia’s respectful bow as if it were nothing. Well… from the moment Lorenzo approached me with this plan, I had been working hard to completely ruin the scenario. I had asked Monica to eliminate Lorenzo’s henchmen and turned the situation to our advantage and made sure to coordinate with Christia and Carla behind the scenes without Lorenzo noticing.

Yep, I did my best.

By the way, my contact with Christia was initiated by her, not me. After the match, she made a formal apology, though I ensured that no one knew about it. Anyway, that was a story for another time. For the time being, there were other things to do.

“Well, everything is finished now, so we’ll be leaving.” (Harold)

“Hehe. Yes, leave the rest to me.” (Christia)

Leaving Christia, who was chuckling to herself, behind, we exited the warehouse through the hidden passage.

Why? Because I intended to leave the cleanup of this incident entirely to Wilfred and the others.

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