Kidnapped Dragons (KR Web Novel)

‘Your command, my lord.

Open the door.

‘My loyalty to my lord.

The destroyed fissure of the masquerade was reopened.

Melissia Masquerade, the Lairs end-of-the-year event came to an end.

The raid team was in a state of shock.

For an unknown reason, the fissure had been destroyed and a different fissure reappeared instead. Everyone was aware of how different logics applied in fissures and dungeons but it came as a different shock altogether when it directly correlated with their lives.

In doubt, Lair organised an exploration team after the event.

“Sir. Theres a report that they found something at B24 of the 39th room. They found… huh?”

“…”

“Theyre saying there was a corpse hanging in the sky!”

“Dont worry.”

“Ah, its Professor Wei Yan of the Azure Dragon study group…”

“Whatever mate. Just clean it up and leave.”

“Sir? What do you mean?”

“Thats what the higher ups are saying.”

The captain was clearly aware of the fact that their team was just for show, for the outsiders to see. Although he was filled with unease and doubt, they didnt create a fuss out of it. Since the boss was dead, the dungeon will be closed in a few days along with the truth.

After receiving the report from Minamoto, Lair described the raid differently.

The moment a problem occurred with the fissure, the raid team immediately halted the raid and followed the emergency regulations.

There were close to no casualties from cadets, guards and Lair staff members. Instead of focusing on theunidentifiable disaster, Lair spread news of the excellent steps taken in an emergency situation.

In this era natural disasters were common. With the way the news reports had been written, people showed less interest in the emergency situation itself.

“The AT team, that has misused the artifact during the prior investigation, is responsible for…”

Claiming it to be due to an improper dungeon exploration beforehand, Lair fired several innocent staff members,

“That fissure as big as a building suddenly started crumbling down…!”

And though the raid team had done nothing but stay still, they were still treated as victorious heroes.

“Woah, that was really close then.”

“Thank goodness…”

The entire world paying attention to Lair, was merely grateful for the young superhumans of their countries coming out safe and unscathed. What had happened inside wasnt revealed.

Just like that, the lights of the masquerade went out.

*

Meanwhile, inside the airshipGuardian.

“…”

[Shadow of an Archduke (SS)], which had discarded its female mask, sat down on the deck and gazed down at the world. The wind felt cold.

It had been a while since he had ordered an espresso but he was only able to drink it now because of several sudden commands from Yu Jitae.

Sip.

Due to the passing of time, the coffee tasted cold.

‘…

Wei Yan was dead,

The undetectables plan had been ruined,

Ysayle Khalifa the disaster-rank, had lost half of her power,

And the catastrophe-ranked Noah had died.

If this was changed to numbers, it was like the total power level of the undetectables being reduced by 20%. Driving this much impact into the demons that were internationally spread across, was impossible if not for this event.

The necessary task had finally come to an end at a decent timing.

Melissia Masquerade would perhaps be the turning point of the seventh iteration.

How would the undetectables, who has parasitic roots inside Lair, react to this? How would the demons move past this point? The clone who shared portions of Yu Jitaes memories, drew a rough image in his head.

Demons knew how to bide their time.