Magus: Rise of the Darkness Empress

The winner of the interrogation session was both Weiss and Peria. Weiss had managed to get the information that she wanted in less than five minutes with her extremely cruel methods and the Peria had also managed to do exactly that but she had needed more than 20 minutes do so.

The only one who had failed here was Elise. Even though she had also tried to be as cruel as possible, she had still failed.

And the reason for her failure was because she was too tough and her target had passed away not long after the start of the interrogation.

Elise was sad about this outcome. As this was a big day for her, Elise was way too excited at the current moment and had completely misjudged how much punishment her target was capable of taking.

So she took this experience as a learning opportunity and calm her excited mind down. It was an important night for her and she did not want to ruin it because she was too hot blooded.

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Even though Elise had not managed to get any extra information, that was not a problem as Weiss and Peria had milked the other two dry of any information that they had to offer.

So now, the ladies had a good idea about the layout of the castle, where the lord of the castle lived, his number of troops and guards and even about a hidden passage that was only known to the loyal retainers with strength in or above the realm of high grade apprentice knights.

So even with all this information in hand if the ladies failed to take down the castle with their current level of strength then that would be unbelievable level of stupidity from them. And Weiss, Peria and Elise were definitely not that stupid.

With these informations in mind, the operation of taking down count Dorek started.

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A secret passage that granted an easy and direct access to the inner part of the castle was located in a very hidden location. And this place was being guarded by only a single person.

One would think that a location as important as this would have more security but that was not possible. If more men were to guard this place, the secrecy of this location would become much harder to maintain.

For that reason, even though this place had only one guard, he was a powerful peak level apprentice knight. Under the official knights, he was the strongest piece that count Dorek had.

But this valuable piece had a very bad luck tonight. A storm of blood was approaching the count and unfortunately for him, he was on the way.

As he was keeping an eye on the surrounding, suddenly felt as if he heard a sound coming from his left side. As he was about to turn his head at that direction, a sword pierced his brain from the back of his head and he immediately died without understanding or noticing anything.

This had now became Weiss’s favourite method to kill instead of beheading someone. Beheading resulted in a lot of blood erupting and creating a mess. So this simple and straightforward method was more to her liking.

After killing this guard dog, there was no one left to prevent the ladies from entering the castle. They immediately used the secret passage and went inside it.

At the end of the passage, there was a door that was hidden behind a large painting. The room where this door was present, there were two guards always staying there to keep an eye on who was returning back through this passage.

As the door opened and the painting was moved away, the men looked at the door to see what had returned. But what came to their view was a face of a beautiful golden haired woman and light reflecting from a sharp blade.

Immediately the heads of two guards went flying and were caught by Elise in order to not make any noise. She had taken the task for getting rid of the guards here and she had done a very good job.

Elise was still stuck in the ways of beheading as getting the enemies head had always been seen as a great and brave thing by her family.

So she had definitely made a bit of a mess with blood and such. If the smell of this blood spread, that could create some problem.

So the ladies quickly started to clean the blood and the dead bodies. Fortunately, Weiss had some useful chemical which were good for task like this. So the body and the blood was taken care of in no time. Now other than a slightly metalic smell in the room, there was nothing to show that a murder had taken place here.

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After the clean up was done, the three ladies silently left the room. Then they went their separate ways to cover more ground. Weiss went alone while Elise and Peria stayed together. They believed in Weiss’s immense strength, so they accepted this proposition.

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Weiss hid her presence and started to investigate the castle thoroughly. As long as there was no need, Weiss did not kill anyone else. The only time when she killed was when someone was on her way. For example, was guarding the library where she wanted to go.

It was Elise and Peria’s responsibility to find the count in this castle. As it was her revenge, Elise wanted to do this by her own hands.

As for Weiss’s responsibility, it was to search the castle for any benefits that she could get and also to back the ladies up if something went wrong or something unexpected happened.

After returning from the magic castle ruins, Weiss needs and desires for money had went down. So instead, she was currently most interested in knowledge regarding various topic. That was why her first destination was the library and not the treasury.

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After separating from Weiss, Peria and Elise started to search for the count. With his powerful aura, as long as he did not have something to hide his aura, it should not be too difficult.

But he was no where in the areas where a noble should normally be. Then suddenly with her senses of a high level knight, Elsie sensed a decently strong aura coming from a wall.

She immediately understood that the count was currently in a hidden room and she immediately started to find a way to enter it.

It looked like the clock was ticking quite quickly for the unaware count.