Don't confiscate my citizenship

 Chapter 744 The confrontation between Epatia and Thalia’s sisters

A full moon hangs high over the port of Hasel, and the cold moonlight shines on the calm river, glowing with reddish dots.

This is a moated port located on the southeast side of the capital Brilda.

Far away from Hasel Port is the stronghold of the Brilda Mafia, which is apparently a company with a registered license.

 “Chief.”

The buildings on the shore stood in the night. A few figures appeared at the port, passed through the guards of the mafia elite, and arrived in front of the tallest black building under the salute of the mafia.

“Within one hour, do not allow any cadres to enter the second floor of Hasel Building and wait outside.”

The leader was wearing a dark black coat, and his hood trembled slightly in the night wind. The shadow covered most of his face, only revealing a pair of cold eyes.

"yes."

His steps were light and agile. With him taking the lead, no mafia dared to hesitate. He led a few people through the dark shadows cast by the buildings, and it was almost impossible to catch his figure.

　　When a ray of moonlight from the floor-to-ceiling window illuminated him again, his resolute and handsome face was finally revealed, with his dark gray hair hanging down in front of his forehead.

 Professor Landry and his two students followed Barton.

 They put on the animal masks that Barton gave them.

 In order to prevent other mafia members from seeing Professor Landry coming to their mafia base.

After walking a few steps inside the building, there were no more mafia figures.

Barton quickened his pace. Inside the building, the dark yellow floor lamp cast a long shadow behind them.

“This is the Hasel Building, which is also the main building of the Brilda Mafia. Only the leader and cadres and some authorized members can enter.”

Barton led Lanqi up one level at a time.

The interior decoration of Hasel Building is more classical, mostly using black and brown stone bricks, and has the style of a century-old high-end hotel.

 “I will find a way to convince your boss.”

Lanchi understood that Barton was telling him about the concealment here on the one hand, and the danger of Hassell House on the other hand—

  Whatever accident happens, no one else will know about it.

 This is a hidden area where there is no place to die.

"The person you are going to meet later... is very manic right now, and there is a high probability that he will not give you a chance to speak."

 Barton told Landry as he walked based on his understanding of the boss.

He didn't have a bad impression of this reasonable professor from St. Creation's Abbey. At least a man who was willing to break into the mafia hinterland alone for the sake of his students couldn't be a bad guy.

 And most importantly, he has the will to fight against the vampires.

“That means I probably have to block her first wave of attacks?”

 Lanci analyzed such an answer.

Meeting and starting a fight may be a form of exchange of force, but it is also a test.

“Yes, otherwise she will probably attack your throat directly, making you unable to speak and disturbing her thinking.”

Barton agreed.

"Well…"

This method of hitting someone and covering their mouth first always seemed a bit familiar to Lan Qi.

"what's on your mind?"

Thalia asked, placing an invisible hand on his neck.

“Could you please put your hands down before you speak, Master?”

 Lanchi has no doubts.

Soon, Barton led them to his office and stopped in front of a wall-like bookshelf.

His hands adjusted the positions of the books on the bookshelf in an unknown order. With a slight clicking sound from the metal collision, the seemingly normal bookshelf slowly opened, revealing the depth hidden behind it. Corridor.

 “You two ladies, you can stop now.”

Barton turned around and said to Elsa and Ursula.

 Continuing down, there is an area that he and Landry can enter. The two students can just stay in this safe chief's office.

 He didn't mind letting them see the mafia door.

 Because the two of them are destined to have only two endings today, either leaving smoothly with Landry, or staying in the Brilda Mafia with Landry.

 “Brother, please be safe.”

Elsa thought for a while and handed the little black cat back to her brother.

 She still wanted to keep her brother as safe as possible.

 The cat boss hesitated and looked in both directions.

 Lanchi should need it very much when going to dangerous places, and it also needs it to protect Elsa.

“No matter what happens next, I will try my best to ensure their safety.”

 Barton assured Ranch exactly.

 “Well, thank you, Mr. Button.”

Lanqi nodded.

Thalia judged that Barton was telling the truth just now, and told him in Lanqi's mind.

 “Meow, here I come, meow.”

Upon seeing this, the cat boss also jumped into Lan Qi's shadow.

 Since Elsa is safe, she has nothing to worry about. It is safer to drive the Ranch body.

“Let’s talk about things in peace, Professor. I’m here and Elsa won’t be bored.”

Ursula slapped the back of her hand and said to Professor Landry.

 “Well, I’ll see you later.”

 Lanqi nodded.

Barton has also walked towards the passage inside the bookshelf.

Lanci followed Barton into the tunnel without hesitation. The forbidden magic steel on the inside of the bookshelf quietly closed behind him, as if it had never been opened.

The interior of the corridor is dimly lit, with a flickering light every few meters emitting a faint light.

There was an indescribable coldness in the air, as if they were coming to an ice cave.

Barton led Ranchi through this maze of underground passages with firm and swift steps, knowing this secret passage well.

 He turned confusing turns, passed several tightly closed doors of forbidden magic steel, and finally stopped in front of a silver-white elevator.

 “How strong is your boss?”

While Lan Qi was waiting, he inquired from the mafia leader Barton beside him.

 In Thalia's opinion, Barton Hall is already a very top Imperial man.

If he still remains in the military, he will be at least a major general and can pose a great threat to the Allies.

"Only in her, I can see a little hope of fighting against the vampires. Although it is slim, at least it is not zero."

 Barton replied calmly.

 He ​​placed his palms on the center control panel, and the helicopter opened with a creak. He took Professor Landry in. Without any operation, the helicopter began to close and descend rapidly.

Every few meters down, a white light will flash on the walls around the elevator, illuminating Barton's stern face in the elevator box.

　　　…”

Lanqi stood in the elevator compartment and stopped talking.

 It might be rude of him to inquire any further.

 Button, who has always been very talkative, did not reveal his boss's strength to him. This was due to Button's loyalty to his boss.

But Lan Qi also made some inferences accordingly.

To check and balance the Vampire Clan, you need at least eighth-level core combat power. If you don't even have the eighth-level core combat power, it will not pose a threat to the Vampire Clan at all.

Just like Barton is as strong as the seventh level, there are basically few opponents for him in the entire empire, but against the vampire forces, it is still like a worm shaking a tree.

So this boss who can make Barton willing to work for him has a high probability of having an eighth-level strength.

 It’s just that among the several widely different stalls in the eighth level, I don’t know which stall Barton’s boss is.

The elevator creaked as it fell, and the entire space began to sink continuously, as if it was about to fall into the deepest part of the earth's core.

Gradually, all the noise on the ground was completely cut off, leaving only a deathly silence and a small space that led nowhere.

When the elevator finally stopped, what came into view was a giant door made of pure white forbidden magic steel, exuding a chilling frost.

 The surface of the door is covered with space enchantment spells.

“You actually still have a space barrier?”

As far as Lan Qi knows, Blood Moon City is a space barrier, and ordinary physical methods cannot reach Blood Moon City at all.

The underground space barrier of the Mafia is obviously not as large as Blood Moon City, but being able to establish a space barrier is no longer something ordinary people can do.

 “It cost a lot of money.”

Barton seemed to be accustomed to all this. He took out a crescent-shaped secret key from his arms and inserted it into a hidden groove beside the door.

The mechanical transmission roared low, and the thick magic-forbidden steel slowly opened, and the dazzling white light instantly filled the entire space, making people feel dizzy.

When his eyes finally adapted to the sudden light, a large-scale underground palace appeared in front of Lan Qi's eyes. The cold air hit his face, and a deathly silence enveloped the entire space, even his breathing was frozen.

 Pure white walls and floors reflect light under the ice blue light, making it seem like an alien space cut off from the world.

The silver stars on the dome are flowing, and it seems like you can see the real starry sky from tens of thousands of meters away.

“Boss, Professor Landry is here.”

Barton leaned forward slightly and said.

 “Okay, you go out.”

Far away, in the center of the palace, a figure said.

Her face has illusion makeup, which reflects the angle of view like glass shards, making it impossible to see her true face clearly. The more you look directly at her face, the more dizzy you will feel. And her neck was filled with tattoo-like scarlet cracks, and lava-like magic veins flowed downwards, burning her skin.

　　　…”

Barton was originally going to say something, but a cold magic power quietly spread, and the woman in the distance exuded a frightening aura of violence, like a demon king from hell.

As soon as she looked over, Barton, who was about to speak, became silent under such pressure, unwilling to disturb the boss who seemed to be in a bad mood today.

He warned Professor Landry with his eyes to be careful, and quickly walked out of the underground palace space, and the forbidden magic steel immediately roared and closed.

 In the underground space.

As if she noticed something strange about the visitor, the woman slowly turned her head, her red-brown eyes like two bottomless pools of stagnant water, filled with a heart-stopping chill.

The moment their eyes met, the cat boss in the shadow across the space felt like his soul was being sucked into the red-brown abyss, from which he would never be able to escape.

It felt that its consciousness was rapidly collapsing, and boundless fear followed it, almost completely engulfing it.

The cat boss endured the dizziness of falling into the abyss, holding on to his paws, trying to maintain the last trace of clarity.

At the same time, Lan Qi, who was standing opposite the woman, looked as normal and was not shaken by this terrifying aura at all.

 “The two of us are the only ones left…”

The figure's lips raised slightly, revealing a creepy smile.

Even her magic voice has a spiritual effect, making people drowsy.

"I…"

Lan Qi was about to speak.

The next second, a crimson flame suddenly rose under her feet, like the claws of an ancient demon god, dancing crazily in mid-air.

Hand of **** roared out at an incredible speed, swallowing up Lan Qi's figure in the blink of an eye and holding it tightly.

 “Don’t fight, don’t fight!”

Lan Qi was surrounded by a wind barrier with no special effects. Isolated by the strong wind and brilliance, the flames did not harm him.

 “Immune field?”

　　The silver-haired woman muttered to herself in confusion.

She had thought that Professor Landry's sixth-level strength might be acting, but she never thought that this guy could trigger an eighth-level defensive spell, so she just hid it as a sixth-level one.

 It is indeed a big fish.

 Correspondingly, she also determined the level of her opponent.

On the surface it looks like a sixth level, but it has a unique way to reach the seventh level of strength, and can use some stronger moves from time to time.

The magic power fluctuations she detected previously were far beyond the level of the sixth level.

 But its body image has many limitations, and its magic output is limited. There must be a limit!

 The frost and mist suddenly swept over, with the silver-haired woman at the center, roaring wildly in the underground space.

Her figure turned into a dark afterimage in an instant, and she rushed straight towards Lan Qi at a speed that ordinary people could not match. A harsh wind sounded in the air, and she was almost strangled by Lan Qi's neck in the next second.

Although the strength of her magic power was overwhelming, she obviously felt that this opponent did not necessarily require her to use magic.

Even a battle of strength is enough to decapitate the opponent, causing blood to splatter on the spot.

At the critical moment, Lan Qi remained silent.

A barrier woven by mental power formed in front of him, facing the silver-haired woman's attack head-on.

Two forces collided violently in mid-air, bursting out invisible magic sparks.

To the silver-haired woman's surprise, Landry's mental barrier perfectly neutralized her attack and launched a counterattack. The two of them were deadlocked, and neither of them gave an inch.

 “Your spiritual magic is too weak!”

The silver-haired woman sneered. Using mental magic in front of her was undoubtedly a small feat.

 In a blink of an eye, she used similar inverse calculation principles to dismantle the mental barriers layer by layer and counterattacked with mental magic.

 “Am I weak?”

Talia in Lanqi's consciousness heard a trace of surprise in her eyes, but it was quickly replaced by suspense.

This guy seemed to be humiliating her. He liked to use the least good method to defeat the opponent's best method. This kind of arrogant guy annoyed her the most.

Even if she encounters a difficult opponent, Lan Qi still tells her not to fight her opponent as a mortal enemy, but to find a way to calm the opponent down. But this is a matter of dignity, and Talia doesn't want to let it go even an inch.

 “Wait, can we talk about it?”

 Lan Qi felt like he had met a crazy woman.

This guy doesn't listen to anyone at all.

 Just like an angry Thalia!

 “I don’t care who you are, as long as you become my slave, it will be better than anything else!”

Before she finished speaking, a magic power surged around the silver-haired woman that made the ground tremble. The entire space was dyed dark black, and countless bottomless cracks spread like spider webs.

Immediately afterwards, black cursed flames spewed out from the ground, and the silver-haired woman controlled these strange black flames to wreak havoc around Lan Qi, like an evil ghost seeking his life, trying to burn him to ashes.

 …

 On the ground at the same time.

Even Elsa and Ursula in the office on the upper floor of Hassel stood up and felt the hairs on their bodies stand up.

This kind of terrifying magic power fluctuation is like two eighth-level people fighting directly below them!

 Even if they are isolated by countless layers of restrictions, their sense of danger can still penetrate them.

The mafia downstairs have all entered alert mode.

 “Boss, are you taking action?”

 They felt the earth shake with astonishment.

 Hundreds of meters underground in this river port building.

"Meow meow!"

 The cat boss is holding his head in the shadow.

It feels like Lan Qi shouldn’t have come in.

 If the fight continues, it feels that it cannot win at all.

This silver-haired woman is too terrifying, at least stronger than Perlman, and there is no way she can fight against her just by relying on her state of possession.

Thalia's entity quickly solidified in front of Lanqi, blocking the blow for him and about to release her own ultimate move.

 “Curse magic?”

The silver-haired woman sneered, her psychedelic voice dripping with disdain.

The movements of the two people became more and more mirror images, and even the magic power began to resonate and intertwine.

Orange feathers of light dispersed in the silver-white palace, and a girl who looked like a fairy in a flower had already settled in the air.

Just when their magic power reached its peak and they were about to collide head-on.

"Huh?"

 Two voices speaking in unison.

 The magic power approaching the realm of gods slowly stagnated from a condensed state until it dissipated with some hesitation.

The silver-haired woman seemed to be trying to decide whether this was an illusion.

If this was an illusion, I'm afraid the only thing she could think of was [Falling Gentle Land].

However, in the Fall of Gentleness Township, the victim will not easily suspect that this is the fall of Gentleness Township. There is a contradiction in logic.

That powerful magic power, beautiful face, and dignified temperament.

There is also an aura that is different from the past, possessing the coercion of the devil.

no doubt.

 She has only one identity.

"elder sister…?"

The silver-haired woman opened her eyes in disbelief, looking at the figure, her eyes gradually filled with mist.

Her eyes filled with murderous intent were glazed over, and no one knew what she was thinking.

 Until an unknown number of seconds passed, she opened her mouth slightly, but did not dare to speak a complete sentence.

From the moment her pupils began to reflect the figure of the gray-haired witch, she could no longer take her eyes away from Thalia's face.

 “I, I’m not, I don’t want to hurt you...”

The silver-haired woman's previously prepared murderous intent had completely dissipated, and instead she spoke anxiously and fearfully.

 With this grey-haired, golden-eyed woman in front of me, even if I haven’t seen her for a hundred years and my memory has faded, I will still never forget her closest look in the world!

Even though she didn’t understand why her arrogant sister was in such a state and would engrave her soul on a human being, she did believe that this was her sister.

 The hostility when she looked at Lanqi had turned into gratitude and closeness, as if she were seeing a family.

Talia couldn't be fooled either. She subconsciously tugged at the corner of Lan Qi's clothes, as if asking him what was going on. However, Lan Qi also spread his hands and smiled, as if he wanted her to confirm it herself. .

He relaxed and deliberately ignored the matter, probably telling Thalia: It seems that I have completed the commission you proposed to me when making the video recording of Kaliera, and the next step is to Check it yourself.

 “Iphatia?”

Thalia could not clearly see the face of the silver-haired woman, nor could she hear her true voice, but after the other party struck without reservation, the familiar magic power and moves were exactly the same as her own.

She could only call out the name tentatively.

"it's me."

The silver-haired woman no longer uses the magic voice, and the illusion on her face is shattered like a prism, taking off her disguise to reveal her true face.

 Her eyes were filled with tears of grievance.

"How will you be here?"

Thalia never expected that this mysterious boss hiding underground in the mafia was actually the sister Ifatiya she was looking for!

 Seeing her sister's body covered with blood-red scars, Thalia felt her heart tremble.

 She couldn't imagine what her lovely sister had suffered to become like this.

　　The moment Thalia looked at Iphatiya again.

"Sister, I miss you so much. You finally came to the Southern Continent to find me..."

Epatia rushed over and hugged Thalia, burying her head in her chest and crying bitterly.

 (End of this chapter)