Chapter: Chapter 388
Boom boom boom… Continuous explosions erupted in various corners of the building, attracting most people’s attention.
However, these explosions were only grand in scale. After the sounds of the explosions subsided and people calmed down, they quickly discovered that the explosions had not even shattered the building’s walls. The earth-shattering momentum was entirely special effects.
To think they believed the building was really going to collapse. It turned out to be just a mere show of force.
But upon reflection, it wasn’t impossible to understand. The security within the building was so tight that it was impossible for anyone to bring so many explosives upstairs, nor could anyone place them on each floor.
Compared to real explosives, special effect generators that only looked the part were easier to bring in. As long as they had the excuse of “these are my combat weapons,” heroes could bring some personal belongings from outside.
On the top floor of the building, there were no stairs leading here. There was only one path, which was the elevator located at the edge of the room. This elevator could only be used by high-ranking officials with the highest clearance.
The elevator only stopped at two floors: the top floor and the lowest floor. Only from the lowest floor could one take the elevator to the top floor.
To reach the lowest floor, one also needed a certain level of clearance, and the security checks before entering the lowest floor were much stricter than usual.
An almost foolproof security measure, Bai Ling thought as she sat cross-legged in the room.
Not far from her, a massive machine stood, operating calmly and expelling its power.
At the core of the machine, a crystalline lotus, unlike anything of this world, rotated slowly. It had colorful petals, with streams of light of various colors swirling around the layered petals, adding a captivating hue to this treasure.
This was a treasure created by humans using methods from a prophecy book, concentrating almost all the resources of the central city. With it, they could produce items that could suppress the power of deities.
And here, such items were not even needed. This lotus itself could weaken the power of deities by more than half.
Bai Ling had once brought a badge filled with the power of the Mist God here, and she discovered that if she carried that badge, she wouldn’t even be able to defeat an A-rank hero in this room.
The mist of the Mist God could not spread in this room; it could only extend a meter around Bai Ling. Even this one-meter range was enough for the power infused in the badge to be depleted in mere seconds.
This was an absolute forbidden zone for deities. Bai Ling could guarantee that if a true god invaded here, she would have enough confidence to keep that god here forever.
When it came to bullying weaker opponents, Bai Ling never failed.
The explosions from downstairs did not cause her to frown, because she knew it was just the prelude. The enemy had indeed infiltrated the building, but they would absolutely not be able to defeat the current guards in the building in a head-on confrontation.
If it were anywhere else, the heroes and the army in the building might not be able to defeat these powerful individuals from the Divine Throne. But here, in this building, Bai Ling had confidence in them.
How could members of the Divine Throne have no connection to gods? Was not most of their power derived from gods?
Therefore, here, those originally powerful forces would instead become a death sentence for those who used divine power.
The only question now was what method the infiltrators would use to reach her on the top floor.
The elevator could be ruled out first. It was impossible to have an inside informant on the lowest floor, as there had been no personnel entering or leaving that area in recent days, and only Bai Ling had used that route to get here.
The difficulty for infiltrators to infiltrate that floor was akin to climbing to heaven.
They would first have to breach the defense lines of the several floors below ground, find a secret passage to the lowest floor in the second to last floor, and also avoid the automatic targeting defense weapons. Even if they infiltrated the lowest floor, they would still need to find the elevator leading to the top floor and have the clearance to use it.
With that kind of effort, they might as well have fought their way up and blasted through the floor directly with brute force.
“I hate this environment. To be honest, I don’t think I’ll have any combat power left by the time I reach the top,” Leticia complained softly to Yin, hiding in a dark corner and casting visual distortion magic.
When the traitors of the Divine Throne caused the explosions earlier, they weren’t the only ones who acted. The commotion they caused gave the divine duo a chance to infiltrate. In the chaos, Yin’s excellent spatial teleportation directly brought Leticia to the second floor of the building.
The moment they landed, Leticia pulled Yin into a corner and cast several concealment spells, evading the detection of a few heroes who were rushing past.
“I should be a little better than you. This body’s physical strength is quite formidable. I can defeat many enemies with just physical strength,” Yin replied in a low voice. “Are we going to teleport up directly? I remember our target should be on the top floor.”
“Things won’t be that simple. Keep watch for me, and I’ll get a grasp of the building’s layout first.” Yellowish-brown light flickered in Leticia’s palm. She placed her hands on the floor and closed her eyes, constructing a model of the entire building in her mind.
Her magic moved rapidly throughout the building, not missing any corner. Given a little time, Leticia would know the building’s structure better than its designers.
A few drops of sweat formed on her forehead. Using magic in this way and constructing a building model was not an easy task for Leticia. For any other mage, their head would probably have exploded by now.
For a full twenty minutes, Leticia remained motionless in this posture. Her body temperature gradually increased, reaching a level that would surely cause a normal person to die of heatstroke.
Only when Yin started to suspect that Leticia might burn out her brain from overload did Leticia open her eyes again. She opened her mouth and exhaled a breath of white mist. The artificially created brilliant golden eyes were tinged with an unconcealable fatigue, but her expression seemed quite delighted. “I’ve found the true path. Those designers are truly amazing to have designed such a structure.”
She extended a finger and pointed straight at the floor beneath them. “My magic flows with increasing difficulty on higher floors. Near the top floor, I can’t even control my magic to extend there, so it’s basically certain that the item is placed on the top floor of the building.”
Outside the top floor, Leticia also found several other places of interest, distributed on various floors of the building, but they were not of much relevance to their current mission.
The most crucial discovery was that she had ascertained the structure of the building’s lowest floor.
Using light-element magic to create a holographic building model, Leticia zoomed in on the lowest floor and pointed to a seemingly ordinary elevator door, saying, “This elevator leads directly to the top floor, with no exits on any other floor.”
Such an elevator must have its reason for existence. It couldn’t possibly have only one entrance, but Leticia hadn’t detected the elevator doors on any of the other floors, so she could only guess that the elevator’s exit was on the top floor.
An elevator located on the lowest floor and going straight up—this should be the normal way to enter the top floor.
“I didn’t find any passage to the top floor on the second-highest floor, so I can basically conclude that this elevator is the necessary passage for us to reach the top floor.” Leticia slammed her hand down on the elevator, marked with red lines, and declared with certainty.
“But can you use that elevator? Such elevators probably require some high-level clearance to ride, right?” Yin asked. This was a crucial question. If they fought their way to the lowest floor only to find they couldn’t use the elevator, wouldn’t that be very awkward?
“I’ll try to hack it, but the success rate is something to consider.” A flicker of electricity flashed on Leticia’s fingertips, but she wasn’t very confident in her skills. Not every ability user who could manipulate electricity could be as powerful as a certain chestnut-haired girl.
At least Leticia couldn’t reach that level.
So, from the beginning, she hadn’t planned on taking the elevator. Her idea was to slowly fly up through this passage.
“At least this is a direct passage, and we won’t encounter any battles inside. If we rush up floor by floor using normal methods, we not only risk clashing with official personnel but also encountering people from the Divine Throne. We are deities, and fighting in this environment is not an advantage,” Leticia explained the reasons for her decision in detail.
“And according to my detection, the suppression in the lowest floor is even lower than here, so at least if we encounter a situation where we have to fight, it will be easier to deal with.”
As for the elevator shaft, it was impossible to encounter any enemies there, wasn’t it?
It was impossible for enemies to be ambushing in such a place.
As long as they entered the elevator shaft, they could go directly to the top floor through this passage. Then, the only enemy Leticia and Yin would have to face was Bai Ling.
Although in that environment, the two of them combined might not even be a match for Bai Ling.
But their goal was to “steal the chicken,” to wait for Bai Ling and the Divine Throne people to fight, and then sneakily cause trouble. If the Divine Throne people were truly that incompetent and couldn’t reach the top floor, then Leticia and Yin might as well go home and sleep.
“I hope the guys from the Divine Throne are strong enough. If they fail me now, I’ll definitely switch from a fan to a hater!” Leticia muttered softly, then looked at Yin. “Can you teleport directly to here?”
She pointed to the elevator, as if being able to teleport directly near their destination would be perfect.
Unfortunately, Yin shook her head, indicating that she couldn’t do that. “The lower floors are equipped with devices that interfere with spatial teleportation. Normally, they don’t have much effect on me, but now, I can only teleport us to the staircase connecting the second basement floor to the third basement floor.”
Yin pointed to the floors near ground level. The power she could exert now was roughly equivalent to an S-rank spatial ability user. Although still strong, she was not as powerful as before.
At least she could no longer ignore most spatial teleportation interference devices. The sole purpose of such devices was to interfere with spatial teleportation.
There weren’t many spatial ability users in humanity, but there weren’t few either. Important places like government buildings would definitely have preventive measures.
“That’s fine too. Then we’ll have to prepare for battle. Are your bullets ready?”
“More than enough. Enough to fight for a day and a night.” Yin placed her hand on Leticia’s shoulder, and with a flash of silver light, the two disappeared from their original position.
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Outside a hidden door on the second basement floor, two girls stumbled out of the air.
“Damn, this teleportation feels so terrible.” As soon as she stepped onto solid ground, Leticia couldn’t help but lean against the wall and gag a few times. The experience of this spatial teleportation was simply too awful, almost like when she was first learning space magic.
“Can’t be helped. My abilities are being suppressed quite a bit. Being able to do this much is already quite good…” Yin’s voice hadn’t changed, but in her calm tone, there seemed to be a hint of doubt.
“Did you predict a situation where we’d encounter enemies the moment we landed?”
“Huh?”
Leticia slowly raised her head, her golden eyes sweeping over the combat team pointing guns at the two of them, and a somewhat awkward smile appeared on her face.
It seemed she really hadn’t considered this possibility.
“Hands up, don’t think of resisting!” The captain of the combat team shouted, aiming his gun at the two girls who had suddenly appeared.
“Would you believe me if I said this was an accident?” Leticia raised her hands helplessly, her eyes turning to Yin. “However, such a small group of people won’t be able to hinder our actions much.”
“What…”
The combat team subconsciously reached for their triggers, but before they could react, brilliant golden light erupted.
Staring directly into such a bright light source, they were inevitably disoriented and temporarily blinded. And what temporary blindness in such a situation meant, well, it didn’t need to be said.
Leticia and Yin split up. A few seconds later, all the members of that unlucky combat team had collapsed softly on the ground. Facing heroes with extraordinary speed and not low power like these two, what could these grunts do? They could only lie down.
“Done. However, the road ahead will probably not be peaceful anymore.” Clapping her hands, Leticia couldn’t help but think resignedly.
The supposed covert operation had failed before it even began.
