The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 118: A Mess

The blood trickled from Sebastianʼs forehead as he retreated behind the fallen building avoiding another deadly stick from the mantis’s raptorial arms.

Damn, it. How did he end like this?

Yesterday morning he sneaked out of this sect and headed to the thunder sect with his big apprentice sister, intending to get revenge on that bastard Alex. He couldn’t forget what he did to him.

But who knew that the entire sect was closed by some kind of a formation that forbade entry. He couldnʼt even see what was going on inside. There was not even one guard outside, he didnʼt understand what was going on.

Did that bastard see him coming? No impossible. Something fishy was happening here.

After waiting for three days, No one came in or out. So Sebastian and his sister decided to enter and have a look. They used a talisman that was given to them by their master to break a hole in the formation wall. Just a small hole.

But who knew that the next moment the entire formation broke like shattered glass. And all hell broke loose.

Inside, he could see the ruins of what appeared to be a major sect with creatures looking like mantises feasting on a mountain of corpses.

At that moment Sebastian realized what he had done.

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DUNGEON CREATION FAILED

MANTIS DUNGEON WAS BROKEN

WARNING

EMERGENCY MISSION TO ALL PLAYERS IN THE PERIPHERAL

KILL THE MANTISES 0/651

KILL THE MANTIS KING

TIME 9 DAYS 23 HOURS 59 MINUTES 57 SECONDS

FAILURE PUNISHMENT: DEATH

What! A dungeon can break out? Did he do it?

Why did a dungeon break out here of all places? He didnʼt know. But now he was bound by his mission.

After hesitating for a moment he sent a message to his master. Then quickly began to fight the mantises with his sister using the Arachne slayer’s Spear. This thing was super effective against insects.

That day when he regained his consciousness he was already outside of the dungeon. Thankfully he marked the spear with his blood, so the system threw it beside him when exiting the dungeon.

“Little Sebi, Target the heads, and watch out for the arms,” She warned him, his big apprentice sister, despite being younger than him, always knew better.

They hoped help would come soon. If those things reached civilization it would be their responsibility.

Sadly for them, after fighting for one night, the mantises seemed to have realized that they were not his opponents, so a few of them decided to leave the area.

“I will stay here, You follow them,” His sister told him sternly as she ripped off the head of another mantis with her hands.

So he quickly followed the escaping monsters. He discovered that they were following the commands of a giant mantis that seemed to have some camouflage skill. This was the king, it was leading them. so after finishing the small fries off, he began to attack it.

This thing was a boss leveled character. Thankfully it couldn’t fly, so the fight was somewhat possible.

The bad news is that it reached Silver Lightning city, and began to fight Sebastian using the buildings as covers, and civilians as tonics. It kept regenerating as it attacked and devoured some poor souls.

Many police officers tried to engage it but ended up losing their lives. Bullets were ineffective against its metallic exoskeleton.

This is going to be a mess. He cursed, No degree of media blackout can cover it. The playerʼs counsel would surely punish whoever was responsible. So he should finish this mission quickly and escape.

At this moment the Mantis King struck him again from behind. So Sebastian used the spear to defend. But that thing spat a ball of a slimy green substance at him.

Sebastian stepped to the side, making the slime hit a building behind him, where it began to melt the concrete and release brown fumes.

Damn it, this thing was strong. But thereʼs hope. Sebastian could see that his spear was leaving visible damage. So he pressed on.

The fight lasted another hour, in which more buildings were flattened to the ground until the King mantis was slain at last after its stamina ran out. All the people seemed to have fled so it had no more materials to regenerate.

Sebastian quickly used his storage ring to take the corpse, then escaped to meet with his big sister. Hopefully, she was fine.

They must finish the rest of those guys before the time runs out.

…….

“Reporting from Silver lightning City. As you can see, there was extensive damage to the buildings. As for the casualties, about 150 were reported dead, while 900 were injured. We still do not have the full image here.”

“Do we know what that thing was?”

“No data yet, but a spokesperson of the government has stated that it might have something to do with the bio lab in the mountains. They said that they would send an investigation team.” T

“And the kid who was fighting it.”

“We don’t know, as the footage showed he was wearing a mask.”

“Why is he fighting it?”

“Maybe he has some insect fetish, we are not clear yet.”

“He was shooting fireballs from his hands.”

“Yes, we believe that it has to be some kind of a new bio thermal weapon.”

“Are you shitting me? Do you think I am blind? This was definitely a fireball like the one in Video games. What thermal weapons nonsense. My mother was killed yesterday, and you still order us to hide the tr….”

P Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Pp……

“We are experiencing some technical error, our broadcast will return shortly.”

Theodore frowned as he turned off the TV on the plane.

“The thunder sect would be investigated after this.” He told Victor who was sitting opposed to him.

“I will tell Alex to cooperate,” Victor responded.

“No need. Only George and I knew about him, so just let him stay low for now. But I expect you to interrogate him about this, and I want you to report everything to me.” He said.

“Understood,” Victor replied with a sigh. Theodore sighed too, as he looked at Victor then at Iris and Aria who was sitting nervously in the back.

“What happens now?” Lily who was sitting with Victor in the same seat asked with concern,

“It’s a mess. The council has ordered a blackout, but no one knows how to implement it. Too many people died, and there is a lot of footage of those things. We don’t even know what happened. This is the first time those things have been spotted outside a dungeon.” Theodore said.

“I guess they would fabricate some crazy story that no one would believe at first, then keep bombarding the media with experts one after another until it is old news,” Victor said,

“Exactly, but we have more trouble, apparently there were some people who managed to kill a small mantis. One of them managed to awaken and began to tell his friends about the system. This is far from over.” Theodore said, then frowned and began to contemplate. Victor knew exactly what his father was thinking about. Can this be used as an awakening method?

“What if a similar incident happened later again,” Victor said, he clearly knew that this was the beginning.

But he felt strange, where did the mantis come from, this incident did not happen in his past life. In fact, It was a similar incident that would happen about two months later when goblins would attack a tourist spot. It was the case of a dungeon that remained undiscovered for years bursting open.

“Let’s hope nothing like that happens,” Theodore said, not realizing that Victor was secretly informing him about what was going to happen in the future.

…

“All dead?” An old man asked a masked woman with a curvy body.

“Yes, Little Sebi went chasing after the king, he should have killed it by now.” She said,

“Good, now you answer me, why did you defy my command and helped Sebastian come here? Didn’t I warn you not to?” He asked sternly.

“Ah…, I… You saw how devastated he was, he refused to tell me what that young master, Alex did to him, but I was sure it was really nasty as he would wake up in the middle of the night screaming and cursing. So I had to do something.” She said while keeping her head down.

“Hmm, He should be a man and get over it.” The old man said, just as a system Notification appears in front of his eyes

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MISSION SUCCESS

THE ENEMY HAS BEEN ELIMINATED

ALL PARTICIPANTS WOULD GAIN AN EXP DEPENDING ON THEIR CONTRIBUTION.

LEVEL UP.

AUTHORITY +1

STR +3

INT +1

AGI +2

NEW SKILL

Mantis Fist, B

“Oh, this is the first time I heard of a level up outside of a dungeon.” The master said with a frown as he checked his new status.

“Really!!” The girl also said in surprise.

“Did your family have any information about this?” He asked her.

“Not a lot, something like this happened 300 years ago. But not much information was available then due to the limited number of players.” She said with a frown.

“Well, whatever this is, things will change. Maybe it’s time for us to get ready. If the prophecy was correct, the day the world changes are nearing” He said before looking at his disciples searching the grounds and collecting the corpses.” Hurry up, we will have to leave in one hour.” He yelled, Those guys in the council should be on their way, and he didn’t want to meet them.