There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 320

Chapter 320: Chapter 312. Ambush

"Sir, there’s a problem with Carreon district’s dungeon."

Varion looked up from his screen, a full scowl on his otherwise calm face. "Azure again?"

"Yes, Sir..." the employee replied hesitatingly. The Guildmaster had been on edge lately, starting from the time a few of their esper suddenly missing in action.

On paper, they were on indefinite paid leave, but it was too abrupt, and it had been a week. The management wouldn’t care too much if it was just low-star espers, since they could just expel them from the guild. and if it was high-star espers, they were rarely in the guild building unless there was a dungeon raid anyway.

But the espers in question were three and four-star, which was the busiest in Celestia. Not to mention, they were known to be the Guildmaster’s people.

"What should we do, Sir?" the employee, who was part of the external relations division, asked carefully.

"Just let the legal team handle it," Varion said in irritation. He still had to think about how he could take away that guide successfully--he had no time to squabble with another guild about a mere dungeon’s right.

"Sir...all members of the legal team are full with handling the other disputes and scand--"

The employee didn’t have time to finish his words before something flew and crashed into his face. He pressed his lips, and despite the throbbing on the side of his head, he was grateful it was only a pen holder and not something heavier--or sharper.

"Are you telling me this guild is so incompetent that we hire people who can’t work on more than one case?!" Varion fumed in a rare moment of outburst. The Guildmaster was usually cold even in his anger, which made him scary; the type who sent dismissal notice the same day if someone pissed him off.

The employee swallowed his sigh. It wasn’t that they had an inadequate number of legal teams--they had teams. But for the past few days, they were suddenly flooded with disputes over dungeon rights. Starting from Azure, other smaller guilds started to do it too, probably because they felt Azure would stand with them. The employee thought it might be karma, because it was Celestia who often pressured other guilds over dungeon rights--but he’d rather die than say such things out loud.

And then there was the scandal. Scandals. Their espers weren’t exactly clean; physical assault, sexual assault, illegal stuff...their PR teams were busy all the time. They just managed to hide it very well, from giving compensation to media play.

But some cases suddenly came up to the surface. It was clear that someone was targeting Celestia, either Azure or someone else. _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}

But the employee had no leeway to think too deeply about it. His job was to make sure this Guildmaster did not get angrier at him. "Understood, Sir. I will tell the legal team to take care of it."

Varion cursed under his breath as the employee bowed low and retreated from his office. His hands itched so badly, and he grabbed the vase on his desk and threw it across the room.

"Fuck!" the word was drowned in the loud crashing sound.

He knew who it was who messed with them. It must have been that bastard Radia Mallarc. Why else would they meet in Althrea a few days ago?

Is this how they retaliate? Through petty tricks and media play? Varion scoffed. He had been wondering what they would do, but even if they brought the case to the authority or media, Varion wouldn’t be too worried about it. He only sent his people, and he had enough leverage over them to make sure no one spoke about him. The building they used had no connection with him or Celestia--at least in the paper. The building was purchased and managed through a third party, because there was a limit to an affiliate building a guild could own, and Varion needed a secret operational base since not everyone was on his side yet.

Worst case, all he had to do was cut the captured people--a bunch of useless pricks.

He started to laugh lowly. Oh...little did they know he didn’t care that much about Celestia. They could destroy the guild for all he cared; he was only using the guild to prove himself so he could become a part of the clan anyway.

But now, he had another way of doing it.

And just as he thought about it, his secretary--one of his people--came inside, bearing a piece of news that made him think the universe was really on his side.

"Sir, we have a sighting of the guide and the Serpent Lord," the secretary said.

"Where? What are they doing?" he perked up slightly, although his tone still showed caution.

"On a private lake in area-10," the secretary said, reading the report. "It seems like they are...camping?"

"...what?"

"Uh...they look like they are on a date--is what the report said, Sir."

Huh...Varion raised his brow. They must have thought that it was safe after the last attempt failed. Or the snake was just that cocky, thinking nothing would be able to harm his guide as long as he was there.

Sure. Let’s test that theory then.