There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 364

Chapter 364: Chapter 356. One Night

Li Caishen had never thought the day would come when he could see the core of [Kronos] with his own eyes.

A creature that ate his own children for fear of being overthrown.

Or so it was told in some lost tale of the old era before the apocalypse. How foolish. Were they not aware that Kronos was destined to be killed by the child he was trying to eat?

Or rather; children. Li Caishen shifted his gaze from the giant structure and the core at its top to the two men who, for all he knew, seemed to be on a mission to end it all. Like the child in that tale.

It was quite unexpected when Radia Mallarc contacted him last night, asking for a meeting using his grandmother’s matriarch privilege. He was even more surprised when the heir of House Mallarc brought out operation [Kronos] to him.

Oh, yes. He knew about it. He knew because his dear sister was a target. And he thought...he thought if he became the most powerful person in the Federation, he would find out the truth about her death.

He was wrong.

The President wasn’t the most powerful person in the Federation. There were the Houses Alliance, the wealthy conglomerates, the untamable Rankers--a lot of people were out of his scope of influence. Instead, he put himself in a position where a lot of eyes were upon him, and it became even harder to investigate the operation.

As if it wasn’t enough, he was getting threatened by it. They could kill him anytime, they said, disclosing the hidden details of his sister to show what they were capable of. So it became even more frustrating instead; finally knowing about the operation, but couldn’t do anything about it.

But then, Radia Mallarc came to him with a whole target list from the past fifty years, and shed light on things he had been looking for. When the morning came the summoner asked him for clearance to enter one of the military bases, he only needed a little convincing to execute his right.

The moment he saw there were non-military espers as guards outside the dungeon, it was already suspicious. And even more, when he saw the modern building inside, completely intact instead of a ruin--there was no longer doubt in his heart.

To think that a man, a soldier, singlehandedly infiltrated the place and sneaked out information to the outside. From the look of it, the guards outside didn’t even know something was happening inside the dungeon.

Well, to be fair, even Radia Mallarc had no idea there would be a fight inside the building.

But to think that all of that threat looming over his head was being provided by something from the Deathzone...

No--in retrospect, it made sense that such a wicked operation came from an evil source.

"Have you received my new package?"

He heard the soldier ask quietly; it was apparent that the man had difficulty breathing at this point. Looking at the mountain of corrupted hound corpses scattered around the room, it was understandable.

"I did," Radia Mallarc answered briefly, pouring out bottle and bottle of the most expensive regenerative potions over the soldier, almost as if he wanted to bathe the man in it. "Stop talking and drink this."

As Radia shoved a bottle of lesser elixir to the soldier’s mouth, Caishen looked up at the operation’s heart again. The pulsing black orb inside an enchanted tube was gleaming like a jewel.

"Is that the fuel?" he muttered. How fascinating. "Let’s take that down and bring it back."

He was about to give a signal for his guards to move, but he suddenly heard a cracking sound from the tube. One, two, and several cracking sounds later, the tube looked as if it was getting compressed, squeezing the black orb as if it became a center of gravity, and imploded.

The President and his guards stared at the destroyed core dumbfoundedly, blinking at the smoke of black miasma seeping off the remnant of the core.

"Do you put a marking outside?" Han Joon asked Radia, dropping a burnt formation array control sheet to the floor.

Radia glanced at the sheet; smirking slightly. He helped the soldier stand up, slipping a blood tablet between the man’s lips while summoning Nyx. A portal immediately generated behind them, and he turned toward the President.

"The building will get destroyed soon, Sir, we should get out immediately," Radia said with casually, pointing toward the portal. "Please make sure your subordinates vacate the premises immediately."

"What?!"

Caishen narrowed his eyes, looking around while gritting his teeth. He still wanted to at least check that device below the structure, even if he couldn’t take back the core. But his guards were trained to prioritize his safety, so they immediately grabbed his arms and ushered him through the portal, which Radia and Han Joon had just traversed.

The portal sent them to a hill near the building where they could see it clearly. So when a chain of explosions shook the ground, they had a front-row seat to watch the building engulfed in fire.