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95.45% A Psychic's Scarlet Dream / Chapter 185: Chapter 96: The Mad Men Who Intrigue Each Other (Part 1)

Chapter 185: Chapter 96: The Mad Men Who Intrigue Each Other (Part 1)

Rosevelt: "So, Reaper, it's your turn to tell me something."

The Phoenix smiles an enigmatic smile, one that very few would understand. Or, maybe, none would understand.

Grisham: "Fine, what do you want to know from me?"

Rosevelt: "What do you know about the strategist of the Vampire Kingdom?"

Hearing him ask so, Grisham finds himself confused and reminiscing of the moment Walter Schmidt came to warn him about that man.

Grisham: "Well, not much, except the fact that the strongest man in the world thinks he is unbeatable."

He says in a straightforward tone.

Rosevelt: "Ha! Ha! Ha!"

He laughs. He laughs even though it causes his wounds to open wider. He laughs even though the rest of the world would not.

Rosevelt: "Is … that what Walter said? … Seriously?"

Unable to control his laughter, he asks so. The Reaper finds that confusing yet again but only nods and does nothing else.

Rosevelt: "No … no … not at all."

Reid Vezalius Rosevelt - the man who holds the most clout in this world and is regarded as the second strongest man alive - he denies that claim completely.

Rosevelt: "No one, and I mean no one, is unbeatable."

Grisham: "..."

Rosevelt: "The devil fell to God and the God fell to himself. When they were beaten, how could anyone else be unbeatable? The answer is that they can't be. That's just the type of world we live in."

No matter who the person in question is, that person can be beaten - or so claims the Phoenix.

Rosevelt: "So, whoever this man is, no matter how much everyone hypes him up, he can be beaten."

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Multiple battles are taking place in multiple locations. But, none of them seem to involve the Vampire Kingdom. Considering that they were expected to be involved in all of them, this is certainly a surprise.

So, where are they anyway?

There's a simple answer to that question.

Valdis: "Did you … did you really do all this?"

With widened-eyes and a mouth hanging agape, the queen of the Kingdom asks the strategist.

Bronzer: "Well, I did. I sent a few Vampires on a suicide mission to lure Ross Green to the shrine before they confronted the third faction so he can mark it as a teleportable location. I did that to ensure that one of the members of the third faction who is not Ethan Kales fights him and we are able to get a good enough reading on that person."

And, seeing the carnage the shrine has turned into, it seems to have worked - a little too well perhaps.

The most thrilling part, however, is that neither did the teenage Hellfire ever realize anything, nor did the one who fought him, or even anyone else involved with this incident.

Well, as far as plans that were not figured out go, the third faction and Heise also didn't figure out that the reason no Vampires attacked them even as they traversed through their lairs to get to the shrine was that they were commanded not to.

Bronzer: "But, well, I guess luck was on our side this time."

He says as he looks at all the data they have recorded on the third faction's actions.

Bronzer: "Instead of just the one of them that I had tried to get some data on, we got data on all three of them. Now, we basically know about the fighting style of every single person in the third faction."

Gleefully the strategist says but, the leader of their forces interrupts in a relatively unimpressed tone,

Reid: "All of them?"

All heads turn to him.

Reid: "We can tell that Sona Pectus goes on the offensive with full teamwork between her Spirits and her, Sneha Stone prefers to act as a tank while waiting for the right opportunity to strike and Kais uses his intelligence and flexibility to use whatever little tricks would work to continuously outmanoeuvre his opponent."

Bronzer nods to all three statements, and so does everyone else present in the council room.

Reid: "But, what about Ethan Kales? What is his fighting style?"

Bronzer: "Hmm … does annoying people until they want to run away from him qualify as a fighting style?"

Reid: "No."

Says the Vampire leader in a serious tone.

Bronzer: "Well, then, he doesn't have a fighting style. His idea of fighting mainly involves running and taking cover behind others who can fight better than him."

The strategist turns to the one man in the room who has seen Ethan enough times to possibly add or subtract anything from Bronzer's statement.

But,

Ro: "Yeah, that's pretty much his 'fighting style'."

He agrees with everything, albeit with an uncomfortable face.

Darcy: "Why that expression, Ro? Did something happen?"

And seeing the uncomfortability, she asks so although without even looking at him and not even caring about the answer to the question she asked.

Ro: "Well, it's just that … seeing a Hellfire's body torn open and thrown about like they are pieces of paper is not the most pleasant sight for me."

Knowing that everyone else in the room feeds on the blood coming out of the Hellfire's body and occasionally even feeds on the mass, it's obvious why they won't feel any nausea while seeing it but for him, it's not very comfortable.

Ro: "Yeah, I think I am going to be sick soon if I don't leave this place or you don't shut that screen off."

He points at the screen on which Kais' carnage is captured in its full glory.

Reid: "We can't turn off surveillance so get out."

With a straight face, Reid says so, causing Ro to twitch his eyebrows in irritation.

Ro: "... Fine."

He would have retorted, or at least tried to, had it not been for the constant surge of nausea within him as he looked at that horrible sight.

Reid: "Anyway, what the hell do you think?"

Reid asks so, turning back to the strategist.

Bronzer: "What do I think about what? That scene?"

Looking back on it, without any visible discomfort, he says,

Bronzer: "Well, it doesn't look as tasty to me as it might look to you but you know, it's not bad."

Valdis and the four Generals make uncomfortable expressions, Darcy stays indifferent and Reid looks back at Bronzer like he wants to kill him.

Reid: "What do you think about the one who created that scene?"

Bronzer: "Oh, him? … Him, huh?"

Bronzer sighs and looks back at the man quite younger than him who seems to be reattaching his friend's arm.

Bronzer: "Barry's last hope, was he?"

Bronzer does not answer the question, only ponders upon it, for this man might be the one puzzle that he should take his time in solving to make sure he doesn't mess up.

Bronzer: "..."

So, he just stays silent as he stares at the screen showing the man who is said to be capable of changing the course of the war.

Ethan Kales is considered one of the biggest mysteries by many but Bronzer finds no interest in him, for he himself is the author of that mystery. However, he finds a never-seen-before level of interest in Kais.

Kais no longer finds any interest in Ethan either, but he finds a lot of interest in the man Ethan is afraid of.

Is this fate or destiny calling them, telling them that they are destined to clash in the future or something?

Or, is it just two psychos taking a twisted liking to each other?

Those who care to ask this question would not figure out the answer on their own and those who know the answer would not care to tell it.

Hence, the madness continues.

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Chapter 186: Chapter 96: The Mad Men Who Intrigue Each Other (Part 2)

Akio: "Holy shit! That is a horrible sight!"

Gawking at the battlefield the city of Kesley has become, he remarks so.

Halogen: "Indeed. I never would have expected this sight to be what would greet me when I reach here."

And even Halogen Dietrich, one of the vilest human beings alive, agrees.

Akio: "Did you know anything about this?"

Akio asks as he turns to their third and oldest party member, who also looks just as shocked as them.

Vaika: "I had no idea at all."

He says simply as his eyes refuse to turn away from that sight.

Vaika: "Who would do this and for what reason?"

Even though he asks so himself, he does not expect to get any answers, not from the two standing beside him and not from anyone else. And why would he anyway? This sight SHOULD be beyond comprehension.

Still,

Akio: "Whenever this happened, why didn't Rosevelt inform us?"

He could have, if he wanted to, tell them everything through telepathy. After all, he told Laurie Brown about it. So then, why didn't he tell them?

Vaika: "I … I don't know."

No one knows.

No one knows what goes on in the head of the Phoenix. And, even if they did know, they won't be able to understand his thought process, causing them only more confusion.

So, whatever may happen, they are going to be questioning it just like they are right now.

And it's not that they don't realize this simple fact, it's just that they can't let it be the end of their queries.

Halogen: "Wait!"

The fake priest says with some discomfort in his voice.

Halogen: "I am sensing someone really powerful in the city, someone who is neither Rosevelt nor Walter but almost on the same level."

Akio: "What! On the same level? Who the hell would that be!?"

Akio fails to think of anyone who can be on the same level as those two, as does Vaika. However, the same cannot be said for the fake priest. He realizes it.

Halogen: "Ha!"

And he scoffs as he realizes it.

Halogen: "The Spectres are here."

Akio: "!!!"

Vaika: "!!!"

Halogen: "And they have come with at least half of their forces, which obviously includes the legend himself."

He says with a smirk, making it obvious who the person emanating that strong aura is.

Akio: "Spectre Dyne is here!?"

Halogen merely nods and the other two look back at the city, also using Aura Reading themselves and sensing the same ridiculously powerful presence.

Spectre Dyne, the leader of the Spectres and an artificially created Ghost, is perhaps the one man every Hellfire would consider a force to be reckoned with. After all, he is someone Walter Schmidt acknowledged as a powerful individual, a person who is leading the strongest army in the world, a person who the Phoenix acknowledged as a powerful individual, a man whose strength is said to surpass Vaika Smith and has recently also become the man who ended Barry's existence, who himself had a big repute in the world of supernaturals.

After all of that, it wouldn't take a genius to figure out that he is someone it would be better not to mess with.

And this man, here in Kesley, is going to fight not just a fellow Hellfire of theirs but a person who has sworn to kill every last one of them. But, this is something that they are yet to find out.

And so, they still have the gall to go into the city.

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Walter: "..."

No words.

The strongest man in the world speaks no words when he witnesses Kesley's current state for the first time.

The fact that this carnage has been caused does not even begin to faze him.

The only things about all this that could faze him would be the fact that this carnage has been caused by none other than Ozyllus himself.

But, he does not know that - not yet.

Walter: "Rosevelt, is this what you meant?"

He asks a man to whom he knows the words won't reach, not without using any abilities, but he asks them anyway, fine with not getting the answer right then.

Or rather, he would prefer to not get the answer right away.

So,

Walter: "Either way, it seems I would need to get back to my research."

Mumbling to himself, he then turns back to the pile of books he needs to finish reading.

These aren't just any books though. They all contain the history of the world, both the history of the supernatural part of the world and non-supernatural part of the world.

Walter is going through them because he thinks he might find answers to the questions he has, or if not, he at least hopes to find some clues leading to those answers.

While the rest of the world engages in battle and the Vampire Kingdom eyes them from hiding, this is what the strongest man in the world decides to do. He decides to find out the root of the problem, something that has gained infinitely more meaning ever since he met Bronzer and was threatened by him, alongside being inferred about something.

However,

Walter: "Damn it!"

Meaningful though it may be, his quest hasn��t led him to any results yet, and there's no indication of things getting any better.

Walter: "I am beginning to think that I'll never find anything meaningful in here."

These books he is reading - obviously he has read them before. But, back when he had read them the first time, he didn't know a lot of the things he does now and he definitely hadn't had that encounter with Bronzer. Back then, he was just going through them for the sake of having gone through them once.

But now, he has a purpose, and he is reading these books with that purpose in mind.

So, away from the battles, the strongest man in the world spends his time in one of the biggest libraries owned by Vermilion, searching through the texts for any semblance of a few select words.

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