บท 33: Getting The Last Guarantor
Wrath Didn't hesitate, she killed the slowest one and faked that she can't follow the other because she worried about her friend's safety and returned to the house.
"Do you need to change your security manager again? Or maybe an entire team this time?" Wrath said while looking at the two corpses on the floor.
"No, Since you're here, This time I'll give them a chance to find the moles. Changing the manager or an entire team can only buy me sometimes until the next assassin comes. More than that—"
Greed dragged her voice, looking at Wrath's katana in her hand.
"Shit…" Wrath cursed in a low voice then looked complicatedly at her friend's current situation.
Now Greed's eyes light up golden as the aspect of her power begins to take control of her. She gazes with greedy eyes at Wrath's katana.
"Wrath, can you unsheathe it so I can see it? I didn't see it clearly when you used it earlier." Asks Greed, while her eyes still glow with golden light.
Wrath let out a sigh before reluctantly unsheathing the sword so her friend could see it.
The moment the blue-red blade of the katana appeared before Greed's eyes. She almost drooled as the golden light shone brightly from her eyes as if it was a spotlight.
Then the light slowly receded as Greed slowly straightened up and the aspect of her power was brought under control.
"Phew…. that was close. It's good that I'm the weakest. Otherwise, I might lose myself there." Greed let out a relieved sigh.
The witch of the 7 Deadly Sins' power is related to the manifestation of that witch's sins aspect. The stronger that witch is, the harder it could control their sins aspect not to take control over their body.
The witch's mind was also one of the factors to make them strong, as the stronger mind would have a lot more capacity for the power of the witch to manifest without them losing their mind.
"Where did you get this sword?" Greed inquired.
"Daniel… He made it for me." Answered, Wrath.
The moment Greed heard that, she looked at the sword once again, but this time she looked at it with a scrutinizing gaze as she tried to peer through its secrets and method of how it was created.
Of course, Greed was not the Artificer but she was working with one of the best for a long time. She knew where to look and knew what it was made of at a glance.
"This… this is made from magic steel, I think it's the new steel-making technique I've never seen before. And this blue and red energy flows within the steel blade itself. He even made steel that could amplify the mana efficiency of the user!
This is not the technique the Modern day Artificer uses!" Greed blurted out in astonishment looking at her friend's face again.
"I thought you said that he learned the Atlantean Artificing method just because you want to boast about your boyfriend!" Greed said with astonishment.
"Hey! Even if I want to boast I wouldn't go so low as to lie to make him look great! He never needed it in the first place." Wrath retort.
Greed smiles wryly at her friend's antics. It seems that her friend was head over heels for the man named Daniel.
"Can I hold it?" Greed asks, wanting to hold the blade in her hand.
Wrath didn't say anything, she handed the sword over to Greed, and once the sword touched Greed's hand. Its power disappears and turns into a normal sword as if the power just a moment ago was a lie.
"This is…" Greed stuttered, then Wrath took the sword back from her.
"He made it to be a soul-bound artifact. It also has the power to rewrite the causality and it will always cause my attack to hit the target first no matter the circumstance." Wrath introduced her sword and kept it on the scabbard.
After Greed's curiosity has been sated, She looks at Wrath again, but this time she's looking at her through the eyes of a businesswoman who sees the big opportunity in front of her.
"Tell me Wrath." She started. "Why do you ask for Sloth and Gluttony? Do you need their help with something?" Greed asks as she lets out a smile as if she has something in mind.
Wrath knows this smile of her friend very well. It is the smile before someone got duped by Greed or she has hatched some plan in that little head of hers.
Wrath sir down opposite her friend without caring about the corpses nearby.
"I want to find someone worthy enough to vouch for Daniel to enter into the Hephaestus Institute." Wrath answers truthfully then continues.
"So, If you know someone worthy enough to recommend him, could you please call them or introduce them to me?" Asked, Wrath.
"You want him to join the Hephaestus Institute? Why bother with finding someone to recommend him? Just tell them that he knows about the secret of the Atlantean Artificing method, and they would immediately beg him to join them." Greed asks in confusion.
"No, I can't do that. He didn't have the Mage ID and his teacher seems to not provide him with anything other than saving his life and the Atlantean Artificing method." Wrath answered as she felt a little bit resentful toward Daniel's teacher that he didn't give Daniel at least a mage ID for him.
"I see if he came out of nowhere with the Atlantean Artificing method. Is no different than swimming in a pool full of hungry sharks with a fresh wound on you." Said Greed, metaphorically.
One needs to know that the Mage ID card was also a form of protection that the Hightower issued to every mage. The ID card will contain the general data of the holder and also give the holder protection under the law of the Hightower.
Even though there are many mages who died because of Vendetta or any other reason and the Hightower doesn't care to investigate or uphold it, that was because the law in the Curtained World was different than the mundane law.
For example, the mundane law states that killing people was breaking a law, but in the Curtained World. Killing people was not against the law, especially killing mundane people who had witnessed them using magic.
The only killing that was considered to be against the law was killing the council member of the Hightower, or forcefully extracting knowledge out of someone's soul leading to damage to the victim's soul. Since no one wants to get their soul destroyed or damaged, that law was the same as killing.
Besides, there is always a chance that killing someone won't get rid of them for good. Because in the Curtained world, there are many methods of resurrection or letting the dead return to the world of the living.
Such as putting the soul of the dead into the homunculus body, putting the soul into the artifact body or just resurrecting them in the form of a vampire, or strengthening the soul of the dead and letting them live on in the form of the living ghost. That's why killing was not a crime in the Curtained World.
"Then how about this, I'll go to the Tessia Kingdom and vouch for your boyfriend myself! Including you, you just need to find one more person to vouch for him!" Greed volunteers to follow Wrath back to Tessia Kingdom.
"Are you sure? What about your work? If Sloth came back from Maldives, would she be alright if she didn't find you anywhere?" Wrath asks worriedly.
"Nah… Don't worry about that girl, I could just leave her a message or just give her more vacation time until I'm back." Greed said with a smile.
"Oh! about the three high-status mages vouching for him. You are the last one, Montgomery decides to vouch for him too." Said Wrath.
"Montgomery? That sly old fox!?" Greed repeats the name of the bald old man which Wrath nods for confirmation.
"Ugh… Do I need to meet that old fox? Can't be helped." Greed murmurs to herself feeling a little bit of revulsion toward the sly old man who manages the mage auction house in the Tessia Kingdom.
It's not that Montgomery can't be trusted but that old man if he were to know that she went to Tessia's kingdom. He would try to bother her non-stop or try to gain some benefit or make a deal with her.
And the skill of that old man made it very hard for her to take advantage of him or gain a big profit. And that will make her feel depressed because of her sin aspect.
After that, Greed called her cleanup crew to clean up the corpse in her house and also have an urgent meeting with the security teams. After the end of the meeting/roasting session, the two witches called it a day and moved their lodging from the rooftop house to the five-star hotel nearby.
As for the security team, They quickly disperse to find a mole and improve on Greed's current security measure as if their ass was on fire.
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