Chapter 111 Dividing the Gold <TOC> Chapter 113 Scales and Eyes
Translator: SumTLMan
“It’s the White Steel Broken Stream Energy!”
After examining Niran Zhan’s body, Hicks determined the marauder’s energy technique.
Galurisa’s eyes narrowed.
Hicks added, “Apart from the Kallari Sect, the most practitioners of White Steel Broken Stream Energy are the sheriffs, especially the security forces. And Harrison, who was found dead in the vault, killed by electrocution.”
Although the eyewitnesses at the scene had already been taken away by the sheriffs for recording, Hicks had obtained some of the records through his internal contacts.
Niran Zhan, who was fighting the marauders at the time, also determined that the opponent was using White Steel Broken Stream Energy.
Niran Zhan’s strength was undoubtedly impressive, especially since he had implanted a highly defensive holy relic. Yet he was still killed by someone barehanded.
The marauder’s mastery of White Steel Broken Stream Energy was evident.
“A discarded NII-407 assault rifle was also found at the scene. The serial number has been erased, but the craftsmanship is exquisite, generally only equipped by the special forces of affiliated nations.”
All the evidence pointed to the possibility that the robbery was a farce staged by the affiliated military and security forces.
Their losses only affected the Soul Cult.
As for the crude methods, the security forces had always been known for such rough tactics. The former captain, Tempur, had a gang of thugs who kidnapped Western Xia merchants for ransom.
He just didn’t expect that these governor-nurtured hounds would target them.
On the surface, the strength of the Elijah Commercial Bank was not formidable, merely ranking in the middle tier, so it wasn’t surprising that they were targeted.
Galurisa’s eyes narrowed dangerously. He had never imagined that someone was trying to direct his suspicions towards the security forces.
Because this was the exact style of these unscrupulous hounds.
Now, the Soul Cult was fully focused on planning a major event, and it was not wise to start a conflict with the governor’s side at this time.
The Santanu family, who had held the position of governor in Avonigarda for centuries, were naturally no simple characters. Their roots in the nation ran deep, second only to the Soul Cult.
“Discreetly investigate and confirm the identities of the two marauders, eliminate them, and send their heads to Kolkhov as a warning,” Galurisa said.
It was impossible to deal with Kolkhov for now, so they could only start by capturing the two marauders, who were possibly disguised as sheriffs or officers.
“If the opponent had only practiced White Steel Broken Stream Energy, it wouldn’t be easy to find them, but they shouldn’t have exposed their holy relic,” Hicks said. It was easy to replicate and spread energy techniques, but the holy relic was different. The only source was the Kallari Sect, making it extremely simple to investigate.
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“Captain Kolkhov, we can stop here.”
Li Mu casually stretched his hand out of the window, patting the car door as if he were riding in a taxi instead of an armored vehicle.
At Kolkhov’s signal, the security officer stopped the vehicle, allowing the two of them to get out.
A security officer glanced at the rearview mirror, noticing the brazen robber still waving at them nonchalantly.
“Captain, why don’t we take this opportunity to take them out?”
The car had already driven hundreds of meters away, and the high-energy explosives were no longer a threat to them.
“Have you forgotten the sniper from the Nomu incident?”
Kolkhov said with a grim expression.
In a complex urban environment like this, an awakened sniper’s lethality would be amplified to the extreme.
None of the present individuals could withstand the energy-infused bullets, especially those fired from a large-caliber anti-material rifle.
“Isn’t that woman the sniper?”
A puzzled security officer under his command asked.
“She’s a very typical energy manipulation awakened. After getting in the car, she exerted pressure on me with her psychic energy. The reason you didn’t feel it is that her control over psychic energy has reached an impeccable level,” Kolkhov explained.
The woman’s strength was even greater than that of the male robber. Her powerful psychic energy surged like mountains and seas, weighing heavily on their shoulders. Even without using energy suppression, Kolkhov felt an irresistible sensation.
She had held back during their previous encounter.
It was impossible for someone with such mastery in energy manipulation to also have such precise shooting skills.
There were at least three members in the gang, including an unaccounted-for sniper who might have been watching them the entire time.
Kolkhov felt a chill, realizing that this powerful gang could not have originated from a remote small country like Avonigarda. He wondered which powerful nation they had infiltrated from.
He initially planned to annihilate these robbers, but now it seemed that even if the operation succeeded, the security forces would suffer heavy losses, and he might even be killed.
Li Mu stood on the roadside, watching the security forces’ convoy leave, and patted the high-energy explosives on his body.
For these low-level awakened individuals, the deterrent power of high-energy explosives remained, but at the third energy level, most awakened could easily ignore it.
“Let’s go.”
He looked around, then slipped into a small alley, evading everyone’s line of sight.
The heavy bag hung over his shoulder, filled with delightful, jingling gold lasus coins.
“Why didn’t you take all the money from the vault?” Shen Luoyan asked.
“The imaginary space should be able to easily accommodate everything in the vault.”
“I’ve done my research. None of the security forces have access to imaginary spaces, so emptying the vault would only be an unnecessary risk.”
The two chose to hide in an abandoned underground river channel.
In Avonigardabadh, there were many such underground river channels and water reservoirs, mostly man-made. These semi-enclosed underground channels were used to store low-radiation rainwater during the rainy season, which could then be used as drinking water during the dry season.
This section of the underground channel seemed to have been previously breached by a psychic creature, which had devoured several citizens who had come to fetch water. Once word got out, the security officials sealed the breach and abandoned the place.
Li Mu and Shen Luoyan were not afraid of any psychic creatures, so they took possession of this section of the river channel directly.
He took out the holy relic he had obtained from the female shaper awakened.
“Do you want this holy relic?”
Shen Luoyan took the metal box, opened it, glanced inside, and shook her head.
As an Origin Ore, she inherited not only the holy relic of the Sun God’s Divine Light, but also a rarely used moon-level holy relic, the Breath of the Holy Dragon, which she had used to fight Kolkhov. She wouldn’t waste her psychic energy implanting a star-level holy relic with little cultivation value into her soul.
Li Mu shrugged, put the holy relic away, and prepared to give it to the black cranes.
He picked up another holy relic, ready to implant it into his own soul.
Chapter 111 Dividing the Gold <TOC> Chapter 113 Scales and Eyes