Chapter 144: The Vandereich Clan

Kahn & the company covertly traveled inside the innermost estates of the capital, avoiding the spies of not just the Vandereich clan but also the ones from the other factions as if they were waiting for Szayel to show up. 

If not for his heightened senses, skills and him being a Semi-Saint Rank; he wouldn't have managed to walk the paths unnoticed. 

Unlike the outer layers of the capital, the inner area consisted only of 500 Kilometers radius where over a hundred top clans had occupied the territory. Each of them owning large lands and houses. This was the area where only the top 1% resided. 

Even their trio had to spend half a day just to venture inside from various vehicles and routes to not get noticed. Whoever planned to have Szayel killed, had people in every place. 

"Kid.. Is it okay for me to be here? If it comes to a fight, I can't be of any help." said Albestros. 

"Don't worry. We're not going in like thieves." spoke Kahn and took 2 mana bombs out of his space ring. 

"Are you out of your mind? How is this not acting like an enemy instead?" retorted the grandmaster blacksmith. 

"We want witnesses and there's no better way to alarm the top decision-makers with a good old-fashioned explosion." smirked Kahn. 

"I agree. We might get attacked or stopped before anyone from the main family knows we're here. If we can garner all the attention to ourselves, even those who are siding with my enemies won't be able to publicly attack me." spoke Szayel. 

"You two will stay hidden, I'll wreak havoc in the inner areas and gather all the attention myself. Szayel, you'll use the invisibility spells and artifacts to reach the main estate. You can manage at least that much, right?" spoke Kahn.

The Vampire heir nodded and affirmed. 

After their trio reached the borders of their main estates, there were still over two hundred houses and nearly four thousand residents that were either part of the main security forces or did the servant work. 

The reason why Kahn wanted to be the distraction was that the two people with him weren't fast enough to survive on their own had they been surrounded by the thousands of top-rank soldiers. So only he was fit to cause mayhem that would instantly get noticed by the top members of the Vandereich clan. 

Besides, only he was capable enough to infiltrate without raising an alarm and reach the central streets close to the main estate. 

When they finally reached roads that led to the clan headquarters, they separated and headed in different directions as planned. 

Kahn who was at semi-saint rank won't have any trouble defeating the guards at fortress-like walls of the clan headquarters but what he wanted to do was created a distraction first so the duo of Szayel & Albestros can easily get inside. 

Kahn's figure appeared on the main road that led towards the main gates that were guarded by nearly four hundred guards clad in white and golden patterned armors and had the sigil of the Vandereich clan, a red sword on a shield. 

"Hey, you! Who are you?!" spoke one of the guards when Kahn's figure suddenly appeared in front of the gates out of nowhere. 

But instead of replying, the man clad in black adventurer attire and a greatsword on his back swiftly ran past them before any of them could even react. Although the vampire had twice the reflex speed and senses, he was simply too fast for them to stop him. 

"Intruder! Everyone on alert!" shouted and the hundreds of guards quickly started chasing after Kahn. 

After crossing a kilometer distance in just a few seconds, he threw a mana bomb in an open space. 

BOOOM!!!! 

An echoing sound of a ground-shattering explosion suddenly filled the entire surrounding of 5 kilometers and all the residents and security who lived in the proximity of this area were quickly shaken to their core after hearing the explosion. 

"Enemy attack!!" shouted the soldiers from the garrison of the guards and in just a few seconds, various sirens rang while tangible barriers came to be and created a 5 kilometer long dome around the area where Kahn was running to. 

Kahn gathered all his might and threw two more mana bombs at the dome and the entrance area of the inner settlements and shook the entire place. 

BOOM! BOOM! 

Explosions after explosions shook the ground and broke the defensive barriers. 

Nobody had expected that someone would just barge inside their headquarters and start blowing things up like a madman especially when there were Saint Rank fighters living in the center of their headquarters. 

Just in ten minutes after running through various streets and dodging from various mage spells, arrows and attacks from the thousands of soldiers, he reached the entrance of the main estate that looked more like a castle made for the royalty and threw another mana bomb towards the entrance, just far enough that the explosion wouldn't kill any guards or innocent bystanders. 

Boom!! 

Thousands of soldiers started running towards Kahn's direction and the top-ranking warriors came from inside of the castle. 

When the explosion subsided, Kahn walked through the main gate that led to the inter-area of the castle and he stood right in the middle of an open ground surrounded by walls from the 3 sides and hundreds of archers and a cavalry ready to attack him. 

Kahn smiled in return after looking at this deterrence force, with no fear in his eyes. 

"Halt!!" a loud voice filled the area and a soul-shivering aura was released from the center of this formation of soldiers. 

"I don't care who you are. But you've done a grave mistake by attacking the headquarter of our clan. Tell me a reason why we shouldn't kill you?!" a domineering pressure was exerted in the surrounding.. This aura was even twice stronger than Kahn's own aura. 

The pressure itself gave a sense of the person's rank.. 

A First Stage Saint Rank! 

An old and muscular vampire with a giant sword and a shield on his back while being clad in intrinsically carved white and golden armor walked from the midst of the thousand soldiers and stood in front of Kahn. 

War Dominance! 

He quickly activated War Dominance and broke the pressure exerted over his body and instantly nullified the overbearing aura. His own aura was now equally matched with this vampire. 

Kahn spoke in a calm and collected tone as he replied.. 

"Because I have brought you gifts you would thank me for." he said and snapped his fingers. 

Snap! 

Suddenly, two figures came into everyone's sight and one of them walked towards the vampire warrior. This short figure removed the hood and multiple gasps were heard by the thousands of soldiers that were surrounding them. 

And as soon as everyone saw the face of this new intruder, they started kneeling on the ground including the Saint Rank warrior. 

"Welcome back, my lord." spoke the warrior. 

Szayel spoke in a regal and authoritative tone in response. 

"Bring me to Lord Father and inform the elders that I've asked for an emergency meeting." 

But the next second, he stopped his words and looked back at Kahn & Albestros with a sinister smile and gave another command. 

"And imprison these humans."

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