Chapter 328 Hightower Judgement
?Seeing this, Daniel immediately rushed toward the parking lot nearest to the executive meeting room.
Pride also rushed after him, curious about what he was going to do next and hoping to offer some assistance.
She saw Daniel produce something that looked like the hoverbike she had seen in sci-fi movies out of thin air. No, it should come from the space storage artifact that he used to store many of his tools of war and various artifacts.
"Let me go with you!" Pride called out, and Daniel nodded.
"Hop up!" Daniel gestured, and Pride jumped onto the passenger seat behind him.
The hoverbike quickly sped off, flying past the gap in the ceiling and the railing of the parking lot before ascending into the sky. It rushed toward the burning Daimyo castle.
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After a brief moment, both Daniel and Pride arrived at the scene.
The castle was still intensely burning, but the strangest thing was that both guards and the servants around the castle seemed to still be in a trance.
They were frozen in motion, as if time had come to a standstill. If it weren't for the flames still burning hot and the birds able to fly, Daniel might have thought that this was the result of magic capable of stopping time.
"Do you know any spells that can douse the fire? Water magic? Ice Magic? Perhaps?" Daniel asked Pride, who was sitting in the passenger seat.
"No, I can't. This fire is a type of cursed fire; it will not stop until everything, including the castle, burns to the ground," Pride explained.
Hearing that the fire was some sort of curse, Daniel quickly sank his mind into his mindscape and immediately used one of the cards that could destroy enchantments.
As Daniel activated the card on the target, a bright light shone from his hand, and the residue of the spell structure was obliterated, as witnessed by Pride.
The power of the curse or the enchantment within the fire disappeared, leaving only natural fire that could easily be extinguished with a simple spell.
"Pride! The curse's power has disappeared! Do it! Douse the fire!" Daniel shouted.
Though still startled and disbelieving at the scene where the power of the curse within the fire had been obliterated by Daniel, Pride quickly forced herself to calm down and immediately used her magic to extinguish the fire.
As a large waterfall cascaded from the sky, all of the fire quickly subsided. Daniel then drove his hoverbike to the castle, got off, and began checking the damage that the castle had incurred.
Daniel quickly used his gadgets to check the well-being of the people there. What he saw both relieved and horrified him.
"Magitek!? And... Pride!?" One of the Enforcers noticed Daniel and Pride, visibly startled and losing his composure.
Considering that the most wanted mage of the Hightower and the most combat-strong witch among the 7 deadly sins are together, the Enforcer panics, realizing that if Pride is allied with Daniel and they fight together, their lives would be forfeit.
"Focus! Finish our mission first! Echo-2! Go block Magitek! Give us 5 minutes!" One of the Enforcers commands his comrade, who was spooked by Daniel's appearance.
"Sir!" The Enforcer, still recovering from the shock, steps forward to block the path. He raises his magic power, preparing to defend the path and prevent Daniel from interfering.
"Pride! Favor for a favor! Help me fend off these people! Quick!" Cyrus shouted at Pride, immediately throwing the favor deal at her.
Upon hearing this, her initial reaction was to jump into the mess, but she stopped herself, glancing at Daniel, who was looking at Cyrus with a cold expression, as if observing a Deadman.
"Nah... Don't wanna, I'm lazy," Pride said with a smirk.
"We appreciate your cooperation, Ms. Pride," one of the guards against Daniel expressed gratitude.
"Fuccccccckkkk! Magitek! I know that you hate me, but this is larger than our petty squabble! Help me!!" Cyrus roared at Daniel while defending against the magic blasts from two of the Enforcers.
"Turning an entire capital city into a second hell and killing more than half a city in the process is a petty squabble!?" Daniel retorted, recounting what happened to the capital in the Tessia Kingdom.
"Goddamn it! You stupid oaf! They are planning to deal with you next! Didn't you know!?" Cyrus tried to reason with Daniel while maintaining distance and defending himself as best as he could.
"I think I'll take my chance," said Daniel, indifferent to Cyrus's warning.
"You FOOL!!" Cyrus got agitated, leaving his guard open and receiving an ice shive at his abdomen, slowing his reaction slightly.
At this moment, a powerful punch covered with penetration magic came toward his head. Cyrus quickly parried it, but the injury in his abdomen made him twitch a little, and his reflexes slowed by a split second.
That was enough for the Enforcer to take advantage of the opening.
Another Enforcer used his magic to slip from front to back like a ghost and immediately skewered Cyrus with his right arm.
Splashhhhh!!
Blood, organs, and bone pieces splattered around as Cyrus breathed his last...
"Damn... you..." Cyrus uttered, and no one knew whom he cursed. Was it the Enforcer who killed him? Or was it Pride and Daniel, who remained indifferent to him before his lifeless body was discarded to the ground like a used rag.
"Is he truly Cyrus? This guy died too easily. Isn't Cyrus... what? One of the three Hightower Grand Councilors?" Daniel asked Pride, who was standing beside him.
"The Golden Scale Enforcers never take down the wrong target. Besides... Cyrus is the weakest of the Three Grand Councilors; a few Golden Scale Enforcers could easily take him down," Pride explained.