Early Access System Volume 2: Age Of The New Behemoth

Chapter 15: Efficient

"Oh, that is no problem. Since his wife and son is in this castle. They are safe here." Lord Alkemer said.

"Good! Can't believe that I am this lucky. To think that most of my problems could be solved just by meeting you." I want you to bring them to the palace that I am staying at. And make sure that they are brought secretly, don't attract any attention." Arthur said.

"I understand. But are you confident in defeating the the rest of the Lord's by yourself?" Lord Alkemer asked.

The sun was just rising and shined upon Arthur, "Nothing is impossible for me." He smiled before tripping on a rock.

Lord Alkemer sighed as he saw Arthur fell down. "So much for nothing being impossible for you." He said.

Arthur stood up and pretended as if nothing has happened.

Arthur then ran towards his horse and got on it and rode it towards the 6th royalty, however, he said was shocked to see that the royalties after Lord Alkemer had weaker armies and was more easier to defeat despite ranking higher than Lord Alkemer.

It was so easy that he managed to defeat the ranked 6th to the ranked 3rd royalty all in a day.

"Maybe I don't need Lord Alkemer's assistance." Arthur told himself as he pondered about the matter.

But as he rode near the gates of the second ranked royalty, he saw that the royal guards and army was there.

The wizards were also there, meaning that the king was here. Arthur looked up at the sky and realize that the sun was rising up. "This guys are too strong for me to fight face to face in the morning." He said to himself as he retreated back to the castle he was staying using his horse.

And there he could see Lord Alkemer and his injured men standing there waiting for Arthur.

"You are brazenly standing here for someone who was my enemy only a few hours ago." Arthur said while walking towards Lord Alkemer.

"Well, I will have to wait here to deliver you the informations, right?" Lord Alkemer asked.

"Yeah whatever, just spit it out." Arthur said wondering what information the Lord had for him.

"The former King is currently staying at the Lord Franklin's castle. It seems he has heard of you attacking mansion after mansions." Lord Alkemer said.

"Yeah, I realized that. The security there is pretty tight too. And with 12 wizards there guarding the top, I doubt I could go in using stealth." Arthur said .

"Oh, but you can. You see, castles has ventilation systems built in. And you could use the vent to move around without being detected if you are quite enough." Lord Alkemer said.

"Well that sounds good but there is another problem. Where are the vents, and how do I enter them?" Arthur asked.

"Well, fret not, President. There is always a way." Lord Alkemer said whole pulling out a blueprint from his bag.

Lord Alkemer then gave it to Arthur.

"Let me guess, this is the blueprints for the ventilation system for the castle that I am about to break in." Arthur guessed while receiving the blueprint.

Lord Alkemer nodded, "This blueprint cost me a lot, so you owe me one." He said.

Arthur didn't want to owe anyone anything and so he took out 3 gold coins and handed it to Lord Alkemer.

As Lord Alkemer received the gold coins he looked at Arthur. "For someone who is not a royalty, you seem to have a lot of money. So much so that you didn't even bat an eye when giving me such a large sum if money. Who are you really?" Lord Alkemer asked.

"None of your business. I gave you three gold coins already, can't you just take if and shut up?" Arthur asked as he tried concentrating on the blueprint.

"Well, fair point." Lord Alkemer said as he walked away.

After inspecting the blueprint completely, Arthur took left it in his inventory and walked inside the castle and entered his room where the Captain was waiting for him.

"Captain, why are you here?" Arthur asked wondering why the wired traitor was waiting for him.

"Sir, with all due respect, I will have to warn you that you will not be able to win this war." the Captain said with a straight face.

"Captain, don't worry, your family is safe." Arthur said.

The captain then breath a sigh of relief, "So it seems that my little clue did allow you to get the info." he said.

"Of course. You telling me that the scholars gave you the information was really helpful in finding out that you were forced to be a spy to gather information from me. How did you even think of giving me information like that? You must be a genius!" Arthur said. "By the way, your family is at-" Arthur was immediately cut off by the captain.

"Sir! It is best that you don't give me any kinds of information anymore! The spell that they have on me is still active. Which means that they can hear whatever I am hearing." The captain shouted.

"I see... Well it's a good thing that you were fast to react, or else the enemy would have known where you family is." Arthur said. "For now, it is best that you lock yourself in a room to avoid any informations from leaking out." He added.

"I understand. But please make sure my family is safe at all times. The Lord's aren't people that would let go of the smallest of grudges. If they could find me and my family, we will all be killed." The captain warned Arthur with sweat rolling down his forehead.

"Noted." Arthur said while senfinf the captain out of his room.

Arthur slept from morning till the evening and immediately left using his horse secretly, just in case there were other spies in the castle.

As he arrived at Lord Franklin's castle he could see that the sun had set completely with the moon being more and more brighter.

However, even thought it was night, the guards and the wizards were still awake and active. There were a few hundred soldiers that were ready to go for battle. And outside the castle gates was a few camp that had soldiers waiting outside and resting, just in case the King needed any help.

"I really can't afford to get caught. If I do, I will gave to fight against a few thousand of this soldiers with this limited strength I have." He said while taking out his blueprint.

He then put on his X-ray vision goggles and looked at the castle and found out that the castle had quite a few guards in there. But there were no wizards inside.

He then looked at the blueprint that he was holding and for some reason the goggles that he was wearing reacted to the blueprint that he was holding.

[BLUEPRINT DETECTED! WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAVE IT?] The X-ray vision goggles showed a notification.

"Yes." Arthur replied without hesitation and immediately, the X-ray goggles pointed at the entrance for the vent.

But there was a problem, the only entrance to the ventilation system, was right in the middle of the castle garden that just so happens to be the place that is most crowded with guards.

"Sigh, I miss the days when I didn't have to do things in stealth." Arthur said. 'The garden is right in the middle of the castle. So the only way for me to get there is to get on top of the castle walls secretly...' He thought.

The next problem was that the wizards was on the castle walls guarding all sides. And they even had guards protecting them at all times.

"Why are there so much problems... It is almost as if they are prepared for all possible situations!" Arthur told himself.

However, Arthur remembered that he wasn't just a normal person in this world, he was a player from the tower and one of the biggest perks of being a player was his system shop.

Arthur them opened it, and immediately searched for explosives.

[Nuclear Grenade]

As Arthur saw this item he immediately bought it and held it in his hands. He didn't even need to inspect it and he could already tell that this weapon was deadly.

He then pulled the pin off the grenade and used all of his strength to throw it at the front gate of the castle.

Boom! Arthur could hear the explosion so clearly and could even feel the impact of the explosion.

The wizards who was at the other sides of the gate ran towards the exploded part of the gate. The other soldiers that was in the camp right outside the gate also heard the explosion and cam out of their tents and saw the damage that has already been done.

"We have been attacked! All men please get in your stations! All intruders will be killed on sight!" The general shouted as he saw the explosion.

Arthur knew that he didn't have much time left and so he used his grappling hook and pulled himself up to the top of the castle wall.

He then ran around the wall and as he saw the garden he stopped and opened his glider to glide down to the floor.

As he touched the ground he could see that all of the guards that was here had already left to check on the explosion. "Sigh, if I was allowed to kill, I would have already used the nuclear grenade to kill everyone here." Arthur said in disappointment.

Right in the middle of the garden was a small statue of a baby with a vent right under it. The statue looked like it hold no significant value and so Arthur pushed it so he could enter the vent.

The X-ray vision goggles suddenly turned on automatically and he could see where he was supposed to go.

He then crawled slowly to avoid making too much of noise as that will attract too many attention, and considering the situation that he was in, he couldn't afford any of it.

He then saw one of the vents exit and as he looked through it, he could see Lord Franklin and the King right under him. The best part, was that they were alone in the room.

"It seems that there is a intruder that managed to put a hole in the castle wall." The Lord said.

"Hmm, then, are we really safe in this room?" The King asked.

"Do not worry my King. This room is built in secret and all of the builders have been killed to preserve the secret of this room." Lord Franklin said.

"Very impressive. When I get back to power, maybe you should hire some engineers to make a room for me! And make sure that their dead body be buried right under the castle!Hahaha!" The King laughed.

"Hahaha! My King, you make the best jokes!" Lord Franklin said.

Arthur was weirded out by the conversation, he couldn't find what was so funny about what the King say and nether he found anything amusing or even normal. They were talking about killing innocent workers as if they actually enjoyed it. Arthur realized that something was extremely werird abiut the situation that he was in.

He then activated his X-ray vision goggles again and looked around the secret room and there was no guards to protect the secret room.

Arthur smiled as he broke the vent exit and fell on top of Lord Franklin.

Lord Franklin fainted as Arthur's legs kicked the back of his head.

The King looked at Arthur as if he saw a ghost. "Who are you! How dare you hit a royalty, and make him faint?! State your name or your death will be very painful!" The King shouted.

Arthur was still using his mask and was unrecognizable. But he then unmasked himself. "Is this enough?" Arthur asked with a smile.