On My First Day Undercover, the Organization Collapsed - Chapter 162

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The Organization Collapsed on My First Day of Infiltration Episode 162

Festival Eve (4)

Click.

The moment the door opened.

The Polar Night Dagger absorbed all the surrounding light, instantly plunging everything into darkness.

And the moment they took a step forward, daggers came flying.

Clang!

Gilbert, who had been thoroughly prepared, deflected the dagger flying from behind—

‘Got it! I blocked it!’

Then Ziel simultaneously deflected four daggers that came flying from the front.

As expected, it was an ambush.

‘Three of them.’

One behind.

Two in front.

And—

‘Including Remal, four in total.’

Including Remal, who had hidden himself in the sudden darkness.

Three assassins.

Excessive protection.

Especially if they were assassins from Black Sky.

Most people would have died the moment they set foot inside.

Poisoned daggers.

And that wasn’t all.

Hissssss…

Whether it was set to activate the moment someone entered, deadly poison gas began spraying out.

But this too was something Ziel had anticipated.

Swish, whoosh!

Ziel immediately drew the short sword at his waist and swung it to create a sword wind, driving the gas to the opposite side while simultaneously-

Crack!

He threw the Polar Night Dagger and smashed the device that was generating the gas.

It was definitely in the darkness.

But Ziel’s eyes could see everything.

And at that moment, the light that had been absorbed when Ziel pressed the end of the Polar Night Dagger’s handle in advance burst out all at once.

“Gah!”

“Urgh!”

Screams erupted from various places as light suddenly burst forth in the darkness.

Soon, combat began.

Clang!

Two assassins attacking.

Ziel’s gaze swept over Remal hiding behind the desk.

‘I can’t drag this out for long.’

During his assassin days.

Mage assassinations were carried out with a bit more caution.

Because once mages started using magic, clean assassinations became difficult.

About 2 seconds since stepping foot into the room.

‘The scent of mana is also quite strong.’

The fragrance of mana.

Ziel intuited it.

The assassins had been enhanced with magic.

Swoosh.

The incoming sword strike was fierce and sharp.

In terms of skill level alone, it would be hard to guarantee that even an Expert-level knight could block such a strike!

That’s only if they could prepare for the attack in advance – if it were a surprise attack, they would certainly allow it through.

However, the opponent was Ziel.

The strongest among Black Sky’s assassins, and even a legendary assassin who was called the ‘Specter’.

Clang!

The sword imbued with mana was deflected pathetically.

And then Ziel’s sword thrust straight along the opposite trajectory of where that sword had extended-

Crack!

It pierced through flesh and bone, penetrating straight through the abdomen.

“Guk.”

A short scream.

The assassin pierced by the sword instinctively realized, despite being brainwashed.

That this was not an opponent he could handle.

Thud.

The assassin collapsed immediately when his neck area was touched.

Then Ziel, before that short scream had even faded.

Twisted his body in the narrow room and caught the flying dagger-

Whoosh!

He displayed the remarkable feat of catching the dagger mid-air and shooting it back toward where it came from.

Thunk!

And Ziel, who shot forward along with the dagger, suppressed the remaining one person, bringing silence.

Two Black Sky assassins.

Those two that Remal had trusted absolutely were subdued in an instant!

Clang! Clank!

Meanwhile, combat was still continuing behind them, and Gilbert was gritting his teeth against the unexpectedly strong assassin’s power.

‘If I fall here, I won’t have the face to see Boss!’

Boss seemed to have dealt with two assassins in less than two seconds.

Meanwhile, he was still caught up with one person!

Boss had said so.

‘I only assign tasks that are possible with your skills.’

So he could definitely win.

‘This too is a trial!’

Gilbert gritted his teeth and swung his sword, while feeling something strange.

‘Was my swordsmanship always like this?’

Between movements and movements.

The strange creaking seemed to have disappeared.

‘Could it be thanks to the sword dance performance practice?’

Gilbert didn’t think much of it, though he didn’t know what the students thought.

The students are growing rapidly.

They’re still in the stage of learning swordsmanship.

But Gilbert is different.

His swordsmanship was established long ago, and his growth had also stagnated.

A situation that anyone who reaches a certain level inevitably faces!

But what is this?

‘Something’s different. It’s definitely different from before!’

He could feel it clearly in real combat.

Without knowing it, had he gained some kind of enlightenment—

Clang!

He was blocking all the attacks that he previously doubted he could block.

The moment he realized this fact, Gilbert thrust his sword with more confidence than before.

Whooom!

He drew up his mana sword.

“…!”

It was certain.

It had become a little denser than before.

The mana rippling around the sword had become much clearer!

‘It went up. My level!’

Just as Gilbert was rejoicing.

“Focus.”

Ziel’s single word awakened Gilbert.

Gilbert calmed his mind once more.

He couldn’t disappoint the Boss.

‘I’ll aim for just one opening.’

And finally.

Clang! Clank!

The moment they exchanged sword strikes a couple more times.

‘Now.’

Gilbert thrust his sword into the assassin’s chest.

Thunk!

He won.

But just as he was celebrating.

Tap.

Ziel had somehow approached and grabbed the assassin’s wrist.

“So this is how they brainwashed him.”

What he seized was suicide poison.

The assassin wasn’t trying to drink it.

Judging he couldn’t defeat Gilbert, he had offered his chest and tried to inject the poison.

‘I’ve never experienced brainwashing that orders you to throw away your life.’

Black Sky cherished their assassins.

As tools, of course.

It was an efficient philosophy considering the cost and time invested in each one.

If death was necessary, they would commit suicide.

But they wouldn’t order assassins to eliminate targets at the cost of their own lives.

“Th-thank you. You saved my life.”

“Well done. You won.”

Ziel immediately turned his head toward the desk.

From the moment he had set foot inside, Remal had hidden his body behind the desk.

‘What kind of guys are these?’

It wasn’t that he hadn’t expected an attack.

But it was too fast.

Not even 10 minutes had passed since he sent out the assassins, so how?

‘Could it be that they knew my plan?’

The eerie feeling he’d had since realizing the intrusion had now become fear.

The three assassins he had deliberately positioned were taken down.

But it wasn’t over yet.

‘Good.’

The spell casting preparation was complete.

Remal was a 5th Circle mage.

He wasn’t at a level to be easily defeated.

‘Whatever they did to the assassins, magic will be different.’

The mana arrangement was complete.

Remal straightened his body and pointed his wand toward the two.

And the magic was cast.

Gravity Reversal Magic that would sink everything in a specific area!

It was powerful magic that only 5th Circle and other mages could use.

Theoretically, it was magic capable of restraining even Master-level knights.

However, there was one fact that Remal had overlooked.

‘What?’

No, there was a fact he couldn’t help but overlook.

That his opponent was at a level far beyond his expectations.

“So you embedded it here.”

The wand that had been in his hand was nowhere to be found.

Remal staggered backward in shock.

Clearly, the man who had been in front of him had approached and snatched away his wand.

‘Damn it, the casting failed.’

The magic was cast, but the wand slipped from his hand and the flow was disrupted, resulting in the spell not being cast.

‘Who is this? I’ve never seen this face before?’

There was no way he could recognize Ziel’s face wearing the human skin mask.

The same went for Gilbert who was behind him.

Remal’s breathing became rapid.

He tried to calmly draw up his mana, but-

“Kaaaah!”

A dagger was driven straight into his shoulder.

“Damn it… Krak!”

“So you were the one who used the assassins who should have died once more.”

Ziel twisted the dagger he had driven in.

“You were also the one who attacked the students.”

“Krrgh…”

Ziel didn’t ask for the reason.

He was no longer curious about it.

Retaliation based on results.

That was the reason Ziel came to this place.

“Kuk… Did the Imperial Palace send you? Father? Or Emil? Or perhaps… Kundel or Rihart?”

“No one sent me.”

Ziel lifted up the wand.

“You made me come.”

Then with his other hand, he grabbed and tore out the gem embedded at the tip of the wand.

Crack.

The tip of the wand crumbled as a black gem was pulled out.

“…!”

Remal was horrified.

“Where did you hide the other items and papers from Black Sky?”

Remal’s mind spun frantically.

‘If this continues, I’ll die.’

The last chance to survive!

“Underground, it’s underground. In the annex underground… it’s there.”

The very place where he had hidden Black Sky’s assassins!

“Annex underground. Got it.”

But he hadn’t spoken without a plan.

“But there’s a security device! If you promise to spare me, I’ll go and unlock it myself!”

“Why would I need you to unlock the security device?”

Remal’s words got stuck.

Why indeed.

‘Obviously because I know how to unlock that security, so I’m needed…’

“Looking at the security level of this entire mansion, the security in the annex underground would be at a similar level.”

“Th-that’s why my mana is needed…”

“Then I can just extract your mana separately. Thanks for the information.”

What Remal felt was a massive wall.

A wall he could neither overcome nor do anything about.

“I-I am of Siren…”

“I know. You’re Remal Siren of Siren.”

For the first time, Ziel spoke not in his calm voice but in a cold one.

“And from now on, you’re also someone who will pay the price for what you’ve done.”

“W-wait, listen to me…”

Shing.

Ziel drew a new dagger.

Then, after knocking out Remal.

Thunk.

He cut the back of his neck without hesitation.

Then he extended his hand to Gilbert.

“Magic Stone.”

“Yes, here it is.”

Gilbert finally realized the Boss’s intention.

‘He’s returning the exact same thing!’

The magic stone that had been extracted from the back of Sigrim’s neck.

Thunk.

He embedded it in exactly the same way into the back of Remal’s neck.

Then Ziel poured the drug and made the wound heal completely.

The wound healed perfectly, leaving no trace behind.

“Now cancel the orders.”

“Pardon?”

“The assassins who received orders from Remal Siren.”

“Ah.”

The assassins who might have already arrived at the ‘Night of Kyrene’ by now.

“You’re doing this so that canceling their orders will prevent any more casualties.”

“No. I’m just making it so they won’t be controlled anymore.”

“Ah… Then you’re breaking their brainwashing?”

“No. It can’t be broken.”

Base Brainwashing.

The brainwashing performed immediately after joining Black Sky.

Based on this brainwashing, other brainwashing is layered on for each mission, and deleted when the mission ends.

“If you can apply brainwashing, shouldn’t you be able to break it too?”

“Base Brainwashing is not like that. That’s why this black gem is an extremely dangerous object.”

“Ah…!”

Once someone has been subjected to Black Sky’s base brainwashing, they can never escape it.

This was why Black Sky was called the greatest assassination group.

Truly perfect brainwashing.

The only person who had ever broken free from even that base brainwashing was Ziel, who had learned the Polar Night Breathing Technique!

“Then with that gem… you could control the assassins that guy sent?”

“That’s right.”

“…!”

The strongest organization in history!

The excitement at the prospect of its birth was only momentary.

“But I won’t do that.”

“Why, why not? It would be tremendous power!”

“Why should I? Is there someone I need to assassinate?”

“Well, not exactly, but still, if you had it…”

“We don’t need it.”

“Then what will… if you cancel the orders, won’t they just stop right where they are?”

“Yes. That’s what will happen.”

And they would die.

“They’ll die at the hands of the knights…”

“No. I’ll handle it. After we get out of this place.”

“…”

The brainwashing couldn’t be undone.

If that was the case, then they were ultimately nothing more than assassins who had lost their reason.

But he couldn’t let them continue living under control either.

Boss had already granted death to Sigrim.

But that didn’t feel like killing someone—it felt more like letting them enter into peace.

‘Undoing the brainwashing is impossible… and controlling them with this gem isn’t the direction Boss wants. This must be the best way.’

Gilbert felt a little ashamed.

“I’ll cancel the orders.”

Ziel looked at the black gem for a moment, then channeled mana into it.

The circuit activated according to the command!

He forcibly scattered that complex mana circuit.

Then all the orders embedded within were canceled.

Then Ziel placed the black gem on the desk.

And then-

Crack, thud!

He struck it down with a mana-infused dagger and completely shattered it.

“…!”

“This ends it.”

The only means of controlling the Black Sky Assassin remnants.

The black gem was shattered.

The object that had been like a symbol of the organization called Black Sky!

That object….

The only person who had escaped from The Organization, Ziel, had erased it from this world.

Ziel collected all the fragments of the gem.

“Then what happens to this guy now?”

“I’ll brainwash him.”

“…!”

Then would the powerful mage Remal Siren fall into The Organization’s hands!

“And then leave him be.”

“Pardon?”

Leave him be?

What does that mean?

“That’s the price I think Remal Siren should pay.”

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