CHAPTER 4 Turning Point.

“Nassi!”

I shouted.

And got a reply that fully transcribed boredom.

“What is it Shiki…”

“Man you have been missing out on too many days at school…are you going to leave that desk of yours or not?”

He was inside his grandfather’s cabinet taking care of some work. Probably documents related to the four clans.

“Don’t you see that I have my hands tied to these things…I can’t understand how my grandfather even managed so many problems…”

I said

“Just leave that to Vizer-chan…”

“You know well enough that I would if she was here…this thing is really boring…my grandfather’s secretary is back at quietus…they will be releasing him soon after. The principal told me that she managed to get her hands on some good leverage to get him out of their hands. This shouldn’t take time so I better get things tidy for my Grandfather.”

“You don’t need too anymore dear grandson of mine.”

Said a man who’s voice I least expected.

It was Ryouka Gaz-sama head the head of the blazing fire dragon clan. And leader of the four great clans.

He was behind me wearing his usual cloth with signs of tiredness on his face. He looked…old.

Kaori and the principal were next to him with Kansaki-sama and Ousay-sama too.

Nassi who was still shocked at the sudden appearance of his grandfather instantly jumped from his seat and hugged him…something I never thought he would do. But it seems that he truly did feel lonely without his grandfather…Nassi grew up without his parents and the closest thing he had to a parent was his Grandfather. He spoiled him when he was young and kept him out of harm in many occasions. He doted on him like his son and that is why their bond was always strong.

“Now, Now Nassi. Appearances. Appearances!”

Nassi then got himself together and said

“Welcome back Grandfather”

Ryouka-sama took his chair and said.

“Kazehara…give me all the updates concerning what Ainz and Osfor had discovered back at quietus.”

The principal then responded.

“It seems that Osfor and Ainz had managed to get their hands on footage that heavily condemns the Organization. However luckily their plans are now exposed and they cannot use their plan to bring down the barrier as they will be eradicated by the power of all the countries. I had managed to hold a secret meeting and received the blessing from all four country leaders and even Koldich had approved that if the barrier is to fall anywhere in the four countries, an alliance will be made and we will bring down the Organization ourselves.”

“How come such footage was found…wasn’t that too easy? Too leave something of that value laying around?”

Ryouka-sama said

“No sir. The thing is, they probably never thought that Ainz will go there himself. And by the report I received from him directly. Not a single one of the high ranking Organization officers was in that building the day that Ainz got there. I think they never thought that Osfor would be able to rally the information regarding the place where he was captive and thus they made a mistake in underestimate him.”

The principal responded.

Ryouka-sama massaged the bridge of his nose a bit and said.

“This information changes things…Still I would like to know something else. Did you recover Asura’s body?”

This notion surprised me a bit did Ryouka-sama already know about Asura’s death?

The principal then answered.

“No…Ainz took it to heart and went down that dump looking for the body of his disciple. But found nothing but sludge…He brought down the entire building due to rage and his inability to bury his own disciple…Osfor is back in his lab at the moment he is trying to complete his project…these incidents had left us devastated…but like you said Ryouka-sama we have to strike back…otherwise we will lose face.”

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“Indeed…I wanted to apologies to Ainz personally but it seems now is not the time…”

Said Ryouka-sama but was interrupted shortly after by Nassi

“Why should grandfather lower himself and apologies to that man. It was because of him that whole competition was ruined why should any of us express sorrow or remorse toward a contractor?”

Then Ryouka-sama looked at the principal saying

“They don’t know?”

She sighed and said

“No they don’t it would only cause more-”

Yet before she could even continue Ryouka-sama roared saying

“THEY MUST KNOW!! He was their friend and the least that could be done is that he is remembered as the person he was. Not the way that everyone judged him to be. Tell them!”

Another sigh from the principal was heard then she said

“It seems that we were mistaken. Asura truly did die as a human…some footage that we managed to get our hands on had proved that…we don’t know how, but he was able to suppress the possession and retained his humanity…the death of those people was not his fault. It was the demon possessing him but he somehow managed to comeback yet no one even thought of it that way. Remember Asura as the good friend he was. Being a contractor was never a choice for him. He had no choice in that matter to be honest it was that or death…I would tell you later how all of this happened but you will have to promise to keep the information to yourselves.”

The hell? So that means that he never turned…how? That is impossible?

“Tell me Kazehara…I understand that you are training that kid for the Crucible. Do you think she would make it?”

The principal then answered

“If it is with her current strength. I think that clearing the first twenty five floors will be a long shot. She needs to master her magic. However with my guidance that won’t be a problem. The issue is that she wishes to clear fifty floors and in that I am not sure that she could make it.”

The old man then answered

“Train her as much as you could. She will be the one to judge if she would continue or not. That place is not for the weak and if she could beat the first twenty five floors I am sure she would exit right away…even I was not stupid enough to try and go beyond those levels when I was younger…she needs to see what is inside to truly understand how dangerous it is.”

“Understood” the principal answered.

The two masters on the back have yet to say a word

Kaori then jumped in saying.

“I understand from what Shiki had told me that that place is very dangerous. Is it really worth the risk though?”

I had to answer

“I believe that she has something to prove…and in that no one has right to tell her what to do…we can only pray for her safety.”

***

(1 month later)

Alikh was known to be a country that shared the most of its borders with the blighted lands.

It had an enormous amount of military and supervision over the wall that separated them from that filthy domain. In order to prevent any unwanted invasions or attempts to do anything. However today did seem to be a bit gloomier. The dark clouds that hung over the blighted lands unusually extended beyond the barrier and covered a good portion of Alikh’s borders.

The guards that were on watch duty however failed to see this little premonition that will bring about a great disaster.

Few hours later a stampede of an army was seen by a guard who in his panic failed to ring the alarm bell in time.

Hordes of thousands of monsters, demons and devil alike was charging at the gate.

Their sound was now loud enough to be heard by almost everyone that was guarding the border.

Ringing the bell sound although late managed to put almost everyone on alert. The headquarter back at the capital was contacted and they were rallied with the information.

Panic was apparent on everyone yet they still had faith in the barrier that was protecting them.

The army that was now very close to the barrier had a truly grotesque sight to it. Abomination of all kinds squealed and shrieked threatening to scare the life of the still surprised guards.

Yet while the wall was still up. The guards had no fear for their lives. Yet…

A dark cloud of death soon followed the now halted army and crashed into the barrier corroding it and eating at it. It only took a few minutes until the barrier was eroded and shattered. A SSS barrier was brought down in matter of moments…

Leading the army was a hulking beast almost three meters tall with an ugly scared figure and torn wings.

 He had a giant battle axe on his right arm and roared at the army to advance.

He was first to jump in and with one swing of his axe he brought down a tower that was for guards to watch over the. The impact still wrecked another building whose only sin was being aligned with the tower resulting in both of them crumbling away.

The takeover of the exit point was in matter of minutes as now the demons had secured an access point toward the human realm. All they need to do now is to infiltrate in one fell swoop and take the entire great planes for themselves.

***

The meeting room that was now holding an urgent assembly the leaders of the different factions of the Organization hastily gathered.

“WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS? Was this your doing Mr. V?? Said the leader”

Slapping both his hands on the table Mr. V rebuked the accusation

“NO; I am not that stupid…It must have been someone else or something else…”

“With the incident that happened at your laboratory back in Quietus it does not matter…we will be put to blame for this…you should have disposed of that footage as soon as you could.” Said Ms. C.

But angrily Mr. V responded

“It was not time for the disposal of that footage and you know it I still needed to make a report to the headquarters and-“

“ENOUGH” said the old man.

“It is not time to be fighting…we need to do something about this. How far are you in fully unlocking the Eye’s ability?”

After calming himself Mr. V said

“I am almost done, and the eye after many attempts and failed experiments is now stable. Whenever the eye was implanted in any of the test subject’s eye socket it would killed them almost instantly. However after injecting some of the previous owner’s blood into a another kid, the eye managed to calm down and operate although it is not showing its full potential it is more than enough to close the gates as my workers had presumed. We should use it to close down the gate as soon as possible the invasion that we are encountering is that serious…”

“Good” said the old man then added

“Let them fight the beasts and we like we had planned before we will be the ones to bring salvation…the infiltration might change things up for a bit but I think he can be left of the hook once they find out that it was not our doing. I need all the information regarding the barrier falling down and who caused such a thing…to be able to bring down that barrier and in that short amount of time is unthinkable…it took us decades to do that at Alsa…and now it seems that someone has the ability to bring it down in an instant. This is not something we should overlook. For wealth and prosperity.”

“For wealth and prosperity” responded everyone.