Hitman with a Badass System

Chapter 580: Rational bad guys

After getting yelled at by Igor, the soldiers of Rottgard finally began to cast spells. On the other hand, Eve kept spinning her hammer and prepared herself to be bombarded with spells. She was more of a close combat fighter rather than a spell caster. Thus, instead of casting spells, she chose to hit her foes with the hammer. It always worked for her and she wasn’t going to change now.          

    

“Pillar of Iron!” One soldier at the level 10 Core Strengthening stage raised his hand, forming a giant pillar made of energy in the air.  It was so large and long that it would hit his fellow soldiers before hitting Eve.     

“My expectations are way low for you guys but holy fuck, you keep surprising me!” Igor felt like he was about to lose his mind. Instead, he slowly started to learn why House Rottgard could never surpass House Voldigard. With incompetent soldiers like them, how could they achieve anything let alone wipe out the Voldigards?     

He got more furious when he noticed the soldier keeping the pillar in the air instead of just hitting Eve with it.      

“Hit her!” Igor shouted. He wanted the pillar to hit the others more than Eve because they were just staring at the pillar instead of finishing casting spells.     

“Yes boss!”     

Finally, the soldier shouted and brought the pillar, swinging down at Eve.     

Boom!     

However, the moment the pillar hit Eve, instead of Eve flying away, it was the soldiers who got scattered by the shockwave. The shock wave didn’t spare Igor either as he too was sent flying several meters by the force.     

When Igor managed to get himself to his feet, he saw someone standing in front of Eve with a black shield.     

“Ghost?”     

Eve couldn’t believe her eyes.      

“A fucking Fusion stage? What the fuck?” Igor scratched his eyes in utter disbelief. The man who shielded Eve looked so young, perhaps younger than him. Yet, he was at the Fusion Stage.     

“Thank you for inviting me to a plague-ridden city Eve,” Ghost rolled his eyes,     

“How can I suffer alone?” Eve let out an exhausted chuckle, stumbling forward.     

“I got your back,” Michael quickly wrapped his hand around Eve’s shoulder to steady her.     

“You know you don’t have to do this right?” Eve could barely utter these words,     

“I do,” Michael gave a quick rub to her shoulder and turned his gaze towards Igor.     

“Dude look, this can go two ways. I will kill you and your guys and your family will get involved, fight me, my family will get involved, the two families will fight an all-out war, we both suffer and another one will try to take out the one who survives. Or, you take your guys and head home and wait for the plague to wipe out the Voldigards,” Michael calmly talked to Igor,     

“If you die here, it doesn’t matter if your family kills me or not. You will be under six feet instead of enjoying your golden age. So why don’t you have a little patience and choose the second option?”      

Igor deeply thought about what the youngster just said. Finally, it made sense to Igor. There was no point in dying and Igor knew no way in hell he could defeat a Fusion stage warrior with these incompetent fools.     

“Boss, we should get out here. My mask has a crack in it!”     

“Mine too!”     

“Oh my god we are gonna die!”     

“Boss save us!”     

Looking at the soldiers shouting, Michael almost laughed.         

    

“Oh fuck, they are embarrassing me,” Igor screamed inside.     

“If anyone asked, I fought and survived a Fusion Stage cultivator. Got it?” Igor asked his men as they frantically bobbed their heads up and down. They wanted to get out of the place as fast as they could and nothing else mattered to them.     

Finally, after two days of battle, Eve saw Igor and his men flying away from their compound. After their figures disappeared into the clouds, she heaved a sigh of relief.     

“Wow, those are really different. Where I came from, they would have chosen death,”     

“Don’t be too happy. They will return here with more guys. And what the hell? When and how did you reach the Fusion stage?”     

“I’d love to explain, but can we do it inside? I was kinda hoping for a grand welcome from you. I have to say, I am a little bit disappointed,”     

“It’s not too late to go back to Elon, Ghost,” Eve whispered while Michael was taking her back inside the castle.     

“And spread the plague to Elon? No thanks. How about we cure the plague and get filthy rich huh?”     

At this point, Eve couldn’t hear him clearly. She just smiled and closed her eyes, trusting Ghost got her back. With Eve dosing out on his shoulder, Michael pushed open the giant black metal door to see the gloomy dimly lit hallway void of any life.     

Just like any other castle hallways, the walls were decorated with portraits of various Voldigards. As Michael was walking on the red carpet, he could hear coughs and growling coming from inside.      

“Jennifer…Jenni…” Eve began to mumble under her breath.     

“I got her,” Michael whispered to Eve, walking her to the hall. As soon as he stepped out of the hallway, the sight of countless people on the marble floor welcomed him. The people were coughing and vomiting blood. He didn’t expect the air to be so pungent with a strong nauseating smell. It was enough to turn any grown man’s face green.     

“You better pray I don’t get sick, bastard,” Michael heard an angry shout and looked up to see Gaya climbing down the stairs with Nightmare on her shoulder.     

“And Eve Voldigard, I presume?” Gaya looked at Eve, who kept mumbling Jennifer’s name.     

“What then ruckus out there? Did you kill them all?” Gaya asked, standing on the stairs instead of getting to the hall.     

“Nah. They seemed nice. When I said to turn back and leave, they really did that. If it was back on Elon, we would have had an all-out war by now,”     

“We may have something far worse in our hands,” Gaya looked at the elves, humans, and beast men with gray skin on the floor. She creased her brows, looking at them growling and coughing up blood.     

“Look what we found,” then, with a flick of her wrist, Gaya took out an empty vial from her space ring. She threw it at Michael, and when he caught the vial, he immediately recognized what was inside the vial, just by the smell of it.     

“Our healing potion. They were treating them with our healing potion,” Gaya said with a tinge of surprise hiding within her voice.     

“Finding a treatment. That’s half the battle won. Let’s put her in her room and start working on a cure,”     

With the system’s help, finding a cure for the plague didn’t even seem like a big deal to Michael. But, as an alchemist, he had a few ideas about where to start.     

“We may know where her room is. Follow me,” Nightmare leaped into the air and flapped his wings, leading Michael above the stairs to the second floor.     

Michael took Eve in his arms and flew behind Nightmare. Despite the fact there was a woman in his arms, Gaya didn’t feel the slightest jealousy because she trusted him.     

Plus, Michael told Gaya about how he felt about Eve. If Eve was a friend of Ghost, she would be a friend of hers too.     

Following Nightmare, Michael entered a spacious corridor and flew past several rooms. Every single room contained a sick person inside.          

    

After passing ten or so rooms, Michael came before a marble door where he saw the name ‘Eve Voldigard’ engraved.     

Gaya pushed open the door, but instead of finding an empty room, they found Jennifer lying in a large circle bed in the dark room.     

The curtains were all shut to prevent any light from coming through the window. To be honest, Michael felt like he had entered a boy’s room because the room was messy as hell. There was not a single book in the room but broken dummies, swords, shields, and robes were thrown all over the place. He even saw a brat hanging onto a portrait of a lion.     

Jennifer’s skin was gray, unlike Eve’s, and they saw blood oozing out of Jennifer’s ear, drenching the white pillow beneath. Michael gently placed Eve beside Jennifer. Although he shouldn’t place Eve beside a patent like Jennifer, Eve was already infected, and there was no point in quarantining Eve.     

They were all past the point of getting quarantined. Instead, Michael focused on finding the cure. As a first step, Michael placed his hand on Eve, sticking a needle inside her wrist from his APD. He took a blood sample from Eve and took a giant needle from his system storage.     

“That’s one big ass needle,” Gaya raised her brows, seeing Michael sticking the needle into Jennifer’s neck and sucking out enough blood to turn her face paler. Even after taking a giant needle through her neck, Jennifer didn’t move an inch. Nightmare could barely hear her heartbeats. If he was right, Jennifer didn’t have long to live. Maybe a week or two at most.     

Michael put the two vials of blood into his system storage before summoning the system.     

“System, analyze the blood sample and offer me a cure,”     

[The system level is too low to find a cure by analyzing the two blood samples. The system can find a formula to the cure if the host provides either a blood or a tissue sample of patient zero]     

At the moment, Michael didn’t have enough points to upgrade the system. He would rather have the points in case of an emergency rather than spend them on the system. For some reason, Michael felt he would need the points soon. Besides, he would return to Mazeroth soon. No matter what, Mazeroth was a place controlled by Skyhall. It would be stupid to venture into enemy territory without having backup plans.     

“Patient zero huh? Eve might have an idea,” Michael sat beside Eve, taking out a healing potion from his system storage.     

“What’s the plan?” asked Gaya.     

“To find a cure, I need the first infected person. I think Eve might know who that was”