Madame Xing couldn't believe her eyes. The Arcus Kiss could be considered the premier gentleman's club in Partisan. This place due to being exclusively for the 1% had the highest security imaginable.
Yet not one, but five individuals arrived and got it without tripping any alarm or summoning any guards. Either everything was broken or these people were crazy good.
While her heart grew joyful when Alan shielded her with his own body. She could hardly enjoy his protection when all her senses screamed at her to run away.
The Arcus kiss had overlapping arrays, protection skills, and alarms that would either stop an assailant, call the authorities for help or summon automated defenses. In her panic, the woman turned around and saw something that made her shiver.
The area behind her looked like a war zone. Guards including Rick and Rolland were on the ground unconscious with multiple broken bones. Doing a quick check the madame learned none of her guards were dead.
Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for her prized automated defenses and trained war hounds. Fifteen war hounds she painstakingly raised here in halves or quarters while the automated skill turrets, ballistas, and mines were all destroyed.
'How in the world did they manage to destroy everything without alerting anyone?' She then noticed a barely visible film that seem to wrap around the ground. 'Heavens! A space isolation skill of the size of an estate! How powerful is this man!'
While Madame Xing served as a spy, she also dabbed in assassination. Unlike Alan, who barely got to level 25 at 57 years old. She got to 30 at 52. This meant to contrast to the merchant who was still at the [Initiate] rank the woman got to the low [Adept] rank.
And this difference affected everything from Caliber and health pools to even stat clutches. The woman then started to understand the fear in Alan's eyes. These people were the ones who could kill a SSS class monster invasion.
Just how powerful would these people be? Such a force would be elite or even among the ranks of royalty. Where did Alan meet them? As the woman wondered three gorgeous men assisted each of the maids from earlier.
Their faces were like fallen angels that were sent by hell to seduce women to sin. Extremely beautiful with ripped bodies that had just the right amount of muscle. They were wearing expensive-looking noble battlesuits.
Even at her age, her eyes marveled at the gorgeous-looking physics and bulging packages in their nether regions. Yet, none of them paid any attention to her as each carefully served the maids like knights.
'Such beautiful men are only servants? Where the hell is their agency?! Please let me take your entire stock!'
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"Lady Raylene, are you alright? I have a potion with me to heal some of your injuries if you want. Are you perhaps hungry? The master made some food in case you are famished. Maybe a drink?"
"Uh, no I am fine thank you."
"How about a chair my lady? Do you wish to sit on me?"
"Are you a pervert? Get away from me. I said I am not interested."
"Great! Then I don't have to die unnecessarily."
"Get away from me."
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"Lady Vanessa, please hold still, the master would murder me if you remained injured and I did nothing about it."
"Please do not concern yourself with me, I am fine."
"Please let me heal you at least my lady, getting beat up by the master's anger is not pleasant."
"Why does my welfare affect your master? Just who are you?"
"It does my lady, I will be decapitated if there is so much as a scratch on you."
"Please get away from me."
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"Lady Jade, Are you in need of anything? What can I do to make you feel more at ease?"
"Go away."
"I unfortunately, do not want to die. Please bear with it for a little while."
"…"
"Please tell the master I did my best."
"Go away."
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Madame Xing then noticed a woman with white hair approaching her. She carried a rapier and what looked like folding wings behind her back.
"Mr. Srayver, you okay? I must say you must love this woman a whole lot to have the balls to get between her and Nii-sama."
The madame of the Arcus kiss turned scarlet as she hid her face due to the happiness of being called Alan's lover. Extremely observant, Tsugumi thought the old couple looked cute and felt like cheering them on.
"Lady Tsugumi, please help me convince the master that Xing is innocent. I beg of you."
"I don't think you need to worry about that. She will not die. I give you my word. I will ask my brother to spare her on account of your love. Those three on the other hand would still be dead even if they had 100 lives."
'Who is this girl? I like her very much!' Madame Xing thought.
"Thank you Lady Tsugumi. When did you arrive?"
The white-haired woman then placed her hand on her chin as she tried to come up with an answer. "I think we arrived around two minutes ago?"
Xing started inwardly sweating. 'Two minutes? Two minutes? Are you serious? My prized defenses that can stop Level 50 [Adepts] got destroyed in under two minutes?'
Tsugumi then called out to Xing. "Ah, by the way, sorry about the dogs, Lars and I begged Nii-sama to spare them. He punched one in anger and its corpse exploded and killed the others when the bones turned into something like arrows. Sorry."
"Excuse me?"
The sister Mitsurugi thought Xing was hard of hearing so she repeated. "When we arrived all your defenses went up, Nii-sama couldn't be bothered and destroyed them all."
'Sorry? Just sorry? Do you have any idea how much the defenses cost? I spent a fortune on those!'
Before she could say anything else, however, the beauties got smashed into each other as they bleed all over. The sound of bones breaking made the entire area focus on them.
'My word this guy does not hold back even against women! Just look at how beat up the three are! Who would hit a beautiful woman so hard that half her face lost form? The other one has a depressed ribcage... how is she still moving? Even the one who got kicked seemed to have broken her neck.'
The faces and body parts of the women suddenly started to fall off their physiques like clay. Their dresses also dropped to the floor exposing bodies that looked like wooden puppets.
All three stood back up even with their severe injuries. They forced their limbs into the right places. Before long sabers came out of their wrists. The three puppets then moved towards the butcher in front only to get dismantled by his martial arts.
The man moved like a boxer and smashed his fist covered in calibers into the puppet's wooden frames. Despite being outnumbered man repeatedly destroyed the puppet's blades, limbs, and neck in an attempt to get them to stop moving.
When they still got back up even after the man broke them numerous times. He suddenly pulled out a bone greatsword from thin air and slashed the puppets. His assault was so throughout they could be used to be used as confetti afterwards.
"These fucking things are annoying. Where the hell are they even from?"
