Do not confiscate my citizenship

Chapter 744: Sisterly confrontation between Ifatia and Talia

A full moon hung high in the sky above the port of Hassel. The cold moonlight fell on the calm river surface, emitting a faint red tint.

This is a moated port located on the southeast side of the capital, Blildha.

Far away from Port Hassel is the base of the Brildad Mafia, which is openly a company with a registered license.

"leader."

The buildings on the shore stood in the night. Several figures appeared at the port, passed through the guards of the elite mafia, and came to the tallest black building under the salute of the mafia.

"For one hour, do not allow any cadres to enter above the second floor of the Hasel Building. Go and wait outside."

The leader was wearing a dark black coat, the hood of which fluttered slightly in the night wind. The shadow covered most of his face, leaving only a pair of eyes glowing with a cold light.

"Yes."

His steps were light and nimble. With him in the lead, no mafia dared to hesitate. He led several people through the dark shadows cast by the buildings, making his figure almost impossible to catch sight of.

When a ray of moonlight from the floor-to-ceiling window illuminated him again, his resolute and handsome face was finally revealed, with dark gray hair hanging down in front of his forehead.

Professor Landry and his two students followed behind Patton.

They put on the animal masks Patton gave them.

To prevent other mafia members from seeing Professor Landry coming to their mafia base.

After walking a few steps inside the building, there were no other mafia members in sight.

Barton quickened his pace. Inside the building, the dark yellow floor lamps cast long shadows behind them.

"This is the Hassel Building, and it is also the main building of the Brillda Mafia. Only the leader, cadres, and some members with permission can enter."

Patton led Lanqi up one level at a time.

The interior decoration of the Hassell Building is classical, with mostly black and brown stone bricks, giving it the style of a century-old high-end hotel.

"I'll try to convince your boss."

Lanqi understood that Barton was telling him about the secrecy of this place, and on the other hand, he was also telling him about the danger of the Hassel Building.

No matter what happens, no one else will know.

This is a hidden area where the dead have no place to be buried.

"The person you are going to meet later... is very manic now, and there is a high probability that he will not give you a chance to speak."

Patton told Landry as they walked, based on what he knew about his boss.

He did not have a bad impression of this reasonable professor from St. Cremona's Monastery. At least, a man who was willing to go into the heart of the Mafia alone for his students could not be a bad guy.

And most importantly, he has the will to fight against the vampires.

"So I probably have to block her first wave of attacks?"

Lanqi analyzed and came up with such an answer.

Fighting in person may be a way of exchanging force, but also a test.

"Right. Otherwise she would probably attack your throat directly, making it impossible for you to speak and disrupting her thinking."

Patton agreed.

"Uh……"

Lanqi always felt that this style of hitting someone by covering their mouth first was a bit familiar.

"What are you thinking?"

Talia demanded, placing her invisible hand on his neck.

"Put your hands down before you speak, please, Master."

Lanqi had no doubts.

Soon, Barton led them to his office and stopped in front of a wall-like bookshelf.

His hands adjusted the positions of the books on the bookshelf in an incomprehensible order. With a slight click of metal collision, the seemingly normal bookshelf slowly swung open, revealing a deep corridor hidden behind it.

"You two ladies can stop now."

Barton turned around and said to Elsa and Ursula.

Going further down, they would reach the area that he and Landry could enter. The two students could just stay in the safe office of the leader.

He didn't mind showing them the mafia door.

Because there are only two possible outcomes for the two of them today: either leave smoothly with Landry, or stay in the Brillda Mafia with Landry.

"Brother, be careful."

Elsa thought about it and handed the little black cat back to her brother.

She still wanted to keep her brother as safe as possible.

Boss Cat hesitated and looked around.

Lanci would need it when he goes to dangerous places, and it would also be needed to protect Elsa.

"No matter what you do next, I will try my best to ensure their safety."

Patton gave Lanci exact assurances.

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Barton."

Lan Qi nodded.

Talia determined that what Barton had just said was true and told him in Lanqi's heart.

"Meow, here I come, meow."

Seeing this, the cat boss also jumped into Lanqi's shadow.

Since Elsa is safe, there is nothing to worry about. It feels safer to drive the Ranchi.

"Just go and talk about things, Professor. I'm here so Erza won't be bored."

Ursula fanned the back of her hands and said to Professor Landry.

"Well, see you later then."

Lan Qi nodded.

Barton had also walked towards the passage inside the bookshelf.

Lanqi followed Barton into the tunnel without hesitation. The magic-forbidden steel on the inside of the bookshelf quietly closed behind him, as if it had never been opened.

The light inside the corridor was dim, with a flickering light every few meters, emitting a faint glow.

There was an indescribable chill in the air, as if they were entering an ice cave.

Patton led Lanch through this maze-like underground passage with firm and swift steps, and he knew this secret passage very well.

He turned one confusing bend after another, passed several tightly closed doors of magic-forbidden steel, and finally stopped in front of a silver-white helicopter.

"How powerful is your boss?"

While waiting, Lanqi asked the mafia leader Patton beside him.

In Talia's opinion, Barton Hall was already a top-notch Imperial.

If he had stayed in the military, he would have at least been a major general, and could have posed a great threat to the Allies.

"She is the only one who can give me a little hope in fighting against the vampires. Although it is slim, it is at least not zero."

Barton replied calmly.

He placed his palm on the center console, and the helicopter creaked open. He walked in with Professor Landry. Without any operation, the helicopter began to close and descend rapidly.

Every few meters as the elevator descended, a flash of white light would appear on the walls around it, illuminating Patton's stern face inside the elevator car.

"..."

Lanqi stood in the elevator car and stopped talking.

It might be impolite of him to inquire further.

Patton, who has always been easy to talk to, did not reveal his boss's strength to him. This shows Patton's loyalty to his boss.

However, Lanqi also made some corresponding inferences.

In order to check and balance the blood clan, at least the core combat power of the eighth level is required. If there is not even the eighth level, it will not pose any threat to the blood clan at all.

Just like Patton is as strong as the seventh level, there are basically few opponents for him in the entire empire, but when facing the blood clan forces, it is still like an ant trying to shake a tree.

Therefore, the boss who makes Patton willing to work for him is most likely to have the strength of level eight.

It’s just that among the several widely different levels of the eighth tier, I don’t know which one Patton’s boss belongs to.

The helicopter creaked as it fell, and the entire space began to sink continuously, as if falling into the deepest part of the earth.

Gradually, all the noise on the ground was completely cut off, leaving only deathly silence and a small space that led to nowhere.

When the elevator finally stopped, what came into view was a giant door made of pure white forbidden magic steel, emitting a chilling coldness.

The surface of the door is covered with space barrier spells.

"You actually have a space barrier?"

As far as Lanqi knows, Blood Moon City is a space barrier, and ordinary physical methods cannot reach Blood Moon City at all.

The space barrier of the Mafia's underground is obviously not as large as that of Blood Moon City, but being able to establish a space barrier is not something that ordinary people can do.

“It cost a lot of money.”

Barton seemed accustomed to all this. He took out a crescent-shaped key from his pocket and inserted it into a hidden groove beside the door.

The mechanical transmission roared low, and the heavy magic-proof steel slowly opened. The dazzling white light instantly filled the entire space, making people feel dizzy.

When his vision finally adjusted to the sudden light, a huge underground palace appeared before Lanqi's eyes. The cold air hit him in the face, and deathly silence enveloped the entire space, freezing even his breathing.

The pure white walls and floor reflected light under the ice-blue light, making it seem like a different dimension cut off from the rest of the world.

The Milky Way is flowing in the dome, and it seems that you can see the real starry sky from tens of thousands of meters away.

"Boss, Professor Landry is here."

Patton leaned forward slightly and said.

"Okay, you go out."

In the distance, in the center of the palace, a figure said.

Her face was covered with an illusion makeup, refracting the view like the edges of glass fragments, making it impossible to see her true face. The more you looked at her face, the more dizzy you would feel. Her neck was covered with scarlet cracks like tattoos, and lava-like magic veins flowed downwards, burning her skin.

"..."

Barton was about to say something when a cold magical power quietly spread. The woman in the distance exuded a terrifying murderous aura, like a demon from hell.

As soon as she looked over, Barton, who was about to speak, fell silent under such pressure, not wanting to disturb the boss who seemed to be in a bad mood today.

He signaled Professor Landry with his eyes to be careful, and quickly walked out of the underground palace space. The magic-forbidden steel immediately closed with a roar.

In the underground space.

As if she had noticed something strange about the visitor, the woman slowly turned her head. Her reddish-brown eyes were like two bottomless pools of stagnant water, revealing a heart-pounding chill.

The moment their eyes met, the cat owner, who was separated by a space in the shadow, felt that his soul was being sucked into the reddish-brown abyss, unable to escape.

It felt that its consciousness was rapidly collapsing, and boundless fear was following it like a shadow, almost swallowing it up completely.

The cat boss endured the dizziness of falling into the abyss, held on to his claws tightly, and tried to maintain the last bit of clarity.

At the same time, Lanqi, who was standing opposite the woman, looked calm and was not shaken by this terrifying aura at all.

"There are only two of us left..."

The figure raised the corners of his lips slightly, revealing a creepy smile.

Even her magic voice has a mental effect, making people drowsy.

"I……"

Lanqi was about to speak.

The next second, a crimson flame suddenly rose up from under her feet, like the sharp claws of an ancient demon, dancing wildly in the air.

The Hand of Hell whizzed out at an incredible speed, engulfing Lanqi's figure in the blink of an eye and holding it tightly.

"Don't hit, don't hit!"

Lanqi's body was surrounded by a wind barrier with no special effects. Isolation from the strong wind and the light, the flames did not hurt him.

"Immunity field?"

The silver-haired woman muttered to herself in confusion.

She had thought that Professor Landry's sixth-level strength might be an act, but she had never thought that this guy could actually trigger an eighth-level defensive spell and hide it as a sixth-level one.

It’s indeed a big fish.

Accordingly, she also determined the level of her opponent.

On the surface, it looks like a sixth-level power, but it has a unique way of reaching the seventh-level strength, and can use more powerful moves from time to time.

The magical fluctuations she had sensed before were already far beyond the sixth level.

But there seem to be many restrictions on its body, and its magic output is restricted. There must be a limit!
Frost fog suddenly swept in, centered on the silver-haired woman, and howled and raged in the underground space.

Her figure instantly turned into a pitch-black afterimage, and she rushed towards Lanqi at a speed that was unattainable for ordinary people. There was a harsh sound of wind in the air, and the next second she almost strangled Lanqi's neck.

Although the strength of her magic was suffocating, she obviously felt that this opponent did not necessarily require her to use magic.

Even if it is a contest of strength, it is enough to rip off the opponent's head and splatter blood on the spot.

At the critical moment, Lanqi remained calm.

A barrier woven by mental power formed in front of him, directly meeting the attack of the silver-haired woman.

The two forces collided violently in mid-air, bursting out invisible sparks of magic.

To the silver-haired woman's surprise, Landry's mental barrier perfectly offset her attack and launched a counterattack. The two of them were deadlocked in place, neither of them giving in.

"Your mental magic is too weak!"

The silver-haired woman sneered. Using mental magic in front of her was undoubtedly a small matter.

In a flash, she used a similar inverse operation principle to break down the mental barriers layer by layer and fought back with mental magic.

"Am I weak?"

When Talia in Lanqi's consciousness heard this, a hint of surprise flashed across her eyes, but it was quickly replaced by annoyance.

This guy seemed to be humiliating her. He liked to use the means he was least good at to crack his opponent's best means. This kind of arrogant guy annoyed her the most.

Even when she encountered a tough opponent, Lanqi still told her not to treat the opponent as a mortal enemy, but just to find a way to make the opponent calm down. However, this was a matter of dignity, and Talia was unwilling to give in.

"Wait, can we talk for a minute?"

Lanqi felt like he had met a crazy woman.

This guy doesn't listen at all.

Just like an angry Talia!
"I don't care who you are. As long as I can make you my slave, it will be more useful than anything else!"

Before she finished her words, a ground-shaking magical power surged around the silver-haired woman, dyeing the entire space dark, and countless bottomless cracks spread out like a spider web.

Then, black cursed flames gushed out from the ground. The silver-haired woman controlled these strange black flames to wreak havoc around Lanqi, like an evil ghost demanding his life, wanting to burn him completely to ashes.

……

On the ground at the same time.

Even Elsa and Ursula, who were in the office on the upper floor of Hassel Building, stood up and felt the hair on their bodies stand up.

This terrifying fluctuation of magical power was like two eighth-level masters fighting right below them!
Even though they were isolated by countless layers of prohibitions, the sense of danger could still penetrate to them.

The mafia gangs downstairs also went into alert mode.

"Boss, are you taking action?"

They felt the earth shaking with astonishment.

Hundreds of meters underground in this river port building.

"Meow meow!"

The cat boss was holding his head in the shadow.

It felt like Lanqi shouldn't have come in.

If it continues to fight, it feels that it has no chance of winning.

This silver-haired woman is too terrifying, at least stronger than Perlman, and it is impossible to fight against her just by relying on the possession state.

Talia's entity quickly solidified in front of Ranci, blocking the attack for him and about to release her own ultimate move.

"Curse magic?"

The silver-haired woman sneered, her psychedelic voice full of disdain.

The two people's movements became increasingly mirrored, and even their magic began to resonate and interweave.

Orange feathers of light floated in the silver-white palace, and a fairy-like girl among flowers had landed in mid-air.

Just when their magic power reached its peak and was about to break out into a head-on collision.

"what?"

Two voices speaking in unison.

The magic power close to the realm of gods slowly stagnated from its condensed state, until it dissipated with a little hesitation.

The silver-haired woman seemed to be trying to determine whether this was an illusion.

If this was an illusion, the only thing she could think of was probably [Falling in Tenderness].

But in the land of falling gentleness, the victims will not easily doubt that this is the land of falling gentleness. There is a contradiction in the logic.

That powerful magic, beautiful face, and dignified temperament.

And that aura, different from before, carries the pressure of a demon lord.

no doubt.

She has only one identity.

"elder sister……?"

The silver-haired woman stared at the figure with her eyes wide open in disbelief, tears gradually filling her eyes.

Her murderous eyes froze, and no one knew what she was thinking.

After an unknown number of seconds, she opened her mouth slightly but did not dare to utter a complete sentence.

From the moment her pupils began to reflect the figure of the gray-haired witch, she could no longer take her eyes off Talia's face.

"I, I don't, I don't want to hurt you..."

The murderous intent that the silver-haired woman had been accumulating before was completely gone, and she spoke in a tone of anxiety and fear.

Even though I haven’t seen this woman with gray hair and golden eyes for a hundred years and my memory has faded, I will never forget the closest appearance of her in the world!
Although she didn't understand why her proud sister had become like this and had her soul engraved in a human being, she firmly believed that this was her sister.

The hostility she had when she looked at Lanqi had turned into gratitude and closeness, as if she had seen a family member.

Talia was also confused. She subconsciously tugged at the corner of Lanqi's clothes, as if asking him what was going on. However, Lanqi just spread his hands and smiled, as if asking her to confirm it herself.

He relaxed and deliberately acted as if it had nothing to do with him, probably telling Talia: It seems that I have completed the commission you put forward to me when making the Shadow Weaving Record of Kaliela, and now it is up to you to confirm it.

"Ifatia?"

Talia couldn't see the silver-haired woman's face, nor could she hear her real voice, but when she attacked without reservation, the familiar magic and moves were exactly the same as her own.

She could only call out the name tentatively.

"it's me."

The silver-haired woman stopped using the magic sound, and the illusion on her face shattered like a prism, removing her disguise to reveal her true face.

Her eyes were filled with tears of grievance.

"How will you be here?"

Talia never imagined that this mysterious boss hiding in the underground mafia was actually her long-lost sister Ifatia!
Seeing her sister's body covered with bloody scars, Talia felt her heart tremble.

She couldn't imagine what her lovely sister had gone through to become like this.

The moment Talia looked at Ifatia again.

"Sister, I missed you so much. You finally came to the Southern Continent to find me..."

Ifatia rushed over and hugged Talia, burying her head in her chest and crying.

(End of this chapter)