Magus: Rise of the Darkness Empress

In the late nights, a small assuming shop was getting surrounded by about a dozens of men. This number was not exceptionally high but all the men present were giving of decently strong aura and looked quite experienced in battles.

This small shop was actually the headquarters of a small scale dark organisation named "Chalice of Pleasant Dream". They were mainly responsible for selling extremely powerful addictive and hallucinating drugs which were banned in the kingdom of Brightshine.

This drug had a very high demand, so for this reason, even though they were a small scale dark orginisation, they were quite rich and had many connections with rich businessmen and other large scale dark orginisations. That was the main reason why they were being targeted by this group of people.

And this group in question was none other than Weiss’s subordinates. After the very successful raid early in the morning, they were going for a second target at the late night.

Currently, two official knights were present to oversee the whole operation. One of them was definitely Hanzic, the leader of this group and the other person was actually his senior, who was none other than Elise.

Weiss herself was still busy making a report regarding the interesting books that she had read in the library today, so she had not joined in this raid. But she had still sent Elise here to support Hanzic’s group.

With a grand knight looking after them, no matter what, they would at least be safe. So the men here could fight to their heart’s content and grow even more in the middle of the battle.

As the men stormed the small shop and the underground area beneath it, Hanzic asked Elise a question.

"Miss Elise, why does all the dark orginisation here had their base under the ground ?"

Elise was in quite a good mood after everyone had seen how awesome her mistress Weiss actually was. So she replied to this question in a very cheerful tone of voice -

"The region where this city is located has a very solid ground. So any underground structure built here is extremely stable and very safe. And an underground base is well hidden from plain eyes so they were very suitable for activities like this. That is the main reason why they are so common here.

In our territory, the ground it very loose and we also have a lot of trees. So if we try to build an underground base like this there, without properly maintaining it regularly, there is a huge risk that the whole base will fall apart.

But we can also do similar things in the mountain area. Mistress Weiss do have some plans regarding this but they are not a priority. So we are still in the planning stage."

Hearing this explanation, Hanzic nodded his head even though he did not understand everything that Elise spoke about. Even though he was quite talented as a knight, his intelligence department was a bit lackluster.

But he had good insticts and he was also good at following orders. That was why he was chosen to be the leader of this group.

But when it came to making decisions on his own, he needed some help. So one of the men that was a part of his team had a very sharp mind. And he was there to help him in this regard.

...

With so many of powerful men taking action, most of the members of this dark orginisation were taken down one by one methodically and quite quickly. But in this dark orginisation, there were three people who were exceptionally strong and were not going down so easily.

They were the leader of the orginisation, an official knight himself, an old man who was just one step away from becoming an official knight and finally the sub leader of this dark orginisation, another peak knight apprentice realm powerhouse who had a chance of becoming a proper knight in the near future.

Hanzic and Elise were not assisting the men even when they were fighting against the official Knights. That was because this was a training for them.

Even through the men individually had no chance of matching an official knight in strength, they had the support of numbers and magic items. With these, defeating an official knight was not impossible for them.

Elise and Hanzic were keeping an close eye on the battle. If it ever looked that their side was about to lose anyone, they would step in. Weiss had a strict rule that even though training should be rough and tough, no one should lose their life during it.

The special and super powerful barriers were used to defend against the attacks while the peak and high level knight apprentices from Weiss’s side were trying or harm the enemies.

For the time being they were not using the special artifact grade weapons because that would make the battle too easy. It was Weiss who had given the order that these weapons would only be used against enemies who were at least mid level knight.

This was actually a very sad scene to observe. A mighty knight was powerless before the might of the magic artifacts and was getting beaten up without being able to do anything.

One might think that this kind of training with low difficulty would not be good for growth. But that was actually not the case. Just facing the pressures from a genuine knight was enough to give the men a feeling of what it meant to be a real Knight.

...

The safe training in the guise of a battle came to an end after all the remaining people including the knight level powerhouse died. Then the people celebrated for just a moment and immediately after that they started to carry all the things out of here.

As they needed to take away objects instead of humans here, this task was way easier than what they had done in the morning.

Elise still told them to be attentive of taking out all the herbs and medicinal materials safely. These were the items that Weiss was most interested in so Elise would not accept any of them being missing.

So with her guidence, everything went perfectly and very soon it was time for everyone to go back.

As this location was made to be sound proof with the use of a magic item, they were able to take their sweet time with their mission.

And after everything was done, Hanzic returned back to his base in this city while Elise went back to the Skepa castle to make a report to Weiss. Another dark orginisation had been deleted by their hands.