Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 337 - 231: Nightfall (Part 2)_2

Chapter 337: Chapter 231: Nightfall (Part 2)_2

He had finished half of the day’s work and would wait in a rest area along the way for Sarlas—waiting in the lobby for two strange guests was not wise. If he were to run into a night shift colleague, he wouldn’t be able to explain it away, even with a thousand excuses.

After walking a few steps, the middle-aged man suddenly stopped. He noticed a wallet on the ground.

What’s this? He looked around and saw no one.

So, he bent over, picked up the wallet, and flipped through it, finding only a note.

Opening it, illuminated by the flame of his lighter, the middle-aged man read the words on the note, and his pupils shrank to pinpoints.

He wanted to turn around, but at that moment, a crossbow arrow whistled through his already hardening skin. A cross bolt tore a massive open wound in his chest and sent him flying backward.

Ultimately, the middle-aged man fell to the ground. While struggling in agony, he saw the note fall in front of him.

It contained only five words, but they struck his heart like a hammer.

He stared blankly as two small figures appeared in his dimming vision, and in the last moment of his life, he heard a faint voice.

"In hell, be sure to tell your Chaos Evil God that the blade of Nameless sends its regards on behalf of her beliefs."

Another figure took out a large box and started to pour something over his body.

This was his last memory before the follower of Chaos took his final breath.

......

Matilda returned to the hotel, finding herself still unable to sleep. The fear and despair for the future left her drained, unsure how much longer she could hold on, or when she might fall into perversion and degradation amid her despair.

Despite speaking bravely in front of her sisters, Matilda felt that this was not the life she was meant to face.

The Goddess of Fate truly is a merciless deity.

Matilda sat discontented, angry, but powerless.

Sitting on the hotel rooftop, looking up at the night sky, she heard footsteps behind her.

One step, heavy; two steps, very heavy.

Matilda turned her head and, seeing a figure shrouded in black, smiled and said, "You’ve come."

Any enemy capable of killing her grandfather must be terrifying, and the Evil God Cult, having such formidable foes, must surely have marked her by now.

Looking around, Matilda saw no other targets, "I’m no longer a Paladin, so you think you can take me on by yourself, don’t you? Killing me should be enough to gain the Evil God’s favor... Right, no need to share the credit with others."

The man in black nodded.

"There are seven mentors below, and I don’t think you’d risk failing your mission to alert them, so... I’m leaving first." Matilda turned and jumped off the hotel—it only had two floors; not enough to kill a Big-eared Fox.

Indeed, she landed safely, and the man followed suit by jumping down.

Matilda chose to climb over the hotel’s wall—the man indeed wouldn’t take the risk, but she couldn’t lead this Chaos Folk into the hotel; the mentors might handle him, but the Apprentices wouldn’t.

So she kicked against the hotel door, then using the momentum, she flipped onto the front gate.

She climbed over the wall and the man pursuing her shoved the hotel’s front door open.

"Who’s there!" A mentor pushed the door open, seeing two figures—one big, one small—receding into the distance.

She hesitated for a moment, then turned to her companions, "There’s trouble, count our numbers; I’m going out to check!"

A companion tossed her a sword and she caught the longsword, then hurried after the two now out-of-sight targets—although they were no longer visible, she could smell them, the stench of the Chaos dogs.

......

Malin ran through the streets, frustrated with the Capital’s public transportation system—no special lanes meant that large public carriages were stuck at intersections, unable to move. Malin had no choice but to jump off and run.

Matilda was not in good shape; Malin knew that, but he never realized how important he was to this Big-eared Fox Girl. In his memory, his employer was less her master and more like his meal ticket.

This girl would skip cleaning for leisure intermittently but never missed being first in line for meals.

Then today, that elf girl said Matilda needed him and asked him to see her no matter what... What on earth is going on? Am I, Malin, some kind of panacea? What the hell are you up to, you stinking fox!

Malin decided that when he found her, he would beat her up, then let Faye interrogate the girl to see what she was really up to.

With this in mind, Malin heard footsteps, as well as his own heartbeat.

Malin slowed down, and as he drew nearer to the corner, he stopped altogether, loosened up his body, and then saw Matilda make a shining appearance from around the other side. The Big-eared Fox was sprinting fast, and when she saw Malin, she hesitated and then her eyes welled up with tears.

Malin’s heartbeat quickened. He took out the World Tree’s tender branch and used one of them to pull the Big-eared Fox behind him.

Then a man stepped briskly around the corner.

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