LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 187: Coax
"We retreated as soon as we saw the Ifrit near the Door. My teammates briefly saw a window where we could get rid of the Canzer, but I stopped them. It was too risky."
Ninth and her team saw the lone Ifrit clone walking over toward the Door. Some of her teammates thought that the clone was far enough away from the Door that they could have killed it without affecting the Door, but Ninth thought otherwise.
Even if there was a 90% chance they were right, she still wouldn't take that chance—not when the fate of the entire City was in her hands.
"A wise decision," said the old woman with long white hair.
The old man in the middle looked over towards Carmine and asked with a heavy tone, "Is there a chance that the Sapient Canzers had a hand in this?"
Carmine consulted with his team, speaking in hushed tones. They didn't seem to be that confident about their answers.
"No. We don't think so. They would have blown up the Door the moment they had the chance. The Ifrit reaching the Door was simply just an accident."
Ninth nodded as she heard his explanation. She had experience dealing with the Sapient Canzers and knew that they had a deep-seated hatred against humans. They wouldn't hesitate for a single second to detonate a bomb that would kill millions of people.
"However, we are certain that they have heard about this incident. There is a 90% chance that they have already dispatched their forces to the Church to prevent any of us from killing the Ifrit.
I'm certain that they will try to kill the Ifrit if they get close. We need to get there first before they cause the clone to self-destruct."
The elderly people at the table grimaced at his words.
Meanwhile, Atlan was surprised to learn the fact that Sapient Canzers could dispatch their forces.
He never really knew how Canzers spawned in the Remedium. He always thought it was at random, but if he tried to decipher Carmine's words, then it seemed like Canzers were more like an organization that could send their 'troops' to any location any time they wanted to. Enjoy new adventures from empire
That means that they live in some kind of place, right? Are they located in a dimension other than the Remedium?
Wait. He only said that about Sapient Canzers. Maybe they're the only ones that are organized…
"We must lock in our plan of attack." The bearded old man stood up from his chair and reached for the realistic miniature model hologram of Genesis City. His hand reached for the Church and he pinched it outwards.
Suddenly, the holographic zoomed in to the Church and showed a realistic and detailed depiction of the Church's interior.
He waved his hand and the dark gothic colors of the interior of the church suddenly turned white. All of the colors were transformed into their negatives.
This was a replica of the Church's Remedium!
The pews in the Church were skewed, the candles near the confessional were completely melted, and there were glass shards scattered about near the windows.
This wasn't a replica—this was a real-time depiction of the Church!
What kind of technology is this? Lizzie said that all technology is made by Operators…how do they build this?
The old man swiped forward and breezed past the altar and onwards to a discreet door hidden in the walls.
The hidden room led to a staircase that led further down the basement.
At the end of the stairs was a dark room that was about 20 times bigger than Atlan's own house.
At the end of this empty room was a large wooden double door almost as tall as the ceiling of the Church itself! It was massive. There were carvings of different clocks and keys, which were prominent symbols of the Genesis God Himself.
Even though this door was the largest door Atlan had ever seen, he didn't see why this door was as important as others made it out to be. It didn't exude any kind of magical or mystical presence that he expected.
For a place that could spell the death of the entire City itself, he would have thought there were at least some paranormal lightings around it. Instead, it looked like a normal wooden door.
SNAP
The old man snapped his fingers and a statue of an Ifrit appeared one meter away from the door.
"Is that an accurate depiction of the scene?" asked the old man.
Ninth and her team nodded. It was exactly where the Ifrit was positioned when they left.
"We have no way of sneaking up on it, so we must go from the front," one of the old men who stayed silent the whole time spoke. "Operator Carmine, what do you suggest we do?"
Carmine fixed his orange hair and looked at the whole scene in front of him. He knew the traits and habits of Ifrit, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. He knew that as soon as they stepped foot off the staircase, the Ifrit would immediately notice them.
Even with the fastest Savior in the City, that wouldn't be enough time to subdue the Ifrit and prevent it from self-destructing.
"Even if we create a new construct, it needs to be activated to at least within 50 meters from the target. The distance from the staircase to the Ifrit is 52 meters.
Those two meters might seem like a short gap, but the Ifrit won't let humans take a step for even half a meter before it wants to explode.
For us to get near the Ifrit and close that gap, we must coax it."
The old woman nodded her head. "What do you propose?"
"Since this is a hostage situation, we must establish contact. We will consult with another Specialist Operator about the proper body language to disarm the Ifrit and show that we mean no harm.
Once we have assured the Canzer of its safety, then we must answer its demands.
We must give it Ninth's blood and a pound of her flesh."