Gamer System in Campione - Chapter 31

Then Ozymandias found himself surrounded on all sides, his instinct alerting him to the sudden presence appearing all around me.

"!" Ozymandias stood ready with a sword appearing in his hand, and around him, over twenty warriors raised their own weapons, assuming their respective battle positions with different weapons of choice.

"Give up, Sir Ozymandias. Our mass teleportation circle has managed to trap you in a perfect circle. There is no way out" A man spoke as he advanced in front of the group.

"Anton" Ozymandias said as he looked at the AMUB member who was nervous in front of Alice to the point that he could barely form coherent sentences this morning.

"You may be a strong knight or a great knight, but even you can't do anything in the face of twenty knights and three great knights, all from various factions of AMUB" Anton spoke calmly as he stood next to his subordinates.

"What have you done with everyone?" Ozymandias asked, still not leaving his battle position.

Anton looked at me with an amused expression, "Why should I tell you? In a few minutes, you will be dead or captured."

"Because depending on your answer, I would be forced to oppose you in the name of my honor as a Knight or accept my loss in this situation and turn myself in. I'm not stupid enough to think I can beat you with everyone on your side."

Anton looked at Ozymandias with a great deal of amusement on his face before laughing lightly. Then he stopped laughing and looked into King Dol's eyes with appreciation on his face, "You are an interesting person, Sir Ozymandias. To be so composed in this situation ... But rest assured, you will not be blamed if bad things happen to civilians. After all, this is the will of A Demon King. And you know that the will of Kings is absolute. In the face of absolute power, your powerlessness will not be blamed."

"You didn't answer my question"

"Actually, I didn't" Anton replied softly.

"At least answer me this. What did you do with Miss Louise?" Ozymandias asked bluntly, his voice gaining an edge with his irritation at being unable to get any information from the deceitful man.

"Several members of our association were sent to the hotel in Witenagemot to ... ah ... 'persuade' her to stop the investigation. After all, we can't have a high-ranking Witenagemot staff snooping around when the main the show today hasn't even started. Anton answered easily, showing the utmost confidence in the situation: "Don't worry. She won't be killed or injured in any way ... ah ... permanent way. We don't want any major friction with Witenagemot as the Royal Arsenal wants, and she will be sent back to England ... As you will also be if you give up and are captured now, Sir Ozymandias."

The Sun King narrowed his eyes, he could beat everyone easily even without his [Authorities], however they could bring reinforcements or attack Alice.

"Go with them, Ozymandias."

"Alice?"

"It seems that UMAB's confidence has increased with Voban's presence. They have probably sealed Campione's support if they are so confident. Even if you beat them, they probably won't divulge any of your plans, even with your Campione status, since they will fear Voban more than you."

"What if I threaten to kill them?"

"There are worse things a Campione could do to a person, even without killing them. Voban, as the master of Balcan, has ingrained this concept into UMAB organizations to ensure their absolute subjugation since ancient times."

"...Like what?"

"Like leaving your outer skin turned into salt while the internal organs are unchanged and rubbing against the salt, leaving the recipient in unimaginable pain until death."

"...I see..."

"Please hurry and answer, Sir Ozymandias. Will you come quietly or will we have to force you to come? We don't have all day" Anton asked impatiently.

"Besides, whatever they use to stop us from interfering, you can easily leave. We can even locate where all the civilians were taken!" said Alice.

"Fine, I will go in peace" Ozymandias said as he raised his hands, letting his sword fall to the ground.

Anton smiled and waved for the Knights to lower their weapons as well, "Perfect"

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One of the cells in a prison in the basement of a random building was dark, small, and there were two nicely decorated chairs with Alice sitting on one of the chairs along with a table with tea.

The sight of two nice chairs and a tea table in a prison that seemed to have been designed specifically for torture by the various equipment Ozymandias saw in the other cells made him raise one of his eyebrows.

"Ah! Sir Ozymandias! How kind of you to finally come!" Alice smiled encouragingly as she greeted him naturally, as if everything that was happening to her was a normal exercise of the day.

Ozymandias looked at the guards locking the cell door and leaving and looked at Alice, "You seem calm for a person who has just been forcibly taken from his hotel room."

Alice pouted and crossed her arms as she looked at me, "Muuu! I only came here of my own free will, Sir Ozymandias. I could have caught anyone who came to me in that hotel, but I saw no advantage in discovering their true mission, so I allowed myself to be captured."

Ozymandias looked skeptically at Alice. Although he understood that she was a person with exceptional talent, he had not yet seen her in action during combat. Therefore, he still had doubts about what she could do.

"Ah! I know what you're thinking! You're thinking that I can't defend myself!" Alice pouted even more as she pointed accusingly at Campione, but with her normally bubbly personality, she looked like a fluffy kitten stuffing her fur to make it look bigger than a predator, "Look at that, I'll show you that I'm not as weak as you think at the end of the day!"

"All right. All right. I get it" Ozymandias said appeasingly as he stroked her head gently and poured more power into the [Staff of Asclepius].

Apparently, she interpreted the appeasing gesture as a derogatory gesture instead as she turned away from the Sun King with a loud "hmph" and a face slightly red with anger.

"Hey, can't you tone down your flirting? I can't concentrate here" A voice said from the opposite side of the prison, in the cell ahead.

Ozymandias didn't think anyone was here except him, so he raised one of his eyebrows and looked at the opposite cell closely, and found a man dressed in a red and black suit. He didn't seem to be very tall, but he had a broad body that indicated his strong constitution. He had an unshaven beard growing on his chin that seemed to start to look like a beard, but failed and instead made him look like a would-be pirate with a red bandanna on his head. Looking closer, he didn't even look Ozymandias' age, with his face still slightly young, unable to hide his age with his incomplete beard.

"My apologies. I didn't know there was another person here besides us" the Sun King said calmly.