Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

He was the brain of this entire operation.

{ "All are instructed to move towards area two." }

And, he was sitting in the special room right between the emperor and Eon.

{ "No.2: check." }

{ "Checking in, No.3." }

…

{ "Instructions received. No.10 moving-" }

Some of their faces were known to the world and using the disguise skills or techniques was of no use, so some of them were using the \'Skins\' that their developer had created to avoidavoid detection from the surveillance devices.

"Hey, you. Who are you?"

The skins were special artifacts that practically changed the perception others could make of the individual wearing it.

It wasn\'t just some physical body suit or a mask but, something that was made with a very high quality materials that were nearly impossible to get leagally.

The creator <Lord twenty one hands> was confident in their creation and knew there was no way for any kind of surveillance device in this world with a technology used in Hiraani to differentiate between the real and the fake. However, they couldn\'t do anything about the human eyes.

"Ah, there you are, you useless employee! Where the hell is this common chamber door! I have been walking around in circles or ten minutes!"

"Yes, sir. I hear you. However, can I know your identity first? Can you show me your-"

"Ah, what is this now?! Who are you to ask My identity?! Don\'t you already know who I am?! Since when had countess hired such useless people!"

They had entered the auction house with their own methods through various gates; however, the people in skins who were using someone else\'s identities had to enter through the front gates like everyone else.

"We apologise for the inconvenience, sir. However, I must at least know your name to guide you to where you are supposed to go."

"What?! It says right here in this thing I have to go to the common auction chamber! Are you looking down on me for getting lost in this place, hun?!"

"Please calm down, Sir Miron, representative of Eastern Nobleman Kaizen Ito. I apologise for my mistake. I will lead you to where you are supposed to go."

"That\'s right! That\'s what an employee is supposed to do! And mind your manners! Calling people by only their name is disrespectful!"

"I apologise."

{ "No.10, engaging in inevitable combat." }

Hiraani was a large castle.

There were three floors above the ground in Hiraani and all three of them had paths leading to one common auction area that was used for the annual auction every time.

It wasn\'t rare for people to get lost if they did not know this structure any better, and since it was common for everything in the Hiraani to become completely different from what it was last year.

Many arrogant nobles who thought they could find their way in here, and went on their own without any employees, certainly got lost periodically.

The employees knew how to deal with individuals like them, however, after the alert from Operator A2 a while back, they all had been on high alert.

"Please, this way, sir."

Seeing a single older looking man walking around an empty place was not something any employee here could avoid, especially when the place had no security personnel.

"Yes yes. Young brat!"

As someone in division F, this young person was just walking around the place to spot and report any suspicious activity.

He was pretty new, however, he was also trained by their Operator A2. He knew when to follow his gut feelings and when to accept the inferences.

-Step. Step. Step.

The old man was obviously someone he had seen for the first time, and since he was not telling him his name, he had to directly request Operator B for information on this individual.

-Step… step.

The young boy instantly referred to the information and confirmed the identity of this old man, and since there was a record of him having bad behaviour and records of his mistreatment of the employees, the operators instructed him to deal with him on his own.

However… despite a green light from the higher ups, which seemed weird to him as well, he was suspicious of this old man.

He didn\'t know why, but he did not feel right about this whole situation. That\'s why he was on guard even as he walked ahead of him.

Sadly walking ahead of a suspect, a rookie mistake, became a failing point for him.

-Swish!

"Sir-"

-Swaaaash!

-Kay.

-Thud.

{ "Employee #F33 down. Requesting post dealing procedure." }

{ "Yei." }

The young man was a graduate from the grand academy, as well as one of their finest from a ffew years ago.

He was a [Rank-5] knight, a rank not just anyone could reach and possessed superior physical abilities than most normal people… and still, with just a lightning fast movement and a strong attack in the right acupuncture point, the young knight was dealt with by the <Uranus Vortex> a known thief and knight [King] that went after famous swords.

And, after cleaning up the place where he had dealt with him, he tidied up his suit and moved his hands through his hair.

{ "No.10. Area two, infiltrating complete." }

{ "Wait till further instructions. <Zack>, report." }

{ "Security system more complex than anticipated. Requesting additional 300s." }

{ "Finish quickly. <Laughing tears>, standby." }

{ "Tsk." }

The first area of Hiraani: The outside hall.

Filled with top class security personnel, highest grade identification artifacts, Master level security mages that could distinguish even a demon from the normal human beings, all of them were part of the area that they had disgusted as the first srea.

And, getting past them was no easy task in any way.

They had to abduct targets that could be used without much of a hassle, make the skins that were the same as the targets, and then infiltrate as those people in the carriages that they were going to take.

And, not all of them were wearing these skins so those who were using master grade stealth techniques and their original identities that was not known to anyone, or were using a special [Bone reconfiguration] technique of eastern origin that could completely change the way a physical body appeared to the other.

They were experts so they weren\'t in direct touch with one another.

As the one gathering them had suggested from the start, they were connected through a certain \'link\' that was created by a grandmaster magic Engineer and was impossible to detect or tap in externally.

It was an otherworldly technology that the people of this world were never going to understand, so they trusted this one source of communication or everything they had to do.

They were all criminals. They knew getting directly involved with an other criminal outside the contract terms was never a good thing so, they kept their distance from one another.

But, they all had successfully passed this first and one of the easiest areas and entered the first floor of Hiraani through various means.

They had a plan outline where they all had to come inside trough the same path, but that changed when the <Black angel> himself reached Area three on his own before any of them had even entered the place.

He was a bastard but he wasn\'t called the best or a living legend for nothing.

He was good, probably one of the best in the entire world when it came to achieving his selfish goals.

Not even the other nine of them were going to get in his way of achieving what he wanted.

He was going to get what he was here for, that much was true already.

That\'s why even as he sat in some room on the balcony, he instructed them and observed their actions through special means.

He was after something today. He did not know how he would obtain it, but he was determined to get that from this place even if he had to deal with every single obstacle in his path.

{ "Done. Beginning redirection." }

{ "Move out. On position." }

The magic security system of the Hiraani, The toughest challenge for the smartest code breaker of the world.

Zack was famous, infamous among every one of the underground mages and magic technicians who worked on the complex magic systems.

Even in the common world, there was no young or old person related to the field of magiscience who had not heard of him.

There were even courses in some of the academy related to his methods of code breaking and, even though no one in this world knew his real identity yet, he had many powerful, and influential acquaintances.

He was a one of a kind genius, and an inspiration that even current mage genius like Alf looked up to.

{ "Anomaly detected. The system control time limit: 180s. Requesting to move quickly." }

There was no magic in this world that he could not break, no system of magic, or magic arrays that could stop him.

He was the best… but even the best who managed to overcome the toughest challenge of his lifetime, now faced another problem.

{ "What?! That\'s not even enough-" }

{ "Gear up, everyone. Move. And Zack, use whatever means you can to prolong the time." }

{ "On it. On it." }

Eon named it [Kaloeidos]. A magic defence system that though was his own personal best, it wasn\'t the best he could have made.

He considered it unfinished, however, even the headmaster admired this magnificent magic defence system and was in the process of creating his own version of the same.

It was not only unbreakable, if one did manage to get past it, it would degrade and recreate itself on its own, making the entire work the breakers had put into this go to shit.

It was not something Zack had ever even thought about, and yes it fascinated him to no end… there was a problem before them now.

And it made the infiltration into the third zone an even more difficult task.