Bottom A, Top O - Chapter 138

He had seen the report of what that mysterious intruder did. He killed 80% of the members who gathered in the main hall without getting caught!

That feat was both terrifying and impressive. Elder Drey felt goosebumps just imagining if he was there, dying without knowing the cause.

The other members did an autopsy as quickly as possible and they found out their blood vessels, internal organs, and brain was heavily injured, and it was roasted to black.

They came up with many theories of what that mysterious intruder did. Of which many theories were messed up and quite disturbing.

Then, a few minutes later to be precise. One of the upper echelons decided to follow Elder Drey’s suit.

It was a woman in her thirties with a filled chest and long, white as jade legs. It was a sight to behold.

Getting up from her seat, she approached the fox girl statue. Each of these statues had its passageway so that the upper echelons could confuse the enemy by splitting up.

Seeing someone else following Elder Drey’s path, the others had their hesitation vanished.

The woman was akin to a trigger which caused a big chain reaction.

One after another, the upper echelons stood in front of every statue except one, however.

They noticed before the statue of the ancient male magician, there was no one occupying it.

Curious, they turned their heads around to find a middle-aged man wearing a black tuxedo with a pointy hat, black bow tie, and a cane on his side.

He was sitting leisurely as he was reading a small yet thick book. It was the size of a child’s hand.

Once in a while, he took a sip and immersed himself back in the book.

This scene was bizarre and odd. They could not help but feel something’s odd.

“Hey, Zero. Are you not coming?” Someone asked.

But no answer from the other party. Silence fell in the room as the upper echelons felt restless.

“Let’s just ignore him.” One suggested and the other agreed. The woman upper echelons observed Zero before turning around and walking into the passageway.

But, just as all of them were about to enter it.

“Don’t you guys think it’s weird why there are ten of us? The same number as the angels He had?” Zero’s voice came from behind as he asked. He closed his book as put it on top of the table.

They stopped what they were doing and turned around.

“What are you trying to say?” One of them asked as they frowned.

“Take the Leader for example. He became a vessel of our god. I don’t know if he’s happy or not as his body becomes one with the Lord.

“However, the Leader’s death is certain. A body can’t share two souls. The more dominant and powerful will have the body.”

Armageddon used a small portion of His soul into the Leader’s body. Even though small, like Zero, had said. It was enough to kill him.

The upper echelons listened attentively and Elder Drey felt restless.

“So what? I do not have the time to hear your nonsense! I’m going ahead!” Elder Drey’s voice spread out to the entire room.

“Calm down, Elder Drey. It only takes two minutes. Have I ever said something useless and nonsense?” Zero asked and all of them fell in thought.

Indeed, has Zero done that? Nope! Zero rarely talks and his personality was eccentric but when he opened his mouth, it could be considered extremely valuable information as it frequently allowed them to think from different angles.

Put it simply, Zero was like a consultant. If the meeting had no results, then asking Zero what they should do was always an option.

Following this line of thought, Elder Drey said with hesitation, “…fine.”

“Thank you,” said Zero as he nodded with a smile.

Next, he retracted his line of sight to the upper echelons.

“We upper echelons are not here from our strength but personally chosen by the Leader. Even among us, there was once a person from the lowest of social hierarchy and about to die on the side of the street. Does anyone know why?” Zero asked them.

The organization was all about strength. Even the ranking system of the members favored the strong. However, in the upper echelon, strength was not of their concern.

They could order a group of Sorcerers, which were many times stronger than them easily.

Thus, not once did those members disdain and look down at the upper echelons but they could not do anything to their boss.

They would be dead, no, probably get a ticket to something far worse than hell!

“Is it because the Leader saw something special in us?” Someone guessed but wasn’t sure and so he ended it in a question.

“Does he see us that much? You guys know more than anything how that guy is.” Zero shook his head.

“Just get to the point already!” Elder Drey urged. The restless feeling he had intensified even as we speak

“Okay, okay. Calm down,” he paused as he made a body language with his hands, which indicated to Elder Drey to settle down.

“The reason why is, the Leader chooses us because each of us has a suitable body for the Lord’s angels. Frankly speaking, we’re tools to complete the Lord’s goal.

“The organization is built because we want to reset the world but said otherwise to the deity we worshipped. What is His goal? Why is He helping us? Out of pity? His benevolence?

“No, Armageddon only sees benefits. From here, I had my guess why He helped us. He wanted His angels to descend in this world without being discovered by other deities.” Zero’s expression was solemn.

His explanation shocked everyone here. It was unbelievable yet made sense. They did not know how to respond.

Especially so for Elder Drey. He was the longest in the organization and had seen it grow like his child to adulthood. The deity he worshipped was also no different than a role model to him.

As Armageddon saved him from a cruel and disturbing death.

Well, in fact. It was the Leader who saved him, though, the Leader told Elder Drey that it was Armageddon’s will.

Elder Drey, who was in a bad state, both in mind and body, felt that Armageddon had come to him to personally save him.

At first, he was skeptical about the existence of the deity but the Leader proved one way or another, by then Elder Drey believed.

He was touched and excited just to think that a powerful deity noticed his presence and even helped him!

There was a sense of superiority and he felt special among his peers.

Though today, he felt betrayed. The deity they worshipped this entire time is going to kill them in the end?

How about the hard work we put in? What about the terrible things we did to you? Were our freedom and life going to be taken despite the things we had done?

Though these questions appeared in their mind, they still could not accept them.

“This is hard to believe,” Elder Drey said with a heavy tone. The others agreed as they nodded.

Then, one of them asked, “Is there any proof that could back your words?”

“I have no materialistic proof but what I’ve done in the past is enough for you to consider it. Regardless, I’m not forcing all of you to believe my words, just take this as a warning.

“If you are still alive that is.”

Zero’s lips abruptly curved and the upper echelons shivered! The woman felt something was missing and hurriedly yelled with heavy body language.

“Everyone, watch out!”

Zero got up off his seat and in a flash, he appeared in front of the upper echelons. The latter was an old man wearing a monocle on his eye.

The old man’s eyes dilated as he was shocked.

Zero sent a powerful punch at the old man’s head and his head blow up to pieces, or at least that’s what Zero thought when the woman kicked his abdomen with her right leg. Zero hurriedly protected himself with his arms.

Her leg was glowing before fading away slowly. Meanwhile, Zero jolted away for a few meters as he stabilized himself. His legs were on the floor the entire time, forming two ditches on the ground and a trail of dust.

Zero whistled as he did not expect one of the upper echelons to be strong.

“Who are you?” The woman asked cautiously as she sized up Zero from top to toe, looking if something was different in him but futile. His looks were the same.

“Isn’t the basic courtesy of asking someone else’s name to introduce yourself?” Zero returned the question. By doing this, he also indirectly implied he wasn’t Zero, but someone that looked like him.

The upper echelons were surprised and felt ashamed. They had a high position in the organization yet someone disguised as one of their friends without even a single person noticing it!