CHAPTER 96: THE BODY IS JUST A SHELL

A few days earlier in Frostbane city, the military and enforcers were busy cleaning up the underground facility of the endless night and collecting any evidences present for investigation.

Though most of the tunnels, arrays and secret rooms were cleaned up, the main laboratory was still being cleared. So not many enforcers were present, just about four teams of three with their captains were doing the final cleanup.

The four captains were standing together, ordering the ones under them, who were moving around busily doing all the work.

"How can such madmen exist? They don’t have an ounce of goodwill left in them." the first captain said.

"These kinds of people are born evil, they think their ideologies are the truth of this world, and they maniacally follow them to the end." Said the second captain.

"So many innocent lives were lost because of them. they’ve been under our city for so long and we didn’t even feel a trace of them." the third captain said shaking his head in pity.

"What happened to the women that were experimented on?" the fourth captain listening and standing beside them, finally asked.

"They are under strict observation. Many alchemists and wizards are taking a look at them, trying to find ways to reverse the process done on them." The first captain said.

"If the daughters and son of the Ranatosh, those adventurers and the saint candidate weren’t there at that time, God know what would have happened to this city. I doubt if Frostbane would have still survived." Said the third captain.

The others sighed and nodded at his words.

"Hey! Don’t just throw those bodies, they are crucial evidence! How come I got stuck with these newbies." The first captain screamed at the two enforcers who were collecting the bodies on the steel trolly.

He rushed to the two of them that had just thrown Jekyll’s two body parts onto the trolley.

"All the bodies here are important evidence. We have to submit them to the special investigation team you morons! Do you want me to throw both of you out?"

"W-We’re sorry sir." The two of them shrieked back in fear as they apologized.

"Don’t stack other bodies over it now. Follow me out, let’s submit this one first."

The two enforcers nodded and started pushing the trolley out. Just then the first captain’s eyes fell on a shiny ring on one of Jekyll’s fingers.

"Stop!" the two of them stopped immediately. The captain then crouched down and pulled the ring out from the finger and put it inside his pocket.

"Ahm! Ok, move on." He cleared his throat, and started moving behind the two of them.

"Look at this greedy bastard." The second captain said with a chuckle.

"I have a family of five to feed, you think my puny salary is enough for that? We need to find ways to get some extra coins." The first captain smirked as he said.

The others laughed but didn’t say anything, as they too had profited like this many a times.

"Hey, wait a minute!" The fourth captain called out to the first captain who was moving out. "Guys can you cover me for a minute? I need to take a leak."

"Haha! Go on. We’ll be here anyways."

He then moved and caught up with the first captain. All four of them then started moving out of the laboratory. They moved to a temporary lift made to move out faster through the large hole made by the Kong.

They boarded the lift and signaled at the enforcer above who then channeled mana into the stone as the lift started moving up.

The lift stopped at the extended platform connecting the lift to the solid ground. They moved upon the platform and after reaching the ground they started pushing the trolly through the forest road towards the containers for the body submission.

"Why don’t you relieve yourself in the forest, we’re all men here, who’s gonna judge?" the third captain said.

"I have to take a shit too. I’ll do it in the toilets in the container region." the fourth captain said embarrassedly.

"Haha! Alright."

"What is going to happen with the young women now? can they live a normal life or they have to be in confinement their whole lives?"

"I don’t know. The higher ups will decide all this." the third captain said as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Where are they kept now?"

"I think...they’re in the enforcer headquarters towards the south. But why are you asking all..."

The third captain stopped midway, he felt a slight pain in his chest, and when he looked down, a small sword had pierce through his chest. Blood jutted out of his chest and also rushed out of his mouth and choked his wind pipe.

"Y-You..." he pointed towards the fourth captain beside him, who was holding the sword piercing his chest, before he could say anything, the sword was pulled out and he fell on the ground, dead, and lying on his own blood.

The fourth captain put his hand inside the third captain’s coat pocket and pulled the ring out and wore it on his finger.

"What should we do with the bodies Lord Jekyll?" one of the enforcers pushing the trolley asked looking at the fourth captain, who was Jekyll himself.

He had curly grey hair, but his face looked younger and his body had some muscles, enough to look fit. He pulled his round glasses from the pocket and wore them.

"Burn them." he said.

"Even your body?" the other man asked. The two of them were also heretics of the endless night and were in cahoots with Jekyll.

"Am I not in front of you? I don’t need it. It’s one of my clones anyway."

They conjured a flame in their palms and threw it at the two bodies as they started burning.

"Should we recover the women?" the second heretic asked.

"Right now, they are under full security. Since we know the location, we have to wait for the perfect time. Hide inside the city for a few days. I’ll send words for you two." Jekyll said.

"What did the cult leader say about the success of the experiment lord Jekyll?"

"I haven’t been able to meet him. he’s busy with some mission. I’m now going to him. there are many things to be briefed. But I’m sure he’ll be ecstatic." He said with a wide grin.

"Alright. Go undercover. Wait for me. I’ll be back very soon. Till then try to find any blueprints of the enforcer headquarters. Our preparations need to be thorough."

"Yes, lord Jekyll!" they nodded and moved away hurriedly, leaving him alone.

Jekyll pulled out the old book with the brown cover from his ring. Seeing it still there, a wide smile spread on his lips.