Conquering The Game's World

"No, I said the wrong thing." Olivia shook her head, realizing her mistake. "You all are safe. That's already enough."

Cobert nodded with a listless face. Not caring too much about this matter. Besides, he was already happy that his secret wouldn't be revealed.

If Luis and Alicia were here. The changes in Olivia would surprise them very much. After all, the experiences in the Temar Kingdom mission didn't let them have a favorable opinion of her.

Olivia checked the other bodies too and observed the battle marks.

"Did Luis not take part in this battle?"

She asked a question, which made him feel unexpected.

"Why do you say that, Professor?" He asked, curious to gain her insight.

Olivia pointed at the bodies and explained.

"Luis is a lightning element user, but these bodies don't have the marks of being electrocuted by lightning attacks. So, either he didn't fight, or he didn't use his element."

"Does it leave unique marks?" This new knowledge he gained surprised Cobert.

It's not surprising that he doesn't know about it. Although he has been an assassin for quite a while and has done several tasks. Lightning is a rare element, after all. So, it's difficult to come across an opponent with lightning affinity.

'Just in case, I should learn to determine and erase the traces left by Lightning Element. I have a feeling that it is going to come in handy in the future.'

"You haven't answered my question yet?" Olivia reminded, while feeling a little proud, thinking that she regained her dignity as a teacher. 'I just have to keep it up and make Luis and Alicia change their opinion about me.' Especially motivated, her thoughts became even firmer.

To be honest, even she didn't know about these things before. She got to know about it from Cyndy when she examined the captives' bodies, whom Luis defeated. Now she used that knowledge to pretend in front of her student.

"Yes, Professor, it was me and Miss Sufi who fought on this floor."

Olivia tapped her chin with a thoughtful expression and asked.

"Hmm, Cobert. Is it convenient for you to explain everything to me in detail now?"

"I don't mind, Professor." Cobert nodded with a neutral face. While, inwardly, he cursed. 'Of course, I must do it. That shameless bastard left all these boring things for me to deal with. Well, putting my dissatisfaction aside. Since he is my employer. I can't say no to such a simple work, now, can I?'

As he thought so, Cobert calmed down and started explaining everything from the start.

"We were going to meet up…"

While she listened, Olivia had also turned on her recording. Most of these things, she had already known from the recording Sufi sent, but she didn't interrupt him.

…

"… We took a hover car ready to look for them. At that time, Luis said that William was seen going to the dockyard. However, he didn't tell us the source of that information."

Since Luis hadn't refrained him from talking about these things, Cobert also explained it smoothly. Besides, he didn't know how much or what Sufi had told her. He didn't want their statements to be inconsistent and arouse suspicion.

Olivia wasn't surprised when she heard this. She guessed Luis must have asked for professional help from his family, just like what he did last time when he called the person named Lily.

"You continue."

Cobert nodded. "Sometime later. He asked the driver to change the location to this warehouse."

'Hm? Did he use his button drones to track William?' Olivia pondered, and Cobert's next words confirmed her thoughts.

"… He showed us the live video feed of William." To be honest, Cobert still didn't know what method Luis used, but he was very curious in his heart. He felt that if he had that method.

The intelligence-gathering ability of the Night Hawkers will take a big leap forward and the assassination tasks will become a lot easier.

Thinking of all this, he became a little excited, but it didn't take long for him to calm down.

'I need to think about it before I talk to him about this. Besides, it's up to him if he wants to share such a method or not. I don't think the price he will demand would be any less.'

Cobert then continued speaking, and the more he spoke. The deeper Olivia's expression became.

"William's brother was the criminals' leader!"

"William asked his brother's subordinates to kidnap Bonnie!"

"The two of them wanted to rape her!"

When she heard this, Olivia couldn't hold back her anger and erupted. "HOW DARE THEY!!!"

She clenched her fists and stared at the corpses of those criminals with fury. Her eyes were blazing as if she wanted to resurrect them and kill them again.

"That's not all, Professor."

"What else?!" Olivia turned to him.

Cobert remained unaffected by her furious gaze and stated calmly.

"William's brother seems to be a graduate of the Oracle Academy."

"What…?"

After hearing this, Olivia's eyes widened in shock. Some memories of her past resurfaced in her mind, but she immediately shook it aside and asked.

"Do you know his name?"

Cobert nodded and stated. "Karlos... from their conversation, it seemed like he graduated three years ago and had faked his death to become a criminal."

Olivia frowned, not having an impression of such a person.

"So, what happened? In the end, where are Karlos and William?"

"Well, Luis had a tough battle with Karlos and in the end, Karlos exploded, committing suicide with his brother," Cobert explained the same way how Luis told him.

"Seriously?" Olivia was dumbfounded.

"Brothers' Love, Luis said."

Olivia's lips twitched as she asked. "Where did they fight?"

"Underground floor, Professor."

"I see."

Olivia had already noticed the stairs, so she started walking towards it. Cobert also followed her.

Halfway through, they found out that the rest of the stairway had been destroyed and there was a lot of collapsed rubble and debris everywhere.

"Is this the result of Karlos' suicide explosion?" Olivia muttered as she took a leap and landed on the ground gracefully.

Cobert jumped after her and landed beside her smoothly. This set of action from him, made her surprised.

'Can an F rank jump from such height with such ease?' Doubts filled her heart as she decided to observe him more in the future.

Cobert didn't know that he had made such a low level mistake and attracted Olivia's attention. At present, his mind was more focused on the amazing sight in front of him.

'Wow! What kind of battle did they have here?'

'Did he tell the truth? Looking at the state of this floor. It does seem like the result of a powerful explosion. But why didn't I hear its sound?'

Olivia, at this moment, was already observing everything around them. In some places, she found that the ground was wet.

'Hm, water?'

She turned to Cobert and asked, "Was Karlos a water element user?"

"I don't know, but William is a water elemental, at least."

"Hmm, I see."

Olivia nodded, thinking William must have fought with Luis, too. So, it wasn't weird for water to be here.

She looked around for a moment and didn't find any more bodies.

'It seems the only corpses are there on the upper floor. *Sigh* In the end, we couldn't find their purpose for coming here.' She didn't believe it was for Bonnie. Especially after the meeting she just came from some time ago. 'I have to talk about this with Professor Darrin.'

However, just when she was about to turn around, she noticed something from the corner of her eye and her steps halted.

Cobert just observed her actions with a curious expression as Olivia moved towards the rubble. She took out something that even made him feel strange.

"What's a fish doing here?" Olivia mumbled in a weird tone as she held the dead yellow fish covered in dust.

"Could it be this warehouse was used to store fish?" Cobert pondered.

"No, it's very fresh. Like it was just caught." Olivia, a part-time fishing expert, said with keen insight.

She thought of something and examined the water on the ground even more carefully.

"No wonder I thought something was strange earlier. This isn't normal water, it's Seawater!"

"How could that be?" Cobert raised his doubt.

"Are you doubting the judgement of a fishing connoisseur like me?" Olivia gave him a deadly stare.

Cobert gulped. "No, Professor, how could I? I was just wondering why there could be seawater and fish here."

"Hmm," Olivia kept staring at him, then nodded. "I am wondering the same."

Cobert sighed in relief. Then thought of something and asked. "Professor, is there any mutated element such as Salt Water?"

"I don't know. At least, I haven't heard of it."

Never in her life, she had heard of someone having salt water as mutated element, but she didn't dare to be absolute. After all, there are many secrets in this world.

"Are you suggesting Karlos is a mutated element user?"

"Yes."

"Hmm, but this doesn't explain what's this fish corpse doing here," Olivia said in a grave tone.

"…" Cobert opened his mouth to say something but then closed it, thinking it was not worth it.