BXBX NOVEL Chapter 53: Mission Comes First
"Now that\'s amazing, isn\'t it?" he commented sarcastically as he rushed towards the two maids, not bothering with creating any more flames as he knew that hey could counter him easily.
But that was where it stopped. Thanks to his battle experience, he could tell that the water girl didn\'t have any force behind her attacks. All she could do was spit out water and nothing more.
As he closed the distance between them, he pulled his fist backwards, intending to hit them with his red hot fists. The moment he got close enough, he planted his foot on the ground to stop his momentum and let his fist fly forwards, aiming for the water girl a she was the only one who could counter him.
Just as his fist was about to make contact with chest, he felt incredible resistance that stopped his punch in an instant. It felt like he had just punched a block of iron and he wasn\'t too far from the truth.
His eyes followed the palm that had grabbed his fist until he finally took a good look at the maid who was beside the water girl. Her entire skin was light brown, with the texture of a rock.
"You aren\'t touching her, not on my watch, kid." she said with a condescending grin on her face, but Vincent smirked back, "Hah... I didn\'t really wish to resort to this. You guys might be awakened, but this mansion isn\'t fire proof, is it? All you have to do is get beat up a little and you\'ll be able to keep your lives even if you lose the job.
But imagine what would happen if you let me burn this entire place down."
He read the contents on the system screen with confidence, but the plan didn\'t work as it was intended to. The girl simply sent a punch flying to his face, but Vincent quickly dodged it.
"Oh well." he sighed as he saw a new system announcement appear.
[Temporary Awakened Ability Boost Granted. Time Left: 5 seconds]
He took a deep breath and jumped up, planting his feet on the stone girl\'s torso before using all his strength to send her flying backwards.
"Behold!!" he screamed excitedly as he saw the time go down to 4 seconds, "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH"
As he screamed, thin streaks of fire shot out of his pores before forming into a fire barrier around him. The ball then shot outwards, burning everything in it\'s path excluding the water and stone girls.
The walls, carpets, ceiling, paintings. Not a single thing was spared as the hot yellow flames consumed everything they touched.
2 seconds left, all the nearby corridors had been burnt with flames everywhere.
1 second left, the flames had travelled to almost the entire mansion
And lastly, by the time the timer finally ran out, the entire mansion was burning, both from the inside and the outside. As for the people who might die, Keith wasn\'t too worried as he knew that most of them had means to protect themselves.
As for the unlucky ones who couldn\'t, there was nothing Keith could do and he convinced himself by thinking along the lines of "They\'ll die after a few years anyways."
Vincent was immune to his own flames and his red hot fists had a certain level or resistance to all flames. Due to this, he didn\'t have too much of a problem in finding the hidden staircase that went underground.
He jumped down five steps at a time to speed things up, only to spot an extremely gorgeous woman wearing a night gown, standing at the middle of the room.
Both Keith and Vincent were stunned for a second, but when Keith saw her run towards one of the items that were on display, he immediately sent out a message for Vincent.
[System Alert: Stop her from reaching the items.]
Vincent didn\'t dare delay and went with a shortcut instead of running towards her. Flames shot out from his palms and created a huge wall between her and the items. She immediately stopped, but by the time she turned around to look at Vincent, the only thing in her sight was a speeding fist.
It hit her straight in the middle of her face, breaking her delicate nose but Vincent didn\'t care. He pulled his fist back and sent out another hard punch, hitting her square in the jaw and knocking her out instantly.
"Mission comes first." he said as he looked at her with pitiful eyes before turning away. He didn\'t even bother looking at the items on display and just grabbed every single one of them. The moment his skin came in contact with them, they disappeared.
He did this with every single item in the room before moving onto the two locked wooden chests. One touch, two touches and both the chests were gone with only a few briefcases on one corner of the room.
Smoke had begun to fill the room thanks to the fire above, but Vincent didn\'t stop midway and hurried towards the stack of briefcases.
Once he emptied out the entire room, he took one deep breath of the polluted air in the room and rushed outside with all his strength. He climbed up the stairs and instead of going back through the route that he used to come here, he punched his way through the walls, breaking them one by one.
Four walls later, he found himself on the side of the mansion and looked around, only to see all the servants and some maids getting rescued by the ones who had the ability to help.
\'Lucky me, my path is clear.\' he grinned as he effortlessly climbed up the wall and disappeared into the night.