Thieves Assaulting Thieves

Following behind the delivery girl, Astur's group of four stalk her up to the elevator. In addition to Astur's group and the delivery girl, there are two more people in the waiting area of the elevator, one is a well-dressed rich looking lady and the other seems to be a servant of the lady. But in the eyes of Astur and Illsrvati, the nothing more than a couple of rich targets to steal from.

As everyone enters the elevator and the door shuts, Astur's group make their move. More specifically, Astur and Kretea subdue the three unsuspecting people while Illsrvati moves her spiders to cover the camera near the elevator on the 8th floor. Dragging the three bodies out of the waiting area, Astur and Illsrvati begin going through the belongings of the three unconscious women, ignoring the box of food on the ground.

"These people are far richer than that bloke from the alley," Astur mutters as she sifts through the handbags and wallets of her victims.

"Shouldn't we deal with the food now?" Ystur asks.

"Oh, yeah, now that you mention it, that was the reason behind this operation," Astur says, swiping the delivery girl's hat with the white mountain logo and picking up the bag of food.

Stopping before room 842, Astur turns back and whispers, "Remember, once he opens the door and reaches for the food, we bust in." Confirming the plan with the others, Astur knocks on the door.

Hearing the sound of Astur's knocking, they hear a low voice say, "About damn time," and a few seconds later the door opens slightly.

"Sorry Sir, there was an accident on the road and traffic was delayed. This will be 35.54 VD, but because of our tardiness, you'll get a 25% discount, bringing the total cost to 26.65 VD," Astur says.

"A restaurant that takes care of its customers even in the event of an unrelated and unforeseen accident. Lasophia deserves it's reputation," the man says as he opens the door further and reaches out for the food.

Just as the man grabs the food, Astur kicks the half-open door knocking the man back while she and the others run into the room.

Picking up the man who took the food up by the collar of his shirt, Astur throws him towards the three other people in the back of the room. The rest of the robbers instantly recognise that they're under attack and draw out their weapons as the man Astur threw stands up and does the same.

Meanwhile, as Astur's group enters the room, Illsrvati calmly shuts the door while Astur and Kretea rush forward. Initially wary of any special weapons with properties that could pose a threat, but upon close inspection, Kretea determined that their weapons while high quality, are not anything super impressive, standard mana bolt pistols that when held upside down can transition into a sword as concentrated mana solidifies and extends from the handle.

The robbers point their guns towards Astur's group, Astur takes out the dead body of Joseph from her storage ring, "If you don't want to end up like your friend, surrender and hand over the money as well as your blueprints for your tech."

The man who had previously opened the door looked at the dead body with surprise and his expression was immediately replaced with anger as he began shooting, causing his compatriates to follow up.

Illsrvati and Ystur are hiding around the corner near the bathroom while Astur shakes her head, "I see you're not an amiable bunch."

Under fire, Kretea withdraws her shield from storage and takes cover while her hair extends out to pierce the body of one of the robbers. At the same time, Astur uses both Alchemical Release and Aura of the Turtle and then proceeds to do nothing other than stand still, tanking the mana bullets with her body, not even taking cover behind the dead body of Joseph who had been dropped onto the floor. In what looks to be a move of complete disrespect, Astur lights up a cigarette while being shot at.

Although she isn't as absurd as Asterion, Astur is capable of taking a lot of damage having a health pool far above average while also having several defensive skills. Moreover, the Authority Astur was able to temporarily unseal with her cigarette was her power over life, granting her a large increase to her health regeneration per second. But this also affects everyone around her, including her enemies. However, this isn't a problem in the current situation as Astur's main purpose right now is to show the futility of the robber's resistance. The entire engagement doesn't last more than a minute as Kretea kills the robbers one by one with her hair, piercing their unprotected vital organs. At the same time, Astur slowly walks over towards the last remaining person, the man who had previously opened the door for her and the one she threw across the room.

In a panic, the man turns his pistol upsidedown, switching to its sword mode and attempts to cut Astur. Compared to the mana bullets, the mana sword has more lethality to it, but right before the mana blade can make contact with Astur's head, the sword stops right in front of her eyes as Kretea ties the man's limbs up with her hair as it wraps and tightens around them.

"Lady Astur, even with your durable body, taking on a mana sword straight to your head is a dangerous move," Kretea walks over.

"I disagree. I don't see any danger at all. I had complete faith you would stop it, you are my guard after all," Astur says as she turns to the last robber who is being suffocated as Kretea's hair tightens around his neck, "You should it's not be killing you, I would've shoved a blast bomb down your throat, and if the explosion in your stomach didn't kill you, then the blood loss and internal injuries definitely would."

But the robber failed to hear the last words of Astur before he blacked out. For good measure, Kretea didn't let go even after he fainted and even pierced his heart and lungs with her hair.

Illsrvati walks over and places her hand on the face of the unconscious dying robber, lifting up a silver mask, dispelling an illusion that had been disguising his face, revealing it to be the fallen noble, Karl Rex. Meanwhile, Astur strips Karl's finger of its ring.

But before Astur can take a look into the ring, Illsrvati says, "Someone is coming. Even if mana pistols are relatively silent, we still made a fair share of noise. It isn't strange that someone is coming to check."

"How far away are they?" Astur asks.

"Only a couple of seconds away," Illsrvati says.

Moving a couple of steps closer to the door, Astur lets out a small cough and begins her act, "Ah! Ah! Yes! More! Harder!"

On the other side of the door, an older butler looking man assigned to this floor is about to knock and inquire about the noise complaints, but right before his knuckles make contact with the door, he hears the various moans and other provocative words coming from the other side.

"Oh, young people. I shouldn't fault them for this, I'll let it slide this time," The man says quietly to himself as he walks away.

After continuing for a few more seconds and confirming through the peephole that no one is there, Astur turns around to find the other three giving her strange looks.

"What? It worked. If you lot had better ideas go on and say them."

No one said anything as they continue to pick off the storage rings from the robbers.