Vicente sneaked into Millfall as soon as he arrived in the city. Using his concealment and sensing techniques, he used the less traveled paths to enter his city and soon made his way to the army headquarters.
He didn't need to hear from his family what had happened in his absence. Considering the number of Mages who had stayed behind, it was quite obvious that his family would have lost the battle for the weed if they had dared to go ahead with his plans.
But it didn't make sense that Rory hadn't used the herb. After all, the longer they had the herb, the greater the chance they would get into trouble, not only with the local powers but with the powers of nearby cities.
Using the herb in his absence would be dangerous, but keeping it with no guarantee of his survival could be even more so!
Therefore, Vicente had in mind that Rory had risked the herb and lost it in battle since there was really no way the Mazzanti family could deal with the Viscount and Commander Hogan at the same time.
In that case, those two men should have won the battle for the herb, already divided it, and then gone their separate ways.
For Vice, Christopher Hogan was probably meditating at that very moment!
Where was the best place for someone like him to meditate after securing a valuable resource?
The army headquarters, the safest place in town!
So Vicente was on his way to such a place right now, ignoring the chatter of the people on his way while only worrying about his damage control plans.
The worst problem he could have right now would be with the army, so eliminating the one in that force who knew about the situation at The Vile Altar was a must.
As for the third group of enemies he faced there, Vicente didn't have much information about them, so he couldn't do anything for the moment.
Arriving at the outskirts of the royal army headquarters in Millfall, Vicente was able to get a feel of the entire structure of this post from the outside of the barracks and identify alternative ways for him to get inside.
The army headquarters was very well protected and built. In addition to all the surroundings that were being observed, it had several defensive mechanisms around it and a building with few weak points.
But like any such building, this place also had an alternate exit.
'As much as there are defensive and offensive formations here, they are not activated casually.' Vicente thought to himself as he devised the best plan he could think of.
One couldn't use defensive formations all the time. Generally, some kind of initial action was needed to activate such devices.
For example, a powerful attack capable of destroying the barracks building could activate the defensive formations there from a distance. But a simple bird flying between the barracks and the surrounding area would not cause the same effect.
Vicente realized he would have problems breaking into this place through the alternative exit because to get there, he would have to use magic that could activate the barracks' defenses. He looked at one of the entrances and narrowed his eyes.
Then, he moved away from the headquarters and quickly changed into Arthur Hogan's clothes. He smeared his face with some kind of oil and then rubbed ashes into such a body area, also using a blade to make shallow cuts here and there.
By also cutting off his clothes and creating a crumpled suit of armor around his body, he disguised himself as Arthur Hogan and planned to enter the army headquarters through the front door!
'I'm not much different from that guy. If I disguise my aura, I can fool some of the soldiers at this post.' He made his way to the main entrance of the barracks, where only three soldiers were standing guard at the moment.
Vicente knew which soldiers worked in Millfall, i.e., those who did not know Arthur. So, seeing that the three soldiers at the entrance were men who lived in Millfall, he walked briskly toward the inside of the building.
"We have problems. I need to speak to my brother urgently." He said, raising his voice to make it sound like Arthur's.
Magicians in Polaris Realm could imitate other people's voices more easily than people on Earth could do the same. Some were better at it than others, of course, but it wouldn't be impossible to fool someone unprepared.
Vicente would have trouble doing this to one of Arthur's soldiers, who were waiting for their leader to leave for Saltstar City. But his chances weren't too bad against one of Christopher's subordinates.
"Commander Arthur Hogan!" The three soldiers at the entrance immediately took up military positions at the sight of Vicente.
"Commandant Hogan is meditating in his training room." One of the three said while the third of them found it strange that Arthur was hiding his magical realm and not standing next to Alex and Peter.
"Commander, where are Commanders Regan and Asper? What happened to them? You're hiding your aura. Did something serious happen?" The third, a level 4 Acolyte, asked when he saw Vicente stop just inside the facility.
Vicente felt he was already inside the area protected by the defensive formations and turned to look at the man.
"They're dead. An enemy killed them."
The three became more serious when they heard this, two less suspicious, while the man who had asked had his skepticism.
He didn't know Arthur, but hiding one's aura was a bizarre attitude!
As the third one was about to step back, he and the other two suddenly felt something extraordinary.
Since they were all at the same level as Vicente, they didn't stand a chance against him. When this young man used some of his powers, the three felt their bodies stop obeying them, while Vice killed them by moving the metallic components inside their bodies out of their cells.
This simple movement, invisible to the naked eye, was enough to kill all three!
Sensing that no one was watching, Vicente quickly positioned the bodies of the three in the surrounding area, placing hats on their heads to hide them somewhat from his eyes.
Using his metals to hold them in their previous positions, Vicente walked away from this entrance, leaving the three bodies as they had been a moment ago.
Meanwhile, no defenses had been activated since soldiers constantly trained inside the headquarters, and defenses would not be activated by powers activated inside the protected area.
Vicente soon followed the path he already knew because of the information about this place he had gotten from the soldiers in the past.
He soon reached the entrance to Commander Hogan's training room without difficulty!
