Villain in a Fantasy World; I Level Up by Conquering Villainesses-Chapter 57: Money Heist [1]

Dante finally arrived in the underground world below the jade river where the main vault of the Central Bank of Falaniondor was hidden.

The vault was a massive underground hall.

The large hall was rectangle-shaped, and there were 12 identical circular doors of blackened steel inside, 5 on the left, 5 on the right, and 2 on the opposite end to where Dante just climbed down and emerged from.

According to the information that they got from Mr. Ralph- Pandora, every single one of these circular doors of blackened steel led to a different vault of wealth of the Central Bank of Falaniondor.

Dante was now at the heart of the bank’s wealth.

Just like expected, each door was sealed and heavily guarded with armed soldiers of the Falaniondor Army, standing perfectly still in the shadows like living Centaurs that were trained to look like bronze statues.

Their powerful armored forms gleamed and absorbed the light, their eyes never leaving the vault floor as they scanned constantly like computers.

They were silent, listening for every tiny sound.

Overhead, narrow bands of cold luminescence cut through the darkness of the vault, showing the jade river water above and reflecting of the metallic walls and turning every surface of the vault into a mirror of wealth.

The floor was polished stone, etched with geometric wards designed to detect blood, qi, and the slightest sinister intent.

They were specially designed to detect intruders, especially Assassins.

To an Assassin, despite their myriad stealth skills to eliminate their presence and create silence and invisibility, this place felt loud without making a sound.

But Dante was not caught off-guard though.

In Mr. Ralph’s letter, Pandora especially warned him about the defenses of the vault area and he was ready.

There were 20 guards protecting this vault area, and every single one of them was at least a Level 40 powerhouse.

The moment the Assassin stepped foot into the true vault area, even with the combination of his stealth skills, the qi wards in place detected his presence immediately, alerting the guards.

Armed with bows, arrows, swords, and spears, the guards instantly reacted but the Assassin infiltrator already moved.

Shadow Step!

Backstab!

Before the guards could organize themselves into a cohesive defensive formation, Dante stepped through the shadows with his daggers and silently appeared behind one of the guards wielding a Spear.

Bzzz!

Due to the qi wards of the vault, the C Rank Warrior detected the Assassin’s presence behind him immediately as he swung his spear to attack.

Partial Phase!

Dante directly faded through the attack without losing momentum before stabbing his dagger into the neck of the Warrior as the Centaur shuddered and grabbed his neck amid a shower of blood.

The other guards immediately turned to focus there, but the Assassin was gone again.

Shadow Step!

The moment Dante disappeared, this time instead of attacking directly, he did something else to turn the battlefield into his home ground.

Smoke Veil!

PUFF!

A qi-smoke cloud detonated in the middle of the guards, quickly saturating the air with a smoke cloud that blocked both vision and qi sensing.

Inside this smoke cloud, an Assassin was at home.

Afterimage Kill!

Dante hunted like a ghostly predator.

...

Less than 2 minutes later...

Drip! Drip!

The sound of thick blood dripping to the ground echoed as the terrifying brown-eyed Assassin dragged his last victim, a towering Centaur that was bigger and stronger than the others through the carpet of blood.

In just 2 minutes, Dante assassinated all 20 Centaurs that were stationed to protect the vault, leaving a scene of raw carnage in his wake. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Of the 20 guards, only their leader, a B Rank Warrior gave him some trouble but still, he didn’t even last 20 seconds against him.

This was the power of an A Rank Null of the Assassin Class.

The polished floor of the vault was now slick with blood, and the carnage that just happened here plus what was going on above already triggered the warning alarms of the Central Bank of Falaniondor.

WOM! WOM! WOM!

Loud alarm sounds blared around the bank and yet, outside, people went about their day like nothing was happening.

This was because of the strong illusion and psychological distortion powers of Pandora and Xoreth.

This was figuratively daylight robbery.

Dante dragged the leader of the guards towards the first of the 12 identical circular doors of blackened steel, then he pressed the dead Centaur’s right and left index finger on the fingerprint sensor before scanning his irises with the eye scanner.

This was another application of Illusionist powers in the bank security.

The moment this was done, a slight humming sound came out of the door as it unlocked and then...

Click!

The circular door of blackened steel yawned open like the mouth of some domesticated god, revealing the wealth that was stored inside.

Inside, millions of gold bars and gold coins spilled across the metal floor in glittering tides, their stamped faces smooth and alluring.

Ingots laid stacked and toppled like fallen masonry across the floor.

Seeing this sight, Dante finally revealed a smile.

He didn’t start his raid yet as methodically, he carried the leader of the guards’ corpse to all remaining 11 doors, using his fingerprints and his eyes to open all the doors before his body turned cold.

Like the first vault door, some held millions of gold bars and gold coins, spilling everywhere while locked in other vault doors were millions of qi crystals and neat stacks and bundles of Falaniondor bank notes.

They were piled high in rows and columns.

Gems were scattered among some of the gold coins- sapphires, rubies, and diamonds, reflecting the wealth of the Kingdom of Falaniondor.

Dante sniffed the air.

The air smelled faintly of metal, oil, ink, and wealth. He grinned, then he untied the palm-sized pouch that was tied to his waist.

The moment he untied the pouch, the previously tiny pouch instantly expanded to almost 10 times its original size.

This pouch was an A Rank Artifact called the World Pouch, it was retrieved from Dreadmoor’s Armory just for this mission.

It was a spatial type Artifact with the carrying capacity of an entire city!

After bringing out the World Pouch, Dante dipped his right hand into his pocket and brought out another object, a bony finger swirling with sinister black and green qi. The finger was designed to look like a bone flute.

He raised the bony finger to his mouth and blew on it, and instantly, a cold sinister energy that seemed to come from the underworld invaded this vault.

Dozens of skeletal minions instantly climbed out of the ground in the vault. After climbing, they stood obediently in rows before the A Rank Assassin

The bony finger was Bruno’s own index finger that he nonchalantly cut off and gave to Dante for this mission, blowing on it could call a tiny portion of his undead army to assist him.

The moment the dozens of skeletal minions appeared, they looked at Dante with reverence, waiting for him to give orders.

Dante calmly pointed at the 12 opened circular doors and instructed. "Gather everything inside these vaults and keep them in the bag".

The undead skeletons instantly went to work.

The heist started!

...

While Dante started the heist deep inside the underground vault of the Central Bank of Falaniondor, Xoreth continued causing a commotion in the surface.

And at the same time, Pandora finally met the leader of security of the bank, Sir Greg.