Chapter 250 – Episode 250 – What Are the Identities of the Thieves Who Robbed the Laboratory?

“I’m ruined now.”

Thalia was sitting on the lab floor. She sat down and sobbed. She cried so desperately that her eyes were swollen. Even though the descent was right in front of her, Thalia didn’t even think about standing up.

Why did Thalia, who was usually gloomy, become especially gloomier today?

“How do I fix this? She just isn’t confident…”

On the outside, the laboratory seemed fine. Nothing had changed except that she felt a little cold.

No, she just looked like that. She only looks good on the outside, but the most important part is missing.

Now that she’s gone, not only Talia but also her researchers in her lab are shaking with anxiety.
She is worried that she might be purged by Grid.

There is only one reason why the kernels disappeared.

“Why did there have to be thieves? Why did the thief take everything we worked for?…”

There was a thief. The laboratory where no intruder was allowed was robbed.

As evidence, the entire laboratory was frozen. All the magic tools installed for security turned into ice. Because the security was neutralized, the thief was able to easily break into the laboratory,

All research materials written by Thalia and her researchers were stolen.
Thalia, barely able to come to her senses and return to her laboratory, realized this fact belatedly and tried to deal with it, but to no avail.

Thalia was devastated when she realized that there was no way to make up for her loss.
If there was even a mouse hole, I wanted to hide right away.

I was so afraid that the tyrant’s anger might come towards me.

Because I was afraid, I kept muttering something to myself that was almost like a complaint.

“They stole all of my research materials. How much does it all cost? It’s all there to help Grid. If I can’t recover it, I’ll definitely be punished. I’ll have my head cut off. Yeah, that’ll be enough. Oh, I don’t like it. There were a lot of things I wanted to do. I can finally sleep with my legs stretched out. What is this?”

“Now, calm down, Thalia.”

The person Thalia fears now, Kangrim, rather than reprimanding her, she actually comforted her.

“I don’t plan on killing you, so don’t worry, okay? Do I go around killing people carelessly?”

“…”

“Because it’s real. Do you know what kind of idiot I am?”

She was Kangrim who said that,

-That must be a lie, right?

-Yes, I will. I’m sure they’ll kill me after saying that.

-Oh, what should we do? Is it impossible to turn back time?

On the contrary, her researchers became even more anxious after hearing that.

“You’re a fucking idiot.”

The fact that Thalia drove a wedge is a bonus.

“So it’s not me who’s the asshole…”

Grid was about to say, but Kang-rim covered her mouth.

‘That’s right, I’m the grid.’

I thought that awareness might have improved a bit because we are taking a different step from the damn grid, but I guess that’s not the case. Seeing everyone so afraid of makes me wonder, how evil have they been? Kang-rim had a headache as he didn’t know how to comfort him if something like this happened in the future.

“Wait a minute.”

Suddenly, Kangrim had a doubt.

“Talia, why do you criticize me like that when you know everything?”

She is one of those who know the truth, along with Atria, Iris, and her teacher Teris. Why is Thalia so afraid? She probably knows better than anyone else that she isn’t the type of person to be severely punished for something like this.

“Yeah…”

Thalia answered.

“Because you want to get fucked?”

“…”

“It’s not bad to do it with you as punishment… Huuuuugh?”

In the end, Ganglim fucked Thalia until she went out of her mind.

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“I can’t even use copies anymore.”

After mating once, Thalia said this. Thanks to Kang-rim’s strong fight against her, Talia was able to give birth. Thalia, sprawled out on the floor and convulsing, detailed the current situation with her stolen research materials.

“All the materials in the warehouse melted.”

“It melted?”

“Yes, everything, not a single thing left behind. Oh, if I had known it would be like this, I would have built more warehouses…”

To prepare for the loss of her research materials, Thalia made copies.
She plastered the copies with magic to prevent them from being opened.

I did that, but it all ended up as waste.

“Really, there’s nothing to save?”

Kangrim asked with an expression that he really couldn’t believe this situation.

“Doesn’t exist. Even if she wanted to be restored, everything was killed.”

As she said that, Thalia pointed with her finger to where dozens of her buckets were placed. The inside was full of white porridge-like mucus.

These were all copies.

“Those are all copies. Do you think it can be restored with that?”

“Oh my God.”

It was not for nothing that Thalia despaired. What could she do when she had nothing left to restore? Kangrim couldn’t keep her mouth shut.

“What kind of bastard broke in?”

Did you rob an empty house on the day we had a decisive battle with the kingdom’s army?

Or were you aiming for an after-party?

However, security was not neglected.

Kangrim clearly had guards posted because the enemy could invade even on the day he went out for the decisive battle or during the after-party. If anything happens, regardless of the reason, she even gave orders to kill him on the spot.

However, there was no news that an intruder had appeared. Even the magic tools inside the laboratory could not stop the intruder. He completely committed terrorism and left.

Is this really something that a single petty thief can commit?

“Master.”

At this time, Atria approached. In her hand was a crystal ball with cracks in various places.

“We have secured video containing the identity of the intruders.”

“Really? See you soon.”

“Yes.”

At Kangrim’s urging, Atria breathed magical energy into her crystal ball.
Then, the crystal ball started working. Light was emitted from the front, and the emitted light created a large screen.

Two people appeared on the screen.

“That’s a folktale, right?”

One was a pure white nine-tailed fox. The identity of this nine-tailed fox that infiltrated the laboratory with something similar to a choker around its neck was a legend. The story that appeared on the screen was freezing all the magic tools provided in the laboratory.

And,

“Did the phantom thief come too?”

There was also a woman wearing a black bodysuit and a black fedora. The woman, who even wore a mask covering her eyes, swept all of her research materials from the lab into a bag.

She didn’t stop there, she even broke into the warehouse where the copies were stored. The phantom thief, who skillfully removed the magic, turned all the copies into waste.

At the end, the video ended.

“This is what has been restored as much as possible.”

“Holy shit…”

When Kang-rim saw the identity of the criminals, he almost cursed for a moment.

“Regardless of the legend, I never thought we would come to Tigome.”

“Tigome? Who is that?”

“The real name of the phantom thief.”

Kangrim answered Thalia’s question.

“You heard the name of the phantom thief Arva, right? Arba’s real name is Tigome.”

Phantom thief Arva.

He is a phantom thief who is famous for stealing all the treasures of nobles. Many nobles even put up a bounty to catch the phantom thief, but no one was able to catch Arba.

Later, Arva served as a capable spy for the Anti-Grid Alliance on the condition that the wanted search for him be stopped.

Because Arba had something precious to protect. She knew she couldn’t protect her precious people as long as there was a grid, so she sided with the anti-grid alliance.

‘I don’t know if the promise was kept after Grid died.’

It was true that the Anti-Grid Alliance was able to win thanks to Arva’s performance. The information stolen by Arba greatly contributed to the downfall of Grid.

“He is the talent I am trying to recruit to the assassination group.”

Kangrim planned to make that phantom thief Arba his subordinate. Any monarch wants to have talented people with outstanding abilities. Since he knew well what the phantom thief’s fatal weakness was, he believed that he would be able to easily defeat him.

I never thought that Arba would appear here. Even when she appeared, Kang-rim thought that she would aim for the empire’s treasury, but he did not expect that she would rob the laboratory. Why did he target the laboratory? And that too, accompanied by a folk tale.

“This is just my guess.”

Atria lays out her own hypothesis.

“Isn’t it the mercenary king’s request?”

“Mercenary King?”

“Yes, as far as I know, I heard that phantom thieves are not clean thieves. I heard he’s a guy who does the dirty work if he has to.”

“Well, definitely…”

It was also mentioned in passing in the game. He said he didn’t mind doing dirty things. So, Arba himself said that he was not a righteous enemy.

If you connect that point, the reason for raiding the laboratory can be explained to some extent.

“And there is a rumor that the phantom thief’s residence is Roseum. If the rumor is true, wouldn’t it have been a request from the Mercenary King?”

“It’s not wrong.”

Kanglim did not deny the claim.

“Because he comes from the slums of that country. “If things hadn’t changed, I would still be living there.”

“Then…”

It was then that a soldier came running in haste.

“Master, this is an urgent report.”

“What’s going on?”

Kangrim asked the soldier who came running.

The soldier opened his mouth.

“The artifacts were stolen. The facilities were also damaged.”

“What?!”

Kangrim’s eyes widened upon hearing the news of another theft.

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After a while, Kangrim immediately called the three people.

“I issue an emergency order to you, Stella, Tega, and Crocker.”

Stella, the leader of the Assassination Team, Tega, the leader of the Turtle Team, and Croker, the leader of the Crocodile Team.

Gangrim called the three people into the conference room and gave an order.

“Catch the phantom thief. Her younger brother too.”