Parallel Memory
chapter-350-14051349

Zero spent the rest of his days going through the Dark Guild website and the chat history of Jester. He is working on getting as much important information as possible.

He was also trying to see how Jester's relationship with other members of the Dark Guild was. He had to know who his friends and enemies were in order to act like Jester. However, honestly, judging by the fact that he didn't have any friends on his social media or happy chat with other members of the Dark Guild, it showed how his social life is.

Connecting this with the fact that he was also sent to a remote place to work meant he was a lonely person or an introvert who got bullied by others. This also worked in favor of Zero as he could not be easily identified as suspicious if there were not many people who knew Jester.

Moreover, considering Jester was stationed at OutCast Town for many years, it wouldn't be weird even if Zero acted differently from how he used to. They would not be suspicious of him as they might think that Jester had changed after staying at OutCast Town.

Anyway, with Zero having taken the identity of Jester, it was very easy to infiltrate the Dark Guild headquarters. Jester as a person has no friends, so there are not many who could tell Zero was acting differently.

Then the day came when he had to go to the Dark Guild Headquarter. He came early by a few days as he wanted to explore Dark Guild Headquarter. His mission would only begin in three or two days.

The dark Guild Headquarter was neither hidden nor was it in some remote area. It was in the middle of the city with plenty of other buildings surrounding the area. However, just like the Dark Guild branch in OutCast town, it was also hidden inside another building.

So, to enter the dark Guild Headquarter, Zero had to first go to the Bright Sky Guild and show his token. His identity would be verified by the people working there and he would be taken to the secret location after passing through the security check.

From the outside, Bright Sky Guild is regarded as a normal working guild with a Gold grade. The guild is located at the edge of Star City. While it appears that the guild is not the strongest in the city, it can be ranked among the top-5 guilds.

However, if we compare the real strength of Bright Sky Guild which is the Dark Guild, there was no way that the Top Guild of that city which is a diamond-graded guild could compare to the Dark Guild. Dark Guild's power was comparable to or even greater than a Platinum-graded guild.

Anyway, the Bright Sky Guild is seen as a humble and good guild that would fulfill its duties diligently. Nobody would think that the Bright Sky Guild is hiding hundreds and thousands of Dark Guild members hiding in their building.

With its reputation being good, no one could suspect that Bright Sky guild was actually the secret hideout of the Dark Guild.

Zero entered the secret hideout which was like entering another world altogether. It seems that the secret hideout is protected and hidden by some kind of artifact. If not, so many S-Rank and A-Rank Dark Guild members cannot go unnoticed by The Authority agents.

Zero looked around in awe. He assumed that the secret location was created by Earth magic as it was so big that it would be impossible even with the latest technologies from Earth.

The crowd was quite big and people were moving back and forth continuously. There were also many different shops inside the secret hideout. It is honestly closer to an underground city than some secret bat cave.

Zero/Jester was a big shot at the OutCast town, however, here he could not act as he liked as there were many who were higher than Jester's rank. Even so, Jester's position was not so low that he would get pushed around by other Dark Guild members.

He was still a Rank-A member with a quite high position and even without telling other weak Dark Guild members would not act haughty in front of him and show respect.

Dark Guild was also quite efficient at working in his room and everything was already prepared for him as soon as he arrived. On the way to his room, Zero scanned his surroundings and people with his Insight Perception.

Many of the Dark Guild's members were around Rank-B and Rank-A. It seemed that they were called for a similar mission as the Jester was invited.

Zero could already guess their objectives as he had read the novel where the Dark Guild would blow up buildings and create a lot of chaos before their confrontation with The Authority and Hiro's party.

However, unlike in the novel, Zero was going to sabotage their plan. Since he already knew their objective, Zero was planning to make their plan unsuccessful. Though it was still not the time for that.

Zero needs to first familiarize himself with the place and obtain some crucial information for his plan. He intends to do so in the coming days.

From the novel, the plan that the Dark Guild devised is to weaken the power of humanity, especially the power of those organizations that are stronger than them.

In order to rule the humans, the Dark Guild has to eliminate the strongest organization first. And no organization is as strong as The Authority in the human domain.

The Dark Guild does not have enough power to destroy The Authority and they know it as well. Therefore, they want to make use of the Devils to eliminate their opponents.

However, even with the war with devils, Dark Guild is still not sure that The Authority's power would weaken.

Therefore, they wanted to help the Devil a bit by reducing The Authority's power. And they want the Devils to reduce The Authority's power as much as possible.

In order to do so, they wanted to destroy the supply center, intelligence department, and also other organizations who are an ally of The Authority.

And no time was better than the current one when most of the powerful people had been called for the war.

They knew that it would bring The Authority's attention to them and they would be pursued by The Authority but they still believed that with the ongoing war with the Devil, they would not be able to pursue them for a long time.

This is also what happened in the original novel. Hiro and his friends also help The Authority when they are destroying the Dark Guild. However, in the end, many of them would be able to escape and their organization would still be safe and powerful.

If the Authority continued to seek and destroy the dark guild, they would not have enough resources to defend the human domain against the devils.

In order to avoid that even though they were reluctant to let Dark Guild do so, they had to as they focused their attention on war once again.

That's why Zero had to stop them or else the Dark Guild would only prolong the war and cause more destruction.

He was the only one who knew that and it was kind of his responsibility to stop their plan especially since he had the ability to do so.

If he wasn't capable of doing so, even if he knew the outcome, he would not have risked his life to do such a thing.

It is only because he had become stronger and was confident in sabotaging their plan that Zero infiltrated their headquarters.

Zero had already thought of a solution to their plan. It didn't require Zero to fight the top brass of the Dark Guild or anything.

If the solution was to kill the Dark Guild top brass, Zero would not have sneaked into their headquarters. Even if he had become strong, he was not capable of destroying the Dark Guild which has many Rank-S Explorers plus a Rank-SS leader.

His plan was simple. To locate the mana explosives which would be used for blowing those supplies and the intelligence department and diffuse them. Mana explosives are different from normal explosives as they use mana for exploding, kind of like nuclear bombs.

Dark Guild's mana explosives were similar to the large-scale explosion magic of Rank-S magicians.

Even with the power of the Dark Guild, it is impossible to destroy every supply and they were also planning to attack some of the Platinum and Diamond Guild which are strong allies with The Authority. That's why Dark Guild wanted to use mana explosives.

However, Zero was not going to let them have their way. The only problem with his plan was that Zero didn't have the slightest idea where those explosives were kept.

Even Rank-A members like Jester didn't have a message that said that they would make use of Mana explosives or anything.

It was just written that their group would be attacking the Seraphine training center. Zero assumed that only the leaders of the groups were informed of the explosives.

However, not every attack would make use of the explosives. Only the group whose mission is to destroy the intelligence group and the supplies should be given this information.

As for groups like Frey's group whose mission is to kidnap talented students, they don't really need to know those kinds of things.

Zero started to walk around the Dark Guild's headquarters and try his luck on finding the explosives.

Maybe with his luck, he might easily have stumbled upon the mana explosives.