<h4>Chapter 232: Base Raid</h4>


    Running around the city Lake didn''t see Detector highlight anyone. This meant he had killed all the Demon Worshipers on this tier that weren''t inside the secret base. Running towards the base, Lake used Detector and set it to look for people that could kill him. Thankfully no one lit up but there weren''t many people around so it didn''t mean there wasn''t anyone inside that could hurt him.


    Taking out his sword Lake took down the false wall and walked into the hallway. Once he got through the next door he would be back inside of the base but there wasn''t a reason for him to go inside. Taking out his bow he shot a ming arrow through the wall. Flying it around Lake started to feel the Exp start to roll in again and a few seconds of this he heard the Level up sound.


    [Level up]


    This meant he had just reached level 11 Thief. Lake wasn''t sure what that meant because thief was the only job that had been changed to go past 10. He would check Later if he got anything like two new skills but he doubted he would get skills every time he leveled up. He could see it happening every ten levels though.


    The amount of Exp he would need to get to level 20 was crazy though. The amount of Exp you needed doubled every time so for level 12 was 10240 and that was already more Exp than you needed to get a job to level 11. He would probably need to clear out a few tiers to earn this much.


    He didn''t really want to level up anything that gave Intelligence though so he was fine with this. Seeing he was done with all the people inside the range of Mana Vision Lake waited a few seconds and a few more wandered in. These would be the people sent to investigate what was going on.


    Recalling the arrow Lake shot it again and wiped out the new wave of people. The people that were still alive inside wouldn''t keep sending people to investigate so he had to go in to finish them off. Walking up to the gate, Lake punched it open. Walking a few feet inside he stopped because Detector lit someone up.


    He had it set to look for people that could hurt him so he needed to be careful of this person. Keeping his eye on them Lake wondered if he could kill them if he came at them from an odd angle. If he was to shoot an arrow and have ite out from beneath them he felt there was a chance they wouldn''t be able to dodge in time. Of course it depended on their skills.


    If they had something that warned them of danger he wouldn''t get anything from this attack other than theming at him. He was sure whatever rule was keeping them back now would end as soon as he tried to kill them. He decided to kill some more of the people here before he went after the main guy.


    If his attack failed he didn''t need a bunch of small fry getting in the way during their battle. Clearing out the base room by room, Lake was soon left with only the people in the room with the dangerous person. Lake was going to leave them for after his attempt on the dangerous person''s life.


    Shooting his arrow and controlling it toe from beneath them Lake felt it hit something hard and stop before it reached them. Lake knew what he had hit with the arrow because there was only one thing that had ever stopped one of his attacks with Crunch activated. He had hit some kind of barrier which made him realize why they hadn''t moved from the room they were in.


    This person Detector was marking was probably important past being strong. They probably had a position that made them too important to lose so they nned to just wait till he left. It would work because he still didn''t really understand how to break barriers without being subjected to some kind of retaliation.


    If he went into the room and beat the barrier down with his hands there was a good chance some kind of trap would activate which he would probably be able to survive but then he would be dealing with the person hiding inside and if he had been hurt even slightly the fight wouldn''t go as well for him.


    Turning to leave Lake couldn''t help but think he should just go see what it was like. There was a chance he might be able to think of something if he was to get his eye on the situation and then he wouldn''t have to worry about the person here sneaking up on him while he made his way through the rest of the city tiers.


    Going through a few open doors, Lake found himself at a wooden door with two dead guards that he needed to get through to get into the room with the barrier. Looking at the door for a second before he touched it Lake wondered if a strong wood was actually more secure than metal here in the Metal Domain.


    He had never thought of the fact that people who could control metal were probably prettymon here and since this base had been here since before the attack started there was a chance they would get discovered while people could use Metal Mana making this wooden door a strongst defense.


    He wouldn''t be surprised if it was booby-trapped as well so he needed to use Decrypt before he tried to open it. Seeing the mana start to highlight the formations on the door Lake saw one that would have activated if he was to open it with force and started to look for a work around with the opening formation.


    Looking at the lock on the door it seemed the people inside had some kind of key he would have needed to open it but when he realized there wasn''t a barrier covering the door he backed off and used his bow and arrow to destroy the door by poking it full of holes. Once it was able to open he shot a normal arrow into it to push it open and walked into the room.


    Inside he saw that the room was actually fully made of wood and knew he had been right about it being used as a bunker within the secret base. Turning his head to what he was here for, Lake looked at the ck sphere in the center of the room that the only surviving people in the base were inside.


    He wasn''t able to see through it with his regr eyes because of its color but with Mana Vision and Detector he could tell the people inside could see him. It was probably like a two way mirror like the barrier around the Alchemist guild. Waving Lake said. "You want to talk?" He had nothing to lose by talking to them and he might be able to figure out some stuff by what they said so he felt that this was a smart thing to do while he tried to find a way into the barrier.


    Lake could tell by the way their heads started to move after he said this that they were discussing what they should say to him before they started talking. Sadly the resolution from Mana Vision wasn''t good enough to tell what they were saying by reading their lips since the only part of a person he could see very well was their core so he was going to have to wait for what they decided to say to him.


    While he waited he started to walk around the sphere to see if he could see anything that was obviously important to the barrier on the outside. He had seen formations on the outside of the barrier before and since this one wasn''t very big he felt there was a good chance there would be some this time as well.


    Finding a small formation on the back side of the formation along the ground, Lake used Decrypt on it instead of trying to destroy it like he had done the time he was fighting the Demon Worshiper that had buried him alive. Once it was done reading the formation Lake was able to see why he hadn''t been able to destroy the barrierst time by damaging the part of the formation he was able to see.


    This was the part that held the mana used to power the formation until it was activated so it was empty and not important to the actual barrier when it was in use. It would only cause problems for them if they had to deactivate it before the barrier ran out of mana because all the leftover mana would spill out of the broken formation.


    Finished with his walk around the sphere, Lake returned to the door and waited for them to finish their internal discussion. It seemed they were being very thorough in their preparations for this conversation so he had no way of knowing when it would start if it ever did. There was a chance they would decide they should not talk to him.