Victoria of the Snowdon Family, the future Countess, was now crawling through a sewer. With her was Isabel, another descendant of a distinguished family.
Both were preparatory students at Cassell College, and among the few members of the operations groups who had received no training from the college or institutions affiliated with the Secret Party. Before their departure, their elders had told them in a secret chamber that the college's history had come to an end. They had to seize this opportunity to secure their place in the new era.
Man's extremity was God's opportunity!
They belonged to the most peripheral unit, the Seventh Operations Group. Their original assignment had been to monitor the Sheqi Eight Clans' maritime transport routes. After the new command system, "Gullveig," came online, however, their group had been dispersed to carry out separate missions. The two women's assignment had become the destruction of Kaguya-hime's server room inside Genji Heavy Industries.
Their progress had been smooth. Intelligence indicated that the Sheqi Eight Clans had recently suffered a severe manpower shortage, while Kaguya-hime had been forced into EVA and Gullveig's battle in cyberspace. With the additional help of alchemical tools, the two had encountered almost no substantial security.
The Sheqi Eight Clans' elevators imposed no identity verification restrictions. Victoria and Isabel boarded one without difficulty and headed toward Kaguya-hime's server room. The main server room was sealed around the clock; those inside could not leave, and those outside could not enter. Only the patriarch of the Sheqi Eight Clans possessed the password and key. Victoria, however, happened to have both the key and a White Card with clan head privileges.
Both were A-Rank Hybrids, and they carried alchemical injections capable of temporarily enhancing their bloodlines. With Gen Chisei, the Emperor of the White King Bloodline, away in