The Greatest Sinner

Evan was furious. He realized that Berta was much stronger than he was, but he wasn't going to leave. He still had the two bombs he had bought for today's plan. Moreover, with Roland's spell, they would be able to get rid of most of the Dark Dogs members.

"Roland, we'll kill them all and take all the treasure for ourselves." Toughly, Evan said.

"Got it." Roland nodded, and the next moment the water hands clenched and crushed the seized members of the Dark Dogs.

Berta hadn't expected something like this to happen. Right in front of her, her comrades were killed.

"You bitches!" Berta shouted..

Boom.

Immediately after her words, two bombs flew into the room. They instantly exploded, and the whole building shook. The remaining member of the Dark Dogs died instantly, and Berta was wounded. She was on stage - 'Two Pointed Star,' but those bombs might have given her a couple of burns.

Evan and Roland entered the room and prepared to fight.

Berta looked at them with fury and shouted, "Do you really think you can get out of here in one piece after that?"

The next moment she lunged in their direction and swung her massive sword with all her might. Evan and Roland reacted instantly and dodged with difficulty. Evan wasn't suicidal, he was sure they would win.

<She outnumbered us by a whole level, but she doesn't seem to have any mana left for any spell. The bombs weakened her a bit, as well as destroying the skeletons. Roland and I still have a lot of mana, we have to win.> Evan thought.

Bam.

Evan dodged another blow and ran up to Roland, quickly said: "Distract her for a minute, I have an idea."

Roland nodded, and the next moment a long katana appeared in his hands. It was covered in a layer of water, and many deadly drops flew toward Berta. But, she didn't duck. She had no mana left, but she was far superior to Roland and Evan in strength. The drops couldn't even leave a scratch on her body. They were no different to her than ordinary water drops.

"Are you crazy? Using a level zero spell against me? It looks like I made a mistake, and I should have killed you right away," Proclaimed Berta and attacked Roland again.

The sword's point passed in front of Roland's eyes and deeply embedded itself in the wall behind him. Roland continued to attack, dozens of drops hitting Berta, but she didn't care about them.

Bam.

Berta brought the sword down on Roland. He didn't have time to dodge, so he decided to defend himself with his weapon.

Crackle.

There were many cracks in the blade of the katana, and a second later, it snapped. Berta's two-handed sword was a rank two sword, while Roland's katana was only rank zero.

Whooosh.

Roland's spatial ring glowed, and two bracelets appeared on his arms. They flashed, and electrical discharges began to accumulate in his palms.

"You're too stupid, did you really think any of my actions didn't make sense? What a disappointment." Roland said contemptuously, and the next moment he clapped his palms together.

The next moment a mighty bolt of lightning struck Berta. Roland spent most of his mana on this spell. At this point, it was the strongest move in his arsenal. Moreover, he used two magical artifacts at once, which greatly increased the power of the spell.

There was no way Berta could dodge this attack. The speed of this lightning was much faster than the speed of sound. Only a couple of seconds later, thunder rumbled throughout the building.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Berta screamed in pain. Roland had used one of the most powerful first-level spells. Even a mage at the stage - "Two-pointed Star" could not endure such an attack without taking serious damage.

Her skin was charred and bleeding from many places, but she could keep fighting.

<Darn it, if that guy had been on the same level as me, I'd be dead by now. Where did he come from?"> Berta was looking at Roland's burned palms.

He too took damage, but he drank a potion the next moment, and his wounds began to heal slowly.

"So you mostly use lightning bolts? All right!" Berta said loudly and quickly drank two potions. One increased her regeneration, and the other covered her body with a transparent, blue shell. It greatly increased her resistance to lightning.

"You decided to protect yourself from me? Clever, but you made another mistake. I'm not the biggest threat here, turn around, there's a psycho behind you who wants to tear you to pieces." Calmly Roland said and quickly ran out of the room. Even he didn't expect Evan to decide to do something like that.

When Berta turned around, her eyes filled with fear. Evan was out of bombs, but there was another powerful explosive in this room.

While Roland fought Berta, Evan quickly collected the spatial rings from the corpses of the Dark Dogs. He put them in a special box so they wouldn't explode. But when he was ready, he opened the box and threw it toward Berta.

Upon close contact and contact, many spatial rings exploded. This explosion depended on the rank of the ring. In this case, it could be compared to a powerful second-level spell.

Boom.

Evan bounced to the side, and there was a terrifying explosion. The entire building shook, and Berta lost an arm. Blood flowed nonstop from her mouth. She wanted to drink some potions, or she would die. But Evan wasn't going to let her do that.

He cast 'Lucifer's Shackles' and walked over to Berta. She looked at him and spat out blood, and said: "You want to wrestle? Come on!"

Berta attacked Evan with the last of her strength, but he just stopped her fist.

"Maybe if you hadn't been hurt, I wouldn't have been able to stop your punch, but you're no stronger than an ant now. You should have accepted my offer, now I can only offer you death." Calmly Evan said, and the next moment he ripped Berta's arm off.

Whooosh.

Evan folded his palms together and thrust them into Berta's chest. She vomited blood, and a second later, Evan ripped her body in two.

"Wow, that's a lot of cleaning up to do." Said Roland stepping over Berta's corpse.

Evan canceled the spell and headed for the vault entrance. With difficulty, but they got rid of all the obstacles, now it was time to get the reward they deserved.

"Roland, do you know how to open this door?" Asked Evan, pointing to a large, metal door with runes engraved on it.

"Sure, leave it to me. You need to pour in some mana, and the door will open, and oh yeah, I'll need something for that." Proclaimed Evan and headed for the corpse of the guard commander.

He cut off his arm with a piece of his katana and put his palm to a special spot on the door. Then Roland poured mana into the severed hand and passed it through the door.

Crackle.

The runes on the door glowed, and some mechanism activated. It was the only way to get into the vault. Of course, one could break in from the outside, but that would require enough strength to break through the protective barrier. 

After a while, the mechanism stopped moving, and the door opened.

"I hope it was worth it. I didn't expect a simple robbery to turn into such trouble." Mumbled Evan and headed inside.

"Don't worry, I don't think we'll be disappointed." Roland said calmly.