Chapter 14 - The Fallingwater Estate Heist - Pt. 1

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Kassius

Twelve hours later...

They have arrived at the location, luckily it is not that difficult to find, since there are tarmac roads across the desert that plenty of cars and horses travel across. After some waiting at a bus stop, one finally arrived. Not many people on it since Vacuo is practically abandoned now, but luckily there are still lots of little areas across the Kingdom still populated with people. Multiple villages and large towns, but with Vacuo completely invaded by the Grimm Horde, it has caused the Kingdom to collapse into disarray.

But they cannot fix that now, all they can hope for now is to get into Fallingwater Estate and steal Pyrrha's Circlet from the Auction before some other rich criminal gets their greasy hands all over it. Stood on the edge of a cliff are Kassius and Cardin, with Kassius on the lower area and staring at the map that Emerald managed to draw. Luckily just by looking at the shape of the huge manor, it has not changed much, but they could have moved things around.

But as she told them, trying to steal from the storage area is suicide, the amount of security in there makes it impossible to get inside incognito.

Even for her too.

The Mansion is gigantic, with four guard towers stationed around it armed with four Acolytes of Lien Snipers, they have really made their security tighter in hiring them. Especially when it comes down to who they are being funded by, this could also lead to a confrontation. On the heavily rendered concrete walls are four bannered flags – all four of them are each individual Kingdoms. Vale, Mistral, Vacuo and Atlas are all imprinted on the fabric, the wind letting them flutter. At the car park there are lots and lots of criminals arriving at the auction to see what they can purchase from the archive of valuables.

Above Kassius is Cardin with a pair of binoculars in his hands, analysing the situation from up top, watching everything that moves down there. From the many soldiers that pace around with rifles in their hands and wearing the black and red suits with golden accents that they wore when in disguise back in Mistral five years ago. Also, some of them are wearing red tinted glasses, with hats on their heads too. Just like the thugs that Junior had packed in his nightclub when Yang was searching for clues.

As Kassius fiddles with the map to find a good way in he looks up at Cardin above him. "See anything yet?" He asks him curiously, staring at him with sapphire blue eyes. Many forget that he has learned the ability to change his eye colour on command by simply using his aura to manifest a different colour. Managed to get him by many situations in the past, why not now?

"Nothing more than a lot of scumbags dressed up for the party." Cardin scoffs, before a doubt enters his mind, tilting the binoculars to his left slightly as he peers down at Kassius. "And...no sign from Emerald yet." He reminds, and Kassius just ignores his comment as he flicks the paper to straighten it out from the wind that blew across it.

"There's still plenty of time, she probably got held up." He defends, looking down at the map. He traces his metal finger across the yellowish paper that Emerald found to sketch this map on. He follows the outer section to where he can pinpoint a way inside without raising any suspicions by the guards. He looks across the carpark to see the point of which that has left him so curious – across small area of woodland by the right side of the manor and the waterfall's edge where the manor has been built is a window at the very top.

That is where they are waiting for Emerald to give the signal. "Why are we waiting on her again? She has access, after all. You managed to make some perfectly believable I.Ds too that can trick their scanners." Cardin questions, a good question too.

"So, we don't arouse suspicion, if we all enter as a big group out of nowhere it blows our cover. I had to make our cover stories as different as possible, so you and I need to act like we just met. If we all enter at the same time chatting like we have known each other for a few days, they could suspect us of attempting a heist. These guys are very, very paranoid, remember?" He explains to Cardin, looking up at him with his now blue eyes shrouding his amber ones.

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