GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?-Chapter 2117: Pain Worse Than Death.

While this was going on, the lady called Amelia was still standing where she was. She didn't know what was going on. She didn't know if the voice in her head was gone or if she could leave. But she didn't dare to take the risk to leave.

She doesn't know where the voice in her mind is coming from or how she is being made to feel pain, but she knows with uttermost certainty that she doesn't want to feel the pain anymore.

Actually, in this moment, she is still feeling some residual pain. This pain is similar to a migraine. It is so bad that it feels like her head is about to split apart.

She is feeling residual pain because the pain doesn't disappear completely when they stop activating the Bondage snake in her mind. There will still be some pain due to the injuries in her mind caused by the previous activation of the snake.

This is just the residual pain, though. It will get worse the longer the Bondage ability is activated. But no matter how bad the residual pain gets, the true pain caused by the activation of the snake is much worse.

The pain was so bad that she wished that she were dead. She doesn't want to experience that pain again, so she is willing to stand in the cold for a day if she has to.

As it turned out, she is willing to do more than stand in the cold for a day to avoid the pain of her mind being shredded. She is willing to do a lot and will do it without much prompting as long as she doesn't have to die.

Back at the temple of the vault of gold, the other four godclads in her team were still keeping their eye on the temple. They were working as waitstaff and kitchen staff in a restaurant nearby. This gave the cover needed to keep an eye on the temple for a long period of time without being out of place.

They noticed that Amelia didn't return after an hour. But they weren't worried because she is a great tracker with good eyesight and is very cautious.

They didn't worry even when she didn't return after two hours. They simply assumed that the target lived very far away or didn't go straight to where he lived, so she had to continue hanging around and was delayed.

They didn't begin to worry until she didn't return after 4 hours. No matter how far the target's house is, as long as it is in the town, it shouldn't take a rank 2 godclad two hours to reach it and another two hours to return.

Now that she had been gone for four hours, something unexpected must have happened. Even if she were still alive and unharmed, there must have been something complicated that delayed her.

Whatever it is that delayed her could be good or bad. If it is good, then their worries would be unnecessary. But if it were bad, then they would have to consider that they have been exposed.

At this point, they wish that if something bad had happened to her, whatever it is has gotten her killed. It will be a terrible loss to lose a tracker, but it is better if their tracker dies quickly without the time needed for whoever held her up to torture her for information.

However, they couldn't put their hopes on her dying without causing trouble for them. They couldn't risk exposing themselves to danger, so they decided to escape as soon as possible.

The four of them took a break from their job. Then they separated and took different routes to their base.

They wanted to meet at their base because they have things there that they want to take away. Currently, all of their possessions are in their base. They can't just give up on everything they own and escape with nothing.

Besides, they aren't even sure that something bad has happened to Amelia. All of these could just be them being paranoid. It won't do to leave everything behind on a hunch.

So they went to their base to take their things and to gain some safety. Their base has protective arrays, which will keep them safe in case of an attack and grant them time to escape if needed.

They plan to return to the base and wait there for a while for Amelia to return. If she doesn't return at all and no enemy comes to attack them, then they will take it that she is dead and she died without causing trouble for them. In that case, they can resume their way of life.

If an enemy comes to attack the base, it would mean that the worst has happened. But they are hoping that this is not the case. They are hoping that Amelia will return to the base after a while and everything will be fine.

Their base was in the outskirts of the town. They live in a large two-story building that has been abandoned. There is a large confusion array covering the entire building and making it look abandoned from outside of the array.

This is just one of the arrays that they use to protect themselves. They have an alarm array around the perimeter of the compound and a shield array in key places.

Those arrays do the job of camouflage, scouting, and protecting the base. They also have an array for protecting the base. It is a fire arrow array. freeωebnovēl.c૦m

The fire arrow array will automatically activate when an intruder bypasses the confusion array and activates the alarm array. The fire arrow will attack this intruder until they leave or are dead.

The fire arrow array can also be controlled for more targeted strikes. All of the arrays can be controlled. But only the boss of the group can control the arrays. The rest need the permission of the boss to leave and enter the base.