Volume 2 Chapter 10
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Green Garden Paradise is a place where many rich people live. In this large piece of land which still belongs under the protection of Kor city, there are around ten rich families and clans that live inside it. It is sometimes considered as a town within a city.
This is because almost one-fourth of the area of Kor city belongs to the people living within the Green Garden Paradise. This place has its own security, heck it even has its own army of powerful espers and its own internal barrier protecting it. It is considered one of the safest places within Kor city.
However, unknown to all the citizens living in Kor city, this is also a place where the greatest threat in the city resides.
Within the shadow of the darkness, there stood a man beside a tree checking his surroundings. His eyes have a hint of familiarity in the place as he carefully checks the almost empty street.
Curt Nilfiem has once lived within these walls when he was younger. The vast and safe area of forest and greeneries with well-maintained plants and trees, everything was a sight to behold. The Nilfiem clan is a rich and huge clan but always stayed low-key within the city.
His father, Boie Nilfiem along with his mother Bing Nilfiem, was the current holder of the main businesses of the Nilfiem clan outside the city.
However, to prevent the other members of the clan from finding fault with his parents he decided to move out of his own home. As Curt reminisces of the past he suddenly noticed a few armed vehicles rushing towards the main entrance of the Green Garden Paradise.
"I must move fast and eliminate the threat to the city without someone noticing me… This is the only way to gain peace…" he muttered as he looks at the high wall next to him.
Curt could feel the barrier energy fluctuating atop that wall. Plus he could also feel the sturdiness of the concrete wall which is reinforced with steel.
He closed his eyes and concentrated then with a touch of his bare hand, the solid reinforced concrete wall suddenly seem to turn into clay as he easily creates a hole big enough for him to enter. Then following the same action, he closes that wall.
Once inside, Curt immediately took out a black bonnet mask to cover his face. He still wore the same special soldier uniform he got from the Greenhoundz mercenary group. So now he looks like a regular soldier as he carefully sneaks inside the large piece of land.
However, his direction is accurate and he knows where he should be going. From what he has discovered from the words of that man, and by secretly following their escape vehicle, he is now sure that the hideout of those terrorists is the adjacent estate of the RB business group owners, the Cho clan.
As he quickly traverses through the forests like a ghost, he successfully dodges the guards monitoring the forest area.
Then from his location, he immediately saw those familiar vehicles used by the terrorist when they were escaping. After checking his surroundings, Curt was able to infiltrate the estate and hid in the bushes.
He took out a paper talisman and then draws something in it using his own blood.
"Sight!" he muttered.
The paper talisman suddenly turned into dust and inside of Curt's mind, he could immediately see the whole layout of the mansion not too far from him.
"There are thirty cameras?... Wow, these guys are really cautious…" he muttered as he carefully checked everything.
"There are also around 100 armed men inside and outside of the mansion… it seems that most of their people have died."
Then he saw that inside the mansion there are two espers that are around level 15. A young woman and the man with severed arms. When Curt saw those two a slight smile appears on his face.
"If those two are the only esper left among their group, then everything would be easily taken care of." he thought as he takes out his rifle from his ring and the two handguns which he took from those fallen armed men.
As he prepares to infiltrate the enemy base, Curt froze as he suddenly noticed some pictures on the table. Amongst the pictures are three familiar faces which he has not seen for a long time. Those are the pictures of his parents and his younger brother.
"What is this? Are my parent involved with the terrorist group?" he thought as his heart raced.
However, he could not remove the worry in his heart no matter how cold his emotion has already turned after a lot of killing that has happened.
He suddenly clenched his fist into a ball as anger filled his eyes.
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Inside the mansion, Feline and Bromite are both sitting in a lobby with a gloomy expression on their faces. They have lost a lot of people in their assault. They thought that they could at least bring the city down with them, by taking down the Esper Association and the Esper College.
According to their plan, if they succeeded, then they could easily take down the barrier generator once the Esper Association falls. But what they did not expect was for Myst to die in that almost perfect operation.
They really did not expect her to lose her life and by a stray bullet at that. Myst is not that strong but was a good strategist. But she seems to have fallen to such bad luck one after another. In this fight, they even realized that the masked man did not appear which made them feel a bit confident. But everything falls into ruin.
The Esper College siege was also a failure due to the heavy resistance and that weird soldier from the army.
"Damn it! My suggestion was perfect! The plan was perfect! Then, why… why did it fail?" Bromite should as he kicks the table which frightens Feline a bit.
Although they knew the reason yet the two of them could not accept it.
"We should tell the boss about this…" Feline said with a frown.
"Tell him! Do you want to die?" Bromite shouted in anger.
"Then what should we do then? We can't just hide the death of Myst… if the boss discovers that we did not inform him then he would surely kill us both!"
"F*ck this… I'm out of this place. I did not sign up to die in this small city!" shouted Bromite as he suddenly walks towards the second floor.
"Wait! What do you mean? You're escaping? What about me?"
Seeing that the man is ignoring her, Feline just sat on the sofa and mulled over her next move. Since Myst is gone, while the rest are capture, and Bromite is leaving, then she would be the leader from now on.
With this conjecture, a slight smile appears on her pretty face.
She suddenly picks up her phone and dialed a secured line. When someone picks up on the other line, she began to report what had happened.
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Meanwhile, inside a room, Bromite told the servant to prepare his things as soon as he enters the room. Then his eyes were drawn to those things lying on the bed. He was a bit hesitant but still gritted his teeth and decided to use them.
"Help me with these…" he said to the maid who is waiting behind him.
The young maid immediately moved and helped attached those contraptions on Bromite's severed arm which connects to his elbow. A sign of pain could be seen on his face as his wounds are still not fully healed. The maid was a bit worried but still helped him attached those things.
Although feeling the pain in his arms, Bromite did not shout. Even when there was a flexible tentacle-like thingy that suddenly came out and then pierced his skin. He gritted his teeth and endured the pain.
After some bouts of pain, Bromite weakly stood up and looks at himself in the mirror.
The prosthetic arms were given to him by their boss. Those artificial arms were state of the arm limbs that are made of light yet sturdy steel.
Although he feels weak due to enduring the painful process of the prosthetic automatically connecting to his veins, he still showed a slight smile on his face.
He carefully moved the metallic fingers and then tried to slowly flex his arms. Though it was still painful, his excitement has overcome the pain and a sinister smile appears on his face.
"Leave me…" he commanded.
After the maid left the room, he walked to the side and took out a syringe inside the drawer. Without hesitation, he uses his new prosthetic arms and injected the content of the syringe in his right shoulder. He immediately feels that pain in his body slowly being removed.
He could have done this before attaching the prosthetic arms, but he wanted to feel the pain that has developed into desire. A desire for revenge towards that masked man.
"Though I am thankful… but my revenge comes first…" he said as he opens the closet.
Inside the closet, a secret compartment could be found. He opens the wooden panel and a number pad could be seen inside. He immediately typed in the code and the wall behind the drawer suddenly slid open and an arsenal of weapons could be seen. Then at the bottom are some fake passports and some cash along with some black and gold credit cards.
He picks out some guns and a powerful rifle on the wall and then donned in a bulletproof vest.
After he was fully geared, Bromite closes the closet.
"Hehe… Let the hunt begin…" he muttered as he took out two pictures.
The women in the pictures are Jenny Mae Lee and Melissa Monte Mayor. Those two have a possible connection to the masked man.
While looking at the two women in the picture, Bromite focused his eyes on Melissa.
"This one is a beauty… However, she is a bit spicy. I don't think I can take her out without using tricks…" he muttered.
As he plans his moves, his eyes suddenly turn towards the window.
But before he could look away, his eyes suddenly went wide in disbelief.