When Nile turned to look in the direction of the voice, he saw number two standing there, blood drained out of his face, eyes filled with horror and his words filled with immense hate.
'How can he not even flinch before severely hurting a human for the first time .'At a distance, Darren thought with a somewhat puzzled expression. Darren was well aware of Nile's capabilities and he knew if Nile wanted, he could have easily frozen his opponent to immobilize him, yet he crippled his opponent.
"DARREN, DON'T LET HIM ESCAPE." Nile shouted in urgency while throwing his dagger at the masked cultivator. Nile knew both the opponents specialized in speed so it would be troublesome. Nile's voice Broke Darren's chain of thoughts.
In the meantime, Nile's voice kicked Number two back to his senses who was glancing at his teammate Number seven who had fallen unconscious because of the excruciating pain.
He jumped sideways to dodge the dagger, but as he was in mid air Darren stomped his foot on the ground and a stone wall rose from the ground and hit Number two right at his stomach. The powerful impact sent his body flying upwards like a shuttlecock. In the meantime, Darren jumped several meters up in the air and held Number two's body. Number two tried freeing himself in mid-air but Darren was far more superior to him in strength, he then looked at the ground closing in with great speed and in that moment he knew death has arrived. 'BAMMMMMMMMMMMM' a loud sound echoed in the woods and a deep crater was formed. Number two's body was not strong enough to take the impact, his skull split in two, blood oozed out his open head and due to the strength behind the impact he died on the spot.
Darren then carried the unconscious Number seven to their hideout followed by Nile, once he had collected the dead cultivator's storage pouch.
Number two woke up, within an hour after Darren had stopped the bleeding.
"Where am I ?" Number seven asked as soon as he opened his eyes and saw the unfamiliar environment. He tried moving his legs but was unsuccessful, It took him a moment to remember what had happened before he lost his consciousness, "M..yyyy l..eggs, yo..uu sonnn of a bitc- "
Number seven stopped mid-sentence with terror as he saw an icicle taking shape just inches away from his right eye.
"Talk further and I will show you what the real pain feels like." Nile spoke in a low but threatening tone.
Number seven's whole body shivered in fright, he had already suffered to the ruthless and unpredictable nature of the young body in front of him.
Number seven took a deep breath and further spoke gathering all the courage that was left- "kill me, but who will save you when Number two comes back with the rest of the cultivators?"
'Just as we thought, these people are searching for something and there are more of them.' Nile thought. Earlier, when Number seven was lying unconscious they had searched through both their storage pouches and had come across a device that Darren explained was used for catching frequencies of different objects. But the problem was Darren could not tell what object's frequency it was made to catch.
"Can they fight against Warrior-7 cultivator ?" Nile said narrowing his eyes, as if trying to look for something.
Number Seven face flinched hearing Nile and he turned his head to look at Darren. He knew Darren was Warrior ranked but was unaware he was a warrior-7.
Nile smiled seeing his reaction, he wanted to see how Seven would react to the information he had provided to him. Nile wanted to gather as much information he could. Nile then further spoke taking out Number two's storage pouch and playing with it- "By the way, no-one's coming."
All the courage and hope he had gathered melted away within just a second and seven's face paled with terror.
Nile then snapped his finger to get Seven's attention and spoke- "I won't give you false hope, tell us everything we ask for and I will give you a painless death. Deny once and I will do things which will make death look like a gift of mercy."
As soon as Seven heard Nile and saw the cold look in his eye he knew he wasn't joking or playing around, he knew his few next words would determine his suffering. After few seconds Seven nodded.
"I think I don't have to tell you the consequence of lying." Nile said and started with his questions.
After an hour of questioning and getting all his answers, Nile skilfully shoved his dagger into Seven's head killing him instantly as promised.
In this past hour, Nile had asked him various questions about his sect, 'blood moon sect'. It was a sect having its headquarters at Cheung Nation. The evil sect was one of the top five evil sects that operated on the world. The main source of income of the blood moon sect was by selling slaves. This sect alone contributed almost forty percent of the total slaves sold all around the world. There were hundreds of members in the 'blood moon sect' and there was a hierarchy based on the strength and the time one has served in the sect. Number seven didn't knew much about the sect as he was just an outer-sect member.
The hierarchy goes like-outer sect members, inner sect members, disciples, Elders, and a Patriarch, where the outer-sect member has the lowest status while the Patriarch was basically the head. These evil sects were very cautious and secretive about their operations.This was the reason not even the strongest of nation were able to discover their whereabouts. Someone like Seven was just a pawn who just had some basic information, he even was not even aware of the exact location of the sect. Once Nile had extracted all the information regarding the sect. He further asked about his mission to which Seven told everything he knew and after that Nile killed Seven.
All this time Darren was mutely standing at a corner observing everything. Even though he had seen Nile doing things that were unheard of but somewhere in his heart he still saw Nile as a child, precisely speaking a prodigy but still child. But today his image of Nile changed, he saw Nile in a different light. Darren saw him as someone who knows the ways of cultivators.
Today on the battlefield Nile was ruthless to his foes, Nile was aware if the roles would have switched his enemies would have done the same without even thinking twice.
When he was dealing with Seven Nile acted cunningly and knew exactly what and how much to say to get out the information he wanted. Darren was amazed once again.
"Darren we have a lot of work to do." Nile spoke while sheathing his dagger and pulling Darren back to reality.
"Hmm.. yes lets search for the energy stone." Darren replied.
NOTE- [Seven had no info about Darvin or the plan regarding the Withlock town.]