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Chapter 23 - Bringing a Laser Cannon to a Magic Fight

While I'm wandering around the lower districts of town I find multiple groups of people smoking and drinking, but no active fights. Probably because I'm near the edge of the gangs territory. After wandering around for a bit I find some actual action.

As for my disguise this time, I had changed my posture and face to be that of an introvert while making my appearance look like I was uncared for. My arm was hidden by using the same trick I used at the party, just without the wind this time.

"Hey you, the boss needs to vent his anger, come with us." I look the people up and down and find that they're all wearing a white tank top with a black feather. Turns out the boss of theirs was a leader of a large scale organization.

"S-sure" I make sure to seem extra vulnerable, I mean they have to buy the bait and take me to the person they report to so I can easily steal more faces and kill their boss.

After walking inside an abandoned warehouse I find a fat man sitting on a chair painted gold. He has an eagle tattoo on his back visible through the mirror behind him. He then gets up from his chair and I'm shoved forward, well they try to shove me forward.

I take his arm that I had just dodged and slam him to the ground before taking away the coating of dirt from left arm and pointing right at his chest and letting a blast of energy go. A massive hole is made in his stomach and a burn mark can be seen where my laser hit the floor.

I then use the arm to it's greatest potential and take out all the smaller cannon and blaster the arm has inside the boosters. Using my heightened perception and the multiple new cylinder laser blaster that my arm created, I kill all of them.

I then take the guys face who I first shot and take his before I start moving stuff around the warehouse and eventually find that the chair was over a passageway underground. After wandering around I confirm that the gang was really who I thought it was I frown, because it was the strongest gang in America the white crows. Though this was only a branch I still had a score to settle with these guys.

I wander around the corridor some more and find nothing of interest, just some bloodstains, torn clothes and shot bullets and magazines. I keep wandering before I finally find a massive set of doors. This time their open though.

I walk inside the room and find that the lights are flickering. I walk to the center of the room and the lights flicker again and a bolt of fire heads towards me. I switch to combat mode and find that there is around 200 people are walking in from all sides and my power for the laser can barley last 50 people, much less 4 times that.

After the people surround me, I find that around 100 of them have guns. To the surprise of no one their all pointed at me. I pretty sure I'm the dumbass for not expecting something like this, but here we are.

I set my eyes to battle mode and take out my two guns while also getting an earth spell below me. We all just stare at each other before I make the first move, using an earth pillar to raise me up while using the cyborg parts of me to shoot anyone with a gun.

20 rounds later and their just starting to react, so I take another pair of guns and start unloading them as well. By the time I've unloaded those, the mages hiding in there have prepared spells and launched them at me, so I use my scythe to create a gap for me to land at.

When I hop down, the group of blade wielding gangsters rush towards me. In response I use 3 hundred scythes to block attacks from my backside while using my scythe and sword to keep the majority of the gangsters away from me.

After cutting up 30 gangsters, I only had around 100 left so I decide to deal with the majority of the weaker ones by sending my scythes to cut up the bigger clusters of goons, leaving only 40 of them left while I'm only on half energy.

While I'm swinging my scythe to the left while thrusting my sword into another's heart, I fell something pulling at my ankle and find some roots, I then find myself being pulled up. I decide to use this opportunity when I see a ball of water headed for me while I'm hanging upside.

I spin my scythe and infuse some Qi in it and start spinning it, using the water as a sprinkler getting a good chuck of the gangsters wet because it was more condensed than it appeared. I then use half of my remaining energy and a bolt of thunder down to the ground and find that only one person is still left standing, he had made a shield of roots to defend himself.

"Why?" He says this as he pulls the roots back into the ground.

"I have a grudge against this gang, it's the reason why my best friends life went to shit and his sister ended up crippled."

"We've never crippled any family from the gang, our members don't have any."

"7 years ago your get away driver crashed with my best friends family car while escaping from a bank heist. But you probably don't even remember the incident, I mean I was only 15 at the time and you probably would never care about another cripple your group created."

"That's it? The reason we all had to die?"

"Not really, your all a plague anyways and no one would fix it because no one could."

"... You're not a good person you know."

"You think so?"

"In the end your just like us, killing what you think isn't needed without caring about the other party. Did all my brothers have to die for your revenge?"

"Well, we see eye to eye on one thing, I'm not a good person. Never pretended I was anyways, a good person would never kill. But here I am, with a body count at around 1000. In the end your brothers made mine's life hell, but nobody cared aside from me. So here we are, you're left alone like him"

"What gives you the right to judge our lives? What gives you the right to decide the right from wrong?"

"Having more power than you I suppose, but in the end I think I'm using my power for better purposes than you. Instead of trafficking drugs and other illegal stuff, I'm stopping it. Don't you think that makes me the 'Good Guy'?"

"I can't really refute that, just get it over with."

"What's your name?"

"Samuel"

"Well Samuel, as much as I enjoyed our heart to heart, I'm sorry to say I noticed your little trick." He then sends a mass of tree branches towards my heart and I simply point my palm outwards while I put all the power the arm has into it and incinerate the branches and him.

I turn over one of the corpses and take his face before walking off scene, realizing I never got how he found out who I was.