[ Ryujin's POV]
I went back to my dorm after I fixed Anna's wand. Adam,Paul and George were waiting ouside my room. We had dinner together and played some games.
As we were gaming the system started showing me messages.
[All of the information regarding the debt collector has been found]
[The debt collector is a B-rank villian from the Opressor.His name is Derek.]
The system then showed me his photo and recent cctv footages of where he was found.
"Send the information to Lucas."
[Okay]
The reason I didn't catch the guy myself was because it was not my job to do it. Even if I tried to the,Atropis member wouldn't let me.
Paul and George went back and Adam was still in my room.
He said" Can we win the upcoming test?"
I thought about it for a while and answered " We might but the point isn't about winning."
Adam was confused.He again raised a question " So what are they trying to test?"
"They are trying to test us but the hidden meaning behind is that they are trying to create a heathy competition between us. If the student realize there is somone stronger than them at their age then they will surely train themselves."
Adam got up and said "I am going to train as well. Can't afford to drag you down."
I gave him a thumbs up and he walked away.
I just sat on my sofa and started playing games.
Ting!Ting!
Somebody was sending me messages. I picked up my phone and looked at it.Lucas had messaged me.
(Lucas : Thanks but you might have to catch this guy. I am out of town and we need to interrogate him as soon as possible)
I sighed. I got up from the sofa and walked to my closet and said" Looks like today is gonna be a long night."
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[Third Person POV]
Somewhere near the illusion forest, there is a building that is still being constructed.
A man wearing a robe was bitting his nails .The robe was blue in color with golden strips.The. logo on the robe was of a demon. The man had black hair and black eyes.
He was with seven other people
He was stuttering while speaking in a phone.
"The w-work will be d-done. Please give me o-one last chance."
The person on the other side of the phone repiled to him in a lazy voice "It doesn't matter to me what you accomplish, Derek. The plan will be carried out even without you. If you want to salvage yourself then make sure to bring me the head of the person who stopped your plans and my skinwalker ring ."
After he said that the call was cut off.
Derek was shaking. The people around him started to panic as well.One of them said
"Derek lets run."
Derek stared at him.He grabbed his hair and started yanking him"Run?Do you know who was on the phone? One of the Orien."
Derek threw the guy down and said "You 'pawn' dare to talk with your senior." and started hitting him.
The Oppressor had ranks. Nobody knew what the leader was called. However the member below the leader were called Orien. They had the most influence after the leader.
Each of them were said to be S-ranks.
After the Orien came the minions. Derek was one of those minions. The last rank were referred as 'pawns'.
Derek started hitting the pawn so hard that he almost died. Derek stopped and looked at the other powns.
" do everything in your power to find that guy and the skinwalker ring otherwise I will kill you all."
"No need to find me,I am here"
Derek and the pawns looked back. A man was standing on the edge of the building.
The man was wearing black shirt,pants and a long coat. He was wearing a red colored mask. The mask had weird writings all over it bit there was no gap in it. The mask completely covered his eyes, nose and mouth.
Derek was taken back. In a commanding voice Derek shouted "How did you get here?"
The man titlted his head and said " I just jumped from the ground.You realize thatthis building is being constructed and anyone can easily get in."
The pawns were scared. All of them had one though in their mind
"This guy jumped from the ground floor to the
6th floor and easily broke past our barrier and
says that he just jumped."
It was a building were even a B-rank would have difficulty getting in.
The man put his hand on his mask and said "You guys are pretty stupid coming back to the same place. Couldn't you find a better hideout after I killed your colleagues?" The man's voice was being altered by a machine. He almost sounded like a robot.
Derek was cautious. The pawns were holding their weapons to fight. Derek looked closely at the man's coat. He could see a logo. The logo was of a demon's head but the demon head was pierced with a sword.
Derek recognized the logo. It was of the Atropis. The greatest threat to the Oppressor even then the goverment and any guilds.
"Rune Mage" Derek said while looking at that man. The pawns heard him . They immediately lowered their weapons and kneeled " Please spare us! We will give up ourselves to the government."
Every villian knew who the Rune Mage was. He never lets any of the villians escape and would always go for the kill. His killing technique were also brutal.
Ryujin was the man behind the mask. He slowly walked towards them. Soon a magic circle formed in his hand and then it was transferred towards the pawns. Dark spear then came out of the magic circle and it pierced every pawns head. The pawn where kneeling so it was already easy for Ryujin to finish them.
Now only Derek and other pawn that Derek had beaten up were left. Derek knew that he would not stand a chance against Ryujin.
He couldn't even try to run nor ask for mercy. Derek then took out a pill from his pocket. The pill was called a majin pill. If you ate the pill then for ten minutes your body and magic would be temporarily be of a majin.
Derek was going to eat the pill but Ryujin suddenly appeared infront of him. He grabed Derek's hand and twisted it.
"Arghhh!" Derek screamed. Even though he was a B-rank villain his bone was easily broken off. Ryujin then immediately puched his lower abdomen.
"Arghhh!" This time Derek screamed even louder.His mana core was easily broken with just a punch. He could repair it but in this situation is was impossible.
Ryujin took the pill from his hand and destroyed it by just pinching it.
Derek couldn't even use magic because his core was already broken now.
Ryujin then put his hand on Derek's head. He chanted "
Soon Derek fell into a deep sleep state. He was seeing illusions and dreaming.
Ryujin then called someone and said"Come to the X-X-X location. I have found the criminal. Make sure to send the money."
Ryujin let go of Derek's hand.He went near one of the pawns corpse and got his ring near it.
The sytem then said
[Do you want to extract his skin?]
"Yes"
The skin of the corpse peeled off and got inside the ring. The system ring didn't have that sort of power but it was because of the Skinwalker ring that it had absorbed.
The skin of the corpse was absorbed and only the muscles of the dead body could be seen.
Then Ryujin casually jumped off from the building.
Ryujin didn't interogate Derek because it was the government job and the government would give every information to Atropis.
Ryujin had came thinking that the task would be hard but to his disappointment.The task was easy. He mumbled to himself" This mission is still not over. Just stealing some relics was not their plan."
Ryujin then scratched his head and said" I will know about it after the government successfully interrogates that villian."