Liam stared at the small compartment, its inner side clearly shared with the adjacent condo. It wasn't a hidden passage—it was simply an opening into a larger storage cavity between the walls. Whoever lived next door was using it to stash their secrets.
Liam closed the lid of the compartment quietly, stepped back out through the window, and scaled the building's side like a phantom. The faint glow of light seeped through a curtain that hung crookedly over the glass.
He peered in carefully. The room was quite clean, everything seemed to be in place and a man sat on a couch, idly scrolling through his phone while a small TV played static in the background. He was not wearing any shirt so he could see some tattoos. Liam could also hear some Russian rap.
Liam pushed the window open which was behind the back of the man, and the loud music dampened the sound of the window opening, muting the faint creak. With precise and silent steps he approached the man and before the man could retaliate he placed his hand on the top of the man.
The man screamed a bit in pain as his eyes and the inside of his mouth started to shine in white light but it soon dimmed and so did his small scream. It was the ability in the game known as dominate Captain, which allowed Talion to control an orc and make use of him as a follower and also drain it's health when he himself needed health regeneration.
Liam wasn't sure that his ability would work on humans, but he was surprised that it did as the man turned around and went down on his knee.
"At your service, Sir."
"Your name," Liam demanded.
"Viktor."
"What do you do?"
"I am one of the primary distributors of drugs in this part of the city." Viktor said, his accent was quite think for a resident of New York.
"Russian?" Liam asked as he now slowly sat on the sofa while Viktor was still on his knees with his head down.
"Yes, Sir. We were recruited by a gang of Russians run by two brothers." Viktor said.
"Two brothers? Names and their base of operations."
"Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov, the gang is newly built. It's only been a year since they started dealing heroin as they had opened a taxi garage before, retrofitting taxis for New York and repairing them. Now they have expanded their business to sex trafficking, drugs and murder on hire. They are still growing with the help of other gangs." Viktor quite concisely put to Liam. He was surprised that Viktor here seemed to be very aware of what Liam wanted to know and talked like a normal human being.
This was just perfect. Viktor was an experiment and it came out with a result of flying colors.
"Where is this taxi garage?"
"It's name is Veles taxi garage. In Hell's kitchen." Viktor. It was then Liam recalled some vague memories of season 1 Daredevil. The Russian mafia who were killed in the first season, one of the brothers was killed by Fisk while the other in a fight against Daredevil. Everything made sense now.
Liam did look into Wilson Fisk who was a philanthropist and an entrepreneur before. He just didn't expect that he would have face this guy.
"They kidnapped a guy named Thomas Gallaghar. The same guy who is responsible for the arrest of your neighbor. I want to know where he is." Liam asked.
"Sir, I am only responsible for drugs. It's Anatoly Ranskahov, the younger brother who handles the trafficking matters." Viktor replied.
"Put down your number and do whatever you are doing. When I send you a message, you will have to confess to police and follow whatever procedure they ask you to do. I will handle the rest. Also write down all that you know of the gang."
"As you wish, Sir." Viktor said as he wrote on a piece of paper, his number and then gave to Liam.
The next evening
"Liam, where are you going?"
"Just have some work." Liam replied.
"Are you going for a date? Liam Woodsworth, you will not be going on a date wearing a hoodie and track pants." Olivia screamed when Liam was almost at the door.
"I am not going on a date." Liam said.
"You can fool everyone. But not me. Go and wear something decent. I won't have a man going to impress a girl while wearing a cheap washed out hoodie." Olivia said. This made Liam sigh. He was going out to be a Batman, but here he was being berated here.
But Liam didn't fight back as the excuse of date was better than what he was going to do now.
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Liam went to the garage and then drove the car to quite a distance away from his home. The Hell's kitchen. He drove his car to the West 45th street. He came out of the car and then soon entered the alley way. Veles Taxi garage was on 55th so there was still quite a distance.
Liam approached the Veles Taxi Garage with silence, from high above. The garage buzzed with activity if one looked from outside. Men moved in and out of the large space, some loading crates into unmarked cars, some repaired the cars while others patrolled with concealed pistols tucked inside their pockets. Of course those were very few in numbers and it was happening deep inside the garage.
While the front of garage was still working and showing that nothing illegal was going on. Liam could see all of it from the Pulse Blade.
Liam dropped silently into the shadows near a stack of tires. His approach went unnoticed until one of the patrolling men stopped, his eyes narrowing at the silhouette of him. Before the guard could raise an alarm, he blinked (Spectral dash, allows Liam to cover short distance instantly) and instantly found himself face to face with the guard.
He grabbed by his neck and slamming him into a wall.
The man struggled, but Liam's grip was unyielding. He placed his hand over the man's forehead, activating his wraith domination ability. The man's eyes glowed momentarily, his will bending to Liam's command.
"Stay quiet. Secure the area," Liam ordered. The guard nodded and moved away obediently, leaving Liam free to advance further.