Dilan patiently waited for [Gale] to have recharged before he approached the Death Beatles gang’s territory.
Even if he was confident to be stronger than the vast majority of Survivors, it was not as if he was immortal.
Being shot by a shotgun, or a sniper would still kill him, and the same applied to powerful attacks with the use of abilities.
Having a means of escape was quite important, even more so while being in a dangerous area.
The Death Beatles gang lived in an area that had been completely devastated. There were more ruins of skyscrapers, rubble, and iron rods sticking out of the broken debris than unscathed buildings for him to see.
When Dilan had seen the area of Rian’s outskirts from the rooftop of the Rian mountainside hospital, he had already been a bit confused.
After all, the raging storm that had occurred during the initiation of the Primordial Ascension didn’t do much damage to the city!
That means monsters had devastated this particular area of the outskirts, where the Death Beatles gang was now residing.
This was not only dangerous but also extremely intriguing for Dilan. There had to be a reason for the Death Beatles gang to stay there, and the ordinary members of the gang didn’t know what it was!
When Dilan heard that the ordinary members were oblivious to the truth behind the reason for the gang leader to set up their base in one of the most dangerous areas of the city, he got excited.
Even if it was dangerous, he made his way to the said area with brightly gleaming eyes.
His steps were quiet and slow so that not even the muffled noises he caused would alarm anyone.-.
Carefully, he made his way through the abandoned streets. In the entire area, there was only one building, where one could see a glimpse of dimmed lights.
Under normal circumstances, it would be quite difficult to detect them, but the effect of his Nightvision allowed him to spot the weak source of light quite easily.
Approaching the ten-story tall building, which seemed to have been used as an office for a medium-sized corporation, Dilan’s steps got even slower.
His eyes moved rapidly as he inspected every nook and cranny of the building.
Dilan observed everything intently. He was trying to understand how many gang members had been employed to act as night watchers.
But the final result was quite odd. Dilan didn’t see a single being in the surroundings, be it humans or monsters.
He could not even see or sense any movements in the room with a dim light.
This was quite weird, but instead of getting nervous, he became even more vigilant.
‘Something is wrong here…’
He knew that he was at the right location, but even after daring to take a look through the windows of the dimly lit up room, Dilan was not able to find out what was going on.
Dozens of mattresses, piles of clothes, furniture, and more could be seen within the room.
But, even then, there was no sight of a single human being.
That was quite weird, which was why Dilan slightly increased his pace.
He walked around the building and entered another building to take a good look at the ten-story tall building from an elevated position. Still, he could not find even a single being inside the building.
This was weird, to put it simply. His mind was occupied by the question of where they were, what happened to the Survivors within, and if the intel of the gang members had been correct, to begin with.
‘There were Survivors in the building before, so the information we received should have been somewhat truthful…but did they move somewhere? Or is there something else that I’m missing??’
While he was trying to find the answer to this puzzling scenario, Dilan was slowly and mindlessly walking down the stairs.
This was also the cause why he had almost been caught.
Just when he was about to leave the building next to the presumed base of the Death Beatles gang, Dilan heard dozens of voices from the middle of the street.
The loud noise snapped him back to reality, which allowed him to see several flashlights from the center of the street where the voices came from.
‘I nearly messed up…’
Dilan took a few steps back, and took cover under the darkness while using his Nightvision to look through the open door.
This allowed him to stay unnoticed while being able to clearly see the human crowd, that walked past the building.
“I wonder where this bastard and his group went…to think that they returned our surprise gift by killing Nick and the others…ARGHH how annoying!!”
The man, who didn’t bother to keep his volume low, had a deep voice. He was in his late 30s and surrounded by the others.
It was almost as if everyone wanted to be close to him, and Dilan could immediately tell that those people around him were bootlickers.
“You’re right, Boss, it’s really frustrating!! Williams must have sacrificed many of his people in order to survive, and they probably turned into zombies, which is why we couldn’t find the bodies of the shepherds.”
“When we fight him the next time, let’s torture him and his people.
“Given our level and strength, it will be easy to take care of all of them! WIth Boss’ strength, this will be even easier! Nobody should play with fire, except a Pyromancer, after all!!”
Dilan couldn’t help but smile weirdly.
On one hand, there were roughly 200 members in the crowd, indicating that there were fewer people he had to take care of than expected.
However, the fact that they didn’t bother to talk in whispers indicated that they were not scared of the surrounding monsters!
‘Maybe they killed everything in the surroundings?’ Dilan concluded before he returned to listen to the crowd in front of him once again.
“Don’t spout nonsense! Our people and the zombies we sent as welcome gifts were not killed with guns, let alone grenades.
If I’m not wrong it was a powerful monster that killed them, or someone in Williams’ group can transform his arms into claws.”
It was a rather young-looking woman, named Melanie, who said this. Her voice was not loud, and it was almost as if she spoke without any emotion, but even then, Dilan was still able to hear her clearly.
Melanie hated these bootlickers the most. However, even then their boss seemed to give them enough importance to let them stay in their small gang.
‘Just why did we take in these morons…’
She was pretty sure that a small group would be easier for them to control. This was even more so because they had killed several gangs that had bothered them earlier, before picking up the strongest Ascenders from them.
The Boss of the Death Beatles gang had not only spared them but also taken them in his group.
This increased their gang’s strength by a lot but on the flipside, they became greedier and more violent.
Melanie was not even sure if their old morales held any ground in the new era.
Somehow, it looked like nothing was the same. Every single day was filled with blood and death.
But this was certainly not bad, in her opinion. After all, blood and death were what excited her, providing her with far more pleasure than any man could.
Her eyes began to gleam in joy at the mere thought of blood, and death.
“I wonder what…or who killed our people, and the zombies…I hope it’s a human…I want him!!”
While the others could only look at Melanie with a frown on their face, the situation inside the dark building was completely different.
Dilan was contemplating what he should do.
He could tell that four Ascenders from the Death Beatles gang were, at least comparable to powerful Tierless Silver monsters, or ordinary Tier-1 existences.
Meanwhile, their Boss seemed to be even more powerful.
If Dilan were to be honest, he was not even sure whether or not he could defeat the Boss known as the Pyromancer.
This name suited him perfectly as if it had been created for him, simply because it was not only the name of the ancient path of advancement he chose but also the name of the Origin ability he had awoken!
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