It was basically impossible for ten thousand Ascenders to hide their trails completely.
Furthermore, Dilan had to spend more than a day running all over the Shikan plains to figure out where the group he was looking for was actually located.
His anger had yet to be pacified and he didn't intend to show any mercy.
However, to make sure that he attacked the right people, Dilan entered the outskirts of the huge city where he presumed his opponents to lurk.
He approached the humongous base that had been built with the help of more than ten thousand Ascenders and the same number of ordinary humans.
"I wonder if I should feel relieved or remorseful at the thought of killing them all…I cannot feel anything when thinking about annihilating them…" Dilan mumbled, not sure what to feel.
His anger knew no bounds and it didn't even matter to him that he would kill countless innocent people. This thought caught him off-guard because he had never expected to attack someone who was innocent.
But it was his entire being that told him to never back off against anyone who attacked him. He used the same illogical reasoning as the leader of the huge base had used when eradicating his people without a second of hesitation.
Huge walls surrounded the base to protect them but that was no problem for Dilan.
Using [Short-distance traveling] once to pass by the guards, who were stationed to ensure that nobody could enter the base without going through them, Dilan appeared in the base without any of them realizing.
He walked confidently through the streets and observed the situation all around him. There were numerous malnourished humans, people that looked worse than bedraggled and homeless people before the Primordial Ascension, and humans with lifeless eyes all around the streets and the dark side alleys.
Dilan was not sure what had happened to them but he didn't really care about that, either way. It merely showed him that the base was not nice to people, who didn't contribute to society, or to people, who were unable to help in any 'useful' way due to certain conditions.
Dilan saw a few crippled Ascenders, who were looking at him hopefully as if he was some Samaritan who was kind enough to give them some food because they didn't get enough food from the government.
"That's quite funny…if there are more than ten thousand Ascenders and all of them belong to the leader of this 'bob the builder group' doesn't that mean the leader is willing to let his own loyal combatants starve the moment they're crippled? What a nice man," Dilan mumbled when he heard something from his right.
And when he glanced to his right, he saw something shimmering in the dark. His body moved back instinctively while his right hand shot out to catch the shimmering projectile that had been shot toward him.
"That's cute. You shot an arrow at me because…I was wearing good equipment, I guess?" Dilan asked as he looked straight at the human, who was hiding in the darkness.
Dilan's sky blue eyes began to glow in a glacier blue color as he looked through the darkness where he saw that the human tried to disappear.
The human ran for his life when he realized that Dilan was not an opponent to be messed with but Dilan didn't think for a single moment to spare the human Ascender's life.
Nonetheless, he didn't rush after him but followed with slow steps while tracing his mana fluctuations easily.
Dilan stepped through the darkness with an eerily calm attitude and it didn't take him even ten minutes before he reached the hideout, where quite a few Ascenders were located.
There were even a handful of Tier-2 Ascenders, along with two Guards that were blocking the entrance.
"Can I go inside?" Dilan asked calmly as he emerged from the darkness, startling the guards, who hadn't even noticed Dilan before he had appeared in front of him.
They moved quickly and went in a defensive position to make sure that Dilan wouldn't be able to attack them without going past their spears.
"Who are you?!" They asked instead of answering his question. This caused Dilan to sigh deeply and he had to look at the young men for a second before he opened his mouth once again.
"I take that as a no," Dilan said out loud as he disappeared in front of the young Guards' eyes. A moment later, Dilan passed by them and he wiped off the blood from the Cursed Dagger while entering the building where something unexpected, yet also expected awaited him.
He saw many naked women lying on the ground. Their eyes were wide open and it looked like they had been deprived of their soul. Numerous scars covered the women's bodies.
'Just how long have they been treated like this to end in such a state?' Dilan wondered as he leaned down to look at the closest woman.
"If you want, I can end your suffering right now…or you can just wait before you'll be crushed to death in a few minutes," He offered, not even thinking about offering to save them.
Dilan had seen women like the one around him a few times before the Primordial Ascension. It had always been an unpleasant experience but he knew that the women were beyond saving. The only way to save them from the terror their mind made them recall every second of their life was to end their suffering, once and for all!
The woman in front of him didn't seem to hear Dilan. Thus, he got up from the ground, just to feel a light grasp around his ankle.
"I am sorry for what happened to you, but I hope your afterlife will be better!" He said as he started using the enhanced [Mantle of Elements] to summon a total of four Basic Lightning Spirits. They fused with his Gloves of Destructo and Power, two each and Dilan manifested more than 20 tiny thunderbolts that revolved around his gloves.
One thunderbolt shot out to pierce the area between the woman's brows, killing her in an instant without making her feel any pain.
Dilan let out a sigh as he started his killing spree of the unarmed and poor women, who had been mistreated for a long time. They were already dead on the inside and Dilan was merely going to deliver the final blow to make sure that they wouldn't have to face even worse situations before they would die.
"To think that their leader is such a hypocrite. He is okay that his people are mistreated like this, and that they get violated to the point that the women look like lifeless dolls, just to blame others for doing the same. Well, there is a reason why people like him have to die," He mumbled to himself as he stepped into the light of the first big room.
A few women were currently being raped but they didn't even have the power left to defend themselves anymore. Dilan's hands curled into fists upon seeing this. He lifted one of his hands and released a few thunderbolts, killing all people before he stepped ahead. The Tier-2 Ascenders were further ahead and Dilan didn't waste any time to reach them.
They were all leaning over a beautiful woman who was still struggling to survive. Dilan would be lying if he were to say that she was not beautiful but that was not the point right now.
"She is not human?"
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