Chapter 54: Getting Away Part 2

"I finally found it" he exclaimed.

Shredding apart the carpet around the area with his sabre and his hands, he found that it was normal wooden flooring.

But after breaking apart the wooden flooring, Adam found an underground hatch.

"The wolf fang leader was so careful, he even locked it, just to make sure that nobody could use it apart from him" mumbled Adam cursingly.

He began to repeatedly strike the large secure metal lock and it took him almost 10 minutes, before he managed to break the lock.

[What the fuck was the lock made of] he thought to himself as he opened up the hatch that revealed a ladder leading downwards.

[I must be quick as I have taken too long to find this and reinforcements should be arriving, who could follow me] thought Adam, climbing down the ladder without hesitation.

A thick and revolting stench of waste assaulted Adam's senses, but more focused on getting away, Adam climbed down quickly.

After climbing down 15 metres underground, Adam finally jumped down and landed into a puddle of waste.

Adam was disgusted, but was more focused on his escape and didn't think too much about it.

[System is there a way to store the sabre in the inventory] asked Adam, holding the metre long sabre in his hand, that was very eye-catching and would get him into trouble.

[Not unless the host unlocks the transferal feature of uses other storage devices. But with the host's current wealth and system points, it is not possible to do so] answered the system.

Adam had no idea which way to go as he stood in the underground sewage tunnel, but he had a rough idea of what direction that his apartment was in.

"I guess I will go this way and think about how I will get to my apartment, with this weapon and without getting caught, when it comes to it" mumbled Adam, rushing down the tunnel.

While Adam was running underground in the sewers, all 4 of the woman's serving guards returned, carrying along with them 3 bodies.

"What happened" asked the woman.

A bald man, who despite being the smallest of the, seemed to be the strongest and the leader of the small group of guards, reported what had occurred to the auction house owner.

"All 3 of Angelo's guards were killed and the mysterious man has found the underground hatch that the wolf fang gang was planning to use and has escaped. As per your orders, we didn't pursue him" informed her the bald man.

"If I may add, I came across the mysterious man and I ran away, but he was too fast and should be slightly higher than Rank 1. He after asking me where the wolf fang gang's room knocked me unconscious. I didn't get a good look at his face, but I did manage to catch a glimpse of his eyes that seemed to be glowing red" added the guard that Adam came across.

"Red eyes, he must be a demon" stated another one of the guards sarcastically.

"I know it sounds weird and I may have been imagining things, but I just added what I saw" stated the guard, while shrugging uncaringly.

"I appreciate the reports, and now it is time for you to take care of the situation and make it seem as though the wolf fang gang killed Angelo and his men and you killed the wolf fang gang" ordered the auction house owner, walking away and leaving them to act out their orders.

The auction house owner had been rudely awoken to reality after what had occurred, and she knew that if it weren't for the mysterious hooded man, she would have been killed.

She felt as though she was too naive and so were most of the wealthy that knew about cultivation.

Only chasing wealth and hoping that wealth could get you through everything was not possible and to have true power and influence, one required strength.

She had come to the same realisation that Adam came to as soon as he was thrown into the world of cultivation by the sudden gaining of the Dungeon System.

"I spent too much time and money on gathering wealth and resources, but I forgot about forming my own strength and the strongest of my men is the leader of my guards that is only rank 1, which isn't enough" she mumbled to herself as she walked towards where the path to the entrance gala would have been, before it was covered in rubble because of the wolf fang gang's bombs.

She felt ashamed that the wolf fang gang, that she had underestimated and seen as merely a small gang that was quite wealthy in the grand scheme of things, was able to almost kill her.

"I will wait here until help arrives and cover up this whole commotion, and will shut down the auction until the auction house is fixed. In that time I will gather strength and look for methods and skills that I will buy no matter the price to nurture loyal subordinates that will increase the strength of the auction house" decided the woman.

She was hoping to get the mysterious man to join her, but she knew it was unlikely and from his ability to take out the wolf fang gang leader that had almost reached Mortal rank 2, she knew she wouldn't have much to persuade him with.

"The Silver Moon Auction House will become a power large enough to rival the large cultivation families" declared the woman to herself ambitiously, but her idea of true cultivation and the power of the 5 largest cultivation families of New York were too shallow.

Meanwhile, Adam who was rushing at his full speed, which was more than double of that of an average peak human, had felt as though he had run at least 10 miles away from the Auction House and took a break.

[System how much MP do I have left] asked Adam, curious to see how much MP he had used from running 10 miles at full speed.

{The host currently has 21 / 25 MP currently} informed him the system.

[I only used 4 MP after sprinting as fast as I could for 10 miles, which means I could possibly run another 50 miles at full speed before being completely tired] calculated Adam as he caught his breath.

Continuing down the tunnel he found a beam of light hitting only a small circle of the water and looked up to see another ladder and a sewage drain at the end.

"Time to finally get out of here" he mumbled as he began to climb out.