Chapter 678 Establishing Contact



"We … we could invite them in, have them wait in the lobby of the ground floor maybe?" Jack asked as Wolf shook his head.

"You have told them that the reason people are being called up is that there are some enemies that managed to get away and are hiding in the building, if we are to call them in and have them wait in the lobby,  they'll start believing that something is definitely wrong and might try running away immediately."

"Maybe we can tell them to climb up the stairs and start combing through the first couple of floors in order to see if the enemies that have escaped are hiding there?" Shadow asked from the side as Wolf curled his lips and nodded his head.

"That … could be useful, it will make it a bit tougher for us to kill them fast, but it would minimize the chances of them escaping or sounding an alarm."

"Yeah,  we'll do that, Jack, go and tell them to start combing through the first four floors, divide them into four teams, each one being responsible for a floor each, as for those that are going to attack them, well, Jack, you should stay on the ground floor, any enemy that tries escaping by going down the stairs, you kill." 

"Tank, Shadow, Elijah, and you, Paul, you will be responsible for killing a group each," Wolf said as he pointed at the four of them.

"With the exception of Tank, all three of you can fight well in smaller areas, while Tank can simply place his shield in front of him and charge at the enemies through the hallway, he can also just bulldoze his way through a wall and attack them that way," Wolf said as they all nodded before looking at Jack who made his way over to the elevator.

They took the elevator down to the fourth floor, and all of them, except for Jack, left the elevator. They nodded at Jack as he pressed the button to go down while Shadow, Elijah, and Paul started going down the stairs.

Tank made his way to the end of the floor and waited. Elijah would be responsible for the third floor, Paul for the second, and Shadow for the first floor. 

As for Jack, he left the elevator with a solemn expression before going out and speaking to the over 100 men that were left in front of the building.

"The situation is trickier than expected, we need to check the entire building, so even though the heads and your groups are doing all that they can, it's not easy since the building is so large, you are to divide yourselves into four groups and start combing the first four floors before moving up, don't miss a single inch of a floor as we don't know just where the enemy is hiding." 

Upon seeing Jack's solemn expression, the remaining groups all nodded seriously as they understood why their heads and teammates were taking so long.

"Umm … sir … how many enemies are left, and … what about our own forces, are all the heads alright?"

"There are only 3 enemies left, as for our own forces, even the big boss was injured by them, and about half of the heads had passed in the initial battle, so you can imagine how difficult the battle at the top was," Jack said solemnly, causing gasps of astonishment to come from the crowd as the groups couldn't imagine that half of the most powerful characters of the city had died just like that. 

They all nodded to Jack before talking amongst themselves and dividing their forces into four large groups that each had slightly over 30 men. Even though their numbers were relatively large, in a small enclosed space, they wouldn't be able to utilize their full power and would be at a disadvantage when facing Shadow and the rest.

As for Reign and the others, they were still waiting for Aethion to pry out information from the enemies they had slaughtered.

"Finally!" Reign suddenly shouted before looking at Wolf.

"We got one place, a potential hiding spot for one of the groups that are against the Butcher, I'm going to go there and try to talk to them, try to persuade them to join us." Reign said before being stopped by Wolf.

"We need you here if Aethion manages to find out more, we need you to send more people to those locations in order to try and persuade them to join and help us during the attack, so I'll go, I'll bring a head of one of the Tier IV enemies with me to show them, and hopefully, they will trust me and join us."

Upon hearing Wolf's words, Reign clicked his tongue before nodding at him as he understood that it was the best option for them. Wolf nodded before going to the body of one of the people that had fought against them before decapitating the head with his sword and placing it in the inventory.

The three people who remained grimaced a bit upon seeing his actions, but they did nothing else. After all, they were the ones that had lost, and they were powerless to go against Reign and the others, not to mention that they weren't doing anything else to the bodies of their friends that had died, even though decapitation was already quite a difficult thing to see.

Wolf nodded at Reign before entering an elevator with one of the three. The elevator was the fastest way to get down, and even if people were to see him, upon seeing how he was with one of the Butcher's personal guards, they wouldn't think much of it.

Wolf made his way over to where the potential hideout was, which would take him about 20 minutes since he wasn't going full speed so that he wouldn't draw the attention of others. Of course, merely seeing him walk on the street would draw some attention, but he had taken a suit of leather armor from one of the Butcher's personal guards, so even if a gang member was to see him, they wouldn't dare come close to him as the armor he was wearing had the logo of the Butcher on it.

As for Reign, he silently praised Wolf as merely 15 minutes after the latter had left, Aethion managed to get another location from the souls of the enemies they had slain. He had sent Aelrinder this time, and he had done the same as Wolf, decapitating one of the personal guards they had slain before taking the armor of one of them and going down the elevator.

Upon reaching the fifth floor, he could already hear the sounds of battle coming from below as Tank started fighting against the enemies.

Upon reaching the ground floor, Aelrinder looked back and saw three corpses behind Jack who nodded at him.

As for Wolf, he had arrived at the location. He didn't take off his armor as the party that was against the Butcher had probably already noticed him, and hiding the armor would probably make him even more suspicious.

'Old bar, a hidden door that leads to the basement.' Wolf repeated in his head before entering the bar he believed was the one that the soul of the enemy meant.

Upon entering, silence took over the bar as the slightly less than 10 patrons all stopped talking and glanced at Wolf, their faces paling slightly upon noticing his armor.

"You're the boss?" Wolf asked an older man who was behind the bar. The man nodded his head, and Wolf could sense the aura of a high-grade Tier III being emanating from him.

"Do you know who this is?" Wolf asked as he took out the severed head from the inventory, causing many men to jump from their seats.

"Sit down, sit down!" The old man shouted suddenly as he stared at the severed head.

"Why … why are you showing me the severed head of one of the Butcher's personal guards?"

"Seems like everybody here are members of your group, that makes it easier," Wolf said with a smile, causing many to stiffen up and clench their weapons.

"Me and my teammates killed the Butcher almost an hour ago, all of his heads and their groups have been killed with him, and only 4 personal guards are left, they have decided to join us, and I hope you will do the same." Wolf's words were like an explosion in the heads of the people in the bar as the old man stared at him with a shocked expression.

"We … we are loyal, we will not go against the boss." The old man suddenly said as he clenched his teeth.

"Dude, I already showed you the head of one of the personal guards, do you really think the Butcher would cut off the head of one of his Tier IV guards to tempt you guys when they already know this location and that the meeting place for your group is in the basement, one that can be entered via a hidden door in this bar?"