Chapter 184: Missing!?

Something Alex never felt before in his whole life. Not even facing the half-dragon felt like this.

[No, I am sure about this King; after my interaction with Felidaen, I can differentiate them.]

[Even though I cannot detect them from far away, I can still tell if we are close to their difference with autonomous creatures like golems and robots.]

Alex sighed, 'Forget it. Now I need to make sure Zold and Olivia are alright, but what is that?

Not only the dread, what kind of place is that?

Since Vesa doesn't know what that is, it should be something that existed after Alucard died.'

He then made his way back to Freya and the others. It didn't take long for him to reach a distance where he could see everything.

What he saw widened his eyes, returning back the feeling of dread.

It's not that he saw Zold and Olivia attacked by the King or that they were wounded.

What he saw was even worse.

He didn't see them; he asked on Petricia's side, and it was the same.

The portal was still there, not closing, but Olivia and Zold also didn't come out from it.

Feeling Alex's intent, Vesa sent a message to him.

[King, don't even consider entering the portal; it seems the place there runs on a different logic than we're used to.]

[Otherwise, this shouldn't happen.]

Alex didn't reply; he really considered doing it, but the risk was too dangerous. It's not just his life.

If he entered, Emily and Quartz would also enter. Sёarᴄh the NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Rather than saving Olivia and Zold, it would instead lead to even more casualties; he's still too weak now. But this doesn't mean he will give up; there is still another way.

Alex and William started moving back toward the mother tree.

Trying to get information from the King is stupid, but from the people that he suspects as Dark Hunters coming from Hell Gate is a different story.

As he moved, he asked for more information about this from Emily through Petricia.

Emily first met this organization when she had a mission to find a missing child.

In a few survivor shelters, there have been reports of many missing children.

A survivor shelter is created for people who barely survive dungeon breaks and then evacuate to a new place.

Unlike Alex's family, which has enough money to live wherever they want, this is a normal family; the moment the city gets destroyed, they lose everything.

Some still have some savings, but without a real job, going out from the shelter will mean taking a huge risk.

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Trying to make a new living in a new place without knowing anyone is easier said than done. Even with this kind of tragedy, the world never misses out on assholes; some still target these poor people, scamming them out of their savings.

This has been reported many times over the internet, making many of the refugees prefer staying in this type of shelter. Waiting till the government allocates them somewhere else.

But with the current situation, they already have their hands full, trying to keep the land they have. They can only spare some limited resources trying to make a new settlement in the safe zone.

With limited living space despite the reduced population, the land price keeps soaring. This makes government choices limited.

As the red zone keeps growing, more and more refugees come, making the government lack resources to even maintain this settlement, raising the crime rate.

Normally, a missing child case wouldn't be allocated to a hunter, but the amount is too much for them to close their eyes on.

After some investigation by the local police, they decided this was done by an awakener.

Emily then took over, utilizing her team experience and skillset, and they found the one responsible. It's one of the incidents that cemented her hatred toward the Dark Hunter.

The captured kids were used as a sacrifice for a weird ritual.

The idea of an awakener believing in a weird, barbaric religion is stupid, but it still happens, and with their power, it makes them even worse.

Seeing the kids butchered and sacrificed left a deep trauma in her mind. In this part of the story, Petricia cuts her short to get to the point, as instructed by Alex.

They have a short time, and her story doesn't give him more information other than they are crazy psychopaths, just like how Dark Hunter was often portrayed in the news.

Emily then proceeded to tell the story that Hellgate, as the name of their organization, literally worships Hell.

Not Hell based on the old mythology of his world, but a creature from a world named Hell.

They sacrifice kids to make contact with them; in one of the pieces of information they get from the member that caught them, the leader of Hellgate meets one of them inside a Dungeon.

This creature from Hell promises them power and immortality, something cliché but not weird at all.

In the past, Alex would skim over the sacrifice parts as if they were nuts, but as he knows about life force energy now and the existence of other races, he cannot just throw it as something stupid.

In front of other eyes, it will be something horror, weird, stupid, and scary. But in his eyes, this is an intervention from another race that is probably also one of his enemies.

Those that got the technology of life force from the Vampire race.

As the situation becomes like this now, Alex comes out clean, letting Petricia tell them the real situation and why he still has a way to find Olivia and Zold.

He doesn't want them to do anything risky, like entering the portal.

Emily could not help but feel guilty again, as she was the one calling Zold to pursue Olivia, but Quartz comforted her; if it was only Olivia, they would barely have a chance, but with Zold now, their chance to survive is higher.