Chapter 147 146. Announcing Their Return (3).

In the underground facility.

Henry, Louie, Arngrim, and Core all felt a strange vibration in the base, and a single thought raced through their minds at the same time.

'He's finally here.'

".... Did he really have to destroy something as soon as he arrived?" Core grumbled as her monitors shook, causing her concentration to falter.

"Well, isn't he always like that when he wants to vent out something." Louie mumbled as he entered her room, carrying three bowls on a white tray, one filled with chips, another with noodles, and the third with ice cream.

"Where does all of this go?" Louie looked at the tray and back at Core.

"In to my 'inventory.'" Core rubbed her stomach with a wide grin on her face.

"Haa..." Louie sighed, set it on the desk where there was only one mouse and a large mouse pad beneath, and walked out of her room, shaking his head.

"I don't understand why there is mouse there when she doesn't even use it...." Louie mumbled as he left the room.

"It's to play games, I'm bored you know." Core said with a wide smile while looking at the food in front of her.

PING

"Hm?" one of the monitors chimed, Core glanced at the notification and grinned.

"I can't believe we already got a request; it hasn't even been 5 minutes since I announced our return." Core made a comment loudly to get Louie's attention, but because it was a little too loud, both Henry and Arngrim dashed down to her room.

"Really? What's it about?" Arngrim asked with a wide savage grin.

"Hm, hm." Core nodded her head in satisfaction and opened the request.

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[User: Anonymous.]

[Target: (image)]

[Target's recent spotted location: Sector six, Restaurant 'The Hungry Bond']

[Bounty: 350,000 C]

[Request to: 'WHITE']

[Reason: Personal.]

[Dead or alive: Dead.]

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"Weak." Henry mumbled looking at the bounty.

"Yeah, are they underestimating us because we have been inactive for a two months? Previous head bounty was at least 500.000 coins, wasn't it?" Arngrim asked.

"So? Who are they?" Louie ignored Arngrim and asked Core.

"One sec." Core mumbled and flitted her fingers on the keyboard.

CLI-CLICK (5x)

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Name: Edwin Cobb

Age: 24

Affiliation: The Hungry Bond restaurant (chef)

Hero rank: C

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"Edwin Cobb from the hungry bond, he is the one who requested it, and...." Core said.

CLI-CLICK (6x)

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Name: Ned Benson

Age: 21

Affiliation: Active hero, Iron scars guild (Guild master).

Hero rank: A

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"Target is Ned Benson, guild master of a minor guild which is located in sector six..... maybe a petty grudge?" Core mumbled.

"Dig deeper on Edwin Cobb. It's suspicious how he got so much coins." Henry pointed out.

"Right, I don't think he could afford that much money from working in a restaurant, and no one wants someone killed if they had to use their savings." Arngrim said and nodded in agreement, attracting attention of Core, Louie and Henry.

"W-wha?" Arngrim asked, slightly flustered by their gaze.

"No, it's just that you sometimes speak like a smart person, so we were just taken aback by a bit." Henry replied, Core and Louie nodded in agreement.

"Argh! F**k you! I am a genius! A genius, you know? How dare you evaluate me so low!" Arngrim screamed in frustration and was completely ignored by the others.

"I'll go search for additional information." Henry said and turned around to leave.

"A week?" Core asked.

"A day or two is enough, it's a request for Eshwar anyway, it'll be done before a day after I confirm what that guy does." Henry said as he skipped the five step stairs.

"Then within 3-days?" Core asked.

"Hmm... Yep." Henry nodded and walked towards the door.

"Come back soon." Core's voice was heard from behind, Henry smiled at her words and took out his mask from the subspace.

It was a bright red mask that covered the lower half of his face and had a slit in front of his mouth with a razor sharp fanged pattern. He held it up to his mouth, and it adhered to his face as it recognized Henry's mana signature.

SWISH (2x)

He took out a pair of orange striped daggers and slashed the air, and after his grip around the daggers got comfortable, he opened the door.

CLUNK

A 50-step stairway welcomed him, and there was a vent at the end of the staircase, so he jogged, opened the hatch, jumped out, and dashed as the hatch quickly hid itself as soon as his mana supply halted.

After a 100-meter dash, he found where Eshwar had previously been as the 20-foot-wide path was cleared with trees falling to their sides, some slightly frozen with blood splattered everywhere and fifteen trees pulled off with their roots simultaneously, the first five trees were broken in the middle as they were frozen in that position. The damage stretched for about 200 meters.

"..... He has gotten stronger..... again." Henry mumbled in disbelief.

"Haa..." He sighed and shook his head when he imagined what Core's reaction would be if she learned about it.

"Let's keep quiet about it for now." He shuddered at the thought and mumbled.

'....Where was I supposed to g.... Ah! Sector six.'

'Focus mind.' Henry muttered in his head and all of the unnecessary thoughts were cleared in an instant.

'Wind's way.' His body felt light as he began to move in the direction of the wind; even if the flow was in the opposite direction, it didn't matter much, but it would have worked wonders if it had been.

SHWOOMMM

'Should I consider myself lucky?' He thought and grinned because the wind was now blowing in the direction of the sector two's portal area entrance.

SWISH

He floated a meter above ground and disappeared from the spot he was previously.

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Sector one.

500 meters away from the 'Orc Warriors Village,' which was surrounded by a giant pencil-like wooden fence forming a roughly drawn circle of 50 meters radius, with many shacks in it, along with some traps, and many Orc warriors roaming around leisurely with axes, hammers, and broad swords in their hands.

The village had an arched entrance decorated with many monster skulls and bones, with a huge bull's skull hung in the middle as a symbol of their pride in their chief, who had hunted one of the strongest monsters.

THROB

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