"Right there," Corey sensed the presence of two A+ Rank Hunters and dashed in that direction.
With a single punch, he broke many walls and immediately arrived at the room where he saw Tom, who was holding his laptop and trembling on his bed.
Waking up to Asher's killing intent affected him more than Dane and Kai who felt most of it. But as he was not the target of Asher's killing intent, he didn't suffer much.
Corey quickly turned to see two guys screaming in pain on the floor as weird black chains strangled their bodies, and due to the small spikes on the chain, many cuts and wounds appeared on Kai and Dane's bodies.
Corey turned his face and saw Asher calmly standing there, looking at him with stoic eyes.
"Young Master," shouts from the guards came as they arrived in Room 05 as well.
But Corey was faster than them because he was an S Rank hunter.
"What?" Zach arrived just behind Corey, looking at the scenario before him.
"Stop," Asher muttered, looking at Zach, who was about to attack Dane and Kai.
"Ah?" Zach turned to look at Asher.
His words stopped Zach and the entire security team that was about to attack Dane and Kai.
"Move," Garreth shouted as he had just arrived.
His heart was beating out of his chest as the consequences of Asher getting hurt were not something he ever wanted to face.
"Arggg," Dane and Kai grunted on the floor as their blood spread on the floor.
Right now, half of Asher's body was covered in black armor from which a chain-like thing came out.
Asher looked at the chains and the notification that was floating in front of him.
Tiamur's Chain Armor
S Rank Artifact
Description: An invisible armor that will appear at the wearer's wish. In the armor lie chains that were meant to torture their foes.
First Ability: Negates damage below S Rank by 70%
Second Ability: Chains made of mana will come to strangle your opponent below S Rank
Third Ability: Within 30m of the wearer's presence, all beings below S Rank will have highly dull senses for 1 minute.
Limitations: A huge amount of mana is needed to use the secondary ability, and if the mana supply is cut, the chains will disappear
Unlike World Academy, where Asher could not use artifacts, this was the outside world where he could use such high-ranking artifacts. This was the S Rank Artifact that Alfred Raven had gifted Asher for his last birthday when he became the official heir of the Greville family.
This was one of the rarest S Rank Artifacts that worked like armor but could still be used by a low-ranking hunter, apart from its secondary ability, which Asher could only maintain for 5 seconds with his current mana pool.
"Capture them alive," Asher said as the chains disappeared.
Dane and Kai were trying to get up when Corey appeared behind them and used his hands to slam their bodies to the ground.
"I apologize, Young Master. We are ready for any punishments," Garreth bowed, as did the other security guards, as they had failed at their duties.
Although it was not entirely their fault, as they could not have anticipated Kai's unique ability, which helped him and Dane infiltrate the highest floor so easily. Only peak S Rank hunters or above were the people who could sense Kai's presence when he used his ability, so unless such a person was present, it would have been impossible to detect them.
But none of it mattered now; they had made a severe mistake guarding Asher.
"Forget it, but why were these guys late?" Asher asked as he looked at Garreth.
"Ah," Zach wanted to say something but then closed his mouth.
'Shit, shit,' Zach was panicking a lot in his mind.
Although Zach had huge pride in front of people like Asher, who was from the Elite family that basically made the rules of this world, people like him were nothing. If the Greville family wanted, Zach and people related to him would disappear without a trace.
"They were busy strolling around," Garreth said while still bowing.
Corey looked up, but even he was nervous. One word from Asher and both of them would be kicked out of the Abyss Guild, no matter how rare S Rank hunters were; they were not worth more than the heir of an Elite family.
"I apologize, Young Master, we didn't know it was you who called us," Corey said as Zach was too stunned to speak.
Asher's cold eyes looked at Zach and Corey, making them nervous. But he turned and looked at Garreth.
Right now, he had another question in his mind, which was more important than bothering Zach and Corey.
"Did you use the emergency call?" Asher asked, and Garreth flinched.
"Y-Yes, I apologize," Garreth replied with a stuttering voice.
Not only had Garreth failed to protect Asher, but he also disobeyed his orders that mentioned his stay at Maxzil should remain anonymous.
Asher looked at Garreth as if he was an annoyance, and his emotions didn't change for Zach and Corey either. All of them were incompetent, which was why Asher didn't want to use them for his future plans.
From the corner of his eyes, Asher looked at Dane, whose eyes were observing everyone in the room. Even in this situation where he and Kai would have been killed normally, Dane was still figuring out a way to escape with a calm mind.
'Annoying,' Asher thought in his mind.
Although he had ordered to bring S Rank hunters because he remembered that it was around this time that Dane and Kai tried to rob this hotel, and he wanted to catch them before World Association did.
But now Garreth had used the emergency call, which was given to the security guards that followed Asher and Amelia and the twins. Its only function was to inform the high-ranking hunters of the Greyhounds, which was the group of people trained by the Greville family.
Due to Garreth using this call, a group of high-ranking hunters was on their way to Maxzil at this moment. And this obviously meant that both Arthur and Sylvie would receive the news about Asher being in Maxzil.
'What the hell happened when I slept,' Tom looked around, but nothing made sense to him.
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The team from the World Association entered Maxzil a minute ago.
"Activate the tracer," their leader said as Clara took out a device.
*BEEP*
"What's the location?" the team leader asked with a smile on his face.
The sound in the device meant that the suspects were still in this city.
Clara tapped on the device, and a 3-D map emerged.
"In this hotel," she replied.
"Time to move," the man replied as they flared their mana.
"Don't go overboard," He said one last time as they dashed towards the direction of a particular hotel.
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In an underground facility, which was the base of the most infamous organization in the world, seven men could be seen sitting in the room, waiting for a certain person to arrive.
"How many mana gems have you guys gathered?" Lucas asked with a stoic look on his face.
Seeing his face made most of the people in the room nervous, as his red eyes and black hair matched a certain person.
Although that person was their leader, it didn't change the fact that most people here feared him as much as they respected him.
"We have gathered seven S Rank mana gems, but that was all I could find at that place," Kai replied, raising his hands.
As the atmosphere around the room was getting too cold, Nate, who had the second-highest authority like Lucas, spoke out.
"I always wonder how you lost your hand, Dane?" Nate asked, and Dane looked at him and spoke.
Dane had a grin on his face as he was not bothered to explain his past to Nate.
"It's a funny story," Dane started explaining his story.
"When we escaped Spyder, both Kai and I were looking for money," he said with a grin on his face.
"And so we tried to rob the most famous hotel in Maxzil City. It was a great plan, but I didn't know that those Spyder bastards had planted mana chips in us," Dane's bloodlust started leaking, but nobody minded it.
"And then we got caught by the World Academy, and in the fight, those bastards managed to cut my left arm when I tried to escape," Dane said, but Kai knew that he had left many things that had happened to them.
It was a past that Kai didn't want to remember, but that past was the only reason why both he and Dane were part of this group.
"What happened after that?" a man asked the room.
"It was-" Dane said but stopped midway through as he looked towards the door.
A young man with an extremely attractive face entered the room, holding a pitch-black sword in his hands that was covered with blood.
Seeing that man, everyone in the room stood up, and Dane did the same.
"Welcome, Boss," five men said the same thing.
"Welcome, brother," Lucas said, and Nate was quiet.
"Sit down," Asher said as he removed his coat, which was smudged with blood all over it.
Asher's heightened senses allowed him to overhear Dane's tale, but he had no interest in prolonging their idle chatter.
Asher's presence was dominating for everyone apart from Lucas, who was not bothered by it.
