Chapter 210: The Fall Of An Underworld Ruler (1)
Chapter 210
Marcus’s words died in his throat as his sharp eyes caught sight of a second figure slowly emerging from the swirling cloud of dust behind Celine.
The figure stepped forward with a calm stride that resonated through the ruined doorway and made several people inside the meeting hall instinctively take a step back.
The mysterious man possessed long, tousled black hair that fell casually around his shoulders, but what instantly commanded the room’s attention was the mask strapped tightly across his face.
It was a matte black, hyper-realistic human skull mask equipped with darkened mesh that covered the figure’s eye, rendering his gaze entirely pitch-black, hollow, and utterly terrifying.
Etched across the mouth of the skull was a wide, jagged grin that looked downright demonic to everyone present. And to make matters worse, the figure was covered entirely in black clothing that shadowed his broad frame, and made him look like a cold-blooded demon that had just crawled it’s way straight out of the deepest depths of hell itself.
The oppressive presence coming from this man only made the sight all the more terrifying.
Marcus narrowed his eyes into a cold and calculating glare, silently sizing the masked man up from head to toe, trying to discern his identity or recall if he had ever encountered such a figure in the underground world.
Behind the mask, Alex silently observed the reactions around him and felt satisfied by the dread spreading across the faces of the men standing inside the hall. Not bad. He could already see several of them swallowing nervously.
At first, he had wanted to simply walk in with his bare face, after all there was no reason for him to hide from a group of people who would soon be dead. But then he remembered the black skull mask tucked away in his spatial storage, the very same one he had worn on the fateful night he permanently turned that bastard Zack into a eunuch without revealing his true identity.
Pairing that with one of his main reasons for helping Celine, which was to completely seize everything Marcus had built for himself, made donning the terrifying disguise an easy choice.
After all, Marcus did have connections, influence, information and an entire criminal organization under his control which he could just add to Nyx’s own, making her one of the if not the strongest person in the city. But before that he’ll have all those heinous ones like the trafficking organization be totally destroyed.
Beyond all that, Alex also wanted to create a terrifying persona within the underworld. Someone cold-blooded enough that powerful organizations like Heukryeon would hesitate before provoking him, yet mysterious enough that nobody would immediately connect him to Alex Walker.
One he could also use to handle the dirty things, like say destroy Heukryeon. Of course he hadn’t forgotten about what happened in Seoul. So now that he was in B rank, taking down Heukryeon should be much easier, especially with all the skills he now possesses. But before that will still require proper planning and preparation on his part.
Marcus eventually pulled his attention away from the masked figure and fixed his gaze back onto Celine.
"So..." Marcus began, his voice dropping into a low, disappointed tone. "I’m assuming you must have finally found out the news regarding your sister’s death, and you’ve come looking for revenge, am I right?"
The moment the words left his mouth, Celine’s fingers clenched into tight, trembling fists. Black, frosty energy immediately wrapped around her hands and within seconds, the temperature inside the entire hall plummeted to sub-zero temperature.
Soon black frost rapidly began spreading across the floors from beneath her feet, climbing up the stone pillars and coating the tall windows in a thin layer of ice, which made several men shiver violently from the cold.
Marcus wrapped his arms and sorrowfully shook his head slowly, acting damn right infuriating.
"I was truly hoping you would never have to find out the truth. But I guess it has inevitably come to this. You wouldn’t know it, but over these past few years, I even began considering you like my very own daughter... But it seems you’ll just have to die here today. My only regret is that such a fine, exceptionally talented Ascendant Realm Awakened like you is going to be wasted. And you even went out of your way to bring help, huh?"
His eyes moved toward Alex.
"Hmm... No matter. It doesn’t change a single thing. Both of you will still die here nonetheless."
Marcus then turned toward the two men standing at his side
The first one had short blonde hair, sharp dark brown eyes, and a lean pale frame that reminded Alex of vampires from movies. But the guy’s expression was cold and emotionless as he stared at the both of them.
The second was an imposing, tan-skinned brute who was completely bald, and stood at an impressive height of six-foot-seven. The guy had this muscles that could make even a body builder feel envious.
Marcus smiled and spoke to the two powerhouses in a soft, brotherly tone, putting on an affectionate front.
"Brothers, I’ll have to trouble the two of you to kill these two intruders for me. But don’t worry, once you’ve cleaned up this mess, I’ll make sure to give you both an exceptionally generous reward."
The burly bald man cracked his knuckles, producing a noise that sounded like trees being snapped, and offered a rough, booming laugh.
"No problem at all, Marcus. You’re just like a real brother to us, so how could we possibly stand by and not help you with something like this?"
Meanwhile, the blonde man locked his eyes onto Celine, and asked coldly. Not liking that his brother wasn’t here.
"Where is Shane? You were with him, weren’t you? Where is he right now?"
Celine looked back at him with a nonchalant look. "Oh, him?" She tilted her head slightly. "I killed him."
"What?!" the burly bald man roared in disbelief before rage swiftly replaced it.
The blonde man’s eyes narrowed even further, turning a shade colder as he looked at Celine as though she were already nothing more than a corpse waiting to be buried. "You bitch..."
As the two powerhouse took a step forward, while flaring their Aura, Alex shifted his posture slightly and leaned his head sideways toward Celine, speaking in a low voice.
"Go capture Marcus," Alex instructed calmly. "Even though that bastard acts completely confident of winning right now, he’s a crafty old snake. The moment things turn sour, he’s going to try and slip away while we’re occupied. Don’t let him out of your sight."
Celine glanced at the two approaching Ascendant-level fighters, as well as the crowd of nearly six Vanguard and Early Realm Awakened subordinates drawing their weapons and moving to flank them.
"But what about you...?" she hesitated before asking. "With those two at the front and numerous cheap attacks that will come from those in Vanguard and Ascendant how are you... "
"I can handle it," Alex interrupted smoothly, his voice radiating confidence. "Now go and get that fat bastard."
Celine eventually nodded, trusting his word completely, before moving forward, bypassing the frontline and shot directly toward Marcus, who was already quietly retreating toward the opposite side of the hall.
"Where do you think you’re going?!" the burly bald man bellowed, swinging a massive fist directly toward Celine’s path to intercept her mid-dash.
Before the giant’s fist could even complete half its arc, Alex’s figure vanished out of reality and reappeared directly in front of the six-foot-seven brute mid-swing!
Without a single moment of hesitation, he drove a lightning fast right punch straight into the giant’s exposed midsection!
The impact was truly insane as a shockwave erupted! And the broad brute was sent off his feet and launched backward like a cannonball! Smashing straight through several walls before disappearing into the distance.
The blonde man’s eyes turned even more colder and his lips twisted into a dark, vicious sneer. "Hmph! Judging by the force you just displayed, you’re most likely an Ascendant Realm Awakened as well. That means you two must have joined forces to ambush and kill my brother so easily. Yes, that vixen must have seduced him so that you will cleanly finish him after his guard was lowered."
’Huh? What the hell is this guy yapping about?’
Just seconds later a loud explosion erupted from the wall as the burly bald man came stomping back into the hall, brushing concrete dust off his bloodied chest and glaring at Alex.
"Sneaking a cheap shot at me when I wasn’t looking?!" the giant roared, his aura flaring like an erupting volcano. "You’re so dead for that, you masked bastard!"
Behind his ominous, demonic mask, Alex’s lips curled into a cold, arrogant smirk. He flexed his fingers, eager to test just how strong these two really were before finishing them off and killing the rest of the people in this mansion... Or on a second thought maybe it would be good to spare those that will willingly submit to him after all these.
"Come on. Let’s see if you can back that up, or you’re just blowing your horn like a mangy mutt."
Without wasting another second, Alex rushed forward to engage them directly. The two Ascendant-level powerhouses also exploded into action simultaneously, and charged at him from opposite angles with extraordinary coordination that could only come from fighting side by side for years if not decades.