“Sir, shall we pursue the target?” Alex asked the leader.

“We can’t. They are members of the Black Family now, we can’t just interfere with them like it’s a walk in a park…” The leader sighed heavily, the glimpse of hope he had was snatched away from him, all because of a fool. “They have way too many elites in their ranks. Even John Miller, i mean Johnny, joined their family.” ​​

“But sir, you can match up-”

“And what after that? Who’ll take care of the others? No the risk is too high. I have to plan something else. Just give up on that girl for now and look for a suitable replacement, even if I can’t take her, I’ll make sure that they pay the price for messing with me.”

“Yes sir! I’ll immediately inform the research team about your decision.”

The leader nodded. “What’s the progress of the ‘Inhuman’ project?”

“His body is still intact sir. No failures have been detected so far.”

“Take appropriate security measures. I don’t want that Frankenstein to go rogue and betray me or the organisation .”

“Yes sir!” Alex smartly saluted the leader and left the room.

Soon the leader got lost in his thoughts about revenge when an idea came into his evil mind.

“Looks like I wouldn’t be needing to attack the family myself.” An evil smile appeared on his face.

*****

MEANWHILE INSIDE THE DUNGEON…

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QUESTS : Berserker.

• [ INTRODUCTION ] : You are indulged in combat with [BONE BERSERKER], the creature has impenetrable defense and high stamina.

[ TASK ] : Kill the [BONE BERSERKER]

[ PROGRESS ] : 1/1 Kill

[ REWARDS FOR COMPLETION ] :

• 1500 EXP

• one random reward

<Claim>

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“Claim.”

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[QUEST REWARD] :

You’ve gained 1500 EXP.

You’ve leveled up!

Current level : 43

<You can view your stats in the main interface>

Randomising your reward…

You have obtained :

Attribute enhancing potion <Medium> × 1

Upon usage, randomly adds 20 to 30 attribute points to a selected attribute.

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“20 to 30 points? Not bad, not bad at all. Better use it on mystic-”

“Nicely done Arnold.” Nathan patted him on the back, “It’s good to have someone like you in our family.”

“Hey Arnold, what was that ability? I have seen ice ability users in action but it’s the first time I’ve seen that ability.” Joshua was very intrigued by Arnold’s skill.

“Oh hey guys.” he had completely forgotten that he was still inside the dungeon with the others, “That ability was just an experiment, hehe.”

Arnold awkwardly smiled. He then used his ice abilities to extinguish the raging fire on the Berserker’s ‘lifeless’ body, to claim the spoils of the Battle.

“Tsk. A <Yellow soul> crystal hmph… either way I’ll take-”

“The corpse and whatever the it is wearing, all belongs to the Black Knights guild not the black family and the last time I checked you weren’t a member of the guild.” A warrior dressed in brown armour snatched the beast crystal from Arnold’s hands.

Seeing that their master was threatened, all of the golems and hounds surrounded the warrior. This warrior had been silent this entire time so Arnold thought that he was mute or something. Arnold didn’t needed the crystal so he could let the matter go, but he didn’t liked the attitude of this warrior. He was sick of the people who looked down upon the others, since Arnold had experienced it first hand, he decided to teach this guy a lesson in human etiquette.

“Technically, your guild didn’t do a thing. I did. So it’d be better if return the crystal to me.”

“So what? This was an operation that the guild was tasked with, so all the resources belong to the guil-”

“Who’s this guy again?” Arnold’s ignored what the warrior was saying, and asked Nathan.

“He… is the biological son of The Head.” Nathan replied, even though he was technically Nathaniel’s own son, he was very weak his stats were barely enough fora an D ranker and thus he was never acknowledged as Nathaniel’s son.

“Allen, can’t we discuss it later?” Nathan continued.

“You stay out of it, you motherless bast-”

BAM!

Allen fell to the ground, shocked and furious, overwhelmed with disbelief. He had cursed Nathan but the one who attacked him wasn’t Nathan, but Arnold.

“Listen here, you piece of entitled sh*t.” Arnold moved beside Allen as if teleporting. Duke gripped Allen’s head lifted him up in the air. “I don’t care who you are or what your job is. But don’t you dare talk sh*t about someone’s mother, you get that punk?”

“Arnold, leave him please. I know he’s an idiot, still he’s family too.” Nathan shrugged his shoulders.

Realising that acting on someone else’s behalf wasn’t good thing specially if the person in question is himself not bothered by the words said against him or his family, Arnold ordered Duke to let Allen down.

“The crystal if you don’t mind.”

Allen gave Arnold the <Yellow soul> crystal and mumbled something, but Arnold couldn’t hear it properly so he let Allen go.

“I apologise for his behaviour. He’s always been a… problem child, who wants to make a name for himself but often ends up causing trouble instead.” Nathan explained, “Feel free to do whatever you want with skeleton and it’s gears, it’s not like we did anything to help you.”

“You don’t need to apologise. The way he behaved just triggered some bad memories…”

“Speaking of memories, I actually don’t know much about you and I don’t think anyone else does either. How about we celebrate this victory tonight and exchange some tales?” Nathan looked at everyone else and shouted, “Hey guys! How about he celebrate today’s victory at a club or something?”

“Oh hell yeah! I’m in!” Joshua exclaimed.

“Me too.”

“Count me in.”

“I don’t have anything else to do either way.” Nina said.

“Well if everyone is coming then sure I’ll come, too.” Arnold smiled.

“Then it’s decided, we’ll meet at the ‘Malibu’ club at 8 pm. Everyone good job today!”