Chapter 458 Old acquaintance
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Upton savored the previous battle. The three of them directly used "Travel" to arrive at the Black Hand organization's lair. Hobert didn't waste words with them; he kicked their boss half to death with one foot.
Hobert also had no intention of interrogation, finishing him off with a single knife.
And that lady was also a ruthless character, firing several shots at a Black Hand leader, emptying her gun.
Of course, it wasn't that she was abusing the corpse, but her marksmanship was average. Six bullets didn't kill him, but stray bullets killed one of his subordinates.
In the end, the lady still had to pull out her dagger to give that Black Hand leader relief.
The other three Black Hand members, seeing their boss and leader dead, immediately knelt on the ground begging for mercy and asking Upton to plead for them.
But Upton still drew his short sword, killing them one by one. This operation must be kept secret, as he planned to continue living in Conant City.
By the time Upton finished killing the three Black Hand members, Hobert had already finished his spirit channeling: "The extraordinary organization behind them is the 'Judgement Group'."
Hobert smiled meaningfully: "Old acquaintances!"
Upton was taken aback: "You know members of the 'Judgement Group'?"
"Yes, I killed one of their Sequence 6 members, which should be a core member of the 'Judgement Group'," Hobert said casually.
Hobert still hadn't found a suitable opportunity to deal with that 'Dawn Paladin' Beyonder characteristic, but his 'Mutated Fire Rose Spider' had become a stepping stone for Hobert to build a relationship with the Church of the Earth Mother.
Upton, standing to the side, thought: Is this human language?
I'm old acquaintances with him!
You know him?
I killed his family!
Hobert smiled: "According to the information I gathered before, the person in charge of the 'Judgement Group' in Conant City is a 'Deputy Leader' named Gale.
"He has at least one Sequence 6 and two Sequence 7 helpers, as well as at least six or seven Sequence 8 and Sequence 9 subordinates.
"From the spirit channeling of this Black Hand leader, I learned of a stronghold of the 'Judgement Group'. It might be difficult to catch Gale there, but we should be able to kill another core member of theirs.
"By continuing to spirit channel, we'll find Gale sooner or later."
Fors was a little worried; the enemy's strength was very powerful! That 'Deputy Leader' named Gale actually had three mid-sequence assistants, so Gale was likely a Sequence 5!
However, Fors recalled the battle she participated in with Jeffrey in which they dealt with an entire mercenary squad. She was worried, but she didn't show it.
Upton thought for a moment and asked, "Could the Gale you're talking about be the boss of 'Balan Fisheries Company'?"
Hobert was stunned: "The location of the stronghold I obtained from spirit channeling is a fish shop."
He paused and added, "'Judgement Group' Deputy Leader Gale is tall, with a horizontal scar on his face, running from his left ear across his nose to his right ear."
Gale's appearance was obtained by Hobert from spirit channeling from the 'Dawn Paladin' before.
Upton nodded repeatedly: "That's right! It's him!"
Then he secretly thought, "That was close." Previously, a subordinate had advised him to seize the seafood industry in Conant City as well.
At that time, Upton had already obtained the general agency authorization for 'Keen Mechanical Trading Company' and was focusing on contemporary 'high-tech' products, so he didn't get involved in the seafood business.
Fortunately, he didn't get involved, because the mastermind behind the entire seafood industry in Conant City was Gale!
After confirming the target, Upton said, "I'll send someone to investigate immediately..."
"It's too late," Hobert said. "At most, in two or three hours, Gale will receive the news of the Black Hand's destruction.
"While the initiative is still in our hands, take us to the place where we're most likely to catch Gale.
"As for his subordinates, it doesn't matter if a few escape."
Upton thought for a moment: "Gale should be at his fish shop now, but he has many helpers there!"
Hobert smiled: "Prepare for the upcoming battle. If I'm entangled by Gale and you're in danger, you can escape from there first."
Fors nodded: "Okay."
She was best at running away. Even if one 'Door' couldn't get her away, two 'Doors' would definitely allow her to escape.
After a simple battle preparation, Hobert and Upton briefly formulated a battle plan.
To hide his identity, Hobert changed his appearance when he set off from Upton's place.
Upton wore the mask bestowed upon the devotee by the 'Creator'. With this mask, they wouldn't have to worry about their details being divined.
The three of them used "Travel" again to arrive near 'Balan Fisheries Company'.
Upton pointed out the approximate location of Gale's office. Hobert briefly surveyed the terrain and used "Travel" again to take them upstairs and into the office.
But they found nothing! The rough-style office was empty.
Upton smiled awkwardly: "In theory, Gale should indeed be in his office at this time."
Hobert cracked his knuckles: "There should be people from the 'Judgement Group' here. Now that we're here, we can't leave empty-handed."
His understanding of surprise attacks was to strike wherever he could. He couldn't waste a surprise attack opportunity just because things didn't go according to his plan.
So Hobert openly opened the office door. Seeing two thugs standing in front of another room door in the corridor, he kicked them one by one without saying a word, knocking them unconscious.
Although separated by a door, Hobert's spirituality was enough to sense that there were enemies inside. However, the people inside should also have similar spiritual warnings. Time was tight. To avoid the enemies making any preparations, Hobert waved his hand, signaling Upton and Fors to keep their distance, and he kicked open the door.
Just as he was about to rush into the room, Hobert discovered that it was a conference room, packed with people, with no empty seats.
At the head of the table sat a scarred face, Gale himself.
As it happened, they were discussing today whether to develop Upton into a member of the 'Judgement Group' or to seize the gold in his hands.
So the members of the 'Judgement Group' in Conant City were basically all here.
They didn't react for a moment after seeing Hobert. Even Gale was stunned. Even with spiritual reminders, no one expected someone to be so bold as to come here to make trouble for the 'Judgement Group'!
Hobert smiled: "Sorry everyone, I went to the wrong room."
After saying that, he took a step back.
Gale was the first to react: "Catch him!"
Hobert had only taken one step back: "Corrosion!"
For him, sometimes enemies gathering together wasn't a bad thing.
Because this time Hobert's "Corrosion" wasn't brewed for a long time, Gale and a "Judge" weren't greatly affected, but those Sequence 8s and Sequence 9s were affected by the "Corrosion", lost their minds, and fought with their companions.
The originally spacious conference room became a chaotic mess!
Hobert's estimate of the 'Judgement Group's' grassroots personnel had a considerable error. In the conference room, there were at least six or seven Sequence 8s and seven or eight Sequence 9s.
But the more enemies there were, the better, because now Hobert could reap their lives like harvesting straw.
Gale roared and overturned the huge "conference table" towards Hobert.
Hobert kicked the conference table away, knocking out a Sequence 8 and a Sequence 9 at the same time, and removed the seal on "1-103".
Although Hobert didn't take ordinary extraordinary organizations seriously, he wouldn't underestimate the enemy tactically.
Gale lifted the conference table, creating space to draw the giant sword hidden in the cello case he carried with him. He drew the sword and threw away the scabbard with one hand. But before the scabbard hit the ground, it suddenly flew back and sheathed the sword.
Gale heard the scabbard say, "I am the scabbard, it is the giant sword, we are a loving couple, don't disturb our good times!"
Gale was stunned for a full second. He had used the sword for so many years, and this was the first time he had encountered this situation, and the first time he had been stunned in battle: "Would you be more comfortable if I pulled the scabbard back and forth a bit?"
The sword and scabbard both made shy noises.
A chair in the conference room suddenly stretched out its legs and tripped a Sequence 9 who was fighting with his companion: "Hahaha~ idiot, you can't even dodge this, I'm not playing with you anymore!"
It went to trip a Sequence 7, but the Sequence 7 kicked off its outstretched leg.
"Ah! My leg! You broke my leg!" the chair screamed. "Fortunately, I still have three, I'll trip you again!"
The chairs had all come to life, traversing through the battle in groups. Some would stretch out their legs to trip the people fighting, and some ran around yelling, insisting that the members of the 'Judgement Group' sit on the back of the chairs.
Under the influence of "Corrosion", some Beyonders actually went to sit down, but just as they were about to sit on the chair, the chair suddenly ran away, causing the Beyonder to fall on their butt on the ground.
The table, already broken in the middle, flipped over and completely twisted into two halves: "Although I am not complete, I still look forward to a warm embrace."
After saying that, it flew towards an Beyonder and slammed them against the wall, pressing down hard.
Someone broke the window, and there was broken glass everywhere. They flew around like a swarm of bees, shouting: "I am a scalpel! I am a scalpel! I think you all are sick, stand still, let us operate on you."
Any Beyonder who still had a little bit of sanity dodged one after another. Those who couldn't dodge in time were immediately stabbed into sieves by the glass.
The opened window had two thick branches extending in from outside. The branches wrapped around an Beyonder: "Did you nail nails into me? Are you sick, or are you blind? My relative, the wooden board, likes nails, I don't like them!"
Fors and Upton, who were following behind, were dumbfounded and didn't know how to attack for a while.
The conference room was in chaos, but the core members of the 'Judgement Group' who were not too affected by the "Corrosion" quickly reacted.
They all guessed that the other party should have a very powerful sealed artifact. Gale finally stopped struggling with the giant sword in his hand. The light of dawn radiated from his body, and these rays quickly expanded and radiated dozens of meters around!
Outside, adjacent to the fishing boat harbor, many fishermen and stevedores looked upstairs. They wondered why different rays of light were emitted from there?
In order to hide his identity, Gale rarely used his abilities. Usually, when he really had to fight, he would use the giant sword he carried with him, rather than the "Sword of Dawn" he condensed.
After all, this was not the Feysac Empire. If he exposed his Beyonder abilities, it would easily attract the siege of the Nighthawks.
But this time he felt a huge threat, so he planned to use the "Light of Dawn" to disperse the surrounding effects.
But those chairs, tables, trees, and glass still attacked the members of the 'Judgement Group' while chattering.
Those "low-sequence" Beyonders who were affected by the "Corrosion" regained some sanity, and the effects of the "Corrosion" were rapidly weakening.
The other Sequence 6s and Sequence 7s were preparing to break through the walls from three directions and leave the area affected by the sealed artifact.
A "Werewolf" used his steel-like fists to smash a hole in the wall. He was about to enlarge the hole, but his arm was actually caught by the wall bricks.
Only to hear the wall say: "Hehehe, caught you, caught you!"
The infinitely powerful "Werewolf" wanted to pull back his hand, but couldn't pull it back.
The wall said: "Don't try to cheat! If I catch you, I catch you! Now, it's your turn to catch me!"
"Werewolf": "You let go first, and I'll catch you again!"
"This is the punishment for being caught just now!"
The "Judge" wanted to knock open the wall in front of him with his shoulder, but the wall moved back and dodged: "Hehehe, I dodged."
The "Judge" went to bump it again, and the wall moved in another direction again: "I dodged again."
"Judge": "You're just a wall, what are you dodging!"
While "1-103" was turning the members of the 'Judgement Group' upside down, Hobert wasn't idle either, but the bloodthirsty negative effects dispersed his sanity.
He didn't take advantage of this excellent opportunity to kill the other party's "mid-sequence" members, but killed a Sequence 8 and a Sequence 9 in front of him.
After killing two Beyonders, Hobert gradually regained some sanity. Seeing the trapped "Werewolf", he raised his knife and rushed towards him.
The "Werewolf" also saw Hobert rushing towards him and was very anxious. His legs were kicking on the wall, trying hard to pull out his trapped arm.
Just as Hobert's knife was about to hit the opponent, a "Sword of Dawn" blocked in front of the "Werewolf".
Gale stepped forward and swung another sword, Hobert could only step back and block horizontally with his knife.
The power of the "Mentor of Disorder" was not as good as the "Guardian", but it wouldn't be like the previous Sequence 6, who was directly knocked away by the opponent's sword.
"Lightning Strike!"
As Hobert regained more sanity, he certainly wouldn't compete with the opponent in strength!
Hobert was very grateful for the training those mercenaries gave him. Before that, he would have found Gale very tricky.
But now, Hobert felt that Gale's reaction was slower than those mercenaries. This didn't seem like a very difficult enemy to deal with.
This was of course the case. After all, mercenaries often had to fight, while Gale often planned conspiracies.
Hobert's use of 'Lightning Strike' made Gale panic a little, and he quickly used the 'Dawn Barrier' ability to block it. But at this moment, a bronze door with mysterious patterns appeared beside him.
Pale hands grabbed Gale, and Hobert took the opportunity to step forward, continuously slashing. First, he broke through the 'Dawn Barrier', then he broke through the 'Dawn Armor', and sent his black blade into Gale's heart.
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