Chapter 67: Chapter 067
The weapons vault exploded with a long bang. All the gunpowder stored in the vault went up in flames. The fire rapidly spread, engulfing the other nearby storage buildings.
Alvin, who had been flung a great distance, and injured by some of the things that had been sent flying from the explosion, slowly got up. He sat up, still feeling dizzy, and tried to assess his surroundings and his injuries.
He had several cuts on his skin, and his left arm and his back felt painful, and he felt they were sprained, even if they were not broken.
But due to the outstanding constitution of a Hunter, he could still move about, and even fight. He groped around, and found the crossbow he had just used, and hefted it up. While bullets could be easily intercepted with the right methods, a steel bolt flying towards you was much more difficult to intercept. Recalling what had just happened, Alvin started to fall in love with the crossbow.
Flexing his arms and legs, he moved towards the centre of the explosion, to see how the Pyromaniac was doing. A little distance away, he saw his corpse. The steel bolt that had gone through him had partially been melted, and it was all sticking out of his chest.
Alvin dragged his corpse a little outside into the open, just in case he wanted to take the Pyromaniac Beyonder characteristic that would soon condense.
He then went towards the stuck to the sides of the burning structure, and made his way towards the inner storage area.
Alvin wasn't lying when he said he wished to take some ingredients for the Pyromaniac potion from the storage of the Zmanger Gang.
He had the potion formula for Pyromaniac, and had almost digested the Provoker potion. The main ingredients for Pyromaniac were rare in Backlund, and he hadn't found any, even though he started looking as soon as he got the Pyromaniac potion formula.
Counting the guy killed outside his bar, and the one captured shortly before, that was at least 6 Pyromaniac from the Zmanger Gang. He thus had reasons to believe that they might have another set he could take for himself. He planned to swipe ingredients in the chaos that would follow in preparation for his digestion of the Provoker formula.
As he was stealthily moving, the entire compound of the Zmanger Gang descended into chaos. The huge explosion was seen and heard by every last member in the compound, and many of them were rushing to the storage area. Some of the guys who had been put to sleep earlier were now awake, yelling and screaming. But without anyone to take charge, they didn't know what to do, and could only panic helplessly. Alvin spotted someone running out from inside, whom he immediately recognised as one of the Hunters. He was running towards the random mob of people and trying to take charge and directing them towards the water pump nearby.
Alvin joined the large group of people running towards the water pump along with the Hunter. He then silently hefted the crossbow, and let a silent but deadly bolt to the back of the Hunter's head. He tried to dodge, but in the close distance, it was futile.
"Enemy attack" yelled Alvin at the top of his voice. He then started sprinting towards the storage area.
According to the people Raleigh had put to sleep and questioned in their dreams, there were two Beyonders in the building. The grunts had no way of identifying who was what Sequence, so Alvin wasn't sure whether the two he killed were the two who were on guard duty.
But in any case, he had to grab some stuff from the storage, even if he had to face another Pyromancer.
Alvin approached the building that was supposed to be the special storage for Beyonder items. This building was partially underground, and had not yet caught on fire, due to its better location and good quality materials. Alvin stood a few meters away from the storage, and looked at it.
It made zero sense for such an important location to be unguarded. If he was lucky, the Pyromancer who he killed should have been on guard duty, and he just had to deal with inanimate traps.
Alvin did not think that it was a good idea to go into the building, but at the same time, was unwilling to sit around and wait.
Hence, he took out the Skeleton Whistle, and blew it.
Some random skeleton that was buried nearby for who knows how long clawed its way out of the dirt. Alvin put a random hooded cloak on it to disgust it as a real person and used his spirituality to guide the skeleton to move towards the storage building.
He then hung back and watched, his weapons at the ready.
The skeleton slowly walked into the storage area, one step at a time. As Alvin watched intently, it reached the door of the building, and as per his instructions, reached out, as if it were opening the door.
Suddenly, the skeleton paused. It stood still for a while, and slowly turned its head around. It then stared directly at where Alvin.
Alvin did not even hesitate for a second, as he stated fleeing.
The only Beyonders in the Zmanger Gang were from the Hunter Pathway. None of them would be able to control the undead. So, the best guess Alvin had was that it was a Marionette that controlled the skeleton.
This also meant that Rosago was close by.
Alvin suddenly dove for cover. As he was rolling on the ground, he could hear a whooshing sound, as if a bullet was tearing through the air.
"I divined that someone would attack tonight, and also divined that it would start from the storage areas. I had assumed that you would just raid the storage and that was what you were after, and hence I wanted for you there. But you seem to be audacious to the extreme, directly burning down the structures" came a voice. Alvin turned around to see a man with an ordinary face walking towards him, with a ghostly looking female by his side.
"Do you think we are here to raid your storage? No, we are here for you" asked Alvin, keenly grasping that he did not know who was responsible for the attack.
"What do you mean? And who are you?" he asked with a furrowed face.
"Maybe I can answer that" came a voice from directly above, which Alvin immediately recognised as that of Gordon. Immediately after, Rosago's figure slowly faded, as if it were vanishing.
All that was left was Alvin, starting at a dull looking ghostly female.
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