章 564: Choosing a path

A few moments ago, Numba, Izzy and Ian had still been in the main gambling hall. The Scatterbugs’ staff and gang members were proving to be more than a handful, not only did they outnumber the three students by dozens of times, but they were resilient as well.

“Guys, we seem to have a problem. I’m starting to recognise a few of the ones I hit in the very beginning. They’re starting to get back up and rejoin the fight. Hey, assholes, just stay down, will you?! Don’t make us kill you for real!” Ian shouted.

The three of them weren’t part of a gang, and while their strength as Altered made it easy for them to take out fully grown adults, they couldn’t bring themselves to kill them. While they knew it would be easy enough given the strength disparity between Altered and human, the psychological barrier from taking a fellow human’s life wasn’t that easy to ignore.