In an underground facility, Capital of the Unity

“Leader, we received another intel from H.” One of the men responsible for information reported to the man sitting on the throne. Man on the throne looked at it with his red eyes and held the paper before unfolding and reading it. He was the leader of the Starve Cleric. He was searching for Marooner for a long time to avenge his men and foiling his plans. But when Marooner sold a dual elemental orb in the auction, he decided to capture the man for himself instead.

There was only one line of text on the paper, “Marooner, 123 Main Street, Capital.”

Leader of the Starve Cleric, Degenhard looked at the text with his eyes shining. He ordered his man, “Gather Warriors and Soldiers. Your mission is to capture Marooner whatever the cost.”

“Yes, sir.”

This scene happened all around the Capital. Many criminal organizations received a piece of information from secret channels and found out Marooner’s whereabouts. They all gathered their men to capture the only man who knew about dual elemental orbs.

————

In the Army Headquarters, Capital

In General Strankov’s room, there was a blond old woman with a blonde young teen. The teen was General's granddaughter, the Grader Irina Strankov. She leveled up to Form-Rank not long ago and would enter F-Circle pretty soon.

But her age was also close to 19. She would have to serve in the army pretty soon. General ordered her to come to headquarters often to let soldiers know her, so when she started to serve, soldiers would know who she was.

“Grandma, when will you train me again?” Irina asked respectfully. Her grandmother doted on her, but she still respected her.

“I will have time in a few hours. Let’s train then.” General Strankov raised her head from a bunch of virtual documents and looked at her granddaughter. She was the most talented among her descendants. She initially wanted to send her to the Police, but later when her talent was discovered, she decided to train her to take her position. She was also diligent and would train whenever she was free. Her pride wouldn’t let her slide after every loss.

While they were sitting and talking, her aide walked in after knocking on the door. “Ma’am General. Mother AI warned all big families and the army that Lemaze’s family’s database was hacked by criminals, and Marooner’s home address has been exposed.”

“What!” General spring onto her feet. “What are other families doing?”

“Gathering their men to protect Marooner.” The aide reported respectfully.

“Irina, go back to the family and carry my orders. The Strankov family will aid Marooner against criminals and escort him to a safe house until the dust settles. The one we have outside of the town.” She ordered Irina.

“Yes, grandma.” Irina ran out of the office and started to tap on her wristwatch quickly. She was sending messages to her father.

After Irina left, General Strankov looked at her aide, and ordered, “I will talk about energy, so gather every soldier below into the conference room.”

“General, this—” Aide beat about the bush, “General Cross ordered all men to be deployed for a field trip. He said he would inform you and walked into your office in the morning, I thought you already knew.”

“What did you say?” General Strankov looked like a wounded beast. “Where is the field trip?”

“Outside of the city” Aide said, sweating bullets.

“That bastard Mercer! He only came to say a few things before he left.” General shouted before she kicked her aide out.

At this time, every family and every criminal party in the capital gathered their men to go to two different corners of the capital. The address criminal parties received was the real address Miles used in the site, while what families and armies received was fake and replaced by the Lemaze family. Of course, not even the Lemaze Family knew what the real address was. They only knew the address was wrong, so they didn’t bother to go. But they didn’t warn other families about the address being wrong. They had no obligation to help them.

At this time, Miles was walking to his destination. He looked at the app showing where his cargo was and was lazily walking. He still had five minutes before the drone would arrive, so he took his time and looked around curiously.

In the address he put into the site, there were hundreds of men in disguise waiting for someone to appear. They were all unaware of the existence of each other, except five figures in full blacks hiding in an alley. They were already locked into criminal parties with their technological goggles and marked them one by one. An interface appeared to show their names, talents, and much other information even themselves wouldn’t know.

“Delivery in 2 minutes 33 seconds.” One of the figures in black said silently, others nodded.

Time ticked slowly. A hundred men and five figures in black waited patiently. When the clock hit 0, a drone appeared in the street and floated to the post box. A stick drew out of the drone's body and opened the post box, before placing the small cargo inside. After that, it closed the post box once again before flying away. No one reacted.

After that, the wait continued.

1 minute.

5 minutes.

30 minutes.

An hour.

After waiting for an hour, the figures in black noticed something was amiss, but a voice gave them a new order. “Look into that post box right away.”

Five walked to the post box and opened it, but all of a sudden hell descended to Earth. Hundreds of men attacked simultaneously with binding attacks and nets to capture five men. Five figures in black gathered their superpowers and a sun shone among their amidst.

The sun clashed with the collective power of a hundred and canceled all of them. Criminal parties looked at five figures in surprise and fear, before falling back. They were also eyeing each other.

One of the five reported silently, “There is a hole beneath the post box. Where it leads, unknown.” Just after they finished, a small explosion reverberated under their feet.