The Young Master in the Shadows

Lily and her sisters slowly stood up and dusted the dirt that covered their bodies as they looked back with shocked eyes at the mess they made.

“Isn’t this too much? Wasn’t this supposed to be a contained explosion? The entire hill had been vaporized!” Ivy asked as she looked around.

Luckily they vacated that area fast fearing that they would be traced by satellites if they waited for the explosion… This was a close call.

If Lily didn’t activate that Talisman in time after the explosion flash, they would have been very hurt right now due to the aftershock.

“Maybe a little,” Lily said as she silently cursed at her young master… He only told her that this would make a huge explosion… He never mentioned anything about a nuclear bomb scale… She was sure she did the calculations correctly.

The poor girl had no idea that below the control room, at the center of the base there was a hidden safe full of GEMs that Troy was keeping to operate his soul-suppressing formation.

Although the diffusion was not optimal because the GEMs' positions were not following the formation, the sheer number of them made that detail irrelevant.

“Where to now?” Ivy asked.

Lily frowned as she tried to call Victor’s phone, but failed to get a signal.

“Let’s go to our new base… The candidate’s test should finish soon.” Lily said after some hesitation. She had just realized that all of the Von Krone agents who were following her were nowhere to be found. This was a rare chance!

…

Alpha frowned as she looked at Sebastian and Evan. She never expected that those two would be in the same car with Troy.

Now, she could easily figure out who the ones behind Troy were. It was none other than her mortal enemy, the von Zwei family.

“Do you know her?” Evan asked Sebastian.

“Yes master, she…. She was with the one who locked me in that vault.” Sebastian said after some hesitation, mentioning nothing about a certain arachne.

“Oh…” Evan's eyes twinkled as he looked at Alpha. He activated his inspection ability… This time it worked, making him smile in a very perverted way. She was a Von Richter… At last, he found one.

“A Von Richter… I didn’t expect you to come to my side by yourself.” He said, making her step back a little.

“A Von Richter?” Sebastian frowned… he didn’t hear this name before.

Alpha hesitated, Didn’t Victor tell her that she was safe? How did this guy find out?

No matter what, she was stronger than him. Even with Sebastian here, she will be able to kill him. But first, she must get rid of the distractions.

“Escape now… I will find you later.” She told the girls who got out of the car behind her and stepped back as they looked at Evan who was licking his lips as he looked at them.

She couldn't guarantee their safety, as she could see the survivors of Troy’s men begin to gather while preparing their guns as they looked at their master’s corpse…. Strangely enough, those men didn’t appear sad… As if Troy was not their boss.

The girls didn’t hesitate and ran away. No one followed them. Once Alpha was dead, they would use the contracts in Troy’s ring to get them back.

“Dear Sebastian, it seems like we are destined to be a master and an apprentice. This woman’s family massacred mine 20 years ago.” Evan lied, making Sebastian shocked.

“You were hurt by that young master Alex too?” He asked, making Sebastian freeze.

“Alex?”

“Yes… She works for Alex of the Thunder sect,” Sebastian said,

“Oh…… Something like that….” Evan said as he remembered that name…Alex. Sebastian was reluctant to say it earlier, he kept telling him it was a masked man… It seemed like he was still wary of him. This was expected though, taming a scion would take some time. That’s what the incomplete memories he had told him.

Suddenly Evan felt a sense of danger, he quickly dodged to the left, as Alpha who was standing a few feet away seemed to have decided to attack out of nowhere and threw a dagger at him.

“AHHHH….” A man who was standing behind Evan fell to the ground as he held his throat where the dagger landed.

“Idiot… Idiots, you would die if she attacked you like this. Transform quickly!” He ordered as Alpha dodged a fireball thrown by Sebastian and beheaded another man while wondering what Evan meant.

She knew the answer seconds later as the men began to change slowly… Some began to grow horns and some began to have extra hands.

“Master, what are those?” Sebastian asked as he looked at the men.

“Genetically modified warriors… The future!” Evan explained as he watched proudly. “They are all semi-players with supernatural powers that can rival any normal player.” He added. He didn’t attack straight away for two reasons. Alpha was way more powerful than him, and he wanted to test his men’s strength.

Alpha was horrified as she tried to decapitate the man as he transformed…. Too bad She missed because of a fireball by Sebastian. She could only cut his arm, which began to regrow at a visible spread…. She struck again, this time cutting his head. He finally died.

“Stop! It’s over.” Evan said as quickly realized that his men were rubbish in front of a true Von Richter.

Alpha didn’t care, she just turned to face the others. She wanted to throw another dagger but suddenly a strange sense of weakness took over her as she nearly fell to one leg.

“Do you like that?” Evan, who was watching her earlier, seemed to have taken out some kind of orb.

“This artifact reactivates your family seals…” He said, “We found it at.” He paused as he felt an earthquake. It was a light one but it made the entire mountain shake… This was not natural, probably caused by an explosion.

He frowned then looked again at Alpha who took the opportunity to take out a haste talisman and activated it, as she jumped and began to run at a very fast speed toward the forest… She kept burning talismans as she ran away… She was very decisive.

“Damn it! Why can she still use her strength? Why didn’t you stop her!” Evan asked in surprise, not realizing that Alpha’s lock was broken and could only lock 90% of her energy if activated. Alpha was only hidden from his family earlier due to Victor’s skills.

“Follow her quickly,” Evan ordered the men as he watched Sebastian run after her too… It made him curious what that young master Alex did to him to make him this spiteful.

Evan decided to follow quickly, he must get to her and eat her flesh as soon as she died, but he needed to do something first.

He quickly approached Troy’s corpse to take his ring which contained many important things…. It was gone! Troy’s entire hand was cut off cleanly. Damn it, that girl must have done it while she was attacking them.

Evan yelled angrily then began to run after them… After taking two steps he suddenly stopped as a strange sense of pain began to spread through his body.

“Ahhhh” He screamed as he fell to the ground… What was wrong with him? What is this pain?

He quickly took a healing pill… The pain dulled a little, then struck again, 10 times stronger.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” Evan screamed, “WHAT DID THAT B*TCH DO TO ME?” He asked as he growled in pain, not realizing that he was cursing at the wrong girl. His excited state when he saw Alpha seemed to have made Hana’s poison touch curse activate.

He had touched her earlier when he took her pulse… And now it was time for him to feel the curse’s pain.

…

Alpha ran… She ran and ran again.

She didn’t like that, but she knew better than anyone that with her current state she can’t fight those men combined, let alone Evan.

Her power was locked to 10%... So she had about 50 points on every attribute.

5 times the strength of a normal man, but far away from Evan’s strength.

Didn’t Victor tell her that her lock was fixed by him? Why the hell was that man using it against her now… Didn’t he tell her that her identity would be hidden?

If she survived this, she will make sure to castrate that pervert Victor for revenge.

Thankfully, this place was near one of the four mountains surrounding Tetraquad city. That’s where she headed, intending to hide in the mountain’s lush forest.

Those monster men were on her track. Sebastian was too, she could hear his angry shouts every once in a while among the men’s howling.

Reaching the forest, she decided to start her counterattack using the darkness of the night. If her intuition was to be trusted, the artifact in Evan’s hand might be able to track her…

She didn’t know why he was not after her with the others, and that made her uneasy. But it also got her a chance. But she needed to kill as many of those men as possible before he arrived if she wanted to have a chance to escape.

She used her sky eye as she activated a hiding talisman blending with a tree. The men were spreading apart as they searched for her.

The first one to approach her was a man with three horns, he seemed to have good night vision as he stupidly stood below the tree she was at and began to look around.

He died a moment later when Alpha descended upon him, pushing her spear in his skull between his horns and then swirling it as she pulled back making sure he was dead.

She quickly climbed the tree again using a hook she prepared then jumped to another one as the man fell into a bloody pool alerting one of his friends who began to shout.

Alpha was tempted to shoot them with her gun, but chose not to do that as she could see that the men had strange shimmer-like scales on their bodies… She could tell that bullets were not powerful enough, only artifacts like the S-ranked Spear she took from Victor could work.

And a gun, even with a silencer would surly reveal her position to others.

She sneaked to another location and started waiting for another prey.

This time it was a man with two strange feelers on the top of his head.

Like with the other one, she descended upon him with her spear and he was dead in seconds, but this time she made a huge mistake.

She didn’t notice that this one had a tail with a barbed spike on its end coiled around his waist as a belt. The moment she descended, the tail coiled back and the spike struck her in her lower abdomen making her fall to the ground with her target’s corpse.

Alpha hissed and quickly tried to take the spike out, but failed, this damn thing seemed to have some protrusions that made taking it out without cutting half of her stomach impossible.

“Damn it.” She cursed as she heard the sound of approaching men. She quickly cut the tail with her spear and then struggled away with a poison-dripping spike, piercing her stomach.

That’s what she gets for being overly confident.