Chapter 185: Fiery Obsidian
City of Light Chasing, Boran Villa in the city proper.
Although it was already the dead of night, Estina in the training room was still cultivating the cultivation method, so used to it that she had no intention of resting at all.
At this moment, an old man in a butler’s clothing, whose strength had reached the level of an intermediate martial artist, stood quietly in the training room, watching Estina flip through intelligence reports, an indescribable respect on his face.
Among the younger generation of the great families in the city proper, as long as they had some talent and wanted to enter the genius training camp in the future, they hardly rested from childhood. Training eighteen hours a day was considered lazy; normally, they trained twenty hours a day.
As for Estina, she was even more terrifying. Since the age of five, she slept at most two hours a day. All other time was spent training or on the way to training. By sheer effort, she forced her way from a branch family in the suburbs into the main family in the city proper. Even the current few geniuses of the main family had been trampled under her feet.
“This Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is really hard to see through. They had just destroyed the Iron Heart Gang and gone against those four major powers, and now they have erased the Two-Headed Gang overnight. Have you figured out where this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall comes from?” After reading the intelligence in her hand, Estina could not help but ask.
Although Estina did not turn her head and was even wearing a metal mask that completely hid her face, the old man, for some reason, constantly felt as if he was being watched by Estina. He quickly replied respectfully, “What we have found is only that this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall suddenly rose in the abandoned area, as if it appeared out of thin air. Besides that, there is nothing else. Among the surrounding cities, we have not found any connected factions.”
“This Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is indeed interesting. Clearly it is not a major power from the surrounding cities, yet it could send out six martial artists at once to take down an intermediate martial artist wearing B3-grade battle armor. It seems I have no choice but to make a trip to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.” Estina smiled.
“Miss Tina, quite a few factions now suspect that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall spent a great price to hire a bone forging realm martial artist to assassinate Nison Walker. If you go to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall now, I am afraid it will trigger an investigation by the city senior officials and unnecessary misunderstandings.” The old man, seeing that Estina was preparing to go to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, spoke anxiously.
It was impressive enough that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could erase the Two-Headed Gang, but hiring a bone forging realm martial artist to assassinate a martial artist within the city was a major taboo. The city senior officials would definitely not let the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall off easily. Any factions connected to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall might also suffer.
“That is only speculation,” Estina said indifferently. “And I do not believe the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would do something so foolish. Besides, the city senior officials have yet to take any action, which means Nison Walker’s death should be unrelated to martial artists. The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall must have used some other method to take down Nison Walker.”
“Though I do not want to admit it, such a method is something even those four major powers do not possess. With this alone, the current Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is enough to rank among the top tier suburban factions. This is exactly a good opportunity for our Boran Family to win them over.”
“Killed Nison Walker with a special method?” The old man was shocked when he heard this.
An elementary martial artist wearing B2-grade battle armor could still possibly be killed in the city with numerical advantage, but for people below martial artist level to kill an intermediate martial artist wearing B3-grade battle armor was almost impossible.
The qi and blood and physical fitness of an intermediate martial artist had already fundamentally surpassed that of those below martial artist level. Their internal organs had undergone initial strengthening. Relying solely on their abundant qi and blood, they could easily withstand the internal force used by quasi-martial artists. With a burst of qi and blood, they could easily withstand attacks of over a thousand kilograms of strength, not to mention they were also wearing B3-grade battle armor that greatly reduced impact and internal force.
It could be said that even if a group of limit quasi-martial artists in B2-grade battle armor ganged up on one, it would still be very hard to kill him, unless they completely exhausted the qi and blood of the intermediate martial artist. But no intermediate martial artist was a fool. Once their qi and blood were nearly spent, they would definitely escape, and no matter how many limit quasi-martial artists there were, they could not catch up. So it was simply impossible for people below martial artist level to kill one.
If the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall really had a way for those below martial artist level to kill Nison Walker, that would be terrifying.
He himself was only an intermediate martial artist. Although the battle armor allocated to him by the family was B4-grade, he did not dare claim he was much stronger than Nison Walker.
Meanwhile, the news of the Two-Headed Gang being erased caused quite a stir when it reached the ears of the four major powers.
“Family head, we can now confirm that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall must have used some method to kill Nison Walker.” Deluo Ke, whose figure exceeded three meters and was like a small mountain, looked at the information in his hand, frowning slightly. “If the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall uses this method against our four major powers next, I am afraid the high-level members of our four major powers will soon be cleaned out by the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Should we strike first?”
For an intermediate martial artist in B3-grade battle armor like Nison Walker to be killed had a huge impact.
Among their four major powers, aside from the Gorilla Gang’s gang leader Wright, who had always been unwilling to expose his true strength, and their North Ao Family’s current family head Kai Dewen, whose strength had reached advanced martial artist, the strongest on the surface was only him, an intermediate martial artist.
Since the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could kill an intermediate martial artist within the city, it naturally could also kill anyone among the four major powers, other than Wright and Kai Dewen.
“Right now the methods of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are unknown. There is no need to go looking for trouble. From now on, tell our subordinates to restrain themselves. Also, when family martial artists move, there must be at least two or more together.” Kai Dewen shook his head, not intending to clash head-on with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“But now the people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are coming at us every day. It really affects our business,” Deluo Ke explained. “If this business is affected long-term, we will probably be able to purchase far fewer resources from the Red Moon Merchant Guild later.”
“If we get less, then we get less.” Kai Dewen did not care. “That old fellow Wright and I are both attacking that realm. No matter which of us breaks through to that realm, this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall will be doomed in the future. There is no need for us to compete with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall for short-term gains now.”
“Yes.” Seeing the confident Kai Dewen, a trace of excitement ignited in Deluo Ke’s eyes.
A bone forging realm martial artist.
As long as family head Kai Dewen succeeded in his breakthrough, all those suburban factions would be a joke. Even those senior officials who controlled the city would have to take their North Ao Family seriously.
While the North Ao Family chose to endure, the Gorilla Gang and the two great families of Bei En and Peiwen also informed their subordinates to avoid provoking the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in the near future and to strengthen the defense of their territories. It was obvious none of them planned to oppose the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall at this time.
City of Light Chasing, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“What did you say? We have already taken over the Two-Headed Gang’s territory?” Lin Qi looked at the suddenly excited Meng Wei who had rushed in to report, stunned, completely unable to understand what was going on.
“That’s right.” Meng Wei said excitedly, “Just a while ago, our hall’s disciples successfully killed the Two-Headed Gang’s gang leader Nison Walker. The Two-Headed Gang is in chaos. This news has spread throughout the city. I have already sent people to take over all of the Two-Headed Gang’s territory, and we are just waiting to publish the recruitment announcement tomorrow.”
“Do you know which disciples did it?” Lin Qi was shocked as well. He had not expected these players to silently wipe out a suburban gang. That was insanely bold.
“Hall master, wasn’t it because six of our hall’s disciples were killed at the Hundred Delicacies Restaurant that you sent people?” Meng Wei looked at Lin Qi in confusion.
When he learned of the incident at the Hundred Delicacies Restaurant, he had intended to inform Lin Qi. But while he was only handling some scheduling matters for the recruitment the next day, the Two-Headed Gang was destroyed. In his view, this must have been done on Lin Qi’s orders. After all, Lin Qi had already made it very clear: if people do not offend me, I do not offend them; if people offend me, I will surely execute them.
The Two-Headed Gang had killed six of their people on their own territory. It was not strange at all for Lin Qi to order the extermination of the Two-Headed Gang.
“I did send people. What I mean is, do you know who killed the Two-Headed Gang’s gang leader?” Lin Qi, seeing Meng Wei’s confusion, quickly explained.
He felt it was very necessary to establish some authority for Meng Wei and the others. After all, in the future a considerable part of managing the local disciples would be handed over to Meng Wei.
Also, as players’ actions became freer, he would not be able to know everything. What he could do was control only the general direction of the players’ development. Letting Meng Wei know that the players’ actions were carried out under his instructions would greatly strengthen the restraint players had over local disciples in the future.
After all, he could completely control the players, but locally recruited people were much harder to control. Letting Meng Wei and others know in advance that the players were his trusted aides would make many future problems easier to handle.
“I am not very sure about that.” Meng Wei came to a realization, then shook his head.
Regarding the disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall being able to kill the Two-Headed Gang’s gang leader Nison Walker, he was also full of curiosity and doubt. He did not understand how those disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had managed it.
An intermediate martial artist wearing B3-grade battle armor had been killed just like that. It was incredibly exaggerated.
“Looks like I will have to ask myself.” Lin Qi sighed slightly and, no longer dwelling on it, said directly, “In that case, tomorrow’s recruitment will be left to you.”
“Rest assured, hall master, I will get it done!” Meng Wei nodded, his eyes full of confidence.
What a joke.
The mighty Two-Headed Gang had been wiped out, and the four major powers had chosen to endure. Recruiting newcomers now would be ridiculously easy.
With the coming of dawn, a piece of news spread rapidly, whether in the Iron Heart Gang’s territory or the Two-Headed Gang’s territory, instantly stirring up the suburbs of the entire City of Light Chasing.
“What did you say? The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is recruiting?”
