"It's fine. Tell me about others. Where are they hiding? I'll let you go," Lucifer said calmly.
"There are five more of us. They are...."
...
Lucifer left the roof just as silently as he had come, leaving the body of the man behind that was lifelessly lying on the roof.
Next, he appeared in front of a tinted window of a house, from the other side of which, a man was staring outside.
Punching the glass, he shattered it before he barged inside.
"Aren't you getting bored after looking for me from a distance? Let me give you a closer view," Lucifer said as he looked at two men who were both inside the room.
"That's interesting though," he suddenly said as he noticed something different.
One of the two men was tied in ropes. As for the dark-haired man who was standing, he wasn't from the Uprising. From his clothes, it was evident that he was from the APF.
"Ah, you guys came to join the party too. God, you really do love stalking me," Lucifer said, sighing.
"I don't even want to deal with you now, but you still came. Fine, get going fast," Lucifer said as he raised his right hand while firing a lightning bolt.
The dark-haired man had no other ability other than being stealthy and his special barrier.
Unfortunately, even the barrier of the Beta Squad Vice Captain proved to be nothing before Lucifer, let alone his weaker barrier.
His barrier was also broken just as easily as he dropped to the ground with a hole in his chest.
"As for you, you aren't a human either, are you?" Lucifer asked as he glanced at the second man who was tied in the distance.
"Let me guess, you're from Variant Uprising and got caught here with none of the others having any idea?"
The man who was tied nodded his head.
"Good. Stay here for a minute. I'll deal with others first," Lucifer said as he touched the face of the men from APF, regaining some of his energy.
He also picked the phone of the man to check the call logs.
"Captain Ayn? She's the Beta Squad leader, if I'm not wrong. She is involved in this too?"
Just as Lucifer was thinking about Ayn, the phone started ringing.
The screen showed the name of Ayn as if she was calling.
An amused smile engulfed Lucifer's face as he picked up the call to place the phone near his ears.
"Vernon, we're coming there too. Stay prepared. We need to arrest everyone and take Veracity with us. So you can put the plan in motion," Ayn said over the phone without thinking twice.
"Let their members accidentally know that you're here so that all of them surround you."
"We can pick them up at once. Be on time. We'll be there in half an hour, so adjust accordingly. And send your coordinates where you'll do this," she further said before she disconnected the call.
"Sure, Captain. I'll send you the exact coordinates," Lucifer muttered as he kept the phone in his pocket.
He left the place and got back to work as he moved like a shadow, taking other Variant Uprising members out. He didn't kill them that easily. He used his Decay to kill them since it gave more energy.
After he was done, he finally got back to the street as if nothing had ever happened.
"Are you done?" Cassius asked Lucifer.
"I am done with them, but more special guests are coming. Cassius, I'm going to need your help with this. Get ready to use your sword," Lucifer replied.
"Who is coming?" Jiang asked, concerned. For Lucifer to call them special, they couldn't be weak.
"No one extraordinary. Just the Beta Squad leader, Ayn it seems. She's coming to take Veracity. It seems like our plan wasn't as secret as we thought. If we want to keep Veracity, we need to deal with Ayn first. And I have a plan for that," Lucifer said calmly.
"They always set a trap for me when I was young? I'll give them a taste of their own medicine."
…
Time kept trickling away as Ayn received the coordinates on where she was supposed to land.
She didn't know that the coordinates she believed her men had sent were sent by someone she could never imagine.
After half an hour, the armored helicopter reached above the neighborhood. The doors opened.
Ayn gently clapped her hand, making a stair of Ice come out of the ground that reached the helicopter. She and her men stepped down through the Ice Stairs as they landed on the ground.
The silent helicopter remained in the air, waiting for them to return.
"That should be the house where they will be. I just got a message from Vernon that he is surrounded. Right in time," Ayn said as she stepped toward a random house that Lucifer had selected to set the trap inside.
The entire group stepped inside the house, the door of which was left open.
As soon as they entered the house, Cassius came out of hiding from a different house. He had his precious treasure sword in his hand with which he was prepared to attack.
He channeled all his Divine Energy to his precious Sword, which further amplified it.
Without even giving the Beta Squad members a chance to get to the first floor, Cassius finally swung his Sword horizontally.
The most powerful arc of Divine Energy left his sword, which kept getting bigger as it advanced toward the set of houses before him.
The walls of the houses couldn't even resist the Divine Energy even a little bit as the Energy Wave passed through, cutting evening if came in contact with.
...
Inside the house, Ayn was about to take her first step on the stairs when she saw an attack coming towards her.
In her hurry, she didn't think about others. She only had milliseconds to think, and if she delayed, she was going to be cut in half.
So she let her natural reflexes take over, which only thought about keeping her safe.
A Giant Ice Pillar came from the ground, raising her high in the air.
The bright white arc passed through everything, cutting all the other members that she brought with her in half.
Even her Ice Pillar was cut in half, which broke apart as she fell down. Fortunately, the arc of light had already passed through, and she was safe now.
But that also didn't seem to be the end as the house fell on top of her since it was cut in half.