It was obvious that the gang was not like the ones they have faced so far. If they killed 2 B rank adventurers then handling C rank adventurers would be easier.
"Brian has a point. Even if we don't get into danger while investigating this unknown gang, as long as the gang isn't wiped out there will be a chance that they would come after us." Castiel pointed out.
"By now you both should know that the life of an adventurer is a dangerous one. I understand why you guys are afraid, but you have to remember that the school is one of the safest places in the city and the only thing that takes us out are missions." Blake explained.
It wasn't as if he didn't feel that it was too dangerous, but the rewards and reputation from completing the commission outweighed the possible risks.
The payment alone was 150k gold coins and 15k contribution points.
That was different from the recognition they would gain when they succeeded where older and higher adventurer parties failed.
"So what's the plan?" After some time of thinking, Brian asked.
"It's very simple. We go to the warehouse so we could know what I would be locating." Blake said.
To others, this couldn't be considered as a plan, but with the trump card of the locator skill, they really didn't need a plan.
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The next day after their class of the week, the trio left the school and went straight to the warehouse located on the north side of the middle region of the city.
Once they dropped from the carriage, the trio walked into the vicinity of the warehouse which was being guarded by the new policing unit.
The party displayed their adventurer badges and after they were scanned and confirmed they were among the investigation team, they let them in.
They went straight to the leader of the policing unit who was a member of the ash corps and asked a few questions on the latest development. The info from the commander wasn't different from the info given to them.
The only new info they managed to get was the contents of the warehouse. They ranged from crates of magical items like dimensional amulets, barriers, and so on, to physically expensive wines that were to be exported to other cities after the beast tide.
They soon left the commander and soon went into the partially destroyed warehouse to perform more 'investigations'.
"No wonder the payment was really high." Brian couldn't help but comment when he thought about the cost of dimensional amulets.
"Thinking about it, don't you think 70 gang members shouldn't be enough to overpower 25 members of a B rank adventurer party?" Castiel asked when he thought more about the entire situation.
"Depends on the power of the gang members and how smart the leader of the operation was." Blake said as he continued to look around.
"That should be enough, let's get going." Blake led the team out of the warehouse and moved into an alleyway.
Castiel cast night mist to engulf them as Blake took out a large detailed map of the entire middle region of the city.
'Where is are the crates from the warehouse currently at?' Blake continued to repeat the question in his mind as he focused on the map.
After a few minutes, the familiar grey light appeared as a dot on an area close to a textile factory on the east side of the middle region.
Seeing this, the trio didn't waste time leaving the alley and boarding a carriage to the designated area.
In 20 minutes they dropped from the carriage and immediately Blake began using the hot and cold variation of the locator skill.
Unlike the last time he had used the skill in the library, Blake only needed to look in the direction to know if it was hot or cold.
It didn't take long for them to navigate themselves through the street and arrive at a manhole that led to the sewers. They had to circle the area while using the system's detection skill to look out for both people and arrays.
"This is way better than that of the slums." Brian said as they entered the sewer and he noticed it didn't stink as bad as that of the slums, but it didn't mean they didn't have to put on their masks.
"I wonder how that of the central region would be." Blake and Castiel turned to him, but he knew behind those masks were raised brows.
"What?" Brian asked, but Blake shook his head and began summoning the grey light.
"That's creepy.' Castiel said to Brian as the grey light appeared.
"What the fuck?" Blake was utterly shocked when he saw the grey split into 4 totally different directions.
Something similar occurred during their last gang wipe mission, but the second light still led to a location close to the hideout. In this case, the grey lights went in opposite directions.
"What are we to do now, because I have a bad feeling about this?" With the grey light splitting Brian was quite afraid because things were getting complicated.
"We don't have any info on what gang we are dealing with, neither can we convince the ash corps that their hideout is here with just a hunch." Blake explained. "So the only thing we can do is follow where each and every trail of light leads to."
"Alright, let's just get this over with." Brian agreed.
"We will need to be concealed throughout." Blake said to Castiel.
"Alert me when you detect an array." Blake said to the system as they began moving under the cloak of darkbringer.
They followed the trail at the closest trail to them, but before they could go far, the system had already alerted them of detection arrays.
'Do you think they are strong enough to detect us?' Blake asked.. For a gang this strong, Blake was sure that they had knowledge about the darkness element and maybe how to counter it.