Chapter 10: Infiltrating the Mad Axe Gang Headquarters

  While the patrons at the Assassins' Tavered about the elf's identity, Lucas was already perched on the spire of an old castle's east tower, o the fgpole where the Mad Axe Gang's blood axe fg fluttered.

  Below, a high wall encircled the castle, with garies and patrols everywhere.

  This castle once beloo a noble. Seawall District used to be the heart of Storm City, but as the city expanded, nobles, officials, ahy merts moved to more fortable new districts, leaving Seawall District a fotten pce.

  Seawall District became home to the city's lowest strata. To survive, they formed gangs… only the ruthless could hold their ground here.

  The Mad Axe Gang was one of the more powerful gangs in Seawall District. Uhe leadership of the Horned Demonkin Jumu, they trolled several dock berths at Seawall Harbor.

  Colluding with pirates, they engaged in smuggling, human traffig, feng stolen goods—anything that made money.

  Acc to the strategy guide, The Heart of the Red Dragon Niele was in a safe in Jumu's bedroom.

  Lucas had already gathered information about the Horned Demonkin Jumu.

  The Demonkin were desdants of Hell's creatures that had ihe surface world. While their appearance closely resembled humans, they still retaihe characteristic demon horns.

  The demon horns were also the source of the Demonkin's power.

  Depending on the shape of their horns, the Demonkin were divided into Bullhorn Demonkin and Ramhorn Demonkin.

  Whewo types met, they could always start a fight over whose horns represehe purest Hell bloodline.

  Of course, Lucas wasn't ied in whose Hell bloodline urer.

  Horned Demonkin Jumu was a four-star hero.

  [

  Height: 2.10 meters, Weight: 150 kilograms.

  A strength type with fire attributes, possessing signifit explosive power.

  Main attack skills: Fireball Barrage, Fme Breath, Explosive Fmes, Fire Entment, Furious Strike, Berserk.

  Defensive skills: A tri-direal fme shield f within a meter radius. Its defensive effect was mediocre, but its attack effect was notable.

  on: A double-headed battle axe, one side of which could be unched, catg oppos off guard.

  ]

  As the Mad Axe Gang's headquarters dungeon, this old castle housed not only the four-star boss Jumu but also numerous oar grunts, two-star elites, and three-star mini-bosses.

  The tower spire where Lucas stood was the closest he could get to Jumu's bedroom without alerting the Mad Axe Gang members.

  To get closer, he would ealth skills and tools, along with patieo seize the right moment.

  Lucas had no time to waste; he decided to force his way in.

  He adjusted E's level to 80. Using the Wings of Time and Space, the efficy of clearing the dungeon would be much higher.

  Erioeime: 58 minutes remaining…

  Standing oower spire, Lucas jumped down, triggering the magical sentry ihe tower.

  An alchemical firework shot out and exploded, illuminating Lucas's form mid-air.

  The Mad Axe Gang members patrolling the castle immediately blew their whistles, also spotting the intruder desding from the tower, only to see him vanish from sight.

  Every light that could be lit inside and outside the castle was turned on.

  More and mang members grabbed their ons, searg for the intruder.

  Meanwhile, Lucas used spatial movement to shift horizontally while falling, slipping through a third-floor window of the castle.

  Before nding, Lucas executed a flip, emitting a circle of white light that rapidly expanded from him.

  He had entered a Mad Axe Gang dormitory, where the arm outside had awakened fang members sleeping inside.

  The brutal gang wars in Seawall District had made the Mad Axe Gang members highly vigint. As soon as they saw someone flip through the window, they reached for the ons by their sides before eveing out of bed.

  A crag sound of ice echoed through the small room.

  The fang members froze in the positions they had been in, reag for their ons. Frost quickly covered their hair, eyebrows, and eyeshes, followed by white patches of frostbite on their skin. The frost spread rapidly over their bodies, and the only parts they could still move—their eyes—showed expressions of terror.

  But even their eyes froze within seds.

  Lucas stood up.

  Anticipating an attack upory, he had prepared and released an Ice Ring spell.

  Given the se, it seemed a bit like overkill.

  The four low-level gang members were now ice statues, and the room's walls were coated in a yer of ice.

  Lucas drew his dual bdes and walked to the door, kig it open with a force that sent the wooden door splintering outward.

  Outside was a corridor. As Lucas stepped out of the room, a shout came from his left.

  Without even looking, Lucas sshed in the dire of the sound. A crest-shaped bde of iergy shot forward, densing the moisture in the air into a thin, rapidly expanding ice bde.

  "There they are…"

  A Mad Axe Gang member had barely shouted before the ice bde hit him, sending him flying backward and rolling to the feet of three ang members who had e to iigate the noise.

  All three looked in the dire of the attack.

  An elf! A beautiful and seemingly powerful female elf.

  She held two short bdes, with white icy mist spreading from her feet, causing the walls and floor to freeze.

  A lean gang member pulled a hand axe from behind him, his arms elongating and turning green, transf into vines ed around the axe.

  Simultaneously, his legs turned into roots that burrowed into the floor.

  The other two gang members drew their axes and charged at the intruding elf. Roots from the vine-maended and pierced the backs of the two charging gang members.

  Treant [Chad], a three-star hero.

  Chad had inally been a pirate leader. During an adveo a tropical rai, he was swallowed by a straree.

  When his panions rescued him, his body showed extensive woodification.

  Later, Chad was brought to the Mad Axe Gang, where Horned Demonkin Jumu used his es to save Chad.

  Chad's ability was to transform his body into wood.

  His roots could secrete oxins, capable of paralyzing people or trolling their movements by pierg their spines.

  Grateful for Jumu's life-saving help, Chad left the pirate crew and joihe Mad Axe Gang, showing great loyalty to Jumu.

  The two gang members, now with Chad's roots in their spines, were dosed with a small amount of oxin that wouldn't kill them but would signifitly enhaheir physical capabilities.

  They fot their fear of danger ah, charging at the intruder under Chad's trol.

  Meanwhile, Chad's roots stealthily extended uhe floor. This was his true killing move.

  While the enemy was distracted by the two fearless puppets, his roots would emerge from behind.

  Just a siab...

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