The old man's face instantly paled. He could feel the dark, tangible killing intent prickle every single inch of his skin.
"I-it wasn't intentional, I swear!" the old man stamred. Waving his hands in a panic he continued: "I wasn't expecting sir to suddenly walk in!"
"Oh? Then who were you expecting to walk in?" Lucius asked, intrigued.
"That" the old man's eyes dogged about, as hesitation filled his face. He seed to be having a ntal debate on whether to reveal this info or not. Seeing his hesitation, Lucius further intensified his killing intent.
'Ah, screw it! If I don't this psychopath might kill !' eventually the old man gave up. He realized that the person in front of him was a bona fide [Killer].
While Lucius' aura was only at Peak-Level Stage 1, the sheer density and intensity of his killing intent, made up for the lack of the rest.
"I'll tell you!" the old man scread. His broad shoulders slumped powerlessly and a look of hopelessness appeared within his eyes.
He then began to explain his current situation.
Lucius patiently heard the old man's explanation.
While he was indifferent towards the majority of others and even looked down upon them, treating them as ants or worms or whatnot, there were so exceptions to this behavior.
There were a very small number of individuals for whom Lucius held a trace amount of respect. These included the Lords, so Peak-Level Stage 7 monsters, and certain people who had a definite impact on his previous life.
This list included this blue-haired old man.
Baltr. Leon Baltr was the na of this old man.
Baltr had no ager cultivation of Low-Level Stage 1, an inconsequential amount of power to survive within the Pandemonium. He was a single father with a daughter, who was a little older than Lucius when he had co here in his previous life. (50 or so years).
He ran a small shop in this grey, rundown district of the Pandemonium for reasons unknown. In fact, Lucius did not recall anyone other than himself ever visiting this shop in his previous life.
In his previous life, when Lucius had arrived at the Pandemonium, as a grieving and lost youth who had witnessed the destruction of his race, he was forced into slavery by one of the gangs operating this city. Due to his status being that of a Traveler, he was treated as expendable human trash.
Possessing no strength to fight for his freedom, Lucius had no choice but to accept his fate. However, things soon turned for the worst as one of the leaders of the gang took a liking for Lucius' looks. He had then forced Lucius into becoming his s*x slave.
During all of this ti, the only person who viewed and treated Lucius as a person was Baltr. Even during the end when Lucius had forsaken his will to live, it was Baltr who had perford an untold amount of sacrifices to give Lucius the opportunity to escape and advance in his cultivation.
Almost a year later, Lucius had advanced from Mid-Level Stage 1 to Mid-Level Stage 2 and returned to the city
Only to find that the old man was brutally killed by the gang and his daughter was sold into slavery, who then killed herself from sha.
Lucius had completely lost his mind to rage on that day and had slaughtered every single gang mber. He did not even leave the others who had simply stood by and watched.
Lucius had truly beco an [Killer] after this incident.
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Returning to today.
Although Baltr had no idea who Lucius was and was eting him for the first ti in his current life, Lucius felt that he owed him a favor.
'Seeing that he currently seems to be in trouble, I might as well pay this favor back.' Lucius concluded. In exchange for saving his life once, Lucius would save Baltr's life for a single ti. After that, all debts would be resolved.
It was not a fair trade? The favor he owed was greater?
Well, Lucius did not care about that. The only reason he had even decided to help Baltr was to make the other feel indebted to him. While Baltr had no strength, he was nonetheless a very resourceful man.
Having the assistance of soone like him would make Lucius' life in Pandemonium much easier. After all, advancing in Stage sotis required the assistance of certain resources. It would be too inefficient for Lucius and Olivia to search for them on their own.
'Also, I'm on a ti limit. With that Bertarian tracking down, I can only remain hidden for so long. Saving his daughter should count as repaying the favor.' Lucius finally finished hearing what Baltr was saying.
Taking a mont to organize the information, Lucius took a breath and spoke.
"In short, the Minaccia Gang has kidnapped your daughter in exchange for ransom. If you fail to make the paynt, they will sell your daughter to slavery."
"Yes." Baltr nodded his head bitterly.
"How much?" Lucius questioned.
"15,000 Spirit Coins," Baltr replied.
Spirit Coins were the Universal currency of the Universe. They were mined and shaped from naturally occurring Spirit Veins, which are a physical manifestation of Spiritual Energy.
Since spiritual Energy was an attribute less unit of energy of the Universe it had a multitude of uses, runes, enchanted weapons, crafting, etc. Spiritual energy was also required for the cultivation and advancent of soul power.
In the absence of sufficient spiritual energy, the soul might collapse during advancent. (Rember when Lucius advanced to Mid-Level Stage 1 on the spaceship before the 'Ascension'. His soul had almost collapsed due to insufficient presence of spiritual energy).
'15,000 coins for that weakling. What a joke.' Lucius inwardly thought.
"I'm not sure how sir had found this old man's shop, but if you're unrelated to the Minaccia Gang, I advice sir to leave the premises right now. I wouldn't want to drag sir into my troubles." Baltr honestly spoke.
He had never expected Lucius to help him out of the graciousness of his heart, nor did he expect any help. In the Pandemonium, where its 'kill or be killed' environnt no one in their right mind would needlessly offend an establish gang.
In fact, if Lucius had offered to help him, Baltr would be absolutely convinced that sothing was fishy or that a deeper ploy was in place.
"What's the strength of the Minaccia Gang?" Lucius suddenly asked.
Baltr was caught off-guard. He cautiously observed Lucius' face only to find the other completely expressionless. Not wanting to piss him off, he replied honestly.
"The total number of people associated with that Gang is 30. Their Leader is a Low-Level Stage 2, who is in the cusp to breaking through into Mid-Level. The Vice-Leaders must be Peak-Level Stage 1 with the rest being lower than that."
"Affiliations?" Lucius continued to ask.
"They are one of the nurous lackeys of the 'Five Big Ones'. As for which one among the five, I don't know." Baltr replied.
"Location?" Lucius asked.
Baltr smoothly replied once again. As for how he knew such specific facts, it was his secret.
Hearing his reply, Lucius quieted down. Except for the pained screams of Olivia in the background, who was still struggling with the Babel Fish, the rest of the shop was silent.
Minutes passed and Baltr managed to summon the courage to ask a question: "Ma-may I ask why sir wishes to know these things?"
"Obviously to save your daughter." Lucius absent-mindedly replied.
"Wha-what?! Why?!" Baltr shrieked. His wariness instantly rose by a thousand-fold.
Having awakened from his thoughts by that scream, Lucius looked into Baltr's eyes and casually spoke.
"She and I are Travelers who have just recently arrived on this planet. As such, I need you to discretely register our identities. As you can see, I have no coins to pay for your services."
"Tra-travelers!" Baltr was shocked. As stated before, Travelers are extrely rare, especially on planets like Pectron.
"Also, I have offended the Governor of the Stellar Light City by killing his children and destroying their bodies." Lucius nonchalantly dropped another bomb.
This ti Baltr was no longer able to handle his shock. His knees weakened and his old body collapsed onto the ground.
'Hea-heavens! Of all the people, he had to offend the Bertarians!' Baltr thought. No sane person would do such a thing, however, considering that Lucius seed to be a [Killer] Baltr suddenly found this disturbing matter to be'normal?'
'As expected of a [Killer]' he unsteadily climbed to his feet and wiped the sweat of his forehead. His frizzled blue hair had already beco damp from nervousness.
"Okay. This is doable." He suddenly saw the 'psycho' nod his head and speak.
"Look after her until I co back." Lucius blandly stated before turning and walking towards the exit.
"Wa-wait! Where are you going?" Baltr scream.
"To get you, your daughter back," Lucius replied without turning around.
"How?!"
Lucius paused at the door for a mont and replied. His calm and chanical words resounded within the shop.
"Simple. Kill them all and find your daughter."
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