As his heart thumped in every step, the man's cold sweat dripped down from his cheek and eyes fixated upon the bright hallway decorated in hanging drawings and statues. The red carpet threaded in gold strings around the edge ran towards the double door at the very end, where he gulped subconsciously as nervousness flooded his entire being. When he was meters away from the door, two men in black suits and armed to the teeth blocked his path, making him stop as he stared at one of them in the eyes and said, "I've been summoned."After a silence that felt like an eternity, the pair of guards stepped back, prompting him to continue his stride which slightly disappointed him for he rather not proceed with what would happen. Now at arm's length, the door opened by themselves and the man's shoulders twitched in response. His fidget behavior was plain to see, so much that the man wished to bury his head somewhere else. Yet, such an alternative was something he couldn't take. The room was d

"That would be twenty thousand credits."When an old man wrapped up the formation flags in a package, along with a bell, a vajra, a wooden sword, blank talisman papers, and a bunch of ritual candles, he looked at young man before him, smiling as he spoke, "It's rare for someone of your age to buy this kind of stuff.""My family still respects our tradition, no matter what happens." smiling in return, Yunzheng replied and swiped his Exwatch to the scanner machine on the counter. A few seconds later, a beep could be heard and the old man gave the items, "Good, good. We must never forget our origin even at the end of the world."Grabbing the item and saying his farewell, Yunzheng walked out of the store as the door quickly opened automatically. As he walked, his smile faded and he mumbled under his breath, "The end of the world, huh…"Passing through the crowd whilst executing his technique to make himself invisible, Yunzheng strode leisurely on the sidewalk instead of running in the air

"That's the place, master."Staring at the night club across the street, Lavda stood beside him whilst a crow perched on Yunzheng's shoulder. With a frown, Yunzheng saw the bodyguards at the entrance. Though they seemed nonchalant, the subtle gesture they made told Yunzheng that all of them were trained warriors. A rare sight for all this time, Yunzheng had never seen veterans well versed in combat arts. But this was the right time to undergo another test for his newest companion. "Lavda," Yunzheng called out, turning his head to the elf who in return, gazed back in puzzled look, "Do you see those people?"Still bewildered, the elf nodded. Smiling, Yunzheng put his hand on Lavda's shoulder and spoke, "We are going to the front entrance and do this with a bang. Are you ready?"Another confused stare and yet, one of the elf's hands was already gripping his sword. With a chuckle, Yunzheng strode forward, dragging the elf along as he muttered, "Your familiars will oversee the area and s

Dragging his battered self, Yunzheng finally managed to get out of the stairs and find Gilbert and Lavda already waiting outside. Beside them was a group of people sitting down and tied up. All of their mouths were gagged and a few of them were bleeding nonstop. "Master!" the first to shout and realize how badly shaped Yunzheng was Gilbert. When the cat rushed to the approaching Yunzheng, he saw the still gaping wound on both of his waist. "Quickly, bring a few of them here." commanded Yunzheng as sweats trickled down from his forehead. A humanoid monster with the head of a goat and a pair of legs of hooves strode forward while grabbing the bleeding people. Turning his gaze to Gilbert, the latter nodded his head and spoke, "It's my summoned being, master."'So my summons could summon other creatures too…' learning about this new fact, Yunzheng kneeled and reached for the throat of the already pale and unconscious man. When he used the absorption technique, the life force that surge

It has been a couple days since the night in that club and Yunzheng was leaning on his chair, reading through the texts on the papers had confiscated from that place. Some of them were certificates, contracts dealings, and blackmail materials about dirty reports on some businessmen. They were of little value to Yunzheng so he put them aside for now. However, one stack of papers intrigued him. It told the current struggles and information about other criminal gangs, along with their line of business. Despite things in comic books like heroes had appeared in real life, the underworld society and their strong protectors were just as rampant as the old world before the apocalypse or the invasion. Drug transactions, human trafficking, forced prostitution, weapon smuggling, and so on. There was even a job about smuggling and robbing the materials of the alien bugs that was under the direction of the Hunter Association, a government department that solely focused on gathering resources on