160 NDR's Base

The boat left us in a place near the exit that we were going to use to go back to the surface. As much as I would love to leave this place now, we are waiting for the right moment.

We had to wait for the sunset so we can move under cover of the night. Rose's arrival was going to be the signal for us to go since we need her to take a look before we leave… escaping Chamber's gaze was something that we would leave to fate, but there is always the possibility of a patrol appearing just as we leave the sewers and being discovered so early will ruin everything.

Once we were outside the first thing we have to do was to figure the houses that belong to Chambers and Pollard, this was mainly Rose's mission. We already know the basic layout of the place and the houses that were most likely to have them inside.

From there depending on the situation we were going to act. The priority was to attack Chambers, but if we have a way to kill Pollard without anyone noticing we were going to try it.

At least that was the original plan, but now I have to find a way to kill Pollard too, the possibility of giving an ability to someone else, was something that I can't miss.

The familiar warm feeling from Astral Portal came at that time. Rose appeared in front of me and what surprised me was that besides Lucy, Paws was floating too.

'He learned to astral travel?'

'No, he can jump between realms it's an innate ability when I tried to astral travel with him, he just jumped and followed me.'

That is a really nice ability.

'You mean like leaving not just his soul but his body too? That's great.'

'Yeah, I was surprised too.'

I smiled at her, and as even if I wanted to know more about it we have a job to do right now.

'Now that you are here we can finally start with the mission, can you check the surrounding to leave this place?'

She nodded I went to the surface followed by her pets.

"Rose is here, get ready we are going to move to the first hideout."

I moved the handle to charge the flashlight and walked to the stairs and started to climb. I had my hands ready to push the cap as soon as I hear Rose's signal.

It took a little longer than what I expected. The numbers of patrols going around were higher than what we expected.

'Now, there should be a couple of minutes until the next patrol arrives.'

I push the cap and left the sewers. The sky was dark the moon couldn't be seen at the moment, so the only light source was the stars. I left the sewers and help the rest of my team to climb before putting the cap back and hiding in a building near.

Just a couple of minutes later as Rose told us a patrol appeared again. They were three people, two normal humans and a humanoid person covered in green scales. After thinking for a second, I had to cross my fingers and pray that none of them to have an enhanced smell. We all stink because of spending half a day in the sewers so anyone capable of smelling would find us.

Luckily the patrol didn't have a skill that could detect us and walked along the street without even noticing that we were spying from the next building.

We were 2 blocks away from the NDR base.

Rose kept track of the patrols, and we moved into a building that was near one of the walls of the complex. Thanks to her instructions and some luck we weren't found. This place was chosen as our last stop before going into the NDR's house complex because the house that was supposed to belong to Chambers was near. There was a significant chance that after what happened last time, they change their residence. This was the time for Rose ability to shine…

She was going to explore, but at the tiniest hint of danger, she has to leave. Even in astral form, there is always the possibility that there is someone that might see her or hurt her.

We took out a map of the place made by us with Dante's description, we have some places labeled, for example, the Blood pool it's almost impossible to move from that place, and Hamilton wouldn't leave the house next to it either.

Using Share thoughts with Rose, I started to mark the map with the guards that were posted around. 7 of the houses had guards, one of them was the place where they held the scouting party last time, so I suppose that they have people in the jail, the other 6 must be the five we already now plus the mysterious woman that Dante mentioned seeing in Chambers memories.

The number of people inside was more than when Dante came before to rescue Johanna's team. The artificial semi-humans are here now, and just like them I think that they had more people in other places and brought them back, another option is that they could have come as reinforcement from other cities too since we still don't know how they communicate with each other they might have a way to move their troops. The number of guards and patrol were going to be a massive problem in this mission.

For a second it crossed my mind to use Pinky's power to create a diversion, but since Dante did something similar already, they might notice that something is amiss and our most significant advantage was the surprise factor.

As I complete the map I discovered that 2 of the houses were empty, I instructed Rose to not get near Hamilton's house either.

The jail indeed have people on it, as much as I wanted to help them right now I have to think of the mission. I wondered if the optional mission was to help them, but it was still filled with ????? So either it wasn't going to be revealed unless I complete it, or it was something else.

It was sad for them but moving 19 people hurt just after killing two high profile NDR member was a horrible idea and might put in danger the rest of the team. I think that they have been delaying the process because of Cecily's absence.

Pollard was in a house near us, but Chambers changed his residence to one that was near the gates of the complex. The ones missing was the mysterious woman and Yaxley. Ramsey was in a house next to the jail as usual.

About the other two they might be in a reunion or patrolling, but for the moment Rose haven't found them.

After observing the situation for about an hour and discussing our options with the rest of the team, we decided to take down Pollard first.

There were empty houses and some places to hide from the patrols so we can move silently.

Thinking about it the most effective way was for me to go on my own and try to take them down as silently as possible, but if something goes wrong, the support from the team will be priceless. Even if the team didn't look as good as it should, there was a reason for them to be here with me.

Mark presence was the safety measure for Milo and Hayley in the case that a real battle starts. Also, his strength will help us with specific parts of the mission that otherwise were difficult to fulfill.

Hayley was able to take people down silently using her ability, and Milo as and Ex-SWAT was used to silent operations, this time he didn't bring his usual assault rifle but an SMG, I remember that this was one of the ones offered to me, a vector with a suppressor.

We had to climb the wall, usually to climb a 3 and a half meters wall would be tricky, but with Mark strength it's possible.

After getting Rose's approval, we get to the wall, and with Mark's help I clung to the edge and pulled myself to the top of the wall. The next part was easy, Mark kept pushing people up, and I received them on the top. For the last part, he jumped until he managed to take my foot and we were all on top of the wall.

I was the first to go down, thanks to my stats and perks I knew how to fall and not hurt myself. Next, it was Hayley's and Milo's turn. Mark took them and slowly helped descend until they got to me.

In the end, Mark joined us at the other side of the wall.