16 16: Getting Information

Stephan hid in the shadows and observed the large street gang for a bit, they had many gangsters posted up all around, and from time to time a few people would come up and associate with these gangsters before a few substances and money were exchanged.

Stephan was never the type to just rush in and attack, he stood back and slowly approached one of the gangsters through the shadow around him.

This gangster was a short middle-aged man with a scar on the left side of his eye, his shiny bald head didn't make him look any better.

the gangster wiped the sweat off his forehead and continued to stand there in his position, waiting for someone to walk up to him to buy drugs.

it was at this moment that the shadow below him contorted and a pitch-black arm reached out to grab onto him, after the first arm, dozens of arms appeared and grabbed onto him, pulling him into the depths of the darkness below him.

The gangster squirmed around and struggled to even open his mouth, only the look of fear could be seen on his face as one of the shadow arms held onto his mouth, not allowing him to make any noise.

The bald gangster was silently dragged into the shadow, no one had noticed his sudden disappearance.

Stephan silently stood in a dark alleyway and watched as a body rose from the darkness, it was the bald gangster who he had just kidnapped using his shadow Manipulation Abilities.

The bald gangster immediately rose from the darkness after being pulled from over 100 meters away.

Stephan didn't allow the bald gangster to even speak, he slowly walked up and stared at the middle-aged man, the moment the gangster stared into his crimson-red eyes his mind was completely taken over and under Stephan's control.

"answer my questions, and I want nothing but the truth," Stephan said as he stood in front of the gangster.

"First, what if the largest gang around this area of the queens, and how much do they make?" Stephan asked after a short while, he made emphasis on "this area" because many of the stronger gangs had mutants and other beings backing them.

The bald gangster stood expressionless for a second before he began to speak.

"my gang is the biggest one in this area, our leader makes around over 125k dollars per month, this is because he has many other smaller street gangs under his control who sell drugs all over this area, it is not a secret, he is only this strong because there are rumors of some person who takes out his enemies for him" The bald middle-aged man spoke out everything he knew with a straight face, almost as if he wasn't currently selling out his gang.

"$125k a month?" Stephan thought that was very good for a street gang that runs off the distribution of illegal drugs.

"Perhaps I can increase the earnings somehow after I make their leader my servant" Stephan was in deep thought, paying no attention to the gangster in front of him.

Of course, he didn't forget that this gang leader had a "fighter" behind him, it made sense after all, how could a street gang become so strong in this world without a powerful ally?

"ok, one last question, where is your leader currently?" Stephan asked, he didn't have much hope since he knew that regular gangsters probably wouldn't have access to the location of their boss.

this was for many reasons that didn't need to be explained.

Surprisingly, the bald middle-aged gangster replied to him.

"The gang leader is currently in the biggest house which is surrounded by gang members, he had come to check on how everything was going, he rarely shows his face around here, after all, he is involved in more than just the street gangs" The bald middle-aged gangster explained for a while, Stephan listened to all his words and took everything in.

Stephan's eyes widened in excitement as he listened, Not only did his target make a lot of money, he did many things such as real estate, owning a company, etc.

this was a huge jackpot.

Stephan was in deep thought for a while as he thought about his next course of action.

"Well, I have no use for you now," Stephan said as he looked at the gangster who had an expressionless face, almost like he had no soul in his body.

swoosh!

Stephan turned into a flash of black light and his canines came out, immediately biting onto the neck of the bald gangster.

[Ding!

Devoured the blood of your enemy.

+.1 strength increase] The system's holographic screen appeared in Infront of Stephan after he finished devouring the blood of the gangster.

Bang!

With a simple kick, the shriveled and lifeless body of the gangster was sent flying into the distance and crashed into a dumpster at the end of the alleyway.

Stephan wiped away the blood from his lips as he looked at the holographic screen which had appeared, as the system had said, he could still gain stats from devouring human blood, but it would be in small quantities and would be random in terms of which stat he gained a point for.

After the increase, Stephan felt a slight cooling energy throughout his whole body after a short while, his strength had increased.

Stephan calmly walked out of the alleyway and began to make his way calmly throughout the neighborhood.

As suspicious as he looked, it was almost as if he was nothing but air to everyone around him, this was Stephan's use of his shadow stealth in broad daylight.

Even with the sun still out, Stephan was able to cover himself in his shadow energy and move around as if he had a cloak on, one would only be able to notice him if they had great senses and extremely good eyesight.

with but a thought, Stephan morphed into a group of devilish bats before they took off into the sky.

This random group of bats appearing in the sky brought alarm to the large gathering of gangsters in front of the large house which smelled of drugs and weed.

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