Chapter 4: The preparation begins

AN: The polls are over, and the winner in the indoctrination of nostramo youth into a group of twisted judges, be prepared for Konrad IS THE LAW.

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3rd POV

After the decapiting strike on the snakes in the factories all the leaders have passed and with butch having no successors the whole gang fell apart leaving the northern slums and some parts of the mid die section of the hive city in chaos. While the kings should be celebrating, they could be found hiding and running away from their own shadows, for they have now found themselves the only prey left in the area for konrad to hunt and judge. The gang is completely cut off from communication along with the whole eastern slums, with many of the technicians of the gangs and lone hackers have simply disappeared leaving only a bloody graffiti of a skull with Batwings and the words "I'm coming for you" written in possibly the blood of the missing people. By now, all of nostramo has heard stories of the monster in the alleyways that hunts criminals, leaving nothing but cruel displays of their painful torture before their deaths. The tale of this Haunter of the night continues to grow and some people are starting to believe this could be a reckoning for the lawless state of their world while others with looser morals believe he is here to deliver a new order, specifically a order of justice at any cost. Among the rumors that escape the eastern slums is that many of the youth both are homeless, and those with parents are disappearing left and right. Many a ganger could take a guess at what is happening, but what they don't know is that a true wave of order is soon to wash over the slums that will eventually spread to the rest of the hive like a domino being knocked over causing others to fall in place. As for the king gang, each of its more seasoned members, both high and low rankings, are disappearing as well, only to turn up in the streets with many gruesome would all related to their crimes deeply engraved on their raining skin and some even on bones, by nostramos dark history has fear ever courced through every single person who could fall under a criminal title. While the tension is rising, all the people of the hive Nostramo Quintis are what will happen next.

Konrad POV

It was a pain in the neck to make a simple hypnosis therapy chair, I even had to go out and hunt down criminal techys to gather knowledge and skills on noatramo tech which to be honest wasn't that much more advanced than the stuff I had back on earth. After that project was done, it was just a matter of time to find recruits for the force I'm building and it turns out there were plenty homeless children on nostramo even in only a section of this hive, I'm definitely going to find a solution to this at a later time when I have more resources, any way I also decided to also rescue some children from abusive or neglectful parents, I was even kind enough to ask if they wish to leave and most did but those who did not became my test subject to a psyker power I developed which was a aura of fear I can induse into people and a fun fact about humans is a young brain when introduced to large spikes of fear will naturally block out the experience effectively wipe the memory from their concience, it won't stand up to a mind scan of a trained pskyer but it will do. It was then a matter of mounding these children of 10 to 12 and a few even younger than that into loyal subordinates to help carry out my will of justice at even the cost of a part of their humanity with the therapy to add to them my sense of justice and a good amount of disdain toward criminals but not enough to remove all empathy. Once the training began after I had taken over most of the eastern slums and with that rat farm, I acquired from the gangs but what use did the dead have for food, I had the protein to truly help these youths start to grow into a new strength that can only come from being well fed. As for their skills that depended on what I wanted for them and like father looking out for their children to succeed I would help them in their chosen weapons ranging from guns to even chain hooks ( a wonderful child that one, none may escape this one), and a final push toward the desired road was my own list of punishments for crimes but every single one knew how to use fear as a tool and many torture methods to help spread said fear, some have even came up with a motto I find just adorable " all criminals must be punished before they can receive their final verdict" oh how I love how my little judges are turning out. I was getting side tracked but I have also found a way to apply some honor to the honorless by showing mercy to those they can deam to want redemption but it would be at a cost to them if this person fails to do so, by forcing them to brand these redemptors with my symbol of the winged skull and should they relapse the voucher must hunt them down completely alone with no armor and armed with only a small blade and flay that victim alive and after the act they themselves would be branded with my symbol but split in twain to show their failure to scare a criminal back on the straight and narrow road of order. It can't all be punishment, there must be an award for those able to rehabilitate a criminal being a sign of honor by giving the judge a choice of a weapon made by me or the first right to choosing new equipment and thay sign of honor would be a notch on their torture tool of choice wether they be blade or club after five years of said criminal being on the straight and narrow. It may have taken a month to get this all done and lay down a good foundation for my judges to enter the world of crime eradication. Around a week after their enitial training I have these judges shadow me in my hunts of what remains of the gangs of the Easter slums though they lack the armor and bulk to yet fight on par with these gangs they make great assistants in my hunts and the dishing out of torture/punishment on those deserving of it. On the other side of the fight, I vet a few of the civilians that I find share a view of a change needing to happen and hire them in setting up rat farms all throughout the Easter slums creating a market of that is stable enough for most families to actually be able to eat once a day, it's not the best but it's a hellava lot better than how the fared before me which has earned further loyalty of the people of the slums becoming my eyes and ears of any new gangs appearing in my territory leading me to getting a new name among those under my control being "the judge" while to my enemies I'm now known as "the nighthaunter", and I quite like the sound of that as both generate fear of if you don't follow the dotted line death would be a gift.

3 months later:

Every gang in the eastern slums is destroyed and their remains mark the line of where my territory is with skulls with my brand hanging off lampposts to remind those which live there who makes sure crime can't breed and return there lives to squalor. The foothold in this slum is now secure, and my little judges are the next generation to keep it this way for many years to come with each day they become more like me bit absolutely loyal to me and I made sure of that at the beginning of their indoctrination which has paid off by most if not all view me as a father, (is this what a father's pride is? I wonder if my own father will look at my efforts kindly or destroy all I have built, I guess I'll never know till it happens.) I have also recently upgraded my gear thanks to the knowledge the criminal techies "kindly" gifted to me to make this possible by designing a proto lighting claw made of adamantinium and an unpowerd suit of armor it's not that heavy for me but for a regular human they wouldn't even be able to move but me, I can move at peak human speeds so I wond be a blur like I used to but I know for a fact the northern slums is also a arms manufacturing area meaning it would be common to find higher calibers so being my next target of a purge of filth I need to be prepared for some idiot who has a antimaterial rifle hidden ul their ass somewhere, granted even with the armor I could dodge, but it wouldn't generate fear by dodging so by making it look like I can take any attempt they make would completely destroy their morale and that's only if they even notice me which most won't but It doesn't hurt to be prepared. I can't wait to gift my little judges some new toys, maybe even save a few criminals for them to be their first hands-off torture.

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Hello author here it's not much progression in the story yet but I plan for each area of the hive he takes slowly moulds him and his judges into being the best users of terror tactics against certain armies or conflicts and each section would fall under these categories

the east: how to engage two enemies who are fighting each other

reward: stable food source and factory grade mele weapons and armor

the north: how to engage an enemy with better ranged fire power

rewars: a surprise, so stay tuned plz 🙂

the rest: those are a surprise, but know this, each area also will give him and the judges more equipment

And as always, thank you for reading this novice novel