Waste Of Money.

The man in protective equipment chose that moment to pipe up. He said nervously, "But you won't kill me, right? I am needed to amplify the blue crystal. Without me, the blue dust will be some third-rate product not worth pushing."

Red Dream narrowed her eyes at him. Then she said, "You idiot." 

Kelvin was already moving before she could finish. He had gripped the man by the neck and had a gun to his head quickly. The other villains surrounded him to reinforce him like their lives depended on it. 

Red Dream rolled her eyes and said, "He is important, but he is not the only amplify in the world. I'm sure I can find another morally corrupt amplify to keep blue dust moving and to grow my drug empire."

She had been willing to keep him alive before. He would serve as a false front for her acquisition of his gang. She would have made everything looked legitimate through him.

What everyone would hear is that she had the Blue Crystal Gang had come to an agreement and decided to combine their forces. Others would think she had been defeated. They wouldn't know that she is the mastermind behind everything.

That had been her intentions. But the man ruined it by pointing out his importance. It is unfortunate for him that her interest for a solid cover up wanez in comparison to her interest in killing her hired help.

"Enough of this. Now you die." 

She pointed at them, which made red vines begin to slither like snakes towards them from the wall they had formed. The villains panicked and began shooting at her.

Their bullets were ineffective in culling the threat she posed to them. They sank through her body and came out the other side without resistance. There was no blood in the wounds they created. Only holes that closed soon after. 

The earthen woman roared and dashed towards Red Dream. She fought valiantly, but her strength was useless against vines. They bound her tightly and prevented her from escaping.

It didn't help that the vines were producing a sweet smelling secretion when cut. This secretion was quickly absorbed by her skin to make her wboozy and euphoric. Soon her eyes became lidded and her resistance waned. She didn't resist as the vines began to pull her apart in order to tear her to pieces. 

All the villains dropped whatever incindiary and explosives they had regardless of their safety in order to curb the spread of the vines. It worked well to drive back the vines. They even managed to free the earthen woman. 

But the earthen woman had become useless, and the reprieve from the vines was shortlived. They were soon crawling over as soon as the explosion died down. 

However, everyone stopped fighting when they noticed that Blue Crystal was no more. Apparently, the mighty explosion had scattered him to pieces.

Wrath mused with amusement, "He doesn't look like he is going to come back from that kind of damage."

Wrath was amused, but both the man and Red Dream were distraught. The man screamed in anguish, and so did Red Dream. 

While the man was trying to put together the pieces of the man once known as Blue Crystal, Red Dream focused her reddened eyes and flaring nostrils at them. "Do you know what you have done? You have just torn millions of dollars to shred. You have destroyed everything."

Kelvin wasn't willing to listen to anything she had to say. He produced three metal blades from his fist as if to fight. But he didn't go after her. 

He said to the others, "Protect me!"

They surrounded him while he went to work on the wall behind them. It was a wall that had been reinforced with both layers of blue crystal and a thick layer of metal slabs. This was apart from the fact that the wall behind these layers had rebar in them. So the wall was very sturdy. But his claws cut through them nonetheless.

It was easy to do. He cut through them like a hot blade through butter. It is something he wouldn't have been able to do easily, if at all, without the amplification of an amplifier. But now he could do it. All he had to do was convince the man to help him escape. 

Soon a makeshift wall had been carved into the wall. It granted them access out of the main building and into the compound. Everyone took to their heels and scattered in various directions.

Only the Earthen lady was too bothered to escape. She didn't even stand up. She lay there as Red Dream took out her anger on her. Her death helped to give others time to escape. 

Kelvin was far ahead of them, so he had to call back to them to speak with them. He said, "If you escape this, make sure to report to the Villain League. We have to get paid for our work and the danger we just encountered."

That was their last option, seeing as they just had a falling out with their boss. They surely can't return to her to ask for payment. The best they can do is report to the League and hope for the best. 

This hope spurred them on in their escape. But only three of them managed to escape at the end of the day. Red Dream didn't come alone. She came with her two right hand men, who pursued them after they escaped.

The man with the amplifying ability didn't make it. His ability could only help others, and he needed physical contact to boost their ability. Those conditions did nothing to help him escape from pursuers. 

Red Dream still didn't give up on them even after that. She sent many people after them to kill them. They chased after Kelvin and the others throughout the dangerous wilds. He had to escape from the incursion zombies as well as natural predators in the environment and unnatural predators of the assassination career.

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