Drill

Hearing the door close, signaling Tavares's official departure, I turned towards Ezren and my body shivered seeing his smile at me. But the look he was giving me was something else entirely.

"Aye bruh look, you don't need to take your anger out on me. I ain't even do anything, you're really going to get triggered by his words alone?" I hurriedly asked, "Like come on your a damn Lieutenant. You should be able to keep your composure from such basic provocation."

"The fuck you say to me you little bitch?!" Ezren stood up, clearly offended by me doubting his integrity, "You think because Taze is sponsoring you that I won't come over there and beat the shit out of you. Tone down that arrogance boy, remember that you're still a newly awakened superhuman."

"You gonna calm down Ezren?" A smooth and enchanting voice sounded in the room, causing everyone to look towards the captivating woman dressed in a long white dress with slits on the sides that showed her long and perfect white legs. Her snow-white skin seemed to shine under the lighting. Her silver hair and amethyst eyes gave off a celestial and otherworldly feeling. Add all of that to the way she carried herself it seemed as if she was a divine goddess that found it an irredeemable sin to be touched by mortals.

"Damn, and here I thought you were just gonna sit there and not say a word the entire time," Taze jumped in, "Wassup Ilia? Guessing you've just been reading the room or doing whatever type of analyzing that was going on in that head of yours. What do you think of Dior?"

Ilia, who based on her clothing could make a solid guess that she was the Lieutenant of the Snow Patrol gang looked at me and gave me a smile of mockery and contempt, "I don't fuck with monkeys."

Bro...What the Fuck?!

The fuck you mean you don't fuck with monkeys?!

"Bro, did she just call me a monkey?" I asked in complete disbelief that I was called a monkey by such an otherworldly woman.

Taze, whose cheeks were puffed in his attempts of not bursting out in laughter, pushing me into even more profound embarrassment took a deep breath and calmed himself down, "You're a Superhuman now Dior. Your hearing is far beyond what mortals can comprehend. I assure you that your hearing is not iffy, she called your ass a monkey. And you're going to go like that because you're weak as fuck and can't do shit about it."

A rush of anger filled my body before a demonic chill filled my eyes as I stared at Illia's alluring amethyst eyes before they were replaced with pure indifference.

"Exactly what I thought," She scoffed, "But fortunately for you, there is a job that everyone here has agreed needs to be completed ASAP. But since Bermudez is the only option available for you to do this drill for, you'll have to go with him."

Looking at Bermudez, the Lieutenant of Move Alone he stared at me with blood-red hair and eyes to match. He was wearing an all-black neo-militaristic outfit that honestly looked amazing. It was definitely a style I could see myself wearing in the future.

He hadn't said a word since I arrived but he did have his eyes locked on me from the moment I stepped into the room. If there was someone who I was sure was analyzing and scoping me out to see if I was worth the trouble it was him.

"Looks like I have no other option here, do I? He already knows too much, and since Tavares didn't kill him, it seems there's more to him than we initially see. So this drill should allow you to show us what you're made of." Bermudez said with a smile but that smile was something I was sure had a different meaning.

It wasn't a smile of encouragement or anything positive, that was for sure. he was looking at me as if I would be a good source of entertainment for him, actually, all the lieutenants were looking at me like that.

"What's the drill you want me to do?" I asked, getting straight to the point, whatever this clear setup was I had to make the most of it. Refusal isn't an option.

"Simple, we need you to kill someone who ran off on us." Ezren chimed in.

"I'm gonna need more than that." I pressed, "And before you say that I'm not qualified let me just present some facts that will make that statement completely pointless. First off, whoever this person that you all clearly hired ran off with has you guys shook. I'm guessing that this has been a pressing matter for at least a week and the fact that you haven't dispatched one of your more qualified members for this drill has me thinking two things: You can't trust your subordinates to control their greed when the complete the job or you believe that they are too incompetent to compete it."

"Fucking Smartass," Muttered Kiana.

Bermudez just smiled, "Looks like there is more to you than we thought." He praised, "For you to come to such a conclusion with such little information is impressive."

"Just give the info." I bluntly responded.

"Straight to the point eh? A few weeks ago a Primordial Rift opened in Zone 7. A Primordial Rift is basically an alternate dimension filled with dangerous traps and trials but this risk is most definitely worth the reward. The rewards that you gain from these trails can be traced back to the First Era."

First Era? What is that?

"When the rift was first discovered all of Zone 7 was blocked off by the megacorporations, allowing nobody to get even within twelve feet of the area. Anyone who did was immediately killed on sight, even the gangs in the zone that are on the corpos payroll weren't allowed in." Bermudez further explained.

"Due to this myself along with the four other leaders pooled our resources together and hired an A-Grade Espionage Agent to sneak into the Rift and gain as many artifacts and resources as possible. We paid him ten million astral dollars along with the bonus of an extra twenty-five after he completed the mission. But that was when we started to encounter problems."

"What are you talking about?" I questioned, not seeing where this was going. It seemed like a pretty simple mission. They hired an A-Grade Special Agent and tasked him with stealing under the noses of the megacorporations, one of the most dangerous things to do in this world but if you lived to tell the tale the rewards were incalculable.

"After we hired him we found out that the Primordial Rift only allowed Superhumans at E-Grade and below. Anyone who was at a higher level and tried to enter would be severely injured or straight-up killed." Iliana answered with an irritated look, it seemed that this situation had her riled up as well.

Bermudez nodded, "Exactly, so the agent send his disciple, a Peak E-Grade Esper to go in his stead."

I sighed, knowing where this was about to start going, "And this is where shit got serious huh?"

"You pick up fast," Ezren responded this time, "Not only did the agent's disciple complete the mission but he happened to get away with the best reward in the Primordial Rift. But instead of turning it in to receive his payment he reneged on the agreement and ran off on us, making an absolute fool out of all of us."

"When we got the news we went straight to the agent and beat the living shit out of him. At first, he refused to budge, leading us to believe that he was in on it with his disciple but after extensive interrogation and torture we learned that wasn't the case at all."

"Huh? So what happened? Although I have an idea I want to hear from your own mouths just to be sure." I said.

Ezren sighed before he confirmed my suspicions, "The disciple ran off on his own master when he got his hands on the artifact, leaving him high and dry for us to find. We've tracked him down and found out that he's hiding out somewhere in Zone 3 but we don't have any idea where he could be. To make things worse we're running on borrowed time, the corporations have tracked him down here as well and are dispatching extermination squads to capture him. If they get their hands on him he'll most definitely snitch to save his own ass and when that happened they'll target us next."

"That is a certainty," Bermudez grumbled, "And in case you didn't notice I don't want to die, especially not in the hands of a corpo hit squad. So here's your mission: Find the disciple, kill him, and bring the artifact here to us before to corpo rats get their hands on him. Is that understood?"