Search For A Broker

The moon wasn't exactly out in its full glory that day, or maybe it was and the clouds just obstructed it. Coupled with that, the light around the area close by wasn't enough to provide that alley with sufficient lighting.

Even though the man couldn't see well in such a place, Ezra had perfect vision to a certain extent. Not only had he spent so long in such dark environment and gotten used to it, his sense stat also affected his sight and all his other senses.

"Alright, say ahh…" Ezra said, knowing full well that it wouldn't happen.

(I really don't know what sound a kick makes, so…)

*KICK!

"Arhh, you piss of-" Ezra shoved a water bottle of diluted poison in the man's mouth and poured in about ¼ of the entire content.

It was a 60cl plastic bottle.

"The man had been forced to shallow, so he couldn't pour out any. He drank all that was given to him.

"What did you give me?! You fucker!" The man exclaimed, a bit enraged.

Ezra had used this exact poison before on monsters while in the abyss, after all, it is the only type of poison available in the system store.

'Should be kicking in soon?' Ezra thought to himself, but after some more seconds, 'still nothing?'

The poison still hadn't taken effect.

It was either the victim had good antibodies, or he had diluted the poison too much.

'There's no way this alcohol drug ass fucker has any good antibodies, right? I'll just feed him more.'

Ezra shoved the bottle in the man's mouth and pressured it until the man had drank more than half of the remaining content.

mmm! Mmm1

*cough cough cough

'This crazy brat is going to kill me!' The man thought. His hands were tied, so he couldn't even support himself when he coughed.

'What about now?' Ezra thought, as his eyes narrowed and he looked at the man passively.

"Hey hey! What did you do to me! This-" The man clearly shoved around in discomfort.

'Ah, it's working!'

"How about you start talking now?"

"Alright, alright! I'll talk! But get this out of me first! Stop whatever it is you did to me!" The man said, struggling on the floor.

"Stay still and stop moving around like a worn in salt water. Plus, you don't get to bargain. Maybe if you tell me, I'll give you the antidote." Ezra said.

'Of course, that's bullshit! I don't have any antidote.'

'This devil!'

"Fine… Fine!"

'Mentioning the antidote was the right move, yes.'

Just like a juke box, the man started pouring out information, until he had nothing else to say. It stands to reason that most of it was just useless information, but after filtering, Ezra got the relevant bits he needed.

"That's all I know kid, now, give me the damn antidote!" the man screamed this time, as much as his voice allowed through the pain.

"Fine, shot up first."

Ezra took out a bottle of water and gave it to the man. Under such excruciating pain, the man didn't even inspect anything and gobbled the remaining poison hastily.

"Alright, calm down, the pain will die out in a bit."

'After you die of course.. hehe. Doing the evil ones evil sure feel good, huh?'

Ezra could have given the man a health potion, that would definitely help, but there was no need after all. He simply killed two birds with one stone. Extinguish evil, and satisfy the system.

'I'm not sure how many evil deeds I have to do before getting bonus stat points, but with this one, it should be close.'

Of course, the man died moments later with no one beside him.

Ezra wasted no time. He immediately set off towards the only location the man mentioned.

The man had name dropped a lot of people, but only one location. Now, Ezra needed to find someone who knew where the place was.

Tud

"Guess that's the last time I'm using my skills here." Ezra said.

The reason he had held off using his skill was precisely because these were normal people. In the face of his skill, they would either pass out from fear or whatever, or they would die directly. It simply wasn't efficient.

After the first interrogation, if it could be called that, Ezra advanced and quickly found the location he was looking for.

Starting with whoever seemed closest to his location amongst the names the man mentioned, he would look for that person and do a little interrogation.

Really, it shouldn't be this hard to get the information he was looking for. All he wanted was to meet with someone who deals with dungeons illegally, and that was it.

He had also taken great caution not to kill any other person apart from the initial ones, since he didn't want a target on his back from the entire underground. That would simply be too bad. Plus, they won't be targeting only him.

Eventually, after causing much chaos, Ezra had no idea the person that was truly connected to who he was looking for. Probably, that person had made some calls.

It was currently about 3:30 to 04:00 am in the morning, or dead of night, and out of all the names mentioned, which quickly turned into a web of people, since each new person would mention another, Ezra could now count them using ten fingers.

It was then, that he was approached by two individuals wearing suits.

'Since they're coming for me, guess my plan worked.'

By not killing the people he got some information from, Ezra knew he was exposing his existence and location to unknown threat, but that was what he wanted. Luckily, his plan had worked.

'They seem normal to an extent, but I can tell… these two are top C rank. One is doable, but I'll be overpowered if the two of them attack.' Ezra analyzed his situation.

"Suits, huh? I didn't know we had the mafia in this country! Now that you're here, take me to your boss!" Ezra said, after he stopped walking and just stood there with his hands in his pocket.

Both men seemed surprised for a bit, but quickly controlled their facial expression. They gave each other a side eye for a short moment, and the next second, disappeared from where they stood.