Cedric Rage

In a very deserted valley, a figure could be seen walking down the lonely road. Houses were commonly sparse to see in this location; since this place is generally known to be the wasteland area.

The only residents living in the area, were the artificial intelligence robots, responsible for disposing the waste product and filtering the surrounding air to keep out pollution.

The walking figure soon arrived at a building with a tall metal gate. A square black access card instantly appeared in the figure palm, which he then swiped the security pass over the sensor to unlock the giant automatic gate.

'Klak.'

The huge metal gate unlocked and start to move backward, revealing a dark narrow passage. Stepping into the passage, the metal gate gave a beeping sound and began to close; bringing back the silent night to its tranquility.

Putting away the access card, the figure kept walking down the dark passage, before finally approaching a huge gate. It also seems like the person behind the gate had also detect the figure arrival.

"Password?" The thick hefty voice sounded.

"Night owl." After a minute of silent, the huge metal door was opened manually at the other side.

After passing the verification center, Tyron was led to an elevator. The elevator was equipped with a seat since the journey to the other floor would take a long while before they descend.

The whole lift took over thirty minutes before a mechanical sound spoke, announcing their arrival. Tyron got up and walked out of the elevator.

A bright light instantly hit his face as he stepped out of the elevator. The elevator door behind him close, going back up as it waited for the next visitor.

 The whole place was filled with bustling, as people kept moving about. It was much like a normal city instead. Other that most of the people walking around, were mercenaries and rich individuals who had something to purchase or task to give out.

 Outside, it was already night. Yet the sky here was as bright as day. This was due to the holographic screen that projected the image of a sky- which then reflect back to the underground city.

Many hover cars were moving around. Tall buildings were standing at the sides as people entered and exited from them.

For first time arrival, most would have thought that they have discovered a new entity.

But the answer is- No.

All this was due to the crazy investment and technology that had been spent to this underground city.

This place could actually be said to be the most renowned black market. The existence of the black market had been hidden entirely from the public eyes and only the strong or wealthy people all know about the existence of the black market.

According to some allegations, it was disclosed that the owner of the black market is a very powerful individual. His strength was much greater than the emperor. Most people also claimed that the owner likely belong to a higher tier planet. Some even went extra to proclaim that the underground city was run by the emperor himself.

However, those were all speculations. As no one knows about the entity behind the black market.

Yet, the place kept booming day by day.

Here, people could do whatever they wish. Well, aside from committing crime. But this place could be said to be a paradise for most mercenaries.

A lot of mercenaries had been dissatisfied with the contract share between them and the mercenary hall, given that the contract requires them to give ten percent of their hauls out of every hunt to the organization.

This kind of rules doesn't sit well with most of them. In the meantime, most of them started venturing into the black market and become a freelancer mercenary. Since the black market never ask of share, more mercenaries began visiting the place.

Also, due to the restrictions placed in most mercenary's hall whenever offering a mission, client who were often rejected would then visit the black market to assign their task.

Granting that this kind of transaction requires them to pay more, most people still prefer coming to the black market.

And here could be said to be where Tyron had collected the task of capturing the swamp crocodile beast king.

The black-market law could be said to be a little lax. You could be scammed or whatsoever. Nevertheless, all information about the people who visited the black market are in the hands of the authority. Hence, if someone were to commit a crime, such person would be ban from entering into the black market.

This kind of lower the crime committed here.

Which is among the reason why Tyron had never expected to be played dirty.

Furthermore, the person who had helped him acquire the task was a close friend of his. The two had been friends for years.

Hence Tyron would never believe that the other party had given him the wrong information. Perhaps, he also was not aware of the level of the beast king.

The mission hall was not far from where he was. Tyron didn't have to walk so long before he reaches his destination.

Instead of mission hall, the task building was called Zero organization. The structure of the organization stood thousand meters tall into the sky, making people wonder how deeper this underground city was.

The ground floor building was quite crowded. It was the time for most adventurers to be back from their respective mission, explaining the reason for the huge crowd.

Venturing in between the wave of people, Tyron headed for the counter. Suddenly, he noticed a slightly familiar face among the crowd.

Cedric.

Looks like he also has some connections for him to be able to get into the black market.

Tyron eyes moved along with Cedric figure, then he saw the other party heading towards the direction he was also heading to.

A frown appeared on his face when he watched the next scene that unfolds. Tyron watched Cedric talked to the guy at the counter. The two seems to be familiar with each other.

Cedric mood had been down ever since he had stopped that guy earlier. He couldn't hold back his anxiety anymore and immediately rushed over to the black market.

Hoyt was at the counter as usual.

"Wow, Cedric. What a surprise visit. Don't tell me you're here to share me some pleasant news?" Hoyt greeted Cedric with a smile as soon as he saw the other person.

"F*cking shut your mouth!" Cedric was really irked off, seeing Hoyt smiling carefreely.

Hoyt had a look of confusion, not sure the reason why Cedric was annoyed at him. "What. You aren't here to share the good new? Shouldn't you be happy that Tyron and his team member are gone."

"Gone you say." Cedric snickered, leaning forward on the counter as he looked at Hoyt in the eyes. "I gave you one fucking task. Just one. Yet, you ruined everything up. Screw you." He slaps at the slab with rage. "Do you know that they were awarded with honor Points. Do you know what honor point is? Yet, you made it land into their hand!"

Hoyt jumped in fluster at Cedric roar. "Wait a minute, calm down. You meant they are not dead?"

"Shouldn't I be asking you instead. Why are they not dead? I told you to give him the most dangerous task. And then what have you done. Instead, you made a golden pie landed in their hands."