Shaking could be felt all around the town, and a massive explosion cloud of dust rose into the air. Damien looked over at Ela with a shocked expression. “Is she insane?” he asked, after seeing what had just happened. Damien had no other explanation.

Giggling in response, Ela stood up and said, “We can talk about her sanity later. How about we go help her rescue the town?”

Outside the building where Damien and Ela were, Ruby could be seen locked in a fierce battle with the man she had just spoken to. She was not stupid, and upon seeing that her entire town was missing, she came up with a plan and made her way over to some close friends of hers to get help.

After explaining everything, her friends agreed to help her out, and once she got back to the town, she saw the townspeople all on their knees, sitting in the middle of the road outside the guild building, and decided to use that her advantage Ruby set up an explosion to occur to draw everyone's attention and distract them.

After the explosion went off, her friends rushed forward and took out the guards one by one, and now the organization was down to the man Ruby was speaking to and about ten elite guards.

Dashing at the man, Ruby engulfed her hand in flames, punching the man in front of her and causing him to cross his arms in front of his body to block the attack. With a grunt, the man was thrown backward by ten feet.

Looking around, the man adopted a grim expression before glancing back at Ruby, “We will play another time, Ruby. RETREAT!” the man yelled before him and the ten guards took off into the woods.

‘Sorry, Emma,’ the man thought while running away before a light smirk appeared on his face unfortunately though the man forgot about a crucial detail… the reason they had been in the town and kidnapped everyone in the first place.

Right as the man was about to jump from one tree branch to the next, a person appeared right in front of him, covered in blue lighting, bouncing around his body. Surprised, the man jumped back from the person and put his guard up while his ten elite guards surrounded the lighting-covered figure.

“Who are you?” the man asked as he could not make out Damien’s features. Instead of responding, the figure disappeared from their line of sight, startling everyone and putting them on edge.

Reappearing behind one of the elite guards, Damien snapped the guard’s neck before disappearing one more. Seeing that things were not looking good, the man gritted his teeth, “Keep moving I refuse to believe he will chase us forever.”

One by one, the elite guards fell as they continued to run, and after about 20 minutes, only four people were left in their group every single person left had an expression of horror and dread. Forantuly for them, it seemed like the person finally gave up on chasing them.

The man from earlier, the one who spoke to Ruby, was leading the group and only had one thought in his mind. ‘I will remember this’

Watching the organization group get further and further away, Damien sighed he had wanted to finish them off. The only reason he had not is because he ran out of mana. Making his way back to the town, Damien saw Ela and Ruby chatting.

Seeing him approach out of the corner of her eye, Ela cleared her throat before introducing him, “Ruby, this is Damien I finally found him at one of the organization places not too long ago.” Glancing at the man a look of intrigue appeared on her face.

Looking at the real Ruby, he had to admit that Emma had flawlessly copied the woman in front of him, at least in terms of appearance as for personality, he was not so sure, but considering that Ela had not noticed anything weird maybe she had perfected that as well.

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“So this is the long-lost Damien, huh?” Ruby said while examining Damien’s appearance, after a while of her staring at him and making Damien feel awkward under her gaze, the woman finally seemed satisfied and smiled before speaking. “You better not hurt her,” Ruby said while nodding her head towards Ela.

“Otherwise… Well, let's just say you don’t want to see what I will do.” Looking at the woman’s “kind” smile, Damien felt a chill go down his spine. “Yes mam” he responded getting a nod in response he sighed in relief.

Now that he had seen the real Ruby’s reaction to him, the one Emma had made more sense, considering the woman's past feelings. Glancing around, Damien noticed that all the town’s people were chatting or reuniting with their loved ones, and after a while, they all turned their attention to Ruby’s group who were standing in front of them.

Walking over to Ela’s side, Damien whispered, “What’s going on?” with a smile on her face, Ela just told him that Ruby was going to let the people know what was going on considering they got kidnapped they had the right to know what had happened.

Ruby took a couple of steps forward ahead of her group of friends and started to speak, “I know many of you are confused about what happened here today, so I will go ahead and address the situation and let you know what’s going on.

Clearing her throat, she continued, “The event that happened today was conducted by people known as the “Organization.” This group, as far as we are aware, has been around since before the system arrived… as for the reason this group exists and what their exact goals are is unknown but what is known about the group is that they target people with bloodlines or as some from before the system it would be people who were born with rare types of blood.”

Pausing to see if anyone had any questions, Ruby glanced around the crowd with an unreadable expression, “I am telling you all this because I feel that it’s about time the world knew about the people behind many loved ones' disappearances. This group has singlehandedly kidnapped 10 of thousands of people.”

“Do not worry, though; we are aware of this group, and with this recent stunt, we plan on finding them and removing them from our planet before they become too big a problem. Now does anyone have any questions?”

One by one, hands raised to ask their concerns about the situation, and after a while, the questions finally started to slow down, and right when Damien thought he would finally be able to have a break and spend some time with Ela one more person raised their hand.

Looking at the person, Damien saw it was a broad-looking man wearing a hood covering his face. “Yes,” Ruby said aloud, pointing to the person. “My question is if this group only targets people with bloodlines then why kidnap all of us to target you? Do you or one of your members have a bloodline?”

Hearing the man’s question, Ruby smiled. “I don’t see how that matters, but yes someone I know has a bloodline and they were using me to get to that person. Does that answer your question?”

The man did not respond but instead lowered his head before slipping out of the crowd and disappearing, watching the whole thing, Damien got a weird vibe from the dude but decided to leave it alone, for now, he just wanted to find somewhere to relax with Ela for a bit.

With a sigh, Ruby walked back over to Damien and Ela. “So why did you guys come here anyway? She asked while looking at Ela. “The last town we were in was Zacks, and since that man is a cheapskate and a creep who only worries about women, all of his buildings were cheaply made, causing them to collapse when the earth shook after the system announcement,” Ela explained, a look of disdain on her face mentioning Zack.

Nodding her head in understanding, Ruby spoke, “Sounds about what I’d expected from Zack he better just be glad I have not cut his balls off yet.”

Listening to the conversation, Damien remembered something he had forgotten, “Shit.” he said aloud, causing everyone to glance at him. “Emma is still in the basement,” Damien stated, causing a serious expression to appear on Ela’s face. “We need to go down there now if we can keep her here for questioning, maybe we can get something out of her.”

Rushing down to the basement they all prepared themselves to restrain her in case she put up a fight but once they walked through the door Emma was nowhere to be seen only a note was sitting upon the chair she was tied to.

Picking up the note, Damien read the words on its surface.

“You will regret not killing me, Damien.”