Strongest Nova: Path of Vengeance
Chapter 186: The 5
The Hunters gang were all being attacked at once.
In Pillow’s Grove City, Hank was the only one working for this branch of the gang. There were other fighters in the city with him, but due to his power, only he could fight.
Anyone else fighting would cause problems that they couldn’t deal with.
The other fighters instead set up a perimeter around the small underground location so that they caught every gang member that tried to escape.
Hank went into the underground alone with nothing but his weapons in hand and two pouches on his jacket. As he got close to where the gang members would be, he pulled out one of the pouched which was full of blood.
As soon as it was out, he hesitated for a second before tearing the pouch with his teeth and drinking all the blood inside of it.
Suddenly, his eyes widened as his pupils dilated. His hands grew firmer, muscles growing where they weren’t before. His nails sharpened as well, turning him into something monstrous.
He thirst for blood and nearly went for the other pouch in his jacket, but stopped himself. That was for emergencies and he had barely enough intelligence to tell himself that.
However, the thirst for blood remained still and he quickly found his source for that. There was a person nearby; he could smell it.
Hank blitzed through the dark corridor, arriving on the other side amongst a load of people that were busy doing their illegal business.
Hank had come in knowing there was no one here that needed to be saved, so the current him who lacked enough intelligence could go as wild as he wanted to.
He rushed to the nearest person, an older woman, and grabbed her by the throat. He ripped half of it away before the woman could even shriek and bit into the half of her neck that was still intact.
His sharp teeth bit into the soft flesh as he started sucking away the blood from the woman that died soon after. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
Hank stopped drinking the woman’s blood when the first bullet hit him. The bullet hit him on the shoulder, knocking him backward. It stung him on the shoulder, but the wound wasn’t deep at all.
During the state that he was in, Hank’s physical attributes were quite strong, and regular attacks that hurt him barely worked on him at the moment.
His leg froze because of someone’s powers, but that didn’t stop Hank at all. The people there all started shooting at Hank, but he was already gone from his location, arriving at another place where two attacks took away two different heads.
Then, he disappeared again, resuming his attacks as he went after the rest of the people before he even thought of drinking anyone’s blood again.
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Mona walked through the front door where the gang members were in the least number at the moment. As soon as she was in, she looked around at everyone that she could see.
Once she took all of them into account, she clapped.
Quartz spikes grew out of the ground at once, killing every single person it hit as it went directly through their body, piercing all of them.
Most people had died before they even realized what had happened. Many of the people kept a wide variety of emotions on their faces, none of which was fear or pain.
A group of fighters followed behind Mona with guns out in their hands as they quickly looked around for people that might have been hiding.
One of the fighters had already hacked into Hunter’s system and was currently manipulating the video feed that they saw.
Once the entirety of the first floor had been cleared, they moved onto the second floor with Mona at the front.
With one of The 5 by their side, the fighters felt a little hesitation in completing their mission today.
Mona arrived at the 2nd floor and saw a bunch of people standing in all directions. Once she mentally mapped everyone’s location, she clapped once again.
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Leo, short for Leopold, was part of The 5. He was a man of average height and was 40 years old currently, except he had the body of a 30-year-old.
He was a health freak who loved going to the gym and eating healthy every single day, so he managed to remain youthful despite his age.
If there was one thing about Leopold that anyone who worked with him before would say he was would be that he was afraid of death. His fear of death was not something normal and was way more than just a mortal level.
He was a germaphobe and thus stayed away from most people and objects as he worried the germs would lead to his death. He ate multiple vitamins and other medicines to make sure he wasn’t deficient in any nutrients.
He also had his shield active at all times so that something random didn’t happen to him, which would kill him.
He disliked traveling, disliked vacations, disliked hiking. Anything that could possibly kill him, he didn’t want to do.
And today, he was at the Hunters gang’s warehouse where they supplied their products from. And he wasn’t afraid of anyone.
He held two guns in either of his hands and pointed at everyone he saw inside the warehouse as soon as he entered and started shooting.
He managed to kill 4 people before the gang members brought out their own guns and started shooting at him. The bullets all hit him, killing him instantly.
Riddled with bullets, Leopold was dead.
However, he wasn’t dead for long.
The blood all crept back into his body, the bullet holes resealing itself. The parts of his clothes where he was shot still had holes in them, but Leopold himself was back to how he was before he died.
He quickly looked at the gaping expressions of the ones that saw him die and come back to life and then shot them.
Those people shot at him again, but even as they shot at him, or used their powers to kill him, he came back to life each time.
One person used a petrification technique to freeze Leopold entirely. But even then, he died and came back to life, still petrified.
The people were relieved. Even though quite a few of them had died, they were still alive. One of them decided to find out just what was going on and see if some other gang was attacking them.
However, before he could go anywhere, a bullet went through his head, instantly killing him. Multiple other bullets landed in the warehouse from all directions, all of which landed on everything in the warehouse, including Leopold.
Leopold was unpetrified when the man that petrified him died. And then he died too from all the gunshots.
Once the gunshots ended, he came back to life again and saw that the mission was over. He quickly turned on his shield and got rid of his gloves to wear another new one.
He was back to being terrified of death again.
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Ella whistled her way through the front door of the building that belonged to the Hunters. Behind her was a slew of fighters that all had something in their ear blocking Ella’s whistle from being heard.
As someone from The 5, she was exceptionally great when it came to being a fighter, but she was much more efficient when working with others.
When she whistled, anyone that heard her directly would fall asleep, fainting where they were. Once they fainted, she killed them easily with a gunshot.
The others behind her walked around to check the various states of the first floor while killing anyone that wasn’t already dead.
Once they were done, they moved on to the next floor.
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Droon was a bald man with not even eyebrows on his face. He was tall but with barely any muscles. He wore a mask, not unlike the one that Gray wore.
As someone that was part of the group that was collectively called The 5, he was the strongest fighter in the AAA, aside from Gray.
He was in the Hunters gang’s 3rd most populated base, and he wasn’t alone. There were many fighters there all of whom were following him.
Except, Droon was always alone even when followed.
Droon shot his gun at anyone he saw that was working for the gang. As he shot at others, many came after him, shooting at him.
The shootout lasted for maybe 5 seconds, after which everyone was surprised at the result.
Droon stood where he was, not a single hair in his head damaged at all. As for the ones that shot at him, half of them were dead, and the majority of the living ones were in desperate need of medical attention.
Droon cared not for these people and shot every single one of them, killing them instantly.
The fighters that followed him were capable ones as well, who started killing the other members of the Hunters while constantly checking through the first floor.
Once they were done, it was time to move on to the next floor.
Droon waited for a moment, checking his power’s availability for the next floor. Because of his unique case for the activation condition, he had to make sure he wasn’t overdoing things and would have to make sure to leave a condition for himself that he could complete without dying later on.
Once he was certain that he was barely beginning his mission, he took to the steps and walked upward.