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Chapter 24 - Wise one's foolish tactics

Hearing Essence Robin makes a mean comment "You would if also died if not for the last-minute hold of the edge. You look more like a loudmouth fool rather than stylish." Essence was happy to Robin and didn't bat and eye to the comments as he was quite use to it "Yoooo! Where were you?" "I am a busy individual." Robin answered with the most superior tone he could manage. Essence started walking downstairs towards the fallen hobgoblin. while walking down Essence asks, "Am I doing good enough?" Robin was taken aback from a question like this. "You want words of appreciation from me? Have you really fallen this low?" "Nah! Just felt like I'll get some for surviving this far." the tone was disappointment was as clear as day. Essence reached the hobgoblin and bowed down to say sorry as he fought the wrong way. Then a gunshot rang out. Essence was shaken to the core. He quickly stored the hobgoblin in the inventory. He ran as fast he could, even getting the skill "Agile" but he pushed the system panel away. The gun shot was scary enough. but the place where it came from was also quite scary. It was the goblin camp Essence reached there to see his friends stand with their hands raised in front of a guy blabbering something. Soon he noticed Raghav and his monkey are missing with Cinder. Then a big hand falls on Essence's back. Essence jumps to kick behind but it was the monkey. Cinder and Raghav r also standing behind it. Raghav explains what's the deal with the new people "They are from the local gang here. They were attacked by many hobgoblins, and their base is in ruin. They managed to wipe out many of them, and this was one of the last ones left. They think we are here to steal their spoils or something." Essence with blood on his mind speaks in anger "FU*K them then." and throws the rod swords right onto the man with gun in his hand. he drops the gun and starts crying like a child. Essence climbs on the tree he was hiding behind and jumps from the top to land on the other guy standing next to him. Herb and Rantaro grew happy after seeing Essence. There were one moment away from tearing up. Essence picks up the gun and points it at the 2 guys. Raghav's monkey friend pins them to the ground standing on them. Essence stores the gun in his inventory and picks up his thrown rod sword and plunges it 2 inches away from the eyes of the gangster. The gangster with dust in his eyes starts begging "NO! PLEASE LET US GO. TAKE ALL THE MONSTER PEARLS BUT SHOW MERCY ON US!" Essence asks in confusion "The Fu**ing What?" The gangster shaking in fear now asks, "If not for them why did you even come fight these monsters?" Essence clear's his throat as every one of his friends pierced him with their glare including the monkey even though its incapable of complex though. Essence answers in the most annoyed face he could make "WHY DO YOU CARE? Just answer me what is the pearl you are talking about?" The gangster asks to be freed for a minute; he goes up to the fallen goblin and butchers it with a kitchen knife. He puts his hand inside and finds nothing. Essence in anger lift's his Rod sword. The gangster quickly butchers the second and this time he pulls out a small marble like thing from the goblin's inside. Essence snatches it away from the gangster who is now reduced to a butcher. Essence asks "what is this pearl?" Robin answers him instead of the gangster "its the beast's mana core. They store all their mana in that small pearl. Its of bad quality and size as its a lowly goblin's core." Essence was in awe "So then why don't humans have this? Neither did the cat monsters!" Robin laughs "You my truly are different from the rest. It is quite a simple question but its answer is too much for you to know. There are some others who know about it. Find it out from them." Essence looks at Robin in disappointment "Bro, if you nothing to say then why even start speak." Robin ignores Essence's childish words. The gangster asks herb "ps-ps kiddo who is he speaking to? Is he mentally unwell?" Essence poked his Robin sword into the man's stomach. Then after that he spoke the most important words "Take me to your hide out."

Essence and his gang reach the gangsters. Essence points the gun at the one he caught. His name was Raj was many of his friends started calling out his name. The other one was his best friend Abhishek. Abhishek was unconscious and the monkey was carrying him like a sack on its shoulder. They all has their guns drawn at Essence but Essence shouts "Move and this creep gets a 3rd degree head massage." They all stand shaking. Then a Women walks up from the crowd. Everyone lowers their guns after seeing her. "kiddo you must be tired of life to walk in here with a gun. Do you know who this place belongs to?" Essence shots at her legs. All her followers shoot at Essence, but Essence removes the Hobgoblin and the Cats and uses them as a shield. After the shots stop he stores them and laughs "im speaking to someone who can send to her father easily." She gets angry at Essence for talking about her father who passed away but his magical powers make her stop herself. Then Essence does the unthinkable. He leaves Raj where he was as he was still shaking in fear and walks up to the women. The goons all point their guns at him, but he doesn't stop knowing Noone will shoot. He then puts his hand forward "My name is Essence, I'm the Leader of Radiance"

We come to Raven. She just hunted down a cat with her sister. But their celebration was cut short by a large orc showing up. They both look at it in horror. Raven pushes her sister and leaves the cat monsters behind. The sister cries leaving her spoils behind. They reach their base camp but it full of sad faces. Raven's mother runs up to children and hugs them tight and takes to back to bandage them up. While her mother was bandaging Raven's sister, she heard the 2 people talk "such a waste if all they do is go out and bleed!" Raven runs out and scares the people away. But inside she hears her mother and sister crying. She looks at them and runs away in tears in her eyes. She goes on the roof top of her building and locks the door above. Slowly walking at the edge. She gets over the edge and stands on the railing. She could see all the destruction caused by the monsters. She could also see the orc devour the cat she almost lost her life slaying. She closes her eyes for the final time but then a blue glow falls on her closed eyelids. She opens her eyes to see Cinder's message "Gng i js saw sum1 end it. Such a dumb@ss." Raven punches the system panel out of anger but her hand goes through it. She climbs off the railing and goes back down while mumbling under her breath "Such a dumb@ss."

We see Essence and the women sit on 2 chairs opposite each other. Cinder joked "looks like you are here to sign a contract!" Essence looks at him in disbelief "Motherf**ker this is the most gangster looking seating arrangement ever. What contract you talking about?" Cinder walks out just to see someone shoot himself. He looks at the person for a while and then takes the opposite way. Coming back to Essence. He is offered tea. He declines the offer "how do I know you didn't poison it?" The madam of the gangsters speaks with an annoyed face "We have guns. If I wanted you dead you would be by now. Why are you here? What do you want?" Essence smirks as he drinks his tea "I'm here for the gang." The woman also laughs and speaks "Won't happen this people follow me. Mi the gang" Essence adds foolishly "Then i want you!" She points her gun on Essence's forehead "I'll pull out that dirty lounge of yours!" Essence raises his hand "I DIDN'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT, I JUST WANT THE GUNS AND A FEW MEN NOTHING ELSE!" She asks him "And why is that? You want to start a gang war? Sorry but all the gangs are in the same position. All were attacked by these green monkeys." Essence adds "Those are goblin's, anyways I don't want you for the gang war but something much bigger."

They stand at the middle of the road in 3 groups. 1st is Herb and their base 2nd is Raghav and the Zoo animals; 3rd is the Gangsters. In the middle Essence is standing with Explain the plan "Everyone gathered here. As you can see mi just a child and my ideas might seem childish. But I request everyone to listen and follow what i day and just act how I tell you to, if you can do that, I assure you will walk pit of this with minimal or no injures." The gangster underlings speak "What are you gathering us for? Do you want to fight the sky's ruler who descended?" Essence answers with a straight face "Yes. Let me introduce myself again. My name is Essence the Leader of Radiance. The man who challenged A dragon. And tomorrow before sunset, I will be called the Dragon slayer!" The gangster women speak up "I won't be helping you with that tomorrow. Don't add us in your delusional ideas!" Essence sighs "this is why I brought to here. You have no other choice, do you? But I am a good-hearted person. You people won't be doing the hard work. Our friends from the Zoo and I will be the ones on the Attack, and you are going to support us. I used my pet to find out that the dragon is resting at the railway station like 200 meters away. And from which I remember we killed nearly everything 50 meters from here and the rest should be cleared by the dragon itself. So, there are no external threats. Moving on the main topic. Defeating the dragon. It's not possible even if we all jumped at it right now. But i plan on using the excellence of mankind to slay our foe." The gangster Leader speaks "Talk like a kid. Your words are meaningless if you die the moment the dragon sees you. How sure are you of this plan working?" Essence scratches his head "I don't know, maybe like 50% of everything goes right?" Raghav's and Herb's jaw hits the floor and they shout in unison "WE ARE NOT DOING THIS!" "Relax. I even have a contingency plan if we fail." Essence speaks with a grin. Cinder shuts him down "Bro stop. You are NOT the Dark knight!" Essence throws a metal rod right between Cinder's Legs which shuts him up for good. Then he asks "Any questions?" Raghav asks "What is the contingency plan?" Essence looks down hiding his face "Someone will have to jump into the dragon's mouth with a f**k ton of explosives to something and Cinder will blow them up. It is a last resort which won't be needed but I just want to keep a safe plan." Raghav then asks the important questions "who Exactly would be the one to jump into the dragons mouth?" Essence raises his hand to point up

"Fate will decide who will be the unlucky one to Die!"

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