Chapter 587: Ways


    Trantor: Dess Editor: EbonyFrost


    Kieran was standing in an unknown street corner.


    It was unrealistic for Kieran to remember all theplicated streets and routes in the big city, he would rather risk his life in the dungeon world where it would be more rewarding.


    In fact, even yers who were fond of taking records found it hard to memorize the plethora of streets, especially since the city was still expanding on its own.


    Kieran leaned back on the street corner and stared at the big building not far away from him.


    The Fire Raven was tidying its feather on his shoulder.


    Kieran was certain that ck Robe had entered the 19th-floor big building 10 minutes ago through Fire Raven’s sight.


    The building itself had tight security. The exterior alone had three outposts on the bright side and another five more hidden guard points. All of the outposts were ced at optimal vantage points, providing the guards with extreme advantages and allowed them to see almost everything around the building’s surrounding.


    If that was the exterior, how would the interior be?


    Kieran was more cautious than before.


    Unlike the dungeon world, Kieran always has a general estimation of the natives’ strength but when facing against yers of the big city that shuttled through dungeon worlds, it was difficult for him toe up with a general estimation about what kind of weird powers he would be facing, especially ck Robe Rayerwent.


    Kieran never thought it was possible for a yer to transform into swarms of bugs.


    However, he was more concerned about how pretentious ck Robe was at the moment.


    Through Fire Raven’s sight, Kieran was certain that ck Robe lured him over on purpose, otherwise he wouldn’t have paused on the way there.


    "He lured me here in order for me to fight Broker’s men?" Kieran wondered.


    There was no need for further proof to state the working rtionship between ck Robe Rayerwent and Broker anymore because a part of ck Robe’s words proved as much.


    However, it seemed like the oue had exceeded the Supernova’s expectation. The current turn of events obviously was not within his calctions, hence luring Kieran to the ce.


    ck Robe wanted to take revenge on Broker, he wanted to shift his own mistakes to others andfort himself as if to say it wasn’t his fault that he failed, it was other people’s mistake that caused it.


    Even though it was despicable to do so, it really would provide a hugefort to one’s heart.


    On top of that, ck Robe’s organization had suffered severe casualties and on the other hand, his coborator was not even involved, no one would feel good about that.


    It was obvious that ck Robe was envious and hateful but would Broker be unprepared?


    After multiple confrontations with that evil merchant, Kieran knew how cunning the man was thus the heavy doubts about the current situation.


    "Hmm?" Kieran was surprised in the midst of his thoughts.


    The outpost guards around the building started to retreat all of a sudden.


    The weird move struck a bad feeling in Kieran’s heart.


    "Could it be..." Kieran shifted his attention back to the building instinctively.


    KABOOOM!


    The moment Kieran shifted his eyes at the building, a sudden brightness shone from inside the building. The sses were shattered by the st as fire burst out from every possible window, burning upwards.


    Right after the initial explosion, the whole building copsed!


    KAKROOM!


    The copsed building brought up a storm of dust, forcing Kieran to back away quickly.


    After getting almost a thousand meters away from the ruins, Kieran squinted his eyes at the scene while hiding in the shadows, away from the debris.


    He had thought of a lot of ways Broker could deal with ck Robe but he would never have thought Broker would kill him directly.


    Based on Kieran’s spection, their working rtionship should be built around a solid contract, he could even imagine the contents of such a contract like promising to not harm each other.


    However, right before his eyes, Broker killed ck Robe.


    "Broker has ways to vite a contract?" Kieran’s heart skipped a beat.


    Although he hated to admit it, it was the only reasonable exnation. Kieran also remembered during thest bigmotion that happened, there weren’t any cyberw enforcers in sight, simr to the current situation.


    "He didn’t just possess ways to vite contracts but affect and stall cyberw enforcers?"


    Kieran scowled hard when the thought came into his mind.


    It wasn’t a good news by any means for Kieran since Broker was an enemy.


    He would hate to have a bunch of cybew enforcers to arrive at the crucial moment during the battle with Broker.


    Souuu!


    cksmith flew down from the night sky with her mantle fluttering, causing a sharp air whistle.


    "Here!"


    cksmith saw the building in ruins, she then tossed [Reverse Scar] back to Kieran.


    It might be overthinking but Kieran felt cksmith was acting coldly at that moment.


    At the very next moment, Kieran was proved right when cksmith stated her intention to leave after returning the favor.


    "Wait!"


    Kieran held her back. When cksmith turned around, Kieran pointed at the [Armor of Excellence] and [Crow’s ck Feather] on himself.


    "I need help in repairing these! And also [Dark Nether Stone] embedding!" Kieran said.


    "Follow me then."


    cksmith said after a deep breath as if she had made a life-changing decision.


    "Sure! I have a serious problem on my tail now, let’s hurry up!"


    Kieran briefly exined the curse dispeller’s curse that was following him since.


    "You’ll need a door guardian for that... Lawless would be delighted!"


    cksmith said as she swiftly headed towards the train station.


    She wasn’t rushing by any means but was traveling quickly, she acted like she was evading Kieran on purpose.


    Kieran raised a puzzled brow.


    "What happened?"


    While he tried to recall any noteworthy events in the recent days, he didn’t realize anything, hence he followed up quickly.


    ...


    99th Emma Street.


    Kieran saw Lawless outside the little garden. Other than Lawless, Hanses, Coll, Raven, and Ramont was there as well.


    They were either standing or sitting on the porch and greeted Kieran and cksmith when they arrived.


    "Hey, 2567!"


    Hanses, Coll, and Ramont called out loudly, Raven was as silent as usual.


    Lawless, on the other hand, was at a loss for words, which was rare for him.


    "You are running out of time," cksmithmented.


    After greeting the bunch, she returned to her room.


    The rest of them looked at each other in a puzzled gaze before moving away, making space for Lawless and Kieran because they knew both of them had some important matters to discuss, simr to how they had doubts about the situation


    Kieran looked at Lawless, his face was blurred out but his eyes wouldn’t lie.


    Kieran was certain that Lawless was extremely awkward at the moment but he wouldn’t mind enjoying how the awkwardness tortured Lawless.


    "Fine, fine! I admit it! I was lied to! I never thought the curse dispeller was one of ck Robe’s men! Even his loner character was an act! Since I am an easily provoked guy plus I like to help those loners, I fell into his trap perfectly..."


    Lawless finally opened his mouth when Kieran looked at him with his ridiculing gaze.


    His nagging personality also exploded when he exined.


    Lawless went on for a full three minutes before ending it, he tossed a cigar to Kieran before lighting one up himself. He sat down against the wall and took heavy puffs before spitting out clouds of smoke, he smoked for quite a while before doing anything.


    When the area was filled with cigar smoke, Lawless finally asked, "So what’s your n now?"