"Flourance?" Xander muttered with a frown as he saw the name of the caller. "Did Lucifer enter the city?"
He picked up the call.
"Did Lucifer come?" he asked straight away without waiting for the other side to speak first.
"He came. Not only did he came, but he also found out that we are here. He asked about you, and that idiot, Markel, blurted out that you just left the city. He obviously knows about the Delta squad being here," Flourance replied to Xander. The urgency was evident in his tone. It was also clear that he was running.
"Sigh, Markel made a mistake."
Usually, Xander would have been furious in this situation as his squad messed up such an important plan, but he was a warlock whose second ability was his emotion control. He could control his emotions and think clearly, even in difficult situations. That helped him stay calm even now.
"How far is he from the designated spot?" Xander inquired.
"He’s just a hundred steps away. We will be trying to get him to spot 0," Flourance answered. He didn’t stop running for even a second.
"Stay alert. His lightning should be able to target people in the long range as well. Try not to lose anyone if you can. I’ll be leaving this city soon after making sure that no Dungeon Dwellers are alive, so I’ll be late. You should be done until then. Keep me updated on how the situation develops," Xander let out.
Roar!
As Xander was talking, he heard a mighty roar coming from behind him.
"I’ll call you later. Some bugs need to be squashed here as well. Stay alert and make this mission successful for us even when I’m not there," Xander asserted before he disconnected the call.
He glanced back and saw an Armored Gorilla and two Silver Tigers standing there.
He started running towards the beasts, but he had only taken two steps when he saw the beasts blowing up to smithereens.
Xander stopped in his tracks as a frown appeared on his face at the sights of dead beasts. He hadn’t attacked, but the beasts were killed. Someone else was here. He understood that.
As he looked around, he saw a group of people coming from behind the beasts. All of them held an umbrella in their left hand to protect themselves from the rain.
All of them were wearing a golden robe over their black clothes. Their robes had an insignia near the chest portion, which seemed like a bow that had a sword in the middle, being used as the bow’s arrow.
"The Hunter Guild is here," Xander muttered as he saw the golden robe and the insignia on the chest of those people. He realized who they were.
The fire that burned around his fists stopped as he walked towards the people.
"Xander, from the APF Delta squad. You must be from the Hunters Guild," Xander let out as he reached out his hand to handshake with the person in the middle, but the other side didn’t respond.
"We will handle the rest. You guys aren’t needed anymore. You can leave," the leader of the small squad, Fracker, said arrogantly. There was no gratitude in their tone.
’As arrogant as I heard them to be. The Hunter Guild members really have an arrogance problem. Whatever. I don’t have time to play around either,’ Xander thought as he turned back to leave.
"You guys should do your job better next time. The Dungeon dwellers are your responsibility. If you can’t even keep them in control and stop them from being able to leave the dungeons, despite finding out so much about them. Then something is really lacking," he mentioned once without looking back.
"You!" One of the Hunter Union members got angry at the condescending tone of Xander.
"Don’t bother, Ray. We have more important things to do now," another member advised, calming his friend.
"Wait a minute. Xander... I heard that name. Oh right. He is an S-Rank Warlock and the leader of Delta Squad!" A red-haired Variant of the Hunter guild suddenly called out.
When he heard Xander’s name, he felt like he had heard it before. Only now did he remember who Xander was.
"What? APF sent the leader of their third squad here? I thought they would send normal members for such a minor thing. Are you sure, Sunny?" Fracker inquired in confusion.
"Maybe he was nearby when the news of this attack came, and he came to help? Sigh, we offended a big-shot," Sunny replied with a deep sigh.
"So what? Our Hunter Guild isn’t something they can offend either. He won’t do anything," Fracker commented ignorantly.
"You can’t underestimate APF. They are on the same level as our Hunter Union in terms of importance, even if they lack the strength and numbers to match us."
"Also, the leader of their Alpha Squad, Varant, is a terrifying entity. He is an S-rank Warlock who isn’t scared of anything. All the powers fail in front of his power. I heard that even our Hunter Union leaders are wary of him. So we really shouldn’t create unnecessary conflict with APF," Sunny reminded Fracker.
"Hah, I didn’t do anything. I just told him to leave the rest to us. Even if he is the leader of the Delta Squad, he shouldn’t be offended with just that," Fracker let out, shaking his head.
"Anyway, he already left. Stop talking about him and hunt some monsters," he continued as he changed the topic.
....
"There are still some monsters left."
"Don’t worry. Hunters Union is here. They will deal with it. We need to get back to Erygas. Lucifer is already there."
Xander and his men conversed as they entered the helicopter.
The rotor of the helicopter started swinging as the helicopter began rising in the air.
....
"Lucifer... Just a little more. I’ll have you in my grasp. I know you suffered a lot, and you want revenge, but I can’t let you kill people."
"You might hate humanity, but you’re wrong. There is the good side of humanity as well. I’ll handle everything. Just don’t create any more trouble now."
Xander seemed as if he was talking to himself as he sat in the helicopter.