A More Wretched Hive

Killua sighed as he walked towards one of the villages at the foot of Hakobe, who in their right mind would open a brothel here, well there was still the chance that they didn't know that it was under the nose of a dark guild that cared little for consequence, especially in something that would be considered their territory, rather it was their territory. So as usual someone had to deal with it and that was him and some other guild member named Riana. Their job was fairly simple, all they had to do was remove any and all of the associated with running the brothel and any other businesses associated with it.

Kil himself was wearing his usual jacket to keep him from the cold and combat pants without the knee protectors so he would blend in a bit easier. He was already at the gates of the village it was still cold, but the weather was proving to be favorable, as there were streaks of water rather than ice everywhere, there was still a bit more time until the winter season came fully and everything around the foot of the mountain turned to snow and ice.

Supposedly there was more to it from some local rumors but until they were inside to confirm anything more than what it looked like and like what it was confirmed to be. However first things first he would need to find his partner for the job at hand. Entering the village he headed deeper towards the center of the village. He had a vague idea of how she looked like and he hoped that she would be in the village before him.

Reaching the central part of the village, he looked around, taking in the bustling gravel road, or as bustling as it could be for a small village. It wasn't like the capital and for sure that was a plus, he preferred it like this. He was brought out of his musings as he spotted a single red-haired woman sitting by the running water fountain.

The young dark mage didn't waste much time approaching her as she fitted the description he was given. "I presume that your Riana? It's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Killua." Extending a hand in the process. "I guess we'll be partners for the current job, mind if I sit?" He asked, and he would take the seat next to her if she didn't mind it.

"So, how are you on this good day, I also hope that I didn't make you wait long for me here, haha.. Ready to whoop some idiots. Honestly who decides that it's a good idea to open up a brothel here." He laughed a little at the last part, still finding it quite amusing, they were really a bunch of idiots..

"Anyways, to give you a heads up on what I can do, I use Thunder God Slaying magic and Requip where I keep a lot of my guns and some explosives." It usually wasn't such a good idea to give out information like this in open fields and nothing was privy to be unheard, but the fountain was proving to be quite a good muffler and Kil himself was being alerted if anyone was listening in on their little conversation.

WC: 554
TWC: 1090/5000
@Riana Maren

As the introductions finished, Kil took one last look around them, his interest was piqued as Riana said that she too was a slayer, but didn't reveal much after that. He didn't mind though, it was normal to not share details about what one can do, especially in the open where anyone could be listening on their little conversation. The young dark mage smiled he felt like he could relax on this job and take it a bit easy while going about getting to know someone else from his guild. Taking in his surroundings one last time, he noted how peaceful the village was even when a dark guild stood at the top of the mountain.

His attention was refocused on Riana as she got up and stretched, Kil in turn stood up as well. Listening in to what Riana was saying. "Hmm, yea my age can be a bit problematic, I don't look like an adult like some other 16-year-olds. So let's check out the brothel itself if it's not some hard to get in I'll just enter from the roof or something and keep an eye out from above." He said taking the lead towards the brother.

The walk wasn't long before they reached the brother, the building like most others in the area was made of wood, it was rather large but gave the impression of being a 1-floor building which was useful to the young mage. There were a few windows and from what he could see there was a window at the top of the roof, most likely for access in case of repairs being needed. Kil mentioned for Riana to follow him so they didn't stand in front of the building and into an alley between the houses.

"Okay I was able to see lights inside so that means that it's currently operating or someone's inside at least. I noticed a possible entry from the roof so I can go inside from there, you can move in and I'll keep an eye out and cover you from any surprise attacks." He said, leaning against the wall. It was getting along perfectly, the building wasn't anything impressive in order to not draw attention and it was made with what was available in the village most likely. "If the rooftop entry doesn't work, I'll find another way inside, if you need help you can just do something loud and I'll just brute force my way in." He said.

"Alright, let's get this started, I'll see you on the inside hopefully." Pushing himself of the wall Killua moved a bit to the side and began climbing up on the nearby house, grabbing onto the wooden boards of the house, he hoisted himself up, before moving towards the brothel's own rooftop.

Reaching the rooftop of the brothel, he found a wooden trapdoor, slowly he attempted to lift it, a clunking sound stopped him as the trapdoor was locked with a padlock, requipping his silenced pistol, he aimed it straight from where he heard the sound and shot, the silencer muffling most of the sound as the trapdoor opened. Dropping slowly inside he found himself on a small ramp that was surrounded by wooden beams that supported the roof, he would be able to use them to navigate his way above the people below and so he did, taking a look at the people under him.

There was a handful of people some were drinking others were engaging in different things whether it be with women 'working' there or conversing with other people for things the young dark mage wasn't able to hear. Positioning himself to face the entrance and so that Riana could potentially see him when she entered.

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TWC: 2195
@Riana Maren

Kil pushed the earbud device that was given to him with relative ease, he had used such devices before while he was in the military to communicate with his team members, useful little things if he might say. A smile crossed his face as Riana entered the building and gave a subtle sign that she gave, notifying him that she was able to see him without giving away anything to the unsuspecting brothel members.

As she approached the front desk Kil moved silently just above them. The earbud sparked to life as he heard the conversation taking below him and smiled again as everything seemed to be going smooth, they didn't ask her anything or even cared to look if she was caring anything, how careless. With one of the guards escorting her, the young dark mage waited a bit for them to get away further from the room, before requiping his CZ Scorpion and dropping down right on top of the receptionist, right as he landed he used the buttstock of the rifle to knock the receptionist on the head knocking him out cold as he fell flat on the desk. "Wha-." The bulky guard turned around to see what the noise was but was only met with trained sights on him as a silent bullet went through his head cleanly, dropping him to the ground.

Lowering his riffle and looking around Killua sighed, there was no place he could hide the body so they could keep the element of surprise. Letting the gun fall to the side, straining against the sling that kept it close to the young dark mage's body, he went ahead and pulled the bulkier man behind the receptionist's desk before he climbed to the wooden beams above again. Silently moving towards the next room so he could still keep eyes on Riana and in general.

This time the room was bigger, men could be seen conversing around tables, drinking, and gambling, others could be seen entering or exiting numbered rooms with women, which were most likely where the brothel's main entertainment. There were quite a bit of people, if he was to count them they would be at least twelve just in the main room, he didn't know how many of the rooms were occupied and if there were any more in the back, this was the maximum he could get from above, as the stairs to the wooden ramp next to him was in this room as well, there wasn't much to maneuver anymore.

Never the less he would wait for the red-haired mage to make her move, get a bit more information if push comes to shove, he would just take out as many as he could before continuing in close combat, there were bound to be some mages and he didn't want to have little room to maneuver. "I don't have much room up here anymore, if they take you to one of the rooms, just do something loud and I'll engage them, over." Kil silently spoke, hoping that the small earbuds were two-way and she could also hear him.

He positioned himself as much as he could under the cover of darkness so that as little light could touch his lower body and to be able to have a view of most of the activities happening below him and to be able to switch between targets as fast as he could. Now it was a waiting game for him.

WC: 579
TWC: 3509
@Riana Maren

Blue eyes carefully looked at the people below, trained sights moving from one head to another, there were other people here that he might not want to kill, mainly civvies as he liked to call them that were just enjoying a good time, he didn't feel like killing them. So once Riana gave him the call the first ones to go were going to be the obvious guards of the place and after that anyone that decided to pick a fight with him even if they were civvies, once you start a fight you better be able to finish it.

His earbud sparked to life again as he listened in on the conversation that was going inside the office where their boss was supposedly located. Just from the words of the boss he knew that they were sizing her up, ironically this wasn't his first time in a brothel, there were numerous missions to take such places down, sometimes they were more than just brothel's but that was one a few rare occasions. "Of course you can work with this, you'll work with 80% of any woman that comes around." He mumbled under his breath in slight annoyance. It was ironic how these people seemed to treat others that they considered lower class while operating under the nose of a dark guild that didn't give two fucks about anyone except their own. What did they think will happen, become top dog in some small village and get protection from them, that is if they even knew there was a guild here.

There wasn't much time to dwell on it as a maniacal grin spread, as he heard Riana's voice over it "Roger.". She had a knack for the military, at least on the small things like communication and the fact that she could provide gadjets. As she had relayed her message the young dark mage trained his sights on the first guard and hell broke loose in the brothel. Silenced bullets rained from above as he riddled the first guard with bullets, the bullets that hit the wood that was hit by stray bullets made more noise than the actual gun itself.

Emptying the first mag, he quickly removed it and pulled another one from his requip space, quickly loading it to his gun as he continued to rain down terror. Three guards in total were dropped from the ensued panic of the villagers that were just here to enjoy themselves ran away from the brothel attempting to exit it quickly.

He was finally forced to jump off from the wooden beams and onto the ground as a wave of knives was thrown at him. "Seriously? Hello! I'm holding a gun, I wanna know who the smart ass is that brought knives to a gunfight." He said, obviously joking around with them, while removing another magazine from the gun and began loading in a new one. The joke didn't get him far as two of the bulkier guards quickly charged after him, now that they were able to get in range. "Did you think I'm vulnerable when reloading?" Kil said with a dark smirk as electricity gather around and inside his mouth, with one swift move a destructive blast of black lightning came out of his mouth enveloping both guards. With the dark electricity clearing out, both of the guards could be seen motionless on the ground, with sparks of electricity coming out of them from time to time. "So much for brute force." He remarked, proceeding to finish reloading.

As he was about the pull the charging handle of the gun he quickly had to stop and dodge, as a barrage of knives from both his left and right was thrown at him, nicking him across his upper arms and one drawing blood from his right chick. "Finally found yo-" He suddenly stumped, as he looked at his attackers. On either side, there were two women that held knives in between their fingers. What caught him off guard was the attire, they wore quite revealing outfits and looked like they worked here to provide sexual services, he expected all of these people to be out of here by now.

"Look, I'll give you a chance to walk away and we can forget about the cuts." Neither of the two women responded, instead they just circled around him. "No? You're funeral" Pulling his rifle up he let out a quick 6 round burst towards one of the 'assassins' at the same time, the girl had thrown a strange little bottle at Killua that was caught in his firing range, shattering it in the process, the bottle, in turn, released a large green smoke, on instinct Killua jumped back, avoiding the smoke while covering his face, pulling the side of his jacket over his mouth, there was a huge possibility that it was poison or just a smoke bomb, either way, he didn't want to take his chances.

A pleasant grin spread across his face, it looked like he was going to get somewhat of a challenge even if he perfectly knew the difference in skill. He only hoped that his partner was dealing okay with the situation on the inside. The faster he finished here the faster he could assist her if she needed it, the god slayer didn't have even the slightest clue on how good she is, the only thing he saw was the red particles from underneath the floor.

WC:912
TWC: 5500/5000
@Riana Maren

"Stop moving so much, will ya." The young made was getting irritated, both assassins were using the terrain to dodge most of his bullets sent their way, nevertheless, he was entertaining himself, for the time being, it was a much easier job from his few previous jobs where he had to push himself to the limit. The only thing he had to do now was looking out for his guildmate as she was going to handle the boss of these worthless goons, hopefully, she would be able to handle it or at least stall long enough for him to finish out here.

Killua sighed as both of the women still ran, jumped, and skipped around the brothel, throwing knives and poison bottles from time to time, everything was intercepted by a hail of bullets stopping it halfway through before he aimed at them again. There was a pile of bullets and magazines around him and he knew that sooner or later he would either need to swap his gun or the ammo for this one would run out and he would have to either create new or buy and with currently 0 contacts, it was gonna be annoying to do either of those.

Deciding to stop playing around Kil loaded an armor-piercing bullet and carefully aimed towards one of the two assassins, a precise shot was fired at the spot she would be next. A painful scream was echoed afterward as the shot hit dead center in her chest. He ended her agony with a few carefully placed shots. Upon seeing this, the other assassin screamed as she rushed towards him in anger. Kil smirked, taking the opportunity to finish the other assassin as well so he could move and help Riana if needed. Laning up his shot, Killua pulled the trigger, upon doing so, the young soldier's face fell flat as he only heard a clicking sound come out of the Scorpion in his hand, without any bullet exiting the chamber. He was out of ammo, something he didn't account for and he was pretty sure he was out of ammo entirely and the assassin was already faced to face with him, lunging in an attempt to stab her target.

Thinking fast, the white-haired boy flipped the riffle using the body of the weapon to block her knife, metal hitting metal could be heard. Killua quickly turned his body and delivered a power kick, a sickening crunch could be heard as he lost her breath, making her fly away into a table destroying it completely. "I told you, I will give you one chance to leave." Kil sighed as he sent his rifle back to his requip space, there was no point in keeping it with him anymore without any ammo, he could always use something else that still had a magazine or two left in them. Time to check out how it's going on the inside.

As he turned towards the office of the brothel and was about to turn the knob to enter, he stopped himself and turned his head around as a new voice spoke out. "Well, well. What do we have here some hot shot that decided to play hero, isn't it past your bedtime kiddo?" The new person stepped into the hall, accompanied by a few other people that all looked different, not a single one of them gave off a feeling of a simple goon. "You can leave if you want or you're gonna meet the same fate as the rest of the people here." Kil threatened, fully facing towards them. "Look at this pipsqueak, thinking that he is high and might for dealing with a few useless idiots." Useless Idiots? He hated when people spoke like that about their 'soldiers' in a way, and yet that was the natural course. "Well, why don't you come at me then, see if you can even put a scratch on me." Steel eyes look at each of the newcomers, he was going to kill every single one of them, without any mercy.

The four people took up positions each ready to assault the young mage at any given moment, even with all the tough talk, if he was the only one here and took everyone out, he was dangerous and it didn't look like he was going to be playing around anymore. Just as it looked like the battle would begin the door behind him opened, from the inside Riana came out, with words that made Killua smile, before he looked her over, more importantly, the wound she had on her abdomen, it didn't look like she came out with minor injuries.

"Kill her, now!" Someone yelled out from the group, another one acting instantly upon it as he shot a blue lightning bolt straight at her. He was quickly left gasping as the young Slayer stretched his arm to the side right in front of her and seeming grabbed the lightning bolt, no it coiled around his arm before going into his mouth, this was the first time any of the other now apparent mages had seen such a thing.

"Weak." That was the only thing Killua said as he tasted the lightning, blue eyes looking at the person that sent it out. First, there was something he had to do, opening his palm a small metal and glass container opened, to what looked like green smoke. "This should help you up." Throwing the container right in front of her, breaking in the process, in turn, it released its green smoke, or more precisely small nanobots that dissolved in the person's skin to heal them and close wounds that they might have.

While that was taking effect, Killua looked at each and every one of the mages that were standing in front of him. "Let's see if you are as good as your previous words. Please do me a favor and don't run away." He said as an aura of black lightning was now surrounding him, crackling insanely around him. "Sacred Art: True Godspeed." He mutter under his breath, it wasn't the only power up he had used, his lightning moving around him as if it had a mind on its own, the overcharged effect as he liked to call it.

One of the four mages, moved to the side making the first move, cold eyes followed him as he launched a fireball at the now electrified dark mage. Black Lightning sparked around his mouth as he opened, taking one foot forward, a bellow of lightning was released straight into the flaming ball, enveloping it completely. That however is not the end of it, the blast continued afterwards towards the fire mage enveloping him as well. As the smoke cleared from the destructive blast, the fire mage could be seen half inside the back wall of the building, electricity still cracking out from the ground from time to time.

"One down, three more to go. Who shall be the next one." Killua coldly stated, at his stare was now back on the other three. Surprisingly the lightning mage a move, but rather than attacking he tried to run, leave the building as fast as possible. Killua moved from his spot, in what felt like an instant to some Killua was crouching on a counter in front of the mage, a trail of lightning shorty from where he had moved. His hand has mimicked a gun as black lightning was concentrated at the tip of his finger, his hand pressed against the forehead of the lightning mage. In a demonstrative manner, he brought his thumb down like a hammer on a pistol. "Boom." Concentrated lightning shot out of his finger passing straight through the mage before he fell lifelessly to the ground. "Two down, two more to go." He said, before finally having to dodge an attack, no dodge was the wrong move, he just walked away from it, a giant pile of spiky mud occupied his previous position, an earth mage. Well, it didn't matter, soon everything would be over.  

He would pause, however, letting Riana join in as well if she wanted to, of course, he would be ready to intercept if necessary.

WC:1370
TWC: 8007/5000
@Riana Maren

Amused blue eyes looked at the metal battlesuit that was now covering Riana. Slayer magic, huh. It was really different than what he expected, it was his first time, seeing something like this to be slayer magic. It most likely meant that she could consume some weird things as well that would regenerate her and lead her to Slayer Force. Quite interesting, it was a good idea to let her deal with them for a bit, it would just show him how this 'type' of slayer used their magic. It wouldn't be long as she was already preparing to attack when a riffle had materialized. Kil took this as a cue to move away from the other two, opting in to sit down at one of the tables that weren't broken from all the fighting in the brothel.

Intrigued, he leaned a bit forward and supported his face with his left hand, leaning into it a bit. He was quite interested to see how this was going to go, as the suit of armor began yet again to glow, every portion of the armor glowed. Was she able to enter Force somehow? Or this was the natural look for the armor when she was in combat, intimidation factor maybe.  The young dark mage wondered, he was able to enter Force one time and it was quite needed if he had to say. The shield and sword mage that he fought day really pushed him to the limit and if it wasn't for the fact that he had a downside on that he had to release lightning, the fight might have ended differently. Force gave out a significant boost to one's capabilities, once you've consumed enough of one's specific element or elements, now he wondered what type of slayers there were out there. He liked fighting strong people, and the thought of these slayers interested him even further to check them out and see if he can get such magic as well.

His attention was brought back to the present world as Riana had taken aim, at the wind mage, the final one that didn't have a magic that was identified up until now. He was moving a bit faster than one would normally expect, with a blade made of pure wind ready to slice anything before it, as he had stupidly charged the metal construct. Kil thought that it would be easy here and that a simple well placed shot from the magic rifle would end the fight, but it looked like the fellow slayer taken on a different path and summoned a shield or materialized, he was still wondering what of the two was happening here. Kil watched carefully in case he had to jump in and the mud mage was still standing still, good, no interruptions.

It looks like the shield held, and it wasn't much left for the wind mage as Riana had used her rifle to end his life. He was impressed these guys would be no pushover for her, and at the current moment, they didn't pose much of a threat.

As Riana spoke, Kil got up and went next to her it was time to finish up the brothel and these guys with it. "Well we can't leave him standing after everyone else is dead can we." Black lightning concentrated at the index finger of the young slayer yet again as he pointed towards the earth mage. A line of black lightning shot out passing through the earth mage's forehead before he fell lifeless. "Problem solver." He said as he put his arms behind his back the lightning aura around him finally subsiding.

"Since I stole the last kill, you can deal with the brothel if you want, make sure that nothing's left standing." He said waving his arm for Riana to follow him and he went outside. There were no people around and everything seemed to be closed, at least they avoided the area from all the fighting. "Ahh, I can't wait to get back to the guild and relax a bit." Kil stretched, the job was almost over..

WC: 686
TWC: 9698