Chapter 36: The Bronze Information Box
"GO!"
Philip shouted to the men, and they all charged towards the house and broke in through the door with raw force! Dante looked down at his watch as the sound of gunshots and the screams of the men in the house eclipsed the rhythm of the music from the party!
"Hey, who are you! Wait! It’s the Lucas!"
RATATATATATA!
"You two take the east entrance! You move towards the back!"
"Yes, sir!"
Philip’s voice echoed through the house, and the men began moving quickly! Risa came to stand behind Dante, and Dante simply watched as the carnage unfolded. The Lucas had come well prepared, and Dante knew that it wouldn’t take too long for them to clear up the house, so he just waited calmly for them to finish!
RATAATATATATAT!
"Ah! No! No!"
Bang!
"Wait! Please, don’t—!"
Bang!
"It’s the Lucas family! The Lucas family is here for reven—"
Bang!
Bang!
RATTATATATATA!
Crash!
A body suddenly flew out from the window and landed at Dante’s feet, and Dante looked down stoically as the man moaned in pain while favoring his injured left shoulder! The man tried to get to his feet, but Risa suddenly pressed a gun against the back of the man’s head and pulled the trigger!
Bang!
Brain matter and blood splashed across the ground like a fountain, and Risa stepped back and stood beside Dante respectfully once again! There hadn’t been a change in Risa’s emotions, and Dante didn’t bother to give the dead man a second glance. That was how familiar they were with death and blood. The beautiful moonlight shone down on Dante and Risa as they stood outside the building, and the only things that echoed through the night were the steady rhythm of the music and the constant echoes of bullets! But suddenly, a massive explosion resounded through the night as one side of the building was destroyed, and Dante guessed that the grenadier was the one who had done that. Dante put his hand out to Risa, and Risa calmly handed him his Desert Eagle. Dante walked forward and entered the building, and he climbed over the bodies of various dead men as he made his way towards the upper floors. The sound of gunshots and explosions was still prevalent, but Dante timed his movement perfectly, and at the moment Dante arrived at the door leading into the main battlefield, he saw that the grenadier was in the process of releasing another grenade, and he hadn’t noticed him! Dante immediately pointed his gun at him and fired!
Bang!
Dante’s shot was so perfect that it immediately flew into the grenade launcher and set off a chain reaction that caused the grenade inside it to explode prematurely!
KA-BOOM!
The grenadier was thrown back like a rocket, and he slammed into the wall behind him, and Dante raised his gun and waved it towards the rest of the building to tell the men that they should go clear out the other enemies! The men all understood Dante’s orders immediately and they quickly began moving out! Dante walked forward and he glanced to the side to see three hookers that were hugging each other and shaking in fear while sitting against the wall. Dante ignored them and he continued moving until he was standing right in front of the grenadier. The blast had destroyed half the man’s face, and the grenadier gave Dante a twisted smile as he bled across the floor. Dante spoke calmly.
"When I first saw you, I couldn’t place my finger on where I had seen you before. But now I’m sure of it. You’re one of Silas’ dogs, aren’t you?"
The man’s smile seemed to grow as he spat a wad of blood at Dante’s feet.
"Your days are numbered, Lucas. Your family is nothing but a fossil holding onto past glory. You’ll be gone before the decade is over."
Dante smiled, and he pointed his gun at the man’s head.
"You know, it’s funny that you say that, because I plan to take over this city before the year is over. So your decade against my year—let’s see which of our predictions comes true first."
BANG!
Ding!
....
Mission Complete: The user has completed the mission [Kill the Mad Arsonist]
Rewards:
+10 Skill Points
+10 Stat Points
The user has gained a Bronze Information Box.
....
Dante turned away from the dead body and he looked outside the large hole that the grenadier had created in the wall. The moonlight was shining down gently on the streets below and there were no houses or people for miles. But Dante was surprised when he saw a figure standing in the shadows of a tall tree a few hundred meters away. The figure looked like a woman, and it was looking right at him! Dante narrowed his eyes while putting his hand up to his comm! He was about to ask the sniper to focus on the woman’s position, but he was surprised when the woman suddenly vanished! Dante blinked and then he frowned as he tried to see if she was anywhere around, but there was nothing at all! What the hell was that?
Dante immediately tasked the system to explain what happened and the system responded.
[The system does not have enough data to give a proper explanation, but the system predicts that this woman is a Djinn.]
’A Djinn. What are Djinns?’
[A Djinn is a human who has mastered the art of magic. It is not common to see them in the open like this, but the system believes this woman has been keeping an eye on the user for some reason, most likely due to the user’s recent acquisition of the system.]
’So, people know about the system?’
[There are people who are aware of the power I can grant, but they do not know the details of my power. The system does not know why the Djinn is watching the user, but the system advises the user to be cautious in future dealings in case he is approached by another Djinn.]
Dante frowned as he looked at where the woman had been again. He didn’t really understand much about magic and the magical world, but after everything that he had gained from the system and this Djinn’s appearance, Dante knew that he would have to be very careful.
"Master, is everything alright?"
Risa called from behind Dante when she saw him staring out with a frown on his face and Dante simply released a calming sigh before he turned and spoke while handing his gun to Risa.
"It’s fine. Are the men done?"
Risa collected Dante’s gun and shook her head. She told Dante that the men were still killing the last stragglers and Dante nodded before he began walking out of the house.
....
[Dante’s Penthouse]
Later that night, Dante was sitting on his bed with his hands resting on his knees. The raid on the grenadier and his men hadn’t taken them long since the Lucas had more than enough men and weapons to clear them all out, so Dante had left Philip in charge of handling the cleanup and left the scene with Risa. Dante stared at the floor with a faraway look in his eyes, and he tried to formulate a plan of action for how they would handle the Bellagrini family. Now that Dante knew that Silas was behind this, Dante was almost a hundred percent sure that it had something to do with the Bellagrini family. Even though Dante knew that this attack couldn’t be traced directly to the Bellagrini since Silas was an independent contractor, Dante didn’t give a fuck. Silas being a part of this was enough reason for him to target the Bellagrini, and since they had taken the first shot, Dante was going to take everything from them!
’I’ve been telling George to take care of these families for a long time, but he refused since he didn’t want a war. I don’t care about having a war. I thrive in wars, and I’m going to use this one to take over this city. One year. I only need one year to take over this entire city. The Bellagrini and Romanovs won’t know what hit them.’
Dante didn’t know where this sudden ambition had risen from, but he didn’t bother to try to suppress it. There was a surge of determination inside Dante that was pushing him towards this singular goal, and Dante wasn’t the sort of person to deny his own desires. He didn’t care about how he had gotten the position of boss anymore. All that mattered was that he had all the tools to make his ambitions become reality.
Ding!
[The user has acquired a Bronze Information Box. Will the user like to open the box?]
Dante hummed when he saw this message, and he suddenly remembered that he had won this box when he completed the last mission! Dante had been so focused on making sure that none of the men who burnt the warehouse made it out alive that he had forgotten to look inside the box.
’What did the system say again? The boxes contain secret information that isn’t available to anyone else?’
[The Information Boxes are unique rewards that contain secret information that can help the user in his rise to the top of the underworld. The boxes are divided into Bronze -> Silver -> Gold -> Titanium -> Mythryl, and the rank of the box will determine how important the information within is.]
Dante nodded along to that, and he mentally told the system to give him the information box. A tab suddenly opened in front of Dante with the image of a bronze box rotating at its center, and Dante mentally gave the command for the box to open!
——
The user has opened a [Bronze Information Box]
Contents:
The miracle drug, Sinestro, has taken over the Stockham underworld, and every family in the city is rushing to try to discover the producer of this drug in order to monopolize its sales. The producer of the drug Sinestro is a recent university graduate named Rachel Frost, working in the Bellagrini Science Institute.
——
Dante blinked in surprise once he read through everything, and then he blinked again in case he was not seeing properly! Did he just read that right? Someone in the Bellagrini Science Institute was making the drug!?