Xu, Xeno, and Joseph teleported to the entrance of Northguard City pretty easily using one of the teleport pads that they used to descend the city and reach the Land Below.
"How will we sneak Xu into the City? Until now we didn't know that there were civilisations and habitats below. If we get to find out it'll cause panic within the city and an arms race to the Land Below and we do not know how powerful these humans that reside in the Land Below are," explained Xeno.
"Why don't we just say he is a lost soldier who helped King Vladimir?" asked Joseph.
"Are they really that stupid to fall for that stunt?" asked Xeno.
"With enough intimidation and brute aura anything is possible," said Joseph as he placed his hand on Xeno's shoulder.
The grey walls of Northguard City were giant, touching the sky and greeting it. Xu looked up at it silently as he recalled the last time he came to this place. The time when he had to leave this city to live a life in the Land Below. Xeno and Joseph went ahead of Xu and started speaking to the military personnel at the gate of entrance.
"Who is he then?" asked one of the military personnel looking at Xu.
"He is a knight in the party of King Vladimir," said Xeno.
A major flaw in their plan was that all knights were registered and taken back to Northguard City as a security protocol.
"How? Everyone is already back in-
Xeno approached the guard unleashing all his soul energy and his looming figure enveloped the guard entirely.
"Don't question the Clan Leader of the X clan," said Joseph as Xeno stared down at the guard with unforgiving eyes.
The guard lumped down a ball of spit and stared at Xu who looked at the walls.
"Your knight is already scared just by looking at the walls," said another guard behind the guard Xeno just intimidated.
"Walls…Why are they built?" asked Xu, still looking at the walls.
"What do you mean?" replied the guard.
"They are built because of fear. Not fear of something leaving but fear of something entering," said Xu, this time turning around to look at the guard.
After Xu's response the guards had shut their mouths and granted entrance to the party. After years of disappearance Xu finally walked through those gates that he had escaped through to the Land Below all those years ago.
The sunlight brightly shone as Xu covered his forehead to block the light. The city seemed like it grew both in size and general advancements since the last time he saw it. His hometown. The Land of his Mother.
Xu had re-entered the Land of Northguard City.
Meanwhile in the Underground.
Workers were mining in extreme conditions with no protection against the harsh conditions the Gravity Core of Northguard City imposes on them. Slums and mines made up most of the Underground and all the roads of the Underground lead to one place.
Sebastian Worm's Palace. The only piece of treasure in the pile of trash. This palace was intricately built by grinding and melting waste to make bricks. Then adding metal alloys to the molten waste the material that the Palace was made out of was made. This material is called Worm Bricks.
Sebastian Worm is a giant with an entire skeleton made out of enhancements. He is a freak who destroyed his entire body and mind just for more power and control. He rose to power by first killing the Underground's main gang leader Halo Xeber and Xeber had ties with the X clan multiple Clan X assassins were sent to take out Sebastian. Yet, he used these ambushes to cement himself as the Alpha of the Underworld. Not a single scratch on Sebastian.
Then he struck a deal with the Clans of Northguard City to make the Underground a separate section all-together making the citizens of the city free and able to live without society's expectations. He entered as a Messiah.
The people in the city love him, they look at him as if he is God. The workers who work in harsh conditions are people who committed a crime. The rest of the people in the slums are humble people who are happy with the food, water, and shelter they have.
Debara walked through the corridor leading to Sebastian sitting on his throne using the walls as support. His arm was destroyed and his spine is somewhat dislocated. He was barely able to stand much less walk with the amount of blood he lost.
"Did you kill Xeno?" asked Sebastian as Debara fell to the ground bowing in front of Sebastian.
"No sir, I killed his brother," said Debara.
"Oh, I see," said Sebastian as he got back up.
The dark lights that surrounded the throne turned bright as they all put the spotlight on Debara's battered condition.
"I told you what will happen when you break a promise made to me right?"
Sebastian picked up Xander's hair and started to play with his hair and comb it backwards to reveal blood, sweat, snot, and tears coming from his eyes.
Debara started to scream and groan begging Sebastian for mercy.
"Death by Sebastian Worm's hands is very…barbaric," said Sebastian.
He got up and stared at the crowd that formed at the entrance of the throne room. They were behind the door and in the blood stained corridor.
Sebastian held Debera's sweaty hair and twirled it like a towel over his fist. Then he started to drag him as Debara started to scream in pain and cry for help.
No one. No one came out to help. They just stared.
Meanwhile in a small food bike in an alleyway,
"The Underground is the best place to properly get equipment illegally but for cheap," said Joseph.
"But if they find out that we are Clan X?" asked Xeno.
"Then Sebastian Worm will skin us alive above a burning fire and we will die," said Joseph.
"Who is Sebastian Worm?" asked Xu.
"He is a screw loose in the head, he killed multiple people from Clan X and forced his way up the pecking ladder of the Underground, there is no one in the city who can properly oppose him," explained Xeno.
"We have to be extremely cautious then," said Xu.
They entered the Underground by sneaking into one of the buses that took the workers into the Underground. They knocked out three workers and stole their ID's so they have an identity in the Underground.
Shaliemen Hanchi for Xeno.
Dylan Orbal for Xu.
And Grandpa Dustin Hechner for Joseph.
The wheels rattled as the smell of unhygienic workers spread across the tight and cramped space in the bus.
They wore torn clothes and wore clothes to cover their faces and let their eyes be revealed.
Once they reached their destination the underground henchmen did a roll count and they rounded up all the workers and took them to the mines. This was where they had to secretly exit the mines and reach the heart of the Underworld, The slums.
Bypassing multiple guards and knocking out henchmen using brute force and taking the bodies of random men that fainted due to famine or thirst and slapping the trackers of the workers onto them they finally made it out of the mines with utmost precision. This was planned.
As they made it into the slums they saw a crowd form in the shape of a wall. Xeno and Joseph tried to drag Xu away from the crowd. They knew what was going on right now. The most horrific and widely known event was going on. An execution. By the hands of Sebastian Worm.
Xu tried to follow Xeno and Joseph but ended up getting lost in the massive crowd. Then as curiosity peaked he ended up weaving through the crowds to see the scene.
Sebastian dragged Debara's limp body that was still alive yet he gave up all hope of surviving. To Xu he did not know who Debara was or who Sebastian looked like therefore he stared at the scene as it made his blood boil. Sebastian then in front of a giant body charged the enhancements in his arms that made his muscles bulge and picked up Debara's body. Then he started to squish Debara slowly cracking the vials of purple liquid and the legs were breaking and cracking as Debara screeched in pain.
Then…Debara's head started to crack and soon his entire body got crushed like a soda can imploded as blood exploded onto Sebastian's face.
Xu's face widened in shock and horror witnessing the scene.