Kelvin chuckled and said, "Well, there goes Paul's dream. I doubt he will even be able to keep his life. I guess I'm not the only one that Thorin was trying to drag along with him."
Wrath wasn't so optimistic. She said, "You shouldn't relax yet. They might still be looking for you. You should change where you live completely and stay low for a while."
He nodded. "That's a good idea. Things have become too hot lately."
"I need a fresh start. This place doesn't feel safe anymore. I won't be surprised if someone bursts down my door right now looking for me."
Then he patted the bundle he had gotten from Thorin. "At least all of my effort didn't go to waste. I managed to get some energy stones out of all of these."
She said, "You can use them to get any ability you want."
He shrugged. "An omega ability and energy stones would be better, but this will have to do."
Wrath sighed and said, "It seems your appetite has grown lately."
He asked, "Isn't that a good thing?"
"It will be as long as you don't bite off more than you can chew."
Kelvin considered her words seriously before he took out petrol and poured it all over his apartment. Then he set fire to it and left.
He only took his terminal to the network of the villain league and the energy stones with him. He didn't take his clothes or his phone. He destroyed them and let the fire finish the job.
Wrath said, "With the amount of fire you've been setting recently, one would think you were Fire Rose."
He grinned and said, "More like Fire Rose wishes she were me. I have achieved far more than her. The only thing she has on me is being used as the tool to give the Patriarch a new identity."
They chatted as they left the building. He didn't feel bad about leaving behind where he had stayed for almost a year now. He was actually looking forward to the new place. He plans to get somewhere better and more secure.
He also plans to get a whole new set of safehouses, as his previous ones have been compromised. He was in a good mood, and he was looking forward to the future.
The same couldn't be said about the Anteater cabal. In fact, nothing good could be said about their cabal currently.
The Anteater cabal is currently on the run for their lives. Heroes are looking for them to kill them, and the villains who are not hunting them for the bounty on their heads are staying as far away from them as possible.
They had to leave their fortress of an apartment because despite the state-of-the-art technology installed to protect them, it simply can't protect them from the wrath of the whole city.
Villains can pillage and kill in the city, but it is best that they keep it to District 666. If they step out of their home ground, heroes and the city police force will hound them.
But the Anteater cabal didn't do that. They didn't just go out into the city and cause trouble. They did something that sane villains wouldn't do. They killed at least a hundred thousand people.
Actually, things would be better if they had actually killed those people. What they did was worse. They turned all of these people into drooling imbeciles.
Currently, all those people have been turned into babies. But babies can learn and grow into intelligent adults. These people, on the other hand, have their mental states stunted forever.
The fields of their minds have been salted and burned. So the city is well and truly outraged.
Even villains are taken aback by the destruction. They find it strange that someone would do that because there is nothing to gain from killing people en masse like that.
The real world is not the destiny games where players earn power for killing people. The only thing anyone who kills people like that will earn is hatred from everyone.
Thorin had earned that hatred. It is so much that some of it spilled onto the Anteater cabal. Now they are hiding in a cellar in a crumbling building out in the wilds.
Things aren't so bad, as the cellar has been equipped with a lot of amenities to make it livable. It has a power source, TV, and internet access. But these things can't make everything alright.
Pauli was sitting on a couch smoking an e-cigarette and watching the news. The news was the one where Thorin's death was announced.
The Anteater cabal had fled when they sensed Thorin's death. It is one of their contingency plans. They came here hoping to lay low for a while and get a sense of the situation. But from the looks of things, they will be spending more time here.
He said, "I can't believe Thorin is dead."
Mel said, "I believe it."
He looked at her in shock.
She shrugged and said, "What? He was always looking for trouble. It was bound to come back to bite him."
"I know that, but he has escaped from far worse situations. We have faced down so much danger on the foreign battlefield and lived through it that I didn't think it was possible for him to die here. I thought for sure that he could only die on the foreign battlefield."
Mel snorted and said, "He thought so too. That's why he was so cocky. Or maybe it was because he knew that if he died, a lot of people would go down with him."
She shook her head and said, "It doesn't matter. He is dead now. What matters is that he left us a lot of problems to deal with."
Pauli still couldn't believe it. He said, "We put up rules to avoid this kind of thing, and it still happened."
Mel sighed. "He was just too confident in himself. I warned him to stay away from it, but he didn't listen. Then he got into trouble and killed himself."