Ranking System

[Charles POV]

I got Courtney to cheer up the day after. I didn't think I would have a surprise guest coming over. The door rang, and I was near the entrance to my house. Coming over, I picked it up, surprised to see someone so familiar.

"Felicia, what are you doing here?"

Seeing Felicia was a big surprise. I knew she didn't want to deal with me, so I would have thought that she would call me by phone.

"The whereabouts of the Saintess has been lost. We need your assistance to track her whereabouts."

Usually, I would have scoffed at her request, but this time it was someone I knew partly well. Did Constance run into trouble? Using my tracker, I couldn't feel her aura anywhere in this room.

"Where was she last found? I will search for her."

I couldn't let it continue if Constance was in an even worse situation. What Felicia needed to do was to tell me her previous location. Felicia was surprised that I had complied easily.

"She was last found during her attack on a criminal organization on a small island in Necropolis. Here's the location of where she went."

Felicia sent me the map of where she was to my watch. Since Felicia had said what she needed, I immediately teleported to that location.

Teleporting to a base, the room for the facility was dark. There was a battle in this place a few days ago.

I could see that Constance had burnt some of the people of Necropolis. The ashes were there, and the smell was terrible.

Constance's excess power was still here, but her presence was gone entirely. As for the person who she fought heavily, they had a rare attribute for magic.

Magic relating to death. I had killed enough people to sense what death was, and the person Constance's fought had that magic.

Now I need to figure out who has that magic and where they went. Looking all over the place, I saw everything in the base was abandoned.

I can't find Constance. She wasn't in my range. There wasn't much of a thing I could do about this. I needed extra help if I wanted to find her. Where on Earth could she be?

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Another day had passed, and there was still no sign of Constance. I had already reported that Constance wasn't on Earth. They would contact me if they had a way to find her with some other ways.

"Charles. Is there anything wrong?"

Courtney sensed something wrong with me and asked out of concern.

"Constance went missing a few days ago."

"What???"

While Courtney wasn't close to Constance, being told that someone she knew was missing brought distress toward her. Courtney knew Constance was strong, and if someone were as strong as her gone, then that would be worrying.

"I'm going to the hub. Do you need anything before I go?"

"I wanted to ask you to spend some time with me..."

She looked away, disappointed that I was going to leave. Looking at her, it wasn't fair. I couldn't leave without feeling any guilt. I wanted to go to the hub and check if there was any artifact that could help Constance's search.

It's a shame I couldn't clone myself. It would have made life so much easier. But the choice was rather obvious.

"Courtney, when I come back. I will make it up to you."

I promised I would make it up to her. Kissing her on the lips, I left and went to the hub. In the hub, I had been immediately teleported to our base. Instead of the usual twenty people, the number of people here had doubled.

"Boss!"

Someone from my gang had noticed me and immediately greeted me. With his greeting, everyone else did the same.

"Chris is all the new recruit here?"

With twenty people added to my army, I observed everyone that Chris had hand-picked. Their quality was only a little better than the previous twenty. Now that I have more people, it's time for them to do their thing.

"There were more, but I can't let them in without showing much worth."

I nodded, satisfied with Chris' work. I can't let idiots and freeloaders join my group. Even if I'm practically carrying this gang, they should at least be able to do something themselves.

"Good. Then let's begin training everyone. I'm sure it's boring staying here all day."

"Boys! Listen up! Today's the day we're going to start our first job. We're going to rob the best-ranking store in this city."

"With my power, all of you will be unstoppable. You had seen what I could do, so prepare to starting earning the big bucks."

"YAHHH!!!"

Greed welled within everyone. If all of us were going to rob a store, nothing could stop us. Filled with excitement, everyone followed me and left the base.

Forty of us walked together was a large crowd. Looking at our group, everyone would think that we are bad news.

It didn't take long for us to go to our destination. The guards of this ranking shop in this hub were rumored to be people from the fourth-rank world.

"Boys. Attack! None of us can be hurt!"

Commanding my underlings, I froze everyone in and outside the store. My men charged in and beat every person that was guarding the place.

We quickly entered the store, and my men started to loot the place. The storekeeper had tears coming out of his eyes, knowing he was being robbed with no one helping him.

My men worked fast. They had high dexterity with their hands. All of the items that my gang had were robbed within minutes. For this place to be the best-ranking store, we had easily robbed it in minutes.

Now that everyone had gotten something, we should go back to base to distribute the loot. With our success in robbing this store, our reputation will soar.

"Hey, Chris. What's the name of the gang?"

I had realized the blunder of creating this gang. I didn't even know our gang's name. For this to work, we need a name.

"It's the Crushers."