Plundering in the Apocalypse

Inside an office building in the commercial sector. A luxurious office with many antique decorations. A shelf is full of files, a sofa with a coffee table, an assistant's desk, which was empty, a large table with the latest version laptop, and a half-empty cup of coffee placed on that table. There was also a nameplate with a President written on it.

A middle-aged man could be seen sitting on his chair while frowning at the report of his subordinate.

He had thick eyebrows with wrinkles on his forehead. There were black lines on his forehead which indicated he was under stress.

His name is Jackson Martin, an S' Rank Awakened and he is the president of the Awakened Association Aston city branch.

Yes, this office was part of the Awakened Association building.

Jackson came to the office today in a good mood. His assistant will be returning tomorrow. Without her, his workload was too much. Fortunately, he managed to cope up until today and only some files need to be signed today after that he can rest. So today he had only some work to do. So he can take it easy today and by tomorrow his assistant will return to work.

At least that's what he thought until now. At 10 a.m. he got a report he made his mood sullen.

"Say it again," Jackson uttered in a. Commanding tone. He was very depressed and continued without waiting for the subordinate to speak.

"A school building was a base for a criminal organization?"

"Hundreds of dead bodies were found which are determined to be those criminals' bodies?"

"Is that it?"

His face turned darker and darker. While his voice became deeper.

The subordinate was terrified. His body was trembling in fear, as he barely managed to answer.

"Y-Yes, sir."

"Are you fu*king kidding me?" Jackson shouted in anger.

The subordinate legs soften, and he was ready to kneel anytime.

'This pressure is too much. I just came to report, I don't want to die like this.' He thought while crying inwardly.

"There were so many criminals hiding in open sight and we never knew about them?" Jackson was getting a headache.

'Damn, I thought I could take it easy today. Why did they have to die in the city? They could have gone inside a dungeon to die.'

'Those criminal basta*ds ruined my day.'

Jackson was cursing them. While his eyes were full of hatred. Now he will be busy the whole day.

*Sigh*

He sighed and calmed down, he asked.

"When did this happen?"

"Two days ago."

"What? It happened days ago and only now you are reporting it to me."

Seeing that Jackson was getting angry again. His subordinate hurriedly said.

"No sir, we just found out about that. I reported to you as soon as I can."

Jackson frowned as he thought.

'Hundreds of people died and no one noticed anything wrong? How could that be possible? They were all awakeneds. So their fights must have caused some kind of commotion.'

"Do we know who killed them?" Jackson asked in a low voice.

The subordinate held his head down and replied.

"No sir."

He was afraid that Jackson would get angry again. But to his surprise, the reaction was pretty calm.

"As I thought.*Sigh*" Jackson expected it to be like that. Just how did the perpetrators kill them?

Hundreds of people died. So it must have been a big group fight. But the surprising thing is all the recognizable dead bodies are of criminals.

'Don't tell me it was a group war between criminals.'

Jackson kept pondering about it fur a few minutes.

"Sir."

"Let's go to the site."

The subordinate nodded and followed after him.

'Here goes my good day. Tsk.'

***

On the other side, Shin was inside a taxi as he pondered something.

The last few days were hectic. After saving those hostages they decided to give those girls a chance to work for them.

As they had nowhere to go they readily agreed. After all, they had huge respect for Alice as their savior, after she asked them to work for her. They felt it was a huge honor for them. So they had no objections.

The girls who were able to contact their families were escorted safely. Shin wanted them to keep it a secret that they were rescued by them. He didn't want to increase his troubles.

They were grateful so they promised to keep it a secret. They were just happy to return home.

Even if they reveal everything it's not a big loss for Shin. So he never took it seriously.

He had provided for the accommodation of the girls who stayed to work in the Astros guild.

Now comes the important matter at hand which is the base. On the day of the World Awakening, the buildings he purchased were demolished by monsters.

He got compensation from the government, as well as sold the materials he collected from the dungeon. He had obtained more than 30 million.

10 million compensation from the government and 20 million from the monster materials.

Just so you know he had obtained those two buildings for 1 million each. Even the purchase price was lower than the compensation received.

The materials he sold were the ones of low quality or not of his use.

Like the materials of Sting Bee monsters and a few useless items, they collected from Green Serpents.

So after everything he had around 34 Million capital to use.

Today he was going to find someone to make the base. An Awakened with a builder ability. If he could he wanted the help of dwarves but that was difficult to achieve.

So at first, he was going to try his luck with the human Awakeneds. Unfortunately, for him, he couldn't find a good seedling for the guild even after searching the last few days. So he went to a place most of the builder-type awakeneds gather.

'If I can't find a good builder awakened for the guild. I might as well outsource the job of constructing the base to them.'

But he still hoped to find a builder-type Awakened.

While thinking that the taxi stopped and he got out in a daze.

*Thud*

He suddenly bumped into someone accidentally as his mind was not there.

"Ow"

"Sorry, I was thinking something and-" Shin hurriedly apologized and stopped midway as his expression turned into a shocked one.

"Can't you see boy?"

"Holy Sh*t!!!"

"A Dwarf?"