Zerra and others still hadn’t discussed the strategy of how to approach the conflict yet. They had just unanimously decided that they should meet with Darren first. After they met him, they could learn the situation from him and decide what their next steps would be. Now, before they could even find Darren, they stumbled upon Henry first. If Henry found them—recognizing Cassias and the Sylvaris siblings—he might even prevent them from meeting Darren. Judging from how easily the Brown family’s men provoked the conflict between their own faction and the Valez family, the former must have planted moles among the latter’s people. So, it was Sean and other ability users who stepped forward to deal with Henry and his men. "Open the door!" They knocked harshly. "I know there are people inside. We saw your cars outside." Sean opened the door. The three ability users stayed behind him. If Cassias hadn’t informed them that there was Henry among the people outside, they wouldn’t have known, well except for Zerra. He was mingling with others, acting like an ordinary underling of the burly man knocking on the door. Sean didn’t open the door fully, only showing himself and the shadows of his three teammates behind him. Zerra and others were quite far away from the door–their presence blocked by the door and the three teammates. Unless the Brown family’s ability users stepped into the room, they wouldn’t see them. "What do you want?" Sean wore a displeased expression as he faced the Brown family people. The man at the front cleared his throat. He glanced at Henry briefly before turning to Sean. He demanded. "Where are our men?" "Your men?" Sean raised his eyebrows. A look of natural confusion crossed his face. As he and the man were gauging each other and playing pretend, Zerra secretly assessed Henry and his men’s power. She was curious about how powerful Henry had become now that he even resorted to such despicable means to gain power. Once she was done, her pupils constricted in shock. Thɪs chapter is updated by 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✶𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮✶𝓷𝓮𝓽 All the people Henry brought actually had the power of ability users level five! He was undoubtedly the strongest there. She could see that he was actually on the peak of level five, maybe only one step away from reaching the next level of power. Her eyebrows knitted together, suddenly felt overwhelmed. If human ability users’ crystal cores had such ability to raise their power so high, it meant that there was no lack of high-level ability users under the scientist’s command! "Our men are missing. The only suspicious place is this restaurant." He scoffed. He was being unreasonable. Sean shook his head. "There are a lot of buildings here. Why is this restaurant the only suspicious place? Have you checked them all?" He was quite calm as he handled the matter in front of him. The Brown family’s men were currently only gauging their reactions, and if they found out Sean and others already knew their secret, there was no telling what they would do. "We have checked them all." The burly man rolled his eyes. "Our people aren’t there. We obviously sent our people here yesterday for a zombie extermination mission. Their cars are a few hundred meters away from here." Zerra listened with knitted eyebrows. After they took in Ida last night, they also released some people captured by those men. The captured people thanked them before they immediately bid farewell. The captured people merely passed through the Moon Cloud City; they were heading to another place. Hence, they were targeted after staying at the Moon Cloud City base for a few days. Unlike Ida, they didn’t know what the Brown family people wanted to do to them. Thus, they depart without knowing people were coveting the crystal cores in their brains. Ida turned out to be a dual-ability user. Her other power was wind ability, which helped her to escape the base. Unfortunately, before she could shake them off her trail, her energy couldn’t keep up. "You are the only living people here. Have you done something to our men?" The burly man interrogated. "That can be a false accusation if you don’t have the proof to back up your claim." Sean calmly reasoned with him. "Does it cross your mind that they might have run into some kind of monsters they couldn’t handle?" The burly man snorted. "What kind of monsters couldn’t they handle? I said we already checked other places and couldn’t find them, so you must have been hiding them." "Let us in and check!" The burly man charged forward harshly, aiming for Sean. The latter dodged and kicked the burly man away, sending him tumbling back. Zerra blinked at the exchange. The burly man was a level five ability user. Meanwhile, the men last night were mostly level four. Sean could handle level four ability users easily, and that was understandable. But... unexpectedly, he was still hiding himself deeply. She couldn’t even gauge his power before unless he actively used it. "Will this be okay?" Nerith asked worriedly. Zerra had a strange feeling. Her mom wasn’t someone who was used to bloody scenes like what Nyra had done last night. However, Nerith’s reaction was completely out of her expectations. She wasn’t as scared as she originally had thought. "It should be fine..." Alaric trailed off, taking his wife’s hands. "We might have to help Sean in dealing with them later." "You are really hiding something!" The burly man sneered after he steadied himself. Embarrassment burned his face, turning the feeling into rage. He glanced at Henry through the corner of his eye. His heart jolted when he saw his impassive eyes. Zerra fiddled with her fingers and lowered her head. In just half a year, Henry had changed a lot. He wasn’t the arrogant, foolish leader from before. Even if Henry was displeased his subordinate was losing the exchange, he didn’t show it. Suddenly, there was a scream of horror from the side. "What the hell are you guys hiding? There is blood!" One guy had secretly snuck off from the Brown family’s group to check the situation around the restaurant. "It seems you truly have done something to our men!" The burly man raged. "Brothers, charge forward! Teach these rascals a lesson!" The Brown family men fought against Sean and others. Unfortunately, the latter had fewer people. As such, the Brown family’s men managed to get inside the restaurant. The first one who entered was Henry.