I Just Want to Farm, But My Beasts Keep Evolving!!

Chapter 149: He is Here!!!

Kennedy exhaled a ring of smoke as he put out his sixth cigar for the day. He felt his life had started going downhill really fast in the past few months.

His second in command, Jason, had gone mad. His boy lost to a newbie, and he was still in a coma, leaving that man nothing but vengeance in his mind. But before he could have done it, his more misfortunes increased.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, his business and underground gang were hit by a huge behemoth family from the capital overnight, causing considerable losses to occur. And just as suddenly, they withdrew the next day, leaving without any explanation at all.

But Kennedy silently bore that loss without any complaints. Because he knew if he complained, his family might vanish overnight, his entire underground kingdom be damned.

Who knew that was only the start of his misfortunes?

The next day, under Jason’s urging, he sent not ten or twenty but over thirty people to Raiden’s house to grab him and his sister. He had done plenty of stuff like this before, and he thought this time would be no different.

After all, they were nothing but an orphan boy and a girl. It wouldn’t be too hard to grab them from their houses.

But to his surprise, all the agents he sent to his house vanished. He tried contacting them, but he wasn’t able to get through at all. And both the target and his sister?? They were walking boldly onto the streets.

After this, he knew his plan had failed and felt another ache in his heart. The laws of Silver Battle Masters were fine, but it was the loss of a few Gold Tier Battle Masters that hurt him. Good and strong Gold Tiers were harder to find, much much harder, and the one who got captured was one of his strongest Golden Tier Battle Masters, on the verge of evolving into a Platinum.

After knowing his plan had failed, he planned to lie low for a little bit, or maybe even stop going after the boy. There were clearly hidden forces protecting him from the dark, and it wasn’t worth it to get further involved in it.

"Don’t go after that boy anymore, Jason. I am sorry to see what happened to your son. I will make sure to find the best doctors that I can for his treatment. But he has just won the championship, and there are some other forces protecting him right now. Just wait a little more until all eyes on him are gone. Then you can move in and take his head and do whatever you want with this family. I want to stop you, but for a few months just lay low, okay?"

He remembered the look in Jason’s eyes as he said it. That look of pure hatred and madness. When he thought about it now, he should have done something, maybe talked to him more. But it was already too late, for Jason, his second in command, had some other plans.

That man put a huge bounty on the target’s head and walked from behind the scenes to find and capture the boy himself.

And when the bounty wasn’t fulfilled, he kept increasing the bounty again and again, until it reached 75 Million Credits!!!

If all he did was put a bounty on him, that would have been fine. His forces weren’t getting personally involved, and it was a free-for-all, but that man, driven by hatred and revenge for his son, found a chance and went after that boy himself.

And the place he chose to do it?? The fucking barracks of Solaris Clan. The de facto rulers of the city.

He had no idea what kind of bug had crawled into his brain and turned it into a shit for him to think it was a great idea, but hatred can blind a man to his surroundings.

Jason led over 30 of his men to capture the boy, only to get caught by the Crimson Witch instead. And that is when the true downfall of his underground empire began.

The Crimson Witch of Flames was as merciless as her rumours, as she launched a ruthless campaign against him and his men, rooting every single one of them before chopping their heads together. She had undone over ten years of his careful infiltration into the military overnight.

And as if that wasn’t enough, she came after his underground kingdom too, with tens of his people getting caught and dying every day. He had no idea how he had offended her so deeply, but he knew there was nothing he could do against her and the power of the Solaris Clan.

Just as he resigned himself for his death, the Witch suddenly withdrew all her forces three weeks later, leaving behind nothing but a shell of what his true underground empire was.

This only increased his fearfulness as he was waiting for her to come and strike him down in time. He felt like he was like a lamb, being raised for the slaughter. And this didn’t sit well with him. He did not want to sit here and wait passively for his death.

He had joined the underground empire at the young age of 13 years old. He had climbed slowly through piles and piles of dead corpses to get where he was today. He carved the fear of the name Ingram in the heart of every person in the Verdant Hollow.

So instead of waiting patiently and welcoming his death, he had gathered all his forces here for the one last battle.

His name is Kennedy Ingram, and he would be damned if he went down like that without a fight.

"Are all the preparations ready?? Is everyone here??"

"Yes sir, all preparations are ready. We have gathered every single person we could find, and all of them are waiting outside in the Night Market." A man standing in front of him reported dutifully.

"That’s good. How many are there?"

"Currently, we have over 1,000 people gathered here already. Over 900 of them are in Silver Tier, 98 of them are Gold Tier, and the final two are Platinum Tier Battle Masters. All of them have gathered together already and are waiting for you to take command."

Hearing this number, Kennedy nodded with a pleased smile on his face.

"That’s good. Today, we will go down in history. Lead me to them." Kennedy stood up and started walking towards the door, where the attendant opened it dutifully for him. He walked forward for about ten minutes before he came to a vast underground hall where all 1,000 of his men were already waiting for him.

As soon as he climbed onto the stage, everyone in the audience fell silent.

"Greetings, my brothers. I wished that today would never came. I wish we didn’t have to do this. I really, really wished we all could have lived a peaceful life."

Murmurs broke out in the crowd as they heard his speech.

"But—!!"

"But the government doesn’t wish to let us live in peace!! They are mercilessly hunting down our kind. They are killing our brothers. They are ripping our families apart. Yesterday, it was someone else. Today it can be me. Tomorrow it can be you!!!"

Kennedy paused for a second as he saw the murmurs in the crowd getting louder.

"I really wish it never came to this. I wish there were a much more peaceful solution. I tried talking to the government. I tried reasoning with them. I even tried to beg them to spare you guys. ’Take me!!’ I said, ’But please spare my brothers.’ Do you know what they said?? They laughed, they fucking laughed at my face."

A powerful aura burst out of his body as the crowd all fell silent at once.

"I am a reasonable man. I have always tried to find a peaceful solution to end things, but when the water rises above my face and when the intruders come barging into my home and threaten to tear my family apart, I will not STAY SILENT!!! I will fight back!! I am not going to sit here hand in hand waiting for my turn. No. I will march into their homes and tear their family apart just as they did mine. I will take revenge for every single brother they killed, and I will not do this alone!!

"Take up your arms, my brothers and march with me. Join me and fight for your survival!! Together we can do anything. Together we can take over the city. Who is with me?!!"

ROAR!!!

"I didn’t hear you!! I asked WHO IS WITH ME?!!"

ROOOAARRRR!!!!!!

"Great!!! Tonight, we march into their homes, and we take back what is ours!!! Let’s go!!!"

Thousands of people and Terra Beasts joined Kennedy as he marched outside, only to meet a guard who came running in frantically.

"Boss!! B-Boss!! Here!! That guy you asked me to keep everyone an eye on is here!! He is here and he’s tearing everyone apart!!!"

"WHAT?!!"