The sun drowned in the horizon of the far East, casting a dying light on the streets of the orintle road. With the arrival of night, in the dark of the street, terror began to roam.

  "Kyaaaa" came a scream of a woman, as her purse got stolen by a thief. Some got alerted and some tried to help her. But the thief is skilled; he ran into the dark street and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight as he jumped into an alley.

  However, a young man who saw all that didn't stop pressuring his target. Even knowing the dark alley will be dangerous, he steps up, going deep into the alley behind the trail of the thief.

  At a corner of this ally, is a spot for the unruly people to gather. It was originally a dumping place that had useless boxes of garbage, but now, aside from the already existing one, above them sits the different kinds of garbage from the society of humans.

  At the moment, sitting on one of the wooden boxes is a man, counting the harvest of his theft. Surrounding him are another few men, eyeing the money in his hand.

  "Boss.... So how is it, are we getting something? " After running out of his patience, a man finally asked. "getting... Get this" said the boss man as he sent the other man away with a fist strike to his face.

  The poor man rolled on the floor and ended up on the feet of a young man standing in the alley. The young man had a bag on his back and held a bottle of drink in his hand.

  "Hmm, who the hell are you," asked the boss man. Very curiously because this area belongs to him( according to him).

  "I have a job that needs a few people, payment will be with money", said the young man Melian, showing a few notes of money in his hand.

  "Sure, but you have to pay first", said the boss man, showing a smile that Shared with others.

  "That won't be a problem." Melian got closer to the leader and handed him notes of money before he said his job.

  "do you know that tall tavern in the middle of the city"

  The thugs nodded.

  "I want to break into one of the upper floor rooms, but from inside it's impossible so fetch me a scaffolding or something similar that can get me there"

  However, even after Melian had given his order, none of the thieves moved. So Melian said again. "Arnt you gone do it"

  "Well, since money is already with me, I think why bother. " said the boss man in a lazy manner.

  "watch out!" suddenly Meliana screamed, looking behind the boss man. The boss man got alerted, as a gangster who lived scaring others, he also had some fears and threats. So he quickly reacted, looking back and drawing out his knife to thrust it into whoever there might be.

  But as he looked, there was none. Confused, the boss man looked back at Melian to figure out what the hell happened, but what met him in the face was a strike from a glass bottle.

  Slam!

  It was a pretty hard strike; the bottle shattered completely upon contact, and blood spilled everywhere from the boss man's head. With a pain to his head and shock to to his mind, the boss man fell down with a thud.

  His henchmen jolted up from where they were, but before they did anything else, Melian picked up the few notes he gave to the boss man and threw them to the thugs.

  "My offer is still available"

  Melian knew it would be hard for him to get these thugs to do work for him. Especially after he saw the boss man, he knew it would be even harder. So he first had to get rid of the boss man who seemed much stronger than him in physical strength. And at the same time, he had to scare others to do his work obediently.

  Now, he did the two jobs in one swing. The boss man thought he was messing with a young kid, but because he already had money with him, he became a bit cautious to the point he didn't even trust his henchman's. Taking that chance melian distracted him and attacked to a vital spot. As a result, the boss man is down.

  His henchman stayed silent for a few minutes. Looking at the boss man.

  "Don't worry, he won't be getting up again" Melian simply thrust the sharp edge of his broken glass bottle into the boss man's heart, ending his life.

  Henchman's felt cold seeing the young man ending their leader's life. Not a minute late they agreed to him without even taking the notes on the ground.

  "Now go find what I asked"

  The henchmans all ran away in a hurry; however, among them, one became bold and piked the few notes from the ground.

  "Wait"

  The henchman suddenly stopped; man became scared as he looked up at Melian. "Take him away, throw him into a graveyard or something", said Melian looking at the dead man below. Killing the leader was necessary; who knew what he would do after waking up.

  Before coming here, Melina wandered around the streets, memorising every road and building structure around the tavern the man from Nexus in. As a result of his effort, Melina got to know that aside from the window that could see the whole city, there was another window that opened to the dark ally from the man's room. With the two windows, the man can see both the light side and the dark side of the city. It is truly a fitting place for a scout.

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  Now all he has to do is wait until the thugs find a scaffolding or something like that which he could climb and a time that the scout guy goes out. Since Scout usually didn't have any dangerous items with them(scout are bottom-tier workers, so their mana isn't enough to use proper Deus outside), melian didn't have a fear of traps.

  . . . . . . . . .

  In the room of the tavern, lying in the comfortable bed, Dibilis gaze at the roof. Seemingly off from his mind.

  It's been quite a long time Since he came to the outside world; he really didn't want to come, but because of the massive amount of debt Piled up on his name, he had to get this boring task. For a Deus practitioner, the outside world is literally a wasteland; there is not enough mana in the atmosphere, and there's no possibility of stumbling upon a new Deus. So, Dibilis has been very eager to finish this task as soon as he can and get back into the nexus.

  But wishes are hard to fulfil. Despite the date of recruitment closing in, he still hasn't chosen a person to submit. If he didn't choose a person nexus will call him back. Though he very much liked to go back he cannot go without money to pay for the debt.

  "sigh! Not even in that beggar place; there is not one suitable person; seriously, right now, I would do anything to get out of this place", he sighed in disappointment. Closing the suitcase that was placed beside him on the bed, he hid it in the ceiling of the room before going to sleep. The suitcase is the most valuable thing to him, it holds passes he can give to others, and it's highly sealed by Deus magic. However, to make sure it's extra safe, he hides it; if somehow he loses this thing he cannot Imagine what he has to pay for it.

  Up in the morning, Dibilis went out of his room to a nearby restaurant to get his morning meal.

  In the absence of dibilis, Melian stood in the alley looking up at the window that closed. Then he looked at the thugs that managed to find a scaffolding that could be move from place to place, but unfortunately, it was a bit old and seemed a bit unreliable.

  "This is all we can find in this short time, boss,", said one thug, who's the same one that took the few notes from the ground that day.

  "It's unfortunate,", said Meliana, climbing up in the scaffolding; he had to be careful; the wooden structure it's built on is not strong. One wrong step and he would be right back on the ground with heavy injury all over.

  After a few minutes of careful climbing, Melian stood in front of the window. Thankfully was not locked. But even if it did melian has prepared ways to unlock it.

  "You three will Wait here until I come back; since we are on high ground, it'll be easier to see if the owner comes," he said to the three thugs that climbed along with him, who were now standing on a wooden plate beside him.

  "got you bossaaaaaa... !" the three thugs answered, but right at that moment, one poor thug fell directly from where he was as the wooden plate broke under his feet.

  Looking back melanin saw the hole and empty spot in the palate and knew what happened. "well, let's go with two"

  After dealing with all the trouble outside, Melian slowly lifted the window and stepped Into the Dibilis's room.

  The Dibilis room is quite large. Considering it has two windows on two whole different sides, it has to be. However, he didn't get distracted and quickly began to look for what he came for.

  He Searched through the room carefully and slowly, making sure he didn't make much of a mess. Bed, closet, chimney, bathroom all these got Serch by Melian's Keen eyes. However, in the end, he found nothing.

  "If I was the person needs to hide a treasure, where could I hide it?" Sitting in the chair in the bathroom, Melian began to think. However, he suddenly paused and looked back at the chair he just sat in.

  "Why is there a chair in the bathroom?" then, like a wolf that caught a whiff, he looked at the roof. Even tho there was nothing suspicious, he needed to make sure, so he stepped on the chair and then began to knock to see if there was any difference. And when he knocked on one of the ceiling panels it snapped up with a 'pop' sound.

  "Hoh! " from the opened ceiling, Melian saw a suitcase and pulled it out.

  He had a guess that this suitcase might be the thing he was looking for. Taking out the few tools that were used to break locks(which is a thing that he got from a thug), he tried to break the lock on it. But after a few failed attempts, he gave up.

  "to think the lock would be made from a Deus"

  Melian was a person who went to Nexus in an irregular way. So he didn't know much about the passes aside from the key facts like blood marking and how to get into Nexus with the pass. And since he's already in Nexus, he did not had much interest in looking into something useless for him in his past life. As a result, He didn't know that the passes would be sealed by Deus.

  " I should have expected this, passes are valuable, of course, they would secure them with the utmost care, even in the outside world where Deus are scared"

  Sitting back on the chair he began to think how to unlock this thing, but then suddenly he heard something from the living room.

  "Did dibilis come back, those useless thugs?" he leaned on the bathroom door carefully and peeked into the living room, only to see that it was getting looted by two thugs.

  "And this is a fact I should have also known too. Thugs are thugs, It's impossible for them to behave in order. It seems this young body is influencing my thoughts. I even feel a bit anxious"

  "What the hell are you two doing?" said Melian despite Knowing very well what they do.

  "Ah, sir, you said to watch out for that guy, but he didn't seem to come for a long time. And since you are already robbing this place, we thought to give you a hand, " said one thug, looking at Melian's face while shamelessly putting a piece of luxurious clothes under his own dirt one.

  Than he and other went on, continuing to looting the place.

  "I don't have time for this", Melanin focuses beck on the case, trying to open it. But despite numerous thoughts he had, he got no real solution Since he didn't have any Deus with him.

  "Hmm...." Once again, looking back, he saw the mess the thugs were making; it is sure that once Dibilis gets back, he will instantly know he was robbed.

  "Fuck it, Since it's all come to this I cook with what I got"

  . . . . . . . . . .

  In a well known restaurant in a orintle street dibilis is eating his breakfast. Though the food is tasty and steaming hot, it's not enough to warm or ease the bitterness in his heart.

  Choosing a newcomer for nexus is a rather difficult task, the only way one could find someone who can wield Deus in this deusless world is by their behaviour. It was a commonly known fact that people who has deus apitius tend to act more maturely than their age. That was the clue every person in outside used to locate a suitable people for Nexus as newcomers.

  But it isn't hundred percent sure that a person chosen by them will actually be able to wild a Deus. That's why they undergo a few tests, at least for a few months before taking into nexus. However, Diblis now had no time for that. And because of that, he even considered just choosing a random person to go to Nexus.

  Thinking about his troublesome situation, Diblis sighed and picked up the spoon he just put down once again. At the moment, however, just when he is preparing to take another bite, he heard a commotion from outside. Seems like lot of people are ruining toward a certain direction.

  "What's going on?" Diblis stopped eating and stepped out of the restaurant. Only to see a giant cloud of smoke rising up to the sky from a nearby burning building.

  And the thing is, that burning building in the far is the same tavern where Diblis staying.