The night sky is pitch black. The eerie silence is very frightening.
In a dilapidated building without any lights a squad of nine people entered in an orderly manner. One could tell that they are trained mercenaries by the way they walked. They are wearing a black uniform equipped with daggers and guns in their hands.
"Captain, is it necessary for our whole alpha squad to deal with a single person?"
The short guy with a scar on his left eye asked the tall man with a strong build.
"What do you know? Even though he has been out of action for 3 years, he is not something you can underestimate. Our alpha squad is the first ranked in the whole Red flag mercenary guild because the previous top 3 teams have been wiped out by him." The captain replied.
He accepted the assassination task because it was personally sanctioned by the guild leader and because he thought that guy's skills would be rusted without any action for three years, also he was ambushed yesterday he did not believe he was not injured as the previous team had a self detonating bomb.
They entered the first floor of the building and open the door with lights on carefully but they could not see anyone. Suddenly the lights were off.
"Be careful everyone!" The captain alerted everyone.
The short guy gripped the gun very tightly when he heard a sound.
'Swish'
Just as he aimed the gun at the area where the sound came from, blood spilled from his neck and he could not believe he died just like that.
Remaining squad members aimed their shots at the target but those shots did not hit anyone.
The lights switched on when the captain noticed the whole team died except him and the only girl of the team.
"I told everyone not to bother me after my retirement. Why do you have to seek death?" a calm and terrifying voice sounded in the room.
The man was tall around 187cm and he had pale white skin with black hair and black eyes that are as stagnant as water in a pool without any fluctuations. He had two moon shape curved daggers in his hands but his condition was not that good as you can see his face is very pale and his lips were blue.
The captain look at the man with fear and anger.
"01!"
"I am not '01' anymore, my name is Max. "The man said looking at the captain.
The last girl remaining took as shot at Max as he dodged sideways and threw a dart at her hand to disarm her gun and leaped towards her with a blade and cut her neck, she could not dodge the blade and her breath weakened with regret in her eyes.
Seeing the only member die in front of him, the captain was very angry and rushed towards Max without any reason in his eyes. Max dodged his attack and hit his shoulder with the moon blade reversed, the captain lost his balance and slipped his feet as fell on the ground. Before he could get up max slit his throat with the blade. The captain could only watch the blade take his life with despair.
As Max killed everyone he coughed a mouthful of blood. He wiped out the blood spilled at his mouth with a bitter smile on his face but he was indifferent.
His name was Max. He was an orphan as his mother died of illness and his father died during military service when he was 3 years old. He grew up in wilderness as his country was a battlefield full of wars. He learned to hunt by himself for food and grew up in the forests until he met his mentor who saved him from the siege of wolf pack and taught him assassination skills including using guns, hidden weapons, poison, camouflage. After he died, Max joined his mentor's guild to repay him and worked as the guild's ace for 10 years without any count of the number of lives he had taken and amount of blood he shed.
He did not regret it nor he felt any remorse, but he felt like he did not find any meaning in his life when he was diagnosed with a chronic disease with only 5 years left to live so he chose to retire.
But how can things be so good. The Guild leader asked him to kill his 'friend' (whether he could count as one) from the same guild as he leaked information about the task. He did not accept the task nor did he help his 'friend' resist the guild and went offline for three years without any connection to the world and lived in a village on the coast of country when the pursuit started again, this time against him. He killed the previous 3 squads -this was the fourth time.
'Let's put an end to this.' His eyes flashed a cold light as he thought.
He went into the closet and wore a black tight fitted uniform, equipped it with poisoned darts and his dual moon blades.
Mercenary Guild Headquarters, Country A.
Inside the large spaced room on the top floor of building a middle aged man wearing a black suit was seated in front of a table as he looked at the report of assassination.
"Damn, I should have killed him before his skills developed to the peak." Ronald regretted it very much just when he heard an alarm sound. He quickly took a pistol from the table and watched the door vigilantly when the door opened as he saw a familiar face in front of him.
He was panicked as he knew everyone in he building was already dead otherwise Max couldn't have come in.
''What do you want max?" he asked acting calmy.
Max looked at him while wiping the blood on his face with a napkin on the table and replied "Don't you know what I want after sending your minions to kill me? Come on let's get this over with."
As Max walked towards him, Ronald shot max with the pistol that was shaking in his hand as the shot missed. As the guild leader Ronald is not a weak guy in the guild but there was nothing he could do in front of 'The Nightmare' Max. He dropped the gun down seemingly accepting his fate.
"My brother accepted a good apprentice" He said in a low voice.
"Your brother? The brother who you tried to kill for the leader's position?" Max asked
"You knew?" Ronald was shocked.
"Yes I know, not only me but my master also knew that. Did you know why I left you alive even after my Master died? Because he asked me not to kill you even after he knew it was you who tried to kill him. But you had to request for your death by disturbing my life. For my master I give you a choice, kill yourself."
Ronald picked up the gun calmly after he knew that he could not live after today. He shot himself in the head. He regretted it in his mind, not his brother's assassination but regretted sending people to kill Max.
Max watched him die and then slumped on the corner of the floor as his breath also weakened. Due to his disease he only had 5 years to live but today as he bypassed and killed the whole guild his body could not bear the strain. He sat there as his eyelids started closing. Just like that the total mercenary guild vanished from the Earth.