Cloak Gang

Cloak Gang (斗篷会), started by Didi, worships Agulie (Chen) as their leader. Later they become Imperial Guards Reserve Forces for Dark Moon City under Shea.

## Headquarters

Fourth Street in the southeast area of Dark Moon City, Silva's former estate

The No. 4 street in the southeast block had always been Silva's territory. It could be regarded as one of the biggest forces within the southeast block. However, after a change, Silva's old house had changed its owner into a small organization called Cloak Gang. A number of Silva's men also defected to the Cloak Gang.

Weirdly, Najib, the leader of the law and order of this area couldn't care less about this. He expressed his support for Cloak Gang in a tacit manner. In fact, Najib had gotten a substantial benefit secretly.

Chen Rui didn't spend too much time at Cloak Gang. He left the specific affairs to Jesse and the old dwarf, and he returned to the palace's lab. Although the Cloak Gang replaced Silva, it was impossible to actually be involved in demon-trafficking. The women and children who were caught were sent back, and the homeless individuals stayed at Cloak Gang.

Silva's foundation was very thick; it had its manpower and territory. With Chen Rui's ability, he could definitely make good use of these conditions to do some legal business or develop in other ways. However, that wasn't his current priority as everything had to wait after the 2-month test.

The terrace house was originally the old den of the black market merchant, Silva. When Chen Rui bought fluorescent stones from him, he tried to kill him and rob him, but he ended up paying with his life. The terrace house had become the Cloak Gang's base. It was tightly guarded. A number of cloaked silhouettes coming and going from it.

The old terrace house was originally Silva's base. Its scale was very huge. There were several vacant rooms in the backyard alone. In the yard, Chen Rui saw two dark elf girls playing magic chess, and next to them was Sasa, the old goblin's daughter, helping them think of ideas. Apparently, there was a close relationship between the "families."

## Attire

The gang members wear cloaks like Agulie. The cloak is used as a statement of sartorial status, as well as allegiance to Agulie.

Chen Rui never expected that the attire he wore to hide his identity would become the uniform. It actually become the identification of a large organization. After yesterday's battle, Aguile's name resounded through Dark Moon. Even demons who were not part of the Cloak Gang began to imitate the attire of this legendary person. Wearing a cloak seemed to have become a fashion statement.

Even though they were all wearing the same cloak, but the members of the Cloak Gang knew it was Chen Rui from his physique, mask and the Higher Demon power that he radiated. They all saluted him, clearing a path for him. Someone had already informed the old goblin, Didi. Didi immediately brought a crowd of people to welcome him with music. They sang slogans about the leader. Even though the momentum was not bad, it still seemed absurd.

## Income

### Daigou and possessions

Besides the convenience store and daigou, other sources of income include turned-in possessions. The old goblin stuttered. "Income is stable right now; the organization's earnings are quite good."

Those "turned in possessions" was wealth obtained by stealing or robbing. However, this was not a long-term plan.

### Protection payments

After crushing the Gorefiend Gang and earning the favor of Shea as the imperial guards, the Cloak Club becomes the prime economic hegemon in Dark Moon, collecting 'taxes' or payments for 'protection' from other shops in exchange for continued operation. They effectively replaced the role that Alan and Joseph played before.

Ronald of the Mellon Family: "Patriarch, our shops were smashed several times, and our guards were also killed and injured. From time to time, troublemakers came. Our business was greatly affected. Other shops that paid protection fees didn't suffer any accidents, so those people must be sent by Cloak Gang! We must find a solution to this trouble as soon as possible!"

Lombardo looked somber, "The issue now is that even if we know they were sent by the Cloak Gang, we can't do anything. The leader of Cloak Gang, Aguile, is clearly the new favorite force of Princess Royal. As long as they don't go overboard, Princess Royal won't care. Besides, we are on Joseph's side, so we could only endure it. In fact, the money from the shops was trivial. However, since the Gorefiend Gang we support is destroyed, Dark Moon City is completely controlled by the forces of the Cloak Gang. Our main business to the south can't be carried out normally." Ronald thought about it and asked, "Can we use Joseph's strength to deal with the Cloak Gang?"

"*Humph!* I'm afraid it's impossible. Joseph said that this is a very critical time. He asked us to avoid confrontations with the Cloak Gang." Lombardo looked skeptical, "I have a feeling that there's some kind of tactful understanding between Joseph and Aguile. Perhaps Joseph wants to rely on the Cloak Gang to divide Princess Royal's forces. It can be seen from Aguile's public support for the human sheriff."

The incident of the Mellon Family's surrendering to the Cloak Gang was immediately spread across the Dark Moon. There were many observing shops that truthfully paid the protection fee to Cloak Gang after seeing one of two biggest families, the Mellon Family acted such. It was only Old Ford from the Saiful Family that was still stubborn to refuse to pay the protection fee with a few small families. However, these were individual exceptions. From an overall perspective, the Cloak Gang had basically held all the shops in Dark Moon in their hands.

Actually, in the eyes of those merchants who have paid protection fees, Cloak Gang wasn't bad. Instead of bullying and exploiting money bit by bit like the previous forces, they acted according to their guarantee for collecting protection fees and fulfilled their protection duties. Those thugs who harassed the merchants never dared to act recklessly after the Cloak Gang killed a bunch of them as warning. There were even many of them who simply joined the Cloak Gang. Those who operate business had their own calculations. Compared to paying to both big and small forces previously, only paying a single one force now was much worthier.

### Other sources

* Cloak Magic Shop
* Dark Moon's Night

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 43
2. ↑ Chapter 76
3. ↑ Chapter 59 (Steambun)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Chapter 138 (Steambun)
5. ↑ Chapter 61 (Steambun)
6. ↑ Chapter 139 (Steambun)
7. ↑ After Agulie made a deal with Joseph, see Chapter 175 to Chapter 182
8. ↑ Part of Chen and Tim's plan to create the illusion of internal discord when in reality they were working together, see Chapter 190 to Chapter 193, also discussed in later chapters
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chapter 233