Even though many of his subordinates got captured by the Warrior Association, he still had other subordinates who did not get discovered by the Warrior Association.
He knows that the Warrior Association told every organization to carefully check their people, and because of that, many of his subordinates and people from the Dark Association got captured.
Fortunately, he prepared for all of this. It'd been 4 years since he started planning these, so naturally, he did not want to give up that early.
The previous plan was perfect. Everything was going according to plan and those students inside the danger zone were destined to die. Unfortunately, who could have thought some unknown factor would appear?
After that failure, the elder of the Dark Association decided to focus on finding out the unknown factor. Like that, he was able to find out about David. With this, he decided to target David alongside all the other students.