Screams of the Viper men were heard all over the tunnel. Jake and Archris ran to where they heard the screams, and their faces turned sour when they saw their men on the ground bleeding and crawling.Jake immediately ran to help the wounded, as well as Archris. Although all they could do was stop the bleeding of the wounds, bringing back the lost limbs and legs would take a lot of time for Jake to do.“Damn it! Archris! Pull them into one spot. I can’t put a shield on them if they are in different places."Jake said, to which Archris responded with a nod.The young man used enhancement magic to quicken his moves. He put his men in a room, and Jake started to heal their wounds. He was just about to look for two more when he suddenly fell down on the floor. He tried to stand up, but he felt a torturous pain in his achilles’ tendons, and that made him scream.“Archris!” Jake quickly rushed to where Archris was, and he immediately helped the young man when he saw his Achilles’ tendons cut

“Sebastian? How’s everything in the office?” Jake immediately asked when Sebastian answered his call.“Finally! You’re awake! You don’t know what I’ve been through for those two days that you were dead!” Sebastian replied sarcastically and irritably.“Just tell me what happened."“Videos where you were seen fighting and using magic circulated all over the country in just half a night, and now the whole freaking world knows that the Chairman of Drummond Pharmaceuticals is a freak!” Sebatian continued. “And it affected the stock market value in a negative way.”“I am really sorry, but we had no choice at that time,” Jake responded. “But…”“I know… I know… I know…,” Sebastian didn’t allow him to finish. “I have talked to the board and to the shareholders. This is something I can’t cover anymore, but at least I was able to save the reputation of the company.”“What did you do?”“I told the media that you’re a hero.”“What?”“The day after the bus station incident, they called you a freak

Archris slowly let go of Caroline and he fell on his knees, drenched in sweat and panting. He had burns and bruises in different parts of the body. The explosion caused a huge crater at the beach. Luckily, it was a secluded beach and nobody got hurt except for him. He coughed and shook his head when he saw blood when he spat.“Archris, are you okay?” Caroline kneeled to see his condition. He nodded and smiled faintly but he coughed again, and more blood came out of his mouth. “No, you’re not okay,” Caroline said, then she looked around to see if there was a better place he could pull Archris. But she didn’t see any, so she took out her phone. She was about to make a call to Jake, but there was no signal.Caroline started sobbing while helping Archris to sit down comfortably. “Is there magic that you can use to heal yourself?” she asked.“There is, but I am too tired and damaged to cast it,” Archris said before coughing up blood again. “Then what should we do? I don’t know but I fe

“Damn it, Jake! That was scary!” Sebastian whispered to him as they waited for the investigators to come. “I thought I was done for!”Jake sighed, but he didn’t look at Sebastian. “Well, that was a surprise attack, and we could get killed if I was late to cast the barrier.”“But I wonder why that man did that, like, who was he working with?” Sebastian questioned. “As soon as a person rises to power, everyone around him could be a potential enemy,” Jake said while staring at the stainless steel table in front of them. “Also, we don’t know where Anthony Smith is yet. You know Kranous, right? They told you about him."“Yeah, a loyal servant of Tharanos, the evil ruler you sealed in the world where you lived,” Sebastian replied. “Archris and Karlow told me about him.“If I won’t be able to catch and seal him, then bad things won’t stop happening,” Jake said.Sebastian was about to reply when the door opened and Police Captain Cruz entered the room. Then a tall man in a decorated military

Two days had passed, and Jake continued to observe Caroline. He would talk to her like before, trying to control his temper every time. He also tried to convince her to stop learning magic, but she said it made her feel alive again.It was actually true, as he saw his young sister smile and laugh again like there was no tomorrow. Something that he hadn’t seen since their mother died.“Professor, are you okay?” Archris suddenly asked when Caroline went to the restroom.Jake exhaled deeply as he looked at Archris, then he shook his head lightly. “I am not okay, Archris. I feel like Voragor is really trying to control my body.”“Then let’s just face him and defeat him.”“That’s easier said than done, young man,” Jake replied. “We can’t just release him here, and you know it. If I could just kill him by killing myself, I would gladly die rather than let him control me over time.”Archris pouted his lips and sighed deeply. “But scarier and scarier every day. And I can actually see that you