Looking at the lock on the gate, David saw two lights. A blue one and a green one.Using his comprehension skills, he deduced that the blue light was used to indicate when the gate was electrified and the green one was used to know when the gate was locked. Unfortunately, the color of the buttons on the console didn’t match the two lights on the gate as all of them were black, so unless someone had been trained to know what each button did, they’d have to press them to find out.Luckily, there weren’t that many buttons on the console, so it wouldn’t take long for David to press the right ones and accomplish his goal of getting as far away from the area as possible before the plant exploded. David pressed the first button and nothing happened, or so he thought. Turns out that button was meant to shut down the security cameras outside the checkpoint, but because he wasn’t looking for that, he didn’t see it.“Next,” David said, then pressed the second button on the console and this ti

After they had hugged for long enough, Reginald separated David from himself and took a good look at him. “What happened? We’ve been looking for you for hours but never did we think you would be…” Reginald said but was interrupted.Obadiah, who saw the inscription on David’s chest, tried to touch it, but David jolted backward.“Excuse me?” David said, an annoyed look on his face aimed at the strange Shaman he had never seen before.Did Obadiah not know about boundaries? David thought, angry that he had just tried to touch him. “What’s the matter?” Reginald asked Obadiah. “On his chest,” Obadiah said.Reginald looked at David’s chest and saw what the shaman was talking about. “What is that?” Reginald asked— his eyebrows furrowed.“It’s a magic extraction inscription. It would appear that they had tried to absorb the magical energy in his body,” Obadiah said, and Reginald grimaced. David also grimaced, but in confusion, as he thought ‘Magic extraction? Dark Emblem? What is this old

A few seconds later, Jeremiah came up with an educated guess as to why he wasn’t able to smell the two’s scents if Adam had dropped the concealment spell, as he thought. “The fire and smell of smoke must be interfering with my nose and masking their scents . That has to be the reason, because unless that mage is overly cautious and is still maintaining the concealment spell for whatever reason, I should be able to pick up their scents,” Jeremiah concluded. “I guess I had better find the exit and track them down outside,” Jeremiah said, thinking that Adam and Lynette had left the plant because it would be stupid of Adam to cause the plant to explode when he and Lynette hadn’t escaped yet. If only he had known that Adam wasn’t the one responsible for the plant’s explosion. Jeremiah climbed the rubble and started walking to the door which had been blown away and was wide open. “Speaking of David. I hope that was enough time for him to get out of the building. I just hope he’s okay

“Ram it through and go in!” Richard instructed, and Jason jolted. He didn’t expect Richard to suggest destruction of property as a way of entering the plant, but he understood that there was no other choice, seeing as how the guards were refusing to open the gate for them. Either that or something had happened, and they couldn’t open the gate for them, but at that moment it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that they had to get into the plant one way or another.“What are you waiting for?! Let’s do this!” Richard said sternly as he walked to the passenger side of the truck.“Got it!” Jason replied hurriedly, then he put on his helmet, ran to the driver's side of the truck, and then got in. Once Richard and Jason had secured themselves in their seats, Richard said “Floor it!” Without wasting a second, Jason ignited the engine and hit the gas, causing the truck to jolt forward and both firefighters inside to jerk backward.The fire truck rammed into the gate, forced it open, and

“What’s the matter, Corner?” Richard asked.“I was checking the area to gauge the scope of the explosion and I got to one side with a lot of debris, but after checking it out properly, I found something else. The debris had actually almost made me miss it” Corner said, panicked. Richard grimaced.“Almost made you miss what?” He asked.“Dead bodies. There were dead bodies scattered all over there, and they appear to have been the security guards who work here,” Corner said, and Richard, as well as the other firefighters who were listening, widened their eyes in shock. “What?!” Richard exclaimed. “Exactly what I said. All the guards who work here, or at least I think that’s all of them, are dead, and their bodies are all over the ground there” Corner said.“Dead?! Is that why they didn’t answer our horns and open the gate for us when we arrived? To be honest, I also found it kind of strange that the entire place was quiet, with not a single sighting of security, when we drove in” Jas