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Chapter 144: Salvo
Author: Unaware Ovie Emmanuel
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

As Levi runs back towards the orphanage, another explosion was heard with smoke rising from the distant structure and he curses under his breath.

He thought as he draws out his energy and pumps his legs to make himself faster until his static shell instinctively activates, causing him to nearly crash as his speed increases dramatically, enough to throw off his cloak entirely.

“Okay?” He mumbled in partial confusion as he speeds through the forest and heads for the orphanage.

Meanwhile, back at the orphanage, a group of Hornet members stand before the sisters and children cowering in fear with their home burning on one side behind them.

The captain of the men steps forward, a gun in his hand and a killer look in his eyes. “Where are the trons?” He scoffed at Theresa who presses a cloth into the bullet wound on Eliza’s shoulder and glares at him.

“I told you. They left.” Theresa said.

Eliza grunts before speaking. “We…don’t know… where they are.”

“But you took them
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