The tension was high between Constantine and the soldiers as both of them stubbornly faced confronted each other.As soldiers, it was understandable that they would be rather rigid in their approach toward unknown entities in a hostile environment. No one could fault them for being cautious and expecting Constantine to meet their demands.Unfortunately, Constantine could be rather stubborn himself, too. As a teenager, Constantine was in that phase where his hormones raged and he became unruly and rebellious. Most of the time, he was well behaved due to this proper upbringing, so his stubbornness was not clear normally. But now that Constantine had come in contact with the extraordinary and he came to experience an incredible burst in strength, his unruly behavior was normally suppressed came to light at this moment.Facing the energy rifles of the soldiers, Constantine showed no signs of fear as he directly made his discontent known.After lowering his hand, Constantine made provocati
There was no time to waste. The commander had to come to a decision immediately...Seeing the sandstorm swarming towards them, the commander could only grit his teeth and say to his fellow soldiers."Everyone, lower your weapons now."At the commander's command, the soldiers could only reluctantly lower their shields and weapons. Although they were very reluctant, they understood that unless they cooperated with Constantine, they might not be able to survive at all. In that case, they could only take a gamble and trust Constantine for now.After the soldiers lowered their shields and weapons, the commander quickly turned to Constantine and said, "Alright, we've done as you said. Now what?""You said you have a way to get us out of here. How are you going to do that?"Constantine nodded his head after seeing that the soldiers were willing to cooperate. It would have been a real pity if they didn't want to do so. Constantine had been fully ready to leave them in the lurch if they insist
Did they have a better idea?The soldier commander could not reply because he admittedly didn't have a better idea to get out of this situation. If he did, he would have already done it and he wouldn't have to wait in despair to die like now. But now wasn't the time to think about this.As soon as the storm covered them once again, the commander quickly ordered his men to raise their rifles and shields and resume their defensive position. The dooms attacked swiftly without giving any chance for the soldiers to gather their thoughts.This time, Constantine did not help the soldiers to defeat the dooms. He didn't even lift a finger to defend himself as he simply erected a lightning barrier around his body that directly vaporized any doom that came close to him.It was not that Constantine didn't want to help them like before. It was not much of a problem for Constantine to casually throw another nuclear fist down on the ground to repel the dooms as he did before. Although the nuclear fi
As soon as the stronger dooms started attacking Constantine, the soldiers noticed this change immediately. The pressure on them had not lightened, but the soldiers subconsciously eased when they were no longer under the scrutiny of those dooms.It was very uncomfortable being looked at like prey. That was exactly the way the doom saw these soldiers, prey. And it was the duty of the weaker dooms to serve as cannon fodder to exhaust the strength of the soldiers so that the stronger dooms could swoop in and slaughter them like lambs.Now that the stronger dooms had seen a more delectable prey, they no longer watched the soldiers like hawks, which eased the psychological pressure they felt.Unlike the other soldiers, the commander frowned as he watched the dooms attack Constantine. he was wondering why Constantine was able to draw those stronger dooms away. logically, Constantine's treatment should not be any more special than theirs was. So what was it about Constantine that was differen
The commander was starting to understand why Constantine was more threatening to the dooms than his team combined. It probably had something to do with Constantine's extraordinary powers being more developed than theirs were.There was a study conducted by researchers on earth that tried to determine the behavioral patterns of dooms and how they picked their targets of attacks. After extensive research, the researchers were able to come up with a few results.The first conclusion the researchers arrived at was that the dooms picked the locations they would attack based on the density of human habitation. In other words, the dooms mainly attacked places where humans gathered on a large scale. For example, in cities and towns. These places were always the key locations for dooms to attack.Another finding saw that the doom determined their targets based on the overall strength of the individual humans in an area. In other words, they always targeted places where powerful, extraordinary
Why was Constantine considered strange by the soldiers? To understand this, we need to take a close look at Constantine's current physical appearance. Constantine was a handsome youth with curly black hair that rested on his head with slightly curly bangs covering his forehead. His eyes were black and his face was straight and perfectly chiseled, giving him a plain, handsome look without any exaggerated features. He was the kind of guy that would make a person feel pleasant just by seeing his face. Naturally, he also had his fair share of fervent admirers. That was how Constantine looked normally. but it wasn't how he looked now... currently, his looks were a bit different from usual. Actually, not much of Constantine's appearance had changed from how he normally looked. He still had the same chiseled face and brilliant smile that brought a smile to other people's faces. The only difference was that Constantine's faces appeared to be sharper than they originally were. The biggest di
Right now, Constantine was in a very mysterious state. His body was covered in lightning, and a thick pillar of lightning surged from his body and shot into the sky, looking like it wanted to sunder the heavens apart. A lightning storm was being brewed with Constantine at the center and powerful electromagnetic forces clashed with the might of the sandstorm that was formed with the combined strength of multiple dooms.Right now, Constantine really resembled those anime characters that were undergoing a power-up, and in a sense, that was exactly what Constantine was doing.Constantine was currently in a state where he was digging deep within himself in an attempt to tap into the full potential of his powers to go beyond the limit of what he was currently capable of.In other words, Constantine was trying to call onto his future powers, which he did not currently possess, in order to go beyond the limit of his current strength.This is basically what a power-up is all about. The act of
As Constantine powered up, his body seemed to enlarge visible by a little and thick vein lines could be seen wriggling all over his body like worms. His muscles tightened stiffly as they contracted together while his chest heaved heavily as he took in large gulps of air down his lungs.Currents of electricity followed all over Constantine's body, from his white hair that was as stiff as spikes all the way down to his toes. Constantine appeared to be a little strained, but this was a consequence of him not being used to his newfound strength after his power up.This was not the first time Constantine was undergoing a power-up. After he reached the limit of his current strength, Constantine had been frustrated due to his stagnating growth. In order to calm him down, Ruger had thought Constantine the method to temporarily break through his limits and attain more power.This method is a miniature and severely weakened version of what Ruger had done when they had first appeared in the doom