The shot caused the crystal at the top of the tower to crack and slowly disintegrate in an explosion. A wave of energy swept through the air to where Kato and Oliver were. Both immediately turned their heads towards the portal that was quite a distance away from where they were.
"The portal is shrinking!" Kato shouted."We have to hurry! I don't want to get stuck in this dimension!" Oliver recreated the shadow horse.Since there was no time left, Kato got on the horse as well. Oliver rode his horse at full speed. He used his Mana to speed up his horse."The portal is closing very fast!" Oliver was afraid he wouldn't be able to catch up. They were currently about a kilometer away from the portal."Maybe I can do this!" Kato remembered his teleportation technique. His memory of the battle between himself and Gideon had come in handy."Do what?" Oliver doubted that they would make it in time.Before snapping his fingers, he held Oliver's shoulder with one hand. And when he snapped his fingers, they moved right by the portal. Oliver was very surprised by that. This was the first time he had teleported that far."How come?" Oliver glanced at Kato."I'll explain later!" Kato immediately pulled Oliver into the portal.They both ran to the end of the portal hallway. Everything seemed to be shrinking slowly along the passage. Kato thought that they didn't have much time left. Using his light element, he created a pair of wings behind himself. Kato grabbed Oliver's hand and carried him quickly."Hang on!" Kato shouted."Oh, no! The portal's about to close!" Oliver thought they wouldn't make it.When they were at the lip of the portal, Kato threw his friend first to get out of the portal that left a slight gap."Kato!" Oliver looked up at the young man. The portal was left the size of a soccer ball.When it closed completely, Oliver saw no sign of Kato coming out of it.But..."Good thing the teleportation worked."Oliver heard a familiar voice. As he looked back, he saw Kato standing, dusting off his clothes."You did it!" Oliver immediately hugged his friend."Of course I did it. I wasn't going to stay there anyway." Kato smiled. He was so happy to end this nightmare."Oliver! What's going on? Why did the portal close?" A Jager approached him with a confused face.Oliver explained about how he closed the portal. And some of the Jager leaders who were there asked Oliver to explain it to the elite troops who were in another city. Using a communication device given by a Jager officer, Oliver explained to all the Jagers who were fighting in another city. The information was immediately implemented by the Jagers to close portals in all cities in the country.Unfortunately, when Oliver wanted to introduce his new friend, Kato disappeared. The young man left before one of the Jagers approached Oliver. He continued to look for Kato in various places. He even asked people, but no one had seen him."Why did you leave? I wanted to introduce you as a hero." Oliver was very grateful to Kato. If Kato hadn't brought him into the portal, perhaps this apocalypse would have continued.And after a few hours passed, finally all the Jagers across the city managed to close all the portals. Although there were some who didn't make it back, the Ordog apocalypse was finally prevented.Oliver, who was still at the location, had hoped that Kato could meet him. But until nightfall, he never met the young man. Finally, he chose to return to the main headquarters of the Jager with disappointment.***"Oliver, the boss wants to talk to you." One of Jager's elites stopped him right at the entrance to the main headquarters.The Jager headquarters were spread across several provinces. However, the main headquarters that Oliver visited was in the nation's capital. It looked like an ordinary high-rise building, but when you went inside, everything inside was protected by the energy coming from the crystal. The building only had twelve floors on top, but had a hundred floors underground.Oliver was currently right in front of the lobby. Many Jager were passing by the door he had entered earlier."What for?" Oliver was curious."I don't know. Hurry up and leave. When I saw him earlier, his face looked annoyed." The jager left after tapping Oliver on the shoulder.The man didn't know what his boss wanted to talk about, but he hoped it wasn't a pay cut. He got into the special elevator that would take him to the hundredth floor.While waiting, he saw his face in the reflection of the elevator wall. There was curiosity in the back of her mind. He wanted to see Adam again. His figure was very mysterious to Oliver."Oliver?" As the elevator doors opened, a sexy woman stood with a surprised face."You were also called by the boss?" Oliver only greeted her briefly. After that, he walked away."I heard there was someone who helped you close the portal. Where is that person?" Elena asked him."He disappeared at the location. I'm also looking for him." Oliver didn't turn to Elena at all. He seemed indifferent to her."I hope you can find him. It seems like the boss is very obsessed with that mysterious friend of yours." Elena got into the elevator as the doors opened.Hearing that, Oliver understood the reason he was called was probably because of Adam. Unfortunately, he had no idea where Adam was.On the hundredth floor was an object of great importance to the main headquarters. Right in the middle of it, there was a white crystal placed on a small tower that was ten meters high. The elite Jagers said that the crystal was obtained from a hunt inside the portal.The crystal could emit protective energy in the form of Mana. The Mana enveloped the entire main headquarters building and made it immune to other Mana attacks. It was said that the Mana contained in the crystal was unlimited. But Oliver didn't believe it."Come in." Someone answered Oliver's knock on the door."What's calling me? I just want to go home. It's been a long day." Oliver sat down across from the Jager leader."Your actions in ordering all the Jager to attack the crystal inside the portal were brilliant. Some say you were helped by someone. He has the ability to manipulate light. Is he one of the Jager?" Bruce Skywalker; the head of the Jager organization in the western country wanted to know who the stranger was."He is not one of us. He is a wild Jager. I don't know why he didn't report or become a Jager. In my opinion, he is probably at the level of the SS rank. If you ask where he is now, the answer is that I don't know. He disappeared without saying goodbye." Oliver has a feeling Adam will reappear sometime in the future. But that was just his guess."Can we track him down?" asked Bruce."For what?" Oliver wanted to know."Because he might know the reason for the invasion that just happened. My eyes saw a future that wasn't supposed to happen. And I saw it." Bruce thought the stranger who helped Oliver was the key to the future of the entire Jager.Oliver was silent for a moment. If what Bruce said was true, then the Jager organization should be able to find him."What might he know?" Oliver asked again."The origin of the Jager." Bruce looked at Oliver as he handed over something. A paper containing a letter from the elders."The origin of Jager?" Oliver only knew that the story originated a hundred years ago. He didn't understand what the story had to do with Adam."Find him first. Then bring him to me. I'll explain it again." Bruce turned away from the man while looking at his employees downstairs. His office was on the second floor. The hundredth floor was divided into two floors, where the second floor was reserved for the leader. "Alright. I'll look for him." Oliver left the room. But before he went through the door, Bruce wanted his friend to help the juniors to design the Jager entrance exam. Elsewhere, Adam felt all his Mana draining away. His body looked weak. He even had to walk using a wooden stick. He was currently in the south. Far from the city where he lived. Around him there were only rice fields, trees, mountains, rivers, and very simple houses. "I need to rest. My heart feels like it's going to explode." Adam chose to sit on a large rock. He stopped his steps and rested for a moment o
On a new day, early in the morning, Adam felt strange sleeping in the same bed as the stranger he had just met. The bed he slept in was also made of teak wood. The bed looked worn and old. He slowly sat up for a moment and tried to focus. Every bone and muscle in his body ached. He didn't know that the side effects of using Jager's power could be that severe. "Why is it so quiet?" Adam walked out of the house. As he opened the door, he was mesmerized by the sight of the cornfield that he could see more clearly than last night."Wow!"The air was also clean and fresh. This was the first time in his life he felt so grateful. The blue sky with few clouds, the morning sun on the eastern horizon, the luxurious view of the cornfields, Adam felt like he was vacationing in a piece of heaven. "Are you awake?" Ryan greeted. He carried some gardening tools in both hands."What are you doing?" Adam approached him. "The corn will be harvested soon. I'm just checking whether there are any pests
"Then make a deal with him. You can't just take over that young man's body. We have rules to follow." Malachiel didn't like his friend using Ryan's body as a vehicle to fight the Ordogs. He wanted his friend to abide by the rules of heaven. "Alright, I understand! I'll make a deal with him. Are you satisfied?!" Heliel returned to Ryan's body. The two of them swapped positions again. But before Ryan could take over his body again, Heliel brought him to a space dimension. The space dimension or pocket dimension was a place created by the Paladins in between the real dimension and also the host's mind dimension. It was like the human subconscious, but real and existed within the host. Heliel asked Ryan to make a contract with him. He was rather pushy with the young man. The explanation Heliel gave to his host was also not very clear. Whereas Malachiel had previously given Adam a second chance by appearing charismatic, polite, sincere, and very friendly, Heliel was the opposite. He was
"Hey, come with me after work." One of the employees approached Adam. He and the others looked annoyed when they saw the young man. Adam, who didn't understand what they meant, agreed. When office hours arrived, he went with his coworkers to an alley not far from the office. He had no idea why they had brought him there. "What's wrong? Why are we stopping here?" Adam asked them. There were five people standing in front of him at the moment. One of them was the one who talked to him before the bell went off. He came up to Adam with a serious look. Adam seemed to step back until his body touched the wall behind him. "Are you a sycophant?""You dare to flirt with Elena?!" Adam didn't understand what his friend was saying. He had never once flirted with Elena; the sexy woman who was the manager of his office."Liar!""You had dinner with her, right?!"Adam was getting more and more clueless. He might have had dinner with her, but it was for work reasons. "I only had dinner with her
When the business with the black creatures out there wasn't over, he had to get another problem in the afterlife."Am I dead?""Are you an angel?"Adam felt confused. The place he visited seemed to be on earth, but the atmosphere he felt was like being in another dimension. "Just answer my question. Do you want to come back to life and take your revenge?" The creature continued to press him. "How can I go back?" He could only stare at the creature."I will come with you. The explanation will come later after we return to your world." the creature whispered into Adam's ear with a smile. Snap! The snap of his fingers made everything between the two of them into an infinite white room. Adam was surprised by the change. The creature in front of him suddenly transformed back into a luminous figure that shone so brightly. If you could imagine the black creature before, then the creature in front of Adam right now was the light version."Before we go back, there's something you should kn
Using teleportation, Paladin brought Adam near a dimensional portal. The portal was located at the site of a national monument. But unfortunately, the portal destroyed the national monument without leaving a trace. And the portal was the cause of all the disasters that occurred. The diameter of the portal was as high as the national monument. It was about 550 meters tall. It was shaped like a circle with a bluish-white shell of energy in the center. If you're used to seeing dimensional portals in science fiction games or movies, that's what the portal in front of Adam looked like. Everything around the portal looked destroyed. There were so many ruins of buildings scattered around. Plus, there were several humans who seemed to be approaching the portal. "So this is the portal?""Cool, right?""Do you want to admire it or close it?""Both."Paladin saw several people walking from different directions. They were heading towards the portal. He realized that they were humans shaded by
"King?!" Adam was startled. He turned his head quickly towards the Paladin. "Adam, from now on you must fight alone. I will only stay inside your body. The Paladins are not allowed to join in attacking the Ordogs. You must fight them with your own strength." The Paladin felt it was time for him to say goodbye. He would return to Adam's body and serve only as an observer. "Wait a minute! Then what about me? Am I supposed to kill those creatures with my bare hands?" Adam felt confused. The paladin had given him no choice. He doubted himself. He doubted if he could defeat those creatures. The paladin didn't just walk away from him. He gave Adam the knowledge of his powers. Each Paladin is endowed with their own special powers. It was that power that could be used by humans who were chosen to become Jagers—Ordog hunters. "Take a good look at my power. When we join again, your body will understand me. Every experience and memory I have will be experienced by you as well. It's like we s
The swing of the black trident, which was as large as a 400-meter lighthouse, sent the Jagers flying. The wind caused by the swing of the trident made the dust around the portal billow upwards. As the Ordog king swung his trident again, the few people who managed to dodge began to attack him. They created a combination attack to tie up the giant's body. "Hey, tell me how!" Adam tried to think. He was still looking for a way to defeat the Ordog king. "You have to die." Paladin gave the answer. "What do you mean?" Adam was confused. "I will drain my maximum power into your body. Your body will be destroyed, but you will evolve into a being equal to Paladin. Let's call it half-Paladin. With that evolution, you can use up to 80 percent of my power. That's enough to kill him." The Paladin had finished explaining. Adam felt indecisive. He who had just come back to life did not want to die again. Moreover, this time there was no guarantee for him to live again. Paladin left the decision