"Is there any guarantee that the portal won't close while I'm inside?"
"Of course not. No one knows what will happen."Adam felt unsure about going inside. However, looking at the injured people, the destroyed buildings, and the dead, he felt their sacrifice should be atoned for. If the portal remained open, Adam feared a second attack from Ordog. "Hey! You!" Someone shouted at him. Adam looked down. He saw a Jager who asked him to come. It looked like the person was a senior Jager. It was obvious from his rather old face. "You shot that thing?""That's right.""Are you one of the Jagers?""No, I'm not. I'm just a citizen.""Just a citizen? That doesn't make sense.""Then why?""An ordinary person with Jager powers as strong as yours should be in the Jager organization. Are you a newcomer?" The Jager continued to ask her questions. He was curious about the identity of the man who had killed the black gorilla. While the junior and senior Jagers cleaned up the mess, he continued to urge Adam to be honest. "I work in the Jager administration office. Do we have to talk about my background?" Adam didn't seem to like the conversation. "Alright, I won't ask again." Jager stopped talking. "Can we go in there?" Adam suddenly asked a question. "What are we going in there for?" Jager was confused. "To close the portal. The Paladin inside me told me to go in there." Adam turned to him. His face looked serious. As Adam spoke of the Paladin, Jager was reminded of the Paladin within him. Before he followed Adam's orders, the Paladin inside him requested that he follow what the young man told him to do. It was like there was a connection between the Paladins. "Does your Paladin know how to close the portal?" Jager asked. "Yes, but there's a chance we might get stuck there. How's that? Do you want to come?" Adam looked at Jager. "Okay. Let's give it a try." Jager agreed to Adam's crazy plan.They finally entered the portal when everyone seemed busy. The portal turned out to be a long hallway. The walls were made of very strong electromagnetics and had electric voltage."By the way, my name is Oliver Gates. I'm a class A Jager. How about you?" He looked at Adam. "My name is Adam Warlock. An ordinary worker at the Jager administration building. I only found out about having this kind of power a few minutes ago." Adam looked regretful that he had to spend so much time seeing Malachiel again. "That's strange. But it's okay. And by the way, Paladins don't usually talk to their masters. Only Paladins of class A and above can do that. This means that your Paladin is not just any guard. He's probably in class A or far above. For example, SS class." Oliver was just guessing. But he hoped his guess was right. When they were at the end of the hallway, the portal on the other side led them to a barren land. The ground was black and smelled like sulfur. It also looked empty. There was no life. Not even a tree grew there. "Is this what being inside a portal is like?" "Is this your first time inside a portal?" "Yes. This is the first time."Oliver who often fought with the Ordogs inside several portals felt something strange about this place. Usually the portals he entered were dungeons. But this time it was a large land mass. "Look! There's a tall building over there!" Adam saw a building shaped like a tower. It was about two kilometers away. "There's a crystal on top of that building. It could be their watchtower." Oliver just assumed it. "Let's go!" Adam immediately created a motorcycle using his light power. Oliver looked surprised at his partner's handiwork. But he also had something special. Using the power of shadow, Oliver created a black horse. "Horse? Is it faster than my motorcycle?" Adam mocked him."Do you want to race me there? The loser has to buy you food." Oliver got on the horse's back. "It's okay." Adam started riding his motorcycle. The two of them were racing each other to see who could get there first. The horses or motorcycles they rode had the same speed. Both were side by side and neither would budge. Everything seemed to change when some black wolf-like Ordogs came towards them. There were so many of them. More than fifty of them! "We need to get to the tower first!" Adam shouted. "Then let's go!" Oliver asked his friend to hurry up. The Ordogs immediately chased after them. Fortunately, their vehicle speed was still faster than the Ordogs. "How do I close the portal?!" Oliver turned to Adam. They were already near the tower.Adam was thinking. He had no idea at all. But fortunately Malachiel told Adam to destroy the crystal at the top of the stone tower with the power of Mana. However, the Mana needed to destroy the crystal in the tower must be as strong as when killing the gorilla. Unfortunately at this time Adam only has a little Mana left. It took a day to recharge the Mana inside him. "My paladin said to destroy the crystal! Do you still have a lot of Mana?" Adam talked to his friend. "I only have a little mana left. I don't think it's possible to destroy the tower with this little Mana." Oliver felt that his Mana wouldn't be able to either. "Shit! We should stop and think!" Adam felt there was no way out. He stopped his motorcycle. But unfortunately there was still a pack of wolves heading towards him. "Those wolves are so annoying!" Oliver immediately got off his horse. He transformed his horse into another form. "Stay here. Let me take care of them. You concentrate on finding a way to destroy the crystal." Oliver made two katana swords in both hands. He advanced to face the Ordogs alone. On the other hand, Adam was still thinking of a plan to destroy the crystal. "Combine the power of you two. Shoot the tower with the combined Mana of you and Oliver. The elements of light and shadow are two elements that are connected. Plus, Oliver's Paladins are both almost the same level as mine." Malachiel gave him an idea. "I'll try. Thank you." Adam immediately rode his motorcycle again. He headed to Oliver's place. Using the light gun in his right hand, he fired at the crowd of Ordogs. Once hit by Adam's shot, the Ordogs immediately disappeared. But Adam had to save his Mana. He couldn't use too much Mana just to kill the Ordogs. "Oliver! Come here!" Adam shouted. "What's wrong?!" Oliver was still busy slashing the necks of the Ordogs. "We should combine our Mana. I'll shoot the crystal!" Adam approached the man. The last Ordog was successfully killed by him. "You want to shoot the crystal by combining our Mana? How did you know that?" Oliver was surprised. "The paladin told me." Adam remade a light sniper rifle. He started aiming at the crystal while amplifying the bullets with Mana. "Really? Paladin? He turned out to be very useful. I didn't know about that at all." Oliver felt that his Paladin was stupid. "Quickly flow your Mana into my weapon!" Adam had to concentrate fully to strengthen his weapon. Oliver followed his orders. He placed one hand on Adam's shoulder. Slowly his Mana energy flowed into Adam's body. The merging of these two Mana energies allowed Malachiel to sense the presence of Oliver's Paladin. "Mana is enough!""Fire quickly!"Adam pressed the trigger of his rifle. A bullet in the form of a combination of light and shadow shot towards the crystal.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
"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