Jake and Whitley did not understand why so many people from their organization was present at this convention center. Something like this never happened in the decade or so they worked in this organization. They never even heard of a situation when thousands of members gathered at one place for any occasion whatsoever.At first, they were afraid because it was quite intimidating to see so many members. Even though they were silver-ranked skulls, they felt small compared to these numbers.“Who’s throwing the party?” Whitley asked a woman who just smiled in return. “Why are you smiling when I asked you a question?”“Shh,” she put her finger on her mouth.That was a code signal of ‘silence’ which was generally used when there were secrets that shouldn’t be revealed.Whitley understood that either these people also didn’t know the reason behind this party, or they knew and were not allowed to talk about it.If it was the latter, then why weren’t Jake and Whitley told about it.They couldn
It was not an ordinary wind that blew inside the Dream Summit, but one that weakened the spirits of Ulmer’s opponents.While Ben and Amelie were knocked unconscious by it and were carried off in a whirlwind, the copper-ranked skulls and many of the silver-ranked skulls were on their knees.A few silver-ranked skulls were barely able to stand on their feet.Leeval and his friends also had their knees crash against the floor, and they were unable to get up. They felt like a strong pressure was pushing their spine down. It was terrifying, to say the least.He tried to open his mouth, but he couldn’t even do that. He felt his teeth might crack and break under pressure. The same was the case with his bones.Even the gold-ranked skulls were not confident in moving toward the stage, much less confronting Ulmer.Ulmer withdrew his energy release, and an utter silence filled the hall for a few seconds.“W-What was that immense pressure…” Leeval was sweating before he knew it. “Was that guy Ulm
“Don’t you dare badmouth our master!” The Three Skulls together attacked him with their combined twisting punches. “Supreme Spiral Storm!”It looked like the burning coalescence of three monstrous energy forms stormed onto Ulmer.He deflected it, causing it to shoot up into the sky and fly miles high into the sky and then strike a large cloud spanning dozens of kilometers. The water droplets and the ice crystals got blasted in every direction and refracted the gradient of red, painting an unrealistic but extremely pretty picture in the night sky.Most of the people in the entire city who were on the streets or balconies or rooftops looked up and saw the cloud bursting like a firecracker.It was both terrifying as well as amazing, for it filled the minds of people with both fear and wonder.But the same couldn’t be said for the people in Dream Summit. They all felt quite anxious because they were all planning on finishing off Ulmer without making a scene, but Ulmer completely ruined it
When Ben and Amelie opened their eyes, they found themselves in the backyard of Jamie’s house. They don’t remember how they got here, but it was night time, and they were on top of each other, so it made the mood awkward, and they were smiling and blushing together. After all, they were yet to get intimate with one another.Ben had always been eager to touch her and kiss her, but Amelie would tell him the phrase ‘everything after marriage.’It wasn’t Amelie’s real desire, but it was a rule her dad set her in return for granting her complete freedom in life. This rule was like a blessing in disguise for her as she was able to focus on her studies more instead of wasting much of her time on dating and so on.“Do you remember how we got here?” Ben asked her.Amelie shook her head. “I didn’t even start drinking. I’m sure I was talking to someone and felt the wind blow from behind me. And then I don’t remember what happened after that.”For some strange reason, Ben also felt like he had th
The next morning.All the local and independent news sources were talking about one thing and one thing only. The mysterious mountain that popped up overnight, replacing the Dream Summit building which was nowhere to be seen anymore. Even the abnormal cloud burst they had seen last night became secondary news now.It was as if the Dream Summit and everything around it were swapped by this mountain.The mainstream news channels, however, maintained complete silence over the issue.In Marcus Merry’s home.Marcus was watching the news. “It seems the government wants to hide this issue completely.”Behind him, his son Leeval and his two friends were there. These four were the only ones that weren’t affected by what Ulmer had done. The rest of the members there all died.Even now, Leeval and his friends were still shivering and shaking slightly. They were running on high fever, and yet they were sweating from fear. They hadn’t slept since last night, and right now, the three of them looked
Calvin and Fiona took Amelie, Ben, Ruth, and Ulmer with them to the location of Dream Summit.It was the old couple’s curiosity that made them do this.However, to their surprise, all the paths to the Dream Summit were sealed off. Nobody was allowed entrance. Calvin revealed his identity to the police officer, but he was impolitely told to back off.It was a bit embarrassing for Calvin, as he wasn’t shown any respect in front of the youngsters. Calvin didn’t expect that his image wouldn’t work because his son was running a news channel!Not wanting to leave things at that, Calvin made his son call and talk to the police officers. Only then, Calvin and others were allowed entrance, but their mobiles were all taken from them. And they were made to walk for a mile.Before they even arrived at the Dream Summit, Amelie said, “Where’s the mountain? If there was a mountain, we would have all seen it by now.”Calvin and Fiona didn’t say anything. Eventually, they reached the location, where t
Ulmer and others were returning home, and it started raining so heavily that Amelie was holding Ben’s hand.The thunderbolts were crossing the sky, and their rumbling noises made even the hearts of Calvin and Fiona to shiver.Ruth who was sitting next to Ulmer felt heart racing and jumping at times. Still, she tried to appear confident and strong because Ulmer was sleeping next to her.“How can he sleep when the rain is so scary?” Ruth wondered.Calvin, who was driving the car, was not able to see properly. So he stopped the vehicle on the side of the road.The rain was pouring so heavily that they couldn’t see anything through the windows. Calvin turned the wipers on, but they still couldn’t clearly see what’s ahead.Ruth opened a weather app and was shocked to see the information. “Crap, they say it's 20-22 cm rainfall. It can even reach up to 40 cm at certain intervals.”“This is going to cause a flood in the city,” Fiona opined. “40 cm rain is a lot.” She looked back at Ben. “The
Ulmer didn’t enter the house that night. Instead, he flew high into the sky and reached the clouds.There were so many of them, and all of them were pouring the rain down, which wasn’t a good sign.“This doesn’t look natural at all,” he was saying, and a lightning bolt came down at him. He deflected it aside, as it wasn’t actually a lightning bolt but some kind of a demon that had disguised as a lightning.Ulmer didn’t realize that until he looked at his left hand, which had a burnt mark on it. His left hand began to crumble slowly.“Hahaha,” the demonic lightning streaked through the sky around him in a circular fashion. “Once you’re bitten by my curse, nobody on earth can save you. Only death awaits you.”Ulmer cut his hand off near the forearm and then regrew the lost arm with ease.The demonic lightning was shocked by it. It came flying at his face this time, but Ulmer grabbed it.“H-How is this possible?” the demonic lightning was shocked. “How can you grab me when I’m in my ligh