Ria’s instincts made her jump just before the chill got to her feet, but Casey and Biskie got completely neutralized by it.Kong used his brute force to break his way out of the freezing effect, whereas Justin released flames from his legs.Both Kong and Justin rushed at the twin mages.One of the twins struck the ground with her staff again. “Ground Break!” This time, the ground all around them cracked and caused both Justin and Kong to stumble.The second mage pointed her staff forward. “Bubble Blast!” A volley of air bubbles burst out of her staff and blasted in the faces of both Kong and Justin, sending them packing. Kong’s nose was already broken after his fight with the blonde guy from the mangler, so this air bubble attack worsened his nose wound.Justin also felt like the insides of his body took damage from the sheer pressure of the explosions.“How can trash like you acquire a nightwalker’s crystal?” one of the twins spoke. “That makes no sense.” The nightwalker crystal alon
“Fighting in the main market…” Don, the warden, was staring at the seven humans, most of whom didn’t show any guilt in their faces. “You do know that each of you is fined a million dollars.”“What? A million dollars?” one of the twins barked. “That’s too unreasonable? We can’t pay that much money.”“Then you shouldn’t have broken the rules,” Don indifferently said. “You twins are ranked in the top 10,000, so I’m sure you’d make good money as prostitutes.”“What? No! We will pay!” the twins hurriedly said, though the one with the broken jaw couldn’t speak all that much.“Good decision,” Don’s gaze then shifted to Kong and others. “What about you guys? Can you pay 5 million?”“Why should we pay when we were attacked by these two women?” Casey reasoned. “Does that make any sense?”“What’s the proof that it’s them who started the fight?” Don asked. “Do you have any witnesses outside your group?”“You can ask the people at the market,” Justin suggested. “They will tell you what happened.”
The knife struck Myles’ eye, forcing his eye to move deeper into the skull, but then it pushed the knife back.Bjorn felt the force being applied on his hand, and the knife bounced off of Myles’ eye. “What in the world…” Bjorn and everyone else was left in utter disbelief. “Even the eyes are indestructible?”“I think you guys are out of tricks,” Myles twisted his wrists and broke free from the shackles.Everyone swallowed their salivas in trepidation and began to flee.The knife in Bjorn’s hand dropped. “No way, you broke the shackles made of stardium? That means… your ability is made out of power crystals?”Stardium could seal the power of the star crystals, but it wasn’t effective at suppressing the strength of the power crystals.“J-Just how many power crystals did you absorb for you to be able to gain such strength?” Bjorn stepped back instinctively. His body was backing away on its own, which he didn’t like. The other guards might have run away, but how could he, the vice-warden,
Don roared after he turned into a massive 14-foot-tall sabertooth. His roar paralyzed most of the people and even the guards around and traveled for more than ten miles in every direction.Everybody in the ward heard it, especially the woke animals.Some were surprised whereas some were terrified to the core.It was truly a soul-shaking, heart-trembling cry.Don purposely roared in order to intimidate his opponent before he leaped and slashed at the six-foot-tall opponent.Myles jumped to the side and dodged the slash.Don’s slash sent cutting energy and sliced through the police station’s walls as if they were made out of butter.“Kyaa!” the crowd ran away, howling at the top of their lungs. Don swiveled and leaped at Myles while he was still in midair.Don shaped his long, recurved claws in a way they resembled a star. “Saber Star!” A powerful spark of energy exploded near Myles’ chest and sent him flying across many buildings. Myles flew halfway across the ward and crashed in the m
Nobody expected Don Saber to be defeated, and definitely not the way he had. It took the guards more than an hour to find him stuck in a chimney two wards away from the saber ward.On the other hand, Myles was nowhere to be seen.Justin and others slipped away during all the chaos taking place at the police station. Every guard was looking for Myles.Because both Don and Bjorn didn’t wake up even after a few hours of time, the neighboring ward’s warden temporarily took the authority and issued a ‘Slay on Sight’ order for Myles.Anybody that killed Myles would receive a prize money of 100 million dollars.This was an amount that could make even the top mages act. Defeating Don Saber, who was ranked in the top 1000, would mean that the opponent was no joke, so giving such a high price for Myles’ life was deemed necessary.“Relay this information to the city lord as soon as possible,” the new interim warden, a woke-mammoth, ordered. “I want continuous updates on where this guy is last si
On the same evening, Kong came to Penny’s store and told her that he quit the Mertzel’s group, so he needed his share of the money to be given to him beforehand.He would get more than 20 million dollars, so Penny told him to come back the next morning together with the other team members, or she wouldn’t pay.Kong threatened her with his glare, but she calmly said, “Keep doing that, and this Penny won’t give you a penny.”“Tsk,” Kong started walking away. “If you don’t give me money tomorrow, I’ll destroy your shop and your career. Don’t forget that.”This wasn’t the first time someone threatened Penny, so she wasn’t worried in the least. “I’ve dealt with squirrels like you all my life, red-nosed brat,” she spoke back.Even though Kong heard those provocative words, he didn’t turn back. Kong kept walking aimlessly, wondering what he should do. And then he saw the twin women eating at a restaurant. He went up to them and confidently sat in their midst.They didn’t look too surprised b
The next morning.Casey woke up early and practiced her skills in the garden. She was trying to cut the flower petals without damaging them. Having worked as a florist for years, she knew the anatomy of plants and flowers, so she could focus on specific parts with her knowledge.When she failed, she looked at the book in her hand. It was a book she rented from the local library. It covered the skills related to the hair-manipulating ability.“I can definitely feel that my hair got sturdier and can stretch for longer distances, but I’m sure I absorbed a bow, so where did that bow go?”Just then, she felt her hair moving on its own. Some of her hairs turned into a bow.“Wow,” she couldn’t see it, but she could feel it as she was holding a real bow. “This is cool, but where’s the arrow?”An arrow automatically formed with a few strands of her hair and shot at the mango tree. Nothing happened, or at least that’s what it seemed like at first sight.Casey went closer to the tree and noticed
The Hawk ward was separated from other wards by a deep ravine. At its border, the guards checked the IDs of everyone coming in or going out and recorded them on both computers as well as physical notebooks, which was part of the protocol.Ria crossed the bridge and showed her ID.“Is this your first time coming to this ward?” the tall woke-lizard guard asked.“Yes. Is that a problem?” Ria raised her brows.“That’s not the issue, but your mage score is below six,” the guard said while checking her status online. “It seems you are yet to pay a million dollar fine for causing a ruckus in a public market?”“My teammates are going to pay that today,” she softly replied.“Is that so?” the guard gave her ID back and said, “Don’t let your score fall below four, or you won’t be able to travel from one ward to another.”“Okay.”They let her pass.Ria entered the Hawk ward and observed her surroundings. Most of the species living there were woke- rats, squirrels, snakes, lizards and so on and so