After seeing Justin’s face on the stretcher, Verella looked at Myles and hoped he wouldn’t do anything silly.She was about to grab his hand and take him away, but he caught the leopard robot’s head and squeezed it. The skull broke, and electric charges leaked out, startling the others.“Watch out,” Verella swiveled and kicked the leopard robot away, which then exploded. It wasn’t a big explosion, but it would be enough to fatally injure a human.The two humanoid robots that were dragging the stretcher immediately brought the drilling machines that were in their hands and attacked Myles.With a sweeping kick, Verella sent their heads flying.“You screwed up,” Verella hissed at Myles. “These robots will keep attacking us now. Let’s leave this place. We’ll explain Dr. Dave afterward.”“You go first. I’ll be back in a few minutes,” Myles told her.“Huh? What are you talking about?” Verella noticed that he was looking at Justin. Myles placed his hand on Justin’s chest. A pulse of energy f
Verella jumped from the 998th floor without a shred of hesitation. She went down through the clouds and crashed on a flying drone. Not stopping there, she jumped onto another flying drone in the distance. Her jumps were packed with power yet accurate. Her claws could dig through the tough metal the drones were built with.She signaled to the driver through the glass window to make a landing, or she wouldn’t hesitate to destroy the drone. The driver was forced to make a landing on the floating cobra institute.Verella thought the mages would come after her straight away, but to her surprise, all the flying drones were heading toward another direction in the city, from where she could feel vibrations coming in through the air.“Did some criminal escape the prison or something?” she wondered and looked at Myles who wasn’t crying even though he was bleeding from the ears. “I told you to shut your ears, didn’t I?”“I did,” he replied with a slightly angry expression.“Uh…” Verella looked a
The explosions destroyed the top floor of Duncan’s skyscraper, sending metal pieces flying everywhere.“Stay alert!” Alpha Ayan firmly stood on top of a drone with his arms closed. He was able to stand straight even though the explosions pushed the drones away. He was the son of the former city lord, and he was young and stylish. “This much isn’t enough to kill the Aqua Double.”As he hissed, the mother and daughter were still standing in a silvery water sphere, not at all hurt by the massive explosion that was heard by half the population in the city.“More and more are gathering like cockroaches,” Maria gnashed her teeth. “We should leave right now, or we might not survive another day.”Rosie’s heart skipped a beat. “What about Phil?”Maria glanced at her daughter, furling her brow in suppressed fury. “Are you seriously worrying about him now when your own life should be of more priority? Besides, he’s going to die soon anyway.”Rosie frowned. “I.. I’ll save him no matter what.”“H
The message was sent by Dave, and in less than a minute, all the eight alphas except Amir gathered at Duncan’s Tower. Ayan retreated from his fight and met them who were standing on the wings of a flying drone.Rosie wiped the blood from her mouth and was astonished to see the nine alphas together. “Can we escape from these guys, Mom?”Maria, however, was grinning as she looked up at the alphas that just jumped and landed around her and her daughter.“How could you kill Duncan who had done nothing but service to the city?” Alpha Lexi queried. She didn’t seem angry like most other alphas did. “How could you cause such a disturbance in our city? Don’t you have morals and conscience?”“You are Peacekeeper Lexi, aren’t you?” Maria turned to face her. “Your city has lost its lord, and none of you are rising up to take the cobra crystal and become the new city lord. Now, let’s be frank. Every other city is keeping an eye on you guys, hoping to get their hands on the cobra crystal. It’s just
Rosie was struggling to fight Blue Dog as his verbal attacks proved far more effective against her than his physical attacks.“Don’t get pulled into his pace, Rosie,” Maria warned her daughter while defending herself from Ayan and Johnson’s attacks. “He’s a melee fighter. Keep your distance and deal damage.”Rosie listened to her mother’s advice and backed away.“You think I’ll let you do that?” Blue Dog tried to close in the distance, but she made water-walls out of thin air, and they momentarily slowed Blue Dog. In that time, she made the distance. To her surprise, her mother also joined her.Maria quickly said in a low voice, “If Dave and Shreya join in the fight, things will get out of our hands. There’s only one way we can escape from this.” She made an ‘o’ symbol with her hand. “You know what I’m talking about, right?”“You don’t mean…” Rosie’s eyes widened. “But if we do that…”Maria grabbed her daughter’s hand and created a rising pillar of water under their feet to jump off t
In the library, Justin was looking around to see if he could find anything valuable other than the books; things he could shove in his pockets or underwear. After all, Shreya wasn’t around. And there was nobody else around, not counting Myles and Verella.Verella was reading a book about vampires, whereas Myles was on his knees and massaging her legs. She put her calves on top of both his shoulders and had this cheeky grin on her face. “Most men wouldn’t show as much interest in massaging a woman's legs as they would in licking them, but you are different. I’m liking you more and more.”Myles, however, didn’t show any reaction in his face. He still vividly remembered the time when a dagger had pierced his heart, and the words his wife Vreka had used in his last moments.He used to be weak to praise in his past life, especially when it was women that were praising him, but now, he knew better.“Why would a slave hesitate to massage his master’s legs?” Myles responded lately.“I wouldn’
The tree branches broke into the library and destroyed the shelves and everything there. But Myles, Verella, and Justin had already left the library.They were outside and watching the horror take place right before their eyes. While Verella didn’t show much of a reaction, Justin was terrified by seeing the young students dying left and right. The students in the cobra institute were all preteens, young teens, or teenagers. Seeing them impaled almost froze Justin’s body in dread.Myles, on the other hand, didn’t like what he was seeing. The cries of the teenagers, every single cry, reached his ears, but he tried not to let their voices touch his heart.Just then, a ten-year-old was dragged by a branch right before his eyes. Justin was too shook by fear to move, whereas Verella seemed to not care that people were dying, as if she had seen things like this before.Myles had also seen things like these, things way worse and horrific than these, but the ten-year-old’s miserable voice sayi
All the wooden bullets struck Myles, or so it seemed for a second. But the bullets actually stopped millimeters close to Myles.“What the hell?” Amir got perplexed for a second. The bullets turned around and flew at Amir with triple the speed. He swatted them away with his hand and looked at Myles in surprise. “I see. So you were hiding your strength. Now I believe that you took my son out.” He raised his hand and clenched it. Spiky branches grew all around Myles and tried to impale him from every direction.Myles jumped into the air and dodged from the deadly attack.“Got you!” Amir raised his hands, and his fingers extended into branches and shot themselves at the target up in the air. “Ten Snake Threat!”Like living snakes, the ten branches rose up toward Myles at a great speed. Suddenly, Verella broke free from the forest binding her and slashed her claws at the ten wooden snakes and tore through them with effort.“Krgh,” Amir felt so much pain as if he lost his own fingers. He gr