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
“Myles! Run away!” Justin screamed. He had seen enough betrayals to know that Verella was probably going to sell Myles away for her own benefit. Even though shouting like this was going to put him at risk, he still ended up warning Myles anyway.“What a nuisance,” Amir flicked his fingers and sent a wooden bullet flying at Justin. Before it struck his forehead, Myles caught it.Justin couldn’t even see Myles coming, but his eyes teared up seeing Myles save him once again.Myles looked at Verella with a disappointed expression because she was going to let Justin die. She might also let him die.“Myles…” Verella said aloud. “Are you going to surrender yourself to him if I ask you to?”“I won’t,” Myles responded without hesitating. “A master needs to act in the wellbeing of his slave, in the same way a slave must act in the wellbeing of his master. Otherwise, the master-slave game is all null and void.”“That’s not the master-slave definition in my dictionary, though,” Verella grinned. “
“Impossible!” Amir couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Until now, nobody had ever broken out of his Grand Freezing like Myles just did.“You’re attacking me because I killed your son,” Myles stated. “I can understand that, but what did the students of this institute do to you? If killing them is justifiable, don’t you think I can justify your son’s death even more?”“Shut the fuck up!” Amir howled and recklessly attacked Myles with his bare fist. But it was stopped with just a mere finger. Amir’s face turned pale. His punch that could destroy a boulder into smithereens was blocked by Myles’ forefinger. “H-How’s this possible?”Myles looked into Amir’s eyes and saw his past. When Amir was a kid, his parents used to fight everyday, and then they would show all their frustration on him. They only had horrible words for him. Growing up, home was like hell to him. Maybe that was why he completely let his son Emery live however he wanted.“It’s important to give you children freedom,” Myle
Rosie and Maria dove through the underwater tunnel system, and reached the outskirts of the city. They both came out through a pond built next to a park. They weren’t gasping or anything, as they were able to breathe underwater.Maria looked around but found no sign of other alphas around. “Great. They must be looking in the wrong direction for us. We’ll have enough time to leave this city.”“But I don’t want to leave without Phil,” Rosie expressed her opinion.Maria couldn’t hide her anger this time. “Are you out of your fucking mind?” she rapped her daughter’s head with her knuckles. “Do you think you would have stood a chance against the alphas if they had used stardium weapons on you?”“But they hadn’t, had they?”“That’s because they wanted to take the cobra crystal back from us. They won’t be the same the second time.”“If you want, you can go, but I will go and find Phil,” Rosie ran away.“This little fool,” Maria didn’t want to use her powers and attract unnecessary attention,
When Justin got pushed from the floating island, he screamed so hard his uvula was very much up for view.Piss escaped through his fleshy pipe in the pants before he knew it. But his crying didn’t slow his fall by any means. Those few seconds passed by faster than ever. He gave up on his life, though his throat still kept screaming.Just as he was crashing in the middle of a street, a bubble rose out of the ground and cushioned him and trapped him inside, completely robbing him of his momentum. And then the bubble popped.Myles landed next to him, his feet softly tapping the ground.Justin was still in so much shock he couldn’t believe he was still alive.Myles shut his own nose. “I didn’t know you’d piss in your pants. Or, I wouldn’t have pushed you. Let’s get a change of clothes.”There wasn’t much crowd at all around them because most people had run away from that location, afraid that the floating island might collapse any moment.Alpha Johnson was coincidentally passing by at a s
“The cobra crystal is mine!” Dr. Dave looked pretty determined as he flew over to where the reading had come up.Just as he got there, the crystal disappeared out of Myles hand as Myles thought Justin might not be able to bear the poisonous power of the crystal. After all, not just anybody could absorb crystals. From what Justin himself had told him, eating critters’ meat or mutated plant matter were the two best ways to boost one’s physical capabilities. And then one would be able to absorb a star crystal’s power much better.Otherwise, the chances of people dying from swallowing even simple, low-ranked star crystals were moderately high.Even though Justin had worked as a border guard, he was never able to eat even a single chunk of critter meat because all the beasts caught or killed were taken away. They weren’t allowed to eat any, for eating these critters without permission would result in hefty fines and also time spent in prison.When Dr. Dave arrived where Myles and Justin we
Justin’s heart jumped into his throat when he saw the huge piece of land come falling down onto him. “AHHH!” Before he knew it, he screamed and jumped and sat upon Myles’ waist.“Heaven’s Net,” Myles uttered, and the massive piece of land stopped midway and floated in the air.“Eh?” Justin couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “What did you do? Why did it stop like that?”“Close,” Myles closed his fist, and the massive piece of land vanished into thin air.Justin’s face froze like that of a monkey that had seen a magic trick. He had no clue how Myles pulled it off. “What in the world did I just see?”“Forget about that,” Myles said, looking a little disgusted, “but you should first get down. You rubbed all your pee-soaked pants on my shirt.”“U-Uh,” Justin jumped down, “my bad. I’m really sorry.” He never jumped in fear like that before. He had seen many fights and been part of many as well, but a mountain sized land coming down from the sky was beyond scary. He was glad that he didn’t
On his way down the floating institute, Dave sent a message to all the alphas of the city using his neurons to trigger a wireless message like telepathy. The nanochips embedded on the back of their necks sent sensory information, which was received and perceived by their neurons pretty fast.At that moment, Dave also received an alert message that the message couldn’t be delivered to Alpha Amir. Dave checked the live heart status with his thought process alone, and he saw that the reading was zero, which meant that Amir somehow removed the nanochip from his body or Amir died.Dave didn’t have the time to wonder what was the case because he landed on the ground, only a few feet away from Rosie and Maria. He could feel the power of the cobra crystal coming from Rosie’s hand.“So, it is with you two, after all,” Dave grinned. “Give it to me.”Shreya and Blue Dog also arrived, wearing cold looks on their faces. In a couple of seconds, the other alphas flashed before them, except for Lexi.