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.
Rosie jumped in and blocked Johnson’s huge claws with her water sword. Maria created a water whip and tightly sealed Blue Dog up.“The crystal is destroyed,” Rosie reasoned with a stern voice. “What are you guys still fighting for?”“Yeah,” Maria backed her daughter. “Let us leave this city. If we fight here, your city will suffer further destruction.”Dave raised both of his hands. Holes opened up in his palms and shot out four nets, which caught all four of those involved in battle and also Myles and Justin.The black metallic wires moved on their own and rearranged themselves so that they freed Blue Dog and Johnson before sealing up the mother and daughter and Myles and Justin in one large net.“Dammit,” Rosie felt her energy being drained. “Is this net made of stardium?” She couldn’t use her water ability anymore. Nanoparticles flowed out of the net and seeped into her skin and infiltrated her body and caused an internal shock. She was brought to her knees.Dave looked at Maria. “
Verella had just broken free out of the petrification. And she was gasping. “Nobody told me Amir had such a deadly attack. If I was prepared, I wouldn’t have suffered such a humiliating defeat. Nobody has seen it, right?” she looked around, and there were a lot of institute’s students and teachers that were looking right at her. (Ah! Shit. There goes all my fame down the drain! Mm?) Her ears caught rumbling noises that came from below. She came to the edge and looked down.At least a square mile of land was all eaten up by the herculean worm, which also swallowed all the alphas along with it and came soaring straight up toward Verella.Verella had no time to ponder about the people on the island. She immediately jumped away, and the giant worm went onto gobble up the two halves of the floating institute and all the students and teachers along with it.Verella was shocked by its sheer size, but after seeing how its body kept shedding smaller worms through its skin, her expression froze
The baby worms were so hungry they tried to eat everything in sight, whether it be benches in the street or the living and breathing humans, it seemingly made not much of a difference to them. Their baby teeth were already able to dig through wood and metal with little effort.A group of worms attacked a skyscraper and began eating its walls and pillars from the lower floors, causing the whole building to crumble. This resulted in the deaths of thousands, but the worms drilled through the rubble and ate the dead humans, not leaving anything precious untouched.Though the mages were doing their best to stop the worms, either directly confronting the worms with their own strength or by using the drones to shoot them from the sky. However, the sheer number of worms still proved extremely difficult to handle. Many worms managed to either kill the mages or slip through their defenses.Sukazu, a delta mage, used his star seal to craft wind attacks to send worms flying in every direction. Ho