Chapter 116: Clearing the Breached Portal Location (1/2)

”You! Direct the Energy Line to me!”

The Leader of this concealed place shouted to someone near the Breached Portal as he watched Yumiko knock every Dark Cult member near her out.

He's in a state of disbelief that what he picked up earlier were Heroes that they're trying to avoid. Maybe if he took the time to check us himself then he would probably notice our abnormality.

I don't know if he's blaming himself but he's just either unlucky or stupid that he couldn't gauge our Power Level accurately.

Taking my eyes off him, I stared at the Breached Portal and examined it from where I am.

If I compare it from before it was breached, from a slightly frightening crack in space, it just opened up with a small hole that could be visibly seen in the middle of that crack in space.

To keep the hole open, they put some kind of unknown material on its edges to hold it.

As to how they brought that material here, I don't know. Did they throw it from the hole on the other side?

With that material in place, it is preventing the Earth to regenerate that crack in space to close the portal opened from it. And even to this moment, the Dimension Breacher was probably in full operation to widen that whole.

Other than the material holding the portal open, there's also a tube which extended from the other side of the portal to here that was currently exuding out the Dark Energy which filled the surroundings with it.

Below the Portal Breach was some kind of a Restraint Chair. Above it was an apparatus that was connected to a cylindrical object whose purpose was probably to collect the Dark Energy in the air. The chair and the apparatus were most likely what they're calling as the Ritual in which a Dark World denizen from the other side of the portal will possess a human body.

The actual method to let their energies pass through and possess the captured human on the chair was probably known only by the Leader or he's the one facilitating it.

”Ah. Nishizawa, are you there? Prepare yourselves out there. Knock out everyone who will try to escape the place. We'll start cleaning in here.”

I took out the comms from the Necklace and informed the EDA Soldiers outside.

The squad leader's voice immediately replied with his affirmation along with the sounds of them marching and spreading out to create a net that wouldn't let anyone escape.

Well, I'm afraid none will be able to escape from here though. We'll see.

Yumiko was currently on her knocking-out spree that even without touching anyone, the Possessed will all lose consciousness upon entering a certain range near her.

Although using the Spirit Channeling with the enhancement of the Totem Pole brought out only one Spirit this time, the Spirit she summoned was on another level than her previous ones.

Yumiko didn't even need to show the ability she borrowed from it, just the menacing presence of the Spirit's illusory figure behind her was enough to knock most of them out.

And while she's doing that, my Flux Energy kept on overflowing as the surrounding Dark Energy was being converted and absorbed by me. Speeding up my cultivation this way, depriving them of it was also something I'd like to see.

Maybe at one point, I will have to go to their homeworld and challenge their World's Will for the complete control of their Source Energy.

But yeah, that will be far off in the future. There's still the Transcendent barrier as well as the Six Great Ones.

”Hurry up!”

The Leader shouted again and two Dark Cult members hurriedly diverted the tube that was exuding out Dark Energy towards him.

As soon as he was bathed by the Dark Energy from it, he injected himself with an unknown substance.

A few seconds later, the Dark Energy littering the concealed space stirred wildly. Through my sensitive eyes towards any form of energy, I could see the Dark Cult Leader started to absorb an incredible amount of Dark Energy in his body.

Upon seeing that, I got a bad feeling for the possessed body. The chances of saving him lowered now that the Leader made this kind of desperate move.

”Yumiko. Let me handle the small fries. Save him.”

Although I'm pointing towards the Leader, she will surely understand who I am really pertaining to.

Hearing my voice, Yumiko nodded and turned her heels towards the Leader who's slowly transforming into some kind of Dark Monster due to the amount of Dark Energy he already absorbed as well as the cloud of it forming around his body.

It's not that he will be a threat. I know that the strongest among those from the Mortal Worlds was only Peak Rank 4 currently. I am more concerned about the well-being of the human he possessed.

Regardless of whatever crazy things he could manage to pull off, it would be of no use against Yumiko who probably already exceeded more than 100 points in Power Level scale. It's temporary so that doesn't count as her being a Transcendent, however, it's like a glimpse of what we should expect upon reaching it.

”Why? Of all places you should have been, why here?”

Although he threw those words to Yumiko, he's not expecting any answer from her.

The Dark Cult Leader stood up and made a stance, even though it could hardly be called a stance due to his current form.

With his body being continuously filled with Dark Energy, it's inevitable that a lot of it will spill from the pores of his skin.

By gathering those energies that were oozing out of him, he unleashed an attack towards Yumiko.