67 Raw Power (1/2)
”Reporting to base.” The man with the communicator spoke in a confused tone. ”A woman and a kid came out of the portal.”
”Copy that.” The man on the other side responded. ”Permission to probe.”
Hearing that, the man with the communicator pressed a button and talked. ”Who are you? Can you understand us?”
The soldier cautiously asked, the speaker on the reconnaissance vehicle relaying his message to Crimson Enchantress and Daniel. ”Hello? Can you hear us? Are you human?”
”What kind of a question is that?” Crimson Enchantress' countenance contorted in anger as she heard the question from the man. ”We look human, don't we?”
”Er…” The man speaking was stunned. It was simply routine to ask something along those lines despite it being regarded as a stupid question. He didn't expect for the woman to actually speak, much less in that manner.
A few seconds later the man recovered from his daze due to being sent a message from the base. He read the message on his communicator, ”This is restricted Defense Force grounds, what are you doing here and how did you get in?”
One must know that all the World Government-authorized military bases had state-of-the-art security systems that cannot be bypassed even by the most skilled Defense Force officers and infiltration agents or spies.
'The main headquarters is probably seeing this as well,' the man with the communicator thought. 'Teleportation has always been a mystery and a scientific impossibility, one that will never be reached…'
The man was right, the base saw this black hole and was cautious. What he didn't know, however, was that the base he was communicating with has some people that were in the know, along with the leader within the base. They understood what was that black hole, and that the two people who emerged from the portal was from Kamay ng Lagim.
At that moment, Crimson Enchantress opened her mouth. ”How we got in here? I'm sure your leaders already know the answer to that, as for why…”
Clapping her hands, the soulless-eyed Daniel walked forward to the reconnaissance vehicle with unhurried steps, the color of his right eye shifting into brown. The people in hiding were alerted as they took aim at Daniel.
”Stay back.” A slightly panicked voice came from the speaker of the vehicle. ”I warn you to stay back, otherwise the soldiers surrounding you would open fire.”
Eight meters, seven meters, six meters… When Daniel crossed the three-meter distance with the reconnaissance vehicle, the man shouted, ”Open fire!”
Abruptly, Daniel's left eye shifted into an amber color, enveloping him in an amber-colored organic mass immediately, the bullets merely causing sparks on its surface and ricocheting off the armor.
”What the fuck?” The man with the communicator cursed within the vehicle. His first instinct was to tap the driver and hurriedly saying, ”Run him over, run him over!”
Reflexively responding to the man's pleas, the driver stepped on the gas pedal at full throttle and came rushing at Daniel. A few seconds later, the vehicle stopped, Daniel's hands were on it. The entirety of the vehicle was being compressed. It was an amazing sight, except for the soldiers inside.
”Holy fuck!” The man with the communicator and the driver said at the same time as the vehicle was completely compressed into a small cube with them inside, killing them.
”Wooh, that's something…” Crimson Enchantress exclaimed, the portal behind her closing by itself. ”I guess I won't need to make a move after all…”
Saying that, she disappeared, going to the side, engulfed in some sort of power to make her unperceivable. ”Keep the cover up in case somebody comes we have to protect Daniel… We can't lose such a powerful disposable pawn.”
”Yes, madam,” a man spoke within the covers. As all the soldiers of the Defense Force in here were regular humans, they couldn't possibly sense that a man came out along with Crimson Enchantress and Daniel.
He was one of Crimson Enchantress' seduced people, a person with an Ability to make invisible covers that would allow them to remove detection from current-existing technology and any kind of power as well.
It was a power that functioned similar to Aswang's Invisible Hunter, albeit weaker, in that its sole usage was to create covers. ”I just hope nobody stronger than us comes…”
With that, Daniel stomped his foot, spikes from the cement road protruded out, impaling the 28 Defense Force soldiers hiding behind the origami shields. Whilst doing so, his face had no remorse at all.
Howbeit, within Daniel's consciousness, his heart was internally screaming, begging for someone to kill him. Why? Because he was actually conscious, and in spite of that, he wasn't in control, blinded by extreme lust or desire to penetrate Crimson Enchantress. To make it worse, that thirst exclusively applied to Crimson Enchantress, and nobody else.
All the while killing people, Daniel's mind was filled with fantasies of Crimson Enchantress. It was a bizarre, terrifying, and incredibly traumatic experience for Daniel. Regardless, he could not stop as he couldn't control his body at all.
Meanwhile, in the middle of the camp, within the base, there were numerous people in a control room arranged in a circular fashion. In the middle of the encirclement was a hulking man with a square jaw wearing fatigues.
He was the commander of the camp, a member of the Triple A, and a member of the secret organization established by the Philippine government in cooperation with Puting Araw, the Wielder Supervision and Existence Regulation Administration, or WISERA.
As part of WISERA, he was one of the people in the know regarding wielders and their superpowers. In truth, the second he heard an anomalous black hole, he already knew what the soldiers were talking about without needing a picture.
Of course, as a commanding officer, he couldn't possibly lose all panic, and he couldn't endanger the existence of wielders alongside Puting Araw, who supplies them with powerful weapons that might become handy when a country invades them.
Plus, if wielders from other countries attack, they would doubtlessly need Puting Araw's help as tanks, much less regular humans, wouldn't stand a chance against those monstrous lifeforms that can raze entire cities with their power.
Which is why the commander had to act as if he didn't know what was going on and had to proceed with caution. All this while, he was coordinating with the main base and was informing him of what to do. That was when…
”Sir, we lost contact with Roaming Troop Charlie.” The agent responsible for communicating with Roaming Troop Charlie spoke. ”S-sir… Look at that…”
At that second, the cameras scattered in the area that Roaming Troop Charlie was in zoomed in on the screen in front of the commander. ”The… Reconnaissance vehicle was… Crushed into a cube…”
”Oh shit…” The commander was stunned. They were dealing with one of those powerful men. Abruptly, he fiddled with the communicator in his hand. ”Ah… This is going to end in a disaster… Send in the other troops after him, the railgun tanks, and I authorize the usage of the experimental guns sent to us. Backup will be here shortly, enter red alert.”
”Affirmative.” With that all of the soldiers in the camp turned busy instantly, and the members assigned to be at the tank storage units boarded it immediately, kind of excited to use the mythical and top-secret railgun tanks without knowing who created it in the first place.
Outside, on the eastern part of the camp was Daniel, standing idly with soulless eyes, his minds constantly filling up with the picture of Crimson Enchantress' naked body.
Precipitously, another troop of vehicles approached him. Turning his eyes into a combination of peach and gray, Daniel disappeared from his position, bursting towards the legion of vehicles.
The men acted fast, brandishing Essence Technology weapons supplied to them by Puting Araw. The guns they held were semi-automatic directed-energy rifles that fired bursts of energy, an experimental version that was given to the military for testing.
Although the weapons were of Puting Araw in origin, the soldiers were informed a bit differently in regards to this weapon. To summarize, they were told the origins of it were top-secret. In regards to this, the soldiers were made to swear an oath that they would never say anything to the upper division of the Defense Force.
At the end of the day, they were still Filipinos, and their sense of patriotism and belonging to their country was too high, leading them to not say a thing at all. Anyhow, not like they were asked anything at all about this matter as these weapons were 'top-secret.'
Reaching near the platoon of soldiers, Daniel saw the soldiers firing streams of white lasers that traveled at 1300 kilometers per hour. The speed of the energy bolts shooting towards him were indeed fast, however, for a wielder like Daniel, these were rather slow because of his brain processing speed.
After all, he was still a wielder, and with essence energy attribute enhancement, Daniel's senses and mind can be considered as superhuman even without the help of an Ability. To top it off, as a consequence of years of gaming experience, Daniel's reflexes were faster than most people, more so as he was one of the higher-ranking people in the game Primal Rage of the Philippine server that prior to awakening.
Utilizing everything he had at hand, Daniel dodged and weaved through the hail of bullets. Closing on his aggressors, Daniel, or rather, Daniel's subconscious and combat instincts opted to take the infantry first, dashing faster.