215 Accident, A Sudden Twist of Fate (1/2)

Day 29 – 1:25 AM – Mountain Base, Mount Malabito, General Nakar, Quezon

Despite the limitations that the [Mental Crystals] had, Mark felt satisfied. At his will, the dimmed crystals entered the [PsyCrystal] embedded on his wrist once more. Inside, the two crystals would recharge to be used next time or until Mark chose someone to inherit the psychic abilities inside those crystals.

As Mark pulled out the katana from the dead infected's body, Hallie and the others had gone out of hiding and ran towards his location. After all, the danger has passed and they could not hold themselves back from their urges and curiosity at the aftermath of the fight. Not to mention that they all saw the final part of the battle albeit the scene was still rather dark with only the [Physical Crystal] in the background, the [Lightning Bolt] and the [Light Beam] being the unstable sources of light.

Still, aside from Hallie and Nicole, the others still held themselves back from clamoring around Mark. After all, aside from the two girls, the relationship of the others from Mark was rather complicated. In the best words, it was like employer and employee but at worst terms, master and slaves. It was already fortunate that Mark was not the type of person to work them to death just because they offended him at the start.

In the latter members of the group, only Jollene was in closer terms next to Hallie and Nicole since Mark was personally teaching her how to fight and make use of her acquired ability.

”Hey Mark. You're not some kind of returnee right? Tell us the truth!”

Those were the first sentence that came out of Hallie's mouth as she stood in front of Mark. She came here while holding Merlot with her left arm while her right hand held her scimitar shaped sword.

”Don't suddenly spout nonsense. If I had really gone to another world, I'd rather not return here.”

Mark said while glaring at Hallie.

Beside Hallie was Nicole holding Ruby with both arms. She did not speak but was looking at Mark with glimmering eyes. It was very likely that she was both amazed and envious about Mark's abilities.

Jollene who was holding her wakizashi also came forward and spoke while staring at the dead fused infected.

”Boss, its dead already, right?”

The moment her question ended, Mark, Hallie and Nicole was jolted by her words while the supposed to be dead body of the fused infected suddenly twitched.

With a puff of black mist, Mark disappeared and appeared beside the fused infected and stabbed his katana several times like a madman. On the other hand, Hallie also approached the body in a panicked manner and helped Mark by dismembering all the limbs of the infected with her sword. Nicole also wanted to help but she had no weapons with her and could only watch by the side.

When the corpse twitched while Mark and Hallie jumped into action, the others hurriedly retreated in fear that the infected was still alive. If that was the case, they would be in grave danger of they stayed in their place. They could only watch Mark and Hallie decimate the body even though it finally stopped moving.

After confirming that the body was really dead, Mark, Nicole and Hallie glared at Jollene making her step back in fright.

”Just what are you doing chanting that cursed magic spell, huh?!”

Hallie bellowed.

”Wha-? I-… Whhaatt?!”

Being suddenly bellowed at, Jollene was confused and did not know how to react. She did not even understand what Hallie had just said. After all, she just asked a question, right? What cursed magic spell?

Seeing the confusion in her face, Huey filled her in.

”Jollene, you know. In movies and other stories, if someone asked if the supposed to be dead enemy was already dead, it turned out the opposite most of the time and it ends up with the protagonists undergoing a perilous situation.”

”That's…”

Jollene felt troubled. After all, the moment she finished her question, the supposed to be dead body made some minute movements.

Mark did not say anything. Instead, he kicked the large torso of the infected making it lay on its back and cut off the middle of the fused chest. He felt some sensation when he stabbed there just a moment ago before the infected really died.

After cutting off the section where the three bodies fused, he found another body. It was of an infant and its body was securely covered by the three bodies outside. Looking at it, Mark's attacks paralyzed the body but did not kill infant inside which made the body twitch as it tried to control the supposed to be dead body. Luckily, he jumped into action as fast as possible or it would been dangerous.

Double tapping? It did not enter Mark's mind. He already destroyed three heads at the same time. Who knew that there would be a fourth body inside? Besides, in a fight against bosses, there was only the rule of three, not four!

The chapter of testing his abilities came to an end and while he dumped the cleanup to the other men, he made his way to the broken part of the wall. As he thought, it was the wooden part of the temporary wall that was broken through. Since it was still late in the night, he made some temporary repairs while he planned to finish fixing the wall tomorrow.

For the temporary repairs, he tied up dozens of thin wires made of [Blood Metal] to block the broken part of the wall. Furthermore, the wires were not circular ones but flat with one side made rather sharp. He tied up the wires while the sharp edges faced outwards. The wires would not do any damage if someone touched form inside the base but there was no need to mention what would happen if someone tried to force through from outside the base.

After he fixed the wall and the cleanup was done, everyone returned to rest. It was questionable if the others would still be able to sleep because of what had happened in the middle of the night but Mark really wanted to rest. Due to the usage of his blood to fix the wall, he felt rather sluggish and even though it seemed nothing from the outside, there were still the side effects of excessive use of the ability he received from Freed. It was due to the fact that his body was still not familiar to the movements of the psychic movement ability.

Another reason why he was hurrying to return was because of the [Blood Children]. For some reason, they were calling unto him. With the exception of Merlot and Ruby that was with Hallie and Nicole and Miracle who should be sleeping and Oracle who was behaving differently right now, the other [Blood Children] were clamoring about something and were calling unto him.