150 Black Heart 2 (1/2)

For the next hour, Sigma's subordinates departed to handle their respective tasks, while Sigma swept the entire Golden District with his spiritual awareness. The dark energy he sensed at the Mayor's manor was preventing his psyche from proceeding any further. Sigma wondered; what kind of powerful spirit formation would be capable of stopping even his mighty perception?

”It seems we have been discovered,” the firebirds crackling and zipping around Erykah Maat in orbit all melted back into his body as he spoke. The Temple Sheppard put one leg down at a time as if he was climbing off a raised platform, standing tall and straight as he opened his eyes to match his sworn brother's startled gaze. ”I just sensed the aura of Commander Prop Uganda. He must have been monitoring this place somehow but was obstructed by your spiritual magic barrier spell. Once you dispelled it, he immediately located us. I also sense Garuda and someone far more powerful than him approaching us rapidly from the sky.”

”So you escaped our trap and somehow found your way back to the city, in spite of it being under lockdown,” a sinister voice echoed throughout the entire Gold District. Sigma frowned as he recognized this voice, and it wasn't Garuda. ”How talented. Unfortunately, you will die today!”

”General Prop Uganda. So you have actually fallen?” Sigma Octanis nonchalantly projected his voice throughout the entire Black Heart City. All around the city heads turned toward the Golden District in shock and awe. However, once Sigma's words reached their ears, many were shaken to their core.

The sinister voice suddenly paused, as if it was shocked at the nerves of this opponent. Dozens of kilometers away in the Middle District He didn't seem surprised at all. Had he allowed himself to be discovered? General Prop Uganda cursed his own impatience. The moment he discovered Sigma, he was ready to use his newfound powers to trounce this nuisance to his former self once and for all. However, how could he have expected that the enemy was already watching him?

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The streets of Black Heart City were full of shocked voices.

A Fallen!

”Did you hear that? Wasn't that the Heavenly Dog's voice?” the people in the Outer District of Black Heart City were confused and afraid. Who was powerful enough to project their voice booming through the entire city like it was the voice of a sky lord? This was something many of them couldn't comprehend. However, Prop Uganda was their local overlord. They didn't dare to gossip about this.

”It's lord Eighteenth!”

”Did he say General Prop Uganda has fallen?”

”That can't be true right?” the citizens in the Middle District were more familiar with Sigma Octanis, and it could be said the 80% of this district had great trust in him. Furthermore, many of them were powerful Great Scholars and were not afraid of one Prop Uganda, even if he was a Gold Mage and a royal general. Not even a Gold Mage could withstand the might of a magic formation powered by ten plus Great Scholars. However, similarly, they could simply not resist a Gold Mage at all without banding together.

Many of these Great Scholars didn't even like each other.

Thus, Prop Uganda still held some influence in the Middle District. As the general of the Royal Army's thirteenth division, General Uganda also held quite the prestige in the Golden District. Had one of the Royal Generals truly fallen?

”A fallen…” standing on one of the taller buildings of the Black Heart City's Middle District was the silhouette of an eight-year-old child with long flowing black hair that waved in the wind. This child had deep black eyes that shined like stars but seemed to carry a seductive glow. The bottom half of the child's face was masked and they wore a thin black combat armor. She spoke to herself in a soft and hypnotizing voice, ”What a lively place…it makes sense that he would be here. I wonder how he's changed…it's almost been a year right? For a young sage of the upper realms, this should be considered a period of rapid growth. He has more potential than some of the geniuses from back home. Is he able to keep up with me?”

The child stood still as the shadows she hid within as she stared silently at the horizon. However, her gaze suddenly shifted to the governmental buildings in the Middle District. A stifling pressure descended upon the immediate area as the figure of a man slowly floated into the sky. The immensely thick blanket of voodoo qi surrounding him caused the air the stale as the temperature plummeted in the area affected by the pressure.

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Prop Uganda wore dazzling jade dragon bone combat armor as he ascended high into the skies. He gazed at the gambling house in the Gold District and used a bit of his strength to amplify his voice into one loud than Sigma's previous voice, ”DIRTY DOG! Come outside to play, won't you! I have a bone to pick with you.”

Sigma sneered inwardly. If this pettiness only suggested his earlier conjectures were accurate, the insult 'Dirty Dog' proved it. To think General Prop Uganda's combat soul was actually that guy's hollow soul. The heavens were truly full of jokesters. Sigma Octanis didn't bother to leave his penthouse as he commented, ”Is this still about your wife, Ulysses?”

”YOU!!! Wait…” Prop Uganda almost lost control when he realized a critical point. This Sigma hadn't referred to him as Prop Uganda just then, but rather the name of his new Host Soul, Ulysses Polaris. The bastard son of Sigma's senior apprentice-brother Nu Octanis. ”Fuck! You knew?!? How? No! Since when?”

”Well, from the moment you were enraged over your wife,” Sigma voice boomed at an even more intense volume as he stepped forward and seemed to somehow melt through his window onto the other side. Erykah Maat's figure also flashed as he disappeared from the room. Meanwhile, Sigma rose into the air to meet the gaze of Prop Uganda across the several dozen kilometers distance. As he spoke, magic runes silents formed and disappeared into his crowning atmosphere, ”Or I should say former wife. After all, she already my concubine. We even have two children. I miss them quite a bit.”

”DON'T YOU DARE LIE TO ME, YOU DIRTY BITCH!” General Uganda seemed to completely lose his mind in that moment as a sinister dark qi erupted from his form twisting his features into something demonic. His 10-Star Silver Mage rank Sage atmosphere burst from his body like an angry flame. The light spheres of the origin qi phenomenon in the skies behind him seem to form a menacing demon emissary. His intense aura was enough to terrify all the experts in the surroundings who didn't expect his strength to be so great.

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