109 Rewards Rough Draft experiment Revision 2 (1/2)

The wide-eyed and bloody decapitated head of the red hair man rolled across the wet soil right in front of Hartley's feet.

The man's limp headless body, dressed in a white robe that was drenched red due to the gushing blood from a missing right arm, slumped down to the left almost in slow motion as it crashed into the mud.

Not even registering this victory in his mind as if it was always expected, Hartley turned to the right and stared in a northern direction inhaling deeply as he stood stock-still focusing on a distant ridge.

As he stood there, cold raindrops fell on his face and raced to his chin. A gentle breeze swept pass and with it came a sudden clap of thunder, the skies turned white for a split second as a streak of lightning arced through the dark clouds highlighting the gruesome scene laid out at Hartley's feet.

After the brutal death of Kan Jin, Commander Haiyuan recoiledin shock, then he saw the youth looking his way, it was almost as if he could see the youth's piercing cold blue eyes from 500 meters away.

Feeling a throbbing terror in his bones he beckoned desperatelyin a panicked and anxious voice for Chang Lee to hurry up and take them to a safer place.

Chang Lee too didn't feel like hanging around much longer either, he had heard all the reports from the battlefield and today witnessing this youth in the flesh reinforced in his mind just how powerful he was,with a face full of concentration Chang Lee gulped down a deep breath of air, waved his right hand in a circle then punched out.

Bam!...

Black energy gushed out from nowhere withloud rumbling sounds as Chang Lee held onto commander Haiyuan's shoulder, they both stepped forward into the inky blackness of the void and disappeared from the rainy scene.

As the pair disappeared with a flash of black energy, Commander Haiyuan was reveling in the glory of his timely escape, thanking the heavens that he had chosen wisely to always carry this subordinate on any mission he embarked on; even the seemingly simple ones.

The only downside was that Chang Lee couldn't take him extremely long distances or he would have been headed straight back to Sasko right now instead of towards the secret beach-head port that theyhad used to sneak into the country..

Having Chang Lee close at all times was like having a second life he thought to himself with a cheeky grin. His plans for the country of Tivoli were in tatters but he didn't care, he would be glad to just made it back to Sasko alive and never see this remote backward affiliate country again.

Even though this mission of taking over the gemstone mines was a horrific failure it didn't matter to him anymore, Kan Jin didn't even manage to keep his headand count Zixen was also dead, any hopes of taking over and changing the allegiance of the country died with the count.

In fact Commander Haiyunthought himself lucky to have escaped that monster of a youth in one piece..... but of course he hadn't escaped yet.

”Really?” Hartley had a playful smirk on his face with beads of water droppingfrom his chin, he stood soaked in the teeming rain with the dead body of a powerhouse and potential future saint at his feet, swirling ice-blue mist enveloped him and rotated vertically around his bodyas he took a step forward and he disappeared from the massive crater an instant later.

Chang Lee was only moving at a ratio of one to two, meaning for every kilometer he traveled through the space crack he traveled two kilometers in the real world.

Unfortunately for him and commander Haiyuan, Hartley could travel at a ratio of one to four, combine that with his gravity step technique and he was like lightning streaking over the horizon.

Hartley zipped through the mesh-like transparent tunnel with the scene zipping pass outside andquickly caught up to fluctuations within the void.

He couldn't see the occupants of the spatial crack but could clearly feel the massive turbulence of space ahead of him.