Chapter 715: 12-13 On the Run (1/2)
”SKARYN… What have you done, Jack?”
12-13 mumbled to himself, startled to see his assumptions shattered by the plans of a lowly one-star cosmician. The shadowy man sighed, glancing at his wincing captive, ”Why can't you just side with us? How come the best ones won't be swayed? First Skaryn and Sterfen, but you too?”
Jack's second body was unable to hear anything at the moment. The connection between Jack's shared minds was currently closed off to keep his other self from feeling the repercussions of mental torture. And that same mental torture kept Jack from thinking about anything apart from his own survival. It felt as if his mental existence was trying to be exterminated as if his mind could be wiped the moment he surrendered to the pain. He could either suffer more and more with each passing second or accept blissful relief in the extinguishing of his own consciousness.
But that didn't stop 12-13 to playfully converse with his twitching captives. ”I guess my retreat is necessary after all, which is fine. With bloom fruits, your minds, and Jack's precious construct body, I've more than earned my safety. Now, to clear a few loose ends… Crax! How come Halmut didn't warn me that such a helmet existed!”
Staring coldly at Jack, 12-13 clicked his tongue. ”I suppose I'll clear the area the hard way…”
Taking out a contract scroll, 12-13 poured his energy into it. The parchment began to burn away and disintegrate in dark energy as a slight chuckle left his lips. But that chuckle turned to a groan immediately.
”CRAX! How dare Skaryn--”
12-13 was livid, watching his precise calculations falling apart before Halmut's eyes. He could still see through Halmut's vision thanks to the dark bead implanted in the dragon's mind but 12-13 was unable to forcibly detonate Halmut like a living bomb. Just as 12-13 wanted to curse for Skaryn stalling the imminent explosion, the shadowy man was caught off guard by something that took place before his own eyes.
Jack's body was suddenly surrounded and consumed by spatial energy, forcefully ripping Jack out of 12-13's grasp and relocating him elsewhere.
”WHAT?! Jack…”
Calming himself, 12-13 wasted no more time playing around. He dropped the mental torture encroaching on Sterfen's mind but kept the assassin completely unable to move or talk with his ethereal pressure. Adding a veil of mental energy around Sterfen, 12-13 made sure that his captive wouldn't be able to telepathically communicate upon leaving the barrier around Olympic Chateau.
Ready to retreat immediately, 12-13 took a single deep breath before fleeing the planet at a drastic pace.
”Congrats!”
Instantly, 12-13 went from entirely relaxed to on-edge as he sent out a deadly pulse of dark energy. Without fail, the entire chateau was reduced to rubble as the energy forcefully exploded past the walls. He wanted to make sure any uninvited and unannounced guests were immediately disposed of.
”Not bad…”