?291 Chapter 291 – Traitor!
"ARIA!"
The brightly shining woman looked at the person who had just shouted at her from one of the floor grates of the Outer City.
It was Wyntor.
Right now, Wyntor was pointing at the shaking building that was Dark Dream.
Aria furrowed her brows.
Dark Dream was a competitor.
However, that thought only survived for a split second.
'If Dark Dream falls into the red sea, it will consume all the Specters inside it and become even stronger!' Aria thought.
Aria shot through the air and stopped below the building.
Dark Dream was collapsing and falling right on her!
Whooom!
Yet, Aria just stretched her hand upward, and a domain of light encased the building.
Shockingly, the building stopped falling, and Aria calmly hovered below it.
The governor looked over and saw what Aria was doing.
After he realized the reason behind her action, the governor nodded.
Aria nodded back and lifted the building further upward.
Then, she looked for a good location and gently put the building on top of another building.
Luckily, the building's foundation was extremely solid, and Dark Dream's building was also made out of very durable steel.
If these buildings were made of stone, this would never have worked.
Taking a multi-story building made of heavy steel and casually lifting it into the air…
This was the power of a Hero.
A moment later, she flew back to support the governor.
"HAHAHAHAHA!"
By now, the arms extended into the air for over 40 meters, and even the powerful Experts felt terror when looking at them.
While it was extremely difficult to kill and contain the Crimson Sea, its actual power hadn't been dangerous to even Veterans at the beginning.
After all, it had only been an Adolescent.
But now, every bloody hand made the Experts fear for their lives, even though they weren't even close to them.
The Crimson Sea had already killed thousands of people, and it had grown massively!
While the normal people were busy hiding in the city, the guards were looking at what was happening below the city through the holes in the floor.
From time to time, they saw people zip by and launch an attack at the endless red sea.
It was almost like they were fighting against hell itself!
Sometimes, people couldn't flee quickly enough, and they fell into the red sea together with the collapsing buildings.
The fight continued.
The governor had destroyed the majority of the first layers of ruins below the city by now, and the Crimson Sea was now around 80 meters away from the actual city.
The arms could only stretch for about 40 meters.
The collapse of the city had slowed down.
Fortunately, the outer walls of the ruins were made of the same material as the ruins themselves, which meant that the Crimson Sea couldn't escape.
The governor took a deep breath.
They were regaining control over the city.
He threw a glance at the megastructure.
It was stable and still holding.
The Crimson Sea wasn't damaging the foundation in any way.
However, everything was still filled with red mist.
The governor and the other Heroes didn't care about the mist since it couldn't even injure them, but the same thing wasn't true for the other people.
It seemed like they had to learn to live with the red mist until they could find a permanent solution for the Crimson Sea.
Force Specters were extremely difficult to kill and suppress, and the Crimson Sea wasn't different.
Even though the governor was many times stronger, that didn't help a lot.
Dealing with Force Specters required very special equipment and special methods.
Luckily, the city was still safe.
"TRAITOR!"
The governor looked back when he heard someone scream in absolute rage.
Then, he saw something he would have never expected.
In front of a big hole stood Kallum Sondur, the Chief Zephyx Extractor of the Spartans.
And many meters below him, in the process of falling, was his friend.
It was a man with red hair who was carrying a spear on his back.
John Keyweather, Kallum Sondur, and this man had been the three founders of the Spartans.
But now, Kallum was looking at the falling person with eyes filled with hatred, desperation, and rage.
The person who had shouted was the one who was currently falling right toward the Crimson Sea.
"This is all because of you!" Kallum shouted after the falling person with rage.
The falling man raised his hands towards the distant Kallum.
The next moment, a bracelet on his arm began to shine, and his entire arm turned black.
Eyes appeared in the blackness of his arm, and they all looked at the distant Kallum.
And then, his arm suddenly expanded towards Kallum with frightening speed!
Kallum's eyes widened in shock.
He knew that the bracelet had scary powers, but he hadn't thought it could do that!
About a year ago, the man with the red hair had found the bracelet in the Inner City.
It was a Specter, and it gave Extractors power in exchange for a service.
Sometimes, it wanted to consume Extractors.
Other times, it just wanted someone to suffer.
The bracelet always told them what it wanted, and when it got what it wanted, it bestowed a crazy amount of strength and Zephyx to the person wearing it.
The latest task was to capture Dark Dream's Chief Zephyx Extractor alive.
The Spartans had believed that the bracelet was a Possession Specter without any sort of consciousness or battle strength.
But now, it had suddenly transformed into something that seemed very alive!
Because of that, Kallum didn't manage to react in time.
The elongated black claw grabbed his head and pulled him down with the red-haired man.
An instant later, the red-haired man was grabbed by the red hands coming out of the Crimson Sea.
The eyes inside the black arm all turned to look at the hand that had just grabbed the man, and a moment later, the bracelet left the man's arm.
The bracelet vanished, and a black figure with claws and wings appeared.
At the same time, one of the hands also grabbed the falling Kallum.
Everything had happened in less than two seconds, and the governor was still watching in shock.
What was this black figure?!
A Specter?!
That was when he remembered what Kallum had said earlier.
Kallum had said that a black figure had killed John Keyweather!
Was this the one?
Was this black Specter the one that had released the Crimson Sea?!