Chapter 168: Am I Dreaming
Commander Agiel flew toward Keith, with her hands pulled back and Keith cursed!
’Fuck!’
Keith put both hands up and called on all the mana he had as he braced for impact! But just before the hit could land, a force slammed into Commander Agiel from the side!
BOOM!
Commander Agiel was body-slammed by Raya at full speed and she catapulted away from Keith like a rocket! Keith didn’t even know when he released a harsh breath of relief while breathing heavily! Commander Agiel’s punch would have sent Keith straight to the hospital! The giant ant slammed into Agiel and took her toward the next building to give Keith some space to recover and Keith released another grunt as he pulled himself free from the crater and tried to get a look at what was happening!
Raya and Agiel slammed into a building a few hundred meters away, and Keith glanced down to see the giant wolf, Fenrir, running toward them quickly! The building that Agiel was in shuddered once from a sudden impact before another shockwave sent Raya flying out from the building!
Keith jumped off the building wall and intercepted Raya before she could fly too far! He caught her with grit teeth and held on tight as the both of them fell to the ground!
Boom!
The giant ant let out a screech in anger as it skittered on its feet after they landed and it turned to nudge Keith with its mandibles as thanks. Keith nodded to the ant and stood up while taking in harsh breaths! He looked up at where Agiel had been and he saw her walking out from the large hole in the building with narrowed eyes. Her gloves had come off and the space around her hands seemed to pulse with power as she glared them down!
"Move! Move, we need to get out of here now!"
"The commander is about to fight! If you don’t want to become collateral damage, then get out of here now!"
"Evacuate everyone in the area and form a perimeter!"
Enforcers on the ground were evacuating citizens as quickly as possible! Once they saw Agiel getting serious, they knew that there was no way there wouldn’t be collateral damage and they prioritized evacuating regular humans over everything else!
Keith grit his teeth as he shouted up at the commander!
"Commander, we can talk about this! You’re being unreasonable!"
Keith hated the fact that the commander was so quick to violence! If they simply spoke about things, then he would be able to explain why he was standing in her way like this! But Agiel didn’t even look like she heard what he said! Agiel kept her eyes locked on Keith with an apathetic look on her face and the mana around her body seemed to surge to new life!
ROARRR!!
Suddenly, a loud roar came from the side as Fenrir appeared through an adjacent building! He jumped at Agiel with all his strength as he tried to tear into her, but Agiel didn’t even need to move! Agiel crouched into a fighting stance and her left hand came up in a parry that struck Fenrir right at the base of his jaw! Fenrir’s entire momentum shot upwards as he felt intense pain from that hit and Agiel’s right hand immediately pulsed with power as she slammed it into Fenrir’s stomach!
TWOOM!
A loud sonic boom echoed through the region as Agiel’s Gift broke through the sound barrier ten times in one second, and in the next moment, a sonic wave shot out from her hand and struck Fenrir right in the stomach!
BOOM!
Fenrir shot back like a bullet and flew through the air for more than ten kilometers [6mi]! He slammed through five buildings before bouncing into the ground like a basketball and finally smashing into the concrete hard enough to leave a massive crater! The wolf let out a strangled cry of pain and if you looked close enough, you would see that there was a large dent where Agiel had hit it!
Fenrir was a Rook class subordinate with five times its normal defenses and enough power to rival the Eldritch Rank Boss of an Orange Gate! But that meant nothing as far as Agiel was concerned! Agiel was an S Rank who was only a step away from entering the realm of the SS Ranks! An Eldritch Rank that was only strong enough to rival an A Rank superhuman didn’t stand a chance against her! If not for the fact that Fenrir’s defenses were so high, then there was no doubt that Agiel would have torn a hole right through its stomach!
Keith turned away from where Fenrir was lying and faced Agiel once more. Agiel was still standing above them and looking down impassively, but now her hair had fallen out from where she had tied it and it flowed in the harsh winds blowing through the city.
Agiel took a step off the edge of the building and her feet landed on a platform of air that kept her elevated! Agiel then took off into a run as she created more platforms in front of her and Keith cursed as he called on all the sand around him and slammed his hands together to form a large shield to protect him and Raya! The shield solidified into a material a hundred times more dense than steel and Keith knew it would not be enough! Keith called more and more sand as he formed three more shields in front of him and he leaned all his weight against the sand shield as Agiel flew into the wall with a flying knee!
BOOOM!!
"NGH!"
Keith grunted in exertion as he felt an impossible force drive him back and he cursed as a massive crack tore through his shield! Just how strong is this woman!? Raya charged to the side and raced forward to confront Agiel once more and Agiel grabbed Raya by the mandibles before turning around and slamming her into the sand shield!
BOOM!
Keith was pushed even further back by the impact and Agiel quickly dashed forward and slammed her hand against Raya’s body!
TWOOM!
A sonic wave that was nearly two times stronger than what Agiel used against Fenrir erupted in the space between Agiel’s palm and Raya’s body, and this time neither Raya nor Keith stood a chance as they were both picked off the ground by the sonic blast and catapulted into a building far away!
BOOM!
Agiel’s eyes narrowed in concentration, but her bloodthirsty grin never dimmed as she crouched and then shot after Keith once again!
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[With Jason]
An unbelievable sight was currently taking place in the sky above the city of Riverdale! The late evening sun had already set in the sky, leaving the city cast in a darkened shade of orange and yellow light. But the city streets were still alive with activity as people went home from work and youths moved about from one bar or club to another.
But then a massive shadow moved across the air, and the people on the ground stopped whatever they were doing! Men, women, and children paused in their tracks, people parked their cars and some began filing out of various buildings and leaning out windows as they looked up into the air, and in all their minds, there was only one thought that repeated unconsciously:
’Am I dreaming?’
Because if this wasn’t a dream, then no one would be capable of forming the words to explain what they were seeing moving through the air! A giant shadow passed over the buildings at a rapid pace as Ragnar raced forward to Jason’s apartment, and one of the children raised his hand and shouted at the top of his lungs!
"Mummy! It’s a dragon!"
It was like those words immediately spurred everyone else into activity as they realized that what they were seeing was actually real! They weren’t dreaming all this! There really was a dragon flying right over their heads!